I posted a reply to this citing sources & documentary evidence, but strangely it has been deleted...

Basically, too many people groups from too many eras across too many cultures, languages, and countries have documentary evidence of their descent from Odin for it to have been made up. Look up Guala/Hvala/Hawala, his genealogy documents the long line of descent from Thor to Odin.

My own genealogy corroborates the Odin genealogies but I am not descended from Odin (Odin is some kind of ancient great uncle to me). My common ancestor to Odin is Milesius 3,000 years ago. The genealogies diverge & corroborate at nearly every generation, e.g., the Smith clan is not descended from Odin either, but my common ancestor to the Smiths (M'Gowans) is about 1,500 years ago.

Back in those days names were often titles, and they were used and reused all over the place. You can't really trust modern scholars when they say that Tacitus "may have" referred to Odin, since the Odin who was worshipped by the Norsemen is very well known to history.

You should study your family history, you just might discover the secrets of the world at a library near you.

Odin was a prince who lived circa 400 AD and who founded the Kingdoms of Kent & Wessex. Odin was never a stone-age deity, Odin was descended from the House of Heremon. He has always been a perfectly historical figure (until he was worshipped as a deified ancestor by Norsemen 300 year later [euhemerism]).

FTFA: "Until now our knowledge of the Tower of Babel has been based on the account in Genesis 11:1-9, and of Herodot: The Histories I:178 - 182, with the measurement of the first 2 steps, and a Seleucid tablet of 229 BC (Louvre AO 6555), giving the sizes of the steps."

This is not entirely true, the Irish genealogies of Milesius (corroborated by disparate genealogies throughout Europe) also attest to the Tower of Babel and its peoples.

The Tower of Babel story occurs in the Irish & European genealogies with the namesake of the Phoenicians, Fenius Farsa, and his son Niul the Linguist.

These genealogies diverge at nearly every generation & they corroborate independently across countries & cultures. They're are among the most valuable documentary evidence we have of ancient world history (more so than the bible).

See, e.g., http://books.google.com/books?id=h5MNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8.

The story among the Irish also corroborates the Slashdot story about the common source of languages (and, yes, the genealogies pre-date the arrival of Semitic biblical texts to Ireland [if the bible is Semitic, these records are Japhetic]).

Military grade M-code GPS has two options, red-key mode for classified hardware like stealth drones, and black-key mode for unclassified hardware. They each use RSA in symmetric & asymmetric modes, respectively.

Did Iran fast-factor the semiprime numbers used in RSA?

By doing this Iran has announced to the world that RSA is broken. Military grade M-code GPS has two modes, red-key mode for classified hardware like stealth drones, and black-key mode for unclassified hardware. They each use RSA in symmetric & asymmetric modes, respectively.

To spoof the GPS signal the drone would be locked on to, Iran either got the secret keys or fast-factored the large semiprime RSA numbers.

Iranian ComodoHacker claimed to be in pursuit of a crack to RSA, go read his broken English rants.

This study measures CONTROL through the threshold of 51% ownership within the CONNECTED public Trans-National Corporations.

This study was unable to analyze private equity funds that own these public Transnational Corporations.

The global control of, e.g., Commerce Bancshares could not be analyzed for this report.

Dennis M. Ritchie: He didn't just change the world, he make world. By all conventions we cannot call him routine. He was the goto guy in bracing for changes of scope. Now, as he implicitly returns to the void, it is time_t for him to say, "Goodbye, world." He certainly was a strong type of char*acter, and he gave us many pointers to live && work by. Objectively speaking, he had class. The complexity of his main() contributions will be incalculable in the centuries following his EXIT_SUCCESS.
^ C what I did there?

no matter how you slice it

If only Full Tilt Poker were incorporated as a bank, they'd be okay:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking

KDE was the first to go all 'bling bling'... GNOME is just trying to keep up with the Jones'...

Problem #1 with open source projects, they're led by geniuses, and geniuses almost exclusively only care about their own thoughts, ideas, and starting points, and rarely the thoughts, ideas, or starting points of others. (As evidenced by "Spatial Nautilus" which was coined as revolutionary & quickly done away with.)

Most "open sores" projects are rabbit hole cults, not innovations in computer science. I blame KDE on this one for getting such a whole ugly-ass ball rolling (because it made complete sense to make your desktop a window on the desktop!).

Besides you don't need to: When you reboot the server, critical application services won't be running because their existence was undocumented & their daemons lacked init.d & rc scripts!