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Privatizing good health, among other things IS " and a central component of a fair society and well-functioning economy ". For an example of the alternative, see this recent article from the Telegraph: http://bit.ly/12htACN "Equality," in the post-modern sense, is one of the most unjust ideas of our time.

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http://bit.ly/11i3Gvq It's seems pretty clearly on the side of defending one's self as well as defending the innocent. 1/10

....from last paragraph:

Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.

Temporarily putting aside any discussion about cynicism or idealism and how one feels about the effectiveness of petitions, if you decide to sign into the preceding petition (and unconcerned about the negative aspects of possibly being added to a "watch list") you'll be given the ability to (/.ing it, in a sense) by resubmitting a formatted response in 3 different ways.

Via Twitter:

Using the Patriot Act, the govt has been secretly tracking the calls of every #Verizon Business customer.Act now: http://bit.ly/13IoqhD #NSA

Facebook:

Using the Patriot Act, the government has been secretly tracking the calls of millions of Americans. Yes, really. Act now.

and your Email:

A leaked court document obtained by The Guardian, and since reported on by numerous news outlets, has exposed the government spying on Americans. Using the Patriot Act, the U.S. government has been secretly tracking the calls of every Verizon Business Network Services customer – whom they talked to, from where, and for how long – for the past 41 days.

It's time to get angry. Be part of a strong public outcry against this program by signing the petition immediately and letting your friends know what's happening in this country. https://www.aclu.org/secure/stop-massive-spying-program?Ms=taf_acluaction_NSA_130606

For the more ignorant people here: Here is CEO of National instruments, James Truchard in his keynote of 2012 confirming Cold fusion and Rossi (which he doesn't specify by name) http://bit.ly/Mfi7Zn at 14:00 It's so great to read all the comments of people who have no clue where they are talking about.

As a reference, a strenuous ride on a bicycle generates about 500W of kinetic energy. Probably a light arm curl of one arm could easily generate 5% of that. 25W does not sound like much, because the Glass probably uses a few Watts, and 5 minutes of arm curl for every hour of use would be socially unacceptable, it would look funny.to say the least. Not to mention the contraption that one would need to wear on his arm to harvest the energy.

I'm sure a special shoe could easily generate many watts just by the wearer walking, and it is socially acceptable (at least outside the US).

Or there could be a special hat, which would have three functions:
- solar cells on the top
- casting a shadow so that less power is needed for the display projector
- being able to switch between augmented reality and virtual reality

It could look like this proven design: http://bit.ly/160kqxD

the only var that I know of is in Unix, a directory called /var and /var/run

never heard of SAN & NAS. can someone plz explain accronyms? i tried a google search, but no luck

The latter explained here.

10 hours of Hypnotoad: http://bit.ly/13O13rl

He must have taken the same privacy (or rather anti-privacy) course as our own Vic Toews (Canada's Public Safety Minister) - known for his comment "you can either stand with us, or with the child pornographers", during discussion of the Omnibus Crime Bill C-30. http://bit.ly/ZwWNZ5

Not directly, but one of these can keep the problem from recurring: http://bit.ly/10Navr9

Visa and MasterCard have ~90% of the payments market between them (and Amex another ~8%); the clunky PayPal has ~1%, most of which rides on the backs of Visa/MasterCard PreyPal has never been, and never will be, any real threat to these three operators PreyPal’s attempted expansion into physical POS is simply a joke, and a very poor one at that Regardless, the suggested additional MasterCard fee is the least of the clunky middleman PreyPal’s problems. Give it another twelve months and the new "professional" digital wallets from Visa (V.me) and MasterCard (MasterPass) will have driven PreyPal, eBay's hard working bilge pump, back into the rusting eBay bilge http://bit.ly/UVXx53 And then there is the ugly reality for consumers dealing with the rest of the clunky, manipulative, unscrupulous eBay complex ... "eBay-Facilitated Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay Auctions: Case Study #5" ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas Should be fun to watch the rusting old scow, eBay, finally slip beneath the waves

Visa and MasterCard have ~90% of the payments market between them (and Amex another ~8%); the clunky PayPal has ~1%, most of which rides on the backs of Visa/MasterCard PreyPal has never been, and never will be, any real threat to these three operators PreyPal’s attempted expansion into physical POS is simply a joke, and a very poor one at that Regardless, the suggested additional MasterCard fee is the least of the clunky middleman PreyPal’s problems. Give it another twelve months and the new "professional" digital wallets from Visa (V.me) and MasterCard (MasterPass) will have driven PreyPal, eBay's hard working bilge pump, back into the rusting eBay bilge http://bit.ly/UVXx53 And then there is the ugly reality for consumers dealing with the rest of the clunky, manipulative, unscrupulous eBay complex ... "eBay-Facilitated Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay Auctions: Case Study #5" ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas Should be fun to watch the rusting old scow, eBay, finally slip beneath the waves

Visa and MasterCard have ~90% of the payments market between them (and Amex another ~8%); the clunky PreyPal has ~1%, most of which rides on the backs of Visa/MasterCard PreyPal has never been, and never will be, any real threat to these three operators PreyPal at physical POS is simply a joke, and a very poor one at that Regardless, this suggested MasterCard extra fee is the least of the clunky middleman PreyPal’s problems. Give it another twelve months and the new "professional" digital wallets from Visa (V.me) and MasterCard (MasterPass) will have driven PreyPal, eBay's hard working bilge pump, back into the rusting eBay bilge http://bit.ly/UVXx53 And then there is the ugly reality for consumers dealing with the rest of the clunky, manipulative, unscrupulous eBay complex ... "eBay-Facilitated Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay Auctions: Case Study #5" ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas Should be fun to watch the rusting old scow, eBay, finally slip beneath the waves

Visa and MasterCard have ~90% of the payments market between them (and Amex another ~8%); the clunky PreyPal has ~1%, most of which rides on the backs of Visa/MasterCard PreyPal has never been, and never will be, any real threat to these three operators PreyPal at physical POS is simply a joke, and a very poor one at that Regardless, this suggested MasterCard extra fee is the least of the clunky middleman PreyPal’s problems. Give it another twelve months and the new "professional" digital wallets from Visa (V.me) and MasterCard (MasterPass) will have driven PreyPal, eBay's hard working bilge pump, back into the rusting eBay bilge http://bit.ly/UVXx53 And then there is the ugly reality for consumers dealing with the rest of the clunky, manipulative, unscrupulous eBay complex ... "eBay-Facilitated Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay Auctions: Case Study #5" ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas Should be fun to watch the rusting old scow, eBay, finally slip beneath the waves

You can also read a good one here

http://bit.ly/13Q3JUq

You mean this picture? I don't see it.

The best way to get to the bottom of Ayn Rand's beliefs is to take a look at how she developed the superhero of her novel, Atlas Shrugged , John Galt. Back in the late 1920s, as Ayn Rand was working out her philosophy, she became enthralled by a real-life American serial killer, William Edward Hickman, whose gruesome, sadistic dismemberment of 12-year-old girl named Marion Parker in 1927 shocked the nation. Rand filled her early notebooks with worshipful praise of Hickman. According to biographer Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market , Rand was so smitten with Hickman that she modeled her first literary creation -- Danny Renahan, the protagonist of her unfinished first novel, The Little Street -- on him.

What did Rand admire so much about Hickman? His sociopathic qualities: "Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should," she wrote, gushing that Hickman had "no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel 'other people.'"

This echoes almost word for word Rand's later description of her character Howard Roark, the hero of her novel The Fountainhead : "He was born without the ability to consider others." (The Fountainhead is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' favorite book -- he even requires his clerks to read it.)

The best way to get to the bottom of Ayn Rand's beliefs is to take a look at how she developed the superhero of her novel, Atlas Shrugged , John Galt. Back in the late 1920s, as Ayn Rand was working out her philosophy, she became enthralled by a real-life American serial killer, William Edward Hickman, whose gruesome, sadistic dismemberment of 12-year-old girl named Marion Parker in 1927 shocked the nation. Rand filled her early notebooks with worshipful praise of Hickman. According to biographer Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market , Rand was so smitten with Hickman that she modeled her first literary creation -- Danny Renahan, the protagonist of her unfinished first novel, The Little Street -- on him.

What did Rand admire so much about Hickman? His sociopathic qualities: "Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should," she wrote, gushing that Hickman had "no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel 'other people.'"

This echoes almost word for word Rand's later description of her character Howard Roark, the hero of her novel The Fountainhead : "He was born without the ability to consider others." (The Fountainhead is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' favorite book -- he even requires his clerks to read it.)

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Yes, it is.

Yes, I can see how complaints to the FCC are much worse than this.

Looks like the concept of "Dark Energy" that many physicists have been so fond of, is dead. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

No, Lonny. The gizmag article you linked just shows that one type of dark energy (the cosmological constant) is more consistent with long-term observations showing that the proton to electron mass ratio (PEMR) has remained roughly constant over billions of years. Even wikipedia makes it clear that the cosmological constant is a type of dark energy:

In the standard model of cosmology, dark energy currently accounts for 73% of the total mass–energy of the universe.[2] Two proposed forms for dark energy are the cosmological constant, a constant energy density filling space homogeneously,[3] and scalar fields such as quintessence or moduli, dynamic quantities whose energy density can vary in time and space.

Because dynamic types of dark energy like quintessence tend to imply changes in the PEMR over billions of years, these observations suggest that physicists now have enough evidence to prefer a static type of dark energy- the cosmological constant. So why is Lonny once again wrongly claiming that dark energy is dead?

One reason might be these curious sentences in that gizmag article:

The concept of "dark energy" with a negative pressure was introduced to describe this acceleration. ... Dark energy must have a negative pressure to produce the observed acceleration in the standard cosmological model, a rather bizarre notion meaning that space repels itself.

A casual reader might conclude that dark energy's negative pressure distinguishes it from a cosmological constant, but both types of dark energy have negative pressure. In fact, I've explained to Jane Q. Public that "vacuum energy has pressure equal and opposite to its energy density" which is why its equation of state is w = -1. I continued, explaining why the universe's expansion accelerates for any w < -1/3.

Because -1 < -1/3, the cosmological constant's negative pressure accelerates the expansion of the universe. It is a type of dark energy, which accounts for roughly 3/4 of all the mass-energy in the universe.

Take a look at this

    Amikacin. Ask for it by name. :)

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1982 December; 22(6): 985-989

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC185706/

and ... more information here.

I'm not sure what more I can provide.

If you'd prefer, you can do what most people do, and check Wikipedia. It's even referenced in there, with more citations.

Troll? http://bit.ly/XIefW9

Community produced power is a national effort by citizens to help address the need to reduce carbon production. One of the examples, the University Park Solar Project in Columbia, Maryland (http://bit.ly/w8zBA5), is discussed in the last five minutes of the Jan 6, 2012 Marketplace Money episode: http://bit.ly/wSZ5n2. Makes you wonder how much power could be produced if the roof of every church in the United States was covered with solar cells while bumping up the church treasuries and returning a percentage of investment to parishioners who fund the ventures.

>> What he was saying is when you fuck up an aquifer there is no way to reverse the damage...
Not entirely true. Westinghouse has been involved in groundwater remediation for decades with high success rates. I was involved writing SCADA software for Westinghouse when they remediated the Florida DOT site in Gainesville, FL. FDOT had a depot there and had carelessly been allowing waste oil and fuel into the ground where there are three major aquifers converging that supplies water to a huge part of central Florida. We used 10 forced injection wells with air strippers for the hydrocarbons, plus over 100,000 cubic yards of soil was dug up, sterilized and "reconstituted". We also used over 40 remote monitoring well-stations to keep tabs on the water levels of the aquifers since forced injection was relatively new technology at that time. The contamination was all reversed within a short period of time.
http://bit.ly/SjjPla

Why yes, it is. http://bit.ly/s57NL9

And here I was just thinking that they taste like that due to six months at sea in an oil soaked shipping container before they get to my country :)

I did some research ... well I googled "what's the funny taste in hersheys" ... apparently they infect the milk and let it sour to give the product that unique flavour. Now I can't stand off milk (except when it's so off that it becomes yoghurt), so that probably explains why I couldn't stomach Hershey's. It also explains why it tastes so bacterial.

Apparently I'm in a minority in recognising the overtones of throat infection in this delicacy. Most naive subjects (ie. those not raised since childhood to appreciate it's unusual appeal) seem to agree that Hershey's tastes like .... Though this is probably simply their initial revulsion and if they took the time to savour it the similarity to bacterial infection may become more obvious.

[BTW I'm using lmgtfy not because I think you don't know how to use Google, but for a little dramatic suspense!]

The reason I tried it in the first place is because I was told you could identify Proteus by smell prior to formal assay. It is said that they smell "like a cross between rotten fish and Hershey's bars" (the source for my incorrect "rotten fish" remark). Now I know why.

wouldn't Windows 8 be something like this?: http://bit.ly/QK6L7M

[NSFW] http://bit.ly/ZPzWHN

How do you say "It's your own damn fault!" in Japanese?

LMGTFY

Wanted to follow up and let you know where I'm at so far. I ended up ordering the Dane-Elec pen as well as a Yi Fang mobile notetaker from eBay: http://bit.ly/THnwPL. I found the Yi Fang pen by going out to the "Products" page of the Pegasus website: http://www.pegatech.com/?CategoryID=218. I received the Yi Fang (eBay) pen and reader today, and it is indeed a Pegasus Mobile Notetaker under the hood. I used m210, and was able to convert my note sample from the usb reader into an SVG file relatively easily. OCRing it so far hasn't been a huge success, but I'm working on it. I'll post back when I have some more results to share.

And, regretably, the ugly reality for consumers dealing with the eBafia/PreyPal complex ... “Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay: Case Study #5” ... http://bit.ly/N1nTlc

What ain't nuts or fruits is flakes.

US ians is a slang derogatory term to refer to americans. Here, let me google that for you: http://bit.ly/POt63C

Here you go

' Compared to the actual logic or cache on the cpu the number of transistors that the translation takes is minimal and not a big deal especially when you consider the size of cpus nowadays.

it's not the number of transistors that's actually so important as it is the number of times you have to change them from 1s to 0s and back. i read somewhere, so don't take this as gospel, that the register bank of any CPU takes something like a whopping 30% of a general purpose processor's power budget.

so a memory cache, 1st or 2nd level, would not be so power-hungry as a register bank, because you only change a few bits of any one cache entry at a time. a register bank on a 64-bit architecture, however, on average 64 bits are going to change on any two-operand calculation.

the point is that the instruction "translation", which includes shuffling the data around, has to operate at the "rated" i.e. the external i.e. the x86 clock speed. this *will* consume lots of power - i can't say how much: we need an intel engineer to tell us, and that's not going to happen.

bottom line is that AMD and Intel, with x86 "translation", are onto a losing game. intel only keeps ahead - one step ahead - by having access to geometries 1.5 times smaller than the competition. with ARM processors in 28nm being better, power-wise, than x86 processors in 20nm, and yet still offering "good enough computing" performance, both AMD and Intel are *definitely* going to lose out. AMD already is. Intel's just had a wake-up call: http://bit.ly/Ra0RIH

+1 http://bit.ly/RFEHRk

They are now S-Off... enough annoyance already...

http://bit.ly/OoR2bQ

Read about various ways to secure an Oracle Database.[Free to download after registration] http://bit.ly/SL17T6

Internet or Google? No never heard of http://bit.ly/viyioS
Now, instead of being a smart-ass or dumb-ass why don't you add something _constructive_ to the thread like answering the question.

99.99% of people claiming WebGL is a security risk are blowing smoke out of their ass.
i.e.
http://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/webgl-security
"There are no known WebGL exploits and Khronos will continue to place close attention to technical and ecosystem opportunities to ensure WebGL is a secure technology that can be used with confidence. "

Can WebGL read user's cookies? NO.
Can WebGL read user's private data? NO.

There was only *one* OVER-rated exploit I have ever seen: cross-origin images and that was fixed (internet years) ago.
http://www.khronos.org/webgl/security/

Until I see an actual *working* WebGL exploit, to say "WebGL was is insecure by design" to spouting ignorance. Do you even understand what vertex and fragment shaders are limited to?

Now, I agree that *WEB* Browsers (in general) are *insecure*, but one sub-system of them remains to be *proven* that *it* is insecure. I have not seen any other exploits since May 2011, almost 1.5 years ago.

So again, (0-day-exploit) [citation]

xin loi...xin loi da lam phiem hoagaubong-hoathubong xin loi

The bit.ly link goes to www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security_response/whitepapers/the-elderwood-project.pdf

Or, you too can be a marketroid for the day: bit.ly/Q07MpB+

"you've successfully killed the Enlightenment and any principle of self-government through reason and debate."

Science killed the enlightenment.

http://bit.ly/dYaWUc

One of the vectors of infection we're seeing a substantial increase in, called a âoewatering holeâ attack, is a clear shift in the attacking group's method of operations. The concept of the attack is similar to a predator waiting at a watering hole in a desert. The predator knows that victims will eventually have to come to the watering hole, so rather than go hunting, he waits for his victims to come to him. Similarly, attackers find a Web site that caters to a particular audience, which includes the target the attackers are interested in. Having identified this website, the attackers hack into it using a variety of means.

All well and good. The good folk at Symantec, a site that definitely caters to an audience of people who would be interested in this particular exploit, then goes on to link to their research paper:

We have published a research paper that details the links between various exploits used by this attacking group, their method of targeting organizations, and the Elderwood Platform. It puts into perspective the continuing evolution and sheer resilience of entities behind targeted attacks.

That's right. The link to the research paper is, presumably by order of some marketroid who wants to get some metrics about this high-profile story (or are they?) is a goddamn bit.ly link redirector that goes directly to a PDF, and can be expected to spawn precisely one of the sorts of vectors that the attackers have been exploiting for years.

Peter Norton is still alive, but if he weren't, he'd be rolling in his grave. As it stands, he's merely rolling in a big pile of money.

Nobel prize comes quickly to mind.
However, let me help you.
And that leads to all sorts of cool things.
Oh, here is some more for you.
There now, was that so hard?

Even a new one that comes to mind is the Google lunar prize.
Why do unrealistic ppl have such pessimism when you ignore so many facts?