These choices remind me of a theory of handgun ownership. Either no one should own one, or everyone should own one. There is little similarity regarding the actual issues at play, so please don't examine the analogy too closely.

If I had mod points you would get one. Macs are now and always have been safer simply because a PC exploit reaches so many more machines that it gives a better return on the hacking effort than doing an equivalent exploit on a Mac.

I see that many of you have expressed doubts methods and parameters of the experiments. The journal name gives you a clue to the problem. i.e. "Psychological Science".

Nuff said.

To summarize the article that you seemed not to have read, Shannon is cited as writing the seminal paper to which you refer, and in it created an existence proof for error correction codes. He did not, in his paper, actually go so far as to create an ECC. According to TFA, Shannon is credited with creating the entire field of information theory. Not a bad accomplishment. Hamming was noted as actually creating ECCs and laying the foundation stone for coding theory. It's probably why they named the codes after him, hmm? Many codes more suited to today's computational needs have been developed since, but someone had to be first.

I don't know is on second.

Ok, that really did make me laugh.

Good grief man, you are a /. reader and haven't upgraded your comp since your PPC? I sense some missing geek cred here.

Repeating your point, regardless of typography, does not make it any more valid. Just because your supposed point was dismissed does not mean it was missed to begin with. If you say something often enough, it does not make it true.

Cool, proof via bold type. You sir, are an idiot!
QED

Soroc Technologies was an early intelligent (well, ok, dumb) terminal company, started back in 1981. Well, they were smart enough to put the cursor where you wanted and do a few other tricks. Anyway, the name came from a night of drinking beer and trying to think up a new company name. They were drinking Coors at the time, and decided that an anagram of Coors would fit the bill. The company still exists, see www.soroc.com, and check out the company logo. Yes, it is the top of the beer can.

This was related to me one night over dinner by the company founder.

Actually I taught my cat to fetch a dumbbell. Now granted, the dumbbell was the spool from a 35mm roll of film (this was a long time ago, pre-handycam era so sorry, no video), but she would fetch it just the same. I would toss it from the living room into the kitchen where she would run sliding all over the place as it bounced off chair legs. When she caught it she would bring it back and drop it in my shoe and await the next round.

A friend of mine taught cats to do tricks for movies and television, so it is really a bit silly to assume that cats can't learn tricks.

Well, I can assure you that it did not include everyone who was stationed at Utapao. I worked aircraft avionics and certainly saw the "secret recon gear" nearly every day, as did all of the Thai workers, food vendors, house girls, trash collectors, etc. And they certainly did not hold top secret clearances. I had the quite standard secret clearance as did almost everyone who worked on aircraft, and I seriously doubt that all those Thai workers had those clearances either. Certainly the townsfolk working off base did not have any clearances, yet those folks used paper bags made out of recycled secret tech manuals! If you wanted to spy all you had to do was buy something in town and read the bag. You could have found out all about the inner workings of the B52s of the day. I spent most of my military time in SAC, never needed a top secret clearance though I knew some who did, crypto, etc., even though I worked on nuke loaded aircraft.

Nothing personal, but if you got this much wrong, it makes we wonder about your other assertions.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The existence of the "Genius Bar" indicates that savvy users are in short supply.