I agree it is sexist to think that a womens institute should clean this up. What they should do it recycle much of the "waste" as it isn't waste at all. It was an idiotic Carter administration idea to not recycle nuke waste thinking nobody else in the world would do that if we didn't. They did anyhow. We should abandon this idiotic idea and dramatically reduce what needs to be buried in the first place.
Not sure why someone would think they are qualified to come up with a plan for this as well. They lack the training in this field. Maybe whoever decided to do this also goes to a Chinese carry out to buy a car.
I don't see where it says someone was actually arrested or convicted of anything based on an abuse of the patriot act, or any other law for that matter in the article. So now we are reduced to getting upset that a G-man looked at something he technically didn't have a right to look at due to an administration oversight (i.e. they didn't renew the wiretap, bank warrant, etc)? *Yawn* I can remember during the Clinton administration they (WH Personnel) looked at hundreds of FBI files that they weren't supposed to and nobody cared, nothing happened (aka filegate). Yet during the Nixon administration some guys went to jail for years for looking at a single FBI file they weren't supposed to. Looks like much ado about nothing. On the other hand we haven't had a single terrorist attack on American soil since 911. Who would have bet on that happening just after 911 happened? I wouldn't have bet a dime on it. I don't see as we have sacraficed any freedom for it either. Well maybe the Man keeping us from going all the way up into the Statue of Liberty (butthead decision, firecode be damned, let us do it!).
Your welcome to reply, however make sure it is about an actual abuse of the patriot act and not one you *think* is a violation. Senator Feinstein (D-California, former mayor of San Francisco) found that many supposed violations in fact had nothing to do with the patriot act at all. They used other laws that have been on the books for decades. She couldn't find a single violation and it wasn't due to a lack of effort.
Excuse me, at what point did I say I supported circumcision? When I said "the idea was hygiene" I meant "in the desert with little water". If you hardly have water to drink, and cannot wash your body for months, circumcision may be an hygienical advantage, since it reduces the risk of infection (which in ancient times meant "slow and painful death"). However I could possibly despise Americans, I could not believe they do not take a bath now and then.
You are excused, you did bring it up. Men without circumcision live just fine precisely in areas that are arid. It makes as much sense as ripping (surgically removing they would say) your fingernails off in the name of hygiene. Maybe this drives the point home? Both are totally un-necessary and both would be abuse if not outright torture performed on whoever it was done to. However when it is done to a baby boy, it is especially barbaric. Separating the foreskin from the head is done with a hemostat and is very much like separating the fingernail from the finger. All in the first hours of his life, after going through birth. Some boys die from this procedure though they refuse to keep track of it for obvious reasons.
By the way, why would you dispise American's more than say the French, Swiss, Tibetians or some other nationality? They are people just like you are. Hate breeds more hate and causes more wars due to misunderstandings, either unintentional or intentional.
I'm not going to touch that first part but the rest i feel I have to say something about.
Too bad. Circumcision is something the UN should be addressing as well and doing something about. It is happening to boys so it is ok I guess. Not just any boys, American boys at that. I wish Europe was against this as much as they are against the death penalty.
The US right now is looking more and more of going straight to (a VERY warm place) and fast, the internet is kind of important to alot of people other than those in the US (more so looking at broadband growth) and we don't want some future Napoleon (american version) holding us all by the balls to get us to go along with his/her plans.
Rumors of the US going to hell are greatly exagerated. Even if a Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin (ever notice how these guys come from the other side of the pond?), etc came to power - so what. It isn't as if they can just willy-nilly change things. There already is an international body handling this. Maybe they should move ICANN to Europe someplace? Is that the real issue? Europe has a far worse history than the US does. Even today the EU is not making very many friends (outright enemies) as they outlaw cheeses, wines and many other things produced for hundreds and thousands of years (feta cheese anyone? Roman wine?). The root servers are set around the world and anything this really bad guy may decide to do would be useless in a matter of days, perhaps even hours. Much ado about nothing. On the other hand moving this to the UN brings in politicians and other people that have no clue making decisions. Often making the wrong decisions it seems.
Oh well, it isn't as if anything we say on slashdot will make a difference anyhow.
Most men in the world are not circumcised. Saying it is for hygiene is a big lie and very sexist. That is like saying we need to circumcise little girls for hygiene (no, not the clit, they can be circumsised in the same way little boys are) - a much better case for this by the way. They get along just fine without it and so do males. Male circumcision is genital mutilation, child abuse and child molestation all rolled up into one. They cut off what will be 15 square inches of highly sensitive erotic skin without antistetic. Then they sell those foreskins for production into womens cold creams to help stop wrinkles. Those that do it should be put in jail for a very long time and forced to register as the sex offenders that they are.
As for the root servers, why not leave it as it is. It ain't broke, lets not fix it just because the U.S. is running it. There isn't even a case to complain about where the U.S. has done something bad. They should be grateful someone else is taking care of it and there are no problems. Making it an international entity under the UN is really asking for trouble. I think you would do better gambling your economic future in a casino. Lets not do that unless it really is necessary. There are far better things for the UN to be spending their time on.
Some really clueless moderator modded you down as flamebait, go figure.
You mean someone with a clue moded them down for very good reason. I can remember in 1999 when the BSD folks were crowing about how "secure" they were, making a big deal about it. Hackers simply ported all of those Linux hacks to BSD and BSD was very *insecure* for years to come. Shall we do another round? I have a feeling it is coming since you guys are saying it is so much more secure again.
SELinux *IS* very secure. In spite of what others say, it is easy to define policies. When I ask people saying it is tough to do, how would they do it, they come up with very similar ideas (but more broken). It is a lot like adding more locks to the rooms in a building. Wanna do a updatedb in demand as root? Denied! You have to change your context first (and have the ability to do that)! Things like that. Becoming root would mean nothing if it is set up right, in fact I could give you the password to root and dare you to do something bad - good luck, you would need it. This level of security simply isn't available in BSD, nor will it be for the foreseable future. Indeed it seems that you are the one with no clue what SE Linux is all about, what went into it and how secure it can be.
Silly me, here I thought Sun's problems were all McNeeley. Little did I know another big problems is Schwartz. Wonder if he offered to eat his hat if he is wrong, like Vint Cerf did years ago when he said the Internet was going to fail - as if he would know.
Looks like a Get Away Special box that used to fly on the US Space Shuttles. The Boy Scouts in the USA did a Get Away Special, originally scheduled for launch in 1986. It was put off by the Challenger explosion. It launched in the early 1990s. Nice to see European Universities catching up to the US Boy Scouts 13 years later (They launched theirs for $10,000 USD). See HERE
I wonder how come the ESA doesn't launch things like this. Russia that hungry for business maybe?
Looked at the first chapter. It seems clear to me that he is simply doing the same old trig stuff but simply not calling it the old names. For example we all remember Oscar Has A Heap Of Apples, right?
Oscar / Has = Sin (opposite over hyp)
A / Heap = Cos (Adjacent over Hyp)
Of / Apples = Tan (Opposite over adjacent)
He uses these formulas and simply doesn't ack the angle. Big deal. If all you have is an angle and a side, trig is still the best way in town to deal with it. Other than that, he seems to use standard tricks of dealing mathematically in Eucledian geometry that we have always used. *Yawn* Wake me back up if I missed something.
Sounds like a great time to fire the lawyer for obvious incompetence. Might be a good time to find out if the lawyer even has a law degree and has met the California bar requirements. If he hasn't then sue him for billions. Hey, that is what lawyers do to all the honest hard working people and companies, why not them?
Brought all the latest stuff into a lab recently. The worst was RLX, they really suck and they realized it and no longer make hardware. Right there with them was SUN. They spent more time getting their stuff to run than any other vendor, including RLX and even then it didn't work as specified. They suck. Their equipment sucks and breaks a lot. It didn't used to be this way. They used to produce equipment that just ran and ran and ran.
What was this stunt? Last Ditch Effort before bankruptcy I bet. Unless Microsoft gives them more money like they did to save Apple.
I have to wonder why they would buzz Dell anyway. Why not buzz something more apropos like HP or IBM? After all, Dell sucks too. Maybe they are competing for last place?
Great premise but manages to mess it up. For example:
Deny by default. Depends on the situation. For a firewall that is a great idea. For executables it is a dumb idea. I think he has no clue just how many executable programs he uses. It isn't the 8 or 9 he cites. Linux for example has thousands of programs that most people never see - cat, cut, paste, grep, join, link, etc. Get rid of those problems and see if you can even boot. Even for programs that he does run - like an internet browser, not running remote executable code limits his ability to do much. Lots of javascript, java, and so on.
Enumerating baddness? WTH is he talking about? Nobody I knows enumerates baddness except idiots and companies trying to tell you how good they are.
Penetrate and patch: Still a good idea and this fits into his first suggestion - get rid of executables that you don't need. So he is contradicting himself. How do you know if something is running unless you do a penetration test? Pen tests can also show you if your configuration is set up right or if you managed to screw up the configuration file and therefore the program is doing something you didn't intend.
Hacking is cool: He suggests that people not understand how hacks work. This is a dumb suggestion. By looking at how mistakes were made by others you can therefore avoid those mistakes. Most holes were not there intentionally, it was because the programmer didn't think of how the code could be compromised. By learning these techniques, they can be avoided. Indeed again to his previous point.
Educating users: I can't believe he is suggesting that users not be educated. Most people are the equivelent of "Just off of the turnup truck." They don't know to not take the Nigerian scam or many of the other social engineering tricks. Most people are trusting by default. It is like allowing people to walk through a very bad part of town and not telling them about it.
His minor dumbs are what he should have put in the top. I see those far more often. I have to wonder if this is something he had to do for a writing class at school. Looks like it.
All the dumb blonde had to say is that with all the mice in the office, one of them probably got it. The real dumb would think the rodent type, the geeks would wonder about the computer mouse type and the rest of us would know it is of the 2 legged type. Of course the real answer is that she left the lunch either at home or in the transportation to work (and yes, where a mouse may have eaten it).
Of course, stuff left over the weekend is fair game.
The net can be a wonderful thing. It has also brought the absolute worst in people I think. Never before can people hide behind the screen, cooking up nastyness. They say things that if they said it in person, they would be missing a few teeth. Some people say stuff that they may loose their life over. To that end, it is too bad they did away with duels. We lost some fine men that way unfortunately, we also got rid of many fools.
There is also the problem that what is written is not what they meant.
Some certifications aren't worth the paper they are printed on. You may have heard the phrase "paper MSCNE"? An individual Microsoft says knows his stuff and yet they can't even install a printer queue. No BS, I have hired people like that. Bunch of Microsoft certs and can't even configure a simple printer queue. Something my Son could do in the 3rd grade.
Since the mid 1990's, quite a few new certs came out, CISSP, RHCE and others. Most if not all of these certs have severe penalties if you publish the answers to the tests. With RedHat your not even allowed to discuss the test with anyone else, including other students. If you do, they can take your cert away and you can't get it back nor take any other course. They really want people to know what they are doing so the cert means something. Today I would hire a RHCE over a MSCE anytime.
Certs are indicators that employers use to assess the ability of the candidate to perform the job they are seeking to fill. The guy doing the hiring most of the time doesn't know this stuff. I have had inteviewers that knew exactly what they were doing and they are very good at this stuff. That is always in the Unix world though. Windows world most of the managers are totally ignorant. Tell them you met with the Marie Antoinette last week and they would believe you (she lost her head years ago).
So comes the question, are they worth it? In a word for most courses - yes. Most courses that offer a cert are not big money makers for the company. I'm sure some organizations make big money on them but for most of the ones that I'm familiar with, they make a modest amount on them. They do teach the people a lot in a short amount of time and they are better at solving problems. Even seasoned self taught people learn things going to these courses. Sometimes they learn a much easier way of doing what they are already doing. One guy I thought was very comical at what he went through to get something done, I reduced it all to a one line command.
So it is up to you. You have to do something to convince the guy doing the hiring that you are a better bet than the other resumes he has on his desk. By the way, if you apply to a large corporation that has a HR department, feel free to check back with them. That is because when you do that, you raise your resume to the top of the pile and they don't mind it. Don't call too often though as to piss them off. If you get a sorry Charlie letter, feel free to send it in again even if they say they will keep it on file. Again, keep it in front of them. Out of site, out of mind. I know, I used to work in Personnel for DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) back when I was a student with no money. Some of you guys think that people that work in Personnel are as dumb as a pile of rocks. No doubt I'm sure some personnel departments are (I have delt with them too), however most seem to do a good job. They see one job opening, sometimes no resumes to 1000 resumes - have to thin them down or get more applicants somehow.
Things to remember:
Spell check your resume. There is nothing that can exclude you faster than spelling something wrong, especially if it is in the first sentence of your resume.
Cover letter. Lets have a BRIEF letter. What is the position you are after. Easy, quick, I know what you want in 15 seconds. I know, sounds short but 15 seconds is a long time. See how much of what you wrote you can read in 15 seconds. If you get by that, they may dedicate 15 more seconds to figuring out if you are worth a closer look and get you into the interest pile.
Resume - why are you qualified, put your best qualifications first. If you have college and no work, put that first. If you have work and then college, put the work stuff first. Keep it brief too.
Don't let a position that you don't think you are qualified for stop you from applying. If they call you in for an interview, at least you get interview experience. I have landed jobs when I was a student that I was way underqualifi
There is evidence that in the 13th Century, monks sunk boats off of Venice to stop the Adriatic from rising into the city. Yes, the oceans were rising 700 years ago so this is all natural.
Our poles keep switching their polarities. Is thare any indication that such a change is going to happen anytime soon?
Yes, it will happen soon. Around 2009 or so. When that happens we will loose the Van Allen radiation belt until the field comes back about 10 years later, maybe. Northern lights at the Equator. At least for the short time higher life will survive. We are doomed, all doomed! Let mayhem start. The space aliens landing at Roswell tried to tell us about this but crash landed instead.
Oh yea, you probably want some scientific proof of this or something. Well we don't have any. The Mayan calendar ends in December 21, 2012. Coincidence? I think not. Lots of dooms day predictions around 2009 - 2013. Some think Christ is supposed to return in 2010 (creation of Isreal - 1948 + 72 years or 1 generation's time in the Bible). Watch for the Jews to rebuild their temple at the temple mount.
So go ahead and hold up a sign saying "The end is near". Get all worked up over this.
Did these guys not read the newspapers 4-5 months ago when the Harvard Pres really put his foot in it?
Just goes to show it is true. Study after study shows this but keep denying it for political correctness. Don't tell the emperor he has no clothes.
I don't see what the big deal is. 5 points is not that much. If it were the other way, I bet they would be saying it was obvious and men should get over it. At the bottom of the scale it also shows men are dumber. Maybe women should get upset that they aren't as dumb as men too?
Must be a slow news day. Getting tired of beating up the leaders of the world.
Vint has been wrong before, including a time when he literally ate his hat. This was because he said that the Internet would fail within the next year due to traffic and it wasn't designed to handle it. That was in the 1990's, here we are about 10 years later and we are STILL going strong. So much for what he knows. Vint, your 15 minutes are long over, time to shut up before you make even more of a fool of yourself. It is good to bring people's attention to this problem but can the propaganda.
Casting this as a religious thing is political baiting (propaganda) too. Science has been on the decline for the past 30 years. NASA has been worried about this for years. We whip everyone elses ass (many people think) so we don't need to think about studying or something maybe. Well they are catching up and catching up fast. Look at the rising star that is China.
The real blame falls in the left's court. They control the NEA and it is the left that has the political agenda - push everything left in the schools. That means gay propaganda, womens "studies", all of those BS courses at the expense of knowing stuff. Just check out what the NEA lobbies for in Congress. NEA gets money from the PTA by the way so don't support the PTA. Classic, the left accuses the right of doing exactly what they are doing.
The technology for the new design seems to be in it's infancy, but Japan has proven once again that it's a least 10 years ahead of everyone else. -JM
From the very valid points made by previous posts, it is clear they Don't prove they are 10 years ahead of anyone else. All it proves is that they have too much time on their hands and lots of money. It also proves that they can do stupid things too. Hey Japan - KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid!
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Not sure why someone would think they are qualified to come up with a plan for this as well. They lack the training in this field. Maybe whoever decided to do this also goes to a Chinese carry out to buy a car.
Your welcome to reply, however make sure it is about an actual abuse of the patriot act and not one you *think* is a violation. Senator Feinstein (D-California, former mayor of San Francisco) found that many supposed violations in fact had nothing to do with the patriot act at all. They used other laws that have been on the books for decades. She couldn't find a single violation and it wasn't due to a lack of effort.
You are excused, you did bring it up. Men without circumcision live just fine precisely in areas that are arid. It makes as much sense as ripping (surgically removing they would say) your fingernails off in the name of hygiene. Maybe this drives the point home? Both are totally un-necessary and both would be abuse if not outright torture performed on whoever it was done to. However when it is done to a baby boy, it is especially barbaric. Separating the foreskin from the head is done with a hemostat and is very much like separating the fingernail from the finger. All in the first hours of his life, after going through birth. Some boys die from this procedure though they refuse to keep track of it for obvious reasons.
By the way, why would you dispise American's more than say the French, Swiss, Tibetians or some other nationality? They are people just like you are. Hate breeds more hate and causes more wars due to misunderstandings, either unintentional or intentional.
Too bad. Circumcision is something the UN should be addressing as well and doing something about. It is happening to boys so it is ok I guess. Not just any boys, American boys at that. I wish Europe was against this as much as they are against the death penalty.
The US right now is looking more and more of going straight to (a VERY warm place) and fast, the internet is kind of important to alot of people other than those in the US (more so looking at broadband growth) and we don't want some future Napoleon (american version) holding us all by the balls to get us to go along with his/her plans.
Rumors of the US going to hell are greatly exagerated. Even if a Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin (ever notice how these guys come from the other side of the pond?), etc came to power - so what. It isn't as if they can just willy-nilly change things. There already is an international body handling this. Maybe they should move ICANN to Europe someplace? Is that the real issue? Europe has a far worse history than the US does. Even today the EU is not making very many friends (outright enemies) as they outlaw cheeses, wines and many other things produced for hundreds and thousands of years (feta cheese anyone? Roman wine?). The root servers are set around the world and anything this really bad guy may decide to do would be useless in a matter of days, perhaps even hours. Much ado about nothing. On the other hand moving this to the UN brings in politicians and other people that have no clue making decisions. Often making the wrong decisions it seems.
Oh well, it isn't as if anything we say on slashdot will make a difference anyhow.
As for the root servers, why not leave it as it is. It ain't broke, lets not fix it just because the U.S. is running it. There isn't even a case to complain about where the U.S. has done something bad. They should be grateful someone else is taking care of it and there are no problems. Making it an international entity under the UN is really asking for trouble. I think you would do better gambling your economic future in a casino. Lets not do that unless it really is necessary. There are far better things for the UN to be spending their time on.
Yea, I'll park it next to my car that gets 200 MPG and can run on water too.
Yet Another Space Vehicle. That is what they should name it. Well, it is.
You mean someone with a clue moded them down for very good reason. I can remember in 1999 when the BSD folks were crowing about how "secure" they were, making a big deal about it. Hackers simply ported all of those Linux hacks to BSD and BSD was very *insecure* for years to come. Shall we do another round? I have a feeling it is coming since you guys are saying it is so much more secure again.
SELinux *IS* very secure. In spite of what others say, it is easy to define policies. When I ask people saying it is tough to do, how would they do it, they come up with very similar ideas (but more broken). It is a lot like adding more locks to the rooms in a building. Wanna do a updatedb in demand as root? Denied! You have to change your context first (and have the ability to do that)! Things like that. Becoming root would mean nothing if it is set up right, in fact I could give you the password to root and dare you to do something bad - good luck, you would need it. This level of security simply isn't available in BSD, nor will it be for the foreseable future. Indeed it seems that you are the one with no clue what SE Linux is all about, what went into it and how secure it can be.
Silly me, here I thought Sun's problems were all McNeeley. Little did I know another big problems is Schwartz. Wonder if he offered to eat his hat if he is wrong, like Vint Cerf did years ago when he said the Internet was going to fail - as if he would know.
I wonder how come the ESA doesn't launch things like this. Russia that hungry for business maybe?
Oscar / Has = Sin (opposite over hyp)
A / Heap = Cos (Adjacent over Hyp)
Of / Apples = Tan (Opposite over adjacent)
He uses these formulas and simply doesn't ack the angle. Big deal. If all you have is an angle and a side, trig is still the best way in town to deal with it. Other than that, he seems to use standard tricks of dealing mathematically in Eucledian geometry that we have always used. *Yawn* Wake me back up if I missed something.
Sounds like a great time to fire the lawyer for obvious incompetence. Might be a good time to find out if the lawyer even has a law degree and has met the California bar requirements. If he hasn't then sue him for billions. Hey, that is what lawyers do to all the honest hard working people and companies, why not them?
What was this stunt? Last Ditch Effort before bankruptcy I bet. Unless Microsoft gives them more money like they did to save Apple.
I have to wonder why they would buzz Dell anyway. Why not buzz something more apropos like HP or IBM? After all, Dell sucks too. Maybe they are competing for last place?
The answer of course if the egg. Eggs have been around millions of years longer than the chicken.
Deny by default. Depends on the situation. For a firewall that is a great idea. For executables it is a dumb idea. I think he has no clue just how many executable programs he uses. It isn't the 8 or 9 he cites. Linux for example has thousands of programs that most people never see - cat, cut, paste, grep, join, link, etc. Get rid of those problems and see if you can even boot. Even for programs that he does run - like an internet browser, not running remote executable code limits his ability to do much. Lots of javascript, java, and so on.
Enumerating baddness? WTH is he talking about? Nobody I knows enumerates baddness except idiots and companies trying to tell you how good they are.
Penetrate and patch: Still a good idea and this fits into his first suggestion - get rid of executables that you don't need. So he is contradicting himself. How do you know if something is running unless you do a penetration test? Pen tests can also show you if your configuration is set up right or if you managed to screw up the configuration file and therefore the program is doing something you didn't intend.
Hacking is cool: He suggests that people not understand how hacks work. This is a dumb suggestion. By looking at how mistakes were made by others you can therefore avoid those mistakes. Most holes were not there intentionally, it was because the programmer didn't think of how the code could be compromised. By learning these techniques, they can be avoided. Indeed again to his previous point.
Educating users: I can't believe he is suggesting that users not be educated. Most people are the equivelent of "Just off of the turnup truck." They don't know to not take the Nigerian scam or many of the other social engineering tricks. Most people are trusting by default. It is like allowing people to walk through a very bad part of town and not telling them about it.
His minor dumbs are what he should have put in the top. I see those far more often. I have to wonder if this is something he had to do for a writing class at school. Looks like it.
Of course, stuff left over the weekend is fair game.
There is also the problem that what is written is not what they meant.
Since the mid 1990's, quite a few new certs came out, CISSP, RHCE and others. Most if not all of these certs have severe penalties if you publish the answers to the tests. With RedHat your not even allowed to discuss the test with anyone else, including other students. If you do, they can take your cert away and you can't get it back nor take any other course. They really want people to know what they are doing so the cert means something. Today I would hire a RHCE over a MSCE anytime.
Certs are indicators that employers use to assess the ability of the candidate to perform the job they are seeking to fill. The guy doing the hiring most of the time doesn't know this stuff. I have had inteviewers that knew exactly what they were doing and they are very good at this stuff. That is always in the Unix world though. Windows world most of the managers are totally ignorant. Tell them you met with the Marie Antoinette last week and they would believe you (she lost her head years ago).
So comes the question, are they worth it? In a word for most courses - yes. Most courses that offer a cert are not big money makers for the company. I'm sure some organizations make big money on them but for most of the ones that I'm familiar with, they make a modest amount on them. They do teach the people a lot in a short amount of time and they are better at solving problems. Even seasoned self taught people learn things going to these courses. Sometimes they learn a much easier way of doing what they are already doing. One guy I thought was very comical at what he went through to get something done, I reduced it all to a one line command.
So it is up to you. You have to do something to convince the guy doing the hiring that you are a better bet than the other resumes he has on his desk. By the way, if you apply to a large corporation that has a HR department, feel free to check back with them. That is because when you do that, you raise your resume to the top of the pile and they don't mind it. Don't call too often though as to piss them off. If you get a sorry Charlie letter, feel free to send it in again even if they say they will keep it on file. Again, keep it in front of them. Out of site, out of mind. I know, I used to work in Personnel for DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) back when I was a student with no money. Some of you guys think that people that work in Personnel are as dumb as a pile of rocks. No doubt I'm sure some personnel departments are (I have delt with them too), however most seem to do a good job. They see one job opening, sometimes no resumes to 1000 resumes - have to thin them down or get more applicants somehow.
Things to remember:
There is evidence that in the 13th Century, monks sunk boats off of Venice to stop the Adriatic from rising into the city. Yes, the oceans were rising 700 years ago so this is all natural.
So when does the theif get tarred and feathered? No? Ok, get him fired from his current job or at least arrested.
Cool. Now we don't have to fix the 32 bit problem in the Unix/Windows date routines.
Yes, it will happen soon. Around 2009 or so. When that happens we will loose the Van Allen radiation belt until the field comes back about 10 years later, maybe. Northern lights at the Equator. At least for the short time higher life will survive. We are doomed, all doomed! Let mayhem start. The space aliens landing at Roswell tried to tell us about this but crash landed instead.
Oh yea, you probably want some scientific proof of this or something. Well we don't have any. The Mayan calendar ends in December 21, 2012. Coincidence? I think not. Lots of dooms day predictions around 2009 - 2013. Some think Christ is supposed to return in 2010 (creation of Isreal - 1948 + 72 years or 1 generation's time in the Bible). Watch for the Jews to rebuild their temple at the temple mount.
So go ahead and hold up a sign saying "The end is near". Get all worked up over this.
Just goes to show it is true. Study after study shows this but keep denying it for political correctness. Don't tell the emperor he has no clothes.
I don't see what the big deal is. 5 points is not that much. If it were the other way, I bet they would be saying it was obvious and men should get over it. At the bottom of the scale it also shows men are dumber. Maybe women should get upset that they aren't as dumb as men too?
Must be a slow news day. Getting tired of beating up the leaders of the world.
Casting this as a religious thing is political baiting (propaganda) too. Science has been on the decline for the past 30 years. NASA has been worried about this for years. We whip everyone elses ass (many people think) so we don't need to think about studying or something maybe. Well they are catching up and catching up fast. Look at the rising star that is China.
The real blame falls in the left's court. They control the NEA and it is the left that has the political agenda - push everything left in the schools. That means gay propaganda, womens "studies", all of those BS courses at the expense of knowing stuff. Just check out what the NEA lobbies for in Congress. NEA gets money from the PTA by the way so don't support the PTA. Classic, the left accuses the right of doing exactly what they are doing.
From the very valid points made by previous posts, it is clear they Don't prove they are 10 years ahead of anyone else. All it proves is that they have too much time on their hands and lots of money. It also proves that they can do stupid things too. Hey Japan - KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid!