Well, if we ever get nanobots that can detect cancer cells, we could (in theory) detect irregularities in the frequencies emitted by unhealthy(cancer) cells in the body. I have no idea whatsoever if that's even viable (it might be that cancer cells still give off the same frequency) but it's a thought nonetheless.
I only have page 1 of the original text. Someone else will have to provide page 2.
For Tracy Mooney (pictured), a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark.
The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment -- which fittingly started on April Fool's Day -- was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad on their PC.
What would be the experience in 10 countries when everyday people, armed with a PC and e-mail account McAfee provided for the Global S.P.A.M. Diaries project, clicked through the spam and chronicled the results?
Mooney -- who had observed the family's PC crippled just before Christmas by a virus -- was game, especially because McAfee was giving a free PC to all participants. She was selected to be among the 50 volunteers picked by McAfee out of 2,000 people who applied to be part of the adventure.
By the time it was all over, after every bank-account phishing scam, Nigerian bank scheme, and offer for medication, adult content and just plain free stuff had been pursued. "I was horrified," says Mooney, a realtor by profession. "It's all snake oil. I'm amazed at what true junk is out there when you're clicking through on e-mail."
McAfee is releasing the results Tuesday of its free-wheeling month-long S.P.A.M. experiment, done largely to illustrate -- if you didn't know already -- how spam is connected to malware and criminal activity, not to mention some of the slimiest marketing ever devised. (Compare antispam products.)
Each S.P.A.M. volunteer saw an average of 70 spam messages arrive in their in-box each day, with men receiving about 15 more per day than women. That was a lot to answer, but "Penelope Retch" -- the alias that Mooney chose for her S.P.A.M. adventure -- answered every single message.
The spammed life of Penelope Retch
In her guise as Penelope Retch, Mooney answered the e-mail that came into her account. "I'd see an interactive spam, open it, click on it and asked to be removed. That would only make it worse," she says. "They'd say 'no.'"
Whether trying to win an iPod online, get free travel brochures, weight-loss tea or Maybelline eyeliner, the effect of entering a home address was extreme. Immediately, a deluge of mail landed at her doorstep, directed to the attention of Penelope Retch.
I think the only reason why PC Gamer can probably a bit more....."autonomous" than other review magazines (well, at least gamespot) is that they usually swarm their magazine with hordes of hardware ads. Let's look at an example. Clive Barker's Jericho, for instance, had an ad that went right over the cover of their magazine about a month before the release of the game. What score did they give the game? I believe they gave is something in the upper 40-mid 50% score.
Although we are making more money than ever before from our exports (as you point out), we are still losing money overall (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_deficit for stats). What does that mean? We're still (overall) losing money on our trades when you bring imports into the question.
Long Story Short: We're making lots of money, we're just losing even more money.
Really, I just went through high school. Personally, I wouldn't have minded if I had the ability to listen to my iPod instead of the teacher every once in a while. Or the ability to (openly) text people in the middle of class. These things don't tend to help you with getting an education though. Listening to an iPod while doing busy work would have been GREATLY appreciated though...
The thing I WILL say about technology and high school is that it's (gradually) being accepted as a medium to teach people. More so in the programming classes than anything, though. The real cause for the lack of change in schools is bureaucracy, though. Teachers don't seem capable of grasping the concept of bending/breaking rules set by the local superintendent. Frankly, I'd rather they follow most of the rules set by the government. Just not the technology ones. Blackboard is JUST STARTING to be field tested in the county where I went to high school. It'll be a while before everyone is lugging their laptops to class and connecting to the high school's wireless network. I'm sure I'll be dealing with that with my kids though. Guess it's something to look forward to?
Just that larger animals have more cells that need to be "evolved" at one times would create some kind of evolutionary inertia? I suppose the difference in warmer blooded animals could be related in terms of inertia. If you consider that warmer blood means more movement a the cellular level. Just a thought.
I must say, I totally agree that this game was awesome. What made it so incredible was how different it is from all other strategy games.
First, you're not juts a commander who mysteriously has a top-down view of everything as if from heaven. You were ACTUALLY ON THE BATTLEFIELD FIGHTING ALONGSIDE YOUR CREATURES. This sounds strange at first, but Shiny did an AMAZING job making this work.
The second thing that made it different was the creatures themselves. You had only 2 real resources in the game (Souls and Mana) that you really had to account for. The fact that you were limited on mana balanced the game and made sure you couldn't just rush the other guy with 5-soul creatures the instant the game began. You had to manage your creatures that were alongside you in battle and had to balance whether to summon more creatures, cast spells to help out your army of creatures, or just run away and hope for the best.
Which brings me to another point, spells. This is what really made the game fun. You just didn't go and let your units go out and fight the battle for you (although you could if your army was large enough), you actually joined into the fray yourself. I must say, throwing tornadoes at your enemies (or just opening a gigantic hold underneath them) is a LOT of fun. Along with blowing up random enemy souls. I really think this is what made this game amazing.
The last point that made this game so exciting was the sheer amount of variety that they had built into the game. This wasn't a typical startegy game that had one side pitted against the other. THERE ARE 5 DIFFERENT SIDES to the game, and each was incredibly different from the other. (Try playing Stratos (Weather god) and then playing with Charnel's aresenal (God of Suffering).
With that, I command all even remotely interested in playing a completely different version of a strategy game executed almost perfectly to go and find a way to play this game.
If he DID publish the list anonymously, then the list could just as easily been dismissed (through political agreements) as completely inaccurate/wrong.
Have they EVER heard of http://netpromoter.com/ Net Promoter Scores? I don't think they have.
Microsoft must be too busy counting their cash to be considering consumer satisfaction right now.
All they're doing right now is getting everyone who uses DirectX to hate them with a passion right now.
I really think the only thing that should be taxed (if it all) is gold farming, which is taxed (sometimes).
Really, these are real people selling a good/service that people are willing to pay real money for, so I have no problem with that being taxed.
I don't think taxing anything else would really work out. (Tax Blizzard because they have a server up that happens to have virtual goods? Wouldn't that basically be a server tax?)
Although protons and neutrons make up the majority of known matter today, baryons composed of heavier quarks, including the cascade b, were abundant soon after the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe.
So I'm gonna guess that we're getting closer to re-creating the big bang as a result of discovering this particle?
It would be interesting if they could find this stuff in our everyday environment, but I guess you can't have a big bang everyday, now can you?
I thought that was what websites/youtube videos/ blogs were for?
I will say that if the mainstream media (looks at my tv I hardly watch anyway) would move on to something OTHER than horse-race and soundbyte politics, there might be a netter chance for candidates to give the straight dope on their actual positions.
Now that I'm thinking about it too, I might also mention party platforms while I'm at it. Since candidates have their own personal platforms that stands beside the party platform, and sometimes they don't mesh completely together. Just keep in mind that about two thirds of what's in the winning party's platform gets done to some extent.
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This may be a dumb question, but.... How did the lab not completely melt on them?
Well, if we ever get nanobots that can detect cancer cells, we could (in theory) detect irregularities in the frequencies emitted by unhealthy(cancer) cells in the body. I have no idea whatsoever if that's even viable (it might be that cancer cells still give off the same frequency) but it's a thought nonetheless.
I hope the town counter-sues with anti-trust suits just to screw with this company.
I would think NOTICING the change would be more important than doing the same thing you did by mistake before any change occurred.
Just my two cents.
I only have page 1 of the original text. Someone else will have to provide page 2.
For Tracy Mooney (pictured), a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark.
The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment -- which fittingly started on April Fool's Day -- was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad on their PC.
What would be the experience in 10 countries when everyday people, armed with a PC and e-mail account McAfee provided for the Global S.P.A.M. Diaries project, clicked through the spam and chronicled the results?
Mooney -- who had observed the family's PC crippled just before Christmas by a virus -- was game, especially because McAfee was giving a free PC to all participants. She was selected to be among the 50 volunteers picked by McAfee out of 2,000 people who applied to be part of the adventure.
By the time it was all over, after every bank-account phishing scam, Nigerian bank scheme, and offer for medication, adult content and just plain free stuff had been pursued. "I was horrified," says Mooney, a realtor by profession. "It's all snake oil. I'm amazed at what true junk is out there when you're clicking through on e-mail."
McAfee is releasing the results Tuesday of its free-wheeling month-long S.P.A.M. experiment, done largely to illustrate -- if you didn't know already -- how spam is connected to malware and criminal activity, not to mention some of the slimiest marketing ever devised. (Compare antispam products.)
Each S.P.A.M. volunteer saw an average of 70 spam messages arrive in their in-box each day, with men receiving about 15 more per day than women. That was a lot to answer, but "Penelope Retch" -- the alias that Mooney chose for her S.P.A.M. adventure -- answered every single message.
The spammed life of Penelope Retch
In her guise as Penelope Retch, Mooney answered the e-mail that came into her account. "I'd see an interactive spam, open it, click on it and asked to be removed. That would only make it worse," she says. "They'd say 'no.'"
Whether trying to win an iPod online, get free travel brochures, weight-loss tea or Maybelline eyeliner, the effect of entering a home address was extreme. Immediately, a deluge of mail landed at her doorstep, directed to the attention of Penelope Retch.
Tell that to the victims of a botnet that don't even knowo what a botnet is.
Iran just got their internets pwned? =O
This is how spammers get your number, I'm guessing? If so, does this mean no more phone spam? *Awaits the inevitable denial of such high hopes*
I thought the last format war was decided by pr0n?
Of course, there's too much of that on the internet this time for it to be the really deciding factor this time around....
I think the only reason why PC Gamer can probably a bit more....."autonomous" than other review magazines (well, at least gamespot) is that they usually swarm their magazine with hordes of hardware ads. Let's look at an example. Clive Barker's Jericho, for instance, had an ad that went right over the cover of their magazine about a month before the release of the game. What score did they give the game? I believe they gave is something in the upper 40-mid 50% score.
Although we are making more money than ever before from our exports (as you point out), we are still losing money overall (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_deficit for stats). What does that mean? We're still (overall) losing money on our trades when you bring imports into the question.
Long Story Short: We're making lots of money, we're just losing even more money.
What does Jack Thompson have to say about this? I wonder...
Really, I just went through high school. Personally, I wouldn't have minded if I had the ability to listen to my iPod instead of the teacher every once in a while. Or the ability to (openly) text people in the middle of class. These things don't tend to help you with getting an education though. Listening to an iPod while doing busy work would have been GREATLY appreciated though...
The thing I WILL say about technology and high school is that it's (gradually) being accepted as a medium to teach people. More so in the programming classes than anything, though. The real cause for the lack of change in schools is bureaucracy, though. Teachers don't seem capable of grasping the concept of bending/breaking rules set by the local superintendent. Frankly, I'd rather they follow most of the rules set by the government. Just not the technology ones. Blackboard is JUST STARTING to be field tested in the county where I went to high school. It'll be a while before everyone is lugging their laptops to class and connecting to the high school's wireless network. I'm sure I'll be dealing with that with my kids though. Guess it's something to look forward to?
Just that larger animals have more cells that need to be "evolved" at one times would create some kind of evolutionary inertia? I suppose the difference in warmer blooded animals could be related in terms of inertia. If you consider that warmer blood means more movement a the cellular level. Just a thought.
I must say, I totally agree that this game was awesome. What made it so incredible was how different it is from all other strategy games.
First, you're not juts a commander who mysteriously has a top-down view of everything as if from heaven. You were ACTUALLY ON THE BATTLEFIELD FIGHTING ALONGSIDE YOUR CREATURES. This sounds strange at first, but Shiny did an AMAZING job making this work.
The second thing that made it different was the creatures themselves. You had only 2 real resources in the game (Souls and Mana) that you really had to account for. The fact that you were limited on mana balanced the game and made sure you couldn't just rush the other guy with 5-soul creatures the instant the game began. You had to manage your creatures that were alongside you in battle and had to balance whether to summon more creatures, cast spells to help out your army of creatures, or just run away and hope for the best.
Which brings me to another point, spells. This is what really made the game fun. You just didn't go and let your units go out and fight the battle for you (although you could if your army was large enough), you actually joined into the fray yourself. I must say, throwing tornadoes at your enemies (or just opening a gigantic hold underneath them) is a LOT of fun. Along with blowing up random enemy souls. I really think this is what made this game amazing.
The last point that made this game so exciting was the sheer amount of variety that they had built into the game. This wasn't a typical startegy game that had one side pitted against the other. THERE ARE 5 DIFFERENT SIDES to the game, and each was incredibly different from the other. (Try playing Stratos (Weather god) and then playing with Charnel's aresenal (God of Suffering).
With that, I command all even remotely interested in playing a completely different version of a strategy game executed almost perfectly to go and find a way to play this game.
If he DID publish the list anonymously, then the list could just as easily been dismissed (through political agreements) as completely inaccurate/wrong.
Sounds like there are two evils here.
There are more options then just letting children starve.
give them better work conditions at least, is one.
Improve the wages of the parents of all these children is definately another.
Have they EVER heard of http://netpromoter.com/ Net Promoter Scores? I don't think they have.
Microsoft must be too busy counting their cash to be considering consumer satisfaction right now.
All they're doing right now is getting everyone who uses DirectX to hate them with a passion right now.
I wonder if they've realized what they've done?
They don't send out this "code", do they?
Imagine if someone made a virtual reality sims off that kind of a game engine? People would really starve themselves.
Really, these are real people selling a good/service that people are willing to pay real money for, so I have no problem with that being taxed.
I don't think taxing anything else would really work out. (Tax Blizzard because they have a server up that happens to have virtual goods? Wouldn't that basically be a server tax?)
I thought that title belonged to balls. Especially now that we're on the verge of putting a candidate on the ballot without one.
So I'm gonna guess that we're getting closer to re-creating the big bang as a result of discovering this particle?
It would be interesting if they could find this stuff in our everyday environment, but I guess you can't have a big bang everyday, now can you?
I will say that if the mainstream media (looks at my tv I hardly watch anyway) would move on to something OTHER than horse-race and soundbyte politics, there might be a netter chance for candidates to give the straight dope on their actual positions.
Now that I'm thinking about it too, I might also mention party platforms while I'm at it. Since candidates have their own personal platforms that stands beside the party platform, and sometimes they don't mesh completely together. Just keep in mind that about two thirds of what's in the winning party's platform gets done to some extent.
My Guess, Klingon.