Yeah, but you can feel all superior and stuff if you have one that scans every day and can sincerely say that you have never ever gotten a virus onto your system.
Dont worry its not like we Americans are taught any better .
Seriously though, you should have seen my high school rules handbook- all sorts of hilarity showed up in that thing. It said, due to failed comma usage, that students were required to bring large amounts of money to school and leave them in the main office, due to security reasons (it was intended to say that if we brought large amounts of money to school, we needed to leave them in the office so they wouldn't get stolen. I don't remember the exact wording.)
"Myth 1. Violent video game research has yielded very mixed results. Facts: Some studies have yielded nonsignificant video game effects, just as some smoking studies failed to find a significant link to lung cancer. But when one combines all relevant empirical studies using meta-analytic techniques, five separate effects emerge with considerable consistency. Violent video games are significantly associated with: increased aggressive behavior, thoughts, and affect; increased physiological arousal; and decreased prosocial (helping) behavior. Average effect sizes for experimental studies (which help establish causality) and correlational studies (which allow examination of serious violent behavior) appear comparable (Anderson & Bushman, 2001)."
(An offtopic summary of the damage potential of alpha particles, as presented by the article: they're stopped very quickly by skin so aren't too dangerous unless you inhale or swallow the source, then you're screwed)
You might want to start seeing a psychologist. You're seriously way the hell too paranoid.
Oh my god, the goverment can, with an order, see who and when I'm emailing! This is completely different from phone records and anything involving written communication! THEY'RE COMING TO GET US!!!!!!!!!!!!//1?!!!eleven
This is definitely not "it". The surveillance of every single out-of-country phone call might have been "it". Some of the dozens of things the government has/hasn't gotten in trouble for doing illegally might have been "it". But this is, seriously, nothing.
I have a trackball with a ball at the top, and two buttons on either side of the trackball- left side of it is identical to the right side. While it is in fact lacking a scroll wheel (I kinda miss it...), after the month of adjustment my skill at FPSs actually improved. Left-clicking is done with the thumb, right-clicking with the ring finger, and moving the ball with the index and middle fingers.
Of course, now my arm doesn't get any exercise at all... oh well.
Notice how the upper portions, facing the sky, of the module are dark, while the parts angled downwards are bright? It's reflecting the light bouncing off of the surface of the moon- but the surface doesn't reflect light onto itself, and thus when it is shadowed, it is rather dark.
"It's people like these who make it more and more difficult just to use software because of the security features they add."
No, it's people like the ones that make decisions in the companies that produce the software stupidly thinking they can make something that nobody will break, and sacrificing usability of the end-product for the concept.
Consider how many times it's kept a product from being pirated. Then consider how many times the companies have been majorly burned by it backfiring on them.
The government funds the school systems. They can discriminate however they like, they own it. Don't like it? Don't go to school/get hired by them. Simple.
(cough, sarcasm, cough, in case some bonehead thinks I'm serious and flames me)
I missed the Challenger broadcast... stayed home sick from school on september 11th 2001 though... woke up to see New York blowing up, shocked the hell out of me. First thing I thought as I saw the news broadcast was we were being bombed by some foreign nation... still wasn't really able to speak for a long time.
"...but no grinding or reward for persistent playing."
Yeah, since things like the fissure armor in the game don't take any grind or buildup of loads of cash in order to buy.
I do think that ANet's strategies are, to some degree, determined by server load (resistance to a fullblown in-game auction house, for example), but how do you explain the Sorrow's Furnace expansion through the view that they won't add things that cause players to log on more and thus kick up their operating cost?
Blizzard doesn't want you online in WoW any more than ANet does- they don't make more money if you log on every day of the month rather than twice for an hour each time.
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Yeah, but you can feel all superior and stuff if you have one that scans every day and can sincerely say that you have never ever gotten a virus onto your system.
True, I won't even try to argue in Microsoft's favor, but the post I replied to was just too tempting to take down to resist.
Yeah, because it's approximately an equal effort to delete log files and to change anything about the WMF code, or whatever was causing that bug?
Dont worry its not like we Americans are taught any better .
Seriously though, you should have seen my high school rules handbook- all sorts of hilarity showed up in that thing. It said, due to failed comma usage, that students were required to bring large amounts of money to school and leave them in the main office, due to security reasons (it was intended to say that if we brought large amounts of money to school, we needed to leave them in the office so they wouldn't get stolen. I don't remember the exact wording.)
"...to the best of my knowledge, studies into the effects of violent games have been inconclusive..."
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From http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-anderson.html:
"Myth 1. Violent video game research has yielded very mixed results.
Facts: Some studies have yielded nonsignificant video game effects, just as some smoking studies failed to find a significant link to lung cancer. But when one combines all relevant empirical studies using meta-analytic techniques, five separate effects emerge with considerable consistency. Violent video games are significantly associated with: increased aggressive behavior, thoughts, and affect; increased physiological arousal; and decreased prosocial (helping) behavior. Average effect sizes for experimental studies (which help establish causality) and correlational studies (which allow examination of serious violent behavior) appear comparable (Anderson & Bushman, 2001)."
One of his cited sources:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd
(if you have some way to access the article... I believe the only reason I can through this site is because of a university-level subscription service or something like that, the site it links to seems to imply that it's possible to not have full access to the article)
"Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something..."
:p
Uh, what kind of computer is unusable when compiling?
Come on, if you're going to make a joke at least make sense
Dear God, not alpha radiation, alpha waves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_waves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle
(An offtopic summary of the damage potential of alpha particles, as presented by the article: they're stopped very quickly by skin so aren't too dangerous unless you inhale or swallow the source, then you're screwed)
But how many false positives?
"We already pretty much have blanket cell phone coverage in the civilized world."
Uh, no? Unless the east coast of the USA isn't part of the "civilized world" any more...
Uh, for voice chat?
And this gets marked Flamebait, but the original, no reading done, obviously flamebait comment doesn't.
Yay Slashdot mods.
*burns karma for going offtopic*
You might want to start seeing a psychologist. You're seriously way the hell too paranoid.
Oh my god, the goverment can, with an order, see who and when I'm emailing! This is completely different from phone records and anything involving written communication! THEY'RE COMING TO GET US!!!!!!!!!!!!//1?!!!eleven
This is definitely not "it". The surveillance of every single out-of-country phone call might have been "it". Some of the dozens of things the government has/hasn't gotten in trouble for doing illegally might have been "it". But this is, seriously, nothing.
I have a trackball with a ball at the top, and two buttons on either side of the trackball- left side of it is identical to the right side. While it is in fact lacking a scroll wheel (I kinda miss it...), after the month of adjustment my skill at FPSs actually improved. Left-clicking is done with the thumb, right-clicking with the ring finger, and moving the ball with the index and middle fingers.
Of course, now my arm doesn't get any exercise at all... oh well.
Notice how the upper portions, facing the sky, of the module are dark, while the parts angled downwards are bright? It's reflecting the light bouncing off of the surface of the moon- but the surface doesn't reflect light onto itself, and thus when it is shadowed, it is rather dark.
"It's people like these who make it more and more difficult just to use software because of the security features they add."
No, it's people like the ones that make decisions in the companies that produce the software stupidly thinking they can make something that nobody will break, and sacrificing usability of the end-product for the concept.
Consider how many times it's kept a product from being pirated. Then consider how many times the companies have been majorly burned by it backfiring on them.
Smart decisions, huh?
Especially not with those military dart gun dolphins on the loose, educating them.
The government funds the school systems. They can discriminate however they like, they own it. Don't like it? Don't go to school/get hired by them. Simple.
(cough, sarcasm, cough, in case some bonehead thinks I'm serious and flames me)
"why should your orientation be brought into a game that has nothing to do with sex?"
You obviously haven't seen some of the higher-level armors.
I missed the Challenger broadcast... stayed home sick from school on september 11th 2001 though... woke up to see New York blowing up, shocked the hell out of me. First thing I thought as I saw the news broadcast was we were being bombed by some foreign nation... still wasn't really able to speak for a long time.
Definitely not the best thing to wake up to.
No, but I did think of some sort of seed that, upon germination, would cause doomsday to occur.
Sounds like something out of one of my weirder dreams...
"There are way more important problems than this."
Such as banning children from buying potentially damaging video games! Seriously, people, get some priorities.
Don't, it was pointless and empty of reason.
Screw selling the meat on the market, I want one of these as a pet! If only for the shock value...
"Hey, nice back yard, pretty big, I like the tr... what the -?!? is that a green -ing pig?"
http://www.mapleglobal.com/ if anyone wants a quick link... but beware, for here be browser detection and an IE bias.
"...but no grinding or reward for persistent playing."
Yeah, since things like the fissure armor in the game don't take any grind or buildup of loads of cash in order to buy.
I do think that ANet's strategies are, to some degree, determined by server load (resistance to a fullblown in-game auction house, for example), but how do you explain the Sorrow's Furnace expansion through the view that they won't add things that cause players to log on more and thus kick up their operating cost?
Blizzard doesn't want you online in WoW any more than ANet does- they don't make more money if you log on every day of the month rather than twice for an hour each time.