"In my experience, Mac users are even more irresponsible then clueless Windows users. They think they are magically protected, which means they will ignore obvious signs of infection till the very end."

Considering I could count the number of Mac "viruses" (Trojan horses) in the wild on one hand, I must wonder: how many data points does your "experience" consist of?

According to the instruction image, they're using an online faxing service behind a proxy.

Seems unlikely anyone will go after dozens of kids behind international proxies.

When I clicked on the first link, I got a preview "article" titled "Sign in to read: brain asymmetry eases hypnotic trance". What relation does this have to the summary? On another site, I would ascribe this to a foolish error, but I'm sure the editors at Slashdot would never allow such a mistake to happen.

How statistically significant were these results, given that the sample size was nineteen? I wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions considering the control and experimental groups must have included 10 or fewer people.

She did come up with (or at least co-sponsor) a proposal: the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009.

What research did you do before posting this opinion? Reading Eshoo's wiki page or a basic search would have brought up the very bill you like to pretend doesn't exist.

Assange often responds to criticisms like this by blaming the groups for not helping him redact information. However, it's the sole responsibility of the organization releasing the information to ensure its content will not violate human rights. If Wikileaks did not have the time or resources to redact the names of Afghan civilians when they released the information, they should have waited until they did.

Interesting that the top 3 winning games portray women as victims of male aggression, while studies report that teenage girls are more likely to inflict physical violence on boys than the converse:

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I had fun messing around on the site. If you're interested in this sort of thing, HackThisSite.org has about a dozen similar "Realistic Missions" as well as forums and many other types of security-related challenges.

The United States continues to lead in nobel prizes and university-level education and research as well as these measures of innovation and technological achievement.

I'm curious which metrics you used to come to your conclusion that "[a]ll innovation will take place elsewhere, as it largely is already."

People mock Fox News because it lies and gives so much airtime to pundits who are clearly divorced from reality.

But I'm sure you knew that already.

Obligatory Maddox link.

Presenting someone's written work as your own is plagiarism.

Taking someone's electronic work for personal use without paying for is copyright infringement.

Fighting swashbuckling battles on the high seas is piracy.

Yes. From Wikipedia:

Whatever the hell they put in the fake "medicine" would probably do the trick all by itself.

Really? Has that happened a single time? I'd love to know.