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One of the most important skills to have when playing FPS is aim. After all you could have the best and highest-damage dealing weapon in the game, but if you can’t hit your target, there’s really no point. This is where hacks/tools such as aimbots come in, where they help players find their targets more easily.

It is safe to say that no FPS is free of aimbots, but the good news is that Blizzard is actively doing something about it as far as Overwatch is concerned. In a post on Reddit, it has been noted that the latest patch to the game will pretty much render aimbots useless, or at least those that rely on image recognition.

According to the post, “Image recognition based aimbots, prevalent in Korea, work by targeting specific RGB value used for enemy outlines. Basically starting from this patch, the outlines on enemies slightly change in color (unnoticeable to human eyes) so that the image recognition engine on aimbots would be either completely useless or have high failure rate.”

Given Blizzard’s plans to make Overwatch a competitive eSports title, cracking down hard and fast on cheats and hacks will help ensure the legitimacy of the game. Ahead of the game’s launch, Blizzard had already warned gamers that cheaters will be permanently banned without warning or second chances, and they proved it by banning more than 1,000 players within a week of the game’s release.

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Just hours after the FBI announced that last week’s politically motivated attack on members of Congress at a baseball practice was not an act of terrorism, federal investigators informed the public on Wednesday that the stabbing of a police officer at an airport in Flint, Michigan, potentially was.

Police said Amor Ftouhi, 50, attacked Lt. Jeff Neville of Bishop International Airport’s Department of Public Safety on Wednesday morning. Ftouhi, a Quebec resident who entered the U.S. on June 16, yelled “Allahu Akbar” before stabbing Neville, authorities said. He also “exclaimed something similar” to ”You have killed people in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and we are all going to die,” according to an incident report.

The FBI’s announcement in the Flint investigation followed revelations earlier Wednesday that the bureau had found no connection to terrorism in last week’s shooting in Northern Virginia, during which James T. Hodgkinson opened fire on GOP lawmakers and staffers practicing for a charity baseball game. Hodgkinson, who was killed in a shootout with police, appeared politically motivated and regularly voiced strong sentiments against President Donald Trump on Facebook.

Both incidents would meet the textbook definition of terrorism: the “unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”

The FBI’s own definition of domestic terrorism says an act must meet three characteristics: It must appear intended 1) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, 2) to influence the policy of government by intimidation or coercion, 3) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.

But there’s no generic federal terrorism law that can be used in all acts that would meet the textbook definition. And when the FBI calls something terrorism, the organization is usually referring to a specific connection with a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Under federal law, it is much easier to deploy terrorism-related charges against individuals inspired by radical Islam, because even elements like retweets can be considered material support for a designated foreign terrorist organization. The U.S. does not label domestic extremist groups as terrorist organizations, as banning Americans from supporting U.S.-based organizations would raise First Amendment issues.

There are certain acts of terrorism that are illegal under federal law regardless of motivation. That includes airplane hijacking, the use of particular explosives and weapons, and assassinating a government official. But stabbings and shootings aren’t included.

Take the prosecution of Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death this year for the shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. Roof was found guilty on 33 counts, including hate crimes, but he was not charged with terrorism.

Shortly after the Charleston attack, in July 2015, HuffPost pressed former FBI Director James Comey on the hesitancy to label the Charleston shooting as terrorism. Comey acknowledged the attack might fit the “colloquial” definition of the word, but said he operated only in the legal framework, because of the nature of his job.

“The only world I live in is when you bring charges against someone, and charge them with something under a particular provision that is a terrorism statute,” Comey said. “So that’s the framework through which I look at it.”

When Roof was indicted, Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch described hate crimes as the “original domestic terrorism.” She said the lack of terrorism charges against Roof didn’t mean the feds were taking the case any less seriously.

Lynch’s predecessor, however, said it’s time for the nation of reconsider what it labels as terrorism. Attorney General Eric Holder said Charleston should serve as a ”wake-up call″ on domestic terrorism. People like Roof, he explained, can become radicalized on U.S. soil without the aid or influence of a foreign terror network.

“We have a young man who apparently becomes radicalized as the result of an incident and becomes more radicalized as a result of what he sees on the Internet, through the use of his computer, then goes and does something, that by his own words apparently is a political-violent act,” Holder told HuffPost. “With a different set of circumstances, and if you had dialed in religion there, Islam, that would be called an act of terror. It seems to me that, again on the basis of the information that has been released, that’s what we have here. An act of terror.”

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Janet Mock is the role model we need in 2017. The thirty-four-year-old is redefining what it means to be trans through her efforts across multi-media disciplines, showing that your gender does not need to equal your identity.

Mock worked as a journalist for years, and served as the pop culture editor for People Magazine when she decided to publicly come out as trans in 2011 in a now-famous Marie Claire article.

Since coming out, Mock has worked feverishly to change minds about what it means to be trans. Shortly after the Marie Claire piece, Mock launched the #GirlsLikeUs social media campaign to create a space online “by and for trans women.” She then released her first novel “Redefining Realness,” which serves as an account of her teenage transition, and how she realigned her definition of what constitutes being fully realized as a person. Her confident memoir paints a picture of hope for trans youth despite being frank about the hard road many trans people face in an ever-changing political landscape.

Now, Mock has released her second book, “Surpassing Certainty,” which chronicles her journey toward being a confident role model. The new, daring memoir follows Mock throughout her twenties, focusing on coming of age in a post 9/11 world, her experience in her first marriage and climbing the media ladder in New York City.

Mock’s efforts push to change the way we regard trans people, but also show that we are all so much more than one aspect of our complex identities.

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As we’ve previously reported, this year will bring a major total eclipse and many people in the United States will be able to see it. For everyone who doesn’t live in the viewing path, though, or at least those who can’t make the trip to see it in person, NASA has you covered. The space agency has announced big plans … Continue reading

Walk into a carrier shop anywhere around the world and there’s a good chance that you’ll come across a variety of phones, ranging from iPhones, to Android, to BlackBerry, and maybe some running on Windows. However with Virgin Mobile USA, it seems that the company has decided to partner with Apple and will now only be selling iPhones.

Yup this sounds exactly like what you think it does. This means that if you wanted to buy an Android phone and use it on Virgin Mobile’s network in the US, you’d be flat out of luck as the carrier will now only be offering iPhones to its customers. This is part of the carrier’s new “Inner Circle” plan which according to the website, “Get unlimited talk, text and data for $50/month when you join the Inner Circle. And for a limited time, get your first year of unlimited service for only $1. Purchase an iPhone, transfer your number and enjoy.”

To qualify, all customers need to do is purchase an iPhone either from Virgin Mobile or Apple. After the first year is up, the plan will revert back to being $50 a month, and then back down to $1 for six months assuming you were to purchase a new iPhone again after two years of service. We know it sounds a bit complicated but perhaps that’s being on purpose.

Also we should point out that the fine print states that unlimited comes with some strings attached, such as how video streams are capped at 480p, and music at 500 kilobits per second, so unless you really care about high quality streams on the go, perhaps you might want to look elsewhere. There is also ceiling of 23GB a month in which after that your speeds will be throttled. If you’re fine with all of this, then head on over to Virgin Mobile USA’s website for the details.

Note that this does not mean that Android phones will stop working on the carrier’s network, it’s only that they’ll be selling iPhones exclusively from here on out.

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