My wife worked at the Toronto general for a few years. During her stay she did care on dozens of girls between the ages of 15 - 18 that all had brain tumours. Of all of these girls most were heavy cell phone users. This at the time had prompted these observations to be submitted to a university (don't remember which one). Now, this could have been a complete coincidence since girls of that age usually do spend lots of time on their phones.
And that's what the research is telling us. It is a coincidence. I can't think of a single teenager not having a cell phone in the last 5 years unless their parents are either overly strict or they lost their privileges.
When evaluating a hosting company of some flavor, you also have to know if they are hosting anything that could be interpreted as permitting its services to be used for child porn, terrorism, drug talk, insider trading, prostitution, seditious speech, pornography, hate speech, sins against the Father, sins against the President, or campaign finance.
If so, don't depend on that service for any privacy.
Basically, if there's a US nexus, you cannot hire a hosting company and expect any privacy.
The terrorists hate us for our freedoms. Go shopping.
One would expect a 100% anonymous hosting company to not engage in illegal practices which would force their company to be taken down. Unfortunately even the most tech savvy people are dumber than rocks.
Can you prove that? The whole purpose of Tor is anonymity of users and data. How can you prove that he knew what was going through his email service? That defies the point of secure email.
Why would *we* need to prove this? The government already did. There's thousands of anonymous services out there that are allowed to run perfectly fine. I'm sure the seizure of the emails provided ample evidence to prove he was enabling this to happen. Otherwise they would have prosecuted the individuals or worked with the owner instead.
Because judicious and artful targeted espionage to achieve a defined military or political goal equates well with slurping up, processing and indefinitely storing minutiae of most every US citizen's lives, under a banner saying "To save The United States of America, we must destroy everything it represents!"
No. No, it doesn't.
May a horde of AIDS infected dicks set upon you, COINTELPRO operator.
These countries are doing the same to the US. They just don't have complete idiots like Snowden telling the world thinking they are fulfilling a worthy cause.
Changing the OS enough to where drivers are needed almost every single release is whose fault? The vendors that wrote them based what worked in the last OS . . . right.
Or their new way of doing things, which is "We'll package all of the hardware up in a neat little box, which you can't open, so we can force you to upgrade the hardware in order to upgrade the OS."
But guess what? Apple tells you very clearly what version of OS X works with what hardware. And it does. If you would rather have more hardware choices and less certainty about future upgrades, you can choose the PC route.
It's not very difficult to define which version of OSX works when you release a piece of hardware with the only configurable options being hard drive and memory.
resentment over the sky-high support fees, snaky sales pitches, bait-and-switch product lineup, and failure to patch Java holes has never been (climbs on ladder, out window, up fire escape, stands on chimney, raises hand) higher...
You mean Sun Microsystems Java that Oracle inherited? I wouldn't be surprised if these holes existed for years but were only exposed when it was in people's interest to bad mouth Oracle.
So now Africa will have 600,000 more people a year to feed, house, and clothe, and they can't even do that now.
Your argument is badly flawed.
That's 600,000 more people that can work and contribute to society. Millions more who don't have to languish in hospitals instead of working or studying because they are sick. Countries that eliminate malaria have been shown to have a 5X increase in GDP per capita. Malaria is estimated to cost Africa $12 billion per year due to lost productivity, lost education, health care costs, reduced tourism, and reduced investment. Think that $12 billion per year might feed and clothe a few people? (That's $20,000 per person per year in a region where the average GDP per capita is presently around $1,900)
That's assuming there's actual jobs available for these people. We are over-employed globally so helping another 600k people live will not help the world. Napalm Africa and China. Lower unemployment and reverse global warming in 1 swoop.
Linux already "won" - his goal was to create a Unix-like OS and it became incredibly popular. As far as I am aware he has never shown much interest in getting MS Office for it, or for market share.
Nice try creating animosity where there is none. The summary is full of typos and weasel-words. I'm not huge MS fan but the summary is full of bias in an attempt to turn a mildly interesting story into a flamewar or hatefest.
A lot of it's popularity is due to the downfall of Sun Microsystems. Without their demise Linux users would have less of a reason to even exist.
I'm the same AC as below (regarding the issues with my email address being posted by Krebs) - just wanted to say that you hit the nail on the head and it is the lack of any acknowledgement that there may have been mistakes or inadequacies in his "research" or "reporting", (and the attitude shown when faced with the case presented) which is the issue here.
If his research truly was incorrect, why would he have cybercriminals constantly trying to screw him over? Obviously he is doing something to interrupt their business which is pissing them off.
I'm sure as most people have alluded to Titan was probably built around a subscription based game. Blizzard is re-working it on a F2P model. By the time Titan is released I would all subscription games will have converted to some form of F2P.
WoW was great when the dungeons were relevant. Getting the paladin's epic mount was a pain in the ass once TBC came out and no one ran the required dungeons any more. Had to buy runs and work my ass off but I finally earned it. Then they made it a summon spell so now you get the horse at level 40 for free and it's speed scales with your riding rank. This killed all enthusiasm I had for the game and canceled my subscription same day. Shit that I worked hard for and earned was now just being handed out for free. Instead of fixing the dungeons and giving high level people a reason to go there other than just to help low levels they removed all reason for anyone to ever go to said dungeons.
WOW may be losing subscribers, but it's still insanely profitable.
I wonder what's leading them to lose subscribers. If it's just fatigue, since the game is so old. One pattern I've noticed is as they've shortened the timeline between patches and expansions, players seem to quit more often. Once and expansion is announced, in game players (and I would assume subscriptions) drop. It seems like now it even happens in between patches. I assume it is because players feel whatever they earn will be worth less by the new patch/expansion. I wonder sometimes if they wouldn't be better served by not announcing patches so early, and having longer cycles between expansions.
It's just old. Some people have been playing WoW longer than an average marriage lasts.
The trademark is valid until May 29, 2019. It covers various trade classes including Nice 41m which incorporates Betrieb von Online-Spiele, Foren-Rollenspiele (operation of online games and "play by post/email" games). So the complainant has a valid EU trademark that covers roll playing games. That said, it appears that the company registration has expired, which puts the ownership of the trademark into question. As far as the US site's position goes, the complainant would have to demonstrate that the American site is using the trademarked name for commerce within the EU. That would be hard to prove, especially since the product in question is a computer game owned and operated by Sony; the defendant is merely operating an online catalog of Sony's game characters. This case would therefore be akin to Disney seeking redress from a website that lists cartoon characters including trademarked properties such as Mickey Mouse, in a jurisdiction where Mickey Mouse is not a registered trademark of the Walt Disney Co.
You can't trademark a character in a game. You lose all rights and in most cases it's against the EULA to use a trademarked name in the first place. If I use any Lord of the Rings names I can be petitioned to force a change.
You are the first person I have ever heard implying that man is THE ONLY possible cause for a gloval warming.
No scientist defends a position like that.
However, we now have overwhelming evidence to support that the PRESENT period of global warming is man-made, which makes it very different from earlier ones.
You didn't know that, did you ?
How is there overwhelming evidence? How do we know what we're doing is actually causing any of this to happen? If it's a natural occurrence over millions of years we could be right in the middle of the cycle where it starts spinning out of control making it appear that we're making it worse.
The problem is we have no real scientific data more than a few hundred years if that. We're making educated guesses (Science I know) and coming up with solutions that could do more harm than good.
YES, humans are accelerating global warming. We've known that for years. NO, a great fraction of species on earth will go extinct. It is an open question whether human species can adapt fast enough to survive the next 200 years.
Who's going to make the hard decisions then to fix the problem? Nuke Africa and China and force the next ice age. That alone should offer instant cooling from the lack of bodies. Make sure to save Noah, the pandas and maybe Buddah!
They can do that already. Without giving you notice. Without the TSA telling them to do anything.
The news isn't that valets have access to your car. The news is that the TSA is having them search it.
That's not really news either; the news is that they actually left a note saying they'd done it. That's the bit that surprised me, anyway.
When your luggage is searched by the TSA they leave notes on it also. It's a courtesy so you don't freak out and think someone illegally ruffled through your belongings.
The economic problems predated Carter, and while he certainly was unable to fix them, he was, after all ultimately stymied by the energy crisis of the late 1970s. As to the Afghan invasion, what exactly could he have done? At no point during the Cold War did the US contemplate direct intervention against the Soviets, save as a final nightmare scenario like an all-out invasion of Western Europe. Neither Carter, nor any other President, would have directly involved the US in Afghanistan. As to Iran, yes, he misjudged the unpopularity of the Shah, but then again, so had several administrations before him, so I fail to see how you can put your focus solely on the Carter Administration's actions surrounding Iran, seeing as he was perpetuating a policy that his predecessors had maintained for well over two decades.
Carter was hardly a perfect president, but he is a classic example of how sometimes leaders get the job at the worst of all possible moments, and ultimately no matter what they do or don't do, the situation is far larger and chaotic than any leader, particularly of a democratic state, can hope to overcome.
Carter is a damned bright guy, a helluva brighter than his immediate successor, but he was as screwed as Herbert Hoover (another very bright guy)/
I like how you wildly exaggerate insults against others... for wild exaggerations. Very meta.
Show us some of these wild exaggerations Snowden has made by dumping pertinent documents sourced directly from the NSA. Tell us all how Edward R. Murrow was not a real journalist because he openly formed conclusions, rather than hiding his personal biases behind selectively-uncritical regurgitation of official talking points.
Snowden has yet to reveal anything we didn't already know. Everything is available via google.
Yeah that's a fair point and I'm not disputing it. I just think that in this case Sun would have gone down either way, given their bad management. Would IBM be a better partner? Sure...but IBM isn't exactly a model corporate citizen either. Just ask any of the thousands of US based employees that have been laid off in the face of record profits.
I know that I'm in the minority here - and I don't have a horse in the race either way - I'm just trying to stir up some spirited debate on it.
Cheers.
Sun was dead. They wouldn't even buy their employees new equipment to perform their jobs near the end. You had to buy your own laptops if you wanted a computer.
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My wife worked at the Toronto general for a few years. During her stay she did care on dozens of girls between the ages of 15 - 18 that all had brain tumours. Of all of these girls most were heavy cell phone users. This at the time had prompted these observations to be submitted to a university (don't remember which one). Now, this could have been a complete coincidence since girls of that age usually do spend lots of time on their phones.
And that's what the research is telling us. It is a coincidence. I can't think of a single teenager not having a cell phone in the last 5 years unless their parents are either overly strict or they lost their privileges.
So, here's the rub:
When evaluating a hosting company of some flavor, you also have to know if they are hosting anything that could be interpreted as permitting its services to be used for child porn, terrorism, drug talk, insider trading, prostitution, seditious speech, pornography, hate speech, sins against the Father, sins against the President, or campaign finance.
If so, don't depend on that service for any privacy.
Basically, if there's a US nexus, you cannot hire a hosting company and expect any privacy.
The terrorists hate us for our freedoms. Go shopping.
One would expect a 100% anonymous hosting company to not engage in illegal practices which would force their company to be taken down. Unfortunately even the most tech savvy people are dumber than rocks.
Can you prove that? The whole purpose of Tor is anonymity of users and data. How can you prove that he knew what was going through his email service? That defies the point of secure email.
Why would *we* need to prove this? The government already did. There's thousands of anonymous services out there that are allowed to run perfectly fine. I'm sure the seizure of the emails provided ample evidence to prove he was enabling this to happen. Otherwise they would have prosecuted the individuals or worked with the owner instead.
I'm sure they steal lots of information. The key is whether they sell that information for good use or just store it like everything else.
Because judicious and artful targeted espionage to achieve a defined military or political goal equates well with slurping up, processing and indefinitely storing minutiae of most every US citizen's lives, under a banner saying "To save The United States of America, we must destroy everything it represents!"
No. No, it doesn't.
May a horde of AIDS infected dicks set upon you, COINTELPRO operator.
These countries are doing the same to the US. They just don't have complete idiots like Snowden telling the world thinking they are fulfilling a worthy cause.
Pretty sure they are using Windows 7. At least the ones in MN.
Driver support is not Micosoft's fault
Changing the OS enough to where drivers are needed almost every single release is whose fault? The vendors that wrote them based what worked in the last OS . . . right.
Or their new way of doing things, which is "We'll package all of the hardware up in a neat little box, which you can't open, so we can force you to upgrade the hardware in order to upgrade the OS."
But guess what? Apple tells you very clearly what version of OS X works with what hardware. And it does. If you would rather have more hardware choices and less certainty about future upgrades, you can choose the PC route.
It's not very difficult to define which version of OSX works when you release a piece of hardware with the only configurable options being hard drive and memory.
An uninstall won't get rid of it. Only a reimage. Don't believe the uninstall function as CPU usage still shows the scanner.
You should probably google how to properly uninstall software.
resentment over the sky-high support fees, snaky sales pitches, bait-and-switch product lineup, and failure to patch Java holes has never been (climbs on ladder, out window, up fire escape, stands on chimney, raises hand) higher...
You mean Sun Microsystems Java that Oracle inherited? I wouldn't be surprised if these holes existed for years but were only exposed when it was in people's interest to bad mouth Oracle.
So now Africa will have 600,000 more people a year to feed, house, and clothe, and they can't even do that now.
Your argument is badly flawed.
That's 600,000 more people that can work and contribute to society. Millions more who don't have to languish in hospitals instead of working or studying because they are sick. Countries that eliminate malaria have been shown to have a 5X increase in GDP per capita. Malaria is estimated to cost Africa $12 billion per year due to lost productivity, lost education, health care costs, reduced tourism, and reduced investment. Think that $12 billion per year might feed and clothe a few people? (That's $20,000 per person per year in a region where the average GDP per capita is presently around $1,900)
That's assuming there's actual jobs available for these people. We are over-employed globally so helping another 600k people live will not help the world. Napalm Africa and China. Lower unemployment and reverse global warming in 1 swoop.
Linux already "won" - his goal was to create a Unix-like OS and it became incredibly popular. As far as I am aware he has never shown much interest in getting MS Office for it, or for market share.
Nice try creating animosity where there is none. The summary is full of typos and weasel-words. I'm not huge MS fan but the summary is full of bias in an attempt to turn a mildly interesting story into a flamewar or hatefest.
A lot of it's popularity is due to the downfall of Sun Microsystems. Without their demise Linux users would have less of a reason to even exist.
I'm the same AC as below (regarding the issues with my email address being posted by Krebs) - just wanted to say that you hit the nail on the head and it is the lack of any acknowledgement that there may have been mistakes or inadequacies in his "research" or "reporting", (and the attitude shown when faced with the case presented) which is the issue here.
If his research truly was incorrect, why would he have cybercriminals constantly trying to screw him over? Obviously he is doing something to interrupt their business which is pissing them off.
I wonder if the people of the US are ever going to rise up, or if it just gets much worse before it gets better.
Neither the UK or China has risen up yet so I'm going to guess....never? Countries other the US are more public about it yet they do the same thing.
You mean the one that they basically decided to start over from scratch a few months ago? http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/report-blizzard-to-overhaul-project-titan-launch-it-in-2016-at-the-earliest/
I'm sure as most people have alluded to Titan was probably built around a subscription based game. Blizzard is re-working it on a F2P model. By the time Titan is released I would all subscription games will have converted to some form of F2P.
WoW was great when the dungeons were relevant. Getting the paladin's epic mount was a pain in the ass once TBC came out and no one ran the required dungeons any more. Had to buy runs and work my ass off but I finally earned it. Then they made it a summon spell so now you get the horse at level 40 for free and it's speed scales with your riding rank. This killed all enthusiasm I had for the game and canceled my subscription same day. Shit that I worked hard for and earned was now just being handed out for free. Instead of fixing the dungeons and giving high level people a reason to go there other than just to help low levels they removed all reason for anyone to ever go to said dungeons.
All the work you had to do And a retelling of the events
And now today you get effectively both the slow and fast mount for free and all you have to do is buy training.
This is a good chunk of why WoW sucks today and why so many people leave with each patch.
It's a progression MMO. The timeline changes each time a new expansion comes out. Prior content becomes obselete much like any game on the market.
WOW may be losing subscribers, but it's still insanely profitable. I wonder what's leading them to lose subscribers. If it's just fatigue, since the game is so old. One pattern I've noticed is as they've shortened the timeline between patches and expansions, players seem to quit more often. Once and expansion is announced, in game players (and I would assume subscriptions) drop. It seems like now it even happens in between patches. I assume it is because players feel whatever they earn will be worth less by the new patch/expansion. I wonder sometimes if they wouldn't be better served by not announcing patches so early, and having longer cycles between expansions.
It's just old. Some people have been playing WoW longer than an average marriage lasts.
The trademark is valid until May 29, 2019. It covers various trade classes including Nice 41m which incorporates Betrieb von Online-Spiele, Foren-Rollenspiele (operation of online games and "play by post/email" games). So the complainant has a valid EU trademark that covers roll playing games. That said, it appears that the company registration has expired, which puts the ownership of the trademark into question. As far as the US site's position goes, the complainant would have to demonstrate that the American site is using the trademarked name for commerce within the EU. That would be hard to prove, especially since the product in question is a computer game owned and operated by Sony; the defendant is merely operating an online catalog of Sony's game characters. This case would therefore be akin to Disney seeking redress from a website that lists cartoon characters including trademarked properties such as Mickey Mouse, in a jurisdiction where Mickey Mouse is not a registered trademark of the Walt Disney Co.
You can't trademark a character in a game. You lose all rights and in most cases it's against the EULA to use a trademarked name in the first place. If I use any Lord of the Rings names I can be petitioned to force a change.
You are the first person I have ever heard implying that man is THE ONLY possible cause for a gloval warming. No scientist defends a position like that. However, we now have overwhelming evidence to support that the PRESENT period of global warming is man-made, which makes it very different from earlier ones. You didn't know that, did you ?
How is there overwhelming evidence? How do we know what we're doing is actually causing any of this to happen? If it's a natural occurrence over millions of years we could be right in the middle of the cycle where it starts spinning out of control making it appear that we're making it worse. The problem is we have no real scientific data more than a few hundred years if that. We're making educated guesses (Science I know) and coming up with solutions that could do more harm than good.
I forgot about the loss of so much taxable income. Scratch that plan. Bomb the true blood factories. Force more vampires...they are cold blooded.
YES, humans are accelerating global warming. We've known that for years. NO, a great fraction of species on earth will go extinct. It is an open question whether human species can adapt fast enough to survive the next 200 years.
Who's going to make the hard decisions then to fix the problem? Nuke Africa and China and force the next ice age. That alone should offer instant cooling from the lack of bodies. Make sure to save Noah, the pandas and maybe Buddah!
They can do that already. Without giving you notice. Without the TSA telling them to do anything.
The news isn't that valets have access to your car. The news is that the TSA is having them search it.
That's not really news either; the news is that they actually left a note saying they'd done it. That's the bit that surprised me, anyway.
When your luggage is searched by the TSA they leave notes on it also. It's a courtesy so you don't freak out and think someone illegally ruffled through your belongings.
.. smash two stars together, close enough to the earth to collect all of the gold .. GOLD!!!
Please don't tell the Chinese gold farmers.
The economic problems predated Carter, and while he certainly was unable to fix them, he was, after all ultimately stymied by the energy crisis of the late 1970s. As to the Afghan invasion, what exactly could he have done? At no point during the Cold War did the US contemplate direct intervention against the Soviets, save as a final nightmare scenario like an all-out invasion of Western Europe. Neither Carter, nor any other President, would have directly involved the US in Afghanistan. As to Iran, yes, he misjudged the unpopularity of the Shah, but then again, so had several administrations before him, so I fail to see how you can put your focus solely on the Carter Administration's actions surrounding Iran, seeing as he was perpetuating a policy that his predecessors had maintained for well over two decades.
Carter was hardly a perfect president, but he is a classic example of how sometimes leaders get the job at the worst of all possible moments, and ultimately no matter what they do or don't do, the situation is far larger and chaotic than any leader, particularly of a democratic state, can hope to overcome.
Carter is a damned bright guy, a helluva brighter than his immediate successor, but he was as screwed as Herbert Hoover (another very bright guy)/
So exactly like Obama.
I like how you wildly exaggerate insults against others... for wild exaggerations. Very meta.
Show us some of these wild exaggerations Snowden has made by dumping pertinent documents sourced directly from the NSA. Tell us all how Edward R. Murrow was not a real journalist because he openly formed conclusions, rather than hiding his personal biases behind selectively-uncritical regurgitation of official talking points.
Snowden has yet to reveal anything we didn't already know. Everything is available via google.
Yeah that's a fair point and I'm not disputing it. I just think that in this case Sun would have gone down either way, given their bad management. Would IBM be a better partner? Sure...but IBM isn't exactly a model corporate citizen either. Just ask any of the thousands of US based employees that have been laid off in the face of record profits.
I know that I'm in the minority here - and I don't have a horse in the race either way - I'm just trying to stir up some spirited debate on it.
Cheers.
Sun was dead. They wouldn't even buy their employees new equipment to perform their jobs near the end. You had to buy your own laptops if you wanted a computer.