Overview The use of " anti-virus " techniques in many modern worms recalls two stories: the " war " between virus writers and the possibility of a beneficial virus. This article examines both in light of recent events in the virus world. In early 2004, the release of Netsky began a rash of articles discussing " vigilante " coders trying to stop the spread of other worms. The war between Netsky'...

Theology is a discipline of major issues. We are interested in the fundamental questions of human existence, suffering and hope, identity and community, good and evil, history and future, salvation and damnation. We always run the risk of expanding our subject matter unto ‘the world and surroundings’. To avoid that, we have focused our joint attention in this book to the level of lived religion...

Session I 9:30 – 10:45 AM Andrew Miles: Roanoke College Department of Philosophy Good, Evil and Well-being: Sam Harris’ Scientific Approach to Ethics One of the most controversial debates in ethics is how to define Good and Evil. Do “good” actions necessarily adhere to commandments set by a God? Or are there many different, equally valid definitions based on cultural norms? Neuroscientist and a...

M64, often called the "Evil Eye" galaxy, is unique among local galaxies. Beyond its dramatic, dusty nucleus, it also hosts an outer gas disk that counter-rotates relative to stars. The mass of this comparable content Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), prompting idea was likely accreted in a recent minor merger. Yet, detailed follow-up studies M64's have shown no evidence such event, leading other in...

“preventing an evil takes priority over securing an interest” and preferring the prohibition side is among discussions raised by usuli scholars and has been accepted as particular affirmative proposition; the said priority is known among islamic jurisprudents as “ preventing an evil takes priority over securing a benefit” in whose … is the contrast of evil and benefit. four interpretations of t...

cial pneumothorax demands consideration both for its good and evil effects. Some of its good effects are : the fixation of the mobile mediastinum thus affording better collapse, the closure of the basal cavity, the increase of interval between the fills by better retention of gas, and the initiation of better fibrosis by ' auto-tuberculin reaction None of these, of course, is an unmixed good, b...