Agreed. This should be kept completely under wraps until there is solid evidence against a particular party and its time to press charges or involve diplomatic agencies.

Well done ^_^ But you know that's just because they're all playing World of Warcraft and Left for Dead.

Actually, there was an infected version of the affected ATAPI.sys uploaded to SANS ISC, and its checksum is different than the legit ATAPI.sys. Here's the Virustotal of the atapi.sys file from a machine that blue-screened: http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/85aa49f587f69f30560f02151af2900f3dc71d39d1357727ab41b11ef828a7ff-1265925529 Here's the Virustotal of a clean and unpatched atapi.sys file: http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/0e6b23a80f171550575bebc56f7500cd87a5cf03b2b9fdc49bc3de96282cd69d-1265930822 However, there may be more than one rootkit involved in the debacle.

For one thing, they might not be old enough. One of the biggest problems with parents refusing to vaccinate their children is that there will always be newborns and children too young to receive the vaccine. Some of the children who get sick could very well be pre-schoolers or kindergartners at the same school. There are also children with immune system deficiencies. Wired's "Fear" issue had a great article expressing the concerns over herd immunity (the elimination or decreased spread of a particular virus) because nobody can get it) and increased infant mortality because older children aren't vaccinated and become carriers.

And morality in the face of danger is what makes us something other than a common animal. If we don't have that, then what do we have?

"Restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics;the wax and wane of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The universe of numbers that represents the global economy. Millions of hands at work, billions of minds. A vast network, screaming with life. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well... Right in front of me... hiding behind the numbers. Always has been."

You know, if you haven't been to the Psystar website (its down right now), they really did take the time to make good looking machines. Although one of the selling points of Apple's hardware has always been its aesthetics, Psystar wasn't simply putting their hackintoshes in beige midtowers. They had a nice line of an very different looking, (and I would argue), sleek and more professional looking machines running OSX than Apple - I actually would prefer their glossy black towers for business environments over Apple's chromes, whites, and bright colors. I think its good that the company has a plan B, and I don't think its any great loss to the consumer to have to buy a copy of OSX to load on the machines, if their hardware and loader is already totally compliant. Anybody creating a hackintosh of any sort has to pick up a copy...

Yeah, at least every geek on the planet simultaneously thought the same thing. This dude really needs to change his name.

That woman needs a Wikipedia for posterity's sake. All peoples' talk about globalization, and philosophy, and humanism seems pretty laughable - Sahra Ibrahim got a -R.P.G.- as divorce alimony. And then bet it on a pirate expedition. Is anybody else still working on this mental image? Pretty hard to comprehend from where we're sitting.

Nah, Dragon Age: Origins, hands down. I mean, it has like, dragons. And stuff. Anybody want Taco Bell?

OP isn't arguing that there should not be some basic accessibility standards. For instance, providing a pure-text, basic open-standard html copy of the site would be a very adequate substitute. Plain text is the easiest thing possible to parse in text-to-speech, alternative interfaces, and older systems. Requiring all things arranged or designed by government contracts to be both accessible and pretty >>even if nobody using the service or system is disabled is something else. Its a huge black hole for money. The option should be available, but not mandatory for everything, all the time. I also think there is a notable difference between designing for a competent person who has lost say, their vision or a limb, and designing for a person who dropped out of high school and doesn't know how to navigate a standard website.

... Because next, he'll be suing us for making fun of him. The guy seems to react like a kid running to his mother, whenever people are "mean" to him. Rather, running to his lawyer instead. No willingness to adapt to the times or other people at all. "Mommy, this game is too scary! People are mean to me! I want money NOW!!!!" I'm almost with the people who suggested ignoring him until he goes away, like any troll.

True. Imagine how long it will take the provider to retrieve that sort of data from a technical perspective. If the users only registered their accounts with a hotmail or gmail account, or if all they have is IP data, it could stall the proceedings for months. Who does the burden of correlating IPs to people or accounts fall on? Does the blogging company also have to contact the poster's ISPs, or do they just provide emails and IPs to the legal team?

"So a blonde and a redneck walk into Best Buy and ask to buy a netbook..."

I had to Wikipedia your CrystaLens. Its actually pretty cool technology; I did not even know that was possible before. Sadly for the average joe (or happily for the people who actually need them), it seems all the cool cybernetics of this decade are designed exclusively for disabled or injured people. Glad it worked out so well for you, though, especially after such a terrible medical mix-up!