If I'm not mistaken, don't we already have at least one or two government agencies involved in information security? Why do we need to have more?

Was he installing using the GUI installer? Sure, it'll run XWindows with 4megs (it swaps a helluva lot), but when installing there's no virtual memory. Normally you'd run the text mode installer in such a limited environment. I'm fairly certain it installs with 4 megs.

seems to be great for finding television episodes. If you're looking for movies, zmovie.tv has been kind to me.

Unfortunately, not every child responds to taking things away. I've set up a progressive discipline process whereby I first take away her outside playtime. Usually this results in her throwing stuff around the living room and knocking things off the table, so I'll tell her no TV/dessert/whatever, which usually results in some sort of bigger fit, and me sending her to her room (if she's going to break stuff, she can break her own stuff). I usually have to haul her there myself, and block the doorway, and also make sure she doesn't try to break the door. I try to verbally calm her down, which usually does not work, and pretty much the only option left is a spanking. It used to be even worse than this, to the point that I had to hold her down until she calmed down (she has Asperger's Disorder), but an adjustment to her medicine (she's 7 now, and bigger than she used to be) seems to have helped bring her back closer to reality again. There's not much to take away from her, as she's broken everything in her room. She has a bed, a desk, a chair, and her dresser, each one with pieces missing, scratched, torn, or broken apart.

There's a difference between a spanking and an all out beating. When I have to spank my kids, first thing I do is step back and think...do I really need to do this? Am I calm enough? Sometimes I'm too upset, and I do a quick breathing exercise, re-evaluate the situation, and realize a simple "Ok, lets sit down and talk about this" works. Other times, like out and out disobedience (multiple times (room...ROOM...ROOM NOW!!)) it's just necessary. Watching the video reminded me a lot of my daughter, but I was horrified by the father's actions. I read in my local news that this incident was over freakin' file sharing. Really, dad? He could've taken the computer away, problem solved and hopefully lesson learned. At 16 years old, if she wasn't going to woman up and take her licks, he could have found another way to discipline. My daughter is 7... I can pick her up and bend her over my knee...I do NOT use a belt, and I do NOT use my full force. I can only imagine what his daughter's legs looked like. It's far too easy to cause damage with a belt, and she's lucky she didn't walk away from that beating with more than bruises.

Yes and no. I think it also quite often has to do with people not really understanding the science. I know when something new that piques my interest comes around, I get quite confused very quickly once I get around to looking at the nitty gritty of it. At some point, the lay person simply has to place some faith in the scientists.

The problem is, every time a scientist is found to have abused the scientific method, plagiarized, or basically cheated or found plain wrong in some way, it discredits the entire profession in the lay persons' minds. Sure, this is why we rely on peer reviews, but there have been plenty of documented cases where bad science has gotten past that as well.

Wow, someone mod him up Informative! :)