Sadly this is true, but it shouldn't be. Technical people should have the professionalism to analyse requirements and check that the requirements fit the purpose. Unfortunately the way of the world is that technical people would be quickly shuffled out of the way by sales and marketing if they started to reduce revenue by telling a customer what they really wanted instead of what the spec says.

For any building of that size and cost, putting a model in a wind-tunnel should be compulsory.

me too!

The script kiddies are wasting time and resources looking for non existent email addresses. Wouldn't it be better to let them get on with it rather than tell them exactly where a whole list of email addresses that they needn't check can be downloaded?

I wish.Slashdot Bots are much more likely to add linsk to goatse

You must work in accounting!

It allows combinations of Latin + Han + Hiragana + Katakana; Latin + Han + Bopomofo; or Latin + Han + Hangul.

There are a lot of equally safe combinations - what about Latin + Devanagari + Tamil? There would be no look-alike characters and it would allow a lot of people to put their name in multiple scripts that are likely to be meaningful to certain audiences (e.g. someone from Tamil Nadu sending an email to people throughout India and internationally). I'm sure that there are many other combinations that wouldn't have "look alike" issues but which would be useful

People on the way to the dentist, or a job interview, or even a first date might get called in. At the same time Muslims take great pains to brutalise and desensitise their kids so they will be less likely to show stress.

Some of the tests on young children with age correction can yield this type of figure. I wouldn't be surprised if he was measured with an IQ of 197 at an age of 5 or 6, but it would result in a much lower measurement as an adult.

Ideally it wouldn't matter. If one racial group had a greater number of more intelligent people than another then - so what? After all we have the same situation with things like height, strength, and so on. You might find that Chinese are under-represented in basketball, but a Chinese basketball player who could make the grade would be given exactly the same encouragement and opportunity as anyone else. Same should go for IQ.

If that's a concern the results tests should "double blind"; that is designed so that the person administering them doesn't see the subject, and the person analysing them doesn't have access to data on the subject's racial background

Or mass attacks by Muslims - causing death and industry and crippling the infrastructure in one go would be just what Muhammad (may piss be upon him) ordered

Lets hope it doesn't make them run significantly slower ;-)

I guess they just evolved then