Forging headers is like getting George Bush to declare war against something, incredibly easy once you know how. I mean you can usually trust the unsubscribe option in an e-mail from a list you Signed up to, not an e-mail apparently from a trusted sender. I've gotten e-mails apparently from legitimate institutions, where all the graphics were sourced from their actual site, but the underlying URLs all pointed to a phishing site.
Whenever I see a link in an e-mail or on a webpage, I always check the bottom left of my screen to see where it Really goes to. If it doesn't match or make sense, it's a goner.
If it's an e-mail list you signed up for from a reputable source, unsubscribing will get you off of that list. If it's junk that you didn't sign up for, what makes you think they'll suddenly become reputable when they get an unsubscribe message? They'll simply onsell your e-mail address as an active one and keep going.
Whitelist your address book, keep an eye on your spam folder for new legitimate incoming e-mails and contacts, and make heavy use of the delete option.
My High School Chemistry teacher (named [I kid you Not] Dr Benson) would start making sly jokes about you if you were asleep, not paying attention, being a muckup, in fact for any reason he could get away with!
A number of Australian ISPs have from time to time offered 'clean' feeds that are in some way filtered, but they've alwasy died on the vine from a complete lack of demand from users.
If the family PC is in the living room, any peeks at illicit material the kids can sneak while the parents are out of the room won't be that damaging (IMO). Sure, hours of hardcore porn will probably affect your tastes and perhaps behaviours, especially with long-term exposure, but a few minutes?
How much more effect could the millions of dollars inherently involved in such a huge undertaking have in so many other more worthwhile areas?? Looking after kids from broken homes so they don't grow up to repeat the same patterns, making sure every schoolchild has a good breakfast, etc etc etc.
I have to agree, AvP as a marine got my heart racing a Lot. Even with the heaviest weapons, the ability of face-huggers and aliens to come out of ducts and true-3D environments meant you had to Always be on your guard. Nervous twitching is a sure sign of a good game.
/. effect on that page, I can't access it in IE or Firefox, getting "CFCatch from error process - struct" as the first error message and then two pages of details.
The Daily Show knows I live in Australia, and shows me Australian ads, cool ones too, like ads for bottled water whose profits help build wells in Africa, kids play on roundabouts and also pump water at the same time. damn cool concept, if I see that water, I'm going to consider buying it, perfect ad for that demographic.
I'm not sure how we go from "we understand radio waves" and "we don't 100% understand the human body" to "we 100% understand how radio waves affect the human body". I think there's a missing link in that chain of logic.
We've had mobile phones for 50 years? We've had the vast majority of high school students running around with these things in their hands/next to their heads for 50 years, so we know what happens when they have a radiation source (admittedly a relatively weak one) right next to a developing brain? Do you stand in front of the microwave when you're reheating food, just because you've been told it's safe?
I spend Lots of time every day around devices that emit radiation of all kinds, I work in that environment. I don't know that any particular one is going to kill me, but just like slowly ingesting poison can kill you, long-term exposure to harmful radiation can kill you. The sun emits radiation, and we know we shouldn't spend too much time in direct sunlight, how about we do the same thing with cell phones?
How long did it take the scientific community to agree that cigarettes were harmful to humans? I'm advocating minimising exposure to a potentially harmful source source of radiation. Better safe than sorry here, my cell phone is near me, but not always in my pocket, right next to my reproductive organs(!).
you've just disproved your own point. we're Not 100% sure how the human body works, and so we're not 100% sure how radio waves affect it. Just because we understand how to send and recieve radio waves, doesn't mean we always know what happens when we bounce a lot of them off of cells in the human body. Hopefully not much (I carry a cell phone all day), but I try to minimise my exposure if I don't need to have it on me.
If we're not sure if something is extremely, moderately or mildly dangerous, or even innocuous, being careful with it until we're sure is perhaps a better plan than simply saying "we're pretty sure this is A-OK, so go wild." We've had problems with technology before, DDT, X-Rays (Marie Curie died from studying them), asbestos, all had/have their uses, but need to be treated with appropriate respect.
Why is it a flawed test to check the read/write speed from USB to HD using the primary HD? That's where (IMO) a very significant majority of users will be keeping their files, it makes sense to speed-test transfer rates from the most common file location.
your lack of understanding of nations around the world astounds me. may I be the first of many from the Plethora of nations around the globe who don't allow torture to call you a nincompoop. "not the USA" and/or "Not in Europe" != freedom hating electrode-wielding prison officials. (no offense to electro-BDSM practitioners, just remember those safe words).
it may have been that way centuries ago, but a few decades ago it meant 'requiring hard work or effort'
Ellen G White: "teaching is the nicest work"
doesn't make much sense with today's meaning
I've give the HP series entry-level fantasy status, hopefully it will get people (of all ages) interested in the fantasy genre and reading and writing of all kinds.
They Are entertaining, however I usually get left with a feeling of 'wow, that was short and somewhat sparse in detail and complexity', but then I'm not her target audience so I shouldn't have been that surprised it didn't 100% speak to me.
Glossaries have long be regarded as complimentary works, Rowling earlier gave an award for contributing to the Potter community for his glossary work to the man she later sued. She was putting out her own glossary about the time of the lawsuit, coincidence?
World War II Online (www.playnet.com) is a Really sweet World War II (really!) MMOFPS, 1/3rd scale map of western europe, very realistic damage models, been going for 7 years now, and they Do have a native Mac client, it works fine (they've even had a poll about a Linux client). They're having a promo deal right now, I can send you a free 2 month trial (no credit card details necessary). I'm a huge fan, if you're interested, reply and we'll work out a way to exchange e-mails.
I'm sorry, but you just compared Rowling to Tolkien. (funny note, Firefox spelling recognises the latter, but Not the former [suggested words: Yowling, Cowling, Howling, Bowling]). Rowling simply copied the primary character types from Every other fantasy book, and then dumbed it down a bit. Tolkien advanced writing in very significant ways, Rowling has not. Kudos to her for making a mint writing books, raspberries for sueing the poor sap who made a glossary because she got greedy and graspy after making mega-millions.
I was hoping for a +1 funny mod, but in vain:( (outlier, lier, meh).
Well, considering how Many people would have to have setup fake accounts for that to happen . . .
and do you Really think they'd admit to their data being that bad? remember, lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Leaving a false trail may lead them astray for a while, but once they realise what is happening they'll be on the lookout for other security measures. better to leave a Real username/pw on the post-it, but the profile it accesses immediately sends a message to company security once someone logs into it. If you have a web-cam, you can also take a photo of the person who just tried to hack your machine.
*goes to dig out his old web-cam*
Try contacting your local federal member (whomever is actually in office where you vote right now) and tell them you need to get your enrollment sorted out, they'll probably be more than happy to help you, they're big fans of having people enrolled to vote. I should know, a friend of mine works in a federal senator's office and he makes sure Everyone he knows is on the rolls.
Sometimes the electoral commission makes mistakes, but tell them you're ADF and they should be happy to help you, if not get in touch with your senator's office and they'll make sure it happens.
the Type of pen and paper ballot you use is more important than the fact that you physically put pen to paper, imho. Can the winged ballot (resulting in the chad problem) really be called pen and paper? You're not writing anything.
Blowing our national horn here, but Australia invented the Secret Ballot system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot) back in the 1800s, and everyone else quickly followed suite. We also have a system of very fiercely independent vote counters, a critical cornerstone of the system, perhaps the USA needs to work on that part? *coughkatherineharriscough*
Okay, if people simply go look at WWIIOL Battleground Europe (www.playnet.com), you'll see an excellent example of a persistent world MMOFPS game (with RPG elements) that has been running for seven years (I'm a regular player). We fight on a one-third scale map of the Western Europe theater.
The world is persistent, if you capture a town today, the enemy will try and take it back tomorrow, or right after you captured it. Towns have a point value, you need a very high point value to win the map. Winning the map can take weeks, or months, and there is often an intermission during maps when the programmers (Cornered Rat Studios or CRS) may run a scenario for fun. There's also a training server where you can mess around with different units without it affecting your game-world stats.
If you and a group of other players go to bomb the enemy's factories, their RDP cycle (how soon they get the next tougher set of units) takes longer, and it can even be held to zero if you spend enough time bombing and they don't defend their factories. So an individual players actions (or those of a group) have very significant effects on the world at large.
Often attacks start at a Forward Base (FB) between cities, these can be destroyed if you sneak enough guys with satchel charges in and blow the place up, requiring defense of your spawn point. If you lose your FB, all of your mobile spawn points (MSPs) become de-activated. Also the depot that you can spawn into after capturing it in the target town loses its supply.
The game isn't perfect, but it has been running for seven years (!!!) with thousands of people still paying to play it. It has a High Command structure staffed by players that have to make command decisions about where to move the brigades around the map and what to focus on researching for the next RDP cycle.
(note: If you want to play this game, find another player in-game to learn from, or join a squad. We're always happy to help train up new people. The learning curve is pretty high, they're currently working on a training guide as part of licensing the game to China, they're going to start up three different servers (instances of the game) there as well as the existing one).
have you been reading Any of the news items posted here about patents, patent trolls and how much it costs to fund a lawsuit? A troll could easily patent this, and then tie up the case in court for years, and who would have the money/time/energy to fight them for it?
Besides, the point has already been made that the University is probably the patent-holder, or at least joint holder. They get more prestige from holding the patent and letting poor countries use it for next to nothing than just making it public domain. Plus their graduates/staff can make good money teaching the developing nations they're targeting how to use it.
And if you want to get Really nasty, they could withhold the patent from horrible nations whose human rights records aren't up to snuff, as a way to force political change. But that's pretty unlikely.
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Forging headers is like getting George Bush to declare war against something, incredibly easy once you know how. I mean you can usually trust the unsubscribe option in an e-mail from a list you Signed up to, not an e-mail apparently from a trusted sender. I've gotten e-mails apparently from legitimate institutions, where all the graphics were sourced from their actual site, but the underlying URLs all pointed to a phishing site. Whenever I see a link in an e-mail or on a webpage, I always check the bottom left of my screen to see where it Really goes to. If it doesn't match or make sense, it's a goner.
If it's an e-mail list you signed up for from a reputable source, unsubscribing will get you off of that list. If it's junk that you didn't sign up for, what makes you think they'll suddenly become reputable when they get an unsubscribe message? They'll simply onsell your e-mail address as an active one and keep going. Whitelist your address book, keep an eye on your spam folder for new legitimate incoming e-mails and contacts, and make heavy use of the delete option.
My High School Chemistry teacher (named [I kid you Not] Dr Benson) would start making sly jokes about you if you were asleep, not paying attention, being a muckup, in fact for any reason he could get away with!
A number of Australian ISPs have from time to time offered 'clean' feeds that are in some way filtered, but they've alwasy died on the vine from a complete lack of demand from users. If the family PC is in the living room, any peeks at illicit material the kids can sneak while the parents are out of the room won't be that damaging (IMO). Sure, hours of hardcore porn will probably affect your tastes and perhaps behaviours, especially with long-term exposure, but a few minutes? How much more effect could the millions of dollars inherently involved in such a huge undertaking have in so many other more worthwhile areas?? Looking after kids from broken homes so they don't grow up to repeat the same patterns, making sure every schoolchild has a good breakfast, etc etc etc.
tropical environment = hot = few clothes = teh sexeh = ratings = profit
cold weather = more clothes != teh sexeh
I can't have been the only one to notice the women never had a lack of bits of cloth perfect for making a tube top with Survivor written on them.
I have to agree, AvP as a marine got my heart racing a Lot. Even with the heaviest weapons, the ability of face-huggers and aliens to come out of ducts and true-3D environments meant you had to Always be on your guard. Nervous twitching is a sure sign of a good game.
/. effect on that page, I can't access it in IE or Firefox, getting "CFCatch from error process - struct" as the first error message and then two pages of details.
The Daily Show knows I live in Australia, and shows me Australian ads, cool ones too, like ads for bottled water whose profits help build wells in Africa, kids play on roundabouts and also pump water at the same time. damn cool concept, if I see that water, I'm going to consider buying it, perfect ad for that demographic.
I'm not sure how we go from "we understand radio waves" and "we don't 100% understand the human body" to "we 100% understand how radio waves affect the human body". I think there's a missing link in that chain of logic. We've had mobile phones for 50 years? We've had the vast majority of high school students running around with these things in their hands/next to their heads for 50 years, so we know what happens when they have a radiation source (admittedly a relatively weak one) right next to a developing brain? Do you stand in front of the microwave when you're reheating food, just because you've been told it's safe? I spend Lots of time every day around devices that emit radiation of all kinds, I work in that environment. I don't know that any particular one is going to kill me, but just like slowly ingesting poison can kill you, long-term exposure to harmful radiation can kill you. The sun emits radiation, and we know we shouldn't spend too much time in direct sunlight, how about we do the same thing with cell phones? How long did it take the scientific community to agree that cigarettes were harmful to humans? I'm advocating minimising exposure to a potentially harmful source source of radiation. Better safe than sorry here, my cell phone is near me, but not always in my pocket, right next to my reproductive organs(!).
you've just disproved your own point. we're Not 100% sure how the human body works, and so we're not 100% sure how radio waves affect it. Just because we understand how to send and recieve radio waves, doesn't mean we always know what happens when we bounce a lot of them off of cells in the human body. Hopefully not much (I carry a cell phone all day), but I try to minimise my exposure if I don't need to have it on me. If we're not sure if something is extremely, moderately or mildly dangerous, or even innocuous, being careful with it until we're sure is perhaps a better plan than simply saying "we're pretty sure this is A-OK, so go wild." We've had problems with technology before, DDT, X-Rays (Marie Curie died from studying them), asbestos, all had/have their uses, but need to be treated with appropriate respect.
Why is it a flawed test to check the read/write speed from USB to HD using the primary HD? That's where (IMO) a very significant majority of users will be keeping their files, it makes sense to speed-test transfer rates from the most common file location.
your lack of understanding of nations around the world astounds me. may I be the first of many from the Plethora of nations around the globe who don't allow torture to call you a nincompoop. "not the USA" and/or "Not in Europe" != freedom hating electrode-wielding prison officials. (no offense to electro-BDSM practitioners, just remember those safe words).
it may have been that way centuries ago, but a few decades ago it meant 'requiring hard work or effort' Ellen G White: "teaching is the nicest work" doesn't make much sense with today's meaning
I've give the HP series entry-level fantasy status, hopefully it will get people (of all ages) interested in the fantasy genre and reading and writing of all kinds. They Are entertaining, however I usually get left with a feeling of 'wow, that was short and somewhat sparse in detail and complexity', but then I'm not her target audience so I shouldn't have been that surprised it didn't 100% speak to me.
Glossaries have long be regarded as complimentary works, Rowling earlier gave an award for contributing to the Potter community for his glossary work to the man she later sued. She was putting out her own glossary about the time of the lawsuit, coincidence?
World War II Online (www.playnet.com) is a Really sweet World War II (really!) MMOFPS, 1/3rd scale map of western europe, very realistic damage models, been going for 7 years now, and they Do have a native Mac client, it works fine (they've even had a poll about a Linux client). They're having a promo deal right now, I can send you a free 2 month trial (no credit card details necessary). I'm a huge fan, if you're interested, reply and we'll work out a way to exchange e-mails.
I'm sorry, but you just compared Rowling to Tolkien. (funny note, Firefox spelling recognises the latter, but Not the former [suggested words: Yowling, Cowling, Howling, Bowling]). Rowling simply copied the primary character types from Every other fantasy book, and then dumbed it down a bit. Tolkien advanced writing in very significant ways, Rowling has not. Kudos to her for making a mint writing books, raspberries for sueing the poor sap who made a glossary because she got greedy and graspy after making mega-millions.
Because they were promised by the vendor that the security was flawless and they believed them?
I was hoping for a +1 funny mod, but in vain :( (outlier, lier, meh).
Well, considering how Many people would have to have setup fake accounts for that to happen . . .
and do you Really think they'd admit to their data being that bad? remember, lies, damn lies, and statistics.
That kind of data in a graph is known as an Outlier
Leaving a false trail may lead them astray for a while, but once they realise what is happening they'll be on the lookout for other security measures. better to leave a Real username/pw on the post-it, but the profile it accesses immediately sends a message to company security once someone logs into it. If you have a web-cam, you can also take a photo of the person who just tried to hack your machine. *goes to dig out his old web-cam*
Try contacting your local federal member (whomever is actually in office where you vote right now) and tell them you need to get your enrollment sorted out, they'll probably be more than happy to help you, they're big fans of having people enrolled to vote. I should know, a friend of mine works in a federal senator's office and he makes sure Everyone he knows is on the rolls. Sometimes the electoral commission makes mistakes, but tell them you're ADF and they should be happy to help you, if not get in touch with your senator's office and they'll make sure it happens.
the Type of pen and paper ballot you use is more important than the fact that you physically put pen to paper, imho. Can the winged ballot (resulting in the chad problem) really be called pen and paper? You're not writing anything. Blowing our national horn here, but Australia invented the Secret Ballot system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot) back in the 1800s, and everyone else quickly followed suite. We also have a system of very fiercely independent vote counters, a critical cornerstone of the system, perhaps the USA needs to work on that part? *coughkatherineharriscough*
Okay, if people simply go look at WWIIOL Battleground Europe (www.playnet.com), you'll see an excellent example of a persistent world MMOFPS game (with RPG elements) that has been running for seven years (I'm a regular player). We fight on a one-third scale map of the Western Europe theater. The world is persistent, if you capture a town today, the enemy will try and take it back tomorrow, or right after you captured it. Towns have a point value, you need a very high point value to win the map. Winning the map can take weeks, or months, and there is often an intermission during maps when the programmers (Cornered Rat Studios or CRS) may run a scenario for fun. There's also a training server where you can mess around with different units without it affecting your game-world stats. If you and a group of other players go to bomb the enemy's factories, their RDP cycle (how soon they get the next tougher set of units) takes longer, and it can even be held to zero if you spend enough time bombing and they don't defend their factories. So an individual players actions (or those of a group) have very significant effects on the world at large. Often attacks start at a Forward Base (FB) between cities, these can be destroyed if you sneak enough guys with satchel charges in and blow the place up, requiring defense of your spawn point. If you lose your FB, all of your mobile spawn points (MSPs) become de-activated. Also the depot that you can spawn into after capturing it in the target town loses its supply. The game isn't perfect, but it has been running for seven years (!!!) with thousands of people still paying to play it. It has a High Command structure staffed by players that have to make command decisions about where to move the brigades around the map and what to focus on researching for the next RDP cycle. (note: If you want to play this game, find another player in-game to learn from, or join a squad. We're always happy to help train up new people. The learning curve is pretty high, they're currently working on a training guide as part of licensing the game to China, they're going to start up three different servers (instances of the game) there as well as the existing one).
have you been reading Any of the news items posted here about patents, patent trolls and how much it costs to fund a lawsuit? A troll could easily patent this, and then tie up the case in court for years, and who would have the money/time/energy to fight them for it? Besides, the point has already been made that the University is probably the patent-holder, or at least joint holder. They get more prestige from holding the patent and letting poor countries use it for next to nothing than just making it public domain. Plus their graduates/staff can make good money teaching the developing nations they're targeting how to use it. And if you want to get Really nasty, they could withhold the patent from horrible nations whose human rights records aren't up to snuff, as a way to force political change. But that's pretty unlikely.