It'll be shorter than your explanation of why the links don't work :)

after Compaq sold the rights to Intel

You want to assume that some of them are still working Alpha goodness into Intel products, but it is just as likely that they killed the tech and kept their talent out of the light of day

We are here to protect you
Shoving is the answer
Humans must be shoved
They must go down the stairs

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/audio/terriblesecret

The worst people that I have worked with had AMAZING people skills.

They could convince, seemingly rational people, of almost anything... regardless of glaring logical holes or inconsistencies.

They seemed to have some sort of narcissistic disorder and usually would trend projects towards whatever outcome would earn them the most dough or gratification with little regard to the success of the outcome.

I would take a few non-communicative geeks over a boatload of these asshats any day of the week, but then I do not work in Marketing so what the hell

LED screens are common in outdoor displays, like the big TV in the Cowboy's stadium:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboys_Stadium#Video_screen

  maybe iMacs are much larger in Greece

My first Unix server had two 660 MB drives in it (5.25 full height), seemed like an infinite number since my pc was just rocking a 40MB HD at the time.

Seems funny now, but between the drives, RISC processor and 64 MB of ram, it was the shit in 1990

ZING!

And I have to ask, why the heck does removable media still have so many vulnerabilities?

Just spent a minute at wikipedia...

Apparently the virus is Windows specific and targets industrial control systems manufactured by Siemens.

They have distributed a removal tool, which is dependent on current patching from Microsoft

Of course, this soooo many questions, like;
Who else uses the same Siemens controllers, should they be worried as well?
Who holds the keys to this thing?
What is preventing anybody else from hijacking the root kitted systems?
What are the chances of any Microsoft patches being poisoned by the author?

And finally... Why the heck are our friends at Siemens selling systems to the Iranians?

Sure, a diagram would be nice.

I'd also like to know the network topology of the facility in question, its connectivity to the internet and their protocols for isolating their systems from threats

Thanks for asking

I was just imagining some puritanical speech about rejecting your animal nature and elevating people above base instinct

funny how that never works out, how hiding our human nature to enjoy intoxicants, sex, and all the other naughty things that people are prone to do just results in layers of lies and social artifice

the remedies that the puritans insist on are are inconvenient at best, in the case of blue laws, and deadly at at worse in the case of stonings

how long is it going to take the us to get over trying to enforce puritanical beliefs about intoxicants and find a better way to work with basic human/animal nature

I would agree that it is pretty easy to live without such influences. I tend to follow the middle path and find myself weaving between periods of rationalism and sentimentality. However, the experience of spirituality seems to be pretty deeply wired into our brains, and this spirituality gives me the strength to get through difficulties, so I am willing to let myself experience it from time to time.

ok, extinction events are essentially game changers.

perhaps I should have said, 'hardier in the context of the changed environment'

I still don't see why you would have to 'suspend skepticism' to attend a church.

About 15 years ago I went hunting for a church that I would be comfortable taking my kids to. Found a nice one, plenty of decent people, a belief system that did not require that I turn my brain off and a real commitment to work towards making the world a better place for other people to get along in

my son invited a couple of his little friends, who's parents had let him attend their church as well. Funny thing, these two little kids ran home and told their parents (whom btw, regularly spoke in tongues and flopped around on the ground in their own church) that our church was 'weird', resulting in them not ever being allowed to play with my son again.

I suppose that there is an inclination to stick with the religion that you are born into, but honestly people, there are a lot of choices and it is pretty easy to find a religion that does not demand that you totally turn your brain off

honestly, when I read 'anaerobic' I am thinking less about modern anaerobic life forms that are involved in fermentation (some of which can even survive in an oxygen environment) and more about chemosynthetic organisms that live around volcanic vents and base their entire metabolism on hydrogen sulfide.

these are the anaerobes of the Archean era, the ones that were killed off by the onrush of oxygen that the photosynthetic life forms brought with them and forced down into the oxygen-less cracks of the Earth

If you can draw a direct line between chemosynthesis of hydrogen sulfide and the oxygen-based metabolism that keeps me upright, then I am all ears