I think the point here is that if you get an idiot and give him an MBA you just have an idiot with an MBA, not an intelligent person. A person that would look at a 5-year 8percent bond and go that's cheap without considering the macroeconomic implications of rising interest rates (which devalues bonds)

It seems if a zero was entered into a field instead of a non-zero number, the web app would crash (or it was something equally stupid - please don't hold me to actual issue

I've seen onshore problems far worse than that. But yes the offshore ones depend on management communications which isn't always good, for example a web app came back in ASP.NET instead of VisualBasic, it's like "You don't get a more basic error than using the wrong programming language, what should I do throw away the webserver with all our existing customers on it?"

Anyone who doesn't recycle when their government cajoles them to because they think it violates their civil liberties is harming their neighbour via increased pollution and increased landfill, this violates many world religion including Christianity where there's a commandment "Love thy neighbour"

When I got my first floppy drive when I was 10 (before hard disks) I took that five and a quarter inch disk and put my fingers on the finger recess and put the disk in the drive. After a few days of trying I realised that the finger recess was the area where the magnetic media was exposed (five and a quarter inch disks have an exposed magnetic media unlike three and a half inch disks which have a shutter). My first disk in my life I had ruined, I cried for hours

When I got my first floppy drive when I was 10 (before hard disks) I took that five and a quarter inch disk and put my fingers on the finger recess and put the disk in the drive. After a few days of trying I realised that the finger recess was the area where the magnetic media was exposed (five and a quarter inch disks have an exposed magnetic media unlike three and a half inch disks which have a shutter). My first disk in my life I had ruined, I cried for hours

Iosafe Solo 2TB fire-proof waterproof external hard-drive http://www.iosafe.com has served me well

Seriously? Are you claiming that the latest installment of Linux is safer when it comes to malware than Windows. If you claim that you are an ignorant idiot. Windows 7 as an operating system is significantly better protected than Linux

I think what he means is that a well configured linux box with an intelligent user is more secure than a well configured windows box with an intelligent user, because as an open source system you can verify everything youre using for security holes whereas with windows Microsoft ignores open vulnerabilities until their business case/profits are threatened, Microsoft doesnt give you a personal line to the developer

Maybe. But they are running out of white elephants. They need a new enemy, and they need a new one NOW! How else are they going to justify the 2014 budget? Crackers / Hackers / Hacktivists (bleh!) are one of those groups that people don't really understand (like Muslims, Chinese, etc.)

Ignoring relatively electronically secure infrastructure like nuclear reactors that actually aren't connected to the Internet (and shouldn't be), if an electronic enemy could knock out all VPN connections in the USA then the US economy would be devastated - all the working from home people would be locked out of their systems, this in itself would cause maybe billions of dollars of damages. For this reason alone the expense is justified.

One the other hand, after three years, you're still shovelling feces

Cats are very easy to train, all you need is a litter tray, they instinctively like to keep the house tidy unlike dogs.

If an extraterrestrial civilisation is so far advanced to be able to travel the vast distances, then the chances are very probable that they could learn absolutely nothing by studying us and wouldn't waste their time to even visit

In the same way that we sit and listen to old sixties music and take our children to zoos where uneducated animals just play around, perhaps the aliens bring their children into Earth orbit to show them us?

Errr guys I wasn't joking

Dude, read the GP's article, President Harry Truman was called up and told something like "Look we got tonnes of UFOs out here what do you want us to do Mr President?"

The article states 10,000 crop circle cases, even the entire US army working continuously couldn't create that many crop circles - not at least whilst keeping it secret, Area 51 has people on TV saying they did this and that despite the fact it's such a small facility, so crop circles should have at least 100 people on tape with blacked out faces and disguised voices to protect their identity confessing to everything, where are they?

Yup a good EMP blast would knock out any GPS so map/compass is necessary

The plot would generate an arc through the sky