"Millions Americans hit the streets last night when apparently the President got pissed at being pwnd in Counter Strike Source, decides to take internet down. With nothing to do, apparently Americans decided to play a live version of Grand Theft Auto..."
canada is near the north pole, while the usa is closer to the south pole. the more south you go in the usa in fact, the more conservative the opinion
so clearly north pole=liberal, south pole=conservative
so i will now invent my colossal magnetic northern monopole, hide it in an office tower in dallas texas, and forever alter politics towards the forces of reason and morality! and screw up navigation compasses everywhere!
It doesn't sound like a sound defense. Moral judgements have nothing to do with legality; there's nothing immoral about smoking pot, for example. Whether you're talking about Druids, Christians, Jews, Hindus, any religion, none have any injunction against smoking pot. Smoking pot harms no one. The marijuana laws were passed by lies (see the propaganda movie "Reefer Madness"). Laws are subjective; they are NOT based on morality. Adultery is immoral (and harmful), yet there's no law against it in my state.
What confuses me, (and I RTFA just because it did confuse me, and TFA gave no answer) is what kinds of moral delimmas did they present?
The researchers found that when the RTPJ was disrupted volunteers were more likely to judge actions solely on the basis of whether they caused harm -- not whether they were morally wrong in themselves.
I can't think of anything that's morally wrong that doesn't cause harm. Did I read the wrong FA?
All i know is i got to the smoking pot part and well, um, what?
I see game publishers starting to make complete games included on disc as DLC then make the unlock code only valid for the original purchaser. That obliterates the resale market.
Your crystal ball didn't tell you that, unless it happens to be a news reader. Sony has already talked about including this sort of stuff in some psp games that have, or are about to get released.
Whats up with corporations and their instance on changing the meaning of words?
Inventing means, well, you make something new. it does not mean you buy IP from others and claim that you invent things. Sheesh, what your doing isn't even new...
I know it's hard for some of the world to understand, but there are those of us in it that don't want fame, don't want to be in the public eye, don't care about money.
Dude did the challenge probably because it was a challenge. He didn't do it for fame, or money, he did it because he enjoyed doing it. He submitted what he did so it would help others. (I have no idea what the significant of what he did, i'm just guessing here).
So now he wants to be left alone, pick his mushrooms, take his lsd, smoke his weed, or whatever the fuck he enjoys doing.
Fuck that. The better choice is not using the product at all. When users are driven to piracy it proves there's still demand for the product, which creates incentive to forcibly convert the pirates into paying customers. When users don't want anything to do with their product, that's when companies see the real problem.
How does it do that?
You do realise there is no way for them to put any sort of accurate number of copies pirated?
All in all, they don't know if it was pirated once, or 100 times. all they really know is a pirated version exists.
Even if people didn't pirate games/software anymore, the industry would still blame it. It's just a scapegoat.
Really , is this so difficult for some people that they need a gadget to do it for them?
I live in an apartment, so ya, it's hard for me to get to the electricty meter every day. I'd probably have to find the manager, ask him to take me to it, give him good enough reason why I want to access it everyday. Get denied.
George Lucas has written the screen play to a sequel of a popular fantasy series. "Screw hobbits," says George in an interview, "ewoks is where it's at."
The court did not rule that sexting was illegal. Nor did the court rule that is/is not considered child pornography. Nor did the court rule that parents can block any and all sexting charges. In this case the court ruled that being the subject of a photo is not grounds for child pornography charges.
After some provocative photos were found of some teenage girls, the DA wanted them to attend a class. The girls were not nude but shown in underwear or wearing a towel. The class was optional only if the girls wanted to avoid being prosecuted for felony child pornography. The parents sued to block the prosecutions. The court unanimously agreed with the parents because being the subject of a photo does not violate child pornography laws. Possesion of the photo is where charges may occur but the DA could not prove the girls ever had possession of any photos, merely that they were subjects of them.
Had the DA won, it would have led to some crazy interpretations. If someone installed a spy camera in a dressing/changing area, then any teenage girls secretly caught on camera could be prosecuted for child pornography.
So they DA, without giving some people their due processes, told them to attend this class or we are going to press charges against you?
Isn't that illegal? The DA can't tell you what to do. At the very least, it's a big step out of his job duties.
I understand a DA can decide to charge you or not charge you for a crime, but for him/her to tell you to go to a class or get taken to court is just a bit much. Abuse of power, imo
I'll second the plug for MS Security Essentials. My current machine came with a three year subscription to McAfee. It was basically "free to me" - but it was utter crap. It wanted me to reboot about once a week to install something (at one point they even emailed everyone registered with a "we're sorry" note because it went through 2 weeks of a reboot every day). I removed it in favor of another "free to me" version - Symantec. That one was because our work license has provisions for home use. It was better than McAfee in that it didn't ever ask for a reboot, but as people know it slows your machine down more than it should. As soon as MS Security Essentials shipped, I dumped that "free to me" Symantec and have never looked back. My wife, both kids, and my machine are all running MSE. I even signed up for the perpetual beta so I am testing the newest version on the machine I am typing this on. I really wouldn't even bother with any other one at this point.
McAfee is one of the worst AV programs ever made. It doesn't stop any viruses.
One of them common things systems i've had to clean out have had is McAfee being installed. McAfee doesn't stop viruses at all. It's like those fake burglar alarms, car alarms, house alarms. You might feel good because it looks like your protected, but your not.
I used Avast 4.8 for about a month. Then they upgraded to 5.0. Didn't care about the registration, but everything else just irked me to no end. On the other hand, MSE has every advantage you listed, plus no registration, and the updates are gathered through Windows Update, so you don't have yet another service updating itself.
Oh, and the quick scan takes about 3 minutes.
I trust Microsoft to fix their problems like I trust a junkie to hold my money.
Seriously, if MS wanted to fix the problems, they can do it at the OS level, not as an add on program.
Just because you can't be 100% safe with any given product is no reason to abandon it entirely.
I recently reinstalled Windows, and while I've historically used Avast, I opted to go with nothing this time around. I'm tired of resource usage and slower load times for everything thanks to antivirus; I've moved my e-mail to Google Apps, so they scan my e-mails for viruses. My use of Bittorrent is extremely limited (I only have it installed because Star Trek Online's installer is available via torrent), and I never visit the seedier side of the internet. I'm behind a firewall.
Basically I'm not going to get a virus, so I see no reason to run anti-virus software. Rather than "Can't be 100% safe, may as well not use it", my reasoning is "I'm already 99.99999% safe, so why bother".
(Yes, I know it's still technically possible to get a virus. But the chances are extremely slim, given the way I use my computer.)
Your not 99.9999% safe. You use windows, so you are not safe.
0day exploits. you have nothing protecting you against them. While you might feel safe using gmail, what about a bad ad that installs malware?
But really, what fucking bloat are you talking about? I use avg free and there ain't no bloat for the most part. Of course, i don't have it check links or any crap like that.
Maybe the bloat isn't your av, but your computer in general? If you don't defrag your disk, your computers going to slow down. Not to mention any of the other things thats slows a computer down.
Me, I use utorrent and download all sort of crap. games, apps, music, videos, porn. I don't get virus or malware. Why? besides the fact i'm not stupid, its because I check my stuff. I have an anti-virus installed, so I can check stuff with that. But I also browse internet using firefox, with adblocker and noscript running.
The best part is, I tend to have to clean peoples computers and laptops out of malware/viruses. And these aren't people who download crap and go to the "darker side" of the internet. But damn if they don't get thier computers fucked up all the time.
For all you know, you've already been rootkit'd and you don't know, and want to blame the slowness on your AV program.
During the attack Tyson was accidentally stabbed and police found a 600-yard blood trail leading from the scene. When they arrested Johnson nearby they found he was covered in blood.
Detectives said that not only was it the first time a status dog had been used in the course of a killing but it was also the first case of its kind where they could use dog DNA to prove a one in a billion match to Tyson – and link his owner to the murder scene.
Detective Chief Inspector Mick Norman, who led the investigation, told The Times: “It was vitally important that we could put Johnson at the scene of the attack. We did not have excellent ID evidence and using the dog DNA database forensically unequivocally placed Johnson at the scene of the murder.”
So your saying, finding the murder, johnson, covered with the victims blood wasn't enough evidence? While I'm sure they want an air tight case, really, what else they want, Johnson putting a youtube video of it up?
There are 24 hours in a day, no matter how you try, you can only do so much in a single day and if you spend 30 seconds having sex, that is 30 seconds less study time.
ya, but the chick ain't going to have sex with you again if you just last 30 secs.
I like having my relatives on facebook. That way I don't have to go visit them, like once every few months, I can log in on facebook, say hello to everyone on my wall, say whatever, then go on and ignore them for a few more months.
means I can skip the holidays and everything else with them now.
Maybe CNN implies that Google searching should be more social and have a wall and status updates of what their friends have searched for. More social googling could also mean planning a trip together, searching for Linux information together, or even looking at porn together.
yes, i want my social network googling with me, when i'm trying to find out why my penis is dripping black goo.
I am an American who legally immigrated to the UK and all government forms are printed in many languages that are not even found within the EU, such as Hindi and Chinese. Legal, illegal and asylum seeking immigrants to the UK have the right to demand services in their native language. While admittedly not everyone agrees with it, there are a many other countries that aren't so openly hostile to immigrants.
How are those taxes treating you?
probably better then us here in america.
they might pay more, but at least they get something out of it.
Slashdot Mirror
oh yes, this is going to turn out good.
"Millions Americans hit the streets last night when apparently the President got pissed at being pwnd in Counter Strike Source, decides to take internet down. With nothing to do, apparently Americans decided to play a live version of Grand Theft Auto..."
More at 11.
canada is near the north pole, while the usa is closer to the south pole. the more south you go in the usa in fact, the more conservative the opinion
so clearly north pole=liberal, south pole=conservative
so i will now invent my colossal magnetic northern monopole, hide it in an office tower in dallas texas, and forever alter politics towards the forces of reason and morality! and screw up navigation compasses everywhere!
lol, fail.
It doesn't sound like a sound defense. Moral judgements have nothing to do with legality; there's nothing immoral about smoking pot, for example. Whether you're talking about Druids, Christians, Jews, Hindus, any religion, none have any injunction against smoking pot. Smoking pot harms no one. The marijuana laws were passed by lies (see the propaganda movie "Reefer Madness"). Laws are subjective; they are NOT based on morality. Adultery is immoral (and harmful), yet there's no law against it in my state.
What confuses me, (and I RTFA just because it did confuse me, and TFA gave no answer) is what kinds of moral delimmas did they present?
The researchers found that when the RTPJ was disrupted volunteers were more likely to judge actions solely on the basis of whether they caused harm -- not whether they were morally wrong in themselves.
I can't think of anything that's morally wrong that doesn't cause harm. Did I read the wrong FA?
All i know is i got to the smoking pot part and well, um, what?
oh ya, smoke pot!
good advice.
man, this article is so full of fail.
/me peers into his crystal ball....
I see game publishers
starting to make complete games included on disc as DLC then make the unlock
code only valid for the original purchaser. That obliterates the
resale market.
Your crystal ball didn't tell you that, unless it happens to be a news reader.
Sony has already talked about including this sort of stuff in some psp games that have, or are about to get released.
Alex Fleming discovered Penecillin's over eighty years ago.
HOW THE FSCK does anyone still get syphilis?
But having sex without protection with an infected partner.
What, did you sleep thru sex ed?
Whats up with corporations and their instance on changing the meaning of words?
Inventing means, well, you make something new. it does not mean you buy IP from others and claim that you invent things. Sheesh, what your doing isn't even new...
I know it's hard for some of the world to understand, but there are those of us in it that don't want fame, don't want to be in the public eye, don't care about money.
Dude did the challenge probably because it was a challenge. He didn't do it for fame, or money, he did it because he enjoyed doing it. He submitted what he did so it would help others. (I have no idea what the significant of what he did, i'm just guessing here).
So now he wants to be left alone, pick his mushrooms, take his lsd, smoke his weed, or whatever the fuck he enjoys doing.
oh ya, Get off his lawn!
Fuck that. The better choice is not using the product at all. When users are driven to piracy it proves there's still demand for the product, which creates incentive to forcibly convert the pirates into paying customers. When users don't want anything to do with their product, that's when companies see the real problem.
How does it do that?
You do realise there is no way for them to put any sort of accurate number of copies pirated?
All in all, they don't know if it was pirated once, or 100 times. all they really know is a pirated version exists.
Even if people didn't pirate games/software anymore, the industry would still blame it. It's just a scapegoat.
so how long before the oil companies shut this down?
Original article, after following three backlinks: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE62I4AE20100319
So tired of the "news" sites that can't even link the original source anymore.
I hit the source link and goes to someones blog with a source link to someone else's blog, that might have the original story.
You telling me, your in such a hurry to post it, that you can't bother to go back the 2 links for everyone?
What even cracks me up more, is when a site I go to lists slashdot as the source. lol, slashdot isn't a news source, it's a news regurgator.
Am I the only one who is skeptical of these smart meter devices? I don't want hackers to be shut off my power or anything else.
Why would a hacker waste his time turning your power off?
no, what you are afraid of is some script kiddy, or someone who hates you taht knows how to use google.
thats how you'll lose your power.
the hackers are too busy hacking to give a fuck about you and the others who don't know what a hacker is.
Check your electricity meter.
Check it again the next day.
Subtract the 2 values.
Really , is this so difficult for some people that they need a gadget to do it for them?
I live in an apartment, so ya, it's hard for me to get to the electricty meter every day. I'd probably have to find the manager, ask him to take me to it, give him good enough reason why I want to access it everyday. Get denied.
George Lucas has written the screen play to a sequel of a popular fantasy series. "Screw hobbits," says George in an interview, "ewoks is where it's at."
The court did not rule that sexting was illegal. Nor did the court rule that is/is not considered child pornography. Nor did the court rule that parents can block any and all sexting charges. In this case the court ruled that being the subject of a photo is not grounds for child pornography charges.
After some provocative photos were found of some teenage girls, the DA wanted them to attend a class. The girls were not nude but shown in underwear or wearing a towel. The class was optional only if the girls wanted to avoid being prosecuted for felony child pornography. The parents sued to block the prosecutions. The court unanimously agreed with the parents because being the subject of a photo does not violate child pornography laws. Possesion of the photo is where charges may occur but the DA could not prove the girls ever had possession of any photos, merely that they were subjects of them.
Had the DA won, it would have led to some crazy interpretations. If someone installed a spy camera in a dressing/changing area, then any teenage girls secretly caught on camera could be prosecuted for child pornography.
So they DA, without giving some people their due processes, told them to attend this class or we are going to press charges against you?
Isn't that illegal? The DA can't tell you what to do. At the very least, it's a big step out of his job duties.
I understand a DA can decide to charge you or not charge you for a crime, but for him/her to tell you to go to a class or get taken to court is just a bit much. Abuse of power, imo
I'll second the plug for MS Security Essentials. My current machine came with a three year subscription to McAfee. It was basically "free to me" - but it was utter crap. It wanted me to reboot about once a week to install something (at one point they even emailed everyone registered with a "we're sorry" note because it went through 2 weeks of a reboot every day). I removed it in favor of another "free to me" version - Symantec. That one was because our work license has provisions for home use. It was better than McAfee in that it didn't ever ask for a reboot, but as people know it slows your machine down more than it should. As soon as MS Security Essentials shipped, I dumped that "free to me" Symantec and have never looked back. My wife, both kids, and my machine are all running MSE. I even signed up for the perpetual beta so I am testing the newest version on the machine I am typing this on. I really wouldn't even bother with any other one at this point.
McAfee is one of the worst AV programs ever made. It doesn't stop any viruses.
One of them common things systems i've had to clean out have had is McAfee being installed. McAfee doesn't stop viruses at all. It's like those fake burglar alarms, car alarms, house alarms. You might feel good because it looks like your protected, but your not.
I used Avast 4.8 for about a month. Then they upgraded to 5.0. Didn't care about the registration, but everything else just irked me to no end. On the other hand, MSE has every advantage you listed, plus no registration, and the updates are gathered through Windows Update, so you don't have yet another service updating itself.
Oh, and the quick scan takes about 3 minutes.
I trust Microsoft to fix their problems like I trust a junkie to hold my money.
Seriously, if MS wanted to fix the problems, they can do it at the OS level, not as an add on program.
Just because you can't be 100% safe with any given product is no reason to abandon it entirely.
I recently reinstalled Windows, and while I've historically used Avast, I opted to go with nothing this time around. I'm tired of resource usage and slower load times for everything thanks to antivirus; I've moved my e-mail to Google Apps, so they scan my e-mails for viruses. My use of Bittorrent is extremely limited (I only have it installed because Star Trek Online's installer is available via torrent), and I never visit the seedier side of the internet. I'm behind a firewall.
Basically I'm not going to get a virus, so I see no reason to run anti-virus software. Rather than "Can't be 100% safe, may as well not use it", my reasoning is "I'm already 99.99999% safe, so why bother".
(Yes, I know it's still technically possible to get a virus. But the chances are extremely slim, given the way I use my computer.)
Your not 99.9999% safe. You use windows, so you are not safe.
0day exploits. you have nothing protecting you against them. While you might feel safe using gmail, what about a bad ad that installs malware?
But really, what fucking bloat are you talking about? I use avg free and there ain't no bloat for the most part. Of course, i don't have it check links or any crap like that.
Maybe the bloat isn't your av, but your computer in general? If you don't defrag your disk, your computers going to slow down. Not to mention any of the other things thats slows a computer down.
Me, I use utorrent and download all sort of crap. games, apps, music, videos, porn. I don't get virus or malware. Why? besides the fact i'm not stupid, its because I check my stuff. I have an anti-virus installed, so I can check stuff with that. But I also browse internet using firefox, with adblocker and noscript running.
The best part is, I tend to have to clean peoples computers and laptops out of malware/viruses. And these aren't people who download crap and go to the "darker side" of the internet. But damn if they don't get thier computers fucked up all the time.
For all you know, you've already been rootkit'd and you don't know, and want to blame the slowness on your AV program.
During the attack Tyson was accidentally stabbed and police found a 600-yard blood trail leading from the scene. When they arrested Johnson nearby they found he was covered in blood.
Detectives said that not only was it the first time a status dog had been used in the course of a killing but it was also the first case of its kind where they could use dog DNA to prove a one in a billion match to Tyson – and link his owner to the murder scene.
Detective Chief Inspector Mick Norman, who led the investigation, told The Times: “It was vitally important that we could put Johnson at the scene of the attack. We did not have excellent ID evidence and using the dog DNA database forensically unequivocally placed Johnson at the scene of the murder.”
So your saying, finding the murder, johnson, covered with the victims blood wasn't enough evidence? While I'm sure they want an air tight case, really, what else they want, Johnson putting a youtube video of it up?
There are 24 hours in a day, no matter how you try, you can only do so much in a single day and if you spend 30 seconds having sex, that is 30 seconds less study time.
ya, but the chick ain't going to have sex with you again if you just last 30 secs.
Back before they had things like graphics, my video games were text adventures.
So, basicly, this isn't a video game fault, is the graphic card manufactures fault.
I like having my relatives on facebook. That way I don't have to go visit them, like once every few months, I can log in on facebook, say hello to everyone on my wall, say whatever, then go on and ignore them for a few more months.
means I can skip the holidays and everything else with them now.
Facebook is slowly turning into the WalMart equivalent for the internet. ...
You mean Facebook is trying to be the AOL of last century?
Maybe CNN implies that Google searching should be more social and have a wall and status updates of what their friends have searched for. More social googling could also mean planning a trip together, searching for Linux information together, or even looking at porn together.
yes, i want my social network googling with me, when i'm trying to find out why my penis is dripping black goo.
I am an American who legally immigrated to the UK and all government forms are printed in many languages that are not even found within the EU, such as Hindi and Chinese. Legal, illegal and asylum seeking immigrants to the UK have the right to demand services in their native language. While admittedly not everyone agrees with it, there are a many other countries that aren't so openly hostile to immigrants.
How are those taxes treating you?
probably better then us here in america.
they might pay more, but at least they get something out of it.