Both Newton and Descartes were corpuscularians, actually.

From TFA: "Tests of the system... showed that it was effective at detecting 99 percent of illicit files, but only at speeds of 100 megabits per second." While it wouldn't slow down the data transfers themselves, the percentage of illicit files that it can successfully identify will drop significantly when more than 100 Mb/s goes through.

Jim Inhofe compiled that report.I'm in his district , so I'm familiar with his shenanigans. He dissimulates and misleads on every other issue. Why should he behave any differently on climate change?

This report follows the same deceitful M.O. that I've become familiar with. Many of the quotes have no attribution whatsoever, and smack of just the sort of misquotation that Creationists use on similar lists. The list is padded with a number geologists, chemists, and physicists. It's filled with weasel words.

Do you have any credible information?

The question isn't whether the average meteorologist is more qualified than the average slashdotter, but whether they're more qualified than the average climatologist whose specialization is climate change.

Sure. Likewise, I would trust the consensus of meteorologists on whether or not it's going to rain in my area on Monday.

Okay. Is someone with a doctoral degree in structural mechanics thereby qualified to comment on quantum gravity?

Do you have more information on this?

There were very few scientists with the appropriate credentials who thought that the "Global Cooling" scare had any credibility. To the contrary, it was during this time that scientists began to take the idea of global warming seriously.

Likewise, structural mechanics and quantum mechanics are part of the same field--physics. Yet we do not assume that a structural engineer is by the nature of his profession competent to weigh in on string theory.

Do you really think that it's the threat of the RIAA that has caused file sharing to drop?

First, I'm not sure whether or not that's actually the case. However, even if it is, the RIAA's lawsuits is not, I think, the best explanation. The rise of iTunes, free songs on MySpace, free music videos on YouTube, etc., has made a much bigger difference. People don't do filesharing as much as they used to because they don't need to. Why download a P2P client and expose yourself to risky files of uncertain provenance when you could just listen to Pandora?

I know that my own file sharing activities have significantly dropped, not because of anything the RIAA or MPAA have done, but because there are loads of television shows and movies available to watch anytime, for free, on Hulu.

Fantastic! Not only do we learn about all the mysterious deaths the Clintons were involved in, but we learn that "The USA is under occupation by Satanists in the White House."

I might be willing to pay attention if the site were a wee bit more credible.

I'm guessing from the other comments in this thread that you're in America. I'm not particularly worried about Muslim fundamentalism in the US.

The Muslim community in Europe is much different--much more insular, much less secular. This is in part because Europe doesn't have the institutions and culture of assimilation that America has developed.

Worldwide, it's hard to say what the role of Muslim "fundamentalism" is. This is in part because the word "fundamentalism" comes pre-loaded with all sorts of connotations (the phrase "moderate fundamentalist," for instance, is not often used). The word most commonly used for the phenomenon we're referring to that I've seen is "Islamism." Turkey is now being run by moderate Islamists who mandate Islamic Creationism to be taught in the public schools.

It may be true that non-Islamist voices outnumber Islamist voices--but if it is so, it is because of the vast numbers of much more moderate Muslims in Southeast Asia, far outnumbering the Muslims in the Arab states. Islamism is, for the most part, a movement to found among Arab and Persian Muslims--the ones who have emigrated in such high numbers to Europe.

If by "The rest of the civilized world," you mean to exclude predominantly Muslim countries such as Turkey, then yes, it's just an American problem. (I wouldn't say "North American" problem; evolution isn't much of a problem in Mexico or Canada.) Muslim versions of Creationism are gaining ground.

This may become a problem in the UK and other parts of Europe, as Muslims will probably react to secularism much in the same way American Evangelicals have. We're starting to see it happen.

Windows already comes with an FTP client.

Basic FTP clients aren't exactly a major source of income, so I don't think any sort of anti-trust suit would get anywhere.

It's not so much that they'll seem ok as that there won't be any other way things can go.

The major thing I'm worried about is what might happen to nuclear weapons during the ensuing conflicts.