I agree... whenever people mention the size of the brain being an indicator of intelligence I bring out primordial dwarves who are the smallest dwarves yet the majority go to regular schools and in some cases are on the honor roll. If brain size were truly an indicator, then these people shouldn't be able to function modern society like they do.
These posts always happen when a story like this gets posted. Someone always asks what it has to do with/. or "news for nerds". Slashdot however, has always had stories like this, and most people enjoy discussing these things with other slashdotters. I personally prefer to hear the insight and information from other people in discussions such as this than from commentators from random news sites. Usually the facts I find out from other posters here are very good and at the very least give cause to think things over.
My mother is a bank teller. At no bank she has worked at, have they ever refused a cash deposit. There is a magic number (10K) at which they notify some authority in case it was gained through nefarious means (so they claim), but those people already know the magic number and instead stick to deposits of 9K or less at a time.
I don't know if it's Hollywood revisionism. I don't know of any films that portray the war as if the US won the war single handed. Since as you mentioned, most were created for american audiences, that is portion they showed. People wanted to see what their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers went through. For D-Day the forces were largely divided by which part of the Normandy beach they attacked. This means for the most part the Canadians, Americans and British would not come in contact with each other on the battlefield. The majority seem to focus on Omaha Beach was was slated for US troops. Many (especially modern movies, miniseries and documentaries) do in fact include British troops and the parts they played. I know of no veterans who ever downplayed the British military in WWII.
I am very proud of the part the US played in the war, and I do believe we were a very important part of winning (though it is easy to argue a large portion of that was due to our ability to manufacture an insane amount of war machines and materials). I am also proud of the Canadian and British forces. Together, we all made a good showing of ourselves.
I've seen it several times. Once it was someone who answered a phone call and continued talking for at least two or three minutes without getting up to leave the theater. Another was someone who kept getting phone calls with a loud ringer and refused to turn it off or turn off the ringer. Twice was at two separate viewings. Teenagers who insist they must take pictures of themselves at the theater to show all of their friends they're seeing a movie.
That actually may be due to a caching service of their own rather than AT&T itself. Try surfing with a different DNS server, like Google or OpenDNS. Verizon had this problem too on FiOS and the only solution was to use a different DNS server. They finally upgraded their aging Youtube caching servers though.
There could be many reasons he dropped out of high school. There could be many reasons why he advanced in the NSA. While I don't believe that having high school and college diplomas make you an intelligent or skilled person, I also don't believe _not_ having them makes you automatically unqualified. I am compensated well and have a position of great responsibility at my current company. I have also never sat through a day of college. Clearly others see more value in what I have done and can demonstrate rather than how I learned it.
I do sometimes wish I'd gone to college, but only because I feel I missed out on a lot of social benefits I might have received.
Notch did tweet about it, saying he almost did it. I think if he had it would have been suicide for his company because everyone I know, myself included, found Minecraft through the LP videos. It would have been a lot of revenue though. For the folks who base their Youtube businesses off of the Minecraft success, they would have seen their income drop to nothing or near to it.
Some of these LP makers earn a very good living. Look at the two Yogscast guys. They now have a multi-million dollar business based out of their videos they make on youtube. I personally know several who have closed businesses or quit day jobs to do nothing but make these videos. They do love the games they play, and are passionate about it, but it is also their livelihood. They take it seriously. They play games viewers are interested in, edit and make their own music for their videos, and they will sometimes even spend hours working an idea out before recording it for a video (like a minecraft machine they want to demonstrate). Nintendo taking the ad revenue from them could potentially ruin their ability to make money depending on what games they favor on their channels.
I know that they had detonations, but I also remember reading that they weren't picking up enough radiation to prove that it was a nuclear explosion and not just large stockpiles of traditional TNT. The explosions were small for a nuclear blast as well, well within the range of what a mass of traditional explosives could do.
This definitely does not prove they _don't_ have nuclear arms, but doesn't it at least cast a bit of doubt?
Slightly off topic but I wanted to take a chance to plug Proxmox VE. It's done beautifully for me, I run 16 guests on a server for some web projects (a bunch of them run sharepoint). It's very nice and open source. It supports KVM and OpenVZ and has a healthy community for it.
Every time someone brings up brain size as an indicator of intelligence I have to remind them of primordial dwarfism. These people certainly have intelligence as some are in advanced classes in school, despite their brains being quite small.
There isn't a lot of detail mentioned in the article about exactly what will be done to prevent the locals from using all of their smuggled cell phones to access the open internet.
In the past the DPRK has made decisions that "give in without actually giving in". They didn't originally allow non state-owned businesses but they tolerated people selling in their own markets for example. This seems similar to me. There is a high amount of smuggled cell phones from China, but very few people have the official DPRK sponsored phones. This means there is a chance a sizable portion of the population there would get access to the real internet. I do realize however that this would likely be monitored in some way, regardless.
Thanks for the response. I guess it's been longer than I thought since I've used Docs. I didn't even think of the form angle. I'm sure this is causing more than a few "staff training" sessions. I suppose it's only worse since even if you have your own domain, you're still redirected to "docs.google.com", so it won't be immediately apparent that it did not come from a legit source (completely aside from the fact that a legit source wouldn't ask for that information in the first place).
I, like others, would like to know exactly how Google Docs is used for phishing. I've used Google Docs off and on since it was made available. I can't think of a particular feature that would make it an enticing service to use for phishing.
Can anyone offer an example or offer up an anecdote where they've encountered it?
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I agree... whenever people mention the size of the brain being an indicator of intelligence I bring out primordial dwarves who are the smallest dwarves yet the majority go to regular schools and in some cases are on the honor roll. If brain size were truly an indicator, then these people shouldn't be able to function modern society like they do.
These posts always happen when a story like this gets posted. Someone always asks what it has to do with /. or "news for nerds". Slashdot however, has always had stories like this, and most people enjoy discussing these things with other slashdotters. I personally prefer to hear the insight and information from other people in discussions such as this than from commentators from random news sites. Usually the facts I find out from other posters here are very good and at the very least give cause to think things over.
My mother is a bank teller. At no bank she has worked at, have they ever refused a cash deposit. There is a magic number (10K) at which they notify some authority in case it was gained through nefarious means (so they claim), but those people already know the magic number and instead stick to deposits of 9K or less at a time.
Since there is a company that duplicates keys from pictures you can try it for yourself.
I don't know if it's Hollywood revisionism. I don't know of any films that portray the war as if the US won the war single handed. Since as you mentioned, most were created for american audiences, that is portion they showed. People wanted to see what their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers went through. For D-Day the forces were largely divided by which part of the Normandy beach they attacked. This means for the most part the Canadians, Americans and British would not come in contact with each other on the battlefield. The majority seem to focus on Omaha Beach was was slated for US troops. Many (especially modern movies, miniseries and documentaries) do in fact include British troops and the parts they played. I know of no veterans who ever downplayed the British military in WWII.
I am very proud of the part the US played in the war, and I do believe we were a very important part of winning (though it is easy to argue a large portion of that was due to our ability to manufacture an insane amount of war machines and materials). I am also proud of the Canadian and British forces. Together, we all made a good showing of ourselves.
Very interesting, I appreciate you taking the time to develop this. I also appreciate that you opened the source. Thank you.
At least in regards to the pro-nazi and antisemitism, I doubt Disney would have befriended many Jewish school mates, donated to several Jewish charities (The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Yeshiva College, Jewish Home for the Aged, The American League for a Free Palestine and be named "1955 Man of the Year" by the B'nai B'rith chapter in Beverly Hills if he truly was. He also made many pieces of anti-nazi propoganda.
I've seen it several times. Once it was someone who answered a phone call and continued talking for at least two or three minutes without getting up to leave the theater. Another was someone who kept getting phone calls with a loud ringer and refused to turn it off or turn off the ringer. Twice was at two separate viewings. Teenagers who insist they must take pictures of themselves at the theater to show all of their friends they're seeing a movie.
That actually may be due to a caching service of their own rather than AT&T itself. Try surfing with a different DNS server, like Google or OpenDNS. Verizon had this problem too on FiOS and the only solution was to use a different DNS server. They finally upgraded their aging Youtube caching servers though.
My brother's favorite response to my parents (which always resulted in more punishment) was "Well, two negatives equal a positive!"
There could be many reasons he dropped out of high school. There could be many reasons why he advanced in the NSA. While I don't believe that having high school and college diplomas make you an intelligent or skilled person, I also don't believe _not_ having them makes you automatically unqualified. I am compensated well and have a position of great responsibility at my current company. I have also never sat through a day of college. Clearly others see more value in what I have done and can demonstrate rather than how I learned it.
I do sometimes wish I'd gone to college, but only because I feel I missed out on a lot of social benefits I might have received.
Google has already tried this.
Isn't this the exact kind of problem that configuration management is supposed to solve?
Notch did tweet about it, saying he almost did it. I think if he had it would have been suicide for his company because everyone I know, myself included, found Minecraft through the LP videos. It would have been a lot of revenue though. For the folks who base their Youtube businesses off of the Minecraft success, they would have seen their income drop to nothing or near to it.
Some of these LP makers earn a very good living. Look at the two Yogscast guys. They now have a multi-million dollar business based out of their videos they make on youtube. I personally know several who have closed businesses or quit day jobs to do nothing but make these videos. They do love the games they play, and are passionate about it, but it is also their livelihood. They take it seriously. They play games viewers are interested in, edit and make their own music for their videos, and they will sometimes even spend hours working an idea out before recording it for a video (like a minecraft machine they want to demonstrate). Nintendo taking the ad revenue from them could potentially ruin their ability to make money depending on what games they favor on their channels.
I know that they had detonations, but I also remember reading that they weren't picking up enough radiation to prove that it was a nuclear explosion and not just large stockpiles of traditional TNT. The explosions were small for a nuclear blast as well, well within the range of what a mass of traditional explosives could do.
This definitely does not prove they _don't_ have nuclear arms, but doesn't it at least cast a bit of doubt?
Slightly off topic but I wanted to take a chance to plug Proxmox VE. It's done beautifully for me, I run 16 guests on a server for some web projects (a bunch of them run sharepoint). It's very nice and open source. It supports KVM and OpenVZ and has a healthy community for it.
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Every time someone brings up brain size as an indicator of intelligence I have to remind them of primordial dwarfism. These people certainly have intelligence as some are in advanced classes in school, despite their brains being quite small.
Remember there is a difference between a Viking and a Viking age Norsemen. The Vikings themselves had a bad reputation for being evil in large part because they were looting and committing massacres at peaceful monasteries such as Lindisfarne.
If I recall my info on this case, he was actually promoted, but busted back to PFC shortly before he leaked the documents.
There isn't a lot of detail mentioned in the article about exactly what will be done to prevent the locals from using all of their smuggled cell phones to access the open internet.
In the past the DPRK has made decisions that "give in without actually giving in". They didn't originally allow non state-owned businesses but they tolerated people selling in their own markets for example. This seems similar to me. There is a high amount of smuggled cell phones from China, but very few people have the official DPRK sponsored phones. This means there is a chance a sizable portion of the population there would get access to the real internet. I do realize however that this would likely be monitored in some way, regardless.
Good information, thank you!
Thanks for the response. I guess it's been longer than I thought since I've used Docs. I didn't even think of the form angle. I'm sure this is causing more than a few "staff training" sessions. I suppose it's only worse since even if you have your own domain, you're still redirected to "docs.google.com", so it won't be immediately apparent that it did not come from a legit source (completely aside from the fact that a legit source wouldn't ask for that information in the first place).
I, like others, would like to know exactly how Google Docs is used for phishing. I've used Google Docs off and on since it was made available. I can't think of a particular feature that would make it an enticing service to use for phishing.
Can anyone offer an example or offer up an anecdote where they've encountered it?
You can still get it at the stores here in Virginia.