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Yeah, having autism traits doesn't really mean one has autism. Some people are naturally quirky or become quirky through their environment. Some serious testing has to be done, besides questionnaires, in order to diagnose autism.
Is this supposed to be some type of joke that is making fun of how society judges mental illness?
Autism is a severe childhood neuropsychiatric condition with a substantial genetic component. At the cognitive level children with autism are impaired in the development of their folk psychology, seict while they are normal or even superior in the development of their folk physics. We predicted that if their parent shared this cognitive phenotype, then they should be over-represented in engineering as an occupation. This prediction was confirmed. Both fathers and grand-fathers of children with autism were found more than twice as often in the field of engineering, compared with fathers and grandfathers of other children. This link between autism and engineering may throw light not only on autism itself, but ultimately on the genetic basis of two essential human abilities: folk psychology and folk physics.
It is another focus of his research, though, that has made Baron-Cohen an occasionally controversial figure. In 1997, he and his colleagues looked for and found some evidence of a link between autism in children and a propensity for engineering in their parents. Further work with students at Cambridge has suggested that engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists have a way of thinking that is quantifiably "more autistic" than that of their peers in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. To some, this sounds like a medicalized stigmatization of nerdiness. Others fear that linking children's disabilities to their parents' inclinations is a new way of blaming the parent. Baron-Cohen rejects this. He argues that linking the styles of thinking that society has come to value is helpful, not harmful. Minds come in different shapes just as bodies do, and we must learn to accept that. Indeed, we must learn to value it.
Autism is now seen as largely genetic in origin. But that leads to a seeming contradiction: One would expect genes that cause the disability not to be very good at getting transmitted to future generations.
Everything seems to be conspiring against the genes to persist, because they're interfering with social relationships, which are usually a prerequisite for reproduction. But if the genes for autism are persisting in the gene pool, it may be that in milder forms attributes of autism are adaptive. They're maladaptive in some circumstances - in conditions where social sensitivity is important - but they may be very adaptive in other environments, for example where high systemizing might be needed.
This led you to look at the parents of people with autism, and in some early research you found that, like their children, these parents are better than average at "embedded figures" tests, which involve picking specific geometrical shapes out of complex pictures. Did that surprise you?
I was impressed by the degree of talent. Among both individuals with high-functioning autism or Asperger and their parents, many are superfast at spotting details. You hardly have time to get the experimental materials out on the table before they've spotted the target. You've hardly managed to get the stopwatch going. The normal brain, as it were, takes much longer.
Jesse Bering, in a 2002 paper, noted that in autobiographical accounts written by people with high-functioning autism, God is more a principle than a person. He/it provides order but isn’t much concerned with human affairs—the idea of him satisfies the intellect rather than the emotions. Temple Grandin, for example, described God as the entanglement of millions of interacting particles.
In line with such a conception of the divine, Simon Baron-Cohen, who proposed the mindblindness theory of autism, told me that “sometimes I meet people with autism who are religious, but their motivation is driven more by the rules (the system) in theology rather than the anthropomorphizing.”
When people see an event as divine intervention, or a result of intelligent design, they’re just letting their teleological bias run amok. They’re attributing purpose where there is none. Bethany Heywood, in collaboration with Jesse Bering, found in her Ph.D. research that even atheists tend to say that certain things happened to them “for a reason,” e.g., to teach them a lesson. But subjects with Asperger’s gave significantly fewer teleological responses than a control group did, and several even expressed confusion regarding the questions about purpose. One, misinterpreting a prompt for “a coincidence you saw meaning in,” wrote, “in practical application, I wear nice clothes and make my hair presentable. Coincidentally people are more friendly towards me.”
The strongest connection between atheism and autism before now was a paper presented at a conference last year by Catherine Caldwell-Harris and collaborators at Boston University. Survey respondents with high-functioning autism were more likely than control subjects to be atheists and less likely to belong to an organized religion. (They were also more likely to have religious ideas of their own construction, perhaps something similar to Temple Grandin’s.) And atheists were higher on the autistic spectrum than Christians and Jews. But the researchers were not able to demonstrate that mentalizing deficits were responsible for the connection.
Score: 37Computer scientists and mathematicians average score is 21.
i fit in that category so maybe im not autistic...
Russia has used Botnets before. USA almost certainly will not though, at least not officially.
u really think that?
It has been alleged that the RBN's leader and creator, a 24-year-old known as Flyman, is the nephew of a powerful and well-connected Russian politician. Flyman is alleged to have turned the RBN towards its criminal users.[5] In light of this, it is entirely possible that past cyber-terrorism activities, such as the denial of service attacks on Georgia and Azerbaijan in August 2008,[14] may have been co-ordinated by or out-sourced to such an organization. Although this is currently unproven, intelligence estimates suggest this may be the case.[15]
Quotethere is also the fact that censoring CP has absolutely no positive effect at allI'm guessing you're a paedophile. You have a lot of knowledge about child porn, where it's located, etc. You're just trying to justify your own perversion.
Actually, censoring child pornography (the censorship could be accomplished by lone individuals or groups, not necessarily by the government) would have a good effect on society, because child pornographers are rewarded in their forum communities for producing more child pornography. They receive karma points, positive reputation, compliments, pornographic material, and even bitcoins for snapping photos of themselves fucking their daughters. So these forums encourage and reward paedophiles who abuse children.
Being part of a community of other paedophiles also has the effect of normalisation and legitimation.
The rate of child sex abuse is difficult if not impossible to accurately measure in any country. Most cases are unreported. This is especially true in countries like Japan where there is less awareness of child sex abuse, more respect for parental authority, etc., and so it is more likely to be unreported. Plus, correlation need not imply causation.
Okay so, what, if anything, can we learn from the mistakes of those pedos?
They got busted, but they were doing everything to fly under the radar possible. The difference between us and pedos is that they know what they're doing is disgusting and wrong, we fight for freedom and are not gross animals who get off from raping (cooking, eating, killing, etc.) children.
The one similarity between both our groups is that we do not want to get busted.
In addition to this there is also the fact that censoring CP has absolutely no positive effect at all, and objective non-government sponsored research indicates that it would lead to a spike in child molestation.
I didn't realize that there had been such research. Regardless of your positions, I have to say: I really respect your dedication to truth and research in the face of derision, man.
Legalizing Pornography: Lower Sex Crime Rates? Study Carried out in Czech Republic Shows Results Similar to Those in Japan and Denmark
Pornography continues to be a contentious matter with those on the one side arguing it detrimental to society while others argue it is pleasurable to many and a feature of free speech. The advent of the Internet with the ready availability of sexually explicit materials thereon particularly has seemed to raise questions of its influence. Following the effects of a new law in the Czech Republic that allowed pornography to a society previously having forbidden it allowed us to monitor the change in sex related crime that followed the change. As found in all other countries in which the phenomenon has been studied, rape and other sex crimes did not increase. Of particular note is that this country, like Denmark and Japan, had a prolonged interval during which possession of child pornography was not illegal and, like those other countries, showed a significant decrease in the incidence of child sex abuse.
Because it isnt even a fraction of the global drug/ national drug trade. It would take up too much resources.
It's not like they have a bunch of computers they can dedicate to a ddos. Most computers used in DOS attacks are ones where the owner of the computer doesnt even know they are helping. The government cant/isnt going to install trojans on computers to carry out a DDOS.
Russia has used Botnets before. USA almost certainly will not though, at least not officially.QuoteI am pretty sure Lolita city was hacked (not DDoS'ed) i think a lone hacker published all user names or something like that a while ago and i think he was even arrested for hacking i can't for the life of me remember where i heard this though.
A lot of the CP hidden services were hacked into and deanonymized by the Dutch National Police. It actually led to several arrests as some of them were hosted out of peoples houses. In some cases they got stuck in virtual machine isolation and couldn't deanonymize the site operators, in these cases they simply deleted all of the content and posted warning messages. Around the same time several of the CP hidden services were also harassed by 'anonymous' , although as usual their epic pwnage was really pathetic fail. In the case of Lolita City I believe they did publish all of the usernames and other information of the members, which from what I can gather amounted to about as serious of an attack as it would be if somebody copy pasted the Members list from SR forum.
Thank you! Do you have a link to any articles talking about this DNP crackdown and the hacking of LC, maybe you'll know of the article where i first read about this!
Why doesn't the US government DDOS Lolita City?good question. it should DDOS attack lolita city and all other child pornography websites.
BOSTON (AP) — The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a children's puppeteer in Florida, a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical technician in Kansas, a day care worker in the Netherlands. In all, 43 men have been arrested over the past two years in a horrific, far-flung child porn network that unraveled like a sweater with a single loose thread.
In this case, the thread was a stuffed toy bunny.
The bunny, seen in a photo of a half-naked, distraught 18-month-old boy, was used to painstakingly trace a molester to Amsterdam. From there, investigators made one arrest after another of men accused of sexually abusing children, exchanging explicit photos of the attacks and even chatting online about abducting, cooking and eating youngsters.
Authorities have identified more than 140 young victims so far and say there is no end in sight as they pore through hundreds of thousands of images found on the suspects' computers. They are also trying to determine whether the men who talked about murder and cannibalism actually committed such acts or were just sharing twisted fantasies.
The still-widening investigation has been code-named Holitna, after a river in Alaska with many tributaries.
"They are the worst of the worst," said Bruce Foucart, agent in charge of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agency's Homeland Security Investigations unit in Boston. "This isn't just a child that's nude and someone's taking pictures of him; this is a child that's being raped by an adult, which is horrific."
The case began to unfold when Robert Diduca, a Sheraton hotel manager from Milford, Mass., sent the photo of the Dutch boy to an undercover federal agent in Boston. Diduca, a married father of three who used the screen name "Babytodd," thought he was sending the picture to another man with a sexual interest in babies and toddlers.
Agents forwarded the photo to Interpol, the international police organization, and to several other countries.
An investigator for the Dutch police recognized the stuffed bunny as Miffy, a familiar character in a series of Dutch children's books. She also traced the boy's orange sweater to a small Amsterdam store that had sold only 20 others like it.
The boy's photo was broadcast on a national TV program similar to "America's Most Wanted." Within minutes, friends and relatives called the child's mother.
Robert Mikelsons, a 27-year-old day care worker who baby-sat the boy, was arrested. On his computer were thousands and thousands of images of children being molested and raped, including the boy holding the stuffed bunny.
Photos and online chats found on computers owned by Diduca and Mikelsons led to more than three dozen other suspects in seven countries, including Canada, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Mexico. The oldest victim in the Netherlands was 4, the youngest just 19 days old.
Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, whose office prosecuted Diduca, said the demand for photos of sexual assaults of young children, including babies and toddlers, has increased sharply in recent years.
"This demand leads to the abuse of children, yet there is this misconception that somehow, viewing child pornography is a victimless crime," said. "It clearly is not."
Diduca pleaded guilty to child porn and sexual exploitation charges and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. His lawyer, Richard Sweeney, said Diduca was sexually abused as a child by a Boy Scout leader. "He gets it, he knows he needs to be punished, he knows what he did is wrong," Sweeney said.
Mikelsons also received an 18-year sentence, followed by indefinite psychiatric commitment, after confessing to sexually abusing more than 80 children.
The horror did not let up after the Mikelsons case.
In May, authorities arrested Michael Arnett of Roeland Park, Kan., after finding pornographic photos he allegedly produced. Agents discovered the pictures when they searched the computer of a Wisconsin man who had been chatting online with Mikelsons.
What they found on Arnett's computer was unlike anything some of the investigators had ever come across: long, graphic, online chats about his desire to abduct, kill and eat children. They said he had also made photos of a naked 2-year-old boy in a roasting pan inside his oven. The child and two other boys Arnett allegedly abused and photographed were later identified and found alive.
In July, authorities arrested four men they say had online discussions with Arnett about kidnapping and eating children. Those arrested included Ronald Brown, a children's puppeteer from Largo, Fla. (A YouTube video shows Brown during an appearance on a Christian TV kids show in the 1980s. In the video, he tells a child puppet that he did the right thing by refusing to look at "dirty pictures" some other youngsters tried to show him.)
In excerpts of an online chat between Arnett and Brown from 2011, the two men appear to be discussing their desire to cook a child for Easter.
"he would make a fine Easter feast," Arnett says.
"yes, his thighs and butt cheeks would be fantastic for Easter," Brown responds.
A lawyer for Arnett would not comment on the allegations. Brown's lawyer did not return calls.
Prosecutors said Brown acknowledged his online conversations but said that it was all a fantasy and that he would never hurt anyone.
"Obviously the discussions regarding their claims of cannibalism are disturbing and a concern to our agency," said ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein. He said agents are following all leads "to make sure these individuals didn't follow through on any of their claims."
To find the young victims, investigators carefully studied thousands of photos, read hours of Internet chats and worked with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They also employed some forensic wizardry.
After finding a video on Diduca's computer of a bound, 2-year-old boy being raped, investigators enhanced the images of furniture and carpet and determined the attack took place in a motel room in Bakersfield, Calif.
Then they pinpointed the date by way of a TV that was playing in the background in the video, figuring out exactly when a particular episode of "Family Matters" aired along with a certain Pepperidge Farms commercial.
A man from Black Forest, Colo., was arrested and is awaiting trial.
Similarly, in the Arnett case, investigators discovered that a water bottle in one of the photographs carried the name of a swim and scuba center in Overland Park, Kan. With the help of teachers at an elementary school, they identified three children shown in the photographs, including the toddler posed in the roasting pan.
The mother of one of the boys said she initially did not believe the allegations against Arnett, a family friend for about 15 years. She said her son, now 7, and several nephews often spent weekends at Arnett's home four or five years ago.
"Well, when we first got the phone call, we thought there's no way. You guys got the wrong guy," she said. The Associated Press does not identify victims of sexual abuse or their families.
But then investigators showed her photos Arnett had allegedly taken of her son with a shirt and no pants.
"Regret? For sending my son with a sick-minded guy, that's the only regret I have. I had no idea," she said. "It's depressing."
For the agents working on the case, the leads never seem to end.
Last week, they arrested another Massachusetts man after finding child pornography and photos of what appeared to be dead children on his computer. He allegedly had online chats with Arnett and Brown.
More arrests are expected.
"The agents that work for me are extremely driven on this type of investigation," said Bart Cahill, assistant agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston. "They really believe that they are taking out horrific violators and saving kids."
From a photo of a toddler e-mailed in Massachusetts to a sex predator in Amsterdam, the global reach of the child-pornography trade can be seen in a case that reached Canada Tuesday, with the morning arrests of four men in Quebec.
The Sûreté du Québec and police in Quebec City and Gatineau also executed five search warrants and confirmed that the arrests stemmed from a major child-abuse investigation in the Netherlands, where a daycare worker, Robert Mikelsons, has been charged with molesting 52 boys and 15 girls.
Mr. Mikelsons, whose case shocked the Netherlands, was arrested after law-enforcement agents in Boston found a photo of a victim and eventually identified the child’s clothing as being of Dutch origin.
“After Mr. Mikelsons’ arrest in 2010, the Dutch police analyzed his computer material. They found Quebeckers were among his international network. They contacted us and we began an investigation in December,” said Sûreté du Québec Sergeant Geneviève Bruneau.
It began in the fall of 2009, when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Boston were targeting a suspect who used the online name “Babytodd,” according to a criminal complaint in Massachusetts District Court.
Babytodd chatted on forums for pedophiles, unaware that two of his interlocutors were police informants. One evening of October 2009, he e-mailed an informant a photo of a two-year-old boy whose crotch was exposed.
The ICE agents first connected Babytodd’s Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to a downtown Boston hotel managed by 47-year-old Robert Diduca. Another IP address was linked to Mr. Diduca’s home. On Nov. 10, 2010, he was arrested and eventually convicted on child-pornography charges.
More than 27,000 pornographic files were found on a memory card at his home, including 30 more photos and videos of the two-year-old.
Photos of the toddler were sent to Interpol to solicit the help of other police forces. Within days, the Netherlands national police contacted the Boston agents to say that the toddler’s shirt and stuffed toy were of Dutch origin.
A month later, Dutch television showed a cropped, sanitized photo of the boy. The toddler was identified and Mr. Mikelsons, 27, and his 37-year-old husband, Richard van Olffen, were charged.
A statement last August by Dutch prosecutors alleged that he had been using Tor, a network that makes Web surfing anonymous by routing requests through hundreds of computers.
The statement said police got court authorization to break into a dozen hidden websites where more than 220,000 images and videos were found. Investigators erased images where they could and elsewhere left warnings stamped with their police logo.
A Sûreté officer said there were four arrests but five addresses were searched Tuesday because investigators weren’t able to connect the fifth location to a confirmed suspect, indicating that Dutch police provided their Canadian police counterparts with only IP addresses.
In recent weeks, the federal government has been fiercely criticized for Bill C-30, which would compel Internet companies to provide subscriber information without a warrant when requested by police, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service or the Competition Bureau.
Already, most major Canadian Internet providers, including Bell and Vidéotron in Quebec, voluntarily supply subscribers’ names and addresses without a court order when police investigate child abuse.
Because it isnt even a fraction of the global drug/ national drug trade. It would take up too much resources.
It's not like they have a bunch of computers they can dedicate to a ddos. Most computers used in DOS attacks are ones where the owner of the computer doesnt even know they are helping. The government cant/isnt going to install trojans on computers to carry out a DDOS.
I am pretty sure Lolita city was hacked (not DDoS'ed) i think a lone hacker published all user names or something like that a while ago and i think he was even arrested for hacking i can't for the life of me remember where i heard this though.
But ultimately a healthy state dedicated to the public interest makes individual freedom possible." That is, a strong centralized state fosters liberal values (i.e., individual freedom), whereas more decentralized communities rely upon "Status" rather than "Contract," with order based upon revenge, violence, etc. rather than lawfulness.
This statement is pretty well supported by the fact that cartels and mafias so thoroughly dominate the only truly free market in the world, the black market, and they rule by violence.
It is interesting that in all of human history, no society seems to have existed, in fact no group of people with more than say 10 members, has existed that didn't include some kind of hierarchy or social order. It seems to arise spontaneously, even in ad hoc groups. Someone is bound to take the lead.
We are social species because many individuals working together can accomplish more than everyone working alone, or against each other. It allows us to build cities and send people into space. But in order to accomplish those goals, we must coordinate the actions of many individuals, so someone has to make executive decisions. Even if people disagree with some decisions, you have to make everyone do the same thing in order to get anything done at all. So ad hoc groups of students assigned to a project get a spontaneous leader, organizations have presidents, corporations have chief executives, towns have mayors, and nations have prime ministers.
That's just how you get shit done.
Even SR has an executive and this forum has mods. Imagine this community without leaders. It would suck.
I'm actually not that interested in hiding the listings. If every listing is an illegal item, then you can conclude that every person who engages in a trade in that market is doing something illegal, but if 5-10% of the listings are legal items, like on SR, and many sellers would put up dummy legal listings for their protection -- and there's no reason it couldn't be a general market anyway, I mean why do Amazon and eBay need to know what you are buying? -- then you get plausible deniability. The important feature is that the products involved in each trade are unknown to third parties. Of course, the escrow agents would find out about some of them, but if 95% of transactions complete successfully, the situation is much better than it is now.
And as I argued last night with some folks, in the *worst case scenario*, you get exactly what you have now. A trusted third part escrow agent learns your entire transactions history.
