tkdguy Posted August 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Eruption imminent in Japanese volcano? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Julian Bond passes away at 75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Mario may save the princess, but is the famous plumber evil? You could say the same thing about many video-game protagonists -- especially the idea that when a character we control performs evil acts in a video game, we are somehow responsible. Tabletop RPGs pose the same dilemma for many, especially if they're super-violent. I was in a game once where a player had his character perform a truly shocking act. The party was in a village of insect people and we wanted to find information. Not only did the insect people not speak our language, they could not speak at all in a manner humanoids would understand because of the way their bodies were constructed. One of the players decided to take a child in the village hostage to force them to extract information. This naturally failed, so he did this: Player: I kill the child. GM: The child is dead. The entire table was aghast. This was a deed so pointlessly cruel that it raised questions about the player's moral compass. I played a cleric powerful enough to raise the dead, so when that character later died I had to be convinced/compelled to raise him as opposed to letting him stay dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Depressed Bakery donates to Mental Health Agencies. Bake sale for your brain Hermit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 18, 2015 Report Share Posted August 18, 2015 An Actual Tiger Was Caught Roaming Detroit’s Abandoned Packard Plant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2015 The Rise of the Crazy Ants More ant news: Killer ants addicted to electricity invade Birmingham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 19, 2015 Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hackers have released the data they stole on most of the customer base of Ashley Madison, a web service intended to help cheating partners find partners for their illicit affairs. 9.6GB of user account records (including credit card numbers) were dumped onto the "Dark Web", accessible by one specific browser designed for secret browsing. The hack was clearly intended to shut down the site by threatening the 37 million users (90% of them male according to the hackers, who claimed almost all the female accounts were decoys meant to lure men to the site with the false hope of cheap sex) with the exposure of handy blackmail material to people willing to use it. The hackers' advice to the men they exposed? Sue the operators of Ashley Madison for fraud, claim damages, and make amends with their cuckolded spouses (hopefully avoiding their wrath). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 Scientists find evidence of prehistoric massacre in Europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 19, 2015 Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hackers have released the data they stole on most of the customer base of Ashley Madison, a web service intended to help cheating partners find partners for their illicit affairs. 9.6GB of user account records (including credit card numbers) were dumped onto the "Dark Web", accessible by one specific browser designed for secret browsing. The hack was clearly intended to shut down the site by threatening the 37 million users (90% of them male according to the hackers, who claimed almost all the female accounts were decoys meant to lure men to the site with the false hope of cheap sex) with the exposure of handy blackmail material to people willing to use it. The hackers' advice to the men they exposed? Sue the operators of Ashley Madison for fraud, claim damages, and make amends with their cuckolded spouses (hopefully avoiding their wrath). Worse than that (from an IT perspective), they also released an astonishing amount of information about the AM network--infrastructure diagrams, admin accounts, domain information... I don't see how Am can come back from this. They'd literally have to start over with a brand new IT infrastructure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 Sounds like an inside job, frankly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 Worse than that (from an IT perspective), they also released an astonishing amount of information about the AM network--infrastructure diagrams, admin accounts, domain information... I don't see how Am can come back from this. They'd literally have to start over with a brand new IT infrastructure. So what's the downside of this argument? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 New Zealand Police officer charged with excessive force. For stomping on suspect's head. In a rare (from my perspective) showing of community over tribe, 3 of the five officers involved in the arrest reported the behavior and acted as witnesses against their fellow officer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 3 of the five officers involved in the arrest reported the behavior and acted as witnesses against their fellow officer. Here in the US, the rest of the force would band together to make their lives a living hell for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Wolf pack discovered in California; first in more than 90 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Marvel to celebrate Cosplay with variant covers http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/marvels-cosplay-variant-covers-homage-spider-gwen-iron-man-more Pretty neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 USA Today says Jared is getting five years of prison diet CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Teen helps rescue Kidnapped Woman http://www.cbsnews.com/news/canadian-teen-helps-rescue-kidnapped-woman/ tkdguy and Hermit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Hackers have released the data they stole on most of the customer base of Ashley Madison, a web service intended to help cheating partners find partners for their illicit affairs. 9.6GB of user account records (including credit card numbers) were dumped onto the "Dark Web", accessible by one specific browser designed for secret browsing. The hack was clearly intended to shut down the site by threatening the 37 million users (90% of them male according to the hackers, who claimed almost all the female accounts were decoys meant to lure men to the site with the false hope of cheap sex) with the exposure of handy blackmail material to people willing to use it. The hackers' advice to the men they exposed? Sue the operators of Ashley Madison for fraud, claim damages, and make amends with their cuckolded spouses (hopefully avoiding their wrath). I hate to keep harping on this point, but about half of these cheaters are necessarily women. Seriously, this is the problem with sexism right here. The women are elevated to such virtue and simultaneous lack of agency that they aren't even included as rational actors. Meanwhile, men are reduced to an animal state where they are responsible for all the "sins of the flesh." It's a damaging social mythology to all relationships, even the illicit affairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 I agree with your point in general--but one of the results of the hack is the revelation that 86% of the accounts belonged to men, and that most of the women's accounts were fake. AM was a scam. Enforcer84, Cygnia and BoneDaddy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Heads-up if you're going to Burning Man this year: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3204358/They-New-Mexico-site-year-s-Burning-Man-INUNDATED-biting-bugs.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Teen helps rescue Kidnapped Woman http://www.cbsnews.com/news/canadian-teen-helps-rescue-kidnapped-woman/ "The kids are all right" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 Here’s how the Ashley Madison leak puts thousands of women and LGBT lives at risk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 I agree with your point in general--but one of the results of the hack is the revelation that 86% of the accounts belonged to men, and that most of the women's accounts were fake. AM was a scam.I stand embarrassingly corrected. Lucius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 Better corrected than ignorant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 Aol.com is reporting police raided Gene Simmons's house for child pornography. CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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