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Internet Meltdown Predicted for Tomorrow
Kobalt writes "A few news services are reporting that Russian computer expert, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs, has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists."
why?
The end is near! Repent internet sinners, for tomorrow will be the second coming of eJesus and we will all be judged.
Then how bad can it be?
--- Ban humanity.
So it's very likly that more than 50% of people are dumber than the average.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
I would expect dumbness to have something closer to a normal distribution. In that case, roughly 50% of the population would be dumber than the average. Is there a reference for the distribution of dumbness?
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
Anyway, I don't think IQ distributions are perfectly normal, but they do look pretty roughly bell-like (if you don't believe that IQ has any correlation to intelligence, then I guess you can't really conclude much from the bell-like distribution). Of course, if you use some other, non-linearized scale for measuring intelligence than the mean and median will be nowhere near each other (i.e. if you consider the difference between Goethe and Joe Sixpack to be substantially more or substantially less than the difference between Joe Sixpack and a cucumber).
Just getting a jump on the competition....
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Now will this get a funny mod or off-topic? I am betting on funny since it is off-topic
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that is only correct 50% of the time.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Here's the big question (on a somewhat serious note): are made-up statistics any less accurate than those done "scientifically" but with bad questions and bad methodology?
Engineering and the Ultimate
It's a rare thing that a Soviet Russia meme is on-topic. This is perfect too, because the following is true:
A Russian computer expert, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs, has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists.
Chernobyl is well-known for a famous meltdown.
Too much Internet usage possibly could melt your brain.
In light of the evidence, I say the parent post is quite funny. Besides, it's an AC, you can't karma-whore as an AC (not that funny mods count towards karma anyway).
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
67% of people are more gulliable than average.
bananas like monkeys.