It doesn't stop autorun on CDs and other shiny media. What it now stops is autorun on portable USB drives and the like. See this El Reg article which is more enlightening than TFA.
Rather than ridiculous penalties, I don't see why the government doesn't create a website to report CP. It could be a minor violation (a fine) to not report CP content found. This would be a source of information that would actually help catch the child abusers. As things stand at the moment, a piece of malware could ruin someone's life.
And not doing it right can make things a LOT worse.
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I refer you to an interesting book.. I haven't read it, but the reviews suggest that the book claims that it is the reaction of others towards the scenario that causes the harm.
From a review written by a psychotherapist
Sexual experiences of children, either with peers or in some instances with adults, tend to be harmful to the child more because of the hysterical displays of adult care givers on discovery of the event than from the event itself.
There is still plenty of repetition with random levels, it's not like it's generating a whole new game every time. Computer generated levels don't really limit the scope for learning, it just makes the learning more general. If you are looking for something that has less variation (ie is more repetitive) that allows you to learn the game more completely then there are quick time event games.
There is the projects page which has a link to the study on the main page(I haven't read it). It is a quite boring thing to do, I never really got into it.
Maybe managers from accounting backgrounds don't fit well, but I've worked with a programmer from an accounting background. His changes were all well planned, documented and done professionally. The code was also nice.
is there a way to evaluate antivirus software? i mean, after it's 1.) no popups, 2.) not bloaty 3.) easy on the system 4.) convenient to use... how do you know if it actually works?
These can be used to get an idea of the effectiveness of the product. As for 1, 2, 3 and 4 just trying the product will tell you about it. If one of those issues causes problems, discard the AV product and get another, this goes especially for the "easy on the system" requirement.
I switched to Avira from AVG a while ago because AVG was slowing things down. I chose it because it rated highest in the detection rates at Virus Bulletin. Unfortunately it also got the highest false positive rates on the tests, although I have never received a false positive on my machine.
This reminds me of Amazon Mechanical Turk, which crowdsources people to do tasks which computers have trouble doing. It has been used to attempt to find people like Steve Fosset using satellite images and asking people to go through them. The search was unsuccessful though.
GP seems to be arguing on respectability of a profession, which really is quite arbitrary. The person who digs stuff out of the ground, such as farmers and miners, are conspicuously absent from the GPs post, even though the people working in every profession he mentioned requires those things. Trying to rank professions is really quite silly and elitist, a competant person will almost always be more useful to society than an incompetent person in whatever other profession anyway.
Punishing people who cause harm others for self interest may change their behaviour to something less harmful.
But
Punishing people for self destructive behavior is not likely at all to change things for the better, much more likely to change things for the worse, sometimes much much worse. It is much better to actually talk to the person about it, because assumptions have been made that are most likely to be wrong. Recognise that people change and situations are actually dynamic. An especially common and dishonest reaction is just giving the person with problems a label, like it somehow defines them.
Sometimes it is hard to tell what is really going on. It really depends.
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The book Harmful to Minors may be interesting to you. It pretty much supports what you say, and the reviews are pretty interesting as well.
It seems amusing that the their argument would be much stronger if they had a lot more unnecessary funding to begin with.
It doesn't stop autorun on CDs and other shiny media. What it now stops is autorun on portable USB drives and the like. See this El Reg article which is more enlightening than TFA.
Agreed.
Declining the offer achieved nothing. If there was really something wrong with what he was asked to do, he could publicise it.
I had a simalar spam titled "Multiple Explosions", amusing in itself.
Rather than ridiculous penalties, I don't see why the government doesn't create a website to report CP. It could be a minor violation (a fine) to not report CP content found. This would be a source of information that would actually help catch the child abusers. As things stand at the moment, a piece of malware could ruin someone's life.
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Yes I may.
And not doing it right can make things a LOT worse.
I refer you to an interesting book.. I haven't read it, but the reviews suggest that the book claims that it is the reaction of others towards the scenario that causes the harm.
From a review written by a psychotherapist
Holy cow you never know what kind of people are there at the heads of corporations.
Read his sig. He is AMAZING!
Well, maybe.
There is still plenty of repetition with random levels, it's not like it's generating a whole new game every time. Computer generated levels don't really limit the scope for learning, it just makes the learning more general. If you are looking for something that has less variation (ie is more repetitive) that allows you to learn the game more completely then there are quick time event games.
There is the projects page which has a link to the study on the main page(I haven't read it). It is a quite boring thing to do, I never really got into it.
Maybe managers from accounting backgrounds don't fit well, but I've worked with a programmer from an accounting background. His changes were all well planned, documented and done professionally. The code was also nice.
is there a way to evaluate antivirus software? i mean, after it's 1.) no popups, 2.) not bloaty 3.) easy on the system 4.) convenient to use... how do you know if it actually works?
There are sites that test AV products, two are:
Virus Bulletin and AV-Comparatives.
These can be used to get an idea of the effectiveness of the product. As for 1, 2, 3 and 4 just trying the product will tell you about it. If one of those issues causes problems, discard the AV product and get another, this goes especially for the "easy on the system" requirement.
Seconded.
I switched to Avira from AVG a while ago because AVG was slowing things down. I chose it because it rated highest in the detection rates at Virus Bulletin. Unfortunately it also got the highest false positive rates on the tests, although I have never received a false positive on my machine.
One other
Downloading unknown programs ~= trusting random person with your SSN
As long as the expected behaviour of the program isn't known and the tools to restrict the program from malicious behaviour aren't used.
Yes, anybody still using monochrome in 2010 really should upgrade.
This reminds me of Amazon Mechanical Turk, which crowdsources people to do tasks which computers have trouble doing. It has been used to attempt to find people like Steve Fosset using satellite images and asking people to go through them. The search was unsuccessful though.
Sorry, can only can offer a cartoon about it.
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GP seems to be arguing on respectability of a profession, which really is quite arbitrary. The person who digs stuff out of the ground, such as farmers and miners, are conspicuously absent from the GPs post, even though the people working in every profession he mentioned requires those things. Trying to rank professions is really quite silly and elitist, a competant person will almost always be more useful to society than an incompetent person in whatever other profession anyway.
You say that nuking Australia from orbit protects it's citizens!? You might be a politician.
Exactly.
Punishing people who cause harm others for self interest may change their behaviour to something less harmful.
But
Punishing people for self destructive behavior is not likely at all to change things for the better, much more likely to change things for the worse, sometimes much much worse. It is much better to actually talk to the person about it, because assumptions have been made that are most likely to be wrong. Recognise that people change and situations are actually dynamic. An especially common and dishonest reaction is just giving the person with problems a label, like it somehow defines them.
Sometimes it is hard to tell what is really going on. It really depends.
If there is a Jehovah's Witness Assembler it hasn't come knocking at my door.
No.
Normal sized breasts beat abnormal sized breasts any day.
Actually.
Normal breasts beat abnormal breasts any day. Aside from something being seriously wrong, do not modify them.
Actually don't modify your body unless something is seriously wrong with it.