@TheFu: Awesome, I've been wanting to look into stuff like that for a while, that seems like a great place to start. Thanks for all the advice. :)

@TheFu: No, my dad works for the tech department of a university nearby, I think currently he's the mediator between the coders and the users.

@TheFu: I forgot to mention it, but I've also looked into the hosts file in the past. Can you explain what opendns does?

Dearest Lifehacker,

@bohn002: The latter name sounds like a Pokemon.

Oh duh. They have an import whitelist option. Well, does anyone have any lists they would like to throw this way?

@Firesphere: Congrats! Good to know I'm not the only one reading Lifehacker at work :)

@mike_311: I'm trying NoScript as we speak... AdHacker shows that now things aren't following me around. I think I might stay with this.

What's up, Lifehackers. Love the picture for this open thread post, btw. :3

@gerrrg: Not just Motorola phones; Nexus One phones as well as most phones powered by Android 2.0+ use swipe unlock technology.

This makes complete sense to me... however, I can see why people in our capitalist greed-driven country would disregard this advice.

I think it would be a better idea to monitor your actual -House- than just your computer.