The Philadelphia Enquirer reported that SHARK lobbied the Pennsylvania statehouse in January, seeking legislation that would end pigeon shooting in the state. These hunting events involve capturing or breeding pigeons in cages, and releasing a large number of birds from cages to immediately be shot or wounded by hunters.
Pigeon shooting opponents contend that these events violate animal cruelty laws, and SHARK has used aerial footage obtained from drones to strengthen that argument.
“the predictable outrage generated by gruesome videos showing captive pigeons getting released from wooden crates, attempting to fly away, only to get blasted within seconds by a shooter who’s apparently only a few yards away, reinforces both the ethical stance and the financial status of animal activists who want to ban not just canned hunting but much of animal agriculture,” read an editorial in the Drovers CattleNetwork, a beef industry news periodical.
Honestly, I'm not a fan of the practice on practical grounds (what if the pigeon gets away? you're adding to the pest pigeon population, since these are bred, not captured), but I'd say that if it's private property, drones like this deserve to be shot down.
*shudder* They may have patched holes and stuff, but god help you if you want to add modules to it. The "module" system is basically a fancy name for applying patches to a default install. There were no supported extensibility points, and my memory of the code was one of looking in horror at a poorly modularized mess.
Granted, my experience is with PHPBB2. Things may have improved with PHPBB3, but I doubt they've done more than polish the turd.
In a nutshell: In DKIM -Email provider sets up DNS records with a public DKIM key. -Email provider's MTA signs valid outgoing email with the private key. -Recipient MTAs can verify the signature of incoming mail from the email provider with the public key and use this when classifying the message. -The MTA has to receive the message contents to verify the signature.
In SPF -Email provider sets up DNS TXT records that specify which hosts are allowed to send mail for a domain. -Email recipient verifies that the mail is received from one of those hosts and the pass/fail decision is used when classifying the message. -The MTA can reject the message if the check fails during the SMTP HELO phase without receiving the entire message, if desired.
Feels like apples to oranges a bit. You weren't a spammer, they just disagreed with you and provided a hostile environment for expressing your views, which would discourage any normal person from participating. A spammer probably wouldn't care about the shadow ban if they discovered it and would just create a new account if they felt that the target was valuable enough.
Why, exactly is this the case? Why can't you teach algorithms or architecture or clean design in Javascript? Interfaces are tricky, sure; at best you have to resort to something like duck typing in asserts if you want to be sure that something implements an interface, but the rest seems completely doable in JS.
Name a language that is easier to get started in. You already have a browser that runs Javascript, regardless if you're on MacOS, *nix, or Windows (or whatever system you use most likely), now all you need is a text editor, which is built in on most systems. I don't know of any other language that doesn't require you to download and install some sort of compiler, interpreter, SDK, or whatever, all of which are barriers to entry. Plus, you have the advantage of using one of the most widely used languages on a platform that can distribute your code very easily and very portably.
You may not like Javascript--and granted, as a language, it's got plenty of warts. (Note that you can fix a great deal of these warts on modern browsers by simply including a "use strict" declaration at the top of your code). But it's a great language to start out in, if for no other reason than that the start-up cost is very close to negligible, and it's a useful language that enjoys a level of ubiquity that most other languages only dream of.
Did the user perform an innocuous action that lead to the trojan being run? It sounds like you have to visit a website hosting the trojan with a vulnerable computer (a user-initiated action, btw) and you're infected. That seems to meet the definition of a trojan to me. If you just connect a vulnerable Mac to the network and let it sit, it won't be compromised this way.
So yes, Trojan is accurate. A user is tricked into downloading and running something malicious. A user could theoretically avoid an infection if they knew that the site was hosting the trojan, just like they could avoid running a "porn screensaver" a friend emailed them if they knew it contained a trojan. We've only developed a rule-of-thumb defense against the latter case because it's abused so frequently and exploits are relatively scarce when compared to ignorant humans.
The problem with whooping cough in particular is that the vaccine can't be administered to the very people who are most at risk if they were to contract it: newborns and infants. So, if an infant contracts it, you have a comparatively high likelihood of that child coughing and suffocating to death. The only sane way to combat this is via herd immunity through vaccination; otherwise the alternative is to severely limit exposure. Since the initial stages of the disease looks a lot like a common cold, this is harder said than done, since a carrier of the disease may not know they have it. I'm not sure that even the (as you mentioned, non-existent) chance of autism from vaccines is worth sacrificing herd immunity like that.
Asking "Are you a legal adult?" is different from asking "What is your age?". The first question leaves a much wider range and is only to keep employers from falling afoul of child labor laws. Even then, I imagine the HR-approved way to phrase the question is to ask "Do you meet the legal requirements for accepting this position?"
CleanFlicks edited the movies and sold the edited copies, which was illegal. ClearPlay does something closer to what we're describing (use special DVD player that you can upload a description of an edited movie to, and have the player apply the edits to an unmodified movie), and it's survived the lawsuits brought against it. Even then, posting a description of the edits is not illegal if it contains no copyrighted material from the original movie, which should be possible.
A lot of people pointed out various problems with hypertext fiction, but I think one of the bigger ones is the fact that an author wants a story read from beginning to end so that they don't waste effort on stuff the reader won't read. A lot of people have also mentioned that most examples of hypertext fiction have instead been called games, and I think a successful one would probably need to be approached more like developing a game than writing a story, with multiple writers branching off of a main trunk and working collaboratively. It could be an opportunity to explore different characters, ideas or settings that the trunk hints at but doesn't develop fully. So, in a sense, one could consider all of those "universe" novels (e.g. Star Wars universe, Star Trek universe) to be hypertext fiction of a sort, since that's essentially what they do.
While I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, do you have any proof to back up your assertion? Or do I just have to take you at your word?
What you're buying isn't a ticket to watch a specific movie, you're buying a ticket to sit in a particular theater at a particular time--they just happen to be showing a movie at that time. Thus, the response to low demand for a particular movie isn't to lower the cost for seeing that movie, it's to show more showings of a movie that *is* getting butts in those seats. And you'll notice that's what happens. The poor performing movies fade from theaters much more quickly than more successful ones, which often times end up playing on more than one screen. *That's* why they continue to charge the same price for movie tickets.
Now, you could make an argument that the price of an individual showing should react to demand, but I'm not sure how that'd work. Responsive pricing means that the first few people get screwed on their ticket price if demand turns out to be less than expected and the price drops, or the price of the last few seats to a popular showing is going to be much higher, which probably wouldn't fly well with people, and I'm not sure there's a big incentive for the theaters to do that. Increasing the price of tickets for popular movies seems to be a great way to incentivize people who can wait for DVD releases to do so, and theaters are already struggling against that mindset.
To be fair, IE/Mac was a pretty different beast from IE/Win. You might as well have been developing for a different browser altogether anyway. Granted, they may have eventually gotten some sort of parity, but it would've taken a lot longer.
I get the feeling that corrupt organizations (and, lets face it, if your organization requires the death of a blogger for reporting on your activities, it is corrupt) won't be particularly eager to legitimize themselves. There's more to organized crime than drugs, and I think they're likely resourceful enough to move onto the next lucrative illegal activity in the absence of an illicit drug trade.
For standard checking & savings accounts, they are just as federally insured (via the NCUA rather than the FDIC) as an account with a bank. I can't think of any standard you could measure them by that would make them more risky than banks.
I've lived in 3 different states and had no issues keeping my credit union account from my first state.
Make sure the credit union is part of an ATM network like the Co-Op Network, and you'll be able to use plenty of ATMs all over the place, free of charge. I usually deposit my checks this way. Most CU's make around $200 of the deposit available immediately, with the rest coming as the check clears, which is usually enough cash to last 'til it clears in a day or two. Or, alternately, sign up for a credit union that has online e-deposit; you can deposit funds by taking a picture of your check; no need to even visit a bank.
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You want geeky? Try frying a turkey with Alton Brown's Turkey Frying Derrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KwGs-Lism4 (see about the 13 minute mark)
They're not eating them. From TFA:
The Philadelphia Enquirer reported that SHARK lobbied the Pennsylvania statehouse in January, seeking legislation that would end pigeon shooting in the state. These hunting events involve capturing or breeding pigeons in cages, and releasing a large number of birds from cages to immediately be shot or wounded by hunters.
Pigeon shooting opponents contend that these events violate animal cruelty laws, and SHARK has used aerial footage obtained from drones to strengthen that argument.
“the predictable outrage generated by gruesome videos showing captive pigeons getting released from wooden crates, attempting to fly away, only to get blasted within seconds by a shooter who’s apparently only a few yards away, reinforces both the ethical stance and the financial status of animal activists who want to ban not just canned hunting but much of animal agriculture,” read an editorial in the Drovers CattleNetwork, a beef industry news periodical.
Honestly, I'm not a fan of the practice on practical grounds (what if the pigeon gets away? you're adding to the pest pigeon population, since these are bred, not captured), but I'd say that if it's private property, drones like this deserve to be shot down.
*shudder* They may have patched holes and stuff, but god help you if you want to add modules to it. The "module" system is basically a fancy name for applying patches to a default install. There were no supported extensibility points, and my memory of the code was one of looking in horror at a poorly modularized mess.
Granted, my experience is with PHPBB2. Things may have improved with PHPBB3, but I doubt they've done more than polish the turd.
In a nutshell:
In DKIM
-Email provider sets up DNS records with a public DKIM key.
-Email provider's MTA signs valid outgoing email with the private key.
-Recipient MTAs can verify the signature of incoming mail from the email provider with the public key and use this when classifying the message.
-The MTA has to receive the message contents to verify the signature.
In SPF
-Email provider sets up DNS TXT records that specify which hosts are allowed to send mail for a domain.
-Email recipient verifies that the mail is received from one of those hosts and the pass/fail decision is used when classifying the message.
-The MTA can reject the message if the check fails during the SMTP HELO phase without receiving the entire message, if desired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKIM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
Feels like apples to oranges a bit. You weren't a spammer, they just disagreed with you and provided a hostile environment for expressing your views, which would discourage any normal person from participating. A spammer probably wouldn't care about the shadow ban if they discovered it and would just create a new account if they felt that the target was valuable enough.
Why, exactly is this the case? Why can't you teach algorithms or architecture or clean design in Javascript? Interfaces are tricky, sure; at best you have to resort to something like duck typing in asserts if you want to be sure that something implements an interface, but the rest seems completely doable in JS.
Name a language that is easier to get started in. You already have a browser that runs Javascript, regardless if you're on MacOS, *nix, or Windows (or whatever system you use most likely), now all you need is a text editor, which is built in on most systems. I don't know of any other language that doesn't require you to download and install some sort of compiler, interpreter, SDK, or whatever, all of which are barriers to entry. Plus, you have the advantage of using one of the most widely used languages on a platform that can distribute your code very easily and very portably.
You may not like Javascript--and granted, as a language, it's got plenty of warts. (Note that you can fix a great deal of these warts on modern browsers by simply including a "use strict" declaration at the top of your code). But it's a great language to start out in, if for no other reason than that the start-up cost is very close to negligible, and it's a useful language that enjoys a level of ubiquity that most other languages only dream of.
Did the user perform an innocuous action that lead to the trojan being run? It sounds like you have to visit a website hosting the trojan with a vulnerable computer (a user-initiated action, btw) and you're infected. That seems to meet the definition of a trojan to me. If you just connect a vulnerable Mac to the network and let it sit, it won't be compromised this way.
So yes, Trojan is accurate. A user is tricked into downloading and running something malicious. A user could theoretically avoid an infection if they knew that the site was hosting the trojan, just like they could avoid running a "porn screensaver" a friend emailed them if they knew it contained a trojan. We've only developed a rule-of-thumb defense against the latter case because it's abused so frequently and exploits are relatively scarce when compared to ignorant humans.
The ARM version is only being sold to OEMs. That, as I understand it, is why its a separate version.
*suddenly gets a vision of Jobs shambling about with a headcrab attached to his skull*
The problem with whooping cough in particular is that the vaccine can't be administered to the very people who are most at risk if they were to contract it: newborns and infants. So, if an infant contracts it, you have a comparatively high likelihood of that child coughing and suffocating to death. The only sane way to combat this is via herd immunity through vaccination; otherwise the alternative is to severely limit exposure. Since the initial stages of the disease looks a lot like a common cold, this is harder said than done, since a carrier of the disease may not know they have it. I'm not sure that even the (as you mentioned, non-existent) chance of autism from vaccines is worth sacrificing herd immunity like that.
Why, exactly, should we take your word for it?
Asking "Are you a legal adult?" is different from asking "What is your age?". The first question leaves a much wider range and is only to keep employers from falling afoul of child labor laws. Even then, I imagine the HR-approved way to phrase the question is to ask "Do you meet the legal requirements for accepting this position?"
And guess what; Microsoft don't support h264 in IE, they just support plugins.
Microsoft has supported h264 natively since IE 9.
Standard disclaimer, I am not a lawyer, etc.
CleanFlicks edited the movies and sold the edited copies, which was illegal. ClearPlay does something closer to what we're describing (use special DVD player that you can upload a description of an edited movie to, and have the player apply the edits to an unmodified movie), and it's survived the lawsuits brought against it. Even then, posting a description of the edits is not illegal if it contains no copyrighted material from the original movie, which should be possible.
A lot of people pointed out various problems with hypertext fiction, but I think one of the bigger ones is the fact that an author wants a story read from beginning to end so that they don't waste effort on stuff the reader won't read. A lot of people have also mentioned that most examples of hypertext fiction have instead been called games, and I think a successful one would probably need to be approached more like developing a game than writing a story, with multiple writers branching off of a main trunk and working collaboratively. It could be an opportunity to explore different characters, ideas or settings that the trunk hints at but doesn't develop fully. So, in a sense, one could consider all of those "universe" novels (e.g. Star Wars universe, Star Trek universe) to be hypertext fiction of a sort, since that's essentially what they do.
While I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, do you have any proof to back up your assertion? Or do I just have to take you at your word?
Another place to look that I've used in the past is AlternativeTo:
http://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-dreamweaver/?license=opensource
Seems like the OP could stand to learn some googling skills.
What you're buying isn't a ticket to watch a specific movie, you're buying a ticket to sit in a particular theater at a particular time--they just happen to be showing a movie at that time. Thus, the response to low demand for a particular movie isn't to lower the cost for seeing that movie, it's to show more showings of a movie that *is* getting butts in those seats. And you'll notice that's what happens. The poor performing movies fade from theaters much more quickly than more successful ones, which often times end up playing on more than one screen. *That's* why they continue to charge the same price for movie tickets.
Now, you could make an argument that the price of an individual showing should react to demand, but I'm not sure how that'd work. Responsive pricing means that the first few people get screwed on their ticket price if demand turns out to be less than expected and the price drops, or the price of the last few seats to a popular showing is going to be much higher, which probably wouldn't fly well with people, and I'm not sure there's a big incentive for the theaters to do that. Increasing the price of tickets for popular movies seems to be a great way to incentivize people who can wait for DVD releases to do so, and theaters are already struggling against that mindset.
To be fair, IE/Mac was a pretty different beast from IE/Win. You might as well have been developing for a different browser altogether anyway. Granted, they may have eventually gotten some sort of parity, but it would've taken a lot longer.
Also, IE10 is what's shipping with Windows 8.
I get the feeling that corrupt organizations (and, lets face it, if your organization requires the death of a blogger for reporting on your activities, it is corrupt) won't be particularly eager to legitimize themselves. There's more to organized crime than drugs, and I think they're likely resourceful enough to move onto the next lucrative illegal activity in the absence of an illicit drug trade.
Where's everyone getting the 90 day thing? It's 270 days. I believe accessing it over POP/Exchange ActiveSync will count as activity as well.
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For standard checking & savings accounts, they are just as federally insured (via the NCUA rather than the FDIC) as an account with a bank. I can't think of any standard you could measure them by that would make them more risky than banks.
I've lived in 3 different states and had no issues keeping my credit union account from my first state.
Make sure the credit union is part of an ATM network like the Co-Op Network, and you'll be able to use plenty of ATMs all over the place, free of charge. I usually deposit my checks this way. Most CU's make around $200 of the deposit available immediately, with the rest coming as the check clears, which is usually enough cash to last 'til it clears in a day or two. Or, alternately, sign up for a credit union that has online e-deposit; you can deposit funds by taking a picture of your check; no need to even visit a bank.