Or perhaps it's your attitude that perpetuates the problem.

Making a mountain out of a molehill does nothing useful. There are plenty of people out there who support women, but don't like the attitude of the women who have zero tolerance. Instead, they cast a negative light on what should be a positive and progressive movement.

If you really want to help women out, focus on encouraging them to like science and engineering rather than crying foul every time some moron on the internet says something stupid (hopefully that comment is not quoted for irony).

But once again, you're buying into the conspiracy theory that all information is controlled.

I don't doubt there are cases where scandals are revealed as means of political assassination, but I seriously doubt that ALL cases fall into this category.

I wish I had specific examples to show that people come forward of their own volition, but I imagine that even that would be undermined with the notion "it was X who made him/her come forward."

The reality of the situation is that the government WANTS you to think they're in control of every situation and all news. It gives the guise that they are competent. But as I mentioned above, that just isn't the case.

This implies that the government is competent, which in turn implies that the members of the government are competent.

I don't mean to come across as flame bait, but have you read the news in the last couple years? Political corruption or scandals happen all the time. You don't honestly believe that people each time our government reveals one of these occurrences it was done on purpose, do you? There isn't a conspiracy at every turn, people just do stupid things. That is the nature of government and of humanity.

But I do have to agree with you on the reporters; they tend of have an agenda.

I think an interesting question is "do black holes only increase entropy?"

Taken from Wikipedia on the definition of Hawking Radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation) , "...rotating black holes should create and emit particles.â This implies that a black hole must have an angular momentum associated with it in order to emit Hawking Radiation and thus a higher entropic state.

Now, let us take a classic example, a celestial body interacting with a black hole. For the purposes of argument, let us theoretically allow the planet to be at maximum entropy. That is, there is no useful energy in the system to allow for interaction. We will take the black hole to have a high amount of entropy, perhaps because it has not interacted with any matter in a good while.

By the conservation of angular momentum (since we discussed the black hole has to have angular momentum to emit Hawking Radiation), the matter from the celestial body will not simply be devoured by the black hole, but accumulated on what is known as an accretion disk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk). Summarily, the accretion disk is transference of matter from one celestial body to a stronger gravitational brother (i.e. the black hole) whereby matter is siphoned from the less dense object to the denser object. The matter on the accretion disk is accelerated and becomes superheated through friction; in the process, X-rays and other forms of radiation are emitted.

Basically, we have gone from two high entropic states (inert planet and a black hole with little interaction) to a lower entropic state, because the energy in the planet was changed from a useless, uniform state, to a volatile state.

This is going to be the next mass destruction movie that Hollywood makes (they seem to be out of Natural disasters). Quick! We must fight entropy! Arrange the crayons in your box alphabetically and color.

It would be right up there with Speed 3, Glacier of Doom.

This seems like a GREAT way to lose all your money quickly.

I guess after it happens, you'll at least have something to really tweet about (as opposed to the fact you bought the new Brittney Spears album - no one cares!).

The article linked in the topic doesn't have very many details about who or what these companies are.
I imagine that the majority of Malware sources are from some overseas nation (Russian derivatives most likely) and that filing these suits probably will go no where.

It is possible this is just a Microsoft publicity stunt designed to deter these kinds of businesses from propagating.

This system provides no real benefit to the American populace other than to instill fear.

I don't stop what I'm doing because for some reason or another, the day has been ranked a "red" terrorist day.

Really, all it does (besides instilling fear) is give news sources something to talk about briefly.

I imagine there might be some of that Placebo effect taking place.

They did a study a while back where they gave cheap wine to ordinary people and labeled it as expensive wine. Then they did the opposite, labeling the expensive wine as cheap wine. When people were asked which wine they liked better, guess what? they liked the "cheap" wine labeled as expensive wine the best.

While I don't doubt that the Stradivari violins may be top notch, I doubt there is that much variance between a "modern" top notch violin and what he created.

Is this the Matrix? Cuz if it is, we're a virus too. And I'm pretty sure that I'm alive...

While you are arguing semantics (symantecs, lol) between hackers and crackers, I think you strongly, strongly overestimate the ability of the general populace to rise to this specific occasion.

Technology has developed at such an accelerated rate that there are few, at the least, who really know how things work. I think I've stated this before in another article, but to most people, computers are virtually magic. The level of understanding and specific knowledge required to do so is so in-depth that really, the only people who do so are those in the computer field. While that is a generalization, it also happens to be a fairly accurate one.

On to your politics argument: this is not a life or death scenario where the driving force is necessitated by a resolution. I'm not sure that the internet has reached a specific state of critical mass that requires the general populace to solve this issue. And as such, the majority of people will remain ignorant so long as they can check their email and post their tweets.

As I said, it is a novel idea to be proactive, but the suggested method is akin to trying to catch the wind with your bare hands.