"Accelerated feedback cycles, short-term but achievable goals, compelling narrative."

So basically they're predicting that organizations will become even more focused on the short-term and immediate gain, and even step away from reality in order to make it more exciting. Because that's not what got us into this financial mess in the first place.

I don't think they are suggesting that this would be a security/verification system in and of itself, just part of one. So for example if mouse movements appeared different (say due to new hardware) then it would prompt for a password or key, but otherwise it would verify them. No different really to if a user forgets a password and is required to do some extra things (secret questions, backup email etc) to verify their identity.

I have worked with accounting graduates who haven't the first clue about drawing real-world conclusions from financial statements. And I've worked with psychology graduates who do. The point is that it's not the degree, but the character and intelligence of the person holding it that determines whether they make a competent CEO.

Meaning it is obvious that an accounting degree would contribute much to skills as a CEO?

How's that for an oxymoron:

The worm had been detected before it could infect systems.

is here.

We have learned of a possible glitch in the TLD application system software that has allowed a limited number of users to view some other users' file names and user names in certain scenarios.

Out of an abundance of caution, we took the system offline to protect applicant data. We are examining how this issue occurred and considering appropriate steps forward.

Here it is:

http://aclum.org/sites/all/files/legal/re_david_house/fong_robles_vincent_re_david_House_12-21-10.pdf

For the same reason that Russians recently "elected" Putin back into office.

Here in Kenya, very productive crop farms (wheat, corn) are been constantly replaced with farms that export fruit, vegetables and flowers to Europe, because government subsidies encourage export over local industry. Not only are the latter much more intensive in their water/energy/chemical requirements, they also mean that the country is seriously dependent on increasingly fickle Western markets (people buy fewer flowers and exotic vegetables in a recession).

This has happened so much that the country no longer is self-sufficient when it comes to things like wheat and corn (which form the basis of the local diet). We now import these things from places like Russia. If instead we hadn't bothered with silly flower farms and stuck to feeding the local population, things would be a lot less precarious.

This TED talk was posted just yesterday, and addresses your question perfectly.

There is, however, one obstacle that the Open Ministry and the entire citizens’ initiative law is already facing.

The Ministry of Justice should have a website where people can sign the initiatives. To be legally valid, the signing of an initiative requires a bank identifier code or some other form of accepted online signature to prove the signee is who he or she says he is.

The Ministry of Justice has not even commenced the constructing of such a system. It will not be up and running before the end of the year at the earliest.

Like I said, we're talking probabilities, not certainties.

New Hubble observations confirm the atmosphere of the exoplanet is rich in water, comprising up to 50% of the atmosphere's mass.

Actually, they do nothing of the sort. They just make water a more probable explanation for the observations. It says as much in the article.

These abstracts both state that the data indicates an atmosphere high in hydrogen and helium, but (taken from the second abstract):

Our observations disfavour a water-world composition, but such a composition will remain a possibility until observations reconfirm our deeper Ks-band transit depth or detect features at other wavelengths.

They already have.