It is certainly possible that you're right. Of course, it's also possible that people who study this know about your objections and incorporated all that into the model.
If they're right about the size of this animal, it really is hard to imagine its bones and muscles being sturdy enough to handle it moving particularly fast. Also, as far as outrunning predators, what exactly would eat one of these things? Even in the modern world, the largest animals really only have to worry about predators if they are young, sick or vastly outnumbered. A fully grown Argentinosaurus wasn't likely to need to run away from much of anything.
My guess would be because a lousy education will set limits on your life that are extremely hard to get past. If you never learn to read, write or do basic math for example, the jobs you will qualify for will barely earn you minimum wage. For a society to have any kind of class mobility at all, people need to be educated to a certain basic level. And if society loses ALL class mobility, there will very quickly follow social unrest and "bad stuff." We already have precious little in the U.S. and getting worse.
As for healthcare, pretty much nothing else in life matters if you're sick or injured. Unless you're prepared to suggest that we let anyone who can't afford healthcare die in the streets, then it's really just a matter of how best to handle the cost. Anyway, saying "the government should pay for it," is really being said that we should all pay our share in tax money so that as we get sick or injured (which is all but inevitable) it isn't a sudden catastrophic financial burden that wipes out a family.
Do you even know what a scientific theory is? Do you understand that a theory doesn't actually have to graduate to anything more? A scientific theory is a statement that describes all current known evidence and is contradicted by none. Furthermore, a theory should be able to predict the results of new experiments in the same field. There is no such idea as "just a theory" in science because a theory is a very powerful and well vetted tool. It is entirely different than the use of the word in the vernacular.
Satellites are not the only means of collecting climate data. Ice cores go back tens of thousands of years and even human recorded history goes back thousands of years.
Sorry, but you're just wrong. There are many problems in science where too much money is involved (medicine etc) but evolution is well documented, studied and proven over and over again. There is, as the other AC says, a "colossal wealth" of data, including DNA similarities, fossils and plain old observation. The only "myth" regarding evolution is that there is any controversy at all about it outside of a few religious zealots.
I know suicide has been glorified by a few cultures over the ages. I have to disagree. I had a fried who committed suicide a while back, he was 34 years old and caught up in an affair with a married woman. He took the easy way out rather than buck up and sort himself out. I feel for kids who really just don't have the life experience to put their bullying into perspective. But there's no way that I admire their "bravery" in any way. I have sympathy for those who don't have a support network (or are too caught up in their troubles to know that they DO have one) and give in to the despair. My friend had about 200 people show up for his memorial. It's only sad when someone gives up on finding happiness, not admirable.
Actually, I did both. Condescension won't keep this site popular. My ISP said it seemed like a problem but they would only help if I went to the FBI and then they'd work with them on investigating it. Google turned up a zillion things completely unrelated to home networks. Oddly, a solution that would work for IBM wouldn't work for me.
I'm not getting 4 or 5 of these a day, those were simply the few that I got before any computers were even turned on in the network. I get hundreds of those each day, and posted a chunk of that earlier on.
We've tried many times rebooting everything and not logging in. I see router logs claiming DoS attacks even before anything is connected to the router. I'm thinking I'll re-flash the router and see what happens.
So far there have been so many entries in the log that I can't spot a trend. There could be one, but it's lost in the volume of what's logged. I have noticed a fair number that trace back to MS or Amazon, but there are plenty from Vietnam and Korea as well. There are only two people in the household, so I don't think too much is going on that I don't know about. I know we connect to Steam for online gaming, that's it right now. But these logs appear even when neither of us is gaming or has been for hours.
OK, I repeated the test of having everything turned off and rebooting the modem/router. This is what I got before any computer or other device was hooked in:
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 37.59.29.220:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 18:11:26
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 200.201.161.106:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 17:47:40
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 173.208.222.206:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:55:40
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 95.64.37.10:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:49:13
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 108.162.198.170:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:32:00
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 123.30.139.68:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:23:01
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 95.64.37.10:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:21:04
[Time synchronized with NTP server time-g.netgear.com] Saturday, October 12,2013 16:13:42
[Internet connected] IP address: Saturday, October 12,2013 16:10:17
[DSL: Up] Saturday, October 12,2013 16:10:13
[Initialized, firmware version: V1.1.00.07_1.00.07NA ] Saturday, October 12,2013 16:09:02
I am sure to a reasonable degree and working on getting more sure. We've got anti-virus (BitDefender) and anti malware (malwarebytes) running. I'm going to re-test turning all machines off and rebooting the router to see what happens. Do you know if there is some kind of windows phone home or amazon cloud account nonsense (we don't actually have an amazon cloud acct) that would keep identifying us to those services and attract attention, but not be scan-able by malware detection?
We did try turning everything off and then rebooting the router, but I'm going to do that test again. I reinstalled windows last weekend, but my husband hasn't yet. We'll do that too. I've never been certain that the router isn't over-reporting, but it does often coincide with noticeable network slowdowns, so something is going on. We have actually been threatened with DoS and virus and such by idiots on Steam, so when you add it all up, it does seem like something is happening. I'll do more internal checks to be sure we're not our own worst enemies in this. However, I will say, neither BitDefender nor malwarebytes has found anything so far. I'm going to try TDSSKiller and Windows Defender Offline too, just to see. The router is new and seems to handle this mess a lot better than our old one, which would never recover and require rebooting.
It wasn't paranoia so much as just another thing to try. And yes, I was changing the MAC address of the router. As I mentioned in the post, it didn't matter, but I was just providing more information.
I've checked the attached devices and seen nothing unexpected. Our wifi is as secure as I can make it with no SSID broadcast and a good password. I don't use any dynamic DNS stuff on purpose, though the possibility that we've a compromised machine has been mentioned. We have only two bits of evidence that it's really DoS: the router logs claiming it and network slow-downs at the same time.
We're in the middle of nowhere, the closest town being a small one. Honestly, we're lucky to have 20 mb DSL and the only other options are satellite and maybe (but probably not) WiMax. Or cell phone data (ouch). I will try to ferret out a list of IPs that claim to come from MS and Amazon and send a note to their abuse mails and see if they will do anything.
Uh Huh. People often go out of their way to be assholes online.
Apparently the only thing that was required is for a bunch of idiots to decide the only way my husband could be beating them at the game is by cheating. Or possibly they don't even care that he doesn't cheat and just want to win by breaking competitors connections.
Anyway, I'm more concerned with how we're being found even when we're not gaming, and so far the best suggestions seem to be to reinstall everything and keep good virus/anti malware software running.
We use BitDefender and I did recently reinstall windows. I can ask my husband to do the same, but we've scanned our computers and found nothing. More telling, we see the "attacks" in the logs even when the computers are off. Unless there's a way to infect a Vonage VOIP modem or DirecTV internet thingy (it uses it for on-demand stuff) then I don't think it's us.
I can try that. We have tried rebooting with everything turned off and still seen entries in the logs, but I'm also not sure what criteria my router uses to determine what's an attack and whether normal sniffing by the ISP to see who's actually connected might also trigger it.
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Surely you realize the parties have actually reversed names since then? The party labeled Democrats used to be the conservatives.
It is certainly possible that you're right. Of course, it's also possible that people who study this know about your objections and incorporated all that into the model.
If they're right about the size of this animal, it really is hard to imagine its bones and muscles being sturdy enough to handle it moving particularly fast. Also, as far as outrunning predators, what exactly would eat one of these things? Even in the modern world, the largest animals really only have to worry about predators if they are young, sick or vastly outnumbered. A fully grown Argentinosaurus wasn't likely to need to run away from much of anything.
I'm not convinced it's about driving less, but needing less gas to get there due to better fuel economy.
My guess would be because a lousy education will set limits on your life that are extremely hard to get past. If you never learn to read, write or do basic math for example, the jobs you will qualify for will barely earn you minimum wage. For a society to have any kind of class mobility at all, people need to be educated to a certain basic level. And if society loses ALL class mobility, there will very quickly follow social unrest and "bad stuff." We already have precious little in the U.S. and getting worse.
As for healthcare, pretty much nothing else in life matters if you're sick or injured. Unless you're prepared to suggest that we let anyone who can't afford healthcare die in the streets, then it's really just a matter of how best to handle the cost. Anyway, saying "the government should pay for it," is really being said that we should all pay our share in tax money so that as we get sick or injured (which is all but inevitable) it isn't a sudden catastrophic financial burden that wipes out a family.
I am a scientist.
Do you even know what a scientific theory is? Do you understand that a theory doesn't actually have to graduate to anything more? A scientific theory is a statement that describes all current known evidence and is contradicted by none. Furthermore, a theory should be able to predict the results of new experiments in the same field. There is no such idea as "just a theory" in science because a theory is a very powerful and well vetted tool. It is entirely different than the use of the word in the vernacular.
Satellites are not the only means of collecting climate data. Ice cores go back tens of thousands of years and even human recorded history goes back thousands of years.
Sorry, but you're just wrong. There are many problems in science where too much money is involved (medicine etc) but evolution is well documented, studied and proven over and over again. There is, as the other AC says, a "colossal wealth" of data, including DNA similarities, fossils and plain old observation. The only "myth" regarding evolution is that there is any controversy at all about it outside of a few religious zealots.
I know suicide has been glorified by a few cultures over the ages. I have to disagree. I had a fried who committed suicide a while back, he was 34 years old and caught up in an affair with a married woman. He took the easy way out rather than buck up and sort himself out. I feel for kids who really just don't have the life experience to put their bullying into perspective. But there's no way that I admire their "bravery" in any way. I have sympathy for those who don't have a support network (or are too caught up in their troubles to know that they DO have one) and give in to the despair. My friend had about 200 people show up for his memorial. It's only sad when someone gives up on finding happiness, not admirable.
No, we don't have Steam configured to start with Windows. I'll check if anything else might be configured to silently start up.
Actually, I did both. Condescension won't keep this site popular. My ISP said it seemed like a problem but they would only help if I went to the FBI and then they'd work with them on investigating it. Google turned up a zillion things completely unrelated to home networks. Oddly, a solution that would work for IBM wouldn't work for me.
I'm not getting 4 or 5 of these a day, those were simply the few that I got before any computers were even turned on in the network. I get hundreds of those each day, and posted a chunk of that earlier on.
We've tried many times rebooting everything and not logging in. I see router logs claiming DoS attacks even before anything is connected to the router. I'm thinking I'll re-flash the router and see what happens.
So far there have been so many entries in the log that I can't spot a trend. There could be one, but it's lost in the volume of what's logged. I have noticed a fair number that trace back to MS or Amazon, but there are plenty from Vietnam and Korea as well. There are only two people in the household, so I don't think too much is going on that I don't know about. I know we connect to Steam for online gaming, that's it right now. But these logs appear even when neither of us is gaming or has been for hours.
OK, I repeated the test of having everything turned off and rebooting the modem/router. This is what I got before any computer or other device was hooked in:
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 37.59.29.220:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 18:11:26
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 200.201.161.106:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 17:47:40
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 173.208.222.206:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:55:40
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 95.64.37.10:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:49:13
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 108.162.198.170:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:32:00
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 123.30.139.68:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:23:01
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 95.64.37.10:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 16:21:04
[Time synchronized with NTP server time-g.netgear.com] Saturday, October 12,2013 16:13:42
[Internet connected] IP address: Saturday, October 12,2013 16:10:17
[DSL: Up] Saturday, October 12,2013 16:10:13
[Initialized, firmware version: V1.1.00.07_1.00.07NA ] Saturday, October 12,2013 16:09:02
I am sure to a reasonable degree and working on getting more sure. We've got anti-virus (BitDefender) and anti malware (malwarebytes) running. I'm going to re-test turning all machines off and rebooting the router to see what happens. Do you know if there is some kind of windows phone home or amazon cloud account nonsense (we don't actually have an amazon cloud acct) that would keep identifying us to those services and attract attention, but not be scan-able by malware detection?
We did try turning everything off and then rebooting the router, but I'm going to do that test again. I reinstalled windows last weekend, but my husband hasn't yet. We'll do that too. I've never been certain that the router isn't over-reporting, but it does often coincide with noticeable network slowdowns, so something is going on. We have actually been threatened with DoS and virus and such by idiots on Steam, so when you add it all up, it does seem like something is happening. I'll do more internal checks to be sure we're not our own worst enemies in this. However, I will say, neither BitDefender nor malwarebytes has found anything so far. I'm going to try TDSSKiller and Windows Defender Offline too, just to see. The router is new and seems to handle this mess a lot better than our old one, which would never recover and require rebooting.
I'll try TDSSKiller. We use BitDefender and malwarebytes already. Nothing found by either. I reinstalled Windows, but my husband hasn't yet.
It wasn't paranoia so much as just another thing to try. And yes, I was changing the MAC address of the router. As I mentioned in the post, it didn't matter, but I was just providing more information.
It happens even when we're not logged in to the game and reboot the router to get a new IP address.
I've checked the attached devices and seen nothing unexpected. Our wifi is as secure as I can make it with no SSID broadcast and a good password. I don't use any dynamic DNS stuff on purpose, though the possibility that we've a compromised machine has been mentioned. We have only two bits of evidence that it's really DoS: the router logs claiming it and network slow-downs at the same time.
We're in the middle of nowhere, the closest town being a small one. Honestly, we're lucky to have 20 mb DSL and the only other options are satellite and maybe (but probably not) WiMax. Or cell phone data (ouch). I will try to ferret out a list of IPs that claim to come from MS and Amazon and send a note to their abuse mails and see if they will do anything.
Uh Huh. People often go out of their way to be assholes online.
Apparently the only thing that was required is for a bunch of idiots to decide the only way my husband could be beating them at the game is by cheating. Or possibly they don't even care that he doesn't cheat and just want to win by breaking competitors connections.
Anyway, I'm more concerned with how we're being found even when we're not gaming, and so far the best suggestions seem to be to reinstall everything and keep good virus/anti malware software running.
Not many options in the rural area we live. It's DSL, Satellite or cell data. Blech. Sometimes I do miss big city conveniences.
We use BitDefender and I did recently reinstall windows. I can ask my husband to do the same, but we've scanned our computers and found nothing. More telling, we see the "attacks" in the logs even when the computers are off. Unless there's a way to infect a Vonage VOIP modem or DirecTV internet thingy (it uses it for on-demand stuff) then I don't think it's us.
I can try that. We have tried rebooting with everything turned off and still seen entries in the logs, but I'm also not sure what criteria my router uses to determine what's an attack and whether normal sniffing by the ISP to see who's actually connected might also trigger it.
It happens all through the night when neither of us in online too though.