Increasing rates in Autism are due to the ever expanding classification system of the DSM. Behaviour that was previously not included in the 'diagnosis' (qualifications, if you prefer) are now included.
You could read Jon Ronson's Psychopath Test for a small insight into the way the people behind the categorisation process simply make shit up and grow the criteria for inclusion to a category like they're pulling rabbits out of a hat stuffed with millions of rabbits.
It's been found that people who've undergone Botox treatement are less empathic than people who haven't. It appears that we mimic other people's facial expressions to guage how they're feeling and understand them and we do this using the muscles in our faces, subtly tweaking and tesing them to match the facial expressions of the other - acting as them to understand them and match the expression with our own internal feelings that give rise to such facial expressions.
When we see some dead-eyed CGI, we KNOW what that dead-eye-ness means - we think our way into that state that those eyes result in and understand the underlying state of mind/feeling that would give rise to that expression, and it's an unhealthy one.
The thing is, for that to happen, a citizen's leaders (what we like to mistakenly call 'representatives') have to sell them out to the foreign powers concerned.
Tony Blair and the Labour Party were the ones who entered into the agreement to ship British citizens over to the USA on the merest of pretexts, without any UK judicial oversight.
Without a political leader willing to sell you and your countrymen out - or commit an act of treason against the people of his or her country, if you like - you're relatively safe.
No, not in the minds of most people. It was always going to be pants; neither the anticipation or the expectation could possibly be matched.
If anyone connected with the [projectile vomits into nearby bucket] franchise, has any sense they'll do something genuinely innovative and interesting with it after they've earned a few dollars from the dup... er... people who bought this episode in the DN story.
Another might be to say that the profit-driven corporations who want to grow these crops have little regard for the potential, irreversible consequences that could occur in the ecosystem and that these people are protecting that ecosystem from catastrophic damage. In which case you could characterise these protesters as Defenders agaust the selfish, and irresposible profit-seeking bio-companies.
oblig. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Amazon need to add a rating system for service/delivery etc for the morons who don't understand the purpose of the rating system that exists but who also need an outlet to complain about their experience.
It might seem like people are abusing the system (and that's true) but it's more true that the system is failing to adequately deal with a phenomenon that exists and isn't going away any time this millenia.
> If you want to minimize, you can right-click the titlebar, then click minimize, or using ALT+F9.
Seriously? In Windows 7 you just left click the icon in the taskbar to both minimize and restore. In Gnome's UI I have to right-click and then select a menu item?
If they wanted simplicity and sleekness, they just failed.
I was aazed to find a relation of mine who had a complete kit to pirate Nintendo DS games for their kids. They're so average, normal and middle-of-the-road, and yet they'd found out how to use one of those carts and somehow accquired pirated games for it. Other similar 'average' accquaintances were running P2P software to get the latest music and movies. None of them were in the least geeky or technically advanced.
I think the average consumer is far more inclined to commit copyright infringement than you imagine!
If that has any bearing on the opposition and understanding of draconian, bought-and-paid-for copyright laws, all the better, IMO.
What's amazing to me is the different way that the police forces are treating these hardware tinkerers with Sony itself, which instigated and distributed a massive campaign of installing rootkits on people's computers. Utterly illegal, and yet the Sony CEO or whoever didn't get his door battered in at 6am.
One law for the serfs and a different, more lenient set of 'rules' for the our lords and masters.
I guess here at/. the 'editorial' policy is to provoke discussion regardless of the intellectually dishonest manner that's used. Summaries and titles that distort the original article seem to be more and more prevalent in order, I'd take a wild guess at, to provoke comments.
Ladies and gentlement, we are being trolled by the management.
Slashdot Mirror
I loved this line of specious PR bullshit:
"Due to the rapidly decreasing demand for downloadable software in favor of web apps, we will discontinue Google Pack today."
"Rapidly decreasing demand"! What utter nonsense.
Increasing rates in Autism are due to the ever expanding classification system of the DSM. Behaviour that was previously not included in the 'diagnosis' (qualifications, if you prefer) are now included.
You could read Jon Ronson's Psychopath Test for a small insight into the way the people behind the categorisation process simply make shit up and grow the criteria for inclusion to a category like they're pulling rabbits out of a hat stuffed with millions of rabbits.
>A series of lights, or a few on a track, that go around the world as needed?
That's how the Shell World 'Sursamen' in Ian M Banks' book 'Matter' operates. He called the suns Roll Stars.
It's been found that people who've undergone Botox treatement are less empathic than people who haven't. It appears that we mimic other people's facial expressions to guage how they're feeling and understand them and we do this using the muscles in our faces, subtly tweaking and tesing them to match the facial expressions of the other - acting as them to understand them and match the expression with our own internal feelings that give rise to such facial expressions.
When we see some dead-eyed CGI, we KNOW what that dead-eye-ness means - we think our way into that state that those eyes result in and understand the underlying state of mind/feeling that would give rise to that expression, and it's an unhealthy one.
The thing is, for that to happen, a citizen's leaders (what we like to mistakenly call 'representatives') have to sell them out to the foreign powers concerned.
Tony Blair and the Labour Party were the ones who entered into the agreement to ship British citizens over to the USA on the merest of pretexts, without any UK judicial oversight.
Without a political leader willing to sell you and your countrymen out - or commit an act of treason against the people of his or her country, if you like - you're relatively safe.
No, not in the minds of most people. It was always going to be pants; neither the anticipation or the expectation could possibly be matched.
If anyone connected with the [projectile vomits into nearby bucket] franchise, has any sense they'll do something genuinely innovative and interesting with it after they've earned a few dollars from the dup... er ... people who bought this episode in the DN story.
Nobody hold their breath.
There's a difference between selective breeding and transgenic genetic engineering.
Bundling it all together in the phrase "genetically manipulated" does not make for an informed or honest discussion.
That's certainly one way to look at it.
Another might be to say that the profit-driven corporations who want to grow these crops have little regard for the potential, irreversible consequences that could occur in the ecosystem and that these people are protecting that ecosystem from catastrophic damage. In which case you could characterise these protesters as Defenders agaust the selfish, and irresposible profit-seeking bio-companies.
oblig. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Pretty sure if someone's "abusing" the rating system, I can call them a "moron" without losing too much sleep about it
Slashdot editors are not real; they're bots.
Incredibly poorly-written bots.
Amazon need to add a rating system for service/delivery etc for the morons who don't understand the purpose of the rating system that exists but who also need an outlet to complain about their experience.
It might seem like people are abusing the system (and that's true) but it's more true that the system is failing to adequately deal with a phenomenon that exists and isn't going away any time this millenia.
>When I finished the story mode in Portal 2, I looked for the more challenging content and found... nothing.
Valve have stated that there's a big load of free Downloadable Content coming very soon.
>I guess Slashdot is expanding its scope to include stuff that anti-matters as well!
I thought that was Idle.
Strange, I remember those Apple ads that said "Rip. Mix. Burn."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECN4ZE9-Mo
Shown on UK TV. The ASA said nothing.
If this Brennan JB7 device is illegal, so is iTunes. Is the ASA now banning any adverts from Apple that mention the software?
I hear some of the e-book publishers are still trying a variation on this theme
http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/harpercollins-limits-public-library-check-outs/
>It really was like buying a whole new Windows OS every 1-2 years.
>Which is fine if you have the money to spend.
>I don't.
You are not Apple's target market then.
Yeah ... everyone's bored to death over these iCheerleading news stories that are simply variations of X [did something fairly normal] ON AN iPAD!
The only one that'd vaguely raise any interest from me now would be the one that goes:
Hey guys! Look! I just took a dump! ON AN iPAD!
> If you want to minimize, you can right-click the titlebar, then click minimize, or using ALT+F9.
Seriously? In Windows 7 you just left click the icon in the taskbar to both minimize and restore. In Gnome's UI I have to right-click and then select a menu item?
If they wanted simplicity and sleekness, they just failed.
Actually Modded Flamebait.
Properly Modded Funny.
There's no one quite as sensitive to sand in their vagina than an Apple Fanboi.
The average consumer, eh?
I was aazed to find a relation of mine who had a complete kit to pirate Nintendo DS games for their kids. They're so average, normal and middle-of-the-road, and yet they'd found out how to use one of those carts and somehow accquired pirated games for it. Other similar 'average' accquaintances were running P2P software to get the latest music and movies. None of them were in the least geeky or technically advanced.
I think the average consumer is far more inclined to commit copyright infringement than you imagine!
If that has any bearing on the opposition and understanding of draconian, bought-and-paid-for copyright laws, all the better, IMO.
What's amazing to me is the different way that the police forces are treating these hardware tinkerers with Sony itself, which instigated and distributed a massive campaign of installing rootkits on people's computers. Utterly illegal, and yet the Sony CEO or whoever didn't get his door battered in at 6am.
One law for the serfs and a different, more lenient set of 'rules' for the our lords and masters.
Yup, this is a pretty South-centric policy. No surprise it's the Tories who are proposing it. It's not as if Scotland matters.
I didn't know that the Scottish Parliament could veto it; that gives me some hope.
I guess here at /. the 'editorial' policy is to provoke discussion regardless of the intellectually dishonest manner that's used. Summaries and titles that distort the original article seem to be more and more prevalent in order, I'd take a wild guess at, to provoke comments.
Ladies and gentlement, we are being trolled by the management.
A sad state of affairs.
It's true that many downloadable games are overpriced on Steam in certain regions. They're also overpriced compared to retail.
Solution: check prices and then if favourable, buy retail and activate on Steam.
Really? I heard it was all down to hats.