That's a really cold way to view things.

Yes, maybe we don't want to "pollute the gene pool", but what's wrong with coming up with effective treatments and at least allowing people with genetic disorders a chance at a normal life.

I suspect you don't have anyone in your life with a condition on this kind of scale.

They'll just shut off your data roaming once you hit the cap.

I don't expect providers to hope that I'll stay with them long enough to pay for a subsidized device. Instead, offer me a discount for staying with you after I've paid for the device, or if I bring my own. Otherwise, why not just get a new device every 2-3 years.

mbeckman never said that Mauna Loa formed any of the other islands. He/she said "amounts to about 85 percent of all the other Hawaiian Islands combined". There's a big difference.

Here, the mother gets 17 weeks, and there are an additional 35 weeks that can be split up however the parents decide. There are some requirements (you have to be eligible for Employment Insurance - worked a minimum number of hours, your income must be significantly reduced, etc.).

Fine, you take Voltage Pictures back, and we'll take Celine back.

A lot of this comes down to form. Run well, with proper gait and you're very unlikely to injure yourself running. Run with poor form, constant heal striking, and yes, you're going to put a lot of extra stress on your body that is unnecessary and actually takes MORE energy than running properly. Like any exercise, learn to do it properly before worrying about "how much" of it you do.

Does it count if I run a service that sends out SMS to people when Environment Canada issues a watch/warning? If so, definitely over 100. Otherwise, like 1.

Its more than that. Digital movies are much easier and cheaper to distribute (I'm talking from the studio to the theatres here). My wife used to run a small theatre and it was no fun lugging three massive spools of film up a narrow stairway to get to the project room, then splice them together, along with the theatres ads, trailers, etc.

That doesn't really stop the virus once its already infected a host, and it does nothing until people actually apply the patch.

Hardly the "Best" way.

Because there's no enterprise management behind Truecrypt, which pretty much eliminates it. I haven't looked at BitLocker for a while, but I seem to recall it had its share of issues as well. I've used Safeboot, and its not terrible.

Regardless, its not as simple as saying, "here, install this".

First, anti-malware tools (like MSE) don't wait until after the infection occurs. For a piece of malware ot infect something (lets say you open an email with a trojan or some other malware), before anything happens, the tool scans the email. The malicious code doesn't have a chance to run before it is scanned. Now, to detect the malware, it does rely on definitions which come from previously seen malware.

FIM and HIDS on the other hand do wait until after the infection and then tells you about it later.

Now McAfee has a tool (and I cant' think of the name... Artimus maybe) that instead of relying on definitions, looks at what the code is going to do and tries to determine from there if its malware. For example it might let an executable designed to update core components of Windows run if the code is signed by MS, but if there's no signature, it would prevent it. However, its certainly not free.

As for the article you linked, its not talking about the casual web surfer. Its talking about advanced adversaries with resources behind them and more or less directed attacks. Anti-malware tools like MSE are going to be relatively useless in these situations.

Not only is it a reasonably good anti-malware tool, its the least intrusive one I've ever used, both as far as annoying popups and abusing system resources. My first download on any new Windows install.

But who is writing the exams? If its all self taught people, then you're in a self-reinforcing stereo type situation.

Certs are an indicator that someone can learn information in a formal setting. There are benefits to this over someone who learned as they went, from a book, or from a website. How do you know they actually know industry standards, best practices, and are going to give you a quality product at the end of the day.

That's not to say that everybody with a certificate is the best candidate, that's as far from the truth as the reverse. I've held several certificates over the last number of years, some I've renewed (GIAC) and some I have (various MS certificates), based on what position I'm in. If someone shows me that they hold a GIAC certification, I'm going to move them to the "interview/test" pile assuming they have some working experience as well. If they don't, I'm going to study their resume a bit closer before I make that decision.

Assuming I could get new skin that is more resistant to sun burns than what I was born with.