alterations

Addiction research has shown compulsive drug use is associated with actual alterations in brain structure and functional circuitry.

He even made alterations to make it easier to control the LMC using opcodes rather than Assembly.

Who knows what final results will occur with other speculative alterations of the diet (fortunately, calorie restriction is very small fad).

The original title isn't confusing, it is the alterations which have made it confusing.

It's openly pointed out in the docs that it's intended to prevent unintentional system alterations, not stop an actively hostile program - i.e.

In order to change the user databases I will have utilities to allow global scheme alterations.

That is, dependency injection for your extensions, not alterations to the core.

In general, though, we're a bit more tolerant of title alterations when the author of the article is the one posting it, because the concerns around editorializing are less pressing.

By making a few alterations to the composition of the justice system, corrupt societies could be made to transition to a state called ‘righteousness’.

If you make alterations to the OS and present to the external world (distribute it publicly) as 'Ubuntu' then you need a bit of care.

So I don't know if we can trust those pictures at all, or if perhaps the alterations are, in fact, explained somewhere.

What all of this ends up becoming is teachers pushing super elaborate projects in which kids do little more than copy the teacher and make minor alterations.

The situation is much more fluid with PGP, since the number of endorsers can be somewhat smaller than number of miners, and there's no guaranteed "paper trail" of what bindings have have processed (thereby making silent alterations easier to come by).

I imagine that Google would allow the "cancel request" to override recent password alterations to avoid accounts being taken over simply because the cracker moved faster than the owner once it was realised the Google account was cracked/accessed.

What I've seen is that their "responding in kind" takes the form of advocacy and outreach (like RealClimate.org, which -- not coincidentally -- was the subject of several of the more damaging emails), not substantial alterations to the practice of their science.

(Sidebar: I won't say there might not be substantial alterations to the research itself; for a parallel example in a different field, there are evolutionary biologists who are now choosing research topics specifically to provide more compelling evidence for evolution, rather than explore the unknowns of evolution, due to the rise of the "intelligent design" debate here in the US.