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This was the year that millions of Americans learned that health insurance is complicated. The landscape they discovered is ugly.
Paying a premium doesn't mean your costs are over. Lower premiums mean higher deductibles, higher fees at the doctor's office, higher prescription costs. You may have to pay more to see a certain doctor or go to a certain hospital.
After New Year's Day 2014, the discoveries will keep coming, when many of the newly insured use their policies for the first time. They may wonder, Why am I getting a bill? And, Why is it still so high?
And many may blame this curious, largely mythical beast called Obamacare, even though these features have been baked into the American healthcare system for years, even decades.
What they will be discovering is that the American way of health coverage is close to the worst and costliest in the developed world. The Affordable Care Act puts a dent in both those features, but doesn't eliminate them. During 2014, the country will finally start coming to grips with what to do about the features of American healthcare that haven't been measurably improved by the new law. And at the same time, the process of fixing the act's existing flaws will begin — or rather, continue.
"It's important that people realize this is a multi-year process," says Timothy S. Jost, a healthcare expert at Washington and Lee University. "I feel we're bottoming out this year in terms of the disruption of change." The hard work, he says, still lies ahead.
It's crucial that Americans don't allow the disruptions to obscure the positive changes already wrought by the Affordable Care Act, including access to insurance for as many as 20 million people previously locked out of the system by high costs and medical conditions.
Last month, Harold Pollack of the University of Chicago tried to tote up the number of people with a stake in the success of healthcare reform, using statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He counted 1.8 million uninsureds who had received a cancer diagnosis, 2.8 million suffering from diabetes, another million or more diagnoses with stroke, emphysema, heart disease or another serious chronic condition.
Throw in an additional 4.6 million with asthma or other pulmonary condition or liver and thyroid disease, and you've got 10.3 million uninsured Americans with "significant physical health issues." Prior to Obamacare, a huge percentage of these people, perhaps almost all of them, would have been unable to find affordable coverage at all. Now none of them can be excluded or socked with inflated premiums.
That's a population that easily swamps the number of those who are made worse off by the act. That latter figure, moreover, has been systematically overstated, due in part to confusion by customers and lazy news reporting.
There's no question that some people may face higher premiums for equal or lesser benefits than they have enjoyed in the past. That's because providing subsidies for the poorest and sickest Americans requires some policyholders — typically those who are healthier and more affluent — to pay more.
But even those who are griping about higher bills may be better off than they think. Those pre-ACA policies may have been cheap, but the coverage provided by many of them was often so threadbare as to be practically worthless, leaving policyholders one serious illness away from bankruptcy. And many may not realize that they are eligible for government subsidies or Medicaid.
Earlier this month, the Obama administration estimated that the wave of cancellations of pre-ACA plans that caused so much panic in Congress a month or two ago had actually left 500,000 people without coverage. That's a lot in absolute terms, but it's a bit more than 1.5% of the entire estimated market for individual insurance exchange plans, and a far cry from the tens of millions who were predicted not so very long ago to be standing at the edge of a coverage cliff. Under a government initiative announced earlier this month, those who still can't find affordable plans will be offered a "hardship" out, allowing them temporarily to purchase cut-rate plans.
The complexities of health insurance weren't exactly a secret to most Americans — more than 80% get their coverage from employers, and many of them face choices between high-premium (but low cost-sharing) and low-premium (but high cost-sharing) plans at open-enrollment periods every year. They have understood the cost trade-off, at least in the abstract, and know that the premium won't be the last check you write to your doctor or hospital, even with a good health plan.
But the sign-up process for individual and family policies has placed those choices in front of millions of Americans with unprecedented intensity and urgency. The wretched performance of the federal website, HealthCare.gov, and some state websites, heightened the confusion and anxiety of the process by leaving so many people without basic information or expert counsel just at the point they were needed most.
A trouble- and error-filled rollout of a significant new program is not unprecedented — and the ACA has so many moving parts, necessitating a high level of cooperation among the insurance industry and the federal and state governments, that problems were inevitable.
The same thing happened with the 2005 rollout of Medicare's Part D prescription drug program, even though it was far simpler. As the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reported in June, the launch of Part D also required intensive education of its target market and imposed complicated decisions on whether to enroll and with which plan. A majority of the public was skeptical before the launch, and once enrollees started to use their plans, more problems surfaced — pharmacies didn't recognize their enrollments, prescribed drugs weren't covered by certain plans, etc., etc.
But as the foundation observed, "when things went awry, federal and state officials were often able to identify problems and work with stakeholders to develop policy and operational solutions, so that consumers could obtain the promised benefits." Eight years later, "many of Part D's initial difficulties have been forgotten, and the public generally views the program as a success."
That cooperative spirit is lacking this time around, however. In 25 states, the expansion of Medicaid — a crucial piece of the ACA program to widen access to healthcare for low-income people — has been blocked by Republican governors or legislatures. That has left roughly 5 million of their citizens trapped in the "coverage gap": they don't qualify for Medicaid under their state's existing rules, they don't qualify for government subsidies aimed by the ACA at higher-income workers and they can't afford even the cheapest plans offered by insurance exchanges.
Meanwhile, the hostility to the ACA among House Republicans has made it all but impossible to arrange legislative action to fix what does need fixing in the law. Some issues, including the difficulties faced by individuals and families whose policies have been canceled, are being addressed by executive action.
Others involve drafting errors in the original bill or unanticipated problems that require legislative surgery. One is the "family glitch." Because of imprecise draftsmanship, the ACA requires employers over a certain size to provide "affordable" care to their employees, but not to the workers' families. In practice, the affordability test means a health plan costing no more than 9.5% of the household's annual income or covering less than 60% of average medical expenses.
But what if an employer offers affordable individual coverage to the worker and "unaffordable" coverage for his or her family? Then the entire family is ineligible for any government subsidies. The glitch could put good health coverage out of reach for some families. That's an obvious error that could be easily remedied on Capitol Hill, if the House GOP would get out of the way.
Then there are the flaws in the U.S. healthcare system that the ACA doesn't adequately address. Among the most important is administrative costs imposed on hospitals and medical practices. These are artifacts of our reliance on commercial health insurers, all with different claims and payment systems and coverage rules. According to an estimate from the National Academy of Sciences, the average industry employs fewer than 50 administrative workers per $1 billion in revenue. The healthcare field employs 810 workers per $1 billion in revenue.
The healthcare law may have shaved away some of these costs by standardizing benefits across all individual plans. But it also cemented commercial insurers into the center of the healthcare system, with few incentives, much less mandates, to reduce the administrative burden. That's still very much a work in progress.
Some taxes and fees enacted to help pay for the ACA's costs might need to be reconsidered. These include a steep tax on high-benefit and high-cost "Cadillac plans," which starts in 2018 and has produced protests from employers and unions alike. But the tax is designed to reduce the general taxpayer subsidy to employer health plans, which are tax-deductible, and to raise $15 billion to $20 billion a year. Any change will have to provide a different way of reaching those goals.
Many healthcare experts hope that the new year will bring a better understanding by the public that there's no such thing as Obamacare. There's a raft of policies, provisions and programs that will work together and separately to bring more coverage at lower cost to tens of millions of beneficiaries.
Those include the elimination of lifetime or annual caps on health benefits; requirements that children be permitted to remain on their parents' health plans until the age of 26; the reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, under Medicaid; cost-saving provisions for Medicare; and, of course, the outlawing of exclusions for preexisting conditions. Repeal Obamacare, as some conservatives say they want to do, and you'll have to explain why all these improvements in the system have been knocked back to Square One. Repeal may be an effective ideological rallying cry, but it's no longer practical, if it ever was.
Then there's the bottom-line rationale for the Affordable Care Act, from its inception. As Aaron Carroll of Indiana University pointed out in a recent blog post, "reducing the number of uninsured is a good thing, not a bad thing." And that hasn't changed.
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cDc releases Goolag Scanner (posted by MiB on Februari 20th, 2008)
Arrakis joins the team (posted by MiB on April 24th, 2007)
Arrakis, the author of Torpark, now graces our member list.
Recent Hacktivismo Speaking Obligations (posted by MiB on January 6th, 2007 )
Hacktivismo had two public speaking obligations in December.
I held a speech at the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress on the 28th of December. I wanted to move the people in the audience to use their technological skills to enact positive change in the world. You can find a recording of the talk here.
I would like to thank Devolish & elliot pank of the Ninja Strike Force for their lovely assistance, Lesh for supplying us with the footage and everyone who came up to me after the talk for their support.
A lot of people from the audience enlisted themselves as a volunteer. If YOU want to help us, you can send me a message at mib-at-hacktivismo-dot-com. We are especially looking for programmers, translators, QA testers, graphical artists and INFOSEC experts. If you are working on an interesting project related to freedom of information and human rights, please let us know as well.
On the 1st of December, Joe Salvatore Testa II participated in a panel at Harvard University entitled "Digital Disobedience: Cyberactivism and Culture Jamming". Some information from their website:
Here's a video of the event (134MB).
Torpark keeps Web surfers' identities private, can run off a USB stick, and scrubs tracks from host computers and browsers.
New York, NY (PRWEB) September 19, 2006 — Hacktivismo, an international group of computer security experts and human rights workers, just released Torpark, an anonymous, fully portable Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox. Torpark comes pre-configured, requires no installation, can run off a USB memory stick, and leaves no tracks behind in the browser or computer. Torpark is a highly modified variant of Portable Firefox, that uses the TOR (The Onion Router) network to anonymize the connection between the user and the website that is being visited.
"We live in a time where acquisition technologies are cherry picking and collating every aspect of our online lives," said Hacktivismo founder Oxblood Ruffin. "Torpark continues Hacktivismo's commitment to expanding privacy rights on the Internet. And the best thing is, it's free. No one should have to pay for basic human rights, especially the right of privacy."
Torpark is being released under the GNU General Public License and is dedicated to the Panchen Lama*.
Torpark causes the IP address seen by the website to change every few minutes to frustrate eavesdropping and mask the requesting source. For example, a user could be surfing the Internet from a home computer in Ghana, and it might appear to websites that the user was coming from a university computer in Germany or any other country with servers in the TOR network.
It is important to note that the data passing from the user's computer into the TOR network is encrypted. Therefore, the user's Internet Service Provider (ISP) cannot see the information that is passing through the Torpark browser, such as the websites visited, or posts the user might have made to a forum. The ISP can only see an encrypted connection to the TOR network.
However, users must understand that there are limitations to the anonymity. Torpark anonymizes the user's connection but not the data. Data traveling between the client and the TOR network is encrypted, but the data between the TOR network and websites is unencrypted. Therefore, the user should not use his/her username or password on websites that do not offer a secure login and session (noted by a golden padlock at the bottom of the Torpark browser screen).
New Hacktivismo Member (posted by MiB on August 6th, 2006)
The Hacktivismo team is thrilled to welcome diskrez to our midsts. For those of you who follow the ins and outs of the Ninja Strike Force religiously, he needs no introduction. Those that have been living under a digital rock for the past century will get to know the man soon enough by his actions.
ScatterChat Release Video (posted by MiB on August 6th, 2006)
You wanted the best? You got the best!
See J. Salvatore Testa II (Hacktivismo) expound on the various ways ScatterChat KICKS MAJOR ASS!
See Javaman (CULT OF THE DEAD COW) field thrilling questions from the crowd!
See PhrenchToast (Ninja Strike Force) wow the ladies with his wily charms!
See assrabbit (CULT OF THE DEAD COW), ever the pinnacle of chivalry, deliver flowers to the lovely females in attendance!
See diskrez (Hacktivismo & Ninja Strike Force) throw candy to his adoring fans!
See Grandmaster Ratte' (CULT OF THE DEAD COW) hula-hoop his way to stardom!
This, shot by DaYuM (Ninja Strike Force) is the finest piece of video ever to be digitized!
Truly a marvel to behold!
Hacktivismo Launches ScatterChat (posted by MiB on July 21st, 2006)
Hacktivismo Launches ScatterChat for Secure, Private Communication
CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) subdivision releases user-friendly software to facilitate anonymous communication and secure file transfers
NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB) July 21, 2006 – Hacktivismo, an international group of hackers, human rights workers, lawyers, and computer security experts announces the release of ScatterChat (http://www.scatterchat.com/), a free, open source application designed to facilitate secure and private real-time communication over the Internet.
ScatterChat is unique in that it is intended for non-technical human rights activists and political dissidents operating behind oppressive national firewalls. It is an instant messaging client that provides end-to-end encryption over the Electronic Frontier Foundation-endorsed Tor network. Its security features include resiliency against partial compromise through perfect forward secrecy, immunity from replay attacks, and limited resistance to traffic analysis, all reinforced through a pro-actively secure design.
According to lead developer J. Salvatore Testa II, "The anonymity and encryption that ScatterChat provides ensures that both the identities and messages of activists remain a mystery, even to well-funded totalitarian governments."
Hacktivismo will be announcing the release of ScatterChat at the HOPE conference taking place July 21-23, at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York, NY.
Hacktivismo, a subdivision of CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), has been combating information rights abuses for more than a decade. Its Goolag campaign brought great visibility to the issue of Internet censorship in China. Hacktivismo assumes as an ethical point of departure the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights.
Founded in Lubbock, TX, CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) is the most influential hacking group in the world. The cDc alumni reads like a Who's Who of hacking and includes a former Presidential advisor on Internet security, among others. The group is further distinguished by publishing the longest running e-zine on the Internet [est. 1984], stretching the limits of the First Amendment, and fighting anyone or any government that aspires to limit free speech.
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Hacktivismo at the HOPE Convention (posted by jtesta on on May 26th, 2006)
I've been confirmed as an official speaker at HOPE Number Six, which takes place this summer from July 21st - 23rd, 2006 in New York City, USA.
I will be giving not one, but TWO presentations titled "Proactively-Secure Programming Techniques," and "Constructing Cryptographic Protocols." Prepare to get your faces rocked.
So come on down to NYC and join the party with Hacktivismo, the Ninja Strike Force, and the CULT OF THE DEAD COW! k-1337.
The Goolag Campaign (posted by jtesta on on February 15th, 2006)
Our very own Oxblood Ruffin engineered the Goolag campaign in response to Google's new alliance with the Chinese government's oppressive tactics. Also Oxblood's doing is an interesting reaction to the hearings U.S. Congress is having regarding Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Cisco's cooperation as well.
And there are some good discussions going on at the Ninja Strike Force Public Dojo, in case you're feeling philosophical today.


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I can't help it. I am addicted to self-improvement. At least in January, I can get away with it more easily when the rest of the world joins in. New year, new us.
I specialize in French recipes, as you know, and sometimes, those can be pretty not self-improving. I do, quite happily, fall prey to a beckoning potato gratin every now and again. But what I love about food is that you can not only take pleasure in eating, but also take care by eating. You can eat yourself well. I like that idea—in fact, at times, I cling to it. Those who read my posts will know that my maman taught me most of what I know about those gratins; she also, in times of sickness, taught me how to take care of my body. In my next few posts, I will share a bit of my other obsession: Food that is delicious, but devilishly healthy. I get a real smirking kick out of make something good, good for me. It feels like beating the system.
This dish is a fresh warm black rice salad, full of all green things and topped with miso-charred meaty portobello mushrooms. I first discovered black rice with my friend and nutritionist Jessie about a decade ago when she took me to the Union Square restaurant Republic, and I became obsessed with finding it. Thankfully, it's more readily available now. It's nutty, both in flavor and texture, and has more vitamins and nutrients than regular white rice, so the salad starts with a pretty good base.
A little secret to rice, which I picked up in France, is to boil it like pasta in a big pot of salted water. To that, I add edamame beans and strips of Savoy cabbage to quickly blanch them. Then, to the warm salad, I add cilantro, jalapeño, lime, and scallions. The dressing is light and simple: soy sauce, a dash of sesame oil, and rice vinegar. I let it steep together so the warm rice soaks up the flavors of the rest of the salad while I put together the miso-charred mushrooms.
Another dish to which Jessie also introduced me was miso black cod—my inspiration for these mushrooms. I smother the Portobello caps in a mixture of freshly grated ginger, sweet mirin, and white miso paste. I char the mushrooms under the broiler, and as they wilt and become juicy, the sweet and spicy marinade caramelizes and bubbles up. It is so good.
I thickly slice the mushrooms, almost like steak, and perch them atop a pile of the warm black rice salad, studded with little flecks of green. The dish is light, but intensely savory, and fresh. It just makes you feel good, better—even, improved.
As we always toast in my house on New Year's, santé!
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I tend to agree, but I do want to leave an "out" for those who feel manipulated by the use of sexuality in the medium as a whole as opposed to those who just want an excuse to mistreat actual individual women (that is, immature jerks.)
I think Jim misses the point. Its not about girls having to prove they are "gamers" (a word that sounds pretty ridiculous itself), its not about being bother by people saying they are into something they are not just to fit in... its about female posers, people craving for male attention and going to such length to get it that it makes me suspicious of almost every instance I see someone (not even a woman) attractive being into a side of nerd culture.
I am not about getting the high ground and claiming I don't appreciate a good looking woman, but one that dresses up as a male fetish to have others oozing at them does insult my intelligence. It does because she (or the people that paid her) assumes that being a male gamer automatically makes me a loner that can't get his eyes out of anyone slightly attractive that makes so much as bat an eye to me. It insults my intelligence because she (or the people that paid her) assumes I am part of an audience that only needs a pretty face and boobs to get my attention. It insults my intelligence because it stereotypes me.
People are mad cause cute girls are cosplaying and wearing Mario Shirts? Why? It sounds like a win win situation.
A wild counter argument has appeared!
I'd say that women in the gaming community are often seen as a personification of this kind of culture shift. It's not necessarily their fault, but they're simply an easy target for people to take out their frustrations.
Who's lying? They took the time to find a costume related to gaming, learn enough to portray that person, and immediately they're looked upon as if they're fake. Whether they are or not. What's dishonest is looking at them that way in the first place.
What does this have to do with any of the things I've said?
The point is that they don't get the third degree, but even someone who's long established her nerd cred does. You know why people are poseurs? To belong. Why do they want to belong? Because they're genuinely interested.
Anyone watch Andrea the Black Nerd? He basically says the same thing:
Just guessing, and feel free to disagree with mere here, but maybe there's an element of hypocrisy on the part of the women that do go to conventions dressed like pikachu in a miniskirt. The idea that they can essentially pander, even totally whore themselves out for attention, then criticize or even badger men for being attracted to that sort of thing. It's like the old joke about showing cleavage then being shitty to men for looking. I'm just guessing here.
Or maybe enough men have been derided for being shiftless video gamers by women and this is some sort of backlash?
Or maybe men are tired of watching other men get all saccharine or turn into creepy stalkers because women attract this kind of attention deliberately and shift the conversation away from games and too how hot she looks dressed in that cheerleader outfit? Even I admit frustration when I wanted to talk about a game and women turned themselves into big sexy game related ornaments to divert the conversation to themselves (No I'm sure they don't dress in skimpy outfits for attention and to feel attractive, who the hell wants that, right?)
There's a reason for everything, even if said reason is trivial, so I'm sure there's a reason for this.
Words change. In the same breath as saying that nerd means something to be derided, but someone also needs to go through that sort of dirision to have pride in the name, well, that's hypocracy.
Nerd and geek culture have been commodified and is the popular thing right now. We should be revelling in it.
I was one of those who suffered through it, and it offends me that one must go through that to be accepted these days.
I used to hate these Mega64 bits, but then I realized this is them making fun of the extreme and often twisted views some guys have of girls as gamers.
That response made no sense to me what so ever.
I'm not sure why you're trying to prove yourself to me, I haven't questioned your interests in any way, nor am I interested in your motives. I'm merely explaining to you why some are doing this.
First off, let me explain you the difference between the two types of posers:
The second type, the ones that this whole topic is about, are the people who specificly pretend to be someone they're not, in order to either get accepted into a group and or get attention from people.
Anyway, your bullshit call is irrelevant. I just explained the whole point to you, take it or leave it. I can't help it if you've never met a manipulative person faking interest in order to get attention, just to play with people.
Well it seems pretty obvious.. I don't have an issue with videogame hot girls. Or hot non videogames girls, or hot videogame dudes.. or any combination of likenesses..
As lots of other people, I have a problem with phoneyness in general. I've met some very attactive men/women that are into videogames, and you can tell their love for the subject, on the other hand I've met insecure people pretending to love videogames that etray themselves and sound like some stereotype just to fit into a group. And there lies the problem... why pretend to be something that you are not? what purpose does it serve? Is it insecurity that makes you show yourself in a certain way just to be accepted?
In general when someone has a deep personal understanding / love for something, and he/she sees someone else capitalizing on the commercial / superficial aspects of that something... it is annoying.
So.. duh... pretty weak episode.. I suppose you're tired jim.
How paranoid do you have to be to think talking to someone is a test? If someone is wearing a damn pikachu shirt and I happen to really like pokemon, then of course I'm going to want to talk to her about pokemon and of course if she doesn't know, it's going to be disappointing. When that happens over and over, and every attempt and video game discussion with a pretty lady ends the same way, people are going to start getting fucking irritable.
So no, not every attempt at conversation over a t-shit/costume/keychain etc. is a fucking pop quiz. Sometimes we're just excited to see someone with think shares an interest with us and want to talk about it.
I've never attended a gaming convention so I don't really know where all this stuff comes from, but booth babes would be different because they are promo models. They'll act like their interested in the game/games while in costume because it's their jobs. Tomorrow they might be modeling in a bikini at a car show acting interested in muscle cars. You will find out who the real person is if you see or know them in between the jobs.
That's... hilariously ironic.
You're not adressing what I'm talking about. Please read my posts again.
Again, this has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
You seem to be assuming I can't tell the difference between someone who pretends to be interested and someone who is.
Your right. Any problems I have with a new person assimilating into a group is at least half my fault. I just want to relay the fact that it is always difficult for any culture (especially an ill defined one such as nerd culture) to incorporate elements that are perceived as different. Jim didn't even try to tackle the issue but just said people where stupid for not immediately getting over their credulity and accepting whatever is the new talking point of the month.
But wouldn't women who have been a part of the "nerd culture" for as long as the men also be wary of posers/fakes or newcomers? I am also afraid that if I am publically happy that full grown women dress up as sexy mlp characters because it adorable I will be labled as a hormone crazed sexist that only views women as sex objects. I feel like I can't win no matter what position I take up here.
"Wahhh!!! Wahhhhh!!! Stop making me horny you stupid girl!!! This is so unfair!!! Stop existing near me making me want to **** you!!" Sorry. "WAHHHHHH!!!! WAHHHHHHH!!!! I'M AN OLD FUCKING LOSER!!!! WAHHH!! WHY WONT ANYONE LOVE ME!!? MAYBE BECAUSE I'M A FUCKING LOSER AND A JERK!!!" OK that was the last of it. Wait... "WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..." Wahhhhh!! Wahhhh!! Im a fucking loser old man who feels intimidated by the presence of female bodies. Wahhhh! Seriously if you're 43 years old and you haven't come out of puberty you should see a doctor. You have a hormone problem.
Because the original post was portrayed as one. Read between the lines.
Also, again, last time I checked, knowledge about the source material is not required for buying a t-shirt that you think is cute. Just because someone doesn't know about Pokemon doesn't mean you can't still talk to them about Pokemon. Maybe it means they're interested in Pokemon but never really had a chance to get into it. This is your chance to teach them about Pokemon, but instead you (or the OP) choose to reject them. That doesn't make them very likely to try to get into Pokemon again.
And the point is not about "people who get disappointed when someone is not as interested in something as you are". It's about "people who set arbitrary rules for (specifically) women to prove themselves worthy enough to join their arbitrary club".
I never said every attempt at conversation was a pop quiz, thanks for putting words in my mouth. But the examples in the OP were quizzes.
Wait, nerd girls are a thing?
I'm also not surprised that the video for Lollipop Chainsaw was not shown in the UK...
Actually Jim it would have been nice if you addressed the actual issue. Interestingly you don't touch the issue of the reception less attractive, or those of average apperance, receive in comparison.
You also seem to miss the point that the arguement "they aren't hurting anyone" doesn't apply here, you say you can't understand how this hurts anyone, but if that's the case I can't help but wonder how closely you've listened to the actual complaints.
The rage over the "fake nerd girls" is pretty much about exploitation. The basic idea being that if you have a hot girl promote something, it's going to manipulate men into spending money on that product or service. If you put a hot girl into the equasion on a product aimed at a male demographic famous for not having any luck with girls at all, it's even more effective. That's advertising in a nutshell, and in of itself wouldn't be that big a deal, IF it wasn't being directly tied to the whole "Camwhore" phenomena and other internet honey traps. The idea being that a fairly attractive girl, seperated by the barrier of The Internet, but able to promote herself, can insinuate herself into communities of people starving for female attention, and then parley her attention into gifts and benefits, through generating "hits" for a channel if nothing else. Some of the contreversies over online gift or "wish lists" have also circulated around girls doing this kind of thing using such services to receive their payment.
The anger in this case isn't so much about wanting to keep "fandom" male only, so much as it is that most of the guys getting upset wish that there were attractive women into this stuff, but there are so many fakes that it has become expected.
There is also a little more to the "cred" involved than you, or other critics speaking against this, want to give credit to. A nerd is by definition a social outcast, a pariah, a hermit, who is scorned by society. Someone who by nessecity takes escapism to extremes, and winds up becoming an expert on a lot of this kind of media. A greater-than normal interest in comics, video games, or whatever does NOT make you a nerd or "hardcore" in this context. Your attractive girl by definition can and does fit into society, and that creates a barrier that is hard to overcome, not to mention means that the person is going to lack the focus to become the "real deal" in regards to the media itself. To put things into perspective here if you look at a lot of these "Nerd Girl Responses" people have been trying to get to catch on, like oh "I haven't read every issue of Batman, and neither have you", kind of miss the point that a real nerd who is fiaxated on Batman probably HAS read every issue of Batman, going to extreme lengths to obtain scans if nothing else. What's more it goes further than that, let's say "hot nerd girl" is an expert on Batman and has more than a passing of interest, understand that the REAL nerd is probably also an expert on half a dozen other things to the same degree. This occurs because the Nerd literally has no life in a traditional sense due to beign a Nerd, a pariah, an outcast.
Also I'll point out that men DO get the same kind of responses, with gaming and "geek culture" becoming a bit more popular, there has also been a backlash against "casuals" in general and in paticular against the "Bro" or "Fratboy" involvement in gaming, to the point of that group being mocked even more than the false nerd girls. It's just that you see less desperate nerd boys wanting to white knight some jock.
Basically, if your one of those who can claim to have a life other than gaming or "nerd media", a solid circle of friends you deal with in person (as opposed to other nerds you deal with at a safe distance), and similar things, then your really not a "nerd" in this context. That might not bother the nerds if it wasn't being used for purposes of manipulation, or if you didn't have people demanding and receiving "cred" as nerd-culture experts when they hardly fit the bill.
I guess what I'm saying is that the nerd-cosm is a refuge for the pathetic, now that it's producing something that society is beginning to value, there are attempts to take that without the rest of it. Not to mention is that your typical outcast longs for acceptance on their own terms, when you get some attractive girl or "Bro" doing research on a subject over Wikipedia (the obsession of Nerds in catalogging their favorite forms of escapism has contributed to the problems) and then acting as a spokesman for "Geek culture" as opposed to a REAL, pasty, obese, acne-covered, behemoth of a geek, it breeds resentment. Being a big, fat dude Jim you have the advantage of being someone who fits the stereotype, by your own admission, you are a member of the club, or at least can pass.
Yes, this is pretty damning towards nerds (arguably my own people, especially now) even as I say it, but it's the truth.
The question of whether an attractive girl could ever truely be a nerd IRL is a subject of debate in of itself. It can be argued that a girl who is conventionally attractive always has the option to be accepted by society as long as she remains attractive, which prevents her from ever truely joining the "nerd herd".
Also don't misunderstand, nerds love their eye candy, booth babes are something a lot of nerds have defended. Just don't try and present the models as being nerd girls. Nerds can accept and appreciate the advertising (even if more aware of it than I think those presenting it would like, which is half the problem, nerds are a paranoid and hyper-aware bunch).
Oh yes, and also Jim, you might not be aware of this, but among Nerd culture when it comes to "Nerd Girls" on the internet who are not tied to a product, there is a sort of game going. When one of these shows up you have the nerds talking to her sort of side-betting privatly on how long it takes for her to try and get something out of them. This is actually sort of what spawned the entire "Tits Or GTFO" meme, since flashing their boobs is one of the things these girls eventually work into their routine in their effort to exploit you. The girl shows her boobs, and she expects something from you even if she's subtle about it, with the implication that you need to make her happy to see them again (or perhaps hints of more), it can be done in differant ways. The meme is kind of a "let's cut through the chase, we know why your here".
That's close to what I'm saying.
What I said - originally - was that poseurs exist in nearly every subculture. They always have and they always will. The idea of the "fake nerd girl" is that an girl pretends to be a nerd to get male attention - which for the most part doesn't exist nearly as much as the gamer/geek/or nerd subculture say it does.
You won't catch a Cinephile telling a poseur to fuck off and making some sort of meme out of it. You will probably see them attempt some conversation, they may come off as snobbish, but there's usually enough there for the poseur to genuinely learn about something.
To be honest this issue to me is about as relevant as femi-nazi's. I hear about it all the time on the internet, but I am yet to actually meet anybody who has this attitude in real life.
So to me I just consider it yet another thing blown completely out of proportion.
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I'm not gonna go too deep into this as it's not really something I give a lot of thought, but gaming has been a mostly male thing for a while now, and is full of young males full of hormones. This makes them easier for "pretty" girls to exploit, I'm not gonna say they have exploited this because, apart from the "I'm a girl give me stuff" in WoW you hear about I can't really recall any examples I could reference here.
The reason nobody questions dudes if they are proper nerds or not is because in most cases they have nothing to gain by just pretending. Hell, in many cases they might have something to lose due to how 'gamers' and 'nerds' are seen by those who do not fit into those categories.
For the record; I'm not in the misogynist camp, I'm simply saying I can see where some of them are coming from.
I'm sick of this crap, we like stuff because we like it not to impress guys don't be so self important :p
Oh so we are okay to ogle but not actually be one of you? Nice...really nice >_>
Personally I think us male geeks should be more insulted by the fact that gaming industry seems to content to stereotype us as Horny, Social outcast virgins who would buy something just because a hot girl promises it would help us "score". I'm looking at you axe male grooming products.
I can understand, to a degree, one developing a distaste for "fake gamers" of any gender. As it has been stated, it wasn't long ago that many of us were, at best screwed with, and at worst demonized for our particular hobby, interest, culture, whatever you'd like to call it. Since those days, gaming has gone mainstream & many other facets of geek culture have followed. Now those same people (or demographics of people) are claiming to be a part of our culture, with no real interest or investment in it, because it's trendy. It's reasonable to think that some might feel a bit like the big kids that beat them up when they were little are trying to steal their toys even after they've all grown up.
I have my own grievances with the mainstreaming of geek culture; what was once essentially owned & operated by the intellectual elite is now being over-run with the rest of the world because they have money too. Why produce quality for the hardcore when the lower tiers of society will pay just as much & in greater numbers for the brown-grey mush that is console gaming. We got out-voted & that sucks.
& yes, there are absolutely women out there who will put on a geek-face so they can feel like the center of the universe. There aren't a ton of them, as compared to actual female geeks; they just all flock to conventions because that's a good strategy if you want to get oggled. These women are sad excuses for people, so desperate for attention that they've take up a fake personality just to fit in with a group they scorned 10, 15, 20 years ago. I might go as far as to say they're annoying for taking up space in our gathering places.
That is as far as I'd take it: Annoying
They don't really take away from what we do or what the true geeks have. They barnacles with bleached blonde hair & should be treated no more seriously
Booth babes do not even count in this discussion
They're models. They're being paid to do it by the people running the con.
It's a job
I don't care which subculture it relates to. Liars are liars, if they shit on my lawn they'll be asked to take it elsewhere. I've seen enough guys getting lured in because they have a motorcycle, by girls who have no interest beyond the occasional ride, to know that this is in no way uncommon, nor in the gaming-culture.
You might not be pissed about it, but that's not the point. The point is that there is legitimate reason to be annoyed by these kind of people, who exist in abundance, and that the video only glanced the issue, combing over everyones opinion as chauvenistic assholes who don't deserve an objective observation.
What have they done? How have they hurt gamers and the industry? Wow dude, its like you aren't paying attention.
In just this year alone:
Shall I go on? Fake gamer girls are a plague on the industry and are nothing but attention seeking women who exist in the industry to do nothing more than be seen and make money off of being seen. I'm so tired of women dictating that everything they get involved with must conform with their ideals and standards instead of adapting to the environment. The only reason these women are able to exist in this medium at all is due to their gender and no one will call them on it. I'm tired of women making everything about their genitals. Its the first thing they do when entering a new arena, and its the last thing they do before it dies/stagnates.
Respond if I missed anything.
I've seen a dozen posts here deliberately trying to veer the discussion AWAY from gender issues. For the love of everything, don't open that can of worms.
His point is that they are not the kind of people in question, in this debate. Everyone knows what booth babes are and what they represent. This has nothing to do with them.
Yes...because the gaming industry itself never used fake (Digital) girls to try to get your attention.
I don't get how girls who use fake-gaming as a form of sex appeal can be a problem to gamers when the gaming industry uses fake girls as a form of sex appeal all the time. At best, you're just reading too much into something you should be able to see through, and at worst, as Jim said, you're just scaring off potential female fans from joining in.
Its rare I comment here but this one just got to me, sorry but I disagree with Jim to the nth degree here.
Says most of what I would want to.
Part of the issue is coming from the sex sells principal, now extending from this is the idea of people wanting to find someone into what they are.
The whole fake gamer girl issue really kicked off big time a few years ago when a site called Gamewithgirls or something like that launched. The site actually got crashed due to the number of visitors going there. So what was this site offering ?
Now with the launch of the series "the Big Bang theory" Geek chic is in, the idea of being a bit of a geek is now the trend ( consider the hate hipsters get who moved to being fans of certain bands etc only when they are popular and then claiming they were there from the beginning). Now to use the big Bang theory script itself almost "They aren't like regular guys they don't know how to use their shields" The idea being that us fat ugly nerds aren't used to having a hot girl come onto us. The idea being we are easy targets to be exploited and some girls see it like Tink (from the webseries the guild) the idea guys are there to be used and its their own fault for not realising or as some kind of revenge for being attracted to them.
The big annoyance is the idea that Geek culture is being exploited. Look at the reply girl culture youtube had, why did people hate them ? Because they were doing next to nothing making the same money or more than actual content producers and being able to by using cleavage shots in their thumbnails and pulling in those who just went "huur boobs hurr must click boobs".
Now combine this with gaming and the idea that they can produce the same low quality content and just throw in a bit about gaming and attract a whole new crowd essentially by being fake. Beyond that there is the idea of girls in real life using the geek angle to exploit people not used to being able to spot when they are being exploited.
Essentially this could be seen as the female version of a love rat, the idea is the guy is the perfect guy for them, caring, good looking etc when in reality the girl is one of multiple people and its all lies.
This leads into the issue of a slightly over protective community and some girls then turning and being upset the moment anything less than brilliant is said about them, I've seen it happen on the TGWTG forums as one female user came on and asked for honest feedback, she got it and as she'd been used to the youtube culture and not a culture of producers (both male and female) who didn't pander to her and gave her honest critique she then claimed everyone there was being horrible, mean and were just jealous etc etc then stormed out of the forum. Its a shock for many as certain communities do pander a lot to girls (the Wow community had a spate of people playing female characters simply to get other guys in the game to help them quest and give them stuff).
Now to give context to this I was deceived a bit by my ex who was an actual gamer girl she did play games and enjoy it however the rest of what I knew about her turned out to be the lie. when we first started we first started dating she was a lover of rock and roll, enjoyed a quiet night in and was open minded. Hence I was shocked 2 years down the line when she died her hair bleach blonde revealed she supported the BNP (If you don't know who that party is then you're lucky) and most of the time I'd been away shed spent her time going out getting completely trashed at R&B clubs. Now I personally didn't think I was gullible at least I thought I knew her but I was proved wrong. I get how bad finding you've been deceived can be (yeh cool story bro etc etc). Being deceived is not something nice so the idea of people going out to deceive people deliberately for whatever reason is annoying. I feel the same was about fake nerd girls and lying playa's.
Eeewwwww. That name is possibly even more disturbing than the game footage.
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I should give it a try.
Sounds good! It's like what Spore was supposed to be!I'll give it a shot. I like having lots of stuff to manage.
Dynamic Culture would probably infuriate me if it switched me to some crappy civ. If I want to be Rome, I want to be Rome dammit, complete with their Legions (or Praetorians if you haven't fixed that yet), not the Zulu. Which makes me wonder what kind of conditions you've scripted for each civ.
Just my own input on your culture system.In conquering another civ, I don't think you should gain all of their cultural secrets. Otherwise there's no reason to play other cultures because eventually you can accumulate everything. There should be some loss of culture through conquest or what-have-you. It would add to the mod's replayability.
One of the points of ancient conquest back then was to convert the population from them to you anyway, or genocide them, and install your own people. It's the best way to ensure longevity for any ancient empire.
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On Policy and Innovation; the Grandmother of Invention
I had the fortune of moderating a panel of academics and entrepreneurs in agriculture last week as we kicked off our new Sustainable Ag Tech Innovation Center. I asked each of them to name the single biggest driver of innovation in agriculture in the next 3-5 years. Normally, this cheap trick sparks an exciting round of disagreements among panelists (making moderation easier). And, in agriculture, there are plenty of storm clouds gathering on the horizon - climate change, water scarcity, energy, nutrition, GMO foods - that would make for a good debate.
But in this case the response was uniform and resolute:
I pushed back. What about climate change? Water? Anything to get them arguing among themselves. Then I began to realize there was a deeper mechanism at work here.
On the one hand, there is the question of why, when we have bigger problems to solve - feeding a growing planet, cooling a warming climate, reducing our energy dependence and resulting conflicts, and [your cause here] - we end up with iPhones, Facebooks, Twitters, and other smaller solutions for smaller problems?
On the other hand, is the question of why we set innovation and regulation as opposite ends of the spectrum of possible solutions. Are these problems better solved by regulation or by "free market" innovation?
The two questions are related. Innovation is good at solving clear and present problems. As I've talked about earlier (Other People's Problems), the more straightforward the problem seems, the more likely we'll try to solve it. Want to know the nearest Starbucks? There's an app for that.
Don't get me wrong. It's not a matter of skewed values - we care more about food, climate, education, healthcare than about where we can get our next latte. But when it comes to focusing on those larger problems, it's harder to know where to begin.
That's because they're far more complicated. All change is driven by two roughly distinct forces: systemic causes and direct causes. General causes describe the longer term, more diffuse, pressures for change; inciting causes describe the triggers. Think the kindling and the spark, the balloon and the needle, the camel's back and the straw. You can't have change without both. The problem is that we are not so good at figuring out how much credit each deserves: is it the last straw that broke the camel's back, or the million others?
And so we tend to ignore systemic causes in favor of the more obvious and easily described direct causes. George Lakoff, a professor of cognitive science at UC Berkeley, argues that systemic causation is less clear and thus less easy, but also more important, to understand. As he notes:
"A systemic cause may be one of a number of multiple causes. It may require some special conditions. It may be indirect, working through a network of more direct causes. It may be probabilistic, occurring with a significantly high probability. It may require a feedback mechanism. In general, causation in ecosystems, biological systems, economic systems, and social systems tends not to be direct, but is no less causal. And because it is not direct causation, it requires all the greater attention if it is to be understood and its negative effects controlled."
And because systemic causes are hard to pin down, they are hard to respond to. How do you "fix" something that works indirectly and probabilistically? You really can't fight it directly. So the challenge becomes converting a systemic cause into more discrete and tangible direct causes.
This is where policy comes in. Policy turns the systemic cause of climate change into the direct cause of higher fuel efficiency standards, higher water costs, more stringent nutrition standards, or stronger effluent restrictions. Policy, in effect, provides consumers, corporations, and investors with clear and present problems to solve.
Long before we will innovate against systemic causes like climate change or fossil-fuel dependence or nutrition or water we will innovate against policy.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but policy may be the best mother of necessity.


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Reclinata LLC, a Bradenton company managed by Kerri and Rodger Dowdell, bought the units -- totaling 19,020 square feet -- at 2341 Porter Lake Drive from a subsidiary of Cadence Bank.
Industrial and office condos, a hot commodity during the real estate boom, have only slowly been moving back into vogue.
In December, Maraba LLC, a Sarasota company managed by Paul Marchese, sold 10 office condo units totaling 23,734 square feet to Twin Distribution LLC for $1.3 million.
Maraba had bought the units at 8290 Consumer Court in Sarasota County out of foreclosure from Stearns Bank for $697,700 in October 2011.
Investors large and small have been buying commercial properties at an increasing pace -- sometimes from lenders who seized the properties in the wake of the Great Recession -- in the hopes that firming and rising prices during the next several years will make them a profit.
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1953 Ford F100 Build - Behind the Scenes at The Roadster Shop Part 2
Mike Crimaldi's '53 F_100 - Part 2: Slicing & Dicing Wheelwells
We're back again for Part 2 of all the action in Illinois at The Roadster Shop as they continue to work and mold this '53 F-100 like it was putty in their hands. From the rendering it is obvious the Ford isn't just another F-100-it's meant to flip some lids! This doesn't happen overnight, and it doesn't come easily, either; it takes tons of old-fashioned hard and skilled work and a rock-solid plan. The group at The Roadster Shop knows this firsthand and has built a reputation on their results. Mike Crimaldi's Effie isn't going to be the exception, either!
Last month we showed you what they went through to turn the aged and rotted cab back into a solid foundation for the soon-to-be- stellar Ford. With all the rust out of the way and the sheetmetal on its new chassis, it was time to start in on the creative side of the tinwork! A big part of proportion and flow on any car, truck, or hot rod is wheel placement in relation to the body and/or fenders. The Roadster Shop built the truck's chassis with the wheelbase pushed forward 4 inches to give it a more modern stance, which is a great idea, but it meant many hours of cutting and welding to move the wheel openings forward to suit the new wheelbase. Like most metalwork, this isn't rocket science; it just takes the right tools, planning, and most of all, patience. A move like this can make or break a truck if done poorly or not at all. I've seen more than a few front clips welded in pretty far off from where they needed to be, and a procedure like this would make it OK next to redoing the clip if the wheelbase change wasn't intentional. Regardless, let's walk alongside The Roadster Shop as they work their magic!


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Q: I've used lava rock in my filter for years. Are bioballs really that much better?
Dana – Altadena, CA
A: The media you use in your filtration system matters. Just think about its purpose: To house billions of beneficial bacteria and other microorganisms that keep your pond alive, crystal clear and algae-free. Thanks to their ample surface area, both lava rock and bioballs will work, but bioballs have some benefits over the rock. Read on to learn more.
Lava Rock's Limitations
Lava rock – that igneous rock that's formed as an erupting volcano's molten lava cools and hardens – is very porous. When chunks of it live in your filtration system, you're providing a lot of surface area for those beneficial bacteria to colonize and grow. That's what makes it such a great filter media.
It does, however, have its drawbacks.
- Clogged Holes: Over time, the porous rock can become easily clogged with muck and debris. Once the holes and pockets are clogged, they can become very difficult to clean out – which ultimately creates less overall surface area.
- Hard Water: Lava rock naturally contains a variety of minerals, including iron and magnesium, that could affect your water's pH, making it harder. Hard water could make it more difficult to treat algae that forms.
- It's Heavy!: They may be porous chunks of rock, but hefting bags of it takes some strength – particularly when its wet and full of gunk.
Benefits of BioBalls
Bioballs, like The Pond Guy® BioBalls™ filter media, are plastic spheres made up of dozens of thin rods that provide plenty of surface area for beneficial bacteria to thrive. Two hundred of the bioballs in a mesh bag will filter about 1,000 gallons of water in a pond with minimal fish.
Compared to lava rock, bioballs have some definite benefits.
- Easy to Clean: Bioballs can also become clogged, by they're easy to clean. Just rinse them off with water from your pond and you'll be good to go.
- Indefinite Lifetime: Because they're made from long-lasting material, bioballs will not degrade and will function equally well year after year.
- Shape Shifters: The bioballs' round shape allows them to more easily conform to any filter, no matter its shape.
- Lightweight, Easy to Handle: Each one of these tiny, 1 1/2-inch plastic spheres weighs a scant 0.3 ounces; 200 of them weigh a whopping 3 1/2 pounds. They're easy to deposit and remove from your filter thanks to a mesh filter bag.
Consider making the switch from lava rock to bioballs. You'll see better results and you'll need to do less maintenance. What's better than that?
Pond Talk: Why do you prefer bioballs over lava rock?
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The power and portability of smartphones and tablets will save time and money for many people this holiday season. Over two times more shoppers plan to purchase gifts and 50 percent more plan to book travel using their mobile devices this year, according to new research from Webroot, a leader in delivering Internet security as a service. But convenience may come at a cost for those who skip certain measures to secure their devices and personal data.
In a survey of 1,215 mobile device users, Webroot assessed people's preferences for using mobile devices versus traditional means for researching and buying holiday gifts, and for planning and booking holiday trips. In addition, Webroot explored how people secure themselves on their mobile devices.
Webroot found that 50 percent are likely to purchase holiday gifts using their smartphone or tablet this year – up from 22 percent who did so in 2010. Additionally, one third (33 percent) of respondents plan to use their mobile devices to book holiday travel, up from 22 percent who did so in 2010. But only 40 percent of respondents have a security app installed to block threats or remotely lock and locate a lost device, and a surprising 53 percent leave their devices unlocked – potentially exposing their personal information to prying eyes.
"People using mobile devices are exposed to a new set of online risks: cybercriminals seed mobile markets with malicious apps that can steal your personal data or send texts and SMS messages to premium numbers. And because of their size, smartphones and tablets are easier to lose or have stolen than laptops and notebooks, which puts the vast amounts of personal data stored on them at risk. Mobile security services are now a must -- lost device protection, secure web browsing, and antimalware provide essential protection," said Chad Bacher, vice president of Mobile Solutions at Webroot.
Webroot found several differences between how US and UK residents prefer to use their mobile devices during the holiday season. Webroot also found several key differences in behavior among age groups, gender, and people using devices on the AndroidTM and iOS operating systems.
Key Findings:
The US favors mobile devices for holiday shopping while the UK leverages them for travel planning:
- UK travelers use their mobile devices more intensively than those in the US while planning trips this holiday season:
- 80 percent of UK travelers use mobile devices to compare hotel or ticket prices versus 72 percent in the US.
- 56 percent of UK respondents download boarding passes versus 44 percent in the US.
- Almost half (46 percent) of UK mobile device users purchase tickets versus 32 percent in the US.
- US shoppers rely on their mobile devices more than those in the UK while holiday gift-buying:
- 55 percent scan barcodes versus 44 percent of UK users.
- 45 percent scan QR codes versus 36 percent in the UK.
- At the same time, 68 percent of US respondents indicated they also plan to shop at brick-and-mortar retail stores, versus 48 percent of UK shoppers.
Android device users are more concerned about securing their holiday shopping and travel details:
- Android and iOS device users protect themselves at roughly the same rate (44 percent and 38 percent, respectively.
- However, Android users are more concerned about the security of information.
- 64 percent of Android users are concerned (compared with 52 percent of iOS users).
- Android users also take more steps to protect their devices.
- 60 percent ensure their security software is up-to-date (versus 47 percent of iOS users).
- 43 percent avoid using mobile retail apps that store credit card information (vs. 33 percent of iOS users).
- Android users and iOS users prefer to use a mobile app rather than a browser when holiday gift shopping at about the same rate (45 percent of Android users; 48 percent of iOS users)
Men are savvier than women at securing themselves on their mobile devices:
- 44 percent of men versus 37 percent of women have security services on their devices.
- More than half (51 percent) of men lock their devices versus 43 percent of women.
- 57 percent of men limit the sites they visit when connecting from an unfamiliar network versus 48 percent of women.
UK device users are savvier about certain mobile security protection measures:
- 55 percent use the lock device feature versus 42 percent of US respondents.
- 39 percent look for the lock graphic on a status bar versus 28 percent of US shoppers.
Younger users do more on their devices during the holidays, but older users are more security-minded:
- People 50 and above are more likely to have security on their device.
- 44 percent of users 50 and above, versus 38 percent under 50.
- Younger mobile shoppers (18 to 29) are more likely than all others to:
- Use their mobile devices to compare prices (91 percent versus 83 percent of shoppers 30 years or older),
- Download coupons (81 percent versus 67 percent of those 30 and older), and
- Search for Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals (69 percent versus 50 percent of those 30 or older.
- Younger mobile shoppers lock their devices at a greater rate than older users
- 56 percent of 18-29 year olds versus 44 percent of those 30 or older.
Securing Mobile Devices
Webroot security experts recommend three key steps for securing mobile devices:
- Know your apps: Download apps only from a trusted source, like the Google Market, Apple App Store or Amazon App Store. Closely scrutinize the permissions the app requests, and don't install it if it wants to access certain functions that it doesn't need, such as the ability to send SMS messages. User reviews are also helpful.
- Lock your device: Most smartphones and tablets give you a choice of locking the device with a password, numeric code or pattern. Take advantage of this – if nothing else, you'll prevent practical jokesters from emailing your boss if you leave your device unattended.
- Explore mobile security services: Mobile security apps provide lost device protection, secure web browsing, and antimalware services. Webroot offers several free and premium versions of Webroot® SecureAnywhere™ for protecting devices on the iOS and Android operating systems.
About the Research
Webroot conducted a blind online survey November 4-7, 2011 in the United States and United Kingdom, using Research Now panel members. Respondents qualified for the survey if they were at least 18 years old, own a smartphone or tablet, and plan to purchase holiday gifts and/or make holiday travel arrangements using a smartphone or tablet. The margin of error in the United States is ±3.6 (835 respondents), and ±4.4 in the United Kingdom (490 respondents).


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Birth Announcement: Maxton Fox
Parents Tom and Shauna Fox - along with big sister Sophie - announce the birth of Maxton Thomas Fox on October 12, 2010. He was born at 7:23 pm, weighed 8 lbs, 7 oz, and measured 19.5 inches.
Grandparents are Mike & Vikki Flanagan (AuGres), Ingrid Maag (AuGres), and Grant Fox (Phoenix).
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