The Intelligent design becomes the basic principle of life? Homo sapiens is Future replaced by superhumans? Part One The Cognitive Revolution 1. The story of these fundamental features of our universe is called physics.
About , years after their appearance, matter and energy started to coalesce into complex structures, called atoms, which then combined into molecules. The story of atoms, molecules and their interactions is called chemistry. About 3. The story of organisms is called biology. About 70, years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures.
The subsequent development of these human cultures is called history. Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70, years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it up about 12, years ago.
The Scienti c Revolution, which got under way only years ago, may well end history and start something completely di erent. This book tells the story of how these three revolutions have affected humans and their fellow organisms. There were humans long before there was history. Animals much like modern humans rst appeared about 2. But for countless generations they did not stand out from the myriad other organisms with which they shared their habitats.
On a hike in East Africa 2 million years ago, you might well have encountered a familiar cast of human characters: anxious mothers cuddling their babies and clutches of carefree children playing in the mud; temperamental youths cha ng against the dictates of society and weary elders who just wanted to be left in peace; chest-thumping machos trying to impress the local beauty and wise old matriarchs who had already seen it all.
These archaic humans loved, played, formed close friendships and competed for status and power — but so did chimpanzees, baboons and elephants. There was nothing special about them.
Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books. The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insigni cant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish.
Biologists classify organisms into species. Animals are said to belong to the same species if they tend to mate with each other, giving birth to fertile o spring. Horses and donkeys have a recent common ancestor and share many physical traits. But they show little sexual interest in one another. They will mate if induced to do so — but their o spring, called mules, are sterile. Mutations in donkey DNA can therefore never cross over to horses, or vice versa.
The two types of animals are consequently considered two distinct species, moving along separate evolutionary paths. By contrast, a bulldog and a spaniel may look very di erent, but they are members of the same species, sharing the same DNA pool.
They will happily mate and their puppies will grow up to pair o with other dogs and produce more puppies. Lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars are di erent species within the genus Panthera. Biologists label organisms with a two-part Latin name, genus followed by species.
Lions, for example, are called Panthera leo, the species leo of the genus Panthera. Presumably, everyone reading this book is a Homo sapiens — the species sapiens wise of the genus Homo man.
Genera in their turn are grouped into families, such as the cats lions, cheetahs, house cats , the dogs wolves, foxes, jackals and the elephants elephants, mammoths, mastodons. All members of a family trace their lineage back to a founding matriarch or patriarch. All cats, for example, from the smallest house kitten to the most ferocious lion, share a common feline ancestor who lived about 25 million years ago.
Homo sapiens, too, belongs to a family. Homo sapiens long preferred to view itself as set apart from animals, an orphan bereft of family, lacking siblings or cousins, and most importantly, without parents.
Like it or not, we are members of a large and particularly noisy family called the great apes. Our closest living relatives include chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans. The chimpanzees are the closest. Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother.
Skeletons in the Closet Homo sapiens has kept hidden an even more disturbing secret. Not only do we possess an abundance of uncivilised cousins, once upon a time we had quite a few brothers and sisters as well. We are used to thinking about ourselves as the only humans, because for the last 10, years, our species has indeed been the only human species around. Moreover, as we shall see in the last chapter of the book, in the not so distant future we might again have to contend with non- sapiens humans.
Humans rst evolved in East Africa about 2. About 2 million years ago, some of these archaic men and women left their homeland to journey through and settle vast areas of North Africa, Europe and Asia. The result was several distinct species, to each of which scientists have assigned a pompous Latin name. Our siblings, according to speculative reconstructions left to right : Homo rudolfensis East Africa ; Homo erectus East Asia ; and Homo neanderthalensis Europe and western Asia.
All are humans. Neanderthals, bulkier and more muscular than us Sapiens, were well adapted to the cold climate of Ice Age western Eurasia. This record is unlikely to be broken even by our own species. It is doubtful whether Homo sapiens will still be around a thousand years from now, so 2 million years is really out of our league. On another Indonesian island — the small island of Flores — archaic humans underwent a process of dwar ng. Humans rst reached Flores when the sea level was exceptionally low, and the island was easily accessible from the mainland.
When the seas rose again, some people were trapped on the island, which was poor in resources. Big people, who need a lot of food, died rst. Smaller fellows survived much better. Over the generations, the people of Flores became dwarves. This unique species, known by scientists as Homo oresiensis, reached a maximum height of only one metre and weighed no more than twenty- ve kilograms. In another lost sibling was rescued from oblivion, when scientists excavating the Denisova Cave in Siberia discovered a fossilised nger bone.
Genetic analysis proved that the nger belonged to a previously unknown human species, which was named Homo denisova.
Who knows how many lost relatives of ours are waiting to be discovered in other caves, on other islands, and in other climes. While these humans were evolving in Europe and Asia, evolution in East Africa did not stop. The members of some of these species were massive and others were dwarves.
Some were fearsome hunters and others meek plant-gatherers. Some lived only on a single island, while many roamed over continents. But all of them belonged to the genus Homo. They were all human beings. This linear model gives the mistaken impression that at any particular moment only one type of human inhabited the earth, and that all earlier species were merely older models of ourselves. And why not? Today there are many species of foxes, bears and pigs.
The earth of a hundred millennia ago was walked by at least six di erent species of man. As we will shortly see, we Sapiens have good reasons to repress the memory of our siblings. The Cost of Thinking Despite their many di erences, all human species share several de ning characteristics.
Most notably, humans have extraordinarily large brains compared to other animals. Mammals weighing sixty kilograms have an average brain size of cubic centimetres. The earliest men and women, 2. Modern Sapiens sport a brain averaging 1,—1, cubic centimetres. Neanderthal brains were even bigger. That evolution should select for larger brains may seem to us like, well, a no- brainer. We are so enamoured of our high intelligence that we assume that when it comes to cerebral power, more must be better.
But if that were the case, the feline family would also have produced cats who could do calculus. Why is genus Homo the only one in the entire animal kingdom to have come up with such massive thinking machines? The fact is that a jumbo brain is a jumbo drain on the body.
By comparison, the brains of other apes require only 8 per cent of rest-time energy. Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spent more time in search of food. Secondly, their muscles atrophied. Like a government diverting money from defence to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons.
Today our big brains pay o nicely, because we can produce cars and guns that enable us to move much faster than chimps, and shoot them from a safe distance instead of wrestling. But cars and guns are a recent phenomenon. For more than 2 million years, human neural networks kept growing and growing, but apart from some int knives and pointed sticks, humans had precious little to show for it.
What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Another singular human trait is that we walk upright on two legs. The more things these hands could do, the more successful their owners were, so evolutionary pressure brought about an increasing concentration of nerves and nely tuned muscles in the palms and ngers. As a result, humans can perform very intricate tasks with their hands.
In particular, they can produce and use sophisticated tools. The rst evidence for tool production dates from about 2. Yet walking upright has its downside. The skeleton of our primate ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and had a relatively small head. Adjusting to an upright position was quite a challenge, especially when the sca olding had to support an extra-large cranium. Humankind paid for its lofty vision and industrious hands with backaches and sti necks.
Women paid extra. Death in childbirth became a major hazard for human females. Women who gave birth earlier, when the infants brain and head were still relatively small and supple, fared better and lived to have more children.
Natural selection consequently favoured earlier births. And, indeed, compared to other animals, humans are born prematurely, when many of their vital systems are still under- developed.
A colt can trot shortly after birth; a kitten leaves its mother to forage on its own when it is just a few weeks old. Human babies are helpless, dependent for many years on their elders for sustenance, protection and education. Lone mothers could hardly forage enough food for their o spring and themselves with needy children in tow.
Raising children required constant help from other family members and neighbours. It takes a tribe to raise a human. Evolution thus favoured those capable of forming strong social ties. In addition, since humans are born underdeveloped, they can be educated and socialised to a far greater extent than any other animal.
Most mammals emerge from the womb like glazed earthenware emerging from a kiln — any attempt at remoulding will scratch or break them.
Humans emerge from the womb like molten glass from a furnace. They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree of freedom. It seems self-evident that these have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth. But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creatures.
Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators, rarely hunted large game, and subsisted mainly by gathering plants, scooping up insects, stalking small animals, and eating the carrion left behind by other more powerful carnivores.
One of the most common uses of early stone tools was to crack open bones in order to get to the marrow. Some researchers believe this was our original niche. Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the rst humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones. Why marrow? Well, suppose you observe a pride of lions take down and devour a gira e. Only then would you and your band dare approach the carcass, look cautiously left and right — and dig into the edible tissue that remained.
This is a key to understanding our history and psychology. For millions of years, humans hunted smaller creatures and gathered what they could, all the while being hunted by larger predators. It was only , years ago that several species of man began to hunt large game on a regular basis, and only in the last , years — with the rise of Homo sapiens — that man jumped to the top of the food chain. That spectacular leap from the middle to the top had enormous consequences.
Other animals at the top of the pyramid, such as lions and sharks, evolved into that position very gradually, over millions of years. This enabled the ecosystem to develop checks and balances that prevent lions and sharks from wreaking too much havoc.
As lions became deadlier, so gazelles evolved to run faster, hyenas to cooperate better, and rhinoceroses to be more bad-tempered. In contrast, humankind ascended to the top so quickly that the ecosystem was not given time to adjust. Moreover, humans themselves failed to adjust. Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures. Millions of years of dominion have lled them with self-con dence. Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator.
Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous. Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump.
A Race of Cooks A signi cant step on the way to the top was the domestication of re. Some human species may have made occasional use of re as early as , years ago.
By about , years ago, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and the forefathers of Homo sapiens were using re on a daily basis. Humans now had a dependable source of light and warmth, and a deadly weapon against prowling lions. Not long afterwards, humans may even have started deliberately to torch their neighbourhoods.
A carefully managed re could turn impassable barren thickets into prime grasslands teeming with game. In addition, once the re died down, Stone Age entrepreneurs could walk through the smoking remains and harvest charcoaled animals, nuts and tubers.
But the best thing re did was cook. Foods that humans cannot digest in their natural forms — such as wheat, rice and potatoes — became staples of our diet thanks to cooking. Cooking killed germs and parasites that infested food.
Humans also had a far easier time chewing and digesting old favourites such as fruits, nuts, insects and carrion if they were cooked. Whereas chimpanzees spend ve hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food.
The advent of cooking enabled humans to eat more kinds of food, to devote less time to eating, and to make do with smaller teeth and shorter intestines. Some scholars believe there is a direct link between the advent of cooking, the shortening of the human intestinal track, and the growth of the human brain.
By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens.
The power of almost all animals depends on their bodies: the strength of their muscles, the size of their teeth, the breadth of their wings. Though they may harness winds and currents, they are unable to control these natural forces, and are always constrained by their physical design. Yet eagles cannot control the location of the columns, and their maximum carrying capacity is strictly proportional to their wingspan. When humans domesticated re, they gained control of an obedient and potentially limitless force.
Unlike eagles, humans could choose when and where to ignite a ame, and they were able to exploit re for any number of tasks.
Most importantly, the power of fire was not limited by the form, structure or strength of the human body. A single woman with a int or re stick could burn down an entire forest in a matter of hours. The domestication of re was a sign of things to come. They could now scare away lions, warm themselves during cold nights, and burn down the occasional forest. Yet counting all species together, there were still no more than perhaps a million humans living between the Indonesian archipelago and the Iberian peninsula, a mere blip on the ecological radar.
Our own species, Homo sapiens, was already present on the world stage, but so far it was just minding its own business in a corner of Africa. If one of them turned up in a modern morgue, the local pathologist would notice nothing peculiar. Thanks to the blessings of re, they had smaller teeth and jaws than their ancestors, whereas they had massive brains, equal in size to ours. Scientists also agree that about 70, years ago, Sapiens from East Africa spread into the Arabian peninsula, and from there they quickly overran the entire Eurasian landmass.
When Homo sapiens landed in Arabia, most of Eurasia was already settled by other humans. What happened to them? There are two con icting theories. As the African immigrants spread around the world, they bred with other human populations, and people today are the outcome of this interbreeding. These humans were more muscular than Sapiens, had larger brains, and were better adapted to cold climes.
They used tools and re, were good hunters, and apparently took care of their sick and in rm. According to the Interbreeding Theory, when Sapiens spread into Neanderthal lands, Sapiens bred with Neanderthals until the two populations merged. They are a mixture of Sapiens and Neanderthals. According to this theory, Sapiens and other humans had di erent anatomies, and most likely di erent mating habits and even body odours.
They would have had little sexual interest in one another. And even if a Neanderthal Romeo and a Sapiens Juliet fell in love, they could not produce fertile children, because the genetic gulf separating the two populations was already unbridgeable. The two populations remained completely distinct, and when the Neanderthals died out, or were killed o , their genes died with them.
According to this view, Sapiens replaced all the previous human populations without merging with them. If that is the case, the lineages of all contemporary humans can be traced back, exclusively, to East Africa, 70, years ago. Map 1. Homo sapiens conquers the globe. A lot hinges on this debate. From an evolutionary perspective, 70, years is a relatively short interval.
But if the Interbreeding Theory is right, there might well be genetic di erences between Africans, Europeans and Asians that go back hundreds of thousands of years. This is political dynamite, which could provide material for explosive racial theories. In recent decades the Replacement Theory has been the common wisdom in the eld. But that ended in , when the results of a four-year e ort to map the Neanderthal genome were published.
Geneticists were able to collect enough intact Neanderthal DNA from fossils to make a broad comparison between it and the DNA of contemporary humans. The results stunned the scientific community. A second shock came several months later, when DNA extracted from the fossilised nger from Denisova was mapped. Although di erences between them were not large enough to completely prevent fertile intercourse, they were sufficient to make such contacts very rare.
How then should we understand the biological relatedness of Sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans? Clearly, they were not completely di erent species like horses and donkeys. On the other hand, they were not just di erent populations of the same species, like bulldogs and spaniels. Biological reality is not black and white. There are also important grey areas. Every two species that evolved from a common ancestor, such as horses and donkeys, were at one time just two populations of the same species, like bulldogs and spaniels.
There must have been a point when the two populations were already quite di erent from one another, but still capable on rare occasions of having sex and producing fertile o spring. Then another mutation severed this last connecting thread, and they went their separate evolutionary ways.
It seems that about 50, years ago, Sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans were at that borderline point. They were almost, but not quite, entirely separate species. So the populations did not merge, but a few lucky Neanderthal genes did hitch a ride on the Sapiens Express. It is unsettling — and perhaps thrilling — to think that we Sapiens could at one time have sex with an animal from a di erent species, and produce children together.
A speculative reconstruction of a Neanderthal child. Genetic evidence hints that at least some Neanderthals may have had fair skin and hair. One possibility is that Homo sapiens drove them to extinction. Imagine a Sapiens band reaching a Balkan valley where Neanderthals had lived for hundreds of thousands of years.
Sapiens were more pro cient hunters and gatherers — thanks to better technology and superior social skills — so they multiplied and spread. The less resourceful Neanderthals found it increasingly di cult to feed themselves.
Their population dwindled and they slowly died out, except perhaps for one or two members who joined their Sapiens neighbours. Another possibility is that competition for resources ared up into violence and genocide. Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a small di erence in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group.
Would ancient Sapiens have been more tolerant towards an entirely di erent human species? Imagine how things might have turned out had the Neanderthals or Denisovans survived alongside Homo sapiens.
What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several di erent human species coexisted? How, for example, would religious faiths have unfolded? Would Neanderthals have been able to serve in the Roman legions, or in the sprawling bureaucracy of imperial China? Would the American Declaration of Independence hold as a self-evident truth that all members of the genus Homo are created equal?
Would Karl Marx have urged workers of all species to unite? Our lack of brothers and sisters makes it easier to imagine that we are the epitome of creation, and that a chasm separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged. Even today many refuse to believe it. Had the Neanderthals survived, would we still imagine ourselves to be a creature apart?
Perhaps this is exactly why our ancestors wiped out the Neanderthals. It is possible, but it would be via an option in your email accounts settings and options that you should verify as not having been set. Hi Leo. How is this possible? Any suggestions? If you are able to log on to your Gmail account, in addition to the 7 things described in this article, I would check to see if that account is set up to forward email to another account and change that if applicable.
I have a question regarding mail sent on myspace. Example, me responding to a message. It could be that the other person lives in a different timezone, or has the time set incorrectly on their computer, or simply a glitch in how MySpace handles their messages. I accidentally stumbled across this site. Plus we work at a place that takes cc over the phone and he has my in-laws Unlimited card number though somehow crossing all of our text messages.
Actually Microsoft was very helpful for free , deleted all contacts, copied all fake url or IP information , backed up everything onto PC then memory stick, and much more. So, my husband and I learned this time. However not lazy enough to go through all this bullshit for free money.
Thank you for this site and being invisible to my hacker. I really wish I could be as low as him and hack into his stuff making him more broke to our knowledge than he already is. I will definitely be back to keep up dates for my phones, etc. Please listen to Leo. No joke. Again thank you for more information. We are eternally grateful. While I can understand the sentiment, email has connected me with more people more closely than anything else so far. Email made it all easier.
Email made it all more likely to happen. Email made all this real connection possible. In reality. I could agree more. Email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, etc. Being able to FaceTime with my sister and her family in New Zealand and seeing photos of my nephews on Facebook is simply awesome. All my contact lists have a fictitious entry that has my email address from another account. If it gets a message, I find out immediately. That tells me I need to get busy and start with the hard work on the hit account.
Thanks so much for the kick in the rear regarding hacking of email accounts. I realized how vulnerable I am and how important my email and contacts are so I have now switched to two step verification on Outlook. By the way my Outlook. I notice that the article recommends using long passwords, which is sensible enough. People are generally advised to use increasingly long complicated passwords.
This will not help if the password has been found out by some means. So increased length is meant to make it harder to guess passwords by using brute force i. The reason why passwords are having to increase in length is because computers are increasingly faster at processing permutations and techniques are improving the permutational chances. But an 8 random character password would be as effective as a 28 character password if login attempts were limited even to For example, the reason why a 4 number credit card pin is regarded as satisfactorily safe is because you only get 3 goes at entering it.
So, why are unlimited guesses for email accounts still permitted? Two-step verification provides some additional protection too. If a password is found on one account, hackers may well try them on other accounts. Additionally, if you use Outlook. Easiest way for hackers to get email lists is through mobile apps. Check permissions on some ad ware apps you may have installed on your phone or tablet. Some will have access to your email and contacts.
This information can then be used to hijack an email account and send emails from your address to people in your contact list. There is very little you can do once this has happened. People install apps without checking permissions they are giving up on their phone and this is why email hacking is on the rise, its not due to passwords in the majority of cases its someone using your email account to fake emails from.
Ok, this morning my sister sent me a email saying I got hacked. But it looked at the email address that was supposted to be from me and it said my email name but the was not my email server. Was I hacked? Or my sister was hacked?? I am sending spam to just one person in my contact list and i have talked to others in my contact list and no one has gotten anything.
This person got spam for about 4 months while no other contacts did. I am good friend with this person reciving spam on social media.
The year was back then My friend stoped reciving spam afterwards. The actions i did then: I checked as you said recent activity in both hotmail and gmail and nothing. I looked in send folder and nothing. My Facebook has never been hacked because of full register i know and other social media. You say a typical hack is when your contacts gets spam, in this case it was only a contact.
Is it more likley to be something else? All my friends says i should know for sure when it is a hack because either they get closed accounts or they get respons from MSN friends or other friends or find in sent email.
Or because their connected facebook got some posted new things or they started to write to stangers or something. I have read about spoofing but is that even likley who even put their energy to stalk others and then send them email to fool.
Or has someone gotten our emails between and somehow connected us…however the teory should i worry??? I have a question like above and i would appreciate an answer. If only one person got spam and no others from the contact list. That means probably that they do NOT have access to the adressbook right? Any spammer should be interested in spaming as much people as possible???
I would like to hear your expert opinion pleaseee. To be clear: there are no rules, and no predicting what spammers will do. So the answer could be just about anything. Keep your passwords on four identical flash drives since flash drives have been known to fail. Make sure to keep them identical. Eventually some hackers are going to break Truecrypt so either use Veracrypt or, since Microsoft knows everything you do anyway, you can also use Bitlocker.
I have been either hacked or bullied. Most all of My email addresses have been accessed. Also moving through web forums trying to get answers I come across The same name and or names. Is it possible that someone or my ISP is leading me to the right person or persons or is it just a FReak coincidence? This morning I signed into my personal email account and I saw new emails from various email newsletters and websites. I did not sign up for any of these and so I proceeded to label all of these as spam.
I was thinking it was maybe a spam bot but I how do I confirm? That depends. Some give you time to change your mind. The best thing you could do is follow the instructions in this article before closing it down as an extra layer of protection. Depends on the provider, how you deleted it, what it means to delete an account from that provider and so on.
This article is very helpful and I will reread it. However, I would prefer to hire a service to help me. Is there any such service that you could recommend?
Also, my email was hacked and I had to abandon it. However, would that have allowed someone to hack into my computer, as well? Sorry —The email address that I gave is the hacked one. I have not yet been able to set up a new one. While I am setting up a new email, I will be locked out. It has happened several times. A hack to a Yahoo. You say this has happened several times, so it sounds like what you really need is to learn how to be safe on the internet. I keep being asked to enter my password and I have changed it so many uncountable times.
Please can you help? This has happened uncountable times. I have an email account I created when I was 15 or so. And certainly have no idea what I may have listed as a subject line. Both accounts are crossed linked for recovery, so it will send recovery options for one to the other and visa versa. Can someone hack into my email account so I can get access to it? Someone tell me they know a way to help!
If it were that easy to hack into an account for recovery, it would be as easy for a hacker to steal the account. Your only option is to start using a different account. Please can someone help. Am so stressed. My husbands email I fear may have been hacked.
I have resided my email as the recovery and left my mobile and set two step verification today. Yesterday his LinkedJn Account was hacked and hats beijbdwaltb with however, as I feel his Yahoo is hacked, before sending documents and restoring his account … need to address his own yahoo account first. I spent 3 hours in pc shop with a specialist today with the Lap Top who assured me all looked ok before I left. However the volume of mailer daemon failure into the inbox yeysrsay was over Since I returned home have only received 3 emails which is unusual.
Please can anyone advise. Hubby works overseas and am so stressed. He needs to be removed off the account. He knows my number. He put himself there I never asked him to. He lives in my home.
He claims it was a back-up effect. I only have one phone. He has a tablet billed to my account. If I have any more problems I will call down judgement on whosoever, whatsoever responsible.
Can you please help! I have email addresses approx. They are on all my yahoo accounts and my Gmail accounts. I am so frustrated with it all. It even affected my phone and had to take all my email accounts off of my phones. They all start with Adel and when I try to delete them even permanently delete them they are back by the next day. It has affected emails and passwords. I hate to be a retrograde but this excellent article shows why, long ago, I decided to pay by check and snail mail.
Your money will be GONE. Or key loggers may give your secret away as you type, Do not use cheap locks where your computer sits, Do not lose your mobile devise, Use multi level security common to most investment houses, Back up, back up, then back up, daily. Divest, divest, then divest. Never put all of your eggs in one electronic basket. And put limits on electronic withdrawals.
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I cannot access images on a particular motorcycle website on the third one only. All internet options settings are definitely identical and I have fully studied your detailed article on this subject.
There is absolutely no problem with accessing images on any other website on this third computer which is a laptop. It is a real mystery and I would be most grateful if you have any ideas. Many thanks. I got the red x to go away by just telling the Windows security to let me download Java. It worked for me! Thank you everybody!
We have 2 computers and on 1 I see red exes all over the screen on websites like CNN etc. When I click on the properties I see links like this one:. So all the red exes are bug. It seems I need to change the settings on this computer but not sure what to change.
Any advice. I would suspect spyware or a virus actually. My first recommendation would be to scan for both. I just deleted a supposed to be movie I downloaded from KaZaa and I got it all to work properly again. I guess a virus could do it too. Its becoming a big problem for me. Is there any way to fix it? I resently re-installed windows XP and it worked before. Is there somthing I need to intsall?
I have 3 computers, only the notebook has this problem red x syndrome on only a few sites. Tried all the fixes on this page, no luck. I am curious as to why eBay has so many of these web bugs. These web bugs are suppose to be like cookies. And when I disable them the site looks all jumbled.
But my friend has 56Kb modem access and can always only download about half of them, the last half always coming up as red crosses. What can be the reason for this? I have found that there is a problem with the url. How can I change it? I got the guy to check the site and it looks as though someone has gained access somehow and has changed the homepage last updated this wednesday and the guy has been nowhere near it.
I am currently using FireFox browser. When i go o my site it shows the icon not the red x thing but the second one you had show the one that looks like a piece of paper with some shapes in it But is cut in half.
You say this is your site? Can others see it ok? Especially if not, my guess is that the links to the images are incorrect as outlined in the article. I do not see my problem addressed here. They still show correctly on my laptop and others in my group tell me they can still see them, so I know they are posting. Any idea why I cannot see them on my main PC? I would greatly appriciate any help. My sincere thanks. Found your site on a google search — very useful, thanks! That fixed my display problems with PayPal and viewing images from all websites.
Hey there. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Ok, heres what i did. Open it using notpad, then do a search and find com. Then do another search for the site that is not showing picturs. Delete that site, it may be in there a couple times.
After that, save the file, close your IE explorer or firefox, then reopen and goto the site. Now the pictures should be there. I have a problem with my images. I thought there was a problem with the folders, but I uploaded this other image 3 months ago in that same folder and viewed it online PC and the image was fine. It sounds like what happens to me when I have mixed upper and lower case filenames, and am hosting on a Linux server.
Under Linux and most other operating systems, for that matter it is not. I started having this problem on msn messageboards this week right after I had to reinstall McAfee. Seems quite a few other posters on the board started having the same problem. I had an online chat with a Mcafee technician and solved the problem. I did this and now can see the photos. Apparently the privacy service was reading some photos as being ads. My issue is when I forward an e-mail, the pictures in the e-mail are only readable by half of my friends.
The same e-mail sent from someone else is legible by all my friends. Pictures are blocked along with on line checking account statements and other documents. I get a blank white screen with a little box in the upper left corner with a red square, blue triangle, and green circle.
Any ideas would be gratefully appreciated. I was thinking that it was merely indicating that to read it I needed a special programme from somewhere….. I created a menu button bar for my website.
It works and shows up in IE and Netscape but not Firefox. Here is link to the page. I dont know the email address to contact picture. This was really helpful advise. My computer would not show any pictures on my space. This might help someone. I tried all of the suggestions, nothing worked. I was ready to reinstall windows. Hope this is of use to someone. Any Ideas? Also i cannot view movie trailers even though I have flash player 8 what do you suggest?
After doing so, I no longer get images to show up and none of the suggestions you mentioned above worked. My pictures were just fine until I accidentally downloaded the FunWebProducts smileys.
Now I get a mix of pictures and Red X placeholders. However, I discovered something tonight. If the picture is located on a url that has capital letters in it, it shows a red X. If a picture is all lower case, it shows up fine. Does this make sense? Also I have checked the tool thing and it didnt work. The only pictures on any website that are not showing up are the ones on MySpace and this only occurs on my laptop.
They just stopped showing up out of the blue. Pictures show up on my laptop on every other site except MySpace…. Pictures still show up as a red X. What should I do next? Ok I did that tool thing and nothing is working for me. The myspace pictures come and go so what is the actual problem.
Please help me. I tried everything that you showed me but it doesnt work. I know its not the sites problem because my friend can acess it fine. Also, i tried with both browsers and it doesnt work. Please help me, its really bothering me. NO pictures will show up on myspace, no matter what picture. It started out of the blue tuesday or wednesday last week, Nov. I tried everything. I even updated to Internal explorer 7 and still no luck. It only on myspace on my home computer, I got back to work for thanksgiving holiday, and I had no problems with myspace on my work computer.
I even try to comparing the settings on my work computer and my home computer and nothing.
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