1. Evolution is not necessary linear. It is for example likely that virus is descendant of a single-cell organism which become simpler. 2. Evolution does not have to progress. As long as species finds stable niche it can rest there for millions of years. 3. I'd say much but not that biology is fragile. We cannot make a strings as good as spiders. Wood is very good composite etc. Human have much superior regeneration abilities that any of our machines (most of which do not regenerate). Computer can suffer amnesia after relativly short fall.

Well - I'm not a specialist but last time I checked important branch of physics was non-determined[1] - but i haven't heard that cause-effect relationship has been denied. [1] Of course there is no concept of purly random number - every random number have certain distribution and in some cases (linear distribution) range.

Are you familliar with the current policies of pharmacology corporations? I'm not a doctor/pharmacologist but pills tends to be in all colors - whites, blues, orange... Some lethal biological virus may not be immune to some blue pills (although there may be policy to not produce blue pills for fighting lethal biological viruses) - and hospitals have specialists who know how to use them.

1. I always thought that bigger risk for hospital is an random virus then DDoS attack. I did heard about normal virus attacking hospital - nobody has planned so just someone opened one attachment too far or something like that - but I did not about DDoS attack. Since what would he want to achive? 2. Unfortunatly we live in the world in which there are people beliving they will get 10% for transfer of money from one country to another (usually those countries for some reason don't have good reputation). And usually having AV, not opening attachments unless expected etc. helps avoiding most of the attacks for normal people - nobody will try to DDoS them. Different matter is with companies etc. They need to be secure. I was considered paranoid whenI advised having password and not using admin account for others. 3. Yes - for most people the discovery of the next bug in IE/Fx/Opera/... does matter. I'm not interested much if there is theoretical possibility that software is safe. I'm interested in the security here and now. Numbers of bugs discovered is not the best measurement - much better is time-to-patch - but still it is important in practice. Similary - a single shifts in prices are not important for theoretical economist - but for consumers and producers they are much more important [although thay may posses much less knoledge about origin of shift etc.]. 4. Monolithic kernel does not necessary implies 3rd part drivers. OpenBSD have monolithic kernel and AFAIR does not support loading modules after boot. Linux have most of the drivers included and is perfectly operative without loading modules. There are resons why to use them but they are optional.

Except it doesn't work like that with ads. You can watch public television for free and get ads, or you can pay money to watch cable television and get ads. You can pay $50 for Battlefield 1942, or you can pay $50 for Battlefield 2142 and get ads. Ads increase profit for companies, they never decrease the price of products, except those offered for free (like Google.)

Are you actually say that the whole microeconomics and theory of firm is actually not working? Why would producers be not willing to produce until the stop point - i.e. until the marginal costs are equal to marginal income? Putting ad would increase a bit a cost but making the bigger income (it maks income you said) would move the stop point to left - i.e. increse output and therefore supply. If they don't want the others will be happy to enter the market with increased profits. You might argue that ads have negative value for consumers. But we can split the following reasoning in two parts: - Consumer are indifferent with regard to advertisment. Therfore demand stays the same and supply increase. Basicly it means that price decreased. - Cosumers percive the ads as having negative utility for them. Therefore demand fall which means that price dropped more then in first case (quantity may increase or drop depending on elasticity etc.) In each case price falled. It is very easy to say that "Ads increase profit for companies, they never decrease the price of products" - but probably it is much harder to prove it. PS. Please note that all above reasoning have used in ceteris paribus conditions.

Except that with XHTML you can easily embed other XML data such as (but not limited to): - SVG - MathML

Why not buy ORM? At least here I could buy ORM from shop which was cheaper. It had limitations (lack of support[1]) but still it was worth (i.e. total cost was lower then full version and in this specific circumstances I had to buy windows for someone). [1] I don't use it anyway. Last time I ask simple question I needed answer really quickly they redirected me to newsgroups. I have it with my favourite OS (I only home-support Windows) for free...

Open-source implementation of .Net is on the 2.x (mono stable branch) level with some support of the 3.x (mono dev branch 1.9.x). It is not full implementation of .Net library - especially the MS-extensions (not standarised).