Printing something on an online article... doesn't help. Generally, nothing in print does. Our advertisement-filled culture has trained us not to read things.
You have to talk with people and not just at people, answer their questions, find out what they're doing, and give advice.
I worked at my university's ResNet, dealing with all the residential internet access and the computers on the network. When we detected someone connecting to a C&C irc, we'd disable their Internet access and absolutely not let them back on the network until they'd reformatted. When they wanted to know why, we explained on a level that they could understand that they'd essentially opened a program without knowing what it was, and given some "hacker" somewhere essentially complete control over their computer. We explained that the only 100% sure-fire way to know that the "hacker"'s access had been removed was to completely wipe the slate clean. It seems harsh, but it was pretty effective. The amount of infections we had decreased logarithmically throughout each school year, and we almost never had the same person infected twice.
IMO, wars should be a little less brute force, bloodshed and deception, and a little more education.
The most effective way I have found in fighting the botnet pandemic is quite simply educating people about the threat, and convincing them not to download stupid shit.
Yeah, okay. Giving a computer a direct connection to the Internet is a bad idea and people who do that deserve what they get.
On a similar note, maybe the next time you drive on the interstate, your car will manifest that it has a manufacturing defect and all your wheels will suddenly fall off. But whatever, you were driving on the interstate directly. You deserve what you get.
Right, I know what the point is. My statement was in response to the article summary which mentions "switching out wasteful power supplies", which is not the same thing as "making power supplies less wasteful in the future".
The analogy doesn't quite work. If the server is running so slowly that neato AJAX updateamajigs aren't working right, the same lag would be apparent if normal complete page refreshes were being made. It still has to retrieve data from the server, so AJAX isn't really introducing any problem that wouldn't be there otherwise. And I don't think it's feasible to download the entire Internet onto your computer and work locally.
From TFTA (the fine translated announcement): "1. Summary and condition of infection virus
The virus of Troy wooden horse type, the worm and the spy wear were discovered.
As a phenomenon, the occasion where this prize is connected to the personal computer, on that personal computer "the Chinese memo pad stands up", "message of virus inspection was made", and so on you question and 7 cases have received wooden pail communication in as of 12 days.".
While I have never been married (and don't really intend to be), I do have personal relationships and find that they suffer from my various computer-related jobs. A good portion of my paid work is work I do from home. I, like a lot of people (I imagine) do not have separate computers / areas of the house specifically for work and leisure. I play my video games and chat online and watch videos and code and code and code all from the same computers in the same room. A lot of times this consequently blurs my "work" and "play" together in the eyes of other people in the house. Sometimes I'm in my room playing video games, upgrading my computer, compiling something for fun, but sometimes I'm in there developing a company website, or repairing someone's computer, or something else I'm getting paid for. Unfortunately for my girlfriend and family, a lot of times they can't tell the difference. They just come to visit me in my room, wanting my attention for something, and I have to tell them sorry, I can't be bothered, I'm working and can't spend my paid-hourly time doing personal things. Sometimes it doesn't come out with as much finesse as written in that last sentence, and sometimes having to say/hear that creates a lot of interpersonal tension, which I suppose could ultimately lead to the divorce of a married couple if there's not a lot of understanding about the situation.
...I take it that much like the first GH, all these songs will be renditions of the real thing =\
Of course they will. Aside from the purely practical/technical reasons, you have to keep in mind that even if you're an astounding guitarist in the most awesome cover band in the world, your performance of a song isn't going to sound exactly like the original. Virtually playing the songs in a video game isn't (and shouldn't) sound exactly like the originals, either. If you want to hear the original songs, those are still available elsewhere.
After all, it wasn't very long ago at all that riding in an airplane was a relatively risky proposition, and today, thousands of people do it every day without giving it a second thought.
5.08 years ago, that statement was much more true.
The correlation between people who do well in school and people who do well in life is not strong enough to convince me that I should care at all about the conclusion the researchers in this article came to.
They should do a study on reflexes and physical ability. They should do a study measuring the correlation between how much time someone spends playing video games and how often they cause automobile accidents. Or how often in their daily life that they roll their ankle or trip and faceplant.
Lucky friend of yours. In my experience, my cell provider didn't give a fuck about getting me my phone back. They just wanted to help me buy a new handset and plan from them.
Absolutely nothing will make your child distrust you more than if they catch you spying on them. Discovering that your own parent(s) have so little trust in you that they have to go behind your back and read your emails / chatlogs to find out what you're doing (especially when you're not doing anything remotely wrong) solves almost no problems and creates many. Think your kids are hiding something from you? They may or may not be at first, but I can almost guarantee they will be once they discover they need to.
Also, morals aside, you can't rely on a piece of installable software to do your spying for you. The number of cases where the parent is more technologically savvy than their child(ren) is microscopically small in comparison with vice-versa.
On a mildly related note, I wish the rest of Americans were a little more pissed off about the NSA wiretapping bullshiet. He should have been out of office within a month.
Upset about it tying up your system's resources?... ehh. I don't have hard evidence to support this claim, but I'm pretty sure the average desktop CPU doesn't operate at 100% most of the time. Neither does their "comfortable" network bandwidth (i.e. more could be being done without noticeably adversely affecting anything). If you can skim a little off the top to help someone else out without actually interfering with what you need to do with your computer, I don't see that as too much of a problem.
Think of it as going into a building and holding the door open for someone following a little bit behind you.
If you're really that concerned that your computer should never be used to help anyone but yourself, I'm sure you could figure out some way around it. If you're like most other people, I bet you could get away with simply lowering the priority of the process...
Below the Root, BC's Quest For Tires/Grog's Revenge, the Beach Head series, Heart of Africa (and Seven Cities of Gold), Spy vs. Spy 1 and 2, Parallax would all be pretty awesome too.
Slashdot Mirror
Silly Iranians, high-speed Internet is for Westerners!
But seriously, are they going to ban cars and television, too? We use those a lot in here in the west.
Printing something on an online article ... doesn't help. Generally, nothing in print does. Our advertisement-filled culture has trained us not to read things.
You have to talk with people and not just at people, answer their questions, find out what they're doing, and give advice.
I worked at my university's ResNet, dealing with all the residential internet access and the computers on the network. When we detected someone connecting to a C&C irc, we'd disable their Internet access and absolutely not let them back on the network until they'd reformatted. When they wanted to know why, we explained on a level that they could understand that they'd essentially opened a program without knowing what it was, and given some "hacker" somewhere essentially complete control over their computer. We explained that the only 100% sure-fire way to know that the "hacker"'s access had been removed was to completely wipe the slate clean. It seems harsh, but it was pretty effective. The amount of infections we had decreased logarithmically throughout each school year, and we almost never had the same person infected twice.
IMO, wars should be a little less brute force, bloodshed and deception, and a little more education.
The most effective way I have found in fighting the botnet pandemic is quite simply educating people about the threat, and convincing them not to download stupid shit.
YES!@ *high-five!*
Yeah, okay. Giving a computer a direct connection to the Internet is a bad idea and people who do that deserve what they get.
On a similar note, maybe the next time you drive on the interstate, your car will manifest that it has a manufacturing defect and all your wheels will suddenly fall off. But whatever, you were driving on the interstate directly. You deserve what you get.
Right, I know what the point is. My statement was in response to the article summary which mentions "switching out wasteful power supplies", which is not the same thing as "making power supplies less wasteful in the future".
I'm not sure the effort and materials costs associated with replacing a power supply are worth $24 per year...
The analogy doesn't quite work. If the server is running so slowly that neato AJAX updateamajigs aren't working right, the same lag would be apparent if normal complete page refreshes were being made. It still has to retrieve data from the server, so AJAX isn't really introducing any problem that wouldn't be there otherwise. And I don't think it's feasible to download the entire Internet onto your computer and work locally.
From TFTA (the fine translated announcement): "1. Summary and condition of infection virus The virus of Troy wooden horse type, the worm and the spy wear were discovered. As a phenomenon, the occasion where this prize is connected to the personal computer, on that personal computer "the Chinese memo pad stands up", "message of virus inspection was made", and so on you question and 7 cases have received wooden pail communication in as of 12 days.".
Yeah, Babelfish worked wonders there.
"McDonalds: Making you AND your computer sick."
=p
While I have never been married (and don't really intend to be), I do have personal relationships and find that they suffer from my various computer-related jobs. A good portion of my paid work is work I do from home. I, like a lot of people (I imagine) do not have separate computers / areas of the house specifically for work and leisure. I play my video games and chat online and watch videos and code and code and code all from the same computers in the same room. A lot of times this consequently blurs my "work" and "play" together in the eyes of other people in the house. Sometimes I'm in my room playing video games, upgrading my computer, compiling something for fun, but sometimes I'm in there developing a company website, or repairing someone's computer, or something else I'm getting paid for. Unfortunately for my girlfriend and family, a lot of times they can't tell the difference. They just come to visit me in my room, wanting my attention for something, and I have to tell them sorry, I can't be bothered, I'm working and can't spend my paid-hourly time doing personal things. Sometimes it doesn't come out with as much finesse as written in that last sentence, and sometimes having to say/hear that creates a lot of interpersonal tension, which I suppose could ultimately lead to the divorce of a married couple if there's not a lot of understanding about the situation.
That is a disturbing logo.
From TFA: "'I don't feel like I can express my opinions,' Bock says. 'Only one side of the story was told in court. Nobody heard my side.'"
That's because you didn't show up.
...I take it that much like the first GH, all these songs will be renditions of the real thing =\
Of course they will. Aside from the purely practical/technical reasons, you have to keep in mind that even if you're an astounding guitarist in the most awesome cover band in the world, your performance of a song isn't going to sound exactly like the original. Virtually playing the songs in a video game isn't (and shouldn't) sound exactly like the originals, either. If you want to hear the original songs, those are still available elsewhere.After all, it wasn't very long ago at all that riding in an airplane was a relatively risky proposition, and today, thousands of people do it every day without giving it a second thought.
5.08 years ago, that statement was much more true.
I only made it to 161 places.
If I had that much money, I'd consider buying MySpace just so I could shut it down.
The correlation between people who do well in school and people who do well in life is not strong enough to convince me that I should care at all about the conclusion the researchers in this article came to.
They should do a study on reflexes and physical ability. They should do a study measuring the correlation between how much time someone spends playing video games and how often they cause automobile accidents. Or how often in their daily life that they roll their ankle or trip and faceplant.
CRIMINAL!
Lucky friend of yours. In my experience, my cell provider didn't give a fuck about getting me my phone back. They just wanted to help me buy a new handset and plan from them.
T-Mobile: you get what you pay for.
Absolutely nothing will make your child distrust you more than if they catch you spying on them. Discovering that your own parent(s) have so little trust in you that they have to go behind your back and read your emails / chatlogs to find out what you're doing (especially when you're not doing anything remotely wrong) solves almost no problems and creates many. Think your kids are hiding something from you? They may or may not be at first, but I can almost guarantee they will be once they discover they need to.
Also, morals aside, you can't rely on a piece of installable software to do your spying for you. The number of cases where the parent is more technologically savvy than their child(ren) is microscopically small in comparison with vice-versa.
On a mildly related note, I wish the rest of Americans were a little more pissed off about the NSA wiretapping bullshiet. He should have been out of office within a month.
Upset about it tying up your system's resources?... ehh. I don't have hard evidence to support this claim, but I'm pretty sure the average desktop CPU doesn't operate at 100% most of the time. Neither does their "comfortable" network bandwidth (i.e. more could be being done without noticeably adversely affecting anything). If you can skim a little off the top to help someone else out without actually interfering with what you need to do with your computer, I don't see that as too much of a problem.
Think of it as going into a building and holding the door open for someone following a little bit behind you.
If you're really that concerned that your computer should never be used to help anyone but yourself, I'm sure you could figure out some way around it. If you're like most other people, I bet you could get away with simply lowering the priority of the process...
And Cauldron II.
M.U.L.E. and Jumpman of course.
Below the Root, BC's Quest For Tires/Grog's Revenge, the Beach Head series, Heart of Africa (and Seven Cities of Gold), Spy vs. Spy 1 and 2, Parallax would all be pretty awesome too.
overly-long games are usually bloated, repetitive and tedious.
*coughHalocough*