I guess the question though, is does everyone doodle in a manner that's relevant to what's being learnt, or are some doodles unrelated?

Do you tend to doodle things that are relevant to the subject at hand, i.e. basically using sketches as a form of notes, or do you mean you just doodle seemingly unrelated objects, but to you they act as a memory prompt or similar?

I know some people just doodle things like random cubes when they're on the phone, and whilst I understand these have phsycological meaning they don't have any relevance to the phone call they had however. I'm sure others though, possibly like yourself when you doodle tend to doodle things that are indeed more directly related to the subject at hand?

As an Earthling I get more spam from the US than anywhere else...

Stats (so as a Briton, I should probably keep quiet about spam-by-country.)

I can predict that the "hardest" SAS related part of the course will be

1) Getting your data into SAS
2) Transforming your data so that it is ready for analysis.

Once your data is in the format expected by the statistical functions, then all you probably will have to do is call a statistical procedure and read the output. A 2-line long procedure call may involve an incredibly complex statistical estimator and give you output complete with estimates, standard errors, and graphs..

This is actually easier than doing the same homework in matlab. Sure in matlab its easier to get 1+1, but it has very few statistics functions beyond probability distributions and the most elementary stuff, so you have to code all statistics routines yourself.

A closer analogy I think is:

Knowing how to make a pizza and then making it, doesn't mean it'll taste good. And, making good pizza doesn't mean you know exactly what you did, you're just talented.

But if you are the one designing the system, what is the incentive to you if you get more money for breaking it ? The whole idea is that the pager is a PITA and your work is to make sure you do not get paged 'ever'. You do that by designing a robust system. Now if your team is understaffed to the point where you can only be reactive and not proactive, the developers get pissed off and leave.

Roland: One.
Dark Helmet: One.
Colonel Sandurz: One.
Roland: Two.
Dark Helmet: Two.
Colonel Sandurz: Two.
Roland: Three.
Dark Helmet: Three.
Colonel Sandurz: Three.
Roland: Four.
Dark Helmet: Four.
Colonel Sandurz: Four.
Roland: Five.
Dark Helmet: Five.
Colonel Sandurz: Five.
Dark Helmet: So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

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President Skroob: What's the combination?
Colonel Sandurz: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5.
President Skroob: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5?
Colonel Sandurz: Yes.
President Skroob: That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Curious, you're right, I hadn't noticed that. It appears that Firefox actually changes the href in the DOM as soon as you right click on the link

1. Search for "CPAN"..
2. However over the first link (to cpan.org)
    Status bar shows the unadorned link, "http://www.cpan.org"
3. Right click on the link
    Status bar now shows the google passthrough link, "http://www.google.com/url?..."
4. Hightlight the CPAN hyperlink, right click and view source
    The href has been changed

From my understanding, every version of IE is vulnerable to the exploit, however not every install of IE is vulnerable. There are claims that "IE8 with DEP on" is vulnerable, but it says nothing about the combination of DEP and UAC.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9145958/Researchers_up_ante_create_exploits_for_IE7_IE8?taxonomyId=17&pageNumber=2

Essentially, if you're using back versions of the operating system and don't keep updated, you're vulnerable. What makes this exploit different from a lot of others is that it has such a large attack surface. However, from what I'm gathering, the default Windows 7 install with IE8 should be safe from any attacks. As soon as you start disabling technologies (UAC, DEP)--you will run into problems.

car insurance is mandated plenty of places, and people drive without it, and raise the price for others.

you might be a criminal, but you will have plenty of company.

i just don't see this working out the way they hope

i think the big problem, is health insurance should have a big deductible, and employers should not provide it, they should provide that money to the employees to buy it on the free market that includes a government plan for the poor

I frankly didn't see this coming. Steve Jobs must really be asleep at the wheel.

So, Google launches a mobile phone and all of sudden that is the big enemy? The biggest competitor? Has Jobs gained his kidney in exchange for his brain?

Google vs Apple: mobile phone.

MS vs Apple: Mobile phone, OS, Browser, Office productivity, home movie making software, media codecs, media plugin for browser, music shop, MP3 player (iPod vs Zune), portable media player (iPod touch vs Zune HD), Tablet, server OS...

The list probably goes on, but anyone with a brain will notice the difference already in the list size.

Apple seems to be cutting of its head to spite its face. They don't want google to have iPhone search data... why? Because MS won't be using the data to promote their OWN smartphones AND everything else OVER Apples product.

Either Apple sees google blowing them out of the water in every other aspect as well (do they think Android/ChomeOS could wipe OSX of the map?) or they got VERY short memories. MS does NOT play well, they should know this, they been screwed before.

I predict that this will NOT work out well, don't know how it is going bite Apple in the ass, but if you seen as many butts with MS tooth prints in it, you know the signs.

Surely no one uses God, Sex, Money, or Love as their password! I use my birthday or sometimes my mother's maiden name... no one will ever guess that, right? =X

I've had the opposite experience, at least using the onscreen keyboard on my G1 compared to iPod Touch and iPhones. I find the onscreen keyboard easier to type accurately on the G1 compared to the iDevices so far.

As for browsing on the G1, I haven't had too many issues, but I think the iPhone does do a better job of detecting which link I'm trying to "click" on.

As I see it (and as was mentioned before), the only way to confirm the assumptions is to test. One of two things will happen: 1. The rate of decay will be faster than the rate of growth and we'll all be fine. 2. Nobody will be around to bitch. If there's nobody to tell you I told you so, is there any reason not to test the theory?

It seems odd to me that you can assume that they were able to plan and execute the attacks, and yet not expect the reaction. I think they must have expected retaliation on a grand scale and planned for it (even if only to create martyrs for the cause). And even if they were expecting more from the islamic community at large, that was offset by the decision to go to Iraq and leave Bin Laden and co as a secondary/lower-priority task. Waking up the largest war machine on earth isn't a big deal if their guns aren't pointed at you.