Zynga also scams advertisers by telling them all the users are active users. Most of the users I've met that actually still play Zynga games really are not, instead they have scripts playing for them. The scripts take the moves exactly when they can, purchase the optimal gear at the right times, and basically walks the player to the top of the lists.
This is what made me walk away from the games (they were a nice distraction at times), the realization that unless I poured hundreds of dollars into the game I would never catch up to the bots that play 24-7.
Even more important to those wanting to complete their achievements and trophies, some of the games have rewards that require you to play online. Once this happens they will effectively become unachievable.
No basically what they are saying is that whatever genetic or environmental conditioning that person had that led them to make the poor choices that led to their death has died with them, and thus hopefully has not been passed on to a future generation. Thus it ensures that the strongest and fittest of our species survive and reproduce.
It sort of falls along the lines of why does our society really needs labels such as "Do not use on roof" on a snow blower, "Caution moves when in use" on a scooter, or "Not for personal hygiene" on a flush-able toilet brush. If someone is too retarded to realize these things on their own why do we protect them?
We want to thank every media outlet, financial supporter, security expert, and forensic investigator that showed us support.
As you probably noticed, your copy of DECAF no longer works. We have disabled every copy of DECAF. We hope that as you realize this was a stunt to raise awareness for security and the need for better forensic tools that you would reconsider cutting corners on corporate security. Also, governments should not rely on a tool to automate the process of forensics but rather invest in the education of investigators and forensic tool experts. If we were able to assist every government agency in their computer crime investigations, we would. The problem is DECAF is just two people. As a security community at large, we need to band together and start relieving some of the burden off our government by giving back.
It also goes to show that if two people can make an impact as big as DECAF did; imagine how much positive we could all do together. Lately our media has been presenting many individual people (balloon boy, white house visitors, etc) who have been manipulating media outlets for selfish publicity in hopes of being "successful". The problem is that America has grown to be selfish, self-reliant, prideful, and a arrogant monster. We leave our marriages, neglect our kids, chase positions/status at work, chase materialistic property and only think of ourselves. In the mean time our whole country goes down the tubes.
These problems individuals are facing are not new. They are due to you trying to fill the void in your life with things of this world. Most everyone has bitter roots, some have been victimized, others are just neglected. You go through the woes of life with no life support.
I too would still be swallowed up in my prideful and selfish ways. I would still be with my addictive behaviors; womanizing, pornography, stealing, hacking, lieing, manipulating, and fighting. DECAF would have been a perfect way to feed my addictions. Instead I used it as a way to bring you a message. A message of freedom, a message of peace, a message of transparency and a message of unity. As you learn a little about me, understand I faced the same things I am speaking about. I didn't address the fruits of my life, I addressed the bitter roots of my life. Religion didn't do it for me. Catholicism didn't do it for me. Athiesm didn't do it for me. Agnostic didn't do it for me. Unity and education did it for me. Only one man gets credit for it. Jesus Christ. Once I learned Christ wasn't about that foolishness I seen on t.v. or seen in other "Christians", I realized I was missing the point. I couldn't look past the Christians to see the CHRIST. I accepted Him as my savior and then started putting Him in positions over my life. My life changed and yours can too. It was about relationship.
Romans 10:9 - "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
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I thought the story should have been "Moron That Got Restraining Order Kept Woman as an Unblocked Person on Facebook" myself. Seriously if you go through the hassle of a restraining order, perhaps you should add them to your block list.
If they were really looking to prevent driver deaths would they just tell all the people that fail their tests multiple times, "You've proven that you lack the judgement and capability to safely operate a motor vehicle. It would be in the best interest in public safety if you invest in bus fare or a bicycle."
Instead, they let people test time and time again until they get lucky and pass.
Perhaps you should actually read the article referenced before commenting.
Drivers talking on cell phones were 18 percent slower to react to brake lights, the new study found. In a minor bright note, they also kept a 12 percent greater following distance. But they also took 17 percent longer to regain the speed they lost when they braked. That frustrates everyone.
In other-words, the cell phone talker is being more cautious and everyone else on the road is in too big of a hurry to put up with someone driving more cautiously. So another good question would be, "How many accidents are caused by impatient drivers that act morons because they need to speed in order to shave 3 minutes off their drive home?"
So the article states that people on cell phones have a worse reaction time, but they also tend to drive slower and further away from people because of it. Or in other words, most people on cell phones are intelligent enough to realize they are not driving under perfect conditions and react accordingly.
I would also be interested to see how many deaths and injuries are related to trying to eat, read a book (I've seen it), find and change a CD, change clothes, put on makeup, or any other the millions of other distractions that happen to people behind the wheel. But instead we have witch-hunts on something because it is the popular thing to do.
When I am forced to talk on the phone and drive, guess what the phone is secondary to driving. If need to focus exclusively on driving, I tell the caller to shut up or I hang up the phone. This is even when i use the bluetooth earpiece, and it is the same treatment the radio gets when the weather is bad. It's a matter of priorities.
The fact is people do stupid things and outlawing something isn't going to stop stupid drivers, they will just find another way to be stupid.
Parent was referring to the Wii which is basically a Gamecube on steroids. The price of manufacturing as Wii vs. the sale price meant that the Big N made a profit on the Wii Console from day one.
- Atari I cannot comment on because I was too little for it and only remember playing the Intellivision.
-Nintendo Entertainment System won because of two things, Mario and a anti-competitive contract with developers. If you wanted to develop for the NES you were not allowed to develop on anything else. Hence why most of the Sega Master System games were ports done in house by SEGA.
-Super Nintendo won because you had a huge installed base with NES who were familiar with the popular characters of the system. Plus the Genesis suffered from attachment syndrome, you were constantly purchasing bigger and more expensive add-ons to get to the 32-bit capability.
-Playstation One won because Nintendo stuck with the expensive Cart-based system. 600+ MB of cheap CD to work with or 64-256 MB of expensive RAM chips was an easy choice for developers. Plus, Nintendo screwed up their relationships with important developers such as Squaresoft.
-Playstation Two won because their marketing department promised Toy Story quality graphics that only appeared in non-playable cut scenes. Plus at the time, the PS2 was the cheapest way to get your hands on a DVD Player. Gamecube was hurt itself in the US by making itself look like a kid's toy and using proprietary DVD discs that had less storage capability (making multi-platform releases harder on it). SEGA was hurt by focusing on 2D over 3D graphics, although they did have a superior online system for the time.
-Wii won mostly because of novelty and price. It was accessible to people that otherwise would not touch a game system.
Fiction or non-fiction it still was a reality in that time. I am not saying that holding the heads of the company responsible isn't needing to happen, but a hostile government takeover is not the solution.
A solution to the problem would be to not have a government (or elected leaders) that spend(s) more than it(they) take(s) in yearly. Or stop letting government grow to an unsustainable size in the really good years only to force unwanted tax increases to make up the gap in the bad ones. How about we cut out programs that are only really intended to keep constituents beholden to their elected leaders, and stop having government trying to be cure all and end all to ever woe that happens to us.
I call foul. Thanks to the government programs most low income families get subsidized housing, food stamps, telephone service, etc. In my area, they are only responsible for an electric bill and maybe, maybe a drastically reduced rent check. So their cost of living expenses are heavily reduced compared to someone in the lower middle class that doesn't qualify for that.
However, what most low income families I have met do have is: cell phones, cable television, leased cars, enough personal bling to blind someone if it is too sunny outside. Their problem is not that they don't have enough, at least not in America, it is that they have no frickin' clue how to manage their money and run up insane amounts of debt on credit cards and through cash advance places.
If you want to talk about low income that are starving because of taxes, you better be talking about Jamaica or another part of the world where they live on a dollar a day.
The book I am reading currently talks of this idea. They seized the companies back in the name of the people, and within a few months the factories and companies died because the heart of the companies (the ones that knew how to run them) were gone.
So yeah we could inflict a "corporate death penalty" but it would likely really be a death of the company. That means all those employed by the company loses their jobs.
The book, by the way, is Ayn Rand's "We the Living", it is set in Russia when the Communists took over.
It is a strange interpretation but if you look at the words of those that wrote the document, it seems fairly likely. The problem with the Articles of Confederation was that the Federal Government had responsibility to ensure the general welfare of the States but had no power to fund or even enforce those responsibilities.
The States, fearing an overpowering Federal government, listed the specific responsibilities of the Federal government. Then gave them just enough power to carry those responsibilities out (which they lacked before). In fact they went out of their way to put in writing anything not specified above belongs under the authority of the States.
I believe that the Government shouldn't be playing wet nurse to everyone. This doesn't achieve anything except create a population that is dependent on those in power and in truth have no freedom.
Essentially it works like this, we have a Constitutional right to bear arms to revolt when the Government becomes oppressive while the Government has a mandated job to put down revolts and maintain law and order. If enough people feel the first needs to happen, then the government will not have the manpower to stop it.
Somehow I don't think that "general Welfare" quite means what it is being interpreted as these days. Think "general Welfare" more as make sure the United States exists as an entity that can protect the interests of the States in the Union.
Part of the reason that most of us don't value good news is because most of us have never seen "good" news. What we have seen is what you described where papers, magazines, news shows, etc. are beholden to their corporate holders/corporate interests or even their own slanted views.
I and many others like me grew up seeing as news is little more than cheerleading their chosen side with facts that make them look good, while mostly ignoring the facts that don't and/or putting so much spin on the story that the facts get drowned out. Objective, impartial reporting has been dead for a long time and it is currently being replaced with group-think sites that gather the herd of like views that shout out any opposing voice.
I think if we ever managed to see reporting as you describe it again, people would gladly pay for it.
I cannot speak for anyone else, but I use filesharing for downloading and distributing Ubuntu Linux (torrents) and to download legal content such as the World of Goo soundtrack. I believe that downloading copyrighted material that is not freely distributed is wrong and refuse to participate in it even if I believe the laws behind copyright are seriously flawed.
So it is wrong to believe that a file-sharing application users is automatically a copyright infringer.
Hilter also famously said something along the lines of if I have your children's minds I have no need for you. And used the school system to indoctrinate kids into his philosophy of thinking.
Something similar to what will be happening next Tuesday in schools here in the US. Obama has created this grand day of education including a rousing song of "I pledge allegiance to Obama". Fascism is not just a Republican tool apparently. http://www.ethiopianreview.com/articles/28617 (Sorry the best link to it I can find and this points out the changes already made to the original version.)
The other underlying issue is people not going to the right level of care for their problem. Clinics and Family Physicians are there to deal with the small stuff: Colds, Flu, etc., yet anyone on a government (and even private) insurance plan runs straight to the hospital ER. Emergency Care should be just for emergencies, just as 911 is intended for emergencies.
Likewise, there is the issue of bill per treatment instead of result which creates an incentive for a doctor to seem more patients than they should (reducing the quality of care) and/or prescribing treatments that are unnecessary or pointless all in the hope of collecting huge fees from the insurance company.
I learned this first hand when we were between insurance companies for my daughter and had to get her 6 month shots. The office billed us $360 for the shots until we informed them that we had no insurance (and no all they did was give the shot and a paper checklist of what to watch for that was downloaded from the internet. We never saw a doctor, just the nurse). Magically, the fee was dropped to $30 because that was the rate they were supposed to be charging, and then we found out the shots were free provided free at the county health clinic.
I would like them to get whatever it is that makes Chrome usable on a Netbook. Firefox on it runs like a dog (even without flash) while Chrome functions more or less as it does everywhere else.
just ignore that last part if it shows up and double click on it to edit it. I promise it will fix your display issues right up by filling it with the advertisements you would otherwise miss.
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Zynga also scams advertisers by telling them all the users are active users. Most of the users I've met that actually still play Zynga games really are not, instead they have scripts playing for them. The scripts take the moves exactly when they can, purchase the optimal gear at the right times, and basically walks the player to the top of the lists.
This is what made me walk away from the games (they were a nice distraction at times), the realization that unless I poured hundreds of dollars into the game I would never catch up to the bots that play 24-7.
Even more important to those wanting to complete their achievements and trophies, some of the games have rewards that require you to play online. Once this happens they will effectively become unachievable.
No basically what they are saying is that whatever genetic or environmental conditioning that person had that led them to make the poor choices that led to their death has died with them, and thus hopefully has not been passed on to a future generation. Thus it ensures that the strongest and fittest of our species survive and reproduce.
It sort of falls along the lines of why does our society really needs labels such as "Do not use on roof" on a snow blower, "Caution moves when in use" on a scooter, or "Not for personal hygiene" on a flush-able toilet brush. If someone is too retarded to realize these things on their own why do we protect them?
We want to thank every media outlet, financial supporter, security expert, and forensic investigator that showed us support.
As you probably noticed, your copy of DECAF no longer works. We have disabled every copy of DECAF. We hope that as you realize this was a stunt to raise awareness for security and the need for better forensic tools that you would reconsider cutting corners on corporate security. Also, governments should not rely on a tool to automate the process of forensics but rather invest in the education of investigators and forensic tool experts. If we were able to assist every government agency in their computer crime investigations, we would. The problem is DECAF is just two people. As a security community at large, we need to band together and start relieving some of the burden off our government by giving back.
It also goes to show that if two people can make an impact as big as DECAF did; imagine how much positive we could all do together. Lately our media has been presenting many individual people (balloon boy, white house visitors, etc) who have been manipulating media outlets for selfish publicity in hopes of being "successful". The problem is that America has grown to be selfish, self-reliant, prideful, and a arrogant monster. We leave our marriages, neglect our kids, chase positions/status at work, chase materialistic property and only think of ourselves. In the mean time our whole country goes down the tubes.
These problems individuals are facing are not new. They are due to you trying to fill the void in your life with things of this world. Most everyone has bitter roots, some have been victimized, others are just neglected. You go through the woes of life with no life support.
I too would still be swallowed up in my prideful and selfish ways. I would still be with my addictive behaviors; womanizing, pornography, stealing, hacking, lieing, manipulating, and fighting. DECAF would have been a perfect way to feed my addictions. Instead I used it as a way to bring you a message. A message of freedom, a message of peace, a message of transparency and a message of unity. As you learn a little about me, understand I faced the same things I am speaking about. I didn't address the fruits of my life, I addressed the bitter roots of my life. Religion didn't do it for me. Catholicism didn't do it for me. Athiesm didn't do it for me. Agnostic didn't do it for me. Unity and education did it for me. Only one man gets credit for it. Jesus Christ. Once I learned Christ wasn't about that foolishness I seen on t.v. or seen in other "Christians", I realized I was missing the point. I couldn't look past the Christians to see the CHRIST. I accepted Him as my savior and then started putting Him in positions over my life. My life changed and yours can too. It was about relationship.
Romans 10:9 - "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
Stay tuned for the release of the forum and if you are interested in joining, please send an email to join@decafme.org
I thought the story should have been "Moron That Got Restraining Order Kept Woman as an Unblocked Person on Facebook" myself. Seriously if you go through the hassle of a restraining order, perhaps you should add them to your block list.
If they were really looking to prevent driver deaths would they just tell all the people that fail their tests multiple times, "You've proven that you lack the judgement and capability to safely operate a motor vehicle. It would be in the best interest in public safety if you invest in bus fare or a bicycle."
Instead, they let people test time and time again until they get lucky and pass.
Perhaps you should actually read the article referenced before commenting.
Drivers talking on cell phones were 18 percent slower to react to brake lights, the new study found. In a minor bright note, they also kept a 12 percent greater following distance. But they also took 17 percent longer to regain the speed they lost when they braked. That frustrates everyone.
In other-words, the cell phone talker is being more cautious and everyone else on the road is in too big of a hurry to put up with someone driving more cautiously. So another good question would be, "How many accidents are caused by impatient drivers that act morons because they need to speed in order to shave 3 minutes off their drive home?"
So the article states that people on cell phones have a worse reaction time, but they also tend to drive slower and further away from people because of it. Or in other words, most people on cell phones are intelligent enough to realize they are not driving under perfect conditions and react accordingly.
I would also be interested to see how many deaths and injuries are related to trying to eat, read a book (I've seen it), find and change a CD, change clothes, put on makeup, or any other the millions of other distractions that happen to people behind the wheel. But instead we have witch-hunts on something because it is the popular thing to do.
When I am forced to talk on the phone and drive, guess what the phone is secondary to driving. If need to focus exclusively on driving, I tell the caller to shut up or I hang up the phone. This is even when i use the bluetooth earpiece, and it is the same treatment the radio gets when the weather is bad. It's a matter of priorities.
The fact is people do stupid things and outlawing something isn't going to stop stupid drivers, they will just find another way to be stupid.
Parent was referring to the Wii which is basically a Gamecube on steroids. The price of manufacturing as Wii vs. the sale price meant that the Big N made a profit on the Wii Console from day one.
Let's look at the facts behind some of those wins
- Atari I cannot comment on because I was too little for it and only remember playing the Intellivision.
-Nintendo Entertainment System won because of two things, Mario and a anti-competitive contract with developers. If you wanted to develop for the NES you were not allowed to develop on anything else. Hence why most of the Sega Master System games were ports done in house by SEGA.
-Super Nintendo won because you had a huge installed base with NES who were familiar with the popular characters of the system. Plus the Genesis suffered from attachment syndrome, you were constantly purchasing bigger and more expensive add-ons to get to the 32-bit capability.
-Playstation One won because Nintendo stuck with the expensive Cart-based system. 600+ MB of cheap CD to work with or 64-256 MB of expensive RAM chips was an easy choice for developers. Plus, Nintendo screwed up their relationships with important developers such as Squaresoft.
-Playstation Two won because their marketing department promised Toy Story quality graphics that only appeared in non-playable cut scenes. Plus at the time, the PS2 was the cheapest way to get your hands on a DVD Player. Gamecube was hurt itself in the US by making itself look like a kid's toy and using proprietary DVD discs that had less storage capability (making multi-platform releases harder on it). SEGA was hurt by focusing on 2D over 3D graphics, although they did have a superior online system for the time.
-Wii won mostly because of novelty and price. It was accessible to people that otherwise would not touch a game system.
Fiction or non-fiction it still was a reality in that time. I am not saying that holding the heads of the company responsible isn't needing to happen, but a hostile government takeover is not the solution.
A solution to the problem would be to not have a government (or elected leaders) that spend(s) more than it(they) take(s) in yearly. Or stop letting government grow to an unsustainable size in the really good years only to force unwanted tax increases to make up the gap in the bad ones. How about we cut out programs that are only really intended to keep constituents beholden to their elected leaders, and stop having government trying to be cure all and end all to ever woe that happens to us.
I call foul. Thanks to the government programs most low income families get subsidized housing, food stamps, telephone service, etc. In my area, they are only responsible for an electric bill and maybe, maybe a drastically reduced rent check. So their cost of living expenses are heavily reduced compared to someone in the lower middle class that doesn't qualify for that.
However, what most low income families I have met do have is: cell phones, cable television, leased cars, enough personal bling to blind someone if it is too sunny outside. Their problem is not that they don't have enough, at least not in America, it is that they have no frickin' clue how to manage their money and run up insane amounts of debt on credit cards and through cash advance places.
If you want to talk about low income that are starving because of taxes, you better be talking about Jamaica or another part of the world where they live on a dollar a day.
The book I am reading currently talks of this idea. They seized the companies back in the name of the people, and within a few months the factories and companies died because the heart of the companies (the ones that knew how to run them) were gone.
So yeah we could inflict a "corporate death penalty" but it would likely really be a death of the company. That means all those employed by the company loses their jobs.
The book, by the way, is Ayn Rand's "We the Living", it is set in Russia when the Communists took over.
It is a strange interpretation but if you look at the words of those that wrote the document, it seems fairly likely. The problem with the Articles of Confederation was that the Federal Government had responsibility to ensure the general welfare of the States but had no power to fund or even enforce those responsibilities.
The States, fearing an overpowering Federal government, listed the specific responsibilities of the Federal government. Then gave them just enough power to carry those responsibilities out (which they lacked before). In fact they went out of their way to put in writing anything not specified above belongs under the authority of the States.
I believe that the Government shouldn't be playing wet nurse to everyone. This doesn't achieve anything except create a population that is dependent on those in power and in truth have no freedom.
Yeah, but the problem is that most independent artists generally belong to ASCAP. The real problem is a 30 second clip is not a performance.
Essentially it works like this, we have a Constitutional right to bear arms to revolt when the Government becomes oppressive while the Government has a mandated job to put down revolts and maintain law and order. If enough people feel the first needs to happen, then the government will not have the manpower to stop it.
Somehow I don't think that "general Welfare" quite means what it is being interpreted as these days. Think "general Welfare" more as make sure the United States exists as an entity that can protect the interests of the States in the Union.
Part of the reason that most of us don't value good news is because most of us have never seen "good" news. What we have seen is what you described where papers, magazines, news shows, etc. are beholden to their corporate holders/corporate interests or even their own slanted views.
I and many others like me grew up seeing as news is little more than cheerleading their chosen side with facts that make them look good, while mostly ignoring the facts that don't and/or putting so much spin on the story that the facts get drowned out. Objective, impartial reporting has been dead for a long time and it is currently being replaced with group-think sites that gather the herd of like views that shout out any opposing voice.
I think if we ever managed to see reporting as you describe it again, people would gladly pay for it.
I cannot speak for anyone else, but I use filesharing for downloading and distributing Ubuntu Linux (torrents) and to download legal content such as the World of Goo soundtrack. I believe that downloading copyrighted material that is not freely distributed is wrong and refuse to participate in it even if I believe the laws behind copyright are seriously flawed.
So it is wrong to believe that a file-sharing application users is automatically a copyright infringer.
Hilter also famously said something along the lines of if I have your children's minds I have no need for you. And used the school system to indoctrinate kids into his philosophy of thinking.
Something similar to what will be happening next Tuesday in schools here in the US. Obama has created this grand day of education including a rousing song of "I pledge allegiance to Obama". Fascism is not just a Republican tool apparently. http://www.ethiopianreview.com/articles/28617 (Sorry the best link to it I can find and this points out the changes already made to the original version.)
The other underlying issue is people not going to the right level of care for their problem. Clinics and Family Physicians are there to deal with the small stuff: Colds, Flu, etc., yet anyone on a government (and even private) insurance plan runs straight to the hospital ER. Emergency Care should be just for emergencies, just as 911 is intended for emergencies.
Likewise, there is the issue of bill per treatment instead of result which creates an incentive for a doctor to seem more patients than they should (reducing the quality of care) and/or prescribing treatments that are unnecessary or pointless all in the hope of collecting huge fees from the insurance company.
I learned this first hand when we were between insurance companies for my daughter and had to get her 6 month shots. The office billed us $360 for the shots until we informed them that we had no insurance (and no all they did was give the shot and a paper checklist of what to watch for that was downloaded from the internet. We never saw a doctor, just the nurse). Magically, the fee was dropped to $30 because that was the rate they were supposed to be charging, and then we found out the shots were free provided free at the county health clinic.
I would like them to get whatever it is that makes Chrome usable on a Netbook. Firefox on it runs like a dog (even without flash) while Chrome functions more or less as it does everywhere else.
Can the person sending these send Hooked on Phonics to the Congressmen instead? They apparently need help reading the bills before they vote on them.
How dare you ruin the mob's hate-mongering with logic or facts!!! I was just getting ready to get my torch and pitchfork ready.
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just ignore that last part if it shows up and double click on it to edit it. I promise it will fix your display issues right up by filling it with the advertisements you would otherwise miss.