U.S. Agencies Earn "D" For Computer Security

Fighting.Cephalopod writes "For the fourth year in a row, most federal agencies have received low grades for failing to protect their computer networks from hackers and other cyberterrorists, according to a computer security report card issued today by the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology." Other readers point out coverage of the report at ZDnet, Reuters (via Forbes), The Washington Post, and ComputerWorld." As mr. don't points out, the agencies receiving an actual failing grade are "the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as the departments of Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and State."

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[heironymouscoward]

If a woman aborts her first pregnancy, she has a 1 in 9 risk of breast cancer, elevated from 1 in 50.

This proves only a relationship, not a cause and effect. Women having children (including full term and lactation) have a lower breast cancer risk. Women aborting their first pregnancy have children later, possibly never.

A valid study would compare age at first prenancy/lactation with breast cancer. I suspect there are other factors that appear to link even more strongly with breast cancer than abortion:

- career (since working women have children later)
- fertility (since fertile women have children earlier)
- look&feel (since ugly women have children earlier)
- education (since women with more education have children later).

So, you should be against educating women, allowing them to work, allowing them to protect themselves against STDs that can lower their fertility,...

Come to think of it, you probably are.