Action 1: Wolffire Games Releases Lugaru HD Action 2: Some time passes Action 3: Wolffire Games thinks they're seeing double Action 4: Because of the rest of the article, Action 3 may be forgiven.
I think its against the Facebook TOS to put up false information about yourself (given that its amazingly long, I never read ALL of it myself). I'm pretty sure they could use that.
"it seems that only lately they have begun to be successful in their attempts"
All they needed to do was write a simple and silly app which requires all your user data and BAM, you have everything. You won't even need a court order for it.
Yeah, if you disable JavaScript and Flash you might have a 'safe experience'. But then if your favourite news website gets hacked, you'll catch a virus.
Its not worth it , truly. Or, your flash drive might get infected from someone (there was a printing bureau which actually had this sort of worm on their pcs - infected tons of people).
Even my university notes make reference to using mouse gestures or gaze tracking to determine which search results are relevant, whether the user is hesitating or uninterested in the paragraph you're offering him.
Net neutrality = "Every packet is treated the same on the internet". It has nothing to do with the government enforcing regulations on the internet. It has everything to do with the government enforcing that NOBODY should enforce regulations on the internet.
The people who want these laws are the kind of people who have enough money and influence to ensure that these laws stay the same way.
I mean, you saw the whole Net Neutrality debate in the US. It had misdirection on one side which triggered the American Native "I DON'T WANT NO GUBBERMENT" reaction.
When we're talking about media - you can expect to see commercials detailing how 'favourite artist' supports this law because it protects their music, how the world would be horrible without them. Then you have government lobbying (also known as bribes) and stuff like that.
If we had an infinite pool of politicians, enough floating voters and a way of determining who supports these crap laws, you'd see the world change pretty quickly. Not the case either.
At least you can rest on the fact that laws usually take ages to fix. So this 'workaround' is great until they patch the law up in a few years' time.
NAT is already done by certain ISPs who don't have enough addresses for all their customers. If you (say) map 2 people onto the same IP address you can pay for less addresses.
If you map a bunch of people to the same address every session, and you don't store the routing table, I think you can safely call it 'anonymous' - because you're introducing uncertainty.
Claiming evolution is the best explanation for life is pure arrogance since it is merely a theory and all scientific theories have, so far, all been proven either wrong or, at least incomplete, over time.
Citation needed. Theory in science means something. It doesn't mean that someone pulled it out of their brain without proof. Like pythagoras' THEOREM. And incomplete is acceptable. Yes models get updated. Its still better than declaring that an omnopotent being dunnit.
How many herbal remedies, like Saint John's Wort, which have been proven as or more effective than their pharmaceutical counterparts, are kept out of mainstream medicine through their political machinations.
I will be needing a citation for that too if you please. I'm pretty sure that the pharmaceutical industry would love to have another active ingredient to make their stuff more efficient. They're not going to bother hiding this magical plant. In fact they'll probably find out what's doing the magic, concentrate it and sell it.
That said, herbal remedies - for the most part - are just placibo. We have an 'indian herb shop' next to us with claims to solve everything from hair loss to diabetes. Its always empty though.. wonder why.
Because Islam burns people as witches. Abuses underage boys and cover it up Burn people for saying that the earth goes around the sun Torture people to make them admit they're jews, then execute them.
It is so statistically improbable that that it staggers the imagination that anyone can claim to even consider it part of science.
I don't know, but there are billions of planets which have been around for millions of years. Yeah, statistically, even the creation of a proper protein is.. miniscule. But you don't know how many failures have occured, and how many times an attempt has been made.
Its a grey spot at best, but given the vastness of the universe - its not so amazing.
The main difference between science and religion is simply the rigor behind it all.
Science is about - coming up with a theory, attempting to devise an experiment or find proof, if there is a failure, you create a new model. Religion is about coming up with a theory, telling enough people about the theory such that they believe you.
I have nothing against religion doing what it does best - supplying a moral code, being conservative, and giving people hope - but when it comes to 'scientific' things, it hinders. To bring an example, demanding that the sun revolves around the earth.
1 Story about OpenSrouce (not really US-Centric) A story about Egypt A story about conficker (has a worldwide scope) A Japanese company updating firmware Russian Media comments on a russian terrorist attack A site with an Australian link about messaging aliens A streaming site comparing ISP speeds in US and Canada A comment about the latest product from a Japanese company Facebook used as evidence in US Courts
Now the evolutionary theory, which follows a degree of scientific rigor (compare it to other theories to explain the same phenomenon) is controversial. What's next? Advanced physics teaching that the sun goes around the earth? Carbon dating deemed heresy because we all know the earth was created in 7 days?
don't want some octogenarian out of touch baby boomer deciding that the INTARWEBZ facebooks must be my podium to the world, so it's not private.
Does whoever is selling your personal data to advertisers count as an "octogenarian[...]baby boomer"?
We all know its not private, friends or no friends. Don't put anything private in there. If you want to take drugs, kill someone, or drive a car without a license, don't put incriminating information there. Not so hard is it?
What makes you think that if there are aliens that they'd even use the same Physical Layer?
Why is there the impression that if aliens exist they can communicate by changing the same environmental variables as we do ? Why are we even assuming that they discover the same technology, or that they use radiowaves to transmit over long distances? Maybe an alien race uses radiowaves for weapons, maybe they can actually see at those frequencies. I dunno, the fact we haven't seen any aliens yet doesn't help either.
So most of this is entirely useless - we are assuming that there is an alien race which is activly pointing some sort of sensor array at the sky - which isn't far away enough such that the transmission gets blocked or whatever, that actually understands the notion of communicating through radiowaves by changing amplitude or frequency or whatever, that they try to decode it as a binary message, and that they try to understand the convoluted mess our languages are.
Hell, I'm sure if you were to make up your own 'alien language' and transmit it back to Nasa, they'd just think its cosmic radiation or something.
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Action 1: Wolffire Games Releases Lugaru HD
Action 2: Some time passes
Action 3: Wolffire Games thinks they're seeing double
Action 4: Because of the rest of the article, Action 3 may be forgiven.
This is making you sound like you want chrome users to use H264... I wonder why.
I'm sure this is to give the choice, and not because you have interests in H264 yourself.
Good going guys!
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I think its against the Facebook TOS to put up false information about yourself (given that its amazingly long, I never read ALL of it myself). I'm pretty sure they could use that.
"it seems that only lately they have begun to be successful in their attempts"
All they needed to do was write a simple and silly app which requires all your user data and BAM, you have everything. You won't even need a court order for it.
To be fair, Benjamin Franklin didn't know about the internet.
This is clearly the hacker's revenge. He couldn't toss in an exploit using the script-kiddiness, so he's DDOSing the site instead.
Not recommended.
A bunch of malware nowadays appears on:
1. Hacked Websites
2. Advertising
Yeah, if you disable JavaScript and Flash you might have a 'safe experience'. But then if your favourite news website gets hacked, you'll catch a virus.
Its not worth it , truly. Or, your flash drive might get infected from someone (there was a printing bureau which actually had this sort of worm on their pcs - infected tons of people).
This is news?
Even my university notes make reference to using mouse gestures or gaze tracking to determine which search results are relevant, whether the user is hesitating or uninterested in the paragraph you're offering him.
How is this news?
Is a kilogram in terms of fractions of an elephant please?
Probably because I'm too busy noticing the shafts everyone else is introducing everywhere else.
Note: Metaphorical shafts
Strawman argument.
Net neutrality = "Every packet is treated the same on the internet". It has nothing to do with the government enforcing regulations on the internet. It has everything to do with the government enforcing that NOBODY should enforce regulations on the internet.
We shall fight them in the lawcourts, we shall fight them in the media... you may take our lives but you'll never take your freedom.
Love
Corporate Exec
The people who want these laws are the kind of people who have enough money and influence to ensure that these laws stay the same way.
I mean, you saw the whole Net Neutrality debate in the US. It had misdirection on one side which triggered the American Native "I DON'T WANT NO GUBBERMENT" reaction.
When we're talking about media - you can expect to see commercials detailing how 'favourite artist' supports this law because it protects their music, how the world would be horrible without them. Then you have government lobbying (also known as bribes) and stuff like that.
If we had an infinite pool of politicians, enough floating voters and a way of determining who supports these crap laws, you'd see the world change pretty quickly. Not the case either.
At least you can rest on the fact that laws usually take ages to fix. So this 'workaround' is great until they patch the law up in a few years' time.
NAT is already done by certain ISPs who don't have enough addresses for all their customers. If you (say) map 2 people onto the same IP address you can pay for less addresses.
If you map a bunch of people to the same address every session, and you don't store the routing table, I think you can safely call it 'anonymous' - because you're introducing uncertainty.
So the public don't like the law because they can get ratted out.
The ISPs don't like the law either
Why is there this law again?
Claiming evolution is the best explanation for life is pure arrogance since it is merely a theory and all scientific theories have, so far, all been proven either wrong or, at least incomplete, over time.
Citation needed. Theory in science means something. It doesn't mean that someone pulled it out of their brain without proof. Like pythagoras' THEOREM. And incomplete is acceptable. Yes models get updated. Its still better than declaring that an omnopotent being dunnit.
How many herbal remedies, like Saint John's Wort, which have been proven as or more effective than their pharmaceutical counterparts, are kept out of mainstream medicine through their political machinations.
I will be needing a citation for that too if you please. I'm pretty sure that the pharmaceutical industry would love to have another active ingredient to make their stuff more efficient. They're not going to bother hiding this magical plant. In fact they'll probably find out what's doing the magic, concentrate it and sell it.
That said, herbal remedies - for the most part - are just placibo. We have an 'indian herb shop' next to us with claims to solve everything from hair loss to diabetes. Its always empty though.. wonder why.
Is that Crysis 2 isn't out yet. When it is, people will be all going out to buy their own supercomputer to run the game.
Because Islam burns people as witches.
Abuses underage boys and cover it up
Burn people for saying that the earth goes around the sun
Torture people to make them admit they're jews, then execute them.
Oh wait, wrong religion. Sorry. Carry on.
Bombs don't kill people. People kill people.
If you block text messages off in an area, only outlaws will have text messages.
end satire.
It is so statistically improbable that that it staggers the imagination that anyone can claim to even consider it part of science.
I don't know, but there are billions of planets which have been around for millions of years. Yeah, statistically, even the creation of a proper protein is.. miniscule. But you don't know how many failures have occured, and how many times an attempt has been made.
Its a grey spot at best, but given the vastness of the universe - its not so amazing.
The main difference between science and religion is simply the rigor behind it all.
Science is about - coming up with a theory, attempting to devise an experiment or find proof, if there is a failure, you create a new model.
Religion is about coming up with a theory, telling enough people about the theory such that they believe you.
I have nothing against religion doing what it does best - supplying a moral code, being conservative, and giving people hope - but when it comes to 'scientific' things, it hinders. To bring an example, demanding that the sun revolves around the earth.
Well, looking at what is today so far...
1 Story about OpenSrouce (not really US-Centric)
A story about Egypt
A story about conficker (has a worldwide scope)
A Japanese company updating firmware
Russian Media comments on a russian terrorist attack
A site with an Australian link about messaging aliens
A streaming site comparing ISP speeds in US and Canada
A comment about the latest product from a Japanese company
Facebook used as evidence in US Courts
Not very US centric is it?
Now the evolutionary theory, which follows a degree of scientific rigor (compare it to other theories to explain the same phenomenon) is controversial. What's next? Advanced physics teaching that the sun goes around the earth? Carbon dating deemed heresy because we all know the earth was created in 7 days?
God Bless America.
don't want some octogenarian out of touch baby boomer deciding that the INTARWEBZ facebooks must be my podium to the world, so it's not private.
Does whoever is selling your personal data to advertisers count as an "octogenarian[...]baby boomer"?
We all know its not private, friends or no friends. Don't put anything private in there. If you want to take drugs, kill someone, or drive a car without a license, don't put incriminating information there. Not so hard is it?
"As you can see your honour, the defendant is innocent.
This comment "I'm innocent" posted this morning has received 100 likes already.
I rest my case"
What makes you think that if there are aliens that they'd even use the same Physical Layer?
Why is there the impression that if aliens exist they can communicate by changing the same environmental variables as we do ? Why are we even assuming that they discover the same technology, or that they use radiowaves to transmit over long distances? Maybe an alien race uses radiowaves for weapons, maybe they can actually see at those frequencies. I dunno, the fact we haven't seen any aliens yet doesn't help either.
So most of this is entirely useless - we are assuming that there is an alien race which is activly pointing some sort of sensor array at the sky - which isn't far away enough such that the transmission gets blocked or whatever, that actually understands the notion of communicating through radiowaves by changing amplitude or frequency or whatever, that they try to decode it as a binary message, and that they try to understand the convoluted mess our languages are.
Hell, I'm sure if you were to make up your own 'alien language' and transmit it back to Nasa, they'd just think its cosmic radiation or something.