Not particularly actually. They'll still leave traces usually, just like most malicious rootkits. In any event the original/old definition of malware just being any malicious software isn't strictly true anymore. In most cases I find most people seem to classify "bad things" as either virus, spyware, malware, or now rootkit. I should not I see this from the semi-technoliterate initially and then the AV vendor types seem to start using the same 'definitions' to describe the "bad things" a PC can get, adding validity in a bad way.
There is also a reason why the evidence they are presenting is in opposition of the linear growth theories regarding intelligence. At least, if the summary is anything to go by.
Actually, its very accurate considering the parent poster put people who were fans of Watchmen before it was being made into a movie in a separate category. I've noticed some people, even if they have NEVER EVER read the original book/novel/graphic novel/comic book or what have you instantly rag on a movie version of the story. The only thing I too can think of is a "warped sense of elitism" in which their point of view is correct at all times and everyone else is a moron.
The previews, from someone who has never seen/read Watchmen, looked promising. It may be a live action "cliff notes" version of the novel, but I go to the theater to be entertained and out of the house, usually with friends. It could be a crappy conversion, but still a good movie.
VAC Bans don't get warnings. I've known people who have been VAC banned because their account got hacked and they got their account back and unbanned inside of two weeks. I know people that got their account hijacked from phishing attempts and got them restored within a week. If you throw a hissy fit about it without trying to find out why something happened you have no right to complain. VAC banning is automatic and has VERY few false positives if any. You get an aimbot or a wallhack and play online, you'll probably get VAC banned (now that its VAC2, VAC1 was easy to get around) and you have no one to blame but yourself, or whomever you let access to your account.
You have it wrong. A crap ton is metric, an ass load is imperial. Imperial is larger, mostly because we Americans striving to be #1 in everything are #1 in obesity.
So what you are really saying is we need a universal API so that Linux programmers only need to program once, and if you decide to use a GNOME nothing needs to be compiled or changed specifically for you if the 'default' Linux DM was KDE.
Honestly its a good idea if everyone in the FOSS movement played along with it. Problem is, not everyone in the FOSS movement agrees with each other so it will probably never happen. So get used to having to compile shit separately and having essentially image discs for install discs for the home user market.
Actually it is you who is fooling himself. The US for the past 100 years has been heading down a bad path, and things are worse for liberty in the US now than they were before in many ways. We're still not a police state yet. From my experience, the bulk of the people in the armed forces and law enforcement aren't the types that would willing turn their guns onto the populace.
Oh, truth be told it would be easy to trick them into arresting a few "terrorists" but if you tried to do a full population control a lot of people would stop and say 'wait a minute'. I'm more worried bout a second civil war, using modern guerrilla tactics, than I am about the US suddenly becoming like China.
The thing about conspiracy theories is that the majority of them are wrong. Usually its the simplest explanation that is the most true. This is why a conspiracy theory about there being a second shooter in the JFK assassination isn't *that* crazy sounding, but aliens at Roswell brings up thoughts of someone needing medication.
No joke. I just love how some key menus that are LOCAL use IE. For example, on Windows XP the User Accounts option in Control Panel. The window that opens is not Windows Explorer but Internet Explorer. Interestingly, if your security settings are too tight you can't use that menu at all. You'd have to manage the users manually.
Then the author gets off on some soapbox about people being accused of crimes, and how their information shouldn't be published... you know, we should just arrest them all Gestapo style, and when their wife/family asks what happened to them, "sorry, we're not allowed to discuss that in order to protect the accused from social embarrassment."
Seriously, do you not think before you speak? The author said not to PUBLISH the information PUBLICLY. You still tell the families of those involved, but beyond that no one needs to know. Lets use the current case with Lori Drew as an example. The Judge presiding the case himself wanted to EXCLUDE the suicide information, but because *every* person they got for the Jury had heard about the case they couldn't. So now we have a problem with people's rights to a FAIR trial being taken away thanks to mainstream media having to have sensationalist stories.
I mean really, not counting the "MySpace Verdict", how does Megan's death affect you? Fact is it doesn't. It sucks to hear that she offed her self, but it doesn't really affect you unless you knew her. So why was it getting national spot light? Is it really national news that a young girl committed suicide? It is hard to talk about it without being extremely callous, but people have been committing suicide quite often for quite a long time so this isn't unheard of.
The side affects to the "MySpace Verdict" of Lori Drew's case definitely deserve national attention though. Her right to a fair trial was denied and now I could potentially face criminal charges on a number of websites (MySpace included) without doing anything "wrong" or "evil".
Another thing that has gone unmentioned: where in the verdict does it say the person has to be "evil" to be found guilty of violating the Terms of Service of a website? Who has any say in how this tool will be used in the future?
And I thought I was naive. Outlawing personal firearms does not protect you from crooks with guns. The crooks are most likely using a stolen gun in the first place, or other illegal firearm. In the UK, which has some of the strongest gun control laws out there, criminals don't have that hard of a time getting firearms.
Gun violence is down and knife violence is up due to all those 'crimes of passion' and the like where someone on the spur of the moment (well, maybe not literally the spur of the moment) decides to kill someone.
And no, the 2nd Amendment isn't just for Farmer John to have a gun because there are no police around. Certain quotes from the founding fathers sheds light on the purpose for it: so that the people can oppose the government if the government starts abusing their rights.
The scary bit is how close to that day we are going.
But he committed a crime. Period. And purusing him for that is not "chilling," it's following the law.
You are wrong. Here is why you are wrong: the methods they have used are excessive. What you have here is a show of force. Also, and this is part of the legal system in the US, you have to look at the circumstances of his actions. The man is apparently far from alone from people that were working in those departments in feeling that what has been going on is wrong. It shows a crass disregard for the Constitution, but then Bush isn't really an American because he thinks is "just a damn piece of paper" (his words).
It is chilling knowing he may face the death penalty potentially for his actions. It is chilling knowing how liberal the Bush administration has been with the death penalty (article itself mentions it being like a rubber stamp "yes" but all perfectly legal). It is chilling not knowing if he will really get a fair trial, or if anything will ever be done about what he was whistleblowing about in the first place.
No, sir. You are wrong. This story is very chilling indeed, as his account.
Agreed. I read this this morning and this story really draws you in. It's amazing to me that so many people could be feeling that the whole fiasco was wrong and do so little about it. This is why we need whistle blower protections.
I feel for the guy and his family, but he had to have known what would happen. Myself, if I was in his shoes I would of done the same thing. Warrantless wiretapping is just wrong. It's illegal and immoral.
Factor in his experience with how the death penalty was so liberally pushed with Bush in office and you feel almost sick. Nothing else that has happened has made me feel like the US was going totally into a facist police state as that section of the story. Truly chilling.
Serious question: Can you even be dyslexic when it comes to numbers? I'm not familiar with dyslexia really and I figured it was *anything* written, not anything specific.
On the topic, manga seem to have more text than your typical comic book. At least the ones I've seen. Would that cause an issue for someone with dyslexia? Or would having the images associated with the text still be helpful?
I guess that depends on what you mean by graphics design. I wouldn't want to use Maya or another 3D modeling program with a pen and tablet.
Oh and thanks for making an inflammatory comment at the end there that serves no real purpose. Glad to see we're adults here.
That whole bit where the screen costs 200 USD typically, more because its a "touch" screen. Contrasting with the 15-60 USD mouse... Yea. Unless monitor manufacturers decide to drop the price of the screens to less than 50 USD for a 17-22" so folks without small hands can work and have space to see what they are doing it just isn't practical.
Yea, but will he have the card slots available to use it? For example, if you have an EVGA 780i mother board with 2 video cards that take up to 2 PCI slots and a sound card you don't have any more space for an exapsion card even though you have 3 more slots left. More and more video cards seem to be coming out that cover 2 PCI slots, be it the GPU size or the cooling system.
Um, I beg to differ. I live in southwest Washington state. I don't travel a lot so I don't know how the roads work in other states so maybe we're just weird. Anyways, on I-5 you have a little less than 10 seconds to get up to 60 usually. Most cars from the 80's and newer can handle this with no problem.
I'll elaborate. Most of the on-ramps go in a big curve with a speed limit of 25 mph, occasionally you get one that is 35 mph. If you are a jackass you can usually go up to 10 mph over without being in risk of losing control, unless its icy. Once the on-ramp straightens out you have less than 10 seconds to get up to speed.
This is where driving at certain times of day just gets dangerous in my opinion. There are people who seem to think you "should" be going 5-10 mph *under* the speed limit. The problem is these people are in the vast minority and are causing a road hazard.
You feel if someone is driving 60mph that it is dangerous for someone to be passing them at 80mph correct? So how dangerous is it for you to take your time getting up to 60mph (when the car is FULLY capable of doing so in less than 10 seconds; average of 12) and getting on the freeway at 40mph while everyone else is trying to go 60mph or more? How about when those people going 60 have to get between you and the car infront/behind you so they can merge onto the off-ramp? 20 mph is a big difference, slowing down reasonably won't cut it sometimes and your average drier won't be able to tell that until its (almost) too late.
You want to go the speed limit, that's fine. We can talk about driving slowly/speeding some other day. But grow a backbone and accelerate! I see far too many near-accidents caused by some yahoo who is getting on a freeway and is still going 40mph even though he had a nice stretch of on-ramp to get up to speed all because he's not accelerating enough.
theaveng: I know you wouldn't dare do 5 minutes of research, or read the summary, or the article, but at least read the comments. COPPA only affects those 13 and younger. The reason for that has to do with puberty, and whether or not a person has finished going through it.
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Not particularly actually. They'll still leave traces usually, just like most malicious rootkits. In any event the original/old definition of malware just being any malicious software isn't strictly true anymore. In most cases I find most people seem to classify "bad things" as either virus, spyware, malware, or now rootkit. I should not I see this from the semi-technoliterate initially and then the AV vendor types seem to start using the same 'definitions' to describe the "bad things" a PC can get, adding validity in a bad way.
There is also a reason why the evidence they are presenting is in opposition of the linear growth theories regarding intelligence. At least, if the summary is anything to go by.
How can you say its a forgettable story when its been re-used a multitude of times, including in Harry Potter!
Actually, its very accurate considering the parent poster put people who were fans of Watchmen before it was being made into a movie in a separate category. I've noticed some people, even if they have NEVER EVER read the original book/novel/graphic novel/comic book or what have you instantly rag on a movie version of the story. The only thing I too can think of is a "warped sense of elitism" in which their point of view is correct at all times and everyone else is a moron.
The previews, from someone who has never seen/read Watchmen, looked promising. It may be a live action "cliff notes" version of the novel, but I go to the theater to be entertained and out of the house, usually with friends. It could be a crappy conversion, but still a good movie.
VAC Bans don't get warnings. I've known people who have been VAC banned because their account got hacked and they got their account back and unbanned inside of two weeks. I know people that got their account hijacked from phishing attempts and got them restored within a week. If you throw a hissy fit about it without trying to find out why something happened you have no right to complain. VAC banning is automatic and has VERY few false positives if any. You get an aimbot or a wallhack and play online, you'll probably get VAC banned (now that its VAC2, VAC1 was easy to get around) and you have no one to blame but yourself, or whomever you let access to your account.
You have it wrong. A crap ton is metric, an ass load is imperial. Imperial is larger, mostly because we Americans striving to be #1 in everything are #1 in obesity.
So what you are really saying is we need a universal API so that Linux programmers only need to program once, and if you decide to use a GNOME nothing needs to be compiled or changed specifically for you if the 'default' Linux DM was KDE.
Honestly its a good idea if everyone in the FOSS movement played along with it. Problem is, not everyone in the FOSS movement agrees with each other so it will probably never happen. So get used to having to compile shit separately and having essentially image discs for install discs for the home user market.
Second erroneous Troll modding in so many hours. Apparently the mods that normally correct the wrongs are out today.
Who modded this troll? I know there isn't a -1 Not Funny but it was obviously an attempt at humor. Let me translate:
"A bit of creative spelling can save both ink and paper. These two sentences have saved 31% of both."
Oh yes, that most definitely is a Troll. [/sarcasm]
Actually it is you who is fooling himself. The US for the past 100 years has been heading down a bad path, and things are worse for liberty in the US now than they were before in many ways. We're still not a police state yet. From my experience, the bulk of the people in the armed forces and law enforcement aren't the types that would willing turn their guns onto the populace.
Oh, truth be told it would be easy to trick them into arresting a few "terrorists" but if you tried to do a full population control a lot of people would stop and say 'wait a minute'. I'm more worried bout a second civil war, using modern guerrilla tactics, than I am about the US suddenly becoming like China.
The thing about conspiracy theories is that the majority of them are wrong. Usually its the simplest explanation that is the most true. This is why a conspiracy theory about there being a second shooter in the JFK assassination isn't *that* crazy sounding, but aliens at Roswell brings up thoughts of someone needing medication.
No joke. I just love how some key menus that are LOCAL use IE. For example, on Windows XP the User Accounts option in Control Panel. The window that opens is not Windows Explorer but Internet Explorer. Interestingly, if your security settings are too tight you can't use that menu at all. You'd have to manage the users manually.
That was Firefox, not Ubuntu checking. Firefox does that automagically. Ubuntu did not do anything.
You apparently have no idea what Godwin's Law is so I'm guessing you bought that low userid rather than earned it.
On a console? Unlikely. The only games that I'm aware of that no longer work online are MMO's of some sort, an that is a whole separate ball game.
Then the author gets off on some soapbox about people being accused of crimes, and how their information shouldn't be published... you know, we should just arrest them all Gestapo style, and when their wife/family asks what happened to them, "sorry, we're not allowed to discuss that in order to protect the accused from social embarrassment."
Seriously, do you not think before you speak? The author said not to PUBLISH the information PUBLICLY. You still tell the families of those involved, but beyond that no one needs to know. Lets use the current case with Lori Drew as an example. The Judge presiding the case himself wanted to EXCLUDE the suicide information, but because *every* person they got for the Jury had heard about the case they couldn't. So now we have a problem with people's rights to a FAIR trial being taken away thanks to mainstream media having to have sensationalist stories.
I mean really, not counting the "MySpace Verdict", how does Megan's death affect you? Fact is it doesn't. It sucks to hear that she offed her self, but it doesn't really affect you unless you knew her. So why was it getting national spot light? Is it really national news that a young girl committed suicide? It is hard to talk about it without being extremely callous, but people have been committing suicide quite often for quite a long time so this isn't unheard of.
The side affects to the "MySpace Verdict" of Lori Drew's case definitely deserve national attention though. Her right to a fair trial was denied and now I could potentially face criminal charges on a number of websites (MySpace included) without doing anything "wrong" or "evil".
Another thing that has gone unmentioned: where in the verdict does it say the person has to be "evil" to be found guilty of violating the Terms of Service of a website? Who has any say in how this tool will be used in the future?
And I thought I was naive. Outlawing personal firearms does not protect you from crooks with guns. The crooks are most likely using a stolen gun in the first place, or other illegal firearm. In the UK, which has some of the strongest gun control laws out there, criminals don't have that hard of a time getting firearms.
Gun violence is down and knife violence is up due to all those 'crimes of passion' and the like where someone on the spur of the moment (well, maybe not literally the spur of the moment) decides to kill someone.
And no, the 2nd Amendment isn't just for Farmer John to have a gun because there are no police around. Certain quotes from the founding fathers sheds light on the purpose for it: so that the people can oppose the government if the government starts abusing their rights.
The scary bit is how close to that day we are going.
But he committed a crime. Period. And purusing him for that is not "chilling," it's following the law.
You are wrong. Here is why you are wrong: the methods they have used are excessive. What you have here is a show of force. Also, and this is part of the legal system in the US, you have to look at the circumstances of his actions. The man is apparently far from alone from people that were working in those departments in feeling that what has been going on is wrong. It shows a crass disregard for the Constitution, but then Bush isn't really an American because he thinks is "just a damn piece of paper" (his words).
It is chilling knowing he may face the death penalty potentially for his actions. It is chilling knowing how liberal the Bush administration has been with the death penalty (article itself mentions it being like a rubber stamp "yes" but all perfectly legal). It is chilling not knowing if he will really get a fair trial, or if anything will ever be done about what he was whistleblowing about in the first place.
No, sir. You are wrong. This story is very chilling indeed, as his account.
Agreed. I read this this morning and this story really draws you in. It's amazing to me that so many people could be feeling that the whole fiasco was wrong and do so little about it. This is why we need whistle blower protections.
I feel for the guy and his family, but he had to have known what would happen. Myself, if I was in his shoes I would of done the same thing. Warrantless wiretapping is just wrong. It's illegal and immoral.
Factor in his experience with how the death penalty was so liberally pushed with Bush in office and you feel almost sick. Nothing else that has happened has made me feel like the US was going totally into a facist police state as that section of the story. Truly chilling.
Serious question: Can you even be dyslexic when it comes to numbers? I'm not familiar with dyslexia really and I figured it was *anything* written, not anything specific.
On the topic, manga seem to have more text than your typical comic book. At least the ones I've seen. Would that cause an issue for someone with dyslexia? Or would having the images associated with the text still be helpful?
I guess that depends on what you mean by graphics design. I wouldn't want to use Maya or another 3D modeling program with a pen and tablet. Oh and thanks for making an inflammatory comment at the end there that serves no real purpose. Glad to see we're adults here.
That whole bit where the screen costs 200 USD typically, more because its a "touch" screen. Contrasting with the 15-60 USD mouse... Yea. Unless monitor manufacturers decide to drop the price of the screens to less than 50 USD for a 17-22" so folks without small hands can work and have space to see what they are doing it just isn't practical.
Yea, but will he have the card slots available to use it? For example, if you have an EVGA 780i mother board with 2 video cards that take up to 2 PCI slots and a sound card you don't have any more space for an exapsion card even though you have 3 more slots left. More and more video cards seem to be coming out that cover 2 PCI slots, be it the GPU size or the cooling system.
Ah yes, I see now!
Um, I beg to differ. I live in southwest Washington state. I don't travel a lot so I don't know how the roads work in other states so maybe we're just weird. Anyways, on I-5 you have a little less than 10 seconds to get up to 60 usually. Most cars from the 80's and newer can handle this with no problem.
I'll elaborate. Most of the on-ramps go in a big curve with a speed limit of 25 mph, occasionally you get one that is 35 mph. If you are a jackass you can usually go up to 10 mph over without being in risk of losing control, unless its icy. Once the on-ramp straightens out you have less than 10 seconds to get up to speed.
This is where driving at certain times of day just gets dangerous in my opinion. There are people who seem to think you "should" be going 5-10 mph *under* the speed limit. The problem is these people are in the vast minority and are causing a road hazard.
You feel if someone is driving 60mph that it is dangerous for someone to be passing them at 80mph correct? So how dangerous is it for you to take your time getting up to 60mph (when the car is FULLY capable of doing so in less than 10 seconds; average of 12) and getting on the freeway at 40mph while everyone else is trying to go 60mph or more? How about when those people going 60 have to get between you and the car infront/behind you so they can merge onto the off-ramp? 20 mph is a big difference, slowing down reasonably won't cut it sometimes and your average drier won't be able to tell that until its (almost) too late.
You want to go the speed limit, that's fine. We can talk about driving slowly/speeding some other day. But grow a backbone and accelerate! I see far too many near-accidents caused by some yahoo who is getting on a freeway and is still going 40mph even though he had a nice stretch of on-ramp to get up to speed all because he's not accelerating enough.
theaveng: I know you wouldn't dare do 5 minutes of research, or read the summary, or the article, but at least read the comments. COPPA only affects those 13 and younger. The reason for that has to do with puberty, and whether or not a person has finished going through it.