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Comment I can "believe" it (Score 1) 931

It would give you the sense that no matter what someone does care and all the other wonderful feelings that come with a belief system. There is supposedly a religious area of the brain, so I can believe that it may help.

There is nothing at all wrong with that. Most people have some sort of belief system, be it religious or another spiritual sense.

The dangerous part is when the church or governing body of that belief system is corrupt and they tell you that you must believe their word and that is it. Examples include the proclamation of the Catholic church that condoms are evil or un-chrisitian, thus preventing religious people that wish to partake in sex unable to use some sort of contraception to prevent the spread of diseases like AIDS.
I use this example strictly because it is fresh in my mind from watching a debate on whether "The Catholic Church is a Force for Good in the World."

I don't believe it would be ethical to recommend a specific religion to a patient, but letting them know about the communities that follow religions and the support network they can form I see nothing wrong with.

Comment Because of reasons (Score 1) 978

In the past month, many if my regular sites have been flagged by Google for malware and when resolved it was all down to malicious software being served by their ad provider.

For the first time in years I visited Youtube on a freshly installed system without any addons installed, and it blew my mind how many ads there were. The main page had about 3 ads including a huge video ad in the middle. This was on a netbook and so the time it took for the ad to load was not appreciated. I loaded a music video and there was a video ad, a popup on the video, and that annoying frame around official music videos that show the next crappy pop star (in this case it was Nicki Minaj, and that was really unappreciated).

Some sites that I do visit ask me to turn it off and they so far have only served me very simple image ads or text ads which I don't really mind. It's when an ad starts playing animation and/or audio that I block them and sometimes just block the site itself completely.

You don't need to be intrusive to sell your product. It just annoys the end user. I don't remember a single flashy ads name, so that obviously does not work (in my case).

Comment dsploit (Score 1) 154

Install "dsploit" and mess around with your friends and family. It allows for changing all the image in someones browser with a specified image, and you can do the same with text. Made my friend think she was being haunted by changing her name on Facebook to "you're next" and all her images to scary faces that say things a virus wouldn't know.

And she had no idea because I was on my tablet.
There is also password sniffing and such but I'm not interested in that.

Comment Re:Sooo (Score 1) 145

I ordered a MicroSD card and a mini Wireless N adapter from TigerDirect and the box was huge and full of several feet of brown paper packaging it's ridiculous. Like, 10 feet of paper. Same thing when I ordered speakers from Amazon. The warehouse is only a couple of towns away and the box was 3-4 times bigger than the item and full of paper.

On the opposite side of it I received an HDD from eBay which only had one layer of bubble wrap and an envelope. Worked fine, but the contrast was amusing.

Comment Wow (Score 1) 798

Is it really just the state of the American system that is so corrupt that a company can get away with this, or is this prevalent elsewhere? Obviously /. features predominantly American news so I can't tell if my views are skewed or not.

If it does seem to be mostly American; Bloody hell you guys need to step up your game. I've never heard of a Canadian company do this. We have Bell, Rogers, Virgin, Telus and WiND and I could never imagine any one of those company doing this. They do some pretty scummy stuff to pull in money, like crazy overage charges, but even the guys with the most push like Bell don't dick around with people that much. These guys are fighting each other over customers constantly. Is there not much choice in America for service providers?

I can't see this being any type of legal. What agreement could possibly allow this and still be upheld in court?
The entire thing is just... my mind...*poof*

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