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They take a bit from PopSci, but miss the conclusion... maybe they need to check their own facts...

I'd agree with the others, the best way to learn is to ask. But you can't just start pestering people, though simply telling them during a conversation that you have questions and are curious has always been the way to go for me. And as long as you're not judgemental and keep an open mind, its informative AND interesting!

Like one trans woman I used to play video games with told me she wanted breasts, vocal cord surgery, BUT didn't want to change her other genitals. In her words "[my penis] is one of the few parts of my body I'm comfortable with"! Before I talked to her, i always assumed trans wanted to obtain ALL changes associated with their desired gender!

Poisoned means they require immediate medical intervention, and are at greater risk of brain and body damage. Do all people born before the 80s AND all flint citizens require direct and immediate treatment for those levels?

No, which is part of the point of this article. They are not a generation of brain damaged people, nor are the kids of flint brain damaged and requiring immediate medical attention. Calling them such is harmful for multiple reasons, some of which the article stated.

Another point is that even due to this, lead levels in the people of flint have fallen from 11.x to 3.x percent as per the article.

They don't argue it's not a problem, but they disagree with the hysteria. Not the facts.

So crate the kids and train dogs better. Got it!

"Wind energy takes a lot of coal to setup, so we shouldn't even try" is this author's entire statement. He suggests we focus back on fossil fuels, i.e. natural gas and coal, which he admits he has a commercial interest in.

While I cannot discount his assertion of how much power it takes to build wind turbines, I can point out that using CURRENT fossil fuel power generation to bootstrap our renewables, even wind energy, is a good thing. We're not attempting to go from 0 - 60 by building an entirely separate power grid from scratch. We, as a species, are attempting to move from a harmful and eventually scarce set of fuels to clean energy. Not suddenly. Not quickly. And eventually, slow moving as it is, we will find ways to maximize renewable output. Look at how long it took to squeeze so much power from coal and oil. It didn't take 5 years, it took decades.

To decry renewables like wind because we RIGHT NOW need current coal and oil power to produce it, is worth mentioning but NOT a reason to discount such!

Yup, like how the word "retard" became derogatory, which can be sensitive to people with mental illnesses, and "gay" changed meaning several times, etc etc.

So forgive the skepticism, but this woman was molested twice, 'roofied' once, and harrassed at least 5 times, encountered this stuff frequently and no authoritative body ever took notice? Or was this stuff half hyperbole?

I don't wish to dismiss this as not happening, but if this is true than it should get more attention. I mean, I've heard about some of the unwanted attention and comments women get, and some are quite frightening, but how does this relate to the number of women who attend cons regularly, wear revealing clothing, etc etc, year after year, and don't seem to hAve experienced attacks like this, to this degree and w without authorities taking notice?

Throughout my college years, I had a poster with his entire speech on one of my walls. Unfortunately, tape is not good to posters so I don't have it anymore. I also had John Lennon's Imagine as poster.

You cannot use Coke as an example. They have a strategy that can aptly be described as "profits before people". They've hired terrorist groups to kill workers who've done nothing but try to organize a union to have enough money to feed their children.

http://killercoke.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola http://colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm

It's like saying that the mining companies in Virgina have done nothing but help the people in that region, forgetting of course, the Battle of Blair Mountain, or the wages, or the treatment, or the pollution.

Some companies actually care. But Coke does not. It will never. You speak about the solution to a problem being motivated by profit and that is exactly what the unions were, a problem that was solved by the need to profit.

Some companies need to be stopped. To be taken down. Not because they produce a bad product, but because they are to far detached from "the human condition", and therefore see people as simply an obstacle to their profits.

I am sure if I went dollar to dollar, pound for pound, it may be more expensive, but I don't have money for the bandwidth or infrastructure to install at my house to do half the things I do with Amazon. If you have any alternatives, please let me know.

Well, that's it. I am now going to move everything onto my own infrastructure. I signed up for lavabit a while back, and I like them as a secondary email service; and now they just shut down!

I've always wanted my own server, but then I discovered Amazon's AWS. It's much much cheaper, and you can scale pretty easily.

Well, back to carrier pigeons...

Yea, we liberate the SHIT out of other countries.

My favorite example of science for humanity's sake was the development of the polio vaccine. Its always sad to see someone like this who values commercial benefits over scientific progress become head of a scientific organization.

My mistake, I contributed factually inaccurate information. Thanks for the help!

"1946: Ford sues the allies for damages done to his factories in Dresden during the infamous bombing, and wins compensation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ford_Motor_Company </br> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa...

Yes, Henry Ford did it in the 1950's to recoup the losses after the Allies bombed his tank making factories in Nazi Germany and Axis controlled territory.

There are certain laws in place to keep people from willy-nilly suing the government, but there are situations where it is possible to sue them and sometimes even win. (not sure about this case in particular, anyone want to weigh in?)

Not really. I don't do any customer-oriented things on EC2 so my experience may differ, but to manage my VM's I just setup a bunch of cronjobs to update everything, reboot every so often and start my programs and services after each reboot.

Why can't they be both? I can't celebrate this, even though I like Firefox and encourage their push for open web. But any company that has to install countermeasures to prevent worker suicides on premise isn't exactly aces in my book...

"... There IS the occasional savage beating, and more than their fair share of suicides. But that has "statistical clustering" all over it. "

Standard Disclaimer:I am not a laywer, nor am I handsome enough to play one on TV. My advice is not legal advice, nor is it particularly good advice. Consult a lawyer ASAP.

According to a quick google search: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/...

A normal link is considered fair use, but the law is sort of murkey. Many websites have policies about linking. If your linking directly counters the websites policy then it is considered infringement.

Personally I would consider a link to my site a compliment, unless it is from a post directly attacking my site. ---- I do know that if your feed is automated you should have a policy on your site that clearly outlines the fact that you have no control over said tweets/postings; and are not responsible for the content of the job posts. Such a policy may go on to say that you will remove any posts in violation of copyright, but that is probably up to you and/or applicable laws in your area.

Cloning sites probably does violate copyright law, but once again if you didn't post the actual job, then you may not be responsible (though you may be required to remove the actual job post). I think as long as your site doesn't advocate the cloning or abuse of copyrighted material you have a chance to fight this.

Good luck!

Companies should already have in place a set of well defined, easy to follow, procedures for identifying, containing, and removing threats to the network.

If the network has been breached you may be required to notify users, depending on what kind of data is stored on the network (such as personally identifable information) and the laws your company operates under.

Most large companies keep response teams on hand for exactly this sort of issue, and medium/small companies should at least have a set of procedures and information security operatives who can figure out how the network was breached, what happened when the attackers were inside the network, and what (if anything) was removed, added or altered (i.e. exfiltration).

EDIT: I did not see the 2nd part of your question.

In the case of a reoccuring event, the attackers may have installed a backdoor somewhere on the network, stolen passwords or credentials, or may even be a disgruntled employee.

In this case it is the job of the information security department to find this breach, be it internal or external, and ensure that the breach cannot be repeated. Proof-of-concepts can help in ensuring that the backdoor or breach has been fixed.

Hmm, it might just be me, but I would consider that kind of split second hesitation when deciding whether to fire or not acceptable when the target is a child, or when it is two targets in one body. Does this remind anybody else of those stories of children being shot because they refused to put down airsoft guns?

A quick glance at the patents informs me that patent #1 (CA 2283239) does not have anything to do with your app. Patent #2 (CA 2363556) MAY be applicable to your app, but its doubtful. As I am not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), You will want to contact a legal representative. But it appears to me that you are dealing with a patent troll. Good Luck!

There have been recent articles about police finding offenders by using Pintrest. Perhaps you can do something similar. I would suggest organizing an online campaign to disseminate your friends brothers image. Local distribution of his image will help as well, especially in stores. Ask if you can hang a sign in your friends brothers grocery store, CVS, etc etc.

Thanks for the links, Gnosis! Unfortunately I have not had any amount of success with anti-malware forums, mainly because they only deal with getting malware off of a computer, not analyzing it. The knowledge gap is just too great. I've encountered this with both Symantec and Malwarebytes. They are great anti-malware products and their staff are helpful (to a degree) but they do not have the knowledge that will aid me in figuring out how malware works. In fact, during my conversations with Symantec Suppost (as a business professional via the company I work for, which has a standing contract with Symantec) it actually took 15-20 minutes until I was able to communicate with the rep that I didn't want help getting malware off of a system, I wanted help figuring out how the malware worked. Needless to say, they couldn't help me in the slightest.

But thanks again, even though these sites don't look like they will help with malware analysis they look like they have a good deal of other information.