At this rate we should have full encryption in no time!

People no longer have an expectation of privacy, according to Mark Zuckerberg.
Corporations are people, according to recent laws.
Ergo please stop whining, what goes around comes around, much like an enrichment centrifuge PLC : ).

Stronger magnetic fields could also be used to reinforce antimatter containment, although they might not prevent an impending warp core breach.

I'm off to buy roughly 101 fridge magnets, and you'll be seeing me in the Beer Book of Bets shortly.

Dear Mr. Korbulon from Vogon,
Welcome to Earth
Please don't demolish it
We would be in dearth.

So much like the Native Americans?

I generally get my ideas by thinking and reading about a subject and discussing it with friends?
Here's an English article with (some of) the research that I base (some of) my ideas on;

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/10/17/the-heritability-of-intelligence-not-what-you-think/

IQ tests test a set of skills which are heavily culturally influenced. A San bushman could score 50 on an IQ test and you could score 150, but in the Namib desert you would be depending on his skills and intuitions. Neither forms of intelligence are mostly genetic in my opinion. The parents of geniuses aren't necessarily geniuses themselves, although often well off enough to supply their progeny with ample food, free time and education etc. to develop themselves. The children of geniuses are not always geniuses, even with all the advantages of having genius parents. Ergo other factors must be, if not dominant, at least weighing in heavily.

Estimates in the academic research of the heritability of IQ have varied from below 0.5[2] to a high of 0.8 (where 1.0 indicates that monozygotic twins have no variance in IQ and 0 indicates that their IQs are completely uncorrelated).[4] Turkheimer (2003) found that for children of low socioeconomic status heritability of IQ falls almost to zero.[5] IQ heritability increases during early childhood, but it is unclear whether it stabilizes thereafter.[6] A 1996 statement by the American Psychological Association gave about .45 for children and about .75 during and after adolescence.[7] A 2004 meta-analysis of reports in Current Directions in Psychological Science gave an overall estimate of around .85 for 18-year-olds and older.[8] The general figure for heritability of IQ is about 0.5 across multiple studies in varying populations.[9]

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I repeat "found that for children of low socioeconomic status heritability of IQ falls almost to zero", yeah, must be genetics ; ).

What is this "job interview" you speak of? You don't seriously expect me to interview people? I have a HR-department for that ; ).

In seventy years time people might well be restoring the Utah Data Center as a monument to the War on Terror.
Although unpopular (/phony) wars do tend to get less monuments I guess.

"IQ is mostly genetic, therefore heritable" Woah there cowboy, that's just utter poppycock. IQ is basically a measurement of your social/economic advantages in education and a nurturing environment (http://www.unc.edu/~rooney/iq.htm) so little wonder people from certain social/economic backgrounds score higher. IQ is what IQ tests measure. Genetics is just one small part of the picture. Trust me, every baby is born stupid, no matter what your mother told you : )

I come from game-theory so my first point is the odds: if a certain background gives you a 25% chance to achieve your goals and another background gives you a 00.0001% chance of achieving the same goal with the same nature but a different nurture, natural talent almost doesn't factor anymore. So mathematically we are NOT getting the best and the brightest, it's just a genetic lottery. Secondly pertinent factors are pertinent, whether you choose to believe something or not is not a factor. (Children's) healthcare, nutrition and available (parental) credit are repeatedly and internationally shown to effect education and thus (self)employment possibilities.

"I know plenty of stories where it is the same over and over again"; because you never hear about the failures perhaps, and even the fact that it is "a story" indicates that it is a rare event.

The problem is that most of the factors in achieving and maintaining qualification and motivation, after lots of research, appear to be societal and economical. Therefore we are not getting the most qualified and motivated but a small sub-set of that group (white males) and standards could be raised if we could choose from a larger set. "Carve out your own space and get hired" is simply a gross over-simplification of the situation. Lack in basic nutrition, healthcare, education, credit, role-models and many other factors and their interplay might be a factor perhaps?

(pushes ColdWetDog offstage)

"I for one would rather first post rubbish for free on slashdot than be paid to edit Wikipedia. That sounds like a thoroughly unpleasant task, certainly on certain subjects".

(braces for impact)

But they seem to have missed CYA's secondary usage for Cake,Yellow, Atomic.