Australian politicians are still stuck in the mindset that "teh nintendoz" is for the kids. And that any adult that still plays games is some kind of deviant dole bludging waster who should go work three jobs and only sleep 4 hours a night like the PM.
Of course the lack of an R category has backfired in that the censors quite often mark games that got R rated in America as MA15+. Ironically if they allowed an R catergory kids would have less access to violent games.
I guess I will be firing up bittorrent or using digital download.
EXETEL are a one of the best ISP's down here. The only problem with them is that the network is getting so saturated these days (none of the major telcos will invest in new capacity until the Aussie government sorts out its 10 billion AUD future broadband scheme) that they are shaping P2P and limiting "bonus" data to 3am to 8am. Kind of sucks but the other option is for all traffic to be slow if the links max out due to unrestricted P2P.
Other than the network capacity issue they are pretty "wink wink nudge nudge" about P2P, and are only doing the bare minimum to appear to be complying with the governments wish to institute network filtering.
Telemarketers pay for access to the phone system. Spammers and botnet controllers hijack other peoples access.
And what third world country do you live in to get "network busy" at any time except during a disaster? I am 26 and have never experienced it myself although I know it happens.
My (Australian) ISP has been doing this at least for spam relays for a few years now. If they detect you are being used to spam they cut all your traffic and redirect port 80 to a page telling you what has happened and giving you links to AV tools and an automated traffic checker that will unblock you once you have dealt with the malware. Two of the guys I live with got infected and so I have personal experience dealing with the system. To me it seems like a perfectly sensible and responsible reaction to a serious problem. IMO any ISP not doing this is an irresponsible netizen.
To me it is like your CC company notifying you of suspicious charges or the phone company asking why your mobile is suddenly making hundreds of calls from Azerbaijan. It not only stops the current problem but if people are actually notified that they have a problem they are far more likely to take steps to protect themselves in the future.
Bullshit. Nearly every major PD in America has carried AR-15's (civilian version of the M-16) in their patrol cars since shortly after the North Hollywood Shootout.
Considering you are incredibly unlikely to encounter someone carrying an actual assault rifle (no semi-auto EVIL BLACK RIFLES!!!!1111 are not assault rifles, most traditional hunting rifles are deadlier than "Assault Weaponsâ") and doing so is entirely legal, it is silly to send five cars after someone just carrying one. What next? Do you want the police to send five cars when someone sees a "hacker" (aka someone with glasses and a laptop) sitting outside an office building?
As a psychology student I can already tell you that the idea of "universal expression" only lives on in pop culture, the idea was invalidated in science a fair while ago. While it is debatable whether emotions are natural or culturally generated it is complete uncontroversial to say that expression of emotion is culturally bound.
Additionally there have been many studies that show a difference between how Westerners view faces and how non-Westerners do. This study is only interesting in that it puts forward an answer as to why the difference might exist. This is a major issue in psychology because so much research has used white male college students as subjects.
Ugh such an ignorant statement. Go look at a mouse brain. Now go look at a human brain. Notice the huge disparity in size between such things as the cerebellum and frontal lobe in a human compared to a mouse? "Bodily functions" are controlled by basically your cerebellum and brain stem. In a simple creature such as a mouse those parts of the brain are either larger or about as large as a "higher order" area like the frontal lobe. In a human those are small parts of the over all brain.
And we can't even emulate something as simple as a mouse brain at the neuron level.
Why aren't you protesting against existing censorship in Australia? Unlike America our ratings system is run by and enforced by the government. This is why our highest rating for video games is MA and we why we have no R rating ("because the nintendos is for kids right?").
Sad to say it but this internet filtering fits right in with general government and public belief that a minority should be able to control what material adults consume.
... because then the amount of money I spend on DVD's will drop to almost nothing.
I don't watch broadcast TV and so the only way I find out about good shows is by P2Ping them. Oh well other companies want my money if the TV/movie industry doesn't.
So the battery is encased in plastic as well and thus can't be recharged by an external connection?
There are also no other external connectors like headphone jacks or USB ports?
There are plenty of technologies to waterproof electronics, they are just limited by the above inconveniences. The reason that the traditional circuit manufacturing technique is so environmentally unfriendly is because it is incredibly cheap. There are all sorts of ways it could be made more environmentally sound (like not shipping "recycled" electronics to Africa/China to be broken up by children), but it is not going to happen without significant market or government intervention.
And plastics aren't that great environmentally to begin with, even if they contain significant amounts of recycled material.
I am sure we had a story like this the other week. I am pretty sure we have it every couple of weeks. Considering this has been (more or less) the way of things for probably about five years (I have been following the 'good enough' philosophy for that long, from a Radeon 9600xt, through a GeForce 6800, to a Radeon 4850 today), it isn't news to any nerd. You stopped needing a top of the line computer for gaming around the turn of the century when clock rates stopped doubling every 12-18 months and ATi got good enough to really compete with nVidia.
Here in Australia the Federal government department Centrelink (who are responsible for welfare, student support etc) make you answer a secret question every time you log on to their online system. Which is moronic as your user name is your customer ID you aren't supposed to give out, and they enforce strong passwords.
Funny thing is that when you set a decent secret question you probably won't remember the answer over a year later (to clever for my own good). Of course their system is "smartly" designed and you can't get rid of your old questions just make new ones. So now I have about five questions I can't remember the answer to and twenty that are along the lines of "What is your name?" and I just hit refresh until I get an easy one.
Remember folks if you make your security too tight people will just write their passwords on a sticky note and put it on their monitor.
We can't read thoughts. Our current equipment is far too crude to even identify specific neural pathways. All we can do is detect electrical activity or oxygen use in *regions* of the brain. At best they might be able to determine you are (possibly) anxious or fearful. So about as useful for reading thoughts as a polygraph (aka not useful at all).
I doubt we will ever be able to read thoughts because of the difficult of isolating neural pathways, and the fact that thoughts aren't encoded in a way we even understand. It isn't as simple as making a sensitive detector and then decoding a stream of data.
All they have to do for huge success if make it nearly exactly like Thief 2. I loved Thief 3 but the lack of huge sprawling levels with many hidden passage ways really hurt the game.
As to the story I hope they make it a prequel or otherwise not have Garret as the main character. The whole Thief mythos was pretty much played out at the end of Thief 3 and a continuation would just feel tacked on (Thief 1 & 2 heavily explored the Pagans and the Hammerites, Thief 3 basically removed the Keepers).
This would be a very interesting study if they had of tested how the effect of military sonar on dolphin and whale hearing can cause beaching. All they did was show that yes dolphins are affected by sonar. Something that could pretty much be inferred from biology and physics. We don't need to shoot dolphins to prove they are vulnerable to bullets.
The problem with this study is that a follow up to show a how much military sonar effects beachings probably won't happen for years, if it ever happens. And in the mean time we will have PETA and the like demanding that sonar not be used because of the "scientific proof" that it causes most beachings, or something equally stupid.
I wonder when they will find out what high power radar used to do to birds? Of course Dolphins are higher up the cute scaleâ of animal compassion.
Oh, that's right THE CUSTOMER DOES. This is the taxpayer paying off the taxpayers debt. The only way this is worthwhile is if it leads to an increase in production. Otherwise it is just bread and HD porn for the masses.
It isn't like I don't want high speed internet, but with some states nearly going broke and having trouble keeping the health system running, this is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.
The Streisand effect is when you try and get something removed from online but make such a noise about it that more people know about it.
This is somewhat similar in that they were trying to "protect" their community from burglars and now half the western world will know this village is loaded and has lax security. But they did prevent the streetview going up which was what they apparently thought was the real threat.
Only the UN security council really does anything that involves military interventions. And this wasn't the general assembly let alone the security council.
And actually the main job of the UN is to dick around and make it look like international law and treaties aren't made in shady backroom deals.
Even though some people keep painting embryonic stem cells as the holy grail of stem cell research, this is quite frankly rubbish. Unless they are your own cells you face the same rejection and immune defence problems with embryonic stem cells as you would with any donated organ.
Until we figure out human cloning (which is another ethical issue), embryonic stem cells are only interesting in that they are an easy source of stem cells for study. The most obvious path at present for actually using stem cells in treatment is harvesting them from the patient.
Regardless of embryonic stem cells worked better in the short term, in the long term we would need to deal with their side effects. Being on immune suppressants for the rest of your life is not fun.
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At the rate this idiocy is going it won't be long until directors of failed corporations get charged with manslaughter or murder....
All cars now also come with seat belts and most people wear them.
Australian politicians are still stuck in the mindset that "teh nintendoz" is for the kids. And that any adult that still plays games is some kind of deviant dole bludging waster who should go work three jobs and only sleep 4 hours a night like the PM.
Of course the lack of an R category has backfired in that the censors quite often mark games that got R rated in America as MA15+. Ironically if they allowed an R catergory kids would have less access to violent games.
I guess I will be firing up bittorrent or using digital download.
I meant to say they are shaping P2P except during the bonus data time of 3am to 8am. As I am only on ADSL1 I don't notice any shaping.
EXETEL are a one of the best ISP's down here. The only problem with them is that the network is getting so saturated these days (none of the major telcos will invest in new capacity until the Aussie government sorts out its 10 billion AUD future broadband scheme) that they are shaping P2P and limiting "bonus" data to 3am to 8am. Kind of sucks but the other option is for all traffic to be slow if the links max out due to unrestricted P2P.
Other than the network capacity issue they are pretty "wink wink nudge nudge" about P2P, and are only doing the bare minimum to appear to be complying with the governments wish to institute network filtering.
Telemarketers pay for access to the phone system. Spammers and botnet controllers hijack other peoples access.
And what third world country do you live in to get "network busy" at any time except during a disaster? I am 26 and have never experienced it myself although I know it happens.
My (Australian) ISP has been doing this at least for spam relays for a few years now. If they detect you are being used to spam they cut all your traffic and redirect port 80 to a page telling you what has happened and giving you links to AV tools and an automated traffic checker that will unblock you once you have dealt with the malware. Two of the guys I live with got infected and so I have personal experience dealing with the system. To me it seems like a perfectly sensible and responsible reaction to a serious problem. IMO any ISP not doing this is an irresponsible netizen.
To me it is like your CC company notifying you of suspicious charges or the phone company asking why your mobile is suddenly making hundreds of calls from Azerbaijan. It not only stops the current problem but if people are actually notified that they have a problem they are far more likely to take steps to protect themselves in the future.
Bullshit. Nearly every major PD in America has carried AR-15's (civilian version of the M-16) in their patrol cars since shortly after the North Hollywood Shootout.
Considering you are incredibly unlikely to encounter someone carrying an actual assault rifle (no semi-auto EVIL BLACK RIFLES!!!!1111 are not assault rifles, most traditional hunting rifles are deadlier than "Assault Weaponsâ") and doing so is entirely legal, it is silly to send five cars after someone just carrying one. What next? Do you want the police to send five cars when someone sees a "hacker" (aka someone with glasses and a laptop) sitting outside an office building?
As a psychology student I can already tell you that the idea of "universal expression" only lives on in pop culture, the idea was invalidated in science a fair while ago. While it is debatable whether emotions are natural or culturally generated it is complete uncontroversial to say that expression of emotion is culturally bound.
Just look at something like Amok in Malaysia.
Additionally there have been many studies that show a difference between how Westerners view faces and how non-Westerners do. This study is only interesting in that it puts forward an answer as to why the difference might exist. This is a major issue in psychology because so much research has used white male college students as subjects.
Ugh such an ignorant statement. Go look at a mouse brain. Now go look at a human brain. Notice the huge disparity in size between such things as the cerebellum and frontal lobe in a human compared to a mouse? "Bodily functions" are controlled by basically your cerebellum and brain stem. In a simple creature such as a mouse those parts of the brain are either larger or about as large as a "higher order" area like the frontal lobe. In a human those are small parts of the over all brain.
And we can't even emulate something as simple as a mouse brain at the neuron level.
Why aren't you protesting against existing censorship in Australia? Unlike America our ratings system is run by and enforced by the government. This is why our highest rating for video games is MA and we why we have no R rating ("because the nintendos is for kids right?").
Sad to say it but this internet filtering fits right in with general government and public belief that a minority should be able to control what material adults consume.
Fire up your proxies gentleman!
... because then the amount of money I spend on DVD's will drop to almost nothing.
I don't watch broadcast TV and so the only way I find out about good shows is by P2Ping them. Oh well other companies want my money if the TV/movie industry doesn't.
So the battery is encased in plastic as well and thus can't be recharged by an external connection?
There are also no other external connectors like headphone jacks or USB ports?
There are plenty of technologies to waterproof electronics, they are just limited by the above inconveniences. The reason that the traditional circuit manufacturing technique is so environmentally unfriendly is because it is incredibly cheap. There are all sorts of ways it could be made more environmentally sound (like not shipping "recycled" electronics to Africa/China to be broken up by children), but it is not going to happen without significant market or government intervention.
And plastics aren't that great environmentally to begin with, even if they contain significant amounts of recycled material.
I am sure we had a story like this the other week. I am pretty sure we have it every couple of weeks. Considering this has been (more or less) the way of things for probably about five years (I have been following the 'good enough' philosophy for that long, from a Radeon 9600xt, through a GeForce 6800, to a Radeon 4850 today), it isn't news to any nerd. You stopped needing a top of the line computer for gaming around the turn of the century when clock rates stopped doubling every 12-18 months and ATi got good enough to really compete with nVidia.
Here in Australia the Federal government department Centrelink (who are responsible for welfare, student support etc) make you answer a secret question every time you log on to their online system. Which is moronic as your user name is your customer ID you aren't supposed to give out, and they enforce strong passwords.
Funny thing is that when you set a decent secret question you probably won't remember the answer over a year later (to clever for my own good). Of course their system is "smartly" designed and you can't get rid of your old questions just make new ones. So now I have about five questions I can't remember the answer to and twenty that are along the lines of "What is your name?" and I just hit refresh until I get an easy one.
Remember folks if you make your security too tight people will just write their passwords on a sticky note and put it on their monitor.
We can't read thoughts. Our current equipment is far too crude to even identify specific neural pathways. All we can do is detect electrical activity or oxygen use in *regions* of the brain. At best they might be able to determine you are (possibly) anxious or fearful. So about as useful for reading thoughts as a polygraph (aka not useful at all).
I doubt we will ever be able to read thoughts because of the difficult of isolating neural pathways, and the fact that thoughts aren't encoded in a way we even understand. It isn't as simple as making a sensitive detector and then decoding a stream of data.
IAAPS (I Am A Psychology Student).
All they have to do for huge success if make it nearly exactly like Thief 2. I loved Thief 3 but the lack of huge sprawling levels with many hidden passage ways really hurt the game.
As to the story I hope they make it a prequel or otherwise not have Garret as the main character. The whole Thief mythos was pretty much played out at the end of Thief 3 and a continuation would just feel tacked on (Thief 1 & 2 heavily explored the Pagans and the Hammerites, Thief 3 basically removed the Keepers).
Just remove noscript.net and his other domains from NoScripts allow list and his own addon stops his Google adbars.
I am sure he will hard code around this in his next patch, that will be the point where I start adding firewall rules.
This would be a very interesting study if they had of tested how the effect of military sonar on dolphin and whale hearing can cause beaching. All they did was show that yes dolphins are affected by sonar. Something that could pretty much be inferred from biology and physics. We don't need to shoot dolphins to prove they are vulnerable to bullets.
The problem with this study is that a follow up to show a how much military sonar effects beachings probably won't happen for years, if it ever happens. And in the mean time we will have PETA and the like demanding that sonar not be used because of the "scientific proof" that it causes most beachings, or something equally stupid.
I wonder when they will find out what high power radar used to do to birds? Of course Dolphins are higher up the cute scaleâ of animal compassion.
Oh, that's right THE CUSTOMER DOES. This is the taxpayer paying off the taxpayers debt. The only way this is worthwhile is if it leads to an increase in production. Otherwise it is just bread and HD porn for the masses.
It isn't like I don't want high speed internet, but with some states nearly going broke and having trouble keeping the health system running, this is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.
The Streisand effect is when you try and get something removed from online but make such a noise about it that more people know about it.
This is somewhat similar in that they were trying to "protect" their community from burglars and now half the western world will know this village is loaded and has lax security. But they did prevent the streetview going up which was what they apparently thought was the real threat.
And then no CC company ever does business with you again. This is also why CC security is so shit; they aren't using their own money.
... how dare you not focus your efforts on the 0.0002% of your users who run your desktop app on their server big iron!
Only the UN security council really does anything that involves military interventions. And this wasn't the general assembly let alone the security council.
And actually the main job of the UN is to dick around and make it look like international law and treaties aren't made in shady backroom deals.
Even though some people keep painting embryonic stem cells as the holy grail of stem cell research, this is quite frankly rubbish. Unless they are your own cells you face the same rejection and immune defence problems with embryonic stem cells as you would with any donated organ.
Until we figure out human cloning (which is another ethical issue), embryonic stem cells are only interesting in that they are an easy source of stem cells for study. The most obvious path at present for actually using stem cells in treatment is harvesting them from the patient.
Regardless of embryonic stem cells worked better in the short term, in the long term we would need to deal with their side effects. Being on immune suppressants for the rest of your life is not fun.