Joke for the day

"A drunk went into a telephone booth and dialed at random...
'Salvation Army' came the answer.
'What do you do?' asked the man.
'We save wicked men and women' came the reply.
'Well, save me a wicked woman for Saturday night.'"

Schneier on Security: How to Recover from Identity Theft

Schneier on Security: How to Recover from Identity Theft:

"How to Recover from Identity Theft

A 24-point checklist: U.S. specific."

Slashdot | Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"

Slashdot | Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"

Forrest Kyle writes "A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has received multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. '"Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened," said the professor. "I can tolerate being called a skeptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal." Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...] recently claimed: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science."'"