Murder of anyone in Christianity is a sin. There are no exceptions. There is a Just War doctrine as espoused by Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas et al., but if you actually read the criteria given for a Just War, most of the wars of our modern age would be considered unjust.
Sorry, Malaysia was wrong; it was actually Indonesia. The group in question is the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who until ISIS took control, had the highest kill count of any suicide bomber group in the world.
Christianity's early survival was predicated on accepting martyrdom as a death of honor and grace rather than shame. Hence why 10 of the original 12 apostles were crucified.
I'm glad you know all 1-2 some billion Christians on earth and countless billions throughout history are all assholes because your ex-wife was an asshole.
I guess all the Christian missionaries and religious throughout the world that are feeding and clothing the poorest of the poor should pick up their bags, go home, and be much better people as secular atheists, so they can contribute something meaningful to the world like your shitpost Slashdot comments.
For all of the numbskulls that think all "religions" (a nebulous term that can mean wildly different things to different people, but I digress) are to blame when specifically Muslim terrorists commit acts of violence against innocents, using the Crusades as supporting evidence. I would like to point out that the Crusades were not called because Christians wanted to conquer the world and have a monopoly on control of religious sites. Far from it--Christian pilgrims in Europe and the Middle East were being butchered by the Islamist conquerors. Yes, many crusaders committed evil acts. Yes, even an entire crusade (the fourth) went wary, when the leader took the many and ran with it to attack a fellow Christian city for spoils. But none of this is evidence that Christianity is inherently violent or terroristic; all it shows is that Christendom found a common ground (i..e their shared faith) to join forces and protect themselves from ruthless invaders (the Abbasid Caliphate) that mistreated their own in the lands they attacked.
tl;dr the Crusades have just about nothing to do with ISIS and are totally incomparable.
Read the whole Bible and you may get a different picture, one that isn't "self-contradictory". The Old Testament is full of ceremonial laws, such as the dictates to not eat pork or shellfish. But Christians are not bound to follow the ceremonial Old Law anymore--this was decided in the Book of Acts, when the Apostles met in Jerusalem and decided that one need not be Jewish to become Christian. However, some of the universal moral laws that were revealed in the Old Testament, such as the Ten Commandments, are not binding solely for Jews following the Law of Moses, but for all mankind. That's why sometimes Christians cite the Old Testament authoritatively but sometimes with the sense that what they are quoting is abrogated.
What a stupid argument. Atheists in history have used atheism as a reason to persecute Christians, I guess that means atheism needs to be wiped out, huh?
Rather frustrating that whenever a Muslim terrorist attack occurs, some morons on the Internet immediately say Christianity is to blame, and get modded up.
The following list was collected from a packet sniffer, it's every domain that Windows 10 contacts when you are actively using the OS: https://github.com/WindowsLies...
I looked into a few of those. Most of them attempt to do something but do not succeed. For example, the most popular one "DisableWinTracking" just adds all the domains to the hosts file, which Windows 10 bypasses. I haven't looked at all of them though.
Turning off all the settings does absolutely nothing. Try it yourself. Turn all the settings on, open up a packet sniffer, and do something rudimentary like opening up the Windows Calculator. You'll see Windows suddenly contacting over 100 domains. Then turn all the telemetry settings off, put all the domains in your hosts file and firewall, disconnect your Microsoft account, perform an animistic ritual for good fortune--there will be almost no difference whatsoever in all of the phoning home that Windows 10 does.
I've read from some testers that using the domain firewall on their router was successful. But please show me anybody that can demonstrate the contrary, I would very much like to know. If the router can't block the spying, well, Win10 users are SOL.
While I was saying this a little while ago, at this point I don't believe that even Enterprise truly turns off the spying- it just lets you pick the "no telemetry" option, but still leaks some data. It's certainly a lot better than Pro (or the free Home), which don't even give you the option to turn it off.
Adding 100+ domains to your router's firewall is only "trivial to mitigate" for geeks. >99% of Windows 10 users are being spied on, even if they think they turned the settings off.
You don't need to do that, you just need to run one of the many third-party utilities that kill the spyware. Updates may one day add more spyware, of course, but 99% of user install malware willingly anyhow, so it's hardly worse than what their used to - just run some sort of cleanup every so often.
Windows 10 bypasses the firewall and hosts file to phone home, so unless that third-party utility is altering your router's settings, then I'm not sure what it's supposed to do. Are they confirmed (via packet sniffing) to actually work?
99% of Windows 10 users are being spied on, even if they think they turned the settings off.
You have hard evidence of that claim, right?
By the way, are you that naive to think the sainted Tim Cook and his Apples are not "spying" on you? Wake up numbnutz.
Hard evidence: look at the view counts of all the pages on the Internet that list all of the 100+ domains you need to block from your router to turn off the Windows 10 spying. Even if *every single view* was an individual person that went ahead and followed the directions religiously, that would still be less than 1% of all Windows 10 rollouts.
Don't get me wrong, I am no Apple fan. I proselytize for Linux. But if the choice is either Windows 10 or OS X, I would advocate for the latter, because the spying in OS X can be turned off without fighting the OS tooth and nail.
The surface pro 3 is an amazing little machine. I regularly compile a product that has 30M lines of code and it has no issues with it at all. People who don't have good eyes tend to not like it, because of the smaller high res screen, but if your eyes are good, it is a more than capable laptop replacement.
Yeah, and the Atari Lynx was a great device if you used it in a torch-lit room and you had lobster hands. Your Surface advertisement isn't very convincing.
I myself don't do any graphics/audio/video editing or creation, but I'd like to hear from people who are. As I understand, traditionally Macs were the most popular tool for the job. Is that still true? Has anyone transitioned to a tablet to do most of their work?
when Apple just got on with it a made good products. Now they need to spread FUD about a competing product ?
I've got a Surface Pro 3 - it's a great laptop replacement and the tablet form factor is handy for some situations and the fact that it runs standard Windows software makes it a great device. Unless your work consists of surfing the web and sending the odd email, why would anyone want an iPad Pro ?
Adding 100+ domains to your router's firewall is only "trivial to mitigate" for geeks. >99% of Windows 10 users are being spied on, even if they think they turned the settings off.
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Murder of anyone in Christianity is a sin. There are no exceptions. There is a Just War doctrine as espoused by Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas et al., but if you actually read the criteria given for a Just War, most of the wars of our modern age would be considered unjust.
Sorry, Malaysia was wrong; it was actually Indonesia. The group in question is the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who until ISIS took control, had the highest kill count of any suicide bomber group in the world.
Christianity's early survival was predicated on accepting martyrdom as a death of honor and grace rather than shame. Hence why 10 of the original 12 apostles were crucified.
Fun fact, the number 1 suicide bombing organization on earth is a Marxist (atheistic) group based in Malaysia.
Fun fact, you probably cannot name a single Christian suicide bomber.
I'm glad you know all 1-2 some billion Christians on earth and countless billions throughout history are all assholes because your ex-wife was an asshole.
I guess all the Christian missionaries and religious throughout the world that are feeding and clothing the poorest of the poor should pick up their bags, go home, and be much better people as secular atheists, so they can contribute something meaningful to the world like your shitpost Slashdot comments.
For all of the numbskulls that think all "religions" (a nebulous term that can mean wildly different things to different people, but I digress) are to blame when specifically Muslim terrorists commit acts of violence against innocents, using the Crusades as supporting evidence. I would like to point out that the Crusades were not called because Christians wanted to conquer the world and have a monopoly on control of religious sites. Far from it--Christian pilgrims in Europe and the Middle East were being butchered by the Islamist conquerors. Yes, many crusaders committed evil acts. Yes, even an entire crusade (the fourth) went wary, when the leader took the many and ran with it to attack a fellow Christian city for spoils. But none of this is evidence that Christianity is inherently violent or terroristic; all it shows is that Christendom found a common ground (i..e their shared faith) to join forces and protect themselves from ruthless invaders (the Abbasid Caliphate) that mistreated their own in the lands they attacked.
tl;dr the Crusades have just about nothing to do with ISIS and are totally incomparable.
Read the whole Bible and you may get a different picture, one that isn't "self-contradictory". The Old Testament is full of ceremonial laws, such as the dictates to not eat pork or shellfish. But Christians are not bound to follow the ceremonial Old Law anymore--this was decided in the Book of Acts, when the Apostles met in Jerusalem and decided that one need not be Jewish to become Christian. However, some of the universal moral laws that were revealed in the Old Testament, such as the Ten Commandments, are not binding solely for Jews following the Law of Moses, but for all mankind. That's why sometimes Christians cite the Old Testament authoritatively but sometimes with the sense that what they are quoting is abrogated.
What a stupid argument. Atheists in history have used atheism as a reason to persecute Christians, I guess that means atheism needs to be wiped out, huh?
Rather frustrating that whenever a Muslim terrorist attack occurs, some morons on the Internet immediately say Christianity is to blame, and get modded up.
The following list was collected from a packet sniffer, it's every domain that Windows 10 contacts when you are actively using the OS: https://github.com/WindowsLies...
It's 107 to be precise.
Watson is owned by IBM as well. What they get out of it, I'm not sure; I'm just reporting what the packet sniffer is saying.
Excerpt altering those settings doesn't *actually* turn off the spying in Windows 10. This has been proven by several independent tests.
"It's a bad idea, therefore Microsoft did not do it" is not a compelling argument, considering their history.
Unless Microsoft decided to regress their spyware policy last night, your findings contradict Ars Technica's: http://arstechnica.com/informa...
I looked into a few of those. Most of them attempt to do something but do not succeed. For example, the most popular one "DisableWinTracking" just adds all the domains to the hosts file, which Windows 10 bypasses. I haven't looked at all of them though.
The full list: https://github.com/WindowsLies...
Turning off all the settings does absolutely nothing. Try it yourself. Turn all the settings on, open up a packet sniffer, and do something rudimentary like opening up the Windows Calculator. You'll see Windows suddenly contacting over 100 domains. Then turn all the telemetry settings off, put all the domains in your hosts file and firewall, disconnect your Microsoft account, perform an animistic ritual for good fortune--there will be almost no difference whatsoever in all of the phoning home that Windows 10 does.
I've read from some testers that using the domain firewall on their router was successful. But please show me anybody that can demonstrate the contrary, I would very much like to know. If the router can't block the spying, well, Win10 users are SOL.
While I was saying this a little while ago, at this point I don't believe that even Enterprise truly turns off the spying- it just lets you pick the "no telemetry" option, but still leaks some data. It's certainly a lot better than Pro (or the free Home), which don't even give you the option to turn it off.
Thanks for the heads up on that.
Adding 100+ domains to your router's firewall is only "trivial to mitigate" for geeks. >99% of Windows 10 users are being spied on, even if they think they turned the settings off.
You don't need to do that, you just need to run one of the many third-party utilities that kill the spyware. Updates may one day add more spyware, of course, but 99% of user install malware willingly anyhow, so it's hardly worse than what their used to - just run some sort of cleanup every so often.
Windows 10 bypasses the firewall and hosts file to phone home, so unless that third-party utility is altering your router's settings, then I'm not sure what it's supposed to do. Are they confirmed (via packet sniffing) to actually work?
You need Windows 10 Enterprise to turn off the spying. For Win10 Pro, you still need to block all of the domains from your router.
99% of Windows 10 users are being spied on, even if they think they turned the settings off.
You have hard evidence of that claim, right?
By the way, are you that naive to think the sainted Tim Cook and his Apples are not "spying" on you? Wake up numbnutz.
Hard evidence: look at the view counts of all the pages on the Internet that list all of the 100+ domains you need to block from your router to turn off the Windows 10 spying. Even if *every single view* was an individual person that went ahead and followed the directions religiously, that would still be less than 1% of all Windows 10 rollouts.
Don't get me wrong, I am no Apple fan. I proselytize for Linux. But if the choice is either Windows 10 or OS X, I would advocate for the latter, because the spying in OS X can be turned off without fighting the OS tooth and nail.
Is it less dweebish to post on obscure and dated websites as an anonymous coward?
The surface pro 3 is an amazing little machine. I regularly compile a product that has 30M lines of code and it has no issues with it at all. People who don't have good eyes tend to not like it, because of the smaller high res screen, but if your eyes are good, it is a more than capable laptop replacement.
Yeah, and the Atari Lynx was a great device if you used it in a torch-lit room and you had lobster hands. Your Surface advertisement isn't very convincing.
I myself don't do any graphics/audio/video editing or creation, but I'd like to hear from people who are. As I understand, traditionally Macs were the most popular tool for the job. Is that still true? Has anyone transitioned to a tablet to do most of their work?
when Apple just got on with it a made good products. Now they need to spread FUD about a competing product ? I've got a Surface Pro 3 - it's a great laptop replacement and the tablet form factor is handy for some situations and the fact that it runs standard Windows software makes it a great device. Unless your work consists of surfing the web and sending the odd email, why would anyone want an iPad Pro ?
Why do I get the feeling I'm being advertised to?
Adding 100+ domains to your router's firewall is only "trivial to mitigate" for geeks. >99% of Windows 10 users are being spied on, even if they think they turned the settings off.