Like many other people, my computer remembers and automatically logs me into almost all of my internet identities. Anyone sitting in front of my laptop can assume my identity online and pretty much the only thing they won't have access to is my bank account.
"I left my computer on downloading X while I went to the mart. I failed to lock my computer before leaving. Anyone with physical access to the premises (i.e. my roommates) could have easily posted whatever it is I am accused of posting."
While I personally would never leave my computer unlocked during a prolonged absence, it is not inconceivable to forget, let alone those who just leave everything on and logged in (like both of my roommates do... daily.)
IP ties it to a computer and a physical location. It's like saying "We saw your Rideshare speeding and since it was your turn to be driving we're ticketing you."
Some people can just pay for a better connection; living in the middle of the desert in a Marine Corps barracks leaves me with fewer options.
While I'm more than willing to shell out the cash for a game like C&C4, my internet is horrible (one of the main reasons I like playing SP games so much now) and to make SP games reliant on a constant internet connection means one less sale for them. Ubisoft has already lost my sale on AC2 and now it looks like EA is going to follow in their footsteps.
A shame too because I loved AC and the C&C series.
The idea is that previously had you searched for TS on google.cn you would not have found any results related to the protests. The image supplied shows that a very famous and previously censored image does now show up on the.cn version of google. As mentioned page rank will still rank those pages very low, however, they are no longer censored.
God forbid this judge actually visit part of the internet...
I shudder to think what would happen if he saw 4chan... although it would be pretty funny.
"Judge orders anonymous to turn itself in."
Your argument is both a red herring and a troll. The discussion is what we teach in high schools, not government policy or media spin. I will, however, reply.
It's generally logical fallacies which are used to justify drug use: Appeal to unqualified authority, appeal to common practice (or appeal to popularity) and the genetic fallacy. There is also a general lack of scrutiny to ulterior motives.
A good example of a typical conversation, he speaks first:
"My buddy Jack says it's totally natural. It can't be that bad if it doesn't have crazy chemicals and shit in it."
"Who is Jack?"
"My dealer... but he like knows and stuff; he went to college."
"What about snake venom or poison ivy? These are natural substances."
"Well those are poisons! Those aren't like good for you and stuff."
"Any idea where he went to college?"
"ITT Tech... he's was a computer technician."
"How does learning how to solve computers help you understand the safety of complex molecules in humans?"
Obviously, this does not represent every drug user, however, my personal experiences with users generally turns up an inability to logically defend their choice.
I get these arguments from my friends who are as old as 21. They show an acute inability to weigh the pros and cons of arguments. As much as I hate testimonial arguments, I would expect that at least half of my high school graduating class (2006, FYI) could be easily duped into a DHMO-type scam.
Children do not have the tools necessary (and, unfortunately, are not being given them) to make informed decisions on... pretty much anything. Since there is no magic adulthood epiphany which occurs at 18 or 21, most adults lack this skill as well.
Children are impressionable. They are (usually) unable to weigh the pros and cons of arguments and instead defer to authority figures. There are some theories which are not legitimately challenged in today's scientific world.
Should we teach alternative theories to the reason why things fall down? (Intelligent falling perhaps) After all, the Theory of Gravity is only a theory, not a fact.
Or perhaps that "the weight of a body on the surface of a heavenly body is the reaction force caused by the acceleration of the surface of the heavenly body away from its centre." http://www.copples.clara.net/gravity.htm
This is an alternative theory of Gravity. It may even be true, however, no one seems to be trying to teach kids the controversy... because there isn't one. The science taught in high schools is well supported and, as mentioned above, not challenged by academia in any real way.
We have an obligation to our children to shield them from ideas which masquerade as science because they lack the skills needed for proper scientific inquiry. I can go to an average high school class and, assuming they don't have any smart asses, teach them about the horrible problems associated with dihydrogen monoxide. Chances are I can convince every one of them to firmly assert that they would be willing to ban water.
It's not that difficult to dupe the public as a whole, let alone children in an authoritative setting. You teach the best science available and continue to teach it until a better theory presents itself. It may take years for this "better theory" to get from not accepted to partially accepted to almost universally accepted, however, IMHO we shouldn't be teaching it until it gains the support of the majority of the scientific community.
Leave the debate on alternative theories of gravity to the Ph.D's who (probably) know what they are talking about. Teach it in the schools when you've convinced a gross majority of them. Convincing a gross majority of the general public does not make it a scientific theory.
Some 50 rockets have been launched from Gaza in recent days, after the killing of three Hamas members by Israel.
A six-month ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas ended last week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7799593.stm
Israel killed several Hamas members, Hamas responded with rockets, Israel responded with airstrikes and an invasion. This seems to be the same tactic Israel has been using for thirty years:
General Moshe Dayan, who commanded the Israeli forces in 1967 and gave the order to occupy the Golan, gave an interview to an Israeli journalist, Rami Tal, in 1976. The interview was kept secret until April 1997, when it was published in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot. It has been authenticated by Israeli historians, and General Dayan's daughter, Yael, a member of the Knesset, insisted that it be published.
In the interview, Tal interjected, "But they were sitting on the Golan Heights...."
"Never mind that," said Dayan. "I know how at least 80 percent of the clashes there started.... It went this way: We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything - (it was) in the demilitarized zone - and [we] would know in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance further, until, in the end, the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force.... And that's how it was."
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-akins.html
There have also been talks of the US selling the Israelis our C-RAM (Counter - Rocket, Artillery and Mortar) systems (based on the naval Phalanx CIWS). It would take one to two dozen of them (Depending on if you wanted redundant backups) to completely cover the Gaza strip, from the outside. This would allow Israeli to intercept rockets, artillery and mortars before they ever leave Palestinian airspace.
I find it a tad interesting that a few months before Israel gets near immunity to rocket attacks, they get 'fed up' and invade.
The Space Elevator does not operate fast enough to carry human passengers. It slowly progresses through the Van Allen radiation belts and as such would be used primarily for cargo. The benefit it offers is you no longer have to launch any equipment with rockets, only people. It is my understanding that the shielding required would be prohibitively heavy.
Nothing is ever deleted from the internet... that's more true than false.
Between Google Cache, Archive.org and local temp files, I would expect a gross majority of the information is recoverable if the people know what they are doing.
I had a professor who had accidentally corrupted both his website and the backups. It took all of five minutes to recover good copies.
Am I the only person who was curious exactly how much water vapor he wanted to make...
1/2inch extra water for the surface of the earth comes out to 6,477,833,150,000 METRIC TONS of water. To put this in perspective, that is almost 15 million times the capacity of the largest crude oil tankers in the world. This is also (if you assume HowStuffWorks is within an order of magnitude of the correct value for the total water on the planet) 1/100,000th of all the water on the planet.
Exactly how does he intend to spray this much water?
Well I'll steal a car from your dealership and give it a real test drive.
Chances are I won't like it enough to actually buy one, so I'll just drive it around until I get bored of it...
You, good sir, fail at logic.
Stealing a car is "taking a long test drive"
in the same way that
Pirating software is "downloading a big demo"
The sad thing is it's people like you who don't seem to understand why good games are becoming less and less frequent...
Perhaps the biggest drawback of the algorithm, and the one that has caused many Vista users to complain, is that for copies involving a large group of files between 256KB and tens of MB in size, the perceived performance of the copy can be significantly worse than on Windows XP. That's because the previous algorithm's use of cached file I/O lets Explorer finish writing destination files to memory and dismiss the copy dialog long before the Cache Manager's write-behind thread has actually committed the data to disk; with Vista's non-cached implementation, Explorer is forced to wait for each write operation to complete before issuing more, and ultimately for all copied data to be on disk before indicating a copy's completion. In Vista, Explorer also waits 12 seconds before making an estimate of the copy's duration and the estimation algorithm is sensitive to fluctuations in the copy speed, both of which exacerbate user frustration with slower copies.
If I could be a superhero
I'd be Immigration dude
I'd send all the foreigners back to their homes
For eating up all of our food And taking our welfare and best jobs to boot
Like landscaping, dishwashing, picking our fruit
I'd pass a lot of laws to get rid of their food
'Cause I'd be Immigration Dude
"Since the plastic energy produced in the eutectic SnPb layer in the composite joint is about 100 times larger than that in the homogeneous eutectic SnPb joint, we expect the cycle times needs to fail the latter will be 100 times longer. But the above model is ideal, nevertheless it is reasonable to say that it is at the least 10 times longer. "
A) They didn't test ANYTHING.
B) They admit their ideal model is probably not realistic, and actual difference could be much less
C) They admit this does not mean actual life-time of products and explicitly suggest testing in that regard.
D)/. needs to stop posting sensationalist crap like this. The article is interesting, the title is bullshit. If I want sensationalism I will turn on my TV.
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See I disagree.
Like many other people, my computer remembers and automatically logs me into almost all of my internet identities. Anyone sitting in front of my laptop can assume my identity online and pretty much the only thing they won't have access to is my bank account.
"I left my computer on downloading X while I went to the mart. I failed to lock my computer before leaving. Anyone with physical access to the premises (i.e. my roommates) could have easily posted whatever it is I am accused of posting."
While I personally would never leave my computer unlocked during a prolonged absence, it is not inconceivable to forget, let alone those who just leave everything on and logged in (like both of my roommates do... daily.)
IP ties it to a computer and a physical location. It's like saying "We saw your Rideshare speeding and since it was your turn to be driving we're ticketing you."
Some people can just pay for a better connection; living in the middle of the desert in a Marine Corps barracks leaves me with fewer options.
While I'm more than willing to shell out the cash for a game like C&C4, my internet is horrible (one of the main reasons I like playing SP games so much now) and to make SP games reliant on a constant internet connection means one less sale for them. Ubisoft has already lost my sale on AC2 and now it looks like EA is going to follow in their footsteps.
A shame too because I loved AC and the C&C series.
Already being done: http://gizmodo.com/5139211/3d-porn-is-coming-three-guesses-as-to-what-will-be-sticking-straight-off-the-screen http://www.switched.com/2009/01/21/porn-star-belladonna-picks-top-sex-tech-3d-adult-films/ I'm personally waiting for smellovision to make a comeback.
The idea is that previously had you searched for TS on google.cn you would not have found any results related to the protests. The image supplied shows that a very famous and previously censored image does now show up on the .cn version of google. As mentioned page rank will still rank those pages very low, however, they are no longer censored.
God forbid this judge actually visit part of the internet... I shudder to think what would happen if he saw 4chan... although it would be pretty funny. "Judge orders anonymous to turn itself in."
is a cad. Mark Lesher is also a cad. Mrs. Lesher, if she was a man, would be a cad.
Your argument is both a red herring and a troll. The discussion is what we teach in high schools, not government policy or media spin. I will, however, reply.
It's generally logical fallacies which are used to justify drug use: Appeal to unqualified authority, appeal to common practice (or appeal to popularity) and the genetic fallacy. There is also a general lack of scrutiny to ulterior motives.
A good example of a typical conversation, he speaks first:
"My buddy Jack says it's totally natural. It can't be that bad if it doesn't have crazy chemicals and shit in it."
"Who is Jack?"
"My dealer... but he like knows and stuff; he went to college."
"What about snake venom or poison ivy? These are natural substances."
"Well those are poisons! Those aren't like good for you and stuff."
"Any idea where he went to college?"
"ITT Tech... he's was a computer technician."
"How does learning how to solve computers help you understand the safety of complex molecules in humans?"
Obviously, this does not represent every drug user, however, my personal experiences with users generally turns up an inability to logically defend their choice.
I get these arguments from my friends who are as old as 21. They show an acute inability to weigh the pros and cons of arguments. As much as I hate testimonial arguments, I would expect that at least half of my high school graduating class (2006, FYI) could be easily duped into a DHMO-type scam.
Children do not have the tools necessary (and, unfortunately, are not being given them) to make informed decisions on... pretty much anything. Since there is no magic adulthood epiphany which occurs at 18 or 21, most adults lack this skill as well.
Children are impressionable. They are (usually) unable to weigh the pros and cons of arguments and instead defer to authority figures. There are some theories which are not legitimately challenged in today's scientific world.
Should we teach alternative theories to the reason why things fall down? (Intelligent falling perhaps) After all, the Theory of Gravity is only a theory, not a fact.
Or perhaps that "the weight of a body on the surface of a heavenly body is the reaction force caused by the acceleration of the surface of the heavenly body away from its centre."
http://www.copples.clara.net/gravity.htm
This is an alternative theory of Gravity. It may even be true, however, no one seems to be trying to teach kids the controversy... because there isn't one. The science taught in high schools is well supported and, as mentioned above, not challenged by academia in any real way.
We have an obligation to our children to shield them from ideas which masquerade as science because they lack the skills needed for proper scientific inquiry. I can go to an average high school class and, assuming they don't have any smart asses, teach them about the horrible problems associated with dihydrogen monoxide. Chances are I can convince every one of them to firmly assert that they would be willing to ban water.
http://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp
86% of freshman supported a ban on water,
12% were undecided
2% correctly identified it as water.
It's not that difficult to dupe the public as a whole, let alone children in an authoritative setting. You teach the best science available and continue to teach it until a better theory presents itself. It may take years for this "better theory" to get from not accepted to partially accepted to almost universally accepted, however, IMHO we shouldn't be teaching it until it gains the support of the majority of the scientific community.
Leave the debate on alternative theories of gravity to the Ph.D's who (probably) know what they are talking about. Teach it in the schools when you've convinced a gross majority of them. Convincing a gross majority of the general public does not make it a scientific theory.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7799593.stm
Israel killed several Hamas members, Hamas responded with rockets, Israel responded with airstrikes and an invasion. This seems to be the same tactic Israel has been using for thirty years:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-akins.html
There have also been talks of the US selling the Israelis our C-RAM (Counter - Rocket, Artillery and Mortar) systems (based on the naval Phalanx CIWS). It would take one to two dozen of them (Depending on if you wanted redundant backups) to completely cover the Gaza strip, from the outside. This would allow Israeli to intercept rockets, artillery and mortars before they ever leave Palestinian airspace.
I find it a tad interesting that a few months before Israel gets near immunity to rocket attacks, they get 'fed up' and invade.
This actually is not a problem:
The Space Elevator does not operate fast enough to carry human passengers. It slowly progresses through the Van Allen radiation belts and as such would be used primarily for cargo. The benefit it offers is you no longer have to launch any equipment with rockets, only people. It is my understanding that the shielding required would be prohibitively heavy.
Nothing is ever deleted from the internet... that's more true than false.
Between Google Cache, Archive.org and local temp files, I would expect a gross majority of the information is recoverable if the people know what they are doing.
I had a professor who had accidentally corrupted both his website and the backups. It took all of five minutes to recover good copies.
Firefox loaded it for me.
Was the the only person who started this by guessing YYY.AHB.MSK was www.fbi.gov? Seems like including a fully formatted URL is a bad idea...
0.177806631% of a Fort Knox.
Sorry, you aren't THAT rich.
Am I the only person who was curious exactly how much water vapor he wanted to make...
1/2inch extra water for the surface of the earth comes out to 6,477,833,150,000 METRIC TONS of water. To put this in perspective, that is almost 15 million times the capacity of the largest crude oil tankers in the world. This is also (if you assume HowStuffWorks is within an order of magnitude of the correct value for the total water on the planet) 1/100,000th of all the water on the planet.
Exactly how does he intend to spray this much water?
Well I'll steal a car from your dealership and give it a real test drive. Chances are I won't like it enough to actually buy one, so I'll just drive it around until I get bored of it... You, good sir, fail at logic. Stealing a car is "taking a long test drive" in the same way that Pirating software is "downloading a big demo" The sad thing is it's people like you who don't seem to understand why good games are becoming less and less frequent...
The reason Vista APPEARS to copy slower is because it actually tells you when the copy is finished.
XP would tell you it was done before it had finished... it would "lie about it."
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1338
Perhaps the biggest drawback of the algorithm, and the one that has caused many Vista users to complain, is that for copies involving a large group of files between 256KB and tens of MB in size, the perceived performance of the copy can be significantly worse than on Windows XP. That's because the previous algorithm's use of cached file I/O lets Explorer finish writing destination files to memory and dismiss the copy dialog long before the Cache Manager's write-behind thread has actually committed the data to disk; with Vista's non-cached implementation, Explorer is forced to wait for each write operation to complete before issuing more, and ultimately for all copied data to be on disk before indicating a copy's completion. In Vista, Explorer also waits 12 seconds before making an estimate of the copy's duration and the estimation algorithm is sensitive to fluctuations in the copy speed, both of which exacerbate user frustration with slower copies.
If I could be a superhero
I'd be Immigration dude
I'd send all the foreigners back to their homes
For eating up all of our food
And taking our welfare and best jobs to boot
Like landscaping, dishwashing, picking our fruit
I'd pass a lot of laws to get rid of their food
'Cause I'd be Immigration Dude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1q2XH1Q3O8
No. What they say is:
You should fix this bug first, since we believe it is the most likely to be exploited.
You can save these for later, since we don't believe it will be immediately exploited.
There is, however, something to be said for hackers referring to this list to find "unlikely" bugs to exploit.
Actually 40% is quite good considering, as others have mentioned, that 33% would be the random chance.
it is also worth noting that they have 40% prediction of KNOWN threats.
I would bet there are about as many undiscovered exploits re: these updates, which could drive up or down the percentage.
If I can predict the stock market by +7% over random guessing, that is pretty damn good predicting.
I would use nscopy... http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nscopy/ Never had an issue; it doesn't crash like the built in copy.
The idea is you can't fully remove it... which is why you and I get to hop on that class action lawsuit bandwagon.
YEHAW!
I didn't even buy anything from them and I get to sue them.
Karam's a bitch EA, and mine is excellent :D
"I forgot it."
I've honestly forgotten the keys to probably a half dozen of my encrypted archives... who is to say I didn't forget this one?
The slippery slope is a logical fallacy. Besides, root is reading your e-mails anyway... why not let the government in on it?
"Since the plastic energy produced in the eutectic SnPb layer in the composite joint is about 100 times larger than that in the homogeneous eutectic SnPb joint, we expect the cycle times needs to fail the latter will be 100 times longer. But the above model is ideal, nevertheless it is reasonable to say that it is at the least 10 times longer. " A) They didn't test ANYTHING. B) They admit their ideal model is probably not realistic, and actual difference could be much less C) They admit this does not mean actual life-time of products and explicitly suggest testing in that regard. D) /. needs to stop posting sensationalist crap like this. The article is interesting, the title is bullshit. If I want sensationalism I will turn on my TV.