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EXPERTS SAY U.S. AT RISK OF CYBERATTACKS. YOU BUYING IT?

2008-08-18T14:38:51Z

EXPERTS SAY U.S. AT RISK OF CYBERATTACKS. YOU BUYING IT?

6 answers, +2 raves

(CNN) -- The next large-scale military or terrorist attack on the United States, if and when it happens, may not involve airplanes or bombs or even intruders breaching American borders.

Instead, such an assault may be carried out in cyberspace by shadowy hackers half a world a way. And Internet security experts believe that it could be just as devastating to the U.S.'s economy and infrastructure as a deadly bombing.

Experts say last week's attack on the former Soviet republic of Georgia, in which a Russian military offensive was preceded by an Internet assault that overwhelmed Georgian government Web sites, signals a new kind of cyberwar, one for which the United States is not fully prepared.

"Nobody's come up with a way to prevent this from happening, even here in the U.S.," said Tom Burling, acting chief executive of Tulip Systems, an Atlanta, Georgia, Web-hosting firm that volunteered its Internet servers to protect the nation of Georgia's Web sites from malicious traffic.

THE REST OF THIS STORY CAN BE FOUND AT...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/18/cyber.warfare/index.html

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None of the above	50% (3 answers)
NO...THIS IS A REASON FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL THE INTERNET!	33% (2 answers)
YES...WE WILL BE HACKED AND THE ENTIRE U.S. WILL FALL APART. OMG! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!	17% (1 answers)

DO YOU FIND THIS WEIRD?

2008-08-18T12:54:50Z

DO YOU FIND THIS WEIRD?

15 answers, +4 raves

When asked about gay marriage, Obama said he was against it. The far left typicaly embraces gay marriage and see's nothing wrong with it.

The fact that he's against it, blows my mind. Do you know who else is against gay marriage and homosexuality? MUSLIMS!

Not that there's anything wrong with being a Muslim but is there more than meets the eye with Obama?

No...	47% (7 answers)
Yes....	33% (5 answers)
Undecided	20% (3 answers)
None of the above	0% (0 answers)

HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION...

2008-08-17T11:43:10Z

HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION...

23 answers, +5 raves

If an undercover cop is on a site like sodahead and a member of sodahead is warning other sodaheads that it's not really a 15-16 year old girl but a cop, should the person who's warning the sodaheads be brought up on charges for interfering with an undercover investigation?

None of the above	43% (10 answers)
No because...	30% (7 answers)
Arrest them because...	26% (6 answers)

Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930! QUESTION.....HOW ABOUT THAT GLOBAL WARMING?

2008-08-13T15:33:38Z

Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930! QUESTION.....HOW ABOUT THAT GLOBAL WARMING?

16 answers, +8 raves

August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has (ACCORDING TO PUBLIC RECORDS) dominated much of the 21st Century's opening decade. Chicago Tribune... http://www.topix.net/forum/source/chicago-tribune/TA4M3Q1MFG62G2OIA

The liberal media will ignore these facts!	50% (8 answers)
All of the above	25% (4 answers)
Hmmmmm....It must be global cooling....Call the liberals and get that cooling tax in place!	13% (2 answers)
Lie! It's all lies!!!!!! Public records aren't accurate and Al Gore is a Global Warming God!	13% (2 answers)

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE OBAMA POLL! IF YOU ARE VOTING FOR OBAMA THEN THIS POLL NEEDS YOUR HELP!

2008-08-11T22:00:48Z

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE OBAMA POLL! IF YOU ARE VOTING FOR OBAMA THEN THIS POLL NEEDS YOUR HELP!

7 answers, +5 raves

This poll was NOT created to bash Obama but for the past year I haven't heard much about what Obama will do to bring change. I would like to hear from the Obama supporters (If they even know) on why they are voting for him. There's a catch...you can't say he's going to bring change (we've heard it before)...HOW IS HE GOING TO BRING CHANGE? WHAT'S HIS PLAN? And a bonus point if you can list 5 things he will do to make this country a better place BUT you must list how he will do it!!!!!!

Here's your chance Obama supporters....STAND BY YOUR MAN AND TELL ME WHY!

None of the above	71% (5 answers)
I WILL BE IGNORING THE OTHER OPTIONS LISTED BECAUSE I DID MY HOMEWORK AND UNDERSTAND HIS PLAN...HERE'S WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO AND HOW HE'S GOING TO DO IT....	29% (2 answers)
I DON'T KNOW, I JUST HAVE A GUT FEELING AND I'M VOTING FOR HIM	0% (0 answers)
I'M VOTING FOR HIM BECAUSE HE'S THE LESSER OF THE TWO EVILS	0% (0 answers)
I'M VOTING FOR HIM BECAUSE I CAN'T VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN	0% (0 answers)
THIS IS A GREAT POLL BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO VOTE FOR OBAMA BUT NOW I'M NOT SURE WHY. I GUESS I'LL BE THE BIGGER PERSON AND SAY THAT I NEED TO DO MORE RESEARCH	0% (0 answers)

SHOULD THE U.S.A. OPEN BORDERS TO FOREIGNERS WITH HIV?

2008-08-11T07:46:45Z

SHOULD THE U.S.A. OPEN BORDERS TO FOREIGNERS WITH HIV?

10 answers, +3 raves

After more than two decades on the books, a little-known yet strictly enforced federal law barring foreigners with HIV or AIDS from entering the country is on its way out.

Tucked in a bill pledging $48 billion to combat the disease, signed into law by President Bush last week, was language stripping the provision from federal immigration law.

But that change didn't fully lift the entry ban on visitors with HIV or AIDS, which applies whether they're on tourist jaunts or seeking longer stays. The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services still needs to delete HIV from the agency's list of “communicable diseases of public health significance,” which includes tuberculosis, gonorrhea and leprosy.

An HHS spokeswoman declined to comment, noting administrators are still reviewing the new law. An April report from the Congressional Budget Office said that, based on information from HHS' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV will be dropped from the list and new regulations will be in place in two years.

Both immigrant and HIV awareness advocates, however, say the toughest hurdle has been cleared, that the lifting of the immigration provision has been a long time coming — politics finally catching up with medical knowledge.

“Today everyone knows that you can't get AIDS from sitting next to someone on an airplane or sharing a bathroom — American policy should reflect this,” said Victoria Neilson, legal director of Immigration Equality, a New York-based advocacy group that has led a years-long campaign against the ban.

In San Antonio, people in the HIV/AIDS community welcomed the new law, but noted that plenty of people here had already circumvented the travel ban, since the area has been a long-standing destination for unauthorized immigrants.

Jan Patterson, an infectious disease specialist in San Antonio, agreed that the ban has no scientific underpinning.

When HIV first surfaced, researchers didn't know how it was transmitted, but it has long been widely known that HIV is not easily contracted and that even people with full-blown AIDS can live for a long time, said Patterson, who has taught for 15 years at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

In a speech before signing the law, President Bush emphasized that “HIV's deadly stigma” is still a societal obstacle because patients still don't receive mainstream acceptance.

Congressional support for lifting the travel ban was bipartisan and strong, but not unanimous. Leading the opposition was U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith of San Antonio, the top Republican in the House Judiciary Committee. He sent a missive to his colleagues titled “The bill threatens the health and lives of Americans.”

The e-mail cited the CBO's April report predicting that revoking the travel ban would allow an estimated 4,300 immigrants with HIV to enter the country in 2013, increasing to 5,600 by 2018. Smith's message left out the report's estimate of the public cost of treating these immigrants and their children between 2010 and 2018: $83 million.

Smith warned the disease has killed more than 500,000 Americans despite improved treatment and that allowing infected foreigners in would increase public risk.

The Family Focused AIDS Clinical Treatment and Services, a 2,000-patient clinic in San Antonio, offers services to anyone diagnosed with HIV whether they're in the country legally or not, said its director, Tracy Talley.

So immigrants, particularly from Mexico, have made their way across the border for years just to get treatment unavailable back home, Talley said.

Many of them are referred to the clinic through a nonprofit aid group in San Antonio, Mujeres Unidas Contra el SIDA or United Women Against AIDS. The group's director, Yolanda Rodríguez-Escobar, concurred with Talley that most HIV immigrants here are border-crossers who might never have heard of the travel exclusion.

They'd prefer to enter the country legally for treatment if given the option, said one of them. But in Mexico, the stigma of the disease is so great, those infected have always simply assumed their only immigration option is to go underground, he said.

“Everybody in Mexico knows that if you've got HIV, you might as well forget trying to get papers,” said Antonio, 41, an unauthorized immigrant with HIV in San Antoni.

Howard Wallen of New York tried to get papers to bring his wife into the country from Ethiopia, where he met her in 2002, later marrying her and having a daughter. They soon found out Abeba's HIV status prevented her from coming to the United States with him.

She eventually died from AIDS — an outcome that might have been different had she received therapy in the United States, Wallen said.

“She deserved the dignity of that chance,” he said.

The HIV prohibition issue stretches beyond U.S. borders. The 11,000-member International AIDS Society counts 67 countries restricting the entry or stay of HIV patients.

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No...Not at this time, we have too many of our own issues to worry about.	70% (7 answers)
None of the above	20% (2 answers)
Yes...Everyone deserves a chance to beat AIDS and the U.S. is here to help!	10% (1 answers)

Is it possible to make this poll the most answered poll of all time on sodahead without any pictures or content by sharing it with all of your friends?

2008-08-05T22:14:06Z

Is it possible to make this poll the most answered poll of all time on sodahead without any pictures or content by sharing it with all of your friends?

34 answers, +10 raves

Yes...I will share this poll and help it become the most answered poll of all time on sodahead	82% (28 answers)
No....You've wasted my time and I will kill you but I will still share this poll and make it the most answered poll of all time on sodahead	18% (6 answers)

GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE CONSTITUTION CAN PROTECT US FROM OUR OWN GOVERNMENT....

2008-08-04T12:47:09Z

GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE CONSTITUTION CAN PROTECT US FROM OUR OWN GOVERNMENT....

8 answers, +3 raves

WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY IS AN EXAMPLE OF GOVERNMENT OUT OF CONTROL	50% (4 answers)
EXAMPLE....	38% (3 answers)
None of the above	13% (1 answers)
I DIDN'T KNOW THE CONSTITUTION PROTECTED US FROM OUR OWN GOVERNMENT	0% (0 answers)
I THINK WE NEED TO TEAR IT UP AND START OVER	0% (0 answers)

WOMAN SUES EX-HUSBAND FOR PASSING STD...SHOULD THIS BE THROWN OUT OF COURT?

2008-08-04T06:16:55Z

WOMAN SUES EX-HUSBAND FOR PASSING STD...SHOULD THIS BE THROWN OUT OF COURT?

135 answers, +26 raves

A Manhattan writer says an outbreak of human papillomavirus forced her to cancel a book tour — and she is blaming her husband for infecting her.

In a $25 million lawsuit filed yesterday in state Supreme Court, Stephanie Lerner accuses her estranged husband, Mark, of hiring prostitutes in China and Japan for unprotected sex.

The couple, who married in 1991, co-own an international investment banking firm, Morgen, Evan & Co.

Mr. Lerner, Ms. Lerner says in the lawsuit, was unfaithful during his visits to the firm's Beijing headquarters, and is still conducting an affair with an unnamed woman in New York. After Ms. Lerner was diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease, trichomonas, in 1996, her husband acknowledged visiting prostitutes but promised her lifetime fidelity from then on, according to the suit.

But in 2005, Ms. Lerner says in the suit, she was diagnosed with HPV and has since had a partial vulvectomy that left her "permanently disfigured"; she says she is continuing a series of treatments and operations.

As Ms. Lerner's health declined from the virus, she says, Mr. Lerner told her, "I wish you would just die already."

Ms. Lerner, author of "Kids Who Think Outside the Box" (Amacom), says she believes her husband knew he was infected; therefore, she claims he owes her damages for his breach of trust to her and for her loss of health and ability to work.

Mr. Lerner said yesterday he was not aware of the lawsuit, and refused to comment on it.

NO...SHE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SUE. SHE'S BEEN CHANGED FOR LIFE!	61% (83 answers)
YES....WHEN YOU GET MARRIED, IT'S A CHANCE YOU TAKE	24% (32 answers)
None of the above	15% (20 answers)

Clark C. McClelland, former NASA employee confirms Astronaut Edgar Mitchell's claims...IS HE ANOTHER CRAZY LIAR?

2008-08-03T11:25:45Z

Clark C. McClelland, former NASA employee confirms Astronaut Edgar Mitchell's claims...IS HE ANOTHER CRAZY LIAR?

5 answers, +3 raves

A past Space Shuttle ScO, admits ET's are Real. And this ScO has seen them, himself with another witness!

Clark C. McClelland, former ScO, Space Shuttle Fleet, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 1958 to 1992. (Photo on the left: ScO, McClelland in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle Columbia, 1992)

In SUPPORT of MY FRIEND, Courageous, US NASA ASTRONAUT, Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14!

I, Clark C. McClelland, former ScO, Space Shuttle Fleet, personally observed an 8 to 9 foot tall ET on my 27 inch video monitors while on duty in the Kennedy Space Center, Launch Control Center (LCC). The ET was standing upright in the Space Shuttle Payload Bay having a discussion with TWO tethered US NASA Astronauts! I also observed on my monitors, the spacecraft of the ET as it was in a stabilized, safe orbit to the rear of the Space Shuttle main engine pods. I observed this incident for about one minute and seven seconds. Plenty of time to memorize all that I was observing. IT WAS AN ET and Alien Star Ship!

A friend of mine later contacted me and said that this person had also observed an 8 to 9 foot tall ET INSIDE the SPACE SHUTTLE CREW COMPARTMENT! Yes, inside OUR Shuttle! BOTH missions were DoD (Pentagon) TOP SECRET (TS) encounters!

With my verifiable background, there is no Federal Government Agency that can say I am crazy!

I am a SPACE PROGRAM PIONEER. I assisted in launching the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz, Skylab, Space Shuttle, Deep Space Missions, and the International Space Station.

I have received character substantiation from: Walter Cronkite, Major Donald Keyhoe, NICAP Director, Richard Hall, Assistant Director of NICAP, Astronomer, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, etc. I served as the Assistant State of Florida and KSC Director of MUFON, the Director of the NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) at Cape Canaveral and KSC! I have received honored mentions from US Senators, Congressman, Military Officers and Scientists.

In fact, this absolutely verifies what my friend, Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, of Apollo 14, has recently and courageously released!

I have launched or witnessed 650 missions, so far in my life!

I am an expert in visually recognizing any crafts created and flown by the human race, whether secret or otherwise!I know an ET and Alien craft when I see them!

I was the Director of the NICAP Unit-3 actual X-Files at Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, 1958 to 1992! YES, the ACTUAL X-FILES!! Aliens ARE HERE!! They walk among US! They may be implanted into OUR various earth governments!!

No...Have a cup of truth and SHUT THE F**K UP!!	60% (3 answers)
Undecided	40% (2 answers)
Yes...He's like all the other astronauts...He's either crazy, a liar or both!	0% (0 answers)