If my PM sent me a word doc via email, especially if it was sensitive, I would fire the PM for incompetence. Files should be stored on servers where proper security can be enabled and monitored. Once a doc gets attached to email, you have lost all control over it.

Document control systems need to be in place, and email is not a document control system.

One picture of a sleeping baby is different from 10,000 pictures of said baby sleeping. One is memorial, the other is obsession.

There are two kinds of Repbulicans, NeoCons and Libertarians. Neocons are Simply Democrat Lite banded. These are the people who support Amnesty along with the Democrats, Support Government intervention into markets (too big to fail), and so on. The others are the Libertarian, limited government types that are a much smaller crowd, but tend to be louder and better at getting more attention.

The war in the Republican party is over who has more influence at a given time. Right now, you're seeing a large number of Libertarian types coming into the new congress, which is why Boehner (a neocon) quickly passed a budget that gave the (D) just about everything they wanted. A huge number of republicans are pissed off, and seriously thinking about building a credible 3rd party, something you'll never see democrats do.

NK is just a puppet state of China.

I'm not going to Mod up, I am going to expound. The fact that we do not hold the people actually doing harm responsible, but rather go for anyone tangentially related but has deep pockets, in a get rich quick scheme using the legal system as a tool, is what is causing this kind of reaction. The threat of a lawsuit is greater than the threat from actual crime.

And to be honest, the US reaction has been pitiful. Why we put up with NK at all at this point is simply a matter of lack of leadership. However, as long as NK is a pawn of China and acts as their puppet, we cannot do anything to them. Make no mistake, this is China, not NK. But we are too chickenshit, and perhaps more importantly in debt to China, that both NK and China will get away with this shit.

And while I'm tossing blame, Sony itself is to blame for its crappy Security. How the hell does Muti-terabytes of data leave your network, without even a HINT of it. I'm sure that whatever cost savings they were going for when IT budgets came out was well worth it. I hope Sony gets it pants sued off (see first paragraph) by the likes of all the actors, crews and other employees.

What a cluster fuck.

That's what I do.

and third time's the charm...

"There's no doubt that there are some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black President," Obama said.

Again, you're exaggerating the disruption and it isn't helping your argument.

There is plenty of room for fiber to be run on the poles. And in any area where more people want to run fiber then there is space on the poles, then upgrade to a conduit system.

Until that happens, you can just bid the space on the poll out the same way you bid anything else out. How does the sandwich shop guy get commercial space in the mall? He contacts the land lord and inquires as to the price of a lease.

Do the same thing with the polls and the conduits. Lease the space out.

When the polls have hit maximum occupancy... then you say "sorry, that poll can't handle anyone else."

But at the same time, your city is now getting extra money because of all those poll lease fees it is getting. And that money can be put to digging a conduit system under the streets with greater capacity.

None of this is rocket science. We'd still be in the trees or whatever if we gave up as easily as you suggest we give up.

Sorry if that quote from the new yorker is a bit garbled. they were using some odd characters.

This should be sanitized:

âoeThereâ(TM)s no doubt that thereâ(TM)s some folks who just really dislike me because they donâ(TM)t like the idea of a black President,â Obama said.

Why is it that I'm the only person that knows how to use google?

Like... seriously. I typed this into google:
obama says race

And I got this:
âoeThereâ(TM)s no doubt that thereâ(TM)s some folks who just really dislike me because they donâ(TM)t like the idea of a black President,â Obama said.

http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

The implication from the article is that obama's poll numbers are falling because he's black. Which is weird because the demographics of the country didn't shift that much during his administration. Which means somehow when white people vote for Obama it just people voting their conscience. But when they vote against him the only explanation is racism.

I can also cite Eric Holder making the same claim... and of course endless numbers of leftwing pundits which have been trying to sell this narrative for years.

In regards to CO2 being opaque to given spectrums of electro magnetic radiation... I don't think anyone disputes that. Even the most hardcore denialist couldn't really do that I would expect.

Everything... literally everything is opaque to certain spectrums of electro magnetic radiation.

Pointing out that CO2 is just like everything else in the universe... isn't really blowing my socks off here.

As to the scientist that inspired Gore, we're talking about the scientist that actually started the modern obsession with AGW. The previous scientists obviously didn't spark the fire. He's more significant to this discussion then the previous people. Especially since the claims you're making from the previous scientists are not in contention.

As to the IPCC, a significant amount of their research was traced back to WWF power point presentations. I believe one of the funnier examples was a claim about the Himalayas that came from a climbing magazine. You're not fooling anyone with this nonsense.

As to the politicization, hmmm... Al Gore. Is he a right wing or left wing politician? Okay... so lets not play the "you did it first" game because you already lost that one.

As to the japanese, here is one of the links:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

Again, if you step outside the echo chamber you'll find things change rather radically.

The Russians, the Chinese, the Japanese, and the Indians are skeptical or dismissive.

What you have left is a network of cross linked peer reviewed papers that all go through two choke points. One in the US and one in the UK. Everything is filtering through a very small selection of scientists.

We have gotten revolts throughout US meteorology programs mostly because climate scientists don't know how weather patterns work and they keep saying things that meteorologists know to be wrong.

And we've gotten revolts through the mathematics departments because the way data is handled is unsupportable.

Do you want me to throw lists of prominent meteorologists at you that have said the climate models are horseshit?

Would you like me to throw some mathematicians at you that say "this is not how you use statistics."

Because I can.

As to the output of models being good. There is no possible way they could be good since they've failed to predict anything with any accuracy under any falsifiable circumstances. It is literally impossible for them to be doing anything well scientifically until they are subjected to falsifiable tests. I thought you were done defending these models anyway? You said that in your first paragraph and then went on to try and defend the models using anything but science.

Look, think of any other field of science that has models and think about how easy it would be to prove to me that the models in that field are valid. Super easy. Why? Because they're valid and there is evidence of that.

In climate science you don't have any evidence of successful prediction or accurate modeling under falsifiable conditions. None.

That is death. That is your argument clutching its chest, its face racked in pain, and hitting the flour while people call the paramedics.

Will your argument survive? Will the paramedics get here in time? We shall see. Frankly, I think your case is a goner.

horses are not humans.

Encryption has a cost, it isn't free. It increases CPU utilisation and power consumption. It interferes with caching and reduces network efficiency.

This is a dumb idea. A very dumb idea.

ISDN, so technically not a modem....

They don't have to monetize it at all.In fact, by not monetizing it, they can claim North Korean Economics in the process, in a double slam. Screw the commie bastards.