Internet trolls and video game griefers are just as broken in real life as you've always suspected, according to a new psychology paper by Canadian researchers. It turns out that the same folks who love to disrupt online conversations for the"lulz" are likely to also exhibit some pretty nasty personality traits in general.
With a 5-1 unhelpful ratio, I'd consider shutting it down and shift to Facebook.
The problem with that is loss of anonymity.
You could also shift to Twitter, but it's messy.
There was one forum site where it was mostly self-modded in that members could click on, "Report," and the comment was auto-deleted by script if 5 people concurred.
That worked pretty well.
When I discovered how that worked, I used it to my advantage. I would Report a post, clear the single cookie that said I had already objected, and Reported again and on the 5th round, the comment was deleted.
Some accused the live moderators of being Nazis.
I deleted those, as well.
But I've been involved in forums as a member, and a moderator (moderators, or admins, ALWAYS lose) and I've hosted chat rooms.
Unauthorized access" entails approaching, trespassing within, communicating with, storing data in, retrieving data from, or otherwise intercepting and changing computer resources without consent.
Again, the last declaration of war was World War II - related. (There have been 11 total declarations of war in US history.)
There are also diplomatic reasons for a dislike of "declaring war" on a country, as it can often be perceived as holding an entire nation responsible for the actions of a few of its citizens. In the case of the most recent public opposition, those who support such actions have noted that, in the case of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was no 'target' for a legal declaration of war, rather political groups or individuals. On the other hand many argue that since an invading army seeks to occupy and cause havoc to a target country and its population and not just a political group or individual, the aforementioned justification is tenuous at best.
An act of war is an action by one country against another with an intention to provoke a war or an action that occurs during a declared war or armed conflict between military forces of any origin. The loss or damage caused due to such conflicts are excluded from insurance coverage except for life assurances.
I'm certain you'll be interested to know that the state of California has just taken steps to make ransomeware illegal.
Guys at work had been pulling on surgical tubing all week, making my nuts draw up into my jaw.
The doctor put me on a slab with a curtain blocking my view of him. All I could think of was that damned surgical tubing and suddenly...... it was a warm, sunny day and I was opening a gate of a picket fence and I was feeling very glad to be going into a cottage where my wide was waiting.
When I came to, the slab was tilted where my head was near the floor and my feet were way up.
The doctor said I had passed out. He said he believed I held my breath the whole fucking time he was working on me!
Then he tells me he needed to patch me up and we could do the other one next time.
I told him, do the other side. If I leave here, I'm never coming back.
And remove that goddam curtain!
And get the nurse to come over and talk to me.
He did all that and I chatted up the nurse with small talk.
So, this idea would have been really helpful, especially if the VR was porn and stuff.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
No one in this matter is a United States citizen who has declared war against the United States. The last time that happened was the Civil War.
The United States does not have any enemies. There is no list of enemies. The last time the United States had an enemies list was World War II.
This also explains why Snowden could not be charged with treason.
"If you look at what our Congress is doing for tech, it's failing. It's putting all of us in danger," game developer Brianna Wu told CNN, adding "It's so imperative that people of my generation, native to technology, that we step up and make our voices known."
Some of us, though we are aware of gamergate and reddit, just don't give a flying goddam rat's ass.
The big question: "Is Lindsay Lohan in rehab or not?"
It's the court's job to decide if the data is admissible as evidence, but that's just splitting hairs.
I get what you mean, and I agree.
Currently, data-based evidence is acceptable by way of cell phone tower pings; browsing history, smartphone/computer data stores, so why not a smart heart?
That's to be determined, but I think the accept/reject will be based on parameters like accuracy and reliability of the device -- not the form factor.
My DNA is in oil patch, but I have evolved to despise it.
It's a filthy source of energy and killed my dad with cancers in the brain, liver, pancreas, stomach and lungs.
My post was not an advocacy for fossil fuels, it was a strategy to exploit it, if we're going to let that pussy-grabbing son of a bitch destroy us, we should flameout with dollars in our hands.
I litigated tobacco and it was a bitch to get those mother fuckers to stop killing us, and it still is.
At least with fossil, we have a replacement to use as a weapon.
I'm please to see the progress we're making with renewables and the persistence of manufacturers to continue rolling it out.
The new Wyoming bill would forbid utilities from using solar or wind sources for their electricity by 2019, according to Inside Climate News.
The bill's nine sponsors—two state senators and seven representatives—mostly come from Wyoming's top coal-producing counties, and some have denied the scientific validity of climate change, according to the website.
In the article, notice the companies, Texaco and Mobil Oil.
I worked for both.
My brothers worked for Gulf Oil.
My dad worked for Pure Oil (later Unical).
--
We need to do three (3) things (at least) in tandem:
1.) Make export agreements with countries needing cheap oil (start with Ukraine?)
2.) Upsell buildouts of refineries in those countries. US has the leg up on that one.
3.) Expand shipping ports and build tankers. From around the Gulf Coast, look at Beaumont, Port Arthur, Houston, and Galveston.
Lots of jobs for top-flight engineers, middle managers, draftsmen, steel mills, boilers, cracking units, welders, pipefitters, carpenters, riggers, day labourers, designers, (and shit loads more) and the need for support in the way of hardware/mill supplies, transportation, housing, schools,...
It would be the boom of of the 1950s all over again.
This, and look at what's happening to a boom in the Bakken oil fields:
Extraction is way faster than distribution, so transporting the shit is a golden job.
Trucks, rail, boats and barges used to ship the product have attracted the boomers who live in tiny trailers because the surrounding cities refuse to provide municipal services like water, gas, sewage, and electricity, and fire and police protection.
The cities know that all those jobs are going to disappear once pipelines become the transport of choice.
Building the pipelines themselves is labour and material-intensive, but that all goes away after it comes on line.
What America needs to do is EXPORT that shit to oil-hungry nations.
That would call for increased refinement, building new refineries and updating ports... all along the Gulf, particularly.
Specifically, the old Texaco, Shell, and Gulf refineries are still there (bought out now) and the ports at Beaumont, Galveston, Houston and Port Arthur are fully capable of handling mass export because they've already been there, done that.
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They have low self esteem and are most likely losers in real life outside their keyboard
I dub thee (Score:+1, Insightful)
Internet trolls and video game griefers are just as broken in real life as you've always suspected, according to a new psychology paper by Canadian researchers. It turns out that the same folks who love to disrupt online conversations for the"lulz" are likely to also exhibit some pretty nasty personality traits in general.
So you're like self-identifying as a ______ (hint: millennial).
I'm off topic, but the worst fucking search results are the ones at Yahoo Answers like this one about a tomato.
OK, are you really me?
I'm 71.
The invisible thing used to piss me off!
Not many chat rooms had it, but it would take time for me to figure out that I had been silenced to all but me.
I think it was called, "mute."
Anyway, like you, I have been at this a long time and I gave the following advice to members who were frustrated with trolls:
No one comes here to be ignored. It is the maximum insult.
This.
With a 5-1 unhelpful ratio, I'd consider shutting it down and shift to Facebook.
The problem with that is loss of anonymity.
You could also shift to Twitter, but it's messy.
There was one forum site where it was mostly self-modded in that members could click on, "Report," and the comment was auto-deleted by script if 5 people concurred.
That worked pretty well.
When I discovered how that worked, I used it to my advantage. I would Report a post, clear the single cookie that said I had already objected, and Reported again and on the 5th round, the comment was deleted.
Some accused the live moderators of being Nazis.
I deleted those, as well.
But I've been involved in forums as a member, and a moderator (moderators, or admins, ALWAYS lose) and I've hosted chat rooms.
The correct answers are:
1.) Ignore the noise
2.) Get an auto-mod script
3.) Shut it down
I believe the problem you're experiencing is precisely the explanation for IMDb shutting down its message board.
Mod +1, Funny
Semantics.
It's illegal in the US:
Unauthorized access" entails approaching, trespassing within, communicating with, storing data in, retrieving data from, or otherwise intercepting and changing computer resources without consent.
This.
The cure for botnet infections and data breaches is litigation.
I'm from Texas.
"Porn," in this context, would have been a soothing VR experience of a tin roof and porn down rain.
This.
Again, the last declaration of war was World War II - related. (There have been 11 total declarations of war in US history.)
There are also diplomatic reasons for a dislike of "declaring war" on a country, as it can often be perceived as holding an entire nation responsible for the actions of a few of its citizens. In the case of the most recent public opposition, those who support such actions have noted that, in the case of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was no 'target' for a legal declaration of war, rather political groups or individuals. On the other hand many argue that since an invading army seeks to occupy and cause havoc to a target country and its population and not just a political group or individual, the aforementioned justification is tenuous at best.
Nah.
It's other stuff like money laundering, extortion, illegally accessing a computer and "other," but not an act of war.
This is an act of war:
Act of War Law and Legal Definition
An act of war is an action by one country against another with an intention to provoke a war or an action that occurs during a declared war or armed conflict between military forces of any origin. The loss or damage caused due to such conflicts are excluded from insurance coverage except for life assurances.
I'm certain you'll be interested to know that the state of California has just taken steps to make ransomeware illegal.
... when I got my vasectomy.
Guys at work had been pulling on surgical tubing all week, making my nuts draw up into my jaw.
The doctor put me on a slab with a curtain blocking my view of him. All I could think of was that damned surgical tubing and suddenly ... ... it was a warm, sunny day and I was opening a gate of a picket fence and I was feeling very glad to be going into a cottage where my wide was waiting.
When I came to, the slab was tilted where my head was near the floor and my feet were way up.
The doctor said I had passed out. He said he believed I held my breath the whole fucking time he was working on me!
Then he tells me he needed to patch me up and we could do the other one next time.
I told him, do the other side. If I leave here, I'm never coming back.
And remove that goddam curtain!
And get the nurse to come over and talk to me.
He did all that and I chatted up the nurse with small talk.
So, this idea would have been really helpful, especially if the VR was porn and stuff.
Treason is vacuous in this context (and all others right now).
Article III, Section 3:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
No one in this matter is a United States citizen who has declared war against the United States. The last time that happened was the Civil War.
The United States does not have any enemies. There is no list of enemies. The last time the United States had an enemies list was World War II.
This also explains why Snowden could not be charged with treason.
... people who are committed to reddit do not fully appreciate how insignificant they are to those of us outside of reddit.
... the gamergate candidate.
"If you look at what our Congress is doing for tech, it's failing. It's putting all of us in danger," game developer Brianna Wu told CNN, adding "It's so imperative that people of my generation, native to technology, that we step up and make our voices known."
Some of us, though we are aware of gamergate and reddit, just don't give a flying goddam rat's ass.
The big question: "Is Lindsay Lohan in rehab or not?"
Citation, please.
You know it's a fair request, as TFS and TFA are both self-cited.
It's the court's job to decide if the data is admissible as evidence, but that's just splitting hairs.
I get what you mean, and I agree.
Currently, data-based evidence is acceptable by way of cell phone tower pings; browsing history, smartphone/computer data stores, so why not a smart heart?
That's to be determined, but I think the accept/reject will be based on parameters like accuracy and reliability of the device -- not the form factor.
Thank you, and no problems. Your conclusions were my fault.
Your suspicion is logical, but unfounded.
My DNA is in oil patch, but I have evolved to despise it.
It's a filthy source of energy and killed my dad with cancers in the brain, liver, pancreas, stomach and lungs.
My post was not an advocacy for fossil fuels, it was a strategy to exploit it, if we're going to let that pussy-grabbing son of a bitch destroy us, we should flameout with dollars in our hands.
I litigated tobacco and it was a bitch to get those mother fuckers to stop killing us, and it still is.
At least with fossil, we have a replacement to use as a weapon.
I'm please to see the progress we're making with renewables and the persistence of manufacturers to continue rolling it out.
This kind of chickenshit short-sighted legislation will spread like cancer and the only way to stop it is pressure from buyers:
The new Wyoming bill would forbid utilities from using solar or wind sources for their electricity by 2019, according to Inside Climate News.
The bill's nine sponsors—two state senators and seven representatives—mostly come from Wyoming's top coal-producing counties, and some have denied the scientific validity of climate change, according to the website.
A side-by-side comparison of imports vs exports answers that question.
Appreciate that if I send a barge of crude to you, you're probably going to reject it and ask for some refined stuff, instead.
Guess who has the largest refining capacity? (hint: USA)
Many countries who have refineries have crude, but they don't have enough.
China, India, parts of Africa and others.
Remember Aramco? I do.
In the article, notice the companies, Texaco and Mobil Oil.
I worked for both.
My brothers worked for Gulf Oil.
My dad worked for Pure Oil (later Unical).
--
We need to do three (3) things (at least) in tandem:
1.) Make export agreements with countries needing cheap oil (start with Ukraine?)
2.) Upsell buildouts of refineries in those countries. US has the leg up on that one.
3.) Expand shipping ports and build tankers. From around the Gulf Coast, look at Beaumont, Port Arthur, Houston, and Galveston.
Lots of jobs for top-flight engineers, middle managers, draftsmen, steel mills, boilers, cracking units, welders, pipefitters, carpenters, riggers, day labourers, designers, (and shit loads more) and the need for support in the way of hardware/mill supplies, transportation, housing, schools, ...
It would be the boom of of the 1950s all over again.
Apple has reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2017.
This, and look at what's happening to a boom in the Bakken oil fields:
Extraction is way faster than distribution, so transporting the shit is a golden job.
Trucks, rail, boats and barges used to ship the product have attracted the boomers who live in tiny trailers because the surrounding cities refuse to provide municipal services like water, gas, sewage, and electricity, and fire and police protection.
The cities know that all those jobs are going to disappear once pipelines become the transport of choice.
Building the pipelines themselves is labour and material-intensive, but that all goes away after it comes on line.
What America needs to do is EXPORT that shit to oil-hungry nations.
That would call for increased refinement, building new refineries and updating ports ... all along the Gulf, particularly.
Specifically, the old Texaco, Shell, and Gulf refineries are still there (bought out now) and the ports at Beaumont, Galveston, Houston and Port Arthur are fully capable of handling mass export because they've already been there, done that.
Typo,
"Dessert"
Death by chocolate.
Compression is not by magic wand.
It's done using an energy source.
Why not cut out the crap and just use the original energy source?
The laws of thermodynamics makes energy conversion a losing strategy.