I have friends that have gotten very good jobs after their masters and others that haven't. If you're going to play probability than masters will offer you better chance for better paid jobs. But in the end, it'll be up to you on how you present yourself and the experience and knowledge that you have. If you think the master degree for whatever field will present you with more options, than definiately go for it. Else, get a job, get some proper experience. You can always get your degree at a later date when you know what you're doing.

Yeah, like Sweden is a "Socialist" state right. You never know when they'll come and take our freedom away.

What is with the paranoid underlying tone of the article ? "nefarious", could be "large government entity" ? When you have people that doesn't want the government to work (i.e last 8 year), we saw positions filled by political criteria rather than individual merits. It's time that the federal government have a organized response and start basing their decision based on scientific merits. All this sounds like is an information dissemination service ? Depending on the mandate of this new organization, what is wrong with organizing and have a focused approach on a large global issue ?

Not to downplay this event but I really wonder why we don't hear much about espionage from western countries ? Are they better at it (rather than using malware or commonly avaliable tools) ? I am sure the Chinese etc have equally vulnerable systems.

Evolution didn't have Nike in mind.

Accurate or not, the arrest of this blogger does more damage than bloggers will ever do. It undermines the judicial code and transparency, I really wonder how foreign investor will feel when a country's judicial and political system acts like this.

Or maybe it was done by a rogue employee with an agenda ?

Is 9 million euros really a lot for microsoft? It seems like there are no other action taken against their behavior and MS is just happy to take the fine and move along.

GMail was innovative and provided a better service than hotmail or yahoo did at that time. It forced the competitors to provide a much better package in the long run. I don't know why people are so hanged up on the beta naming.

If it is obvious enough, read the article, specifically the last few lines. For those that are hiding in their bomb shelters

Hmmm, I see what they're really doing, trying to emulate WoW. "Slashdot, keeping your son a virgin since 1997."

Yes, pollution concentration and contents changes over times and you need a methodology to keep track of these things. If common sense was a viable guide to life than we wouldn't need science.

The god explanation is such a cop out. It doesn't explain Kara or why it doesn't just try and influence or outright stop the genocide in the first place. I thought up to the Opera house scene, it was great and when Galen went nuts (he couldn't control his emotion when the fate of two civilization are in stake ?), there was just more questions raised than answers from that point on.

I rather take the real victory than an imaginary moral victory.

It's easier to bury dead solider story at back of the newspaper than it is about dead astronauts orbiting around earth.