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OK, just for you I took a look, even though you were too lazy to make a link for me. The press release doesn't say what exactly they mean by "supports", i.e. what was the actual question asked? Since the same poll also showed that 85% of Palestinians supported "mutual cessation of violence" I would have to say that no real conclusions can be drawn from this, no matter how much you may want to. Just picking out one thing is intellectually dishonest.

Also, it looks like this PSR has a little history. The brother of the assassinated head of Islamic Jihad? I prefer my pollsters to have a little more emotional distance than that, thank you very much.

I hate Israel, and I hate destruction, it (Israel) loves destruction
I love Yassir Arafat and he is very dear to me
Egyptians are sad
I hate Israel and I love Amr Mousa
I hate Israel and Shimon (Peres) and Sharon
Why should the children suffer why should they die everyday
People carrying weapons and others carrying slingshot
I hate Israel, and we all do
We are all mad, Al Quds matters to us
I hate Isreal and Ehud Barak because no one can stand him
Egypt puts up and stands till the end but when it got mad it pulled back the ambassador
I hate Israel because of south Lebanon, Al Quds, Iraq, Syria and the Golan?
I hate Israel and I say it even if I will be arrested

In a further twist, the head of Egypt's arts censorship bureau said the song originally ran "I don't like Israel", but Shaaban spiced it up at the request of the censor. "Originally it was 'I don't like Israel', but I made a recommendation that they choose another word equal to the state of people's feelings," said Madkour Thabet, whose office has the power to ban tapes deemed politically or morally offensive.

http://www.arabia.com/life/article/english/0,11827 ,46609,00.html

This type of system cannot give you very high resolution, its essentially extracting data from the convolved signal. Its been researched for quite a few years, this is just the press release stage from companies looking to up their share prices.

However, it IS a very good way of defeating stealth, and monitoring for cruise missiles. Its the reason not to throw all you money into a stealth based basket, since stealth has a limited lifespan and is eventually defeated by such approaches.

I suggest looking first here, and then here. It begins to appear more interesting once you piece things together...

I largely disagree, but you do have some valid points.

Because patents have become so pervasive and will continue to do so, large corporations have huge portfolios. It is a near certainty that a lowly peon with a great idea and a patent will be infringing upon a patent owned by a large corporation.

That is a very distinct possibility, and it is certainly the way that large corporations are attempting to (ab)use the patent system. However, concluding that there are no more original ideas out there is in the ballpark of the late great PTO Director, circa 1899, that argued Pres McKinley for the abolition of the PTO, stating that "Everything that can be invented has been invented." I cry bullshit.

If you can prove that you are the inventor of an idea, you can sue any corporation for infringement. A great way to prove you're the inventor is by having a patent. I say, the larger the corporation, the deeper the pockets, and if I can prove that I made them aware of the existence of my patent or patent-pending application before they went into production, I can sue them for additional damages. Any large corporation should have better sense than to willfully disobey the law, I'm sure over the advice of their Legal dept., and try to steal my idea after I've already got a patent. My legal team doesn't have to be better than theirs. It just has to be good enough to get a jury verdict in my favor. In case you haven't been following the US news, the current environment isn't exactly friendly to big business law-breakers.

Where songs like I Hate Israel" top the charts.

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I'm the guy who did this GeekFlavor thing, and I have to say that I'm very disappointed in how it turned out. It wasn't up for very long at all before some script kiddie had to bust some 1337 moves on it.

I will admit that I didn't exactly idiot-proof the project. I was hoping that by giving complete control to everyone, something truly interesting might develop, but I failed to take into account the power of a single ignorant admin.

People have always used technology for destructive purposes -- the thrill of anonymity is intoxicating, and people often lose sight of their everyday code of conduct. Once little Timmy Smith because |)Ar|I never expected this project to amount to much. I just had some webspace and a domain, and decided to give it a shot. I think, though, that perhaps this experiment deserves another chance, although with a better plan on my part.

If anyone out there has some suggestions on how this "Open Source" website experiment could work better, please contact me at ibn_qalb@arabia.com (not my usual address, if you were wondering). I'd love to have some help in creating a new, sturdier site that would actually be built to handle something like this.

I will admit that I didn't exactly idiot-proof the project. I was hoping that by giving complete control to everyone, something truly interesting might develop, but I failed to take into account the power of a single ignorant admin.

People have always used technology for destructive purposes -- the thrill of anonymity is intoxicating, and people often lose sight of their everyday code of conduct. Once little Timmy Smith because |)Ar|I never expected this project to amount to much. I just had some webspace and a domain, and decided to give it a shot. I think, though, that perhaps this experiment deserves another chance, although with a better plan on my part.

If anyone out there has some suggestions on how this "Open Source" website experiment could work better, please contact me at ibn_qalb@arabia.com (not my usual address, if you were wondering). I'd love to have some help in creating a new, sturdier site that would actually be built to handle something like this.

Thanks everyone! It was fun while it lasted - Keep an eye out for the Alpha release!