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“The whole idea that one organism would voluntarily ingest and be regulated by the fecal by-products of another,” she says, “makes us wonder what is going on.”
You and me both.
Past the squick factor though, it really is an amazing example of how many forms life can take.
Whoops, I missed that bit, that would be why. Thanks.
1 - Infect a few virtual machines
2 - Collect decryption keys
3 - Laugh at the hackers
Of course not many people out of the general population know how to make a (primarily) windows VM, but I'm surprised that others aren't mentioning it in this thread.
Sure, they are violating the law, but I and many others would say that it's an unjust and harmful law.
Laws exist to serve people, not the other way around.
I worked at a school helpdesk for a while, and I saw that whenever school email accounts were hacked, the attackers would set up forwarding to some other account. People wouldn't notice the forwarding for weeks or longer, and would only come in to us by chance. In the meantime, a lot of information could be siphoned off.
There could be some legitimate security concerns there, especially since most yahoo accounts don't have a convenient and free help desk to stop by, right?
(Disclaimer: I am only a novice when it comes to security, I could be totally off base)
What a time to be alive.
Maybe I'm naive, but I just can't see how these NetSweeper people justify this to themselves.
You help built momentum for a proper electoral system instead of the garbage we have now. I blows my mind that after centuries we still have something as idiotic as the electoral college, and all the imbalance it brings, in our nation.
It always drives me crazy when people that make 50k+ a year complain about not having money. I live on about $500-$600 a month and I'm fine. Granted, not everyone is ablebodied and living within biking distance of their school/work, but most certainly could be, especially with a little effort.
Not needing money is incredibly liberating, I advise everyone to just try it for a year.
I think it's worth noting that MMA fighters don't tend to suffer as many injuries. Boxing's strict ruleset forces fighters to beat eachother into putty to win, but other fights can be won without (as many) concussions.
As a game maker, this stuff terrifies me. I think that there are a lot of devs out there who string together compulsive elements in their games without realizing just how potent they can be.
I have to agree here, I'd have less problem if all camera feeds that the gov't has access to are available for all citizens, including police cars, etc.. at all times.
Remember that stalkers exist. Madison, WI did this momentarily a year or three back, and a lot of abusers and such used it to stalk and harass other people much more consistently than they could have otherwise.
My main concern is that I don't see how they get any money out of it. Normally I'm fine with free services, for obvious reasons, but it strikes me as concerning that this requires quite a bit of work and money, both over the long term, but they have no visible payoff. The only way I see it being viable in the long term is if they take our money. I'd like to see this as a % fee of some sort but I worry that it is either doomed or a scam.