Neither! This data is statistically useless -- what we need to know is how many attacks occurred in the first half of 2008, otherwise the comparison is completely useless. Look at it this way: what if (due to some outside factor) the vast majority of cyber attacks occur in the first half of the year? We know nothing about the distribution of attacks over time, and so we can draw no conclusions from this report!

I hate it when people misuse statistics...

You want a round of Heinlein movies? Dude, don't get me wrong, I adore the books -- but the man basically used his plots as jumping-off points for politically bizarre monologues. Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Stranger in a Strange Land? Starship Troopers?

Not that they'd make any of those, of course. They'd start with one of the entirely plot-free books (For Us, the Living springs to mind, as does JOB), since they're basically tabula rasa for a Hollywood screenwriter. Fuckers.

100%? 100%?!

Not 100% my ass -- it wasn't even close. Not in the ballpark, or the neighboorhood, or even the same damned continent. If I had to give a percentage number I'd probably rate the correlation between Asimov's I, Robot (a collection of shorts, for christsakes) and the movie as, oh, maybe -12.3%.

And that's being generous.

I know you're joking here, but seriously -- they did. Do.

Eh.

I think it was the Futurists who tried to popularize the moniker 'sf' as short for 'speculative fiction.' They wanted to get away from the perception of their genre as young adult trash, and doing that required that they drop the 'science' part. Odd, isn't it?

I'm astounded, AC -- you claim to live in England and yet don't realize that Labour has pretty much a free hand to do what they like, since they know they're going to get slaughtered come next election. This isn't the last straw, not by far -- that would be the expense scandal, which not only broke the camel's back but ground the splintered vertebrae into tiny indistinguishable bits of chalk.

You also suggest that it won't get approved because the Lords have been given some very good reasons not to do so, which implies your belief that they're even capable of making rational, non-self-serving decisions. Baffling.