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Video games change the way you dream. Maybe you're meandering, alone and lost, through an abandoned castle surrounded by a crocodile-filled moat. Suddenly, a flame-breathing dragon hurls towards you, snarling and gnashing its teeth, coming in for the kill. Do you wake up from this bizarro nightmare, covered in sweat and close to tears? Or do you stay in the dream, grab your imaginary sword, and walk boldly into battle? If your answer is the latter, then Jayne Gackenbach would suspect you're also a hardcore gamer. Gackenbach is a psychologist at Canada's Grant MacEwan University and arguably the world's preeminent expert on how video games can impact dreaming.

In the early 1990's, her son Teace (with whom Gackenback later co-authored a book on gaming) started playing Nintendo, and Gackenbach found herself fascinated with the potential impacts of her son's new hobby. "A biological construct or a technological one. " Able to toggle between first and third-person point-of-view Navigate threats in waking life. Quickly Save an Email to Google Drive with Google Cloud Print. Anonymous Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison | Threat Level. Photo: Jim Newberry, FreeHammond.com Hacker Jeremy Hammond was sentenced this morning to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for a damaging, politically motivated computer intrusion at the private intelligence firm Stratfor in 2011.

The 28-year-old Chicagoan pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., where he wiped out files and databases and stole 5 million private email messages and 60,000 customer credit card numbers. The emails went to WikiLeaks, while the credit cards were used by Anonymous to rack up $700,000 in fraudulent donations to non-profit groups. Hammond’s lawyers, armed with an internet petition and over 250 letters of support, had sought a sentence of 20 months time-served, positioning Hammond as a whistleblower working to expose wrongdoing at private contractors tied to law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Google: Find Free MP3s, WMAs, OGGs, and Other Music Files. Google Tips, Tricks & Hacks. Information sources | surveillance. Dafont.com. Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine. About » Free Jeremy Hammond! (born December 1985) is a political activist from Chicago charged in a criminal complaint with crimes relating to the December 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc. ( Stratfor ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the founder of the computer security training website HackThisSite , [ 3 ] created in 2003 following his graduation from Glenbard East High School . [ 4 ] Arrest On March 5, 2012, Hammond was arrested by FBI agents in Bridgeport, Chicago [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] ahead of an indictment unsealed the following day in the Lower Manhattan federal district court. [ 8 ] He is one of six individuals from the United States , England and Ireland indicted, [ 3 ] [ 9 ] due to a cooperating witness known online as Sabu . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Sentences On March 25, 2010, Hammond was sentenced to four days in the Cook County Department of Corrections, for taking part in a confrontation with the controversial Holocaust writer David Irving .

Background See also HackThisSite Hacktivism References Perlroth, Nicole. Goudie, Chuck. Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off. Google's very own "Loch Ness monster," also known as Google Drive, has finally launched. It's the new face of Google Documents, and it's also Google's oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It enters a scene crowded with competitors besides Dropbox that let you sync multiple folders, collaborate with friends, and stream data to your mobile device — so how does Drive fare? We'll take a look at the top apps that let you sync files between all of your devices automatically, share files using password protection, pick which folders you want to sync, and do anything else you might want to do with a syncing app. While our evaluations of each app aren't full-on reviews, they are encapsulations of where each app excels and what makes each unique.

Refer to the chart at the bottom of the page for full breakdowns of each application. Sticky TOC engaged! Google Drive Google Drive Drive launches on the web, for Mac, Windows, and Android devices today, with iOS support on the way "in the coming weeks. " Dropbox Box.