Comment Re:We should have listened to this wisdom (Score 1) 565
If electricity hadn't become ubiquitous, we'd have a lot fewer carbon beings emitted today from power plants.
There, fixed that for you. I'm not sure what you meant though...
If electricity hadn't become ubiquitous, we'd have a lot fewer carbon beings emitted today from power plants.
There, fixed that for you. I'm not sure what you meant though...
Concerning human evolution, the Church has a more definite teaching. It allows for the possibility that man’s body developed from previous biological forms, under God’s guidance, but it insists on the special creation of his soul. Pope Pius XII declared that "the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions . . . take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter—[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God" (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36). So whether the human body was specially created or developed, we are required to hold as a matter of Catholic faith that the human soul is specially created; it did not evolve, and it is not inherited from our parents, as our bodies are.
My son (now 12) is just getting to the porn age so I'm going to have to be a little more vigilant with him. The issue that he had a couple years ago was interesting though. He would see the ads or find a free offer or contest and would believe every word (but not read the fine print). We had to have several EXPLANATIONS with him that they weren't really going to send him a free XBOX360 or anything else for free or that he didn't win that contest. He gets it now but it wasn't easy.
Back then, 45% of all e-mails were unwanted pitches for such products as Viagra, penny stocks or porn sites.
It's a bit different now.
Today, more than 83% of spam contains a URL for a Web site that is trying to infect computers with malicious software.
I've run spam scanning servers for a small ISP since 2000 and the changes that I've seen follow this trend. At one point I installed OCR scanning software for the penny stock image scams. Later it was PDF scanners. Then there was the password-protected zip files which had to be binary scanned. It's back to text now and lots of URL scanning. Grabbing the SARE signatures for ClamAV helps weed out that kind of crap.
It's become very hard to blacklist IPs because so many of them are from botnets and scattered so widely.
Basically, it's all a royal pain and a lot of work.
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.