Assuming that all we have been told is true (seems to be a few details missing), then call your local bar association for a referral. In most places, the initial consultation will cost only a modest amount, $25-$50 or so.
An employer will often use a lawsuit to try to scare an employee who wants to leave, or to prevent them from working with a competitor. Most of the time these suits are baseless, but on the rare occasion they may have some merit. Get an Attorney to go over your contract and give you an opinion.
I found myself in a similar situation once - I paid just $25 for the consultation, and the Attorney (after reviewing the contract) said that a suit (in my particular case) would most likely be dismissed out of hand. I took his advice, and my former employer never followed through on their threat.
Most people are quite unaware of the potential that the human brain has for storing information.
Back when I was a good 'ol Fundamentalist Christian, I could recite the complete Gospel of John, Matthew, Galatians and a large part of Romans and I and II Corinthians. From the KJV, no less. About 3,500 verses in all.
The secret is really no secret - simply dedicated, rote repetition. Of course, it helps that the the Bible generally follows a narrative - which gives you some clue as to what should come next.
Now a fire-breathing atheist (when you have that much of the Bible stored in your associative memory, it doesn't take long before you come across a certain passage, and immediately think 'wait a minute - didn't book so-and-so, chapter xxx say something completely different?' Still, it really freaks out the Baptists, JWs and assorted cultists who come a-knocking. Good times.
All the liquid/gel based explosives that I know of can only be detonated by a supersonic shock wave, such as that produced by Picric Acid, Mercuric Acid or high-grade Flash Powder. Good luck getting any of those through a detector. And then, of course, we have the problem of placement. A modern jet-liner can take a surpising amount of punishment and still remain flyable. (Anyone remember the Aloha airlines disaster in 1980-something, in which nearly 15% of the fuselage was lost? The plane managed to land safely with only one fatality.) You would have to place the device at the point where the wing joins the fuselage to have any hope of bringing down the plane - and I'm fairly certain that somebody at the check-in counter would get suspicious when 9 or 10 people on separate flights asked to be seated in that specific row. Especially when you consider that the row close the the wing tends to be among the noisiest in the plane, and most sane people avoid it if they can.
And then we have the problem of mixing the components. ATAP tends to be horribly unstable - requiring a static- and vibration-free environvent to mix, plus you have to keep the mixture in a very tight temperature range while preparing the explosive. I'm not aware of any such place on an aircraft.
My opinion is that this plan was doomed from the start. The most likely outcome would be wannabe Jihadist martyr colored paint scheme on the airplane lavatory walls - and little else.
There is a lot of outrage expressed over RIAA tactics (as there should be), but I still think a lot of people are missing the essential point. There are many comments along the lines of 'How can the RIAA screw their customers like this?', and 'Don't they care about their PR?' etc.
The point is - no, they don't care about their PR, and they certainly don't care about their customers or their clients (the 'artists' who will in all likelihood never see a penny of the loot from the RIAA). The RIAA, like us, have seen the future, and like us, they know that it doesn't include them. They're not stupid - they know that electronic distributions systems will only get better, faster and easier. They know that an artist will soon be able to bypass the RIAA completely and reach the public directly. They know that the teenagers of today (who will become the consumers of tomorrow) find the notion of paying for music odd and outdated.
What we are seeing here, from DRM to pointless lawsuits to egregious congressional lobbying are just stopgap solutions, all of which will eventually fail, sooner or later. So what's an organization to do when they see their cash cow headed for the slaughterhouse, and know that there is nothing at all that they can do about it? Simple - they make as much money as they can before the inevitable happens. They know there will be no RIAA in the future - so in the meantime, they are abusing the system way past the breaking point in order to garner as much cash for the Executives to retire on when the time comes.
When seen from this prespective, the actions of the RIAA make sense. They don't care about their image - they care only about squeezing the last drop of blood from the stone before technology renders them obsolete. That doesn't mean we should give up the fight - we should continue to do all that we can to hasten the 'Day of Reckoning' - (shameless plug for Lizzie West's album 'Holy Road').
Goodbye RIAA - we hardly knew you. Not that we cared.
But can they detect the individual components of 2-component explosives? Like, say, Potassium Perchlorate carried by one passenger and Aluminum or Magnesium powder carried by another? When mixed together in the correct proportions (no, I'm not going to tell you what they are), they will produce a crude but quite deadly explosive. Problem is that there are a thousand reasons why a person might legitimately be carrying traces of these components. Suddenly, you're going to have miners, janitors, gardeners, chemical factory workers, even senior citizens with dietary supplements being hauled out of line and searched for no good reason...
Well, Bank of America uses a Sitekey. Basically, if it recognizes the ip address of the requestor, it displays a previously chosen image, along with instructions to enter your password only if you recognize the image. If the ip address is not in BoA's database, you will be asked a set of challenge/response questions to establish your identity.
Obviously, a clever coder could still initiate a MITM attack on this authentication system, but it will be a lot of work. BoA also has a security team spread over the country - as soon as one member of the team reports a suspicious e-mail, the ip address of the suspect website is immediately blocked and investigated.
I think they could still do more - right now the Sitekey image is displayed at a fixed position on the screen. It should be displayed at a random position along with a randomly generated IMG tag, making it harder to scrape. As far as the challenge response goes, if the BoA servers notice a number of requests (say, more than 3) from the same ip within a short period of time, that ip should also be blocked and investigated.
C'mon people, get it right. There is no such thing as a 'missing link'. What we have here are previously unknown Transitional Fossils (you know - the kind that the Creationists keep insisting don't exist). Let's try to use the correct terminology. Furthermore, the subject line indicates that there is only one missing link, and we've found it (yay!). Truth is that there are countless missing Transitional Fossils, and no - it's has nothing to do with the loud yammering of Ignorant Bible-Bashers. The truth is the the conditions for fossilization are pretty strict. As a result, the fossil record is a lot more sparse than we would like.
I was living in KC when it happened. Seems that the original design called for several load-bearing steel beams cast in a single piece to stretch from floor to ceiling, to distribute the load. During construction, the firm decided it would be easier (and possibly cheaper) to connect the walkways with cut beams joined at each stress point with a simple double joint. The construction company signed off on the design change without realizing that it would put all the stress of the walkways on the bottom girders. The girders could barely support the weight of the walkways, let alone the mass of people crowded onto it. How this obvious error escaped the engineers remains a mystery.
Instead of laughing at the poor suckers, why not take a few minutes to educate your family about the dangers of phishing sites? I've told my family they should never respond to a URL contained in an e-mail. If the e-mail claims that your account has been compromised, or that they need to verify your account information, or whatever - don't click on the link. Call the number on the back of your credit card, call your Bank, log in to your Paypal or eBay accounts by typing in the URL you usually use. Verify, verify, verify. Once they have gotten the idea, tell them to spread the word. The fewer people who fall for phishing scams, the less money there is to be made, and the problem will eventually resolve itself.
The SiteKey image will only display if the BoA site recognizes your IP address. If not, you will be presented with a set of challenge/response questions. Is it possible that your IP address is changing frequently? DHCP?
...because it requires the co-operation of hardware manufacturers. Sure, your Big Names are going to fall in line - Sony, Philips, Pansonic etc. But there will still be a host of Chinese/Korean/Singaporean manufacturers who will simply disregard the DRM restrictions. I have a DVD player imported from Korea - plays MPEG-2/MPEG-4, PAL/NSTC, completely disregards region encoding and Macrovision 'quality control', and lets me skip any part of the disc that I want (none of this 'cant use the remote on this piece of video' crap). Plus, is has Component Video Out, DVI/HDMI OUT, VGA Out - pretty much any connector you can think of, it has it. Cost less than $150 (minus shipping).
The studios are fooling themselves if they think all hardware shops are going to fall in line. Right now, less than 5% of containers arriving at our ports are screened for radioactive materials - do you really think that some know-nothing Customs Agent is going to care about a harmless DVD player?
Not that I have much faith in the Federal Trade Commission (after all, Sunday morning TV is still peppered with those infomercials for the handy-dandy Quattro (or whatever they're) called 'healing magnetic bracelets'), but someone is going to be mighty pissed when they find out that they've forked out 5 or 10 grand for what is effectively just a bunch of clever heat exchangers (i.e. Stirling engines) that they could have bought for a less than a thousand bucks. Probably pissed enough that they complain to the feds. Methinks that this unit will be available 'any day now' until Fleischman takes the money and skips off to the Bahamas...
The ATF classifies explosive materials into high- or low explosives using 2 main criteria (there are others). First, the velocity and density of the shockwave produced by the explosion, and second, whether the material will detonate unconfined.
Take gunpowder for example. Is is classified as a low explosive because the pressure wave is low-density and subsonic. Also, the powder has to be tightly confined to initiate a pressure-feedback loop (i.e. a detonation). Now take something like flash powder, for example (like the stuff the SWAT teams use in stun grenades). It can produce a high-density shockwave in excess of Mach 2, with pressure at the point of detonation over 4,000 psi, and as little as 50 grams will detonate without confinement. Thus, flash powder is classified as a high explosive. IOW, if you're dunb enough to hold a firecracker filled with gunpowder in your hand while it ignites, you may end up with nothing worse than a nasty skin burn. If you try the same experiment with flash powder, you will lose a hand, guaranteed.
The fireball that engulfed the remains of the Challenger was basically nothing nore than an oxygen-hydrogen burn in open air: lots of flame, but very little pressure.
You're missing the point. Stalin was an atheist, yes, but that's not the reason he exterminated so many people (including members of his own party, atheists alike). The reason is that he was a nutcase, pure and simple. Same with Mao. On the other hand, the Catholic Church killed thousands of people because they weren't Catholic. (Of course, when the Protestants were in power, they returned the favor.)
Bottom line: Stalin's atheism had nothing at all to do with his murderous tendencies - his mental state did.
Being a far left wing liberal, I donate to the ACLU and Americans United, Being a humanist, I also frequently donate blood. I feel that this is a more tangible gift than cash.
...are the lawyers, as usual. Or maybe not. Even if the lawyers get rich from these lawsuits, and the persons most affected (i.e. the consumers) get a coupon good for one happy meal at McDonalds (sans toy), there is till the possibility of a 'chilling effect'.
Basicaly, if other labels decide to implement full-scale DRM, even if it is largely innocuous, they may think twice about the scheme once they see Sony getting their pants sued off. If so, this would be a win for consumers. Who says trickle-down justice doesn't work?
So, if there is a new evolution-friendly school board, does that make the outcome of the court case irrelevant? If they follow the same route as Kansas a few years back (not the current crop of idiots), the school board is likely to rescind the ID requirement, regardless of the outcome of the trial. I suppose it could always be useful as a precedent (one way or another), but it would seem that ID is finished in Dover schools no matter what (for the time being anyway).
And who is actually going to foot the bill for adding this stuff to new hardware? The content providers? Fat chance. Hardware manufacturers? Yeah, I can just see them falling over themselves to pay for sinking their own business. Consumers? Maybe. But it won't be long before the non-techies start wondering why they're paying more for hardware that does less.
Reminds of a time back in the days of yore when I happened to overhear a Circuit-City aisle monkey trying to persuade an elderly couple to buy a DivX DVD player instead of a cheaper, regular unit. Somehow they just couldn't grasp the concept of paying more for the privelege of being able to watch time-restricted media. Needless to say, they left without buying *anything*.
It's called Intelligent Spelling, and IS 'scientists' are demanding that public schools give equal time to their theory of spelling, since there are obviously gaping holes in the currently accepted Theory of Spelling by mutation and selection.
Or maybe they're just a bunch of illiterate fucking assholes.
Aside from the fact that this is yet another instance of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, it will be very easy to overcome.
Suppose Mr. Terrorist boards the Underground at the same station and at the same time every weekday. Hardly unusual - millions of Londoners use the Tube to get to work. Suppose Mr. Terrorist carries a can of Pringles in his briefcase everyday. He gets searched the first few times, since he seems to be carrying what looks like a pipe bomb. Eventually, the screeners get to know him, and just wave him through. But this time, instead of crisps, his Pringles can is filled with 500g of Flash Powder.
Security is only as strong as the people working it. Hence, we can never be completely secure. But it's the preception that counts, right?
Better idea - make her a series regular on SG-1 (she's already done a couple of episodes). Add in Claudia Black and Ben Browder, and all Sci-Fi fans need only one show to watch...
The vast majority of SCOX stock is owned by a handful of large institutions. The average investor (i.e. you and me) account for only a very small percentage of the total amount of outstanding stock.
Bottom line - the movement of the stock price of SCOX has very little to do with any external events.
Organic life and bacteria/virii have been involved in a never-ending arms race for millions, if not billions of years. They come up with a new vector for infection, larger organics evolve a way to counter that infection and so on, ad infinitum...
The chances of an alien retrovirus having the necessary enymes to inject a DNA strand into a human cell are pretty close to zero. The chances of any bacteria being able to survive a highly evolved immune system are also pretty close to zero. I would call this a non-issue.
First Spitzer reams the Mutual Fund houses, then the Insurance/Ripoff industry and now this. I'm begging all of you who can vote (I became a citizen 2 days ago - too late to register) to write-in Elliot Spitzer for President. Then we'll see some house-cleaning...
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Assuming that all we have been told is true (seems to be a few details missing), then call your local bar association for a referral. In most places, the initial consultation will cost only a modest amount, $25-$50 or so. An employer will often use a lawsuit to try to scare an employee who wants to leave, or to prevent them from working with a competitor. Most of the time these suits are baseless, but on the rare occasion they may have some merit. Get an Attorney to go over your contract and give you an opinion. I found myself in a similar situation once - I paid just $25 for the consultation, and the Attorney (after reviewing the contract) said that a suit (in my particular case) would most likely be dismissed out of hand. I took his advice, and my former employer never followed through on their threat.
Most people are quite unaware of the potential that the human brain has for storing information.
Back when I was a good 'ol Fundamentalist Christian, I could recite the complete Gospel of John, Matthew, Galatians and a large part of Romans and I and II Corinthians. From the KJV, no less. About 3,500 verses in all.
The secret is really no secret - simply dedicated, rote repetition. Of course, it helps that the the Bible generally follows a narrative - which gives you some clue as to what should come next.
Now a fire-breathing atheist (when you have that much of the Bible stored in your associative memory, it doesn't take long before you come across a certain passage, and immediately think 'wait a minute - didn't book so-and-so, chapter xxx say something completely different?' Still, it really freaks out the Baptists, JWs and assorted cultists who come a-knocking. Good times.
All the liquid/gel based explosives that I know of can only be detonated by a supersonic shock wave, such as that produced by Picric Acid, Mercuric Acid or high-grade Flash Powder. Good luck getting any of those through a detector. And then, of course, we have the problem of placement. A modern jet-liner can take a surpising amount of punishment and still remain flyable. (Anyone remember the Aloha airlines disaster in 1980-something, in which nearly 15% of the fuselage was lost? The plane managed to land safely with only one fatality.) You would have to place the device at the point where the wing joins the fuselage to have any hope of bringing down the plane - and I'm fairly certain that somebody at the check-in counter would get suspicious when 9 or 10 people on separate flights asked to be seated in that specific row. Especially when you consider that the row close the the wing tends to be among the noisiest in the plane, and most sane people avoid it if they can.
And then we have the problem of mixing the components. ATAP tends to be horribly unstable - requiring a static- and vibration-free environvent to mix, plus you have to keep the mixture in a very tight temperature range while preparing the explosive. I'm not aware of any such place on an aircraft.
My opinion is that this plan was doomed from the start. The most likely outcome would be wannabe Jihadist martyr colored paint scheme on the airplane lavatory walls - and little else.
There is a lot of outrage expressed over RIAA tactics (as there should be), but I still think a lot of people are missing the essential point. There are many comments along the lines of 'How can the RIAA screw their customers like this?', and 'Don't they care about their PR?' etc.
The point is - no, they don't care about their PR, and they certainly don't care about their customers or their clients (the 'artists' who will in all likelihood never see a penny of the loot from the RIAA). The RIAA, like us, have seen the future, and like us, they know that it doesn't include them. They're not stupid - they know that electronic distributions systems will only get better, faster and easier. They know that an artist will soon be able to bypass the RIAA completely and reach the public directly. They know that the teenagers of today (who will become the consumers of tomorrow) find the notion of paying for music odd and outdated.
What we are seeing here, from DRM to pointless lawsuits to egregious congressional lobbying are just stopgap solutions, all of which will eventually fail, sooner or later. So what's an organization to do when they see their cash cow headed for the slaughterhouse, and know that there is nothing at all that they can do about it? Simple - they make as much money as they can before the inevitable happens. They know there will be no RIAA in the future - so in the meantime, they are abusing the system way past the breaking point in order to garner as much cash for the Executives to retire on when the time comes.
When seen from this prespective, the actions of the RIAA make sense. They don't care about their image - they care only about squeezing the last drop of blood from the stone before technology renders them obsolete. That doesn't mean we should give up the fight - we should continue to do all that we can to hasten the 'Day of Reckoning' - (shameless plug for Lizzie West's album 'Holy Road').
Goodbye RIAA - we hardly knew you. Not that we cared.
But can they detect the individual components of 2-component explosives? Like, say, Potassium Perchlorate carried by one passenger and Aluminum or Magnesium powder carried by another? When mixed together in the correct proportions (no, I'm not going to tell you what they are), they will produce a crude but quite deadly explosive. Problem is that there are a thousand reasons why a person might legitimately be carrying traces of these components. Suddenly, you're going to have miners, janitors, gardeners, chemical factory workers, even senior citizens with dietary supplements being hauled out of line and searched for no good reason...
Well, Bank of America uses a Sitekey. Basically, if it recognizes the ip address of the requestor, it displays a previously chosen image, along with instructions to enter your password only if you recognize the image. If the ip address is not in BoA's database, you will be asked a set of challenge/response questions to establish your identity.
Obviously, a clever coder could still initiate a MITM attack on this authentication system, but it will be a lot of work. BoA also has a security team spread over the country - as soon as one member of the team reports a suspicious e-mail, the ip address of the suspect website is immediately blocked and investigated.
I think they could still do more - right now the Sitekey image is displayed at a fixed position on the screen. It should be displayed at a random position along with a randomly generated IMG tag, making it harder to scrape. As far as the challenge response goes, if the BoA servers notice a number of requests (say, more than 3) from the same ip within a short period of time, that ip should also be blocked and investigated.
C'mon people, get it right. There is no such thing as a 'missing link'. What we have here are previously unknown Transitional Fossils (you know - the kind that the Creationists keep insisting don't exist). Let's try to use the correct terminology. Furthermore, the subject line indicates that there is only one missing link, and we've found it (yay!). Truth is that there are countless missing Transitional Fossils, and no - it's has nothing to do with the loud yammering of Ignorant Bible-Bashers. The truth is the the conditions for fossilization are pretty strict. As a result, the fossil record is a lot more sparse than we would like.
I was living in KC when it happened. Seems that the original design called for several load-bearing steel beams cast in a single piece to stretch from floor to ceiling, to distribute the load. During construction, the firm decided it would be easier (and possibly cheaper) to connect the walkways with cut beams joined at each stress point with a simple double joint. The construction company signed off on the design change without realizing that it would put all the stress of the walkways on the bottom girders. The girders could barely support the weight of the walkways, let alone the mass of people crowded onto it. How this obvious error escaped the engineers remains a mystery.
Instead of laughing at the poor suckers, why not take a few minutes to educate your family about the dangers of phishing sites? I've told my family they should never respond to a URL contained in an e-mail. If the e-mail claims that your account has been compromised, or that they need to verify your account information, or whatever - don't click on the link. Call the number on the back of your credit card, call your Bank, log in to your Paypal or eBay accounts by typing in the URL you usually use. Verify, verify, verify. Once they have gotten the idea, tell them to spread the word. The fewer people who fall for phishing scams, the less money there is to be made, and the problem will eventually resolve itself.
I hope.
The SiteKey image will only display if the BoA site recognizes your IP address. If not, you will be presented with a set of challenge/response questions. Is it possible that your IP address is changing frequently? DHCP?
...because it requires the co-operation of hardware manufacturers. Sure, your Big Names are going to fall in line - Sony, Philips, Pansonic etc. But there will still be a host of Chinese/Korean/Singaporean manufacturers who will simply disregard the DRM restrictions. I have a DVD player imported from Korea - plays MPEG-2/MPEG-4, PAL/NSTC, completely disregards region encoding and Macrovision 'quality control', and lets me skip any part of the disc that I want (none of this 'cant use the remote on this piece of video' crap). Plus, is has Component Video Out, DVI/HDMI OUT, VGA Out - pretty much any connector you can think of, it has it. Cost less than $150 (minus shipping).
The studios are fooling themselves if they think all hardware shops are going to fall in line. Right now, less than 5% of containers arriving at our ports are screened for radioactive materials - do you really think that some know-nothing Customs Agent is going to care about a harmless DVD player?
Not that I have much faith in the Federal Trade Commission (after all, Sunday morning TV is still peppered with those infomercials for the handy-dandy Quattro (or whatever they're) called 'healing magnetic bracelets'), but someone is going to be mighty pissed when they find out that they've forked out 5 or 10 grand for what is effectively just a bunch of clever heat exchangers (i.e. Stirling engines) that they could have bought for a less than a thousand bucks. Probably pissed enough that they complain to the feds. Methinks that this unit will be available 'any day now' until Fleischman takes the money and skips off to the Bahamas...
The ATF classifies explosive materials into high- or low explosives using 2 main criteria (there are others). First, the velocity and density of the shockwave produced by the explosion, and second, whether the material will detonate unconfined.
Take gunpowder for example. Is is classified as a low explosive because the pressure wave is low-density and subsonic. Also, the powder has to be tightly confined to initiate a pressure-feedback loop (i.e. a detonation). Now take something like flash powder, for example (like the stuff the SWAT teams use in stun grenades). It can produce a high-density shockwave in excess of Mach 2, with pressure at the point of detonation over 4,000 psi, and as little as 50 grams will detonate without confinement. Thus, flash powder is classified as a high explosive. IOW, if you're dunb enough to hold a firecracker filled with gunpowder in your hand while it ignites, you may end up with nothing worse than a nasty skin burn. If you try the same experiment with flash powder, you will lose a hand, guaranteed.
The fireball that engulfed the remains of the Challenger was basically nothing nore than an oxygen-hydrogen burn in open air: lots of flame, but very little pressure.
You're missing the point. Stalin was an atheist, yes, but that's not the reason he exterminated so many people (including members of his own party, atheists alike). The reason is that he was a nutcase, pure and simple. Same with Mao. On the other hand, the Catholic Church killed thousands of people because they weren't Catholic. (Of course, when the Protestants were in power, they returned the favor.)
Bottom line: Stalin's atheism had nothing at all to do with his murderous tendencies - his mental state did.
Being a far left wing liberal, I donate to the ACLU and Americans United, Being a humanist, I also frequently donate blood. I feel that this is a more tangible gift than cash.
...are the lawyers, as usual. Or maybe not. Even if the lawyers get rich from these lawsuits, and the persons most affected (i.e. the consumers) get a coupon good for one happy meal at McDonalds (sans toy), there is till the possibility of a 'chilling effect'.
Basicaly, if other labels decide to implement full-scale DRM, even if it is largely innocuous, they may think twice about the scheme once they see Sony getting their pants sued off. If so, this would be a win for consumers. Who says trickle-down justice doesn't work?
So, if there is a new evolution-friendly school board, does that make the outcome of the court case irrelevant? If they follow the same route as Kansas a few years back (not the current crop of idiots), the school board is likely to rescind the ID requirement, regardless of the outcome of the trial. I suppose it could always be useful as a precedent (one way or another), but it would seem that ID is finished in Dover schools no matter what (for the time being anyway).
And who is actually going to foot the bill for adding this stuff to new hardware? The content providers? Fat chance. Hardware manufacturers? Yeah, I can just see them falling over themselves to pay for sinking their own business. Consumers? Maybe. But it won't be long before the non-techies start wondering why they're paying more for hardware that does less.
Reminds of a time back in the days of yore when I happened to overhear a Circuit-City aisle monkey trying to persuade an elderly couple to buy a DivX DVD player instead of a cheaper, regular unit. Somehow they just couldn't grasp the concept of paying more for the privelege of being able to watch time-restricted media. Needless to say, they left without buying *anything*.
Heck, I've been pouring Kahlua into my coffee at work every morning since...
Why are you all looking at me like that?
It's called Intelligent Spelling, and IS 'scientists' are demanding that public schools give equal time to their theory of spelling, since there are obviously gaping holes in the currently accepted Theory of Spelling by mutation and selection.
Or maybe they're just a bunch of illiterate fucking assholes.
Aside from the fact that this is yet another instance of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, it will be very easy to overcome.
Suppose Mr. Terrorist boards the Underground at the same station and at the same time every weekday. Hardly unusual - millions of Londoners use the Tube to get to work. Suppose Mr. Terrorist carries a can of Pringles in his briefcase everyday. He gets searched the first few times, since he seems to be carrying what looks like a pipe bomb. Eventually, the screeners get to know him, and just wave him through. But this time, instead of crisps, his Pringles can is filled with 500g of Flash Powder.
Security is only as strong as the people working it. Hence, we can never be completely secure. But it's the preception that counts, right?
Better idea - make her a series regular on SG-1 (she's already done a couple of episodes). Add in Claudia Black and Ben Browder, and all Sci-Fi fans need only one show to watch...
The vast majority of SCOX stock is owned by a handful of large institutions. The average investor (i.e. you and me) account for only a very small percentage of the total amount of outstanding stock.
Bottom line - the movement of the stock price of SCOX has very little to do with any external events.
Organic life and bacteria/virii have been involved in a never-ending arms race for millions, if not billions of years. They come up with a new vector for infection, larger organics evolve a way to counter that infection and so on, ad infinitum...
The chances of an alien retrovirus having the necessary enymes to inject a DNA strand into a human cell are pretty close to zero. The chances of any bacteria being able to survive a highly evolved immune system are also pretty close to zero. I would call this a non-issue.
First Spitzer reams the Mutual Fund houses, then the Insurance/Ripoff industry and now this. I'm begging all of you who can vote (I became a citizen 2 days ago - too late to register) to write-in Elliot Spitzer for President. Then we'll see some house-cleaning...