What does the researcher's research say about effeminate males? Or males that are even slightly more in touch with their emotions (which does not equate to being homosexual as I'm sure many will immediately ponder)? Stereotyping... geeze. It's the 21st century!:)
Correction: SSN area prefixes aren't generated based on an applicant's place of birth. The area prefix is determined by the ZIP CODE that the applicant provides on his/her application to the SS office. The zip code provided does not even need to be the applicant's residence.
In the United States it was determined by the supreme court that requiring someone to identify him/herself is unconstitutional*. That ruling is part of the reason Arizona is having difficulty implementing a requirement for anyone to be subject to identification or jailed. This technology defeats that right.
Of course this is just for the United States, but none-the-less.
* Article posted previously to Slashdot.
That's because you downloaded a beta version.
To get the release version, you have to apply to a pre-release program, which means it isn't really released, now is it?
And yet the release date on the aforementioned URL is July 13th, 2011. Last I checked today was July 13th, 2011. *checks again* Yup, still July 13th, 2011.
Five words: separation of church and state. If it's illegal to commit suicide in the US because God hates you for sparing others pain, then I'd say there isn't separation of church and state. If it was made legal, then people could use their own religious beliefs in determining whether to commit suicide.
Suicide is mans attempt to keep control of what he never had any control of. Himself.
I'm not sure I see any factual statement in that. Wanting to die with dignity and sparing the lives of others around him is not related to lacking control throughout life.
Legal suicide is an invitation for the 'state' to decide who is worthy to live and die because it immediately puts law makers in the position of deciding who's life is worthy of being required to live.
Many states already do that with the death penalty, but yet we are still not allowed to chose to legally commit suicide. In fact, it's illegal in many states to even attempt to commit suicide and you can be charged criminally if you attempt (and fail) to do so. Allowing someone to voluntarily commit assisted suicide does not put the government in control of that person's life, it puts the individual in charge.
As has always happened in the past legal suicide will not be fully voluntary for long , because it will be used as an excuse to not take care of those people who choose not to use the 'option' when they are no longer 'worthy' of support.
Again, we're talking about voluntary assisted suicide, which means that the individual chooses, not the government or care-taker. While it's entirely possible that the Power of Attorney could invoke assisted suicide on another individual, there could be laws placed against that if assisted suicide were to be made legal.
Point being, if someone wants to die, it should be their choice. My father's life-long best friend committed suicide in his back yard the day after getting a terminal cancer diagnosis; while in his case it was a little selfish, he spared his family many years of grueling stress and granted them a positive feeling that he is in a better place now.
Android is secured by default by disallowing the use of Unknown Sources. If you attempt to enable Unknown Sources for applications it will warn you about risking security. In addition you must know what you're doing to install the Unknown Source APK by either: using 'adb install', or downloading the APK to your SD card and use a file manager application to install it.
So yes, Android is just as secure as iOS by default.
She [Judge Koh] also limited the results of discovery to "Outside Counsel Eyes Only," meaning neither Apple nor its in-house counsel will get a peek at the phones or related marketing materials.
(Emphasis mine.) I must confess that one does have to read the entire article of Courthouse News to get to that somewhat important and relevant tidbit but that is asking a bit much for an editor. Or perhaps that was known but "Court Counsel to Judge Samsung Prototypes" just doesn't boil up the anti-Apple blood like the current headline does?
You quoted the exact same thing last time this topic came up. In fact, you have a history of being pro-Apple, so I'm not sure you're any less biased.
As someone who uses multiple systems, multiple web-browsers, and multiple operating systems (even virtual machines) I can say: yes, it is difficult to maintain my personal data. My LastPass account has over 50 sites in it. To be honest, most of them I don't even care if they were hacked. My banking website isn't even truly vital since you can't transfer funds electronically outbound, it requires an email confirmation to change physical address, and the account number is truncated on all of the screens (including exported data).
Does your GVIM data get stored somewhere that is accessible to you no matter where you are? And if it is, then it's most likely accessible to someone else if they were to hack you. Point being, nothing is completely secure AND easy. From the sounds of it though, LastPass has a system in place to secure the passwords, although I'm unsure how that can work with a "Lost Password" scenario that MorderVonAllem talks about in another comment.
I never have understood why game publishers historically shoot for a Christmas release date. When I was growing up my parents, friends, nor extended family ever bought me a single video game. It's too complicated to shop for games for someone else, especially when it's a PC game; you have a lot of things to look for in what your target audience needs: platform (Windows, Mac,... Linux?), CPU, memory, GPU, etc. On top of all of that you cannot return any software to any retailer and Steam only makes it slightly easier to send a game to someone.
Outside of the above, you have Christmas, New Years, and the winter break for college students - why release a game amidst that? Pick the summer when kids have more time free, more money to buy games from their summer job, and more freedom to reliably shop for software. There's still another 10 or so reasons I haven't even touched on as to why NOT to release a game during winter break, but apparently people speak with their money to the contrary.
The above being said, they should release steps for integration with custom Android ROMs so developers like myself can extend support for this to ALL devices, not just ones of their choosing.
... Nexus One and Nexus S phones. Wow, what a let down. Says "More devices coming soon..." but you can pretty much count that they can't support all - or even most - devices, so this isn't an Android thing, it's a Nexus thing. Chances are it requires root which is why they can't support anything other than Nexus right now.
I own a Compaq F730US laptop and it has the exact problems described by the court filing, including the Wifi becoming permanently broken (even in Linux); graphical corruptions, etc. The F730US is not included in the settlement - so no, not EVERYONE wins.
Sorry to sound like part of the problem than the solution, but this ruling means little since it's unlikely to go any further than Finland. In the places that matter the most to this particular ruling (i.e. the places with the highest PS3 ownership), it's doubtful that Sony will have troubles paying off the judges either directly or indirectly (i.e. campaign funds to pro-business politicians). I applaud the Finnish though - definitely what I wish the US was.
I have a co-worker who is absolutely enamored with hacking and cracking. He is by all definitions a script kiddie.
You pretty much answered your own question: he is a script kiddie, not a hacker or cracker. Hackers are elegant and, in my experience, have a higher sense of intelligence and thought process. That's often the divide for people who go to school to earn their degree in computer science and the ones that are successful programmers without going to school to earn their degree; the formally educated feel like they deserve some bonus credit because they blew tens of thousands of dollars getting a piece of paper. Don't get me wrong, going the degree route is the smarter choice overall, but it certainly doesn't give merit to your skills. In fact, I'd probably hire a seasoned hacker over someone with less than 10 years of school-earned programming experience.
Honestly I believe that this isn't from the Chinese government. I believe these attacks are to compromise World of Warcraft accounts as I had a very similar thing happen to me a couple years ago. Blizzard is cracking down more and more on spammers, botters, and gold farmers so they Chinese people are out of jobs. They're resorting to hacking systems to gain access to accounts.
That's my $0.02.
Let Mr. Darren P. Briggs know what you think about his informal C&D: his email is dbriggs@landmarkdigital.com (confirmed). Also, if you have an Android phone, let him know what you think about Shazam by posting a comment on the Android Market about it.
The link to Moffat's bio at IBM's site works just fine for me. Makes me wonder how fast this (or another) story made it to IBM web developers to fix this 'problem'.
How about you grow up? Who cares if they think it's cute. I'm sure to women that's actually a turn-on. Women operate on a different frequency than men and it's a wonder that you've made it this far in life if you're worrying about you're netbook being straight-looking.
Again, with only reading the summary I would speculate from my own personal experience that violent video games bring their users into a trance to which it is a fight for virtual survival. The better your reaction time, the better you play at the game and with some games being more focused on not killing/hurting teammates, your visual perception and interpretation needs to have a low latency. A non-violent Battlefield 2, Call of Duty, or BF2: Project Reality isn't going to have the same effect as the original titles.
Actually the medication itself is OTC, but the strength is not. The infraction of this 'crime' would be minor, even if she did have it on her. 'Prescription' ibuprofen is anything above 200mg in a single dose (so 400mg, 600mg, and 800mg). Taking 4 tablets at once of the over-the-counter ibuprofen is the exact same as taking 1 tablet of 800mg 'prescription' ibuprofen.
While professionally and personally I do not condone the sharing of prescription medications, I find that the reason the higher doses of ibuprofen are prescription-only is so people do not take high-doses of ibuprofen (also naproxen and aspirin, although aspirin is frowned-upon in the medical community). High doses of NSAIDs (ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin, just to name a few) can cause stomach bleeds, acid reflux, stomach ulcers, and (less importantly) thin the blood excessively. These are important issues that need the attention of a medical professional's monitoring - it was just today that I had a patient tell me that she was admitted to the hospital 20 years ago for taking too much aspirin and had a stomach ulcer occur (not suicide-related overdose).
Please mod-down the parent: the post is neatly written, but quite obviously opinionated FUD.
I also blame the parents of Megan for even letting her get on anti-depressants at such a young age.
Actually there was never any true-and-lasting contraindication for anti-depressants in teenagers. There was a period of scare, but people soon found out that adults had the same problem too. Typically this results from lack of compliance to the anti-depressant and then having rebound depression.
Those meds are harsh
In my experience having worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 8 years every patient reacts to every medication differently. One person can get high as a kite off of Vicodin, some people don't even notice that they took it. Same with anti-depressants: some people feel better, some people don't.
and should be only used under the care of a very, very good psychiatrist, note that I did NOT say psychologist. Huge, huge difference. I noticed a trend where a lot of non-medically trained psychologist are making recommendations about MEDICATIONS to their clients (they call them patients). This is very scary. Only a MEDICAL doctor should make those calls.
There are many poor psychiatrists out there, but I would not discredit psychologists - many of them go to a professional school much longer than some psychiatrists end up going to. Some psychiatrists are so blind to obvious signs of certain conditions that the patient can receive severely inappropriate care.
While medical doctors should be the ones held accountable for the medications prescribed, it is a widely accepted form of therapy and treatment to have the psychologist and psychiatrist work together, even if the psychologist is the one to recommend adjunct therapy with medications.
Yet you're forgetting the important fact that only medical doctors (which is what psychiatrists are) can prescribe medications in the United States - so the statement that people need to see a medical doctor is rhetorical.
Yet parents hear crap like ADD or ADHD from just a psychologist and run to their primary care doctor and tell him/her and bam the child is on very harsh drugs that DO have long-term effects and have been shown to cause suicidal thoughts.
It's also widely accepted by psychologists and psychiatrists that ADD and ADHD is a very overly diagnosed condition, and I completely agree that it is overly diagnosed. Dispensing several stimulant medications (to help treat the symptoms of ADD or ADHD) a day to children is a depressing fact of life that I have to deal with on a day-to-day basis - so I can sympathize.
Stimulant medications have not been linked to suicidal ideation's, but they do have potentially very long-term side effects since they accelerate the central nervous system.
Hell, I am only 35, I was never drugged out by my parents for "mood swings" or my "lack of attention". I spent most of my time in high school with a boner and looking out the window. I turned out OK and with a good career.
That's fantastic, but for those of us who would have suffered a lot less in high school if our parents would have considered medication options, I can say I completely disagree with your school of thought.
Would Megan still be alive if she never took SSRI's? No one could say that. However, I personally believe she would.
Your beliefs are misguided. You have a right to your opinion, yes, but consider the impact on others before you spread FUD. The people you hear all of the bad press about anti-depressants are the same people like you: medically-undereducated laymen attempting to understand very complex organic chemistry and scientific reactions.
I would absolutely LOVE Linux support for WoW! I would pay $30/account/month for a Linux client, even if it isn't supported, and I even have 2 WoW accounts! I'm sure this would be the case for MANY people.
I'm getting sick of having to deal with Windows, and the only reason I still use Windows at all is for WoW because it runs 5x faster in Windows than emulated using Cedega/WineHQ on Linux.
You have my vote!
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... hire someone to mow it for you. :)
What does the researcher's research say about effeminate males? Or males that are even slightly more in touch with their emotions (which does not equate to being homosexual as I'm sure many will immediately ponder)? Stereotyping... geeze. It's the 21st century! :)
Correction: SSN area prefixes aren't generated based on an applicant's place of birth. The area prefix is determined by the ZIP CODE that the applicant provides on his/her application to the SS office. The zip code provided does not even need to be the applicant's residence.
Or people who need a job so they can live in a vicious unforgiving economy.
In the United States it was determined by the supreme court that requiring someone to identify him/herself is unconstitutional*. That ruling is part of the reason Arizona is having difficulty implementing a requirement for anyone to be subject to identification or jailed. This technology defeats that right. Of course this is just for the United States, but none-the-less. * Article posted previously to Slashdot.
I just downloaded it from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11.html without applying to any program
That's because you downloaded a beta version.
To get the release version, you have to apply to a pre-release program, which means it isn't really released, now is it?
And yet the release date on the aforementioned URL is July 13th, 2011. Last I checked today was July 13th, 2011. *checks again* Yup, still July 13th, 2011.
Five words: separation of church and state. If it's illegal to commit suicide in the US because God hates you for sparing others pain, then I'd say there isn't separation of church and state. If it was made legal, then people could use their own religious beliefs in determining whether to commit suicide.
Suicide is mans attempt to keep control of what he never had any control of. Himself.
I'm not sure I see any factual statement in that. Wanting to die with dignity and sparing the lives of others around him is not related to lacking control throughout life.
Legal suicide is an invitation for the 'state' to decide who is worthy to live and die because it immediately puts law makers in the position of deciding who's life is worthy of being required to live.
Many states already do that with the death penalty, but yet we are still not allowed to chose to legally commit suicide. In fact, it's illegal in many states to even attempt to commit suicide and you can be charged criminally if you attempt (and fail) to do so. Allowing someone to voluntarily commit assisted suicide does not put the government in control of that person's life, it puts the individual in charge.
As has always happened in the past legal suicide will not be fully voluntary for long , because it will be used as an excuse to not take care of those people who choose not to use the 'option' when they are no longer 'worthy' of support.
Again, we're talking about voluntary assisted suicide, which means that the individual chooses, not the government or care-taker. While it's entirely possible that the Power of Attorney could invoke assisted suicide on another individual, there could be laws placed against that if assisted suicide were to be made legal.
Point being, if someone wants to die, it should be their choice. My father's life-long best friend committed suicide in his back yard the day after getting a terminal cancer diagnosis; while in his case it was a little selfish, he spared his family many years of grueling stress and granted them a positive feeling that he is in a better place now.
Android is secured by default by disallowing the use of Unknown Sources. If you attempt to enable Unknown Sources for applications it will warn you about risking security. In addition you must know what you're doing to install the Unknown Source APK by either: using 'adb install', or downloading the APK to your SD card and use a file manager application to install it. So yes, Android is just as secure as iOS by default.
She [Judge Koh] also limited the results of discovery to "Outside Counsel Eyes Only," meaning neither Apple nor its in-house counsel will get a peek at the phones or related marketing materials.
(Emphasis mine.) I must confess that one does have to read the entire article of Courthouse News to get to that somewhat important and relevant tidbit but that is asking a bit much for an editor. Or perhaps that was known but "Court Counsel to Judge Samsung Prototypes" just doesn't boil up the anti-Apple blood like the current headline does?
You quoted the exact same thing last time this topic came up. In fact, you have a history of being pro-Apple, so I'm not sure you're any less biased.
As someone who uses multiple systems, multiple web-browsers, and multiple operating systems (even virtual machines) I can say: yes, it is difficult to maintain my personal data. My LastPass account has over 50 sites in it. To be honest, most of them I don't even care if they were hacked. My banking website isn't even truly vital since you can't transfer funds electronically outbound, it requires an email confirmation to change physical address, and the account number is truncated on all of the screens (including exported data).
Does your GVIM data get stored somewhere that is accessible to you no matter where you are? And if it is, then it's most likely accessible to someone else if they were to hack you. Point being, nothing is completely secure AND easy. From the sounds of it though, LastPass has a system in place to secure the passwords, although I'm unsure how that can work with a "Lost Password" scenario that MorderVonAllem talks about in another comment.
I never have understood why game publishers historically shoot for a Christmas release date. When I was growing up my parents, friends, nor extended family ever bought me a single video game. It's too complicated to shop for games for someone else, especially when it's a PC game; you have a lot of things to look for in what your target audience needs: platform (Windows, Mac, ... Linux?), CPU, memory, GPU, etc. On top of all of that you cannot return any software to any retailer and Steam only makes it slightly easier to send a game to someone.
Outside of the above, you have Christmas, New Years, and the winter break for college students - why release a game amidst that? Pick the summer when kids have more time free, more money to buy games from their summer job, and more freedom to reliably shop for software. There's still another 10 or so reasons I haven't even touched on as to why NOT to release a game during winter break, but apparently people speak with their money to the contrary.
The above being said, they should release steps for integration with custom Android ROMs so developers like myself can extend support for this to ALL devices, not just ones of their choosing.
... Nexus One and Nexus S phones. Wow, what a let down. Says "More devices coming soon..." but you can pretty much count that they can't support all - or even most - devices, so this isn't an Android thing, it's a Nexus thing. Chances are it requires root which is why they can't support anything other than Nexus right now.
I own a Compaq F730US laptop and it has the exact problems described by the court filing, including the Wifi becoming permanently broken (even in Linux); graphical corruptions, etc. The F730US is not included in the settlement - so no, not EVERYONE wins.
Sorry to sound like part of the problem than the solution, but this ruling means little since it's unlikely to go any further than Finland. In the places that matter the most to this particular ruling (i.e. the places with the highest PS3 ownership), it's doubtful that Sony will have troubles paying off the judges either directly or indirectly (i.e. campaign funds to pro-business politicians). I applaud the Finnish though - definitely what I wish the US was.
I have a co-worker who is absolutely enamored with hacking and cracking. He is by all definitions a script kiddie.
You pretty much answered your own question: he is a script kiddie, not a hacker or cracker. Hackers are elegant and, in my experience, have a higher sense of intelligence and thought process. That's often the divide for people who go to school to earn their degree in computer science and the ones that are successful programmers without going to school to earn their degree; the formally educated feel like they deserve some bonus credit because they blew tens of thousands of dollars getting a piece of paper. Don't get me wrong, going the degree route is the smarter choice overall, but it certainly doesn't give merit to your skills. In fact, I'd probably hire a seasoned hacker over someone with less than 10 years of school-earned programming experience.
Honestly I believe that this isn't from the Chinese government. I believe these attacks are to compromise World of Warcraft accounts as I had a very similar thing happen to me a couple years ago. Blizzard is cracking down more and more on spammers, botters, and gold farmers so they Chinese people are out of jobs. They're resorting to hacking systems to gain access to accounts. That's my $0.02.
Let Mr. Darren P. Briggs know what you think about his informal C&D: his email is dbriggs@landmarkdigital.com (confirmed). Also, if you have an Android phone, let him know what you think about Shazam by posting a comment on the Android Market about it.
The link to Moffat's bio at IBM's site works just fine for me. Makes me wonder how fast this (or another) story made it to IBM web developers to fix this 'problem'.
How about you grow up? Who cares if they think it's cute. I'm sure to women that's actually a turn-on. Women operate on a different frequency than men and it's a wonder that you've made it this far in life if you're worrying about you're netbook being straight-looking.
Again, with only reading the summary I would speculate from my own personal experience that violent video games bring their users into a trance to which it is a fight for virtual survival. The better your reaction time, the better you play at the game and with some games being more focused on not killing/hurting teammates, your visual perception and interpretation needs to have a low latency. A non-violent Battlefield 2, Call of Duty, or BF2: Project Reality isn't going to have the same effect as the original titles.
Actually the medication itself is OTC, but the strength is not. The infraction of this 'crime' would be minor, even if she did have it on her. 'Prescription' ibuprofen is anything above 200mg in a single dose (so 400mg, 600mg, and 800mg). Taking 4 tablets at once of the over-the-counter ibuprofen is the exact same as taking 1 tablet of 800mg 'prescription' ibuprofen.
While professionally and personally I do not condone the sharing of prescription medications, I find that the reason the higher doses of ibuprofen are prescription-only is so people do not take high-doses of ibuprofen (also naproxen and aspirin, although aspirin is frowned-upon in the medical community). High doses of NSAIDs (ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin, just to name a few) can cause stomach bleeds, acid reflux, stomach ulcers, and (less importantly) thin the blood excessively. These are important issues that need the attention of a medical professional's monitoring - it was just today that I had a patient tell me that she was admitted to the hospital 20 years ago for taking too much aspirin and had a stomach ulcer occur (not suicide-related overdose).
I also blame the parents of Megan for even letting her get on anti-depressants at such a young age.
Actually there was never any true-and-lasting contraindication for anti-depressants in teenagers. There was a period of scare, but people soon found out that adults had the same problem too. Typically this results from lack of compliance to the anti-depressant and then having rebound depression.
Those meds are harsh
In my experience having worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 8 years every patient reacts to every medication differently. One person can get high as a kite off of Vicodin, some people don't even notice that they took it. Same with anti-depressants: some people feel better, some people don't.
and should be only used under the care of a very, very good psychiatrist, note that I did NOT say psychologist. Huge, huge difference. I noticed a trend where a lot of non-medically trained psychologist are making recommendations about MEDICATIONS to their clients (they call them patients). This is very scary. Only a MEDICAL doctor should make those calls.
There are many poor psychiatrists out there, but I would not discredit psychologists - many of them go to a professional school much longer than some psychiatrists end up going to. Some psychiatrists are so blind to obvious signs of certain conditions that the patient can receive severely inappropriate care. While medical doctors should be the ones held accountable for the medications prescribed, it is a widely accepted form of therapy and treatment to have the psychologist and psychiatrist work together, even if the psychologist is the one to recommend adjunct therapy with medications. Yet you're forgetting the important fact that only medical doctors (which is what psychiatrists are) can prescribe medications in the United States - so the statement that people need to see a medical doctor is rhetorical.
Yet parents hear crap like ADD or ADHD from just a psychologist and run to their primary care doctor and tell him/her and bam the child is on very harsh drugs that DO have long-term effects and have been shown to cause suicidal thoughts.
It's also widely accepted by psychologists and psychiatrists that ADD and ADHD is a very overly diagnosed condition, and I completely agree that it is overly diagnosed. Dispensing several stimulant medications (to help treat the symptoms of ADD or ADHD) a day to children is a depressing fact of life that I have to deal with on a day-to-day basis - so I can sympathize. Stimulant medications have not been linked to suicidal ideation's, but they do have potentially very long-term side effects since they accelerate the central nervous system.
Hell, I am only 35, I was never drugged out by my parents for "mood swings" or my "lack of attention". I spent most of my time in high school with a boner and looking out the window. I turned out OK and with a good career.
That's fantastic, but for those of us who would have suffered a lot less in high school if our parents would have considered medication options, I can say I completely disagree with your school of thought.
Would Megan still be alive if she never took SSRI's? No one could say that. However, I personally believe she would.
Your beliefs are misguided. You have a right to your opinion, yes, but consider the impact on others before you spread FUD. The people you hear all of the bad press about anti-depressants are the same people like you: medically-undereducated laymen attempting to understand very complex organic chemistry and scientific reactions.
I would absolutely LOVE Linux support for WoW! I would pay $30/account/month for a Linux client, even if it isn't supported, and I even have 2 WoW accounts! I'm sure this would be the case for MANY people. I'm getting sick of having to deal with Windows, and the only reason I still use Windows at all is for WoW because it runs 5x faster in Windows than emulated using Cedega/WineHQ on Linux. You have my vote!