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They aren't. The US DoD, for example, and most similar organizations, use internal networks that aren't connected to the internet/WWW. I heard in an NPR interview on the subject of stuxnet that the most likely way it got into the Iranian system is through a USB/flash drive. Either they actually obtain one belonging to someone with regular access to the network and put the virus or trojan on it, or they just drop one in a place where someone with security clearance might find it, and stick it in attempting to see whose it is/what's on it. A less likely scenario is actual agents infiltrating the organization/operation and doing it personally. Exactly... "The Cyber War" is nothing but more FUD coming out of Washington. It's akin to "The Evil Empire" or "We've always been at war with Eastasia!" As long as people are worried about phantom threats they won't be on their representatives butts to fix real problems.

I also didn't think it was spam, but I suppose it was a form of duplication of an active post? I just opened it for thumbs up pictures. I was actually trying to be polite in that by not coming in here and turning it into photo spam. Oh well... BTW: Before someone whom doesn't know fsck is a joke gets testy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck

Spam thread? It was meant to be for fun thumbs up pictures... but what the fsck ever.

In the spirit of Chris' crazy video, I think all of us making pledges should snap a photo giving a silly thumbs up for the project.

I like the idea myself... I've never been a fan of the "Day After Tomorrow" post apocalypse RPG. What I have wanted to see is the 1 million years from now post populace human civilization.

OMG We owe Apple for all the great technical innovations of the last 3 decades! Bow to the memory of Steve the Job! After all, they invented the GUI and Mouse! Xerox Alto Oh, and they invented the Smart Phone! Tricorder And like OMG! The world dominating tablet! Genius at work!!! Sigh... Edit: In before: Nuh uh... The iPad has rounded and beveled corners.

Solution is Matriarchat. But gamma-males fears this so much. Lol! Do want see what you talking about. Do you can give some photos of these "half-ogres"? Oh! We most definitely know how you do it in Russia! Those boys work hard and they play harder! Warning: Absolutely NSFW! http://youtu.be/ZPllpzxmM5k

"USA must awaiting" All your base! All your base! Aggregate dispatch of ultra-current, time relative events in summary interject format: Software-driven multipurpose machine-assisted homo-sapien verbal communication protocol translators frequently do not operate within the general realm of acceptability, as defined by the average layman. Additionally, it is highly probable that the former congressman, presidential candidate and newly-appointed U.S. Secretary of State gives a long-tailed-rodent's gluteus maximus whether or no his attempted communication was heard or will be reciprocated. Mee-sa heartsa comfounding forum postas who use-a babblyfishes!

Anyone else besides me support Star Citizen? If so, do you feel like RSI is starting to feel a bit nickle & dimey? I was pretty suspicious of the project at first because they mentioned private investors, but supported it anyway. I don't know, I guess I'm just very suspicious... Especially with the tricks we've seen large dollar publishers getting away with recently. What do I mean? Here's one example of many... A few months ago I read about Microsoft's filing of a patent on using a hands-free controller to determine the number of people in a room for the sole purpose of shutting off pay-per-view content if too many people are in the room. (Personally, I'd just unplug it.) Then, a few days ago, I read the next XBox will have the following: Use once serial keys, persistent internet required, kinect connected and functioning required. People really should boycott the thing, but I feel like few will because "consumers in general" have no backbone.

The main concern I have is that NK is so heavily invested in their nuclear program that they will expect some sort of economic compensation. They are, after all, a complete basket case otherwise. Financially that may inevitably translate into selling nukes on the world's black market. Once that starts to happen, all bets are off. I can think of several nation states that could decide NK can't be allowed to present such a threat to their major cities, so they will initiate a first strike. Goodbye North Korea. Please, by whatever God or morality you personally subscribe, pray or hope it doesn't come to that. You could have heard a pin-drop around the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If we (humanity) start launching nukes at each other we're essentially finished.

Its unusual but I agree with Volourn on this point, its irrelevant what caused it once he killed the daughter and her fiancé of the guy that failed to get him to keep his job. He lost any sympathy and moral high ground the moment he did this. Its like saying " lets try understand the causes of 9\11 because maybe it makes the attack okay". We know why 9\11 was perpetuated and the reasons don't justify what Al-Qaeda did( this is an example, I am not saying you said this). What do you need to understand about a cowardly murder? His manifesto is clear and there for you to read, so I don't get why you think we need to analyze his reasons anymore than we already do? He was a mentally unbalanced individual who posed a serious threat to society. He needs to be arrested or killed. Its not complicated. And, once again, you only read what's in your head and purport that I wrote something I did not. I never defended his actions, nor did I say those actions were justified in any way. I did say we need to understand why this happens. I did not say he should go free because he's "disturbed". I did not say he should not stand trial and I did not say "he's just misunderstood." What I did say is that we should be a little less gung-ho on the "kill the bad man" and a put more effort into capture, arrest and study of his condition. People don't just go crazy for no reason, there's usually a cause and effect, understanding what takes people from "I'm unhappy and upset with this situation" to "I'm going to kill everyone" is pretty important to society. When we know what causes "going postal" then we can perhaps find some way to prevent it's happening. For someone who claims people only read what they want I hope you realize you do exactly the same thing. I never said you said That you felt his actions were justified That you think he should go free That he shouldn't stand trial Its true, read my post again. My point in summary is why do you feel the need to understand his motives when its clear from his manifesto. He was a deranged person who chose innocent people to vent his frustration on. Personally I am more concerned with the families of the victims that were killed, but you are welcome to look for additional meaning around why he murdered people that had nothing to do with his actual issue, the LAPD. Please let me know what you discover. Okay, it's clear that I'm not being understood. I'm aware of the rationalizations he made for his behavior, that is understood. Why those rationalizations suddenly lack enough moral ballast from his conscious is what we do not. For example, when people get angry and might think, I'd like to kill that bastard for a moment. Then, almost as quickly they realize such an outcome is in huge disproportion to how they feel wronged. A person with an ego disorder might not think that, but instead consider the consequences of law or implications of their personal religious doctrine. How that moral off-switch gets flipped is what we really need to understand. He did not kill people at random, but his desire to hurt someone he felt wronged him was so great that he was willing to kill two people who had no direct involvement to exact that revenge. What made them different than the people in the cabin? Both caused him no direct pain but morals were turned on for two of them and turned off for the other two. Now, in response to your post: You didn't say I defended his actions, Volourn appeared to be saying that. The paragraph was indirect and wasn't meant as a tit-for-tat rebuke to specific things. I meant it in spirit as why what I think should be done is not a "moral highground" or an attempt at the "reduction of moral fiber" in society. I wasn't asking for exoneration, which is what some appear to think I was asking for. Edit: I feel for the families of the victims. But, they are gone and can't be brought back. Understanding criminally deranged behavior can and will help potential victims down the road. People lose their jobs all the time, but a very select few go bonkers, what's different? Is it chemical, biological, caused by some similar emotional trauma?

Probably because they're distributing videos showing a desire to send missiles this way. It's a silly goal really, lots of people have simply forgotten SDI, or believe that it was actually canceled. It's also silly to ever think we'd conduct another ground war in that part of the world. China is the sole proprietor of eastern ground wars, we'd just happily lob munitions towards any target they happen to paint. Also, anyone sets off an aggressive nuke, or chemical weapon, any where in this world and life as we know it will be over.

Have a look at the CPU fan as well. CPU's will over-temp very quickly if the fan isn't working and the internal thermal protection resets the system.

Its unusual but I agree with Volourn on this point, its irrelevant what caused it once he killed the daughter and her fiancé of the guy that failed to get him to keep his job. He lost any sympathy and moral high ground the moment he did this. Its like saying " lets try understand the causes of 9\11 because maybe it makes the attack okay". We know why 9\11 was perpetuated and the reasons don't justify what Al-Qaeda did( this is an example, I am not saying you said this). What do you need to understand about a cowardly murder? His manifesto is clear and there for you to read, so I don't get why you think we need to analyze his reasons anymore than we already do? He was a mentally unbalanced individual who posed a serious threat to society. He needs to be arrested or killed. Its not complicated. And, once again, you only read what's in your head and purport that I wrote something I did not. I never defended his actions, nor did I say those actions were justified in any way. I did say we need to understand why this happens. I did not say he should go free because he's "disturbed". I did not say he should not stand trial and I did not say "he's just misunderstood." What I did say is that we should be a little less gung-ho on the "kill the bad man" and a put more effort into capture, arrest and study of his condition. People don't just go crazy for no reason, there's usually a cause and effect, understanding what takes people from "I'm unhappy and upset with this situation" to "I'm going to kill everyone" is pretty important to society. When we know what causes "going postal" then we can perhaps find some way to prevent it's happening.

I didn't defend him, or his actions. I said we need to find out what causes this instead of just writing off the perpetrators once it has begun. But then, I'm no stranger to people on the internet not listening at all, putting words in others' mouths, generalizing their statements and then treating the very people asking questions as if they'd been involved in the actions in question. In the end, such uneven temperaments are what brings about one's own demise, or the demise of the society that endorses the behavior. Good & evil or human nature? (Video is well done, but violent.)

There is a difference between saying that someone is innocent and saying we need to understand why it happened, I'm with the latter. I can't judge him because I'm not there, wasn't involved, and didn't sit on a would-be jury. What I am saying is making a summary judgement to "kill the bad man" is not how we find out what led to this... There is more value in preventing what creates these messes than just cleaning them up afterward. I just think that, "how did it come to this?" is a really good effing question because, if we knew that answer, there might be a whole lot less corpses now.

Yea! Because every person who supports this or that only votes a party line on all issues because that's what they're told to do, as well as being spoon fed all of the arguments and counter arguments on the issue. If you think people should have guns then that means absolutely that you must be racist, sexist, a warmonger and hate gay people.

And you wonder why we have people going bonkers in schools... <shakes head> Several years ago when he was a soldier people would have used another label, "Hero". So then, how did the hero become the villain? Answering that question would be much more beneficial to society than just making the bad man go away. That lack of compassion, lack of willingness to understand that something changed this person is why we have so many screwed up people. Eye on the TV Cause tragedy thrills me Whatever flavor it happens to be, like... "Killed by the husband" "Drowned by the ocean" "Shot by his own son" "She used a poison, in his tea, and kissed him goodbye" That's my kind of story It's no fun until someone dies Don't look at me like I am a monster Frown out your one face But with the other Stare like a junkie Right at the TV Stare like a zombie While the mother holds her child Watches him die Hands to the sky crying, "Why, oh why?" Cause I need to watch things die, from a distance Vicariously I live while the whole world dies You all need it too, don't lie

The reason we're in decline is because people have stopped thinking. Sit down, talk with anyone on either side of the political debates going on and you'll hear, by and large, only one thing: the regurgitation of exactly what the so-called experts in the major media outlets say. Doesn't matter which one, hell I've even heard people use arguments from the other side about a different issue entirely. Example: I saw a liberal post this in response to an article about the video game violence debate, "People need to stop blaming inanimate objects for the actions of the criminally insane." Really? I wonder where he heard that. I see few, and I mean very few, responses on either side to any debate that aren't almost verbatim reiterations of made on TV arguments. Hell, I've even done it myself from time to time, but when I realize what I'm doing and try to come at it from my own perspective. Four years ago I decided that I wasn't happy with how watching most television made me feel at the end of the day, and now I can realistically say I watch fewer than 5 hours a week, with most of that being movies. I am much happier and have far less stress than all that junk use to create. But, the side-effect of that is now I end up thinking for myself and both sides of the TV peoples usually end up trying to vilify me because I won't agree 100% on a liberal or conservative agenda. "Wait, how can you be for Gay Rights and not for Gun Control?" "Because I know the path to tyranny is laid with bricks called 'good intentions' and because I believe people should be free to live as they wish." "That doesn't make any sense!" "Perhaps you should spend a little less time watching American Idol and a little more reading history."

Sandbox and IE-style don't mix. A sandbox game (à la Minecraft, a pure sandbox, or GTA, a mostly sandbox,) is more about dicking around and making your own fun, not story, companions and combat depth. Doesn't have to be one or the other, hense what I said about too many variables to track. I've seen it done in other games, but I don't see the dev-time/dollars to make it happen with PE. What game? I'v yet to hear of an IE game or IE-like game with sandbox gameplay. By that I meant a player party, story driven CRPG, but not necessarily any game built specifically upon the Infinity Engine.

ROTFLMAO! #1 There's nothing wrong with a little adventure in the bedroom. #2 Well... Let's just say ladies can be wobbly for more than one reason.

Tsuga, your correction made me think of a Honeymooners scene I haven't seen for 20 years.

One of the best modern RPG breakdowns I have ever seen. He does a good job of dodging the Computer vs Console debate and goes right after the issue of trading fans for player$. Sadly, I think he's right and that things like TES & IE games are a thing of the past, unless we, as avid RPGers, keep the crowdsourcing initiative alive. (Well, he didn't say that exactly but it is the logical conclusion.) BTW: I think the industry could really do well by redefining the term casual gamer. Right now, it includes far too many people: children, soccer parents, people who play only in a social setting and low hours players. A person who plays a game more slowly, and puts in few hours per sitting may indeed play casually, but still might not want the challenge of the game reduced to the mental faculties of the average 9 year old.

Uh... yea. I didn't like Dragon Age, but that doesn't really prevent anyone else from liking it. So, I got around to reading beyond the first page and the only words I can find to describe this is, "nerd paparazzi." Got enough to do with my own linkedin ya know.

Wow this thread is way too up in peoples' personal bizniz for my taste...