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France has the situation under control. There are multiple ways of dealing with it, the obstacles are all NIMBY and anti-nuke propaganda.

Airliners powered by onboard solar panels? No.

Solar-powered drones? Those seem very likely. They work like satellites for some applications, but they're cheaper, and are likely to remain so unless SpaceX makes some incredible breakthroughs.

Battery-powered airliners? Maybe. At the very least we might get battery-assisted airliners.

To have a significant effect, it would have to be about as tall as the tallest building on Earth, if not taller. Plus, you'll probably create some unintended effects like lots of dust devils and sandstorms. It's a really awful idea.

Joseph Dalton Hooker conducted a similar experiment on Ascension Island in the 1800's. They key is to plant the summit with vegetation that will trap water from the winds. Hooker was successful in transforming the island by planting vegetation on Green Mountain. Now the island has changed dramatically from what it was 200 years ago.

For one, there is an Android app on my phone that lets me stream audio.

If you just google "bbc news streaming", you can pick over a variety of stories to watch, some of which are very current. It isn't the same as just live streaming the channel - apparently the cable companies prevent them from selling that to people in the US/Canada.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Here's my original submission with correct URL's and "on Earth" in title.

Engineers Plan the Most Expensive Object Ever Built on Earth

Ed Davey has an interesting story at BBC about the proposed nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset , UK which at $35 billion will be the most expensive object ever put together on Earth. For that sum you could build a small forest of Burj Khalifas - the world's tallest building, in Dubai, which each cost $1.5bn, you could build almost six Large Hadron Colliders, built under the border between France and Switzerland to unlock the secrets of the universe, and at a cost a mere $5.8bn, or you could build five Oakland Bay Bridges in San Francisco, designed to withstand the strongest earthquake seismologists would expect within the next 1,500 years at a cost of $6.5bn. "Nuclear power plants are the most complicated piece of equipment we make," says Steve Thomas. "Cost of nuclear power plants has tended to go up throughout history as accidents happen and we design measures to deal with the risk."

But what about historical buildings like the the pyramids. Although working out the cost of something built more than 4,500 years ago presents numerous challenges, in 2012 the Turner Construction Company estimated it could build the Great Pyramid of Giza for $5.0bn. That includes about $730m for stone and $58m for 12 cranes. Labor is a minor cost as it is projected that a mere 600 staff would be necessary. In contrast, it took 20,000 people to build the original pyramid with a total of 77.6 million days' labor. Using the current Egyptian minimum wage of $5.73 a day, that gives a labor cost of $445m. But whatever the most expensive object on Earth is, up in the sky is something that eclipses all of these things. The International Space Station. Price tag: $110bn.

But if you're really worried about they looking through your windows, close the bloody curtains/blinds.

And if you don't wanna get raped, don't wear those short dresses!

Bravo. All this "drone love" to the point where the operators are the last in line to be held accountable is ridiculous. There are some guidelines for safe flying here that make perfect sense. No excuses for violating them.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...

Medium is relatively new in the business, and it currently does advertorial. And while it has avoided ads. That is likely to change soon (video).

How the hell did this get moderated as a troll?

Do that many Slashdotters really think it's OK to behead those who don't believe in your Sky-Daddy in exactly the same way as you do? Or hack them apart in the street with machetes, for that matter?

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

They are still waging their corrupt drug war in appeasement to the world's tin pot dictators. Whatever they are doing on climate can be no less corrupt. Fuck them all sideways!

Viva México!

Nope. After IE hit about 90% market share, Microsoft figured they'd conquered the market and killed off all competitors. So they decided they'd earned a well-deserved rest and did... nothing. They stopped all development work on IE. For about 13 months they didn't add any new features to IE - the only updates were security updates (this was around 2001-2002 if I remember). This was an eternity in web browser development at the time. When Netscape and IE were competing, they were rolling out new features semi-annually or even quarterly.

That window was what allowed Firefox to take hold. Can you imagine browsing without tabs? Firefox introduced tabs, and that feature alone made it immensely popular. FF made IE look so much like a lump of coal that FF quickly jumped to about 25% market share. By the time the EU browser choice requirement was implemented (Dec 2009), FF was already over 30% market share. Google's Chrome browser had already been steadily growing in popularity for most of that year, and FF actually decreased in market share after the EU-mandated browser choice.

So it'd be more accurate to say Microsoft blew it big time by choosing to stand still because they had a monopoly, but that only cost them about a third of their monopoly. It took another quasi-monopoly (Google search + apps) to break Microsoft's OS-browser monopoly for good. I'm not sure the EU browser choice window had any effect. IE was already on the way down at the end of 2009 when the EU mandate was implemented. And the rate at which IE declined in market share didn't change appreciably from before 1Q 2010 to after.

(That's not to say I disagree with the EU mandate. I was actually more anti-Microsoft back in those days and felt they should've been broken up into an OS company and an apps company. But the problem with government regulation in software is that it just takes too damn long, and by the time it's finally implemented the entire software landscape has already changed for other reasons.)

I know, right? Three years without an ice cap, not a single Seychelles island left, constant category seven hurricanes. The AGW have been making nothing but accurate predictions for decades.

Nobody has made any of those predictions as things that would happen by 2016.

Yes somebody did make some of those claims,

Prof Wadhams said: "His [model] is the most extreme but he is also the best modeller around.

"It is really showing the fall-off in ice volume is so fast that it is going to bring us to zero very quickly. 2015 is a very serious prediction and I think I am pretty much persuaded that that's when it will happen."
Arctic sea ice 'to melt by 2015',

Professor Peter Wadhams, from Cambridge University, told BBC News: "A number of scientists who have actually been working with sea ice measurement had predicted some years ago that the retreat would accelerate and that the summer Arctic would become ice-free by 2015 or 2016. Arctic sea ice reaches record low, Nasa says

"This collapse, I predicted would occur in 2015-16 at which time the summer Arctic (August to September) would become ice-free. The final collapse towards that state is now happening and will probably be complete by those dates".

Wadhams says the implications are "terrible". "The positives are increased possibility of Arctic transport, increased access to Arctic offshore oil and gas resources. The main negative is an acceleration of global warming."

"As the sea ice retreats in summer the ocean warms up (to 7C in 2011) and this warms the seabed too. The continental shelves of the Arctic are composed of offshore permafrost, frozen sediment left over from the last ice age. As the water warms the permafrost melts and releases huge quantities of trapped methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas so this will give a big boost to global warming." Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years

They tried publicly shaming offenders, but it's kinda like breaking the 'hip, cool and everyone does it' mentality that smoking had - it's going to be a long road.

• President Cameron Davis campaigns to keep England on the Euro
• Kandahar bombed by IS fighter jets
• Congress fines NBA $1 MILLION over heart attacks
• Che Guevara ovulates while standing for Congress

• President Cameron Davis campaigns to keep England on the Euro
• Kandahar bombed by IS fighter jets
• Congress fines NBA $1 MILLION over heart attacks
• Che Guevara ovulates while standing for Congress

• President Cameron Davis campaigns to keep England on the Euro
• Kandahar bombed by IS fighter jets
• Congress fines NBA $1 MILLION over heart attacks
• Che Guevara ovulates while standing for Congress

AWG is so obvious and provable the CRU REFUSED to release data for 7 years from legal FOIA requests that they illegally ignored. Only after 7 years of legal battles, yes it takes legal battles to get data to peer review because it is so solid, they deleted the data a month before a judge was going to force them to hand it over.

Does this sound like the actions of a scientist that is so confident in his research that it could stand up to peer review? no

How many IPCC predictions were correct 10 years after they were made? 0%

Those are my problems with AGW. I could care less about Mann. I want to see the research, I want it peer reviewed, I want to see solid predictions made that pan out. I have yet to see any of that. That is what is science and AGW supporters can't supply it. Instead they rely on attacking personalities and calling people names for bringing up the completely valid questions I did. Since they have lied non-stop and constantly name called everyone else, my only possible conclusion is that AGW is a fraud. Seeing as Al Gore has made literally hundreds of millions based on it, there is evidence of fraud and the person profiting from it.

"The University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, target of "ClimateGate", has released nearly all its remaining data on temperature measurements following a freedom of information bid. The unit works with the UK Met Office to compile one of the world's most used records of global temperature change. Most temperature data was already available, but critics of climate science want everything public. Data from Trinidad and Tobago is being released against the country's wishes. Following the latest release, raw data from virtually all of the world's 5,000-plus weather stations is freely available. The only exceptions concern 19 weather stations in Poland, for which the Polish national weather service has declined to release data, for reasons it has not elaborated. The requests were made two years ago by Jonathan Jones, a quantum computing specialist at Oxford University, and Don Keiller, a biologist at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
...
The Met Office, as the UK's national weather service, had approached the owners of data from more than 1,500 weather stations around the world - both inside and outside the zone covered by the FoI requests. Many had given data to the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) on the understanding that it would not be made public - the main reason being that they charge for the information. About 60% either failed to respond, or responded equivocally. Some were willing to have it go public, while Trinidad and Tobago asked categorically for it to be kept private. UEA argued that breaking pledges of privacy could damage international relations, and relations between UK research institutions and partners overseas. But the Information Commissioner ruled that public interest in disclosure outweighed those considerations. Trevor Davies, UEA's pro-vice chancellor for research, said the potential for damaging relations was still a concern. "This particular ruling might have unintended and potentially damaging consequences for international collaboration," he said. "We regret having to release data from Trinidad and Tobago against that state's express wish; but we want to place beyond all doubt our determination to be open with our data and to comply with the ICO's instruction." Data from 3,780 weather stations had been released earlier this year via the UK Met Office, while US portals such as the Global Historical Climatological Network also put raw readings into the public domain." http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

Yeah, that old corollary to cultural relativity... thing is, it no longer applies; people are getting dumber,

Except they're not.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

They may not be, but today's pop music is not geared toward emotionally mature adults. It's geard toward children. Whether the overly sexualized performances are remotely good to have pre-pubescent children watch is in question though.

By the way - is Twerking supposed to be sexy? It always reminded me of a woman trying to shake off a bit of crap that's stuck to her ass cheeks.

After landing, the pilot reported an object - believed to be a drone - had struck the front of the Airbus A320

I think maybe, just maybe, a pilot can tell the difference between a bird and a very different looking man made object. Even if this was actually a bird strike or no strike at all, you can't say that there exists NO danger to aircraft striking a drone. As pointed out above, a drone's battery is much more dense than anything on a bird, and as we know, bird strikes themselves are a real danger to aircraft especially if ingested into the engine(s).

Yeah, that old corollary to cultural relativity... thing is, it no longer applies; people are getting dumber,

Except they're not.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

...a large bird of pray and those are regularly sucked through jet engines for the entire time such technology has existed. And yet we don't hear about any mitigation efforts. Why? Because there is NO DANGER.

CAPT Sullenberger would beg to differ about the effects of bird strikes. Regardless, airports have robust anti-bird mitigation efforts.

There has been no evidence presented that it hit a drone. Just speculation at this point

Of course I get all my aerospace news from MarketWatch... However, other sources suggest the pilots saw it bounce off the nose:

After landing, the pilot reported an object - believed to be a drone - had struck the front of the Airbus A320.

As someone who works at a major Air Force bace that flies "heavies", I can tell you that often there is no physical damage and the only way to confirm a "bird strike" is the blood left behind, and small drones do not have blood.

Not a dramatic difference, you say?
While satellite imagery is nice, it's only a proxy. Try reading some of the stories told by people who used to live in NK and have fled the country.

People used to use your line when talking about the Soviet Union. Guess what? The wall fell, the USSR collapsed and the situation turned out to have been as bad as we'd been led to believe by "propaganda", if not worse.

Hi. I heard there is intelligent life in /. Now I found it. I thought it was a myth.
Thanks for the response and the time you took to write it. I mean it. If you were here, I'd offer you a beer.
I know about Venus, it rains lead. I think the Russians sent a probe there. It was crushed. That's where we're headed by the way. No matter what we do, we will become Venus eventually.

I wanted to link to the actual 2013 report, however they took it down. No surprise there, they took a beating and had to do a lot of explain'. However there is a BBC story about it here - http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc... . What was indefensible was where they admit there was a pause, yet they were even more sure it was happening than before. That's a very strong indicator there's an agenda, facts be damned. That's basic statistics.. well let's call it what it is - fraud. I'm sure the IPCC has access to real statisticians and they should know the confidence must go down in that situation. Again, unless there's an agenda. Reminds me of a student that knows the outcome of an experiment and fudges numbers to get the correct result. Never mind his actual numbers. Yes, I can tell.

Jail bit - I guess you're not watching the news lately. I see the idea popping up here and there. Not just in the US, other countries like Germany.
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
http://worldnewsdailyreport.co...
well you get the idea, just google "jail global warming deniers" Of course simply questioning if CO2 is the cause wouldn't help you. They don't want any descent or discussion.

Now for the discussion. Things were warmer, very recently in geological time. We had settlements in Greenland, that are coming back into view due to the snow melting. They date to around 1500s (http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/greenland/). Before our little ice age. If you look into Venice, you'll find that they were trying to keep out the Adriatic in the 14th century. So let's not be so quick to blame man, it was happening without him. What really gets me is when there is a period that they can't explain, they'll go to whatever they can to try to explain it. If we get an odd hurricane like Katrina or just about anything else happens (too cold, too hot, nothing happened, hurricane, etc) - it's MMGW. No, it's weather. Recently if you look at Mr. Hansen from Goddard Space Flight Center, he said in 2000 that the 1990s was the hottest decade in the 20th century. Then he had to admit it was really the 1930s. He blamed it on a y2k bug - yea, right. IMHO, it was a lie and he got caught.

So how do you explain these things? The 1930s being hotter than every other decade since up to 2000? How do you explain clear indications that prior to the 1600s it was warmer, much warmer? How do you explain with record levels of CO2, it's not a lot warmer to coincide with their predictions from the 2000 time period? You know the scientific method, I think. You come up with a hypothesis and then if something doesn't work out, you're wrong. They've been doing this for years, and there is still no indication they have it right yet. I'm starting to see where they're finally admitting other gases have a role in this. Before, nope - it's only CO2. Again, a clear indication of an agenda.

Having said that, I don't disagree that it's getting warmer. Maybe we can do something about it. Let's find what is really causing it to warm up and go from there. CO2 seems to be a good scape goat. Everyone produces it, let's tax it. As if that'll do anything more than make a few people very rich. It would go a long way towards their credibility if nobody could make money from the carbon tax. It must be spent on fixing it, not making Mr. Gore well beyond rich. It

Hard to lie when you don't say anything. The FBI using Cellebrite's service was only ever a rumor, they never actually said they used them. I know the Slashdot article indicated it was the way it happened, but other news sources listed the connection as presumed.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

If you read the article carefully, an Israeli newspaper said Cellebrite helped the FBI, the FBI did not state that, nor did Cellebrite.

http://www.bbc.com/news/electi...

It's a known fact in Russia one does not speak out openly or things will happen to you. Bad things. Just ask Boris Nemtsov.

Oh wait, you can't. Putin ordered his assassination in a pathetic attempt to silence the work he and others had done showing the systemic corruption in Russia.

Go ask the Tartars of Crimea who have their homes invaded by Russian police searching for anything that is against the official party line or that references Tartar culture. Since Russian's invasion of Crimea this is a daily occurrence, not to mention any Tartar newspaper radio service being shut down.

Just the other day Putin ordered the creation of a "national guard", over 400K strong with tanks and artillery to be used, he claims, to fight terrorism. The reality is with conditions worsening in Russia due to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine and plunging oil prices, with elections in the fall Putin is planning to use this national guard to suppress any vocal opposition to his hand chosen candidates. In other words, if you speak out against Heir Putin, the national guard can and will shoot you on sight, no other order necessary.

So far the documents have been remarkably devoid of US names/addresses. This suggests either the list was scrubbed, or FATCA works, or US citizens hide their money elsewhere. Most likely the latter. In any case, whoever did this is safe in the US.

I wouldn't be too quick to applaud the principled stance of paypal, or corporations generally [...]

Of course not. But it should be acknowledged and appreciate when someone's corporate interest happens to be aligned with the public interest. Credit where credit is due, and all that.

I can applaud Apple's stance over privacy and encryption while simultaneously condemning the human cost of its outsourced manufacturing, the environmental cost of its raw materials, and the anti-competitive nature of its "walled garden" ecosystem.

You are delusional. We don't want americans coming to europe, we want to throw americans out.

Oh, I agree: many Europeans are xenophobic, bigoted, and anti-American; you seem like a good example.

I'm referring to government policies, like the ability to study for free and the Blue Card.

It doesn't matter if you are a blue or red american, either way we don't want you here.

Well, being originally European, I could easily come back if I wanted to. But I left to get away from people like you.

http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

Really, no Americans?

Anyway, meanwhile in Iceland...

this is probably for non-secure work

I don't think anything done at the White House can be considered "non-secure".

For example, when Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in 1945, Soviet doctors were analyzing the foreign leaders excrement daily. This was, how Stalin learned, Roosevelt does not have much longer to live... A similar analysis was done on Chairman Mao.

Bet you would've ridiculed an attempt to classify shit until you've read this...

Bogota, Colombia does this. It's based on your license plate. You can only operate a car on certain days. On Sundays, no cars can use the vast majority of roads in the city. It's called Ciclovia.

Reclaiming the Streets in Bogota

and the origins of the idea...

Ciclovía

http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

This is a really insidious example of the information war. Really, really bad. It's part of the campaign to control people who would begin to distrust society in general.

Basically the entire problem of this article is that it keeps repeating the implicit idea that scrutiny belongs within a particular scope and that there is such a thing as "THE TRUTH". It is completely incoherent and comes to no precise conclusion. The article is just an excuse to shoot out a few polarizing phrases to derail rational ('meta') thought. It is meant to confuse people trying to take stock of the situation with the information war. It tries to tranquilize your instinct to find a pattern here by assuring you that there is a branch of OFFICIAL SCIENCE that is combating that dang old problem of people being so fucking stupid.

But how you ask?
It plays wide by getting people to agree with it that smoking causes bad health. Then it fires a scatter shot citing unsupported examples of various events that are implied to be deceptive yet are still implied to have clear explanations (as though that isn't contradictory). It starts playing tight by trying to get people to agree with it that "climate change" is real without defining what climate change is at all or presenting any anecdote or data. Then it just swings. It makes the implication that there is always an 'objectively correct' side to every issue by implying "there are not two sides to every story". Then it broadens out again: "When people do not understand a concept or fact, they are prey for special interest groups who work hard to create confusion". OH WOW you don't say what a revelation. Are you beginning to see the pattern? Pressure, release, pressure, release, but with a consistent underlying force going in one direction - ambiguity.
It puts the cherry on top of the crap sundae by citing the idea that "the internet makes people think they are smarter than they are" without going into any implications, purposely leaving you to think about that in light of the nebulous collection of statements already presented ("Am >>I one of the people who makes mistakes when making up my own mind??")
And then it adds the sprinkles: the politically biased statement. Not necessary to the overall point of the article, but it takes an opportunity to try to influence your view of politics while you are maybe distracted from trying to sort out this nonsense.

The crime is that it proposes that complex matters can be distilled into simple ideas of "true" and "false" for some vague purpose of "understanding". It completely subverts the broad picture that it vaguely implies to address. The question "What do I need to know and why?" That is the antidote to this poison.

Let's not forget, either, that Apple's most visible growth period -- after Jobs' return, the introduction of the iMac, later the iPhone -- was also a period in which Apple was saving production costs by using suppliers that employed child labor. That article is from 2013; there are still investigations -- and potential charges -- going on now.

Just keep that in mind when you fawn over Stev Jobs as some rogue market-disrupting genius: he made his billions with the help of child labor, indentured labor, conflict minerals, and relentless wage pressure on the workers who made his products. And we, upstanding people that we are, we ratified all of it, and celebrated him for doing it, by buying all his shit and then singing his praises in glossy magazine profiles.

"Now and again, system administrators have to try and fix the problem for people who are actually named “Null” – but the issue is rare and sometimes surprisingly difficult to solve."

Not really difficult at all, as “Null” is a text string and NULL is a datatype usually encoded as Ø, that is the numeric value of zero and not "0". Any database that read a string and converts it to a datatype isn't worth the bits it's written in.

... or so says their energy minister.

Of course, their original plans for massive solar power plant got skuttled because the US threw a snit-fit in the WTO over India's "source in India first" plan.

So yeah, as long as the US can gouge India on parts, suppressing development of local industry, they can have all the solar power we can sell them...

Re 'AI writing code for us?"
Who will set the policy to shape the ability to design and code the UK's gov's and mil's AI's? Will the UK face an AI gap thanks to altered educational policy?
Could the UK see itself having to fully import its code and software? Domestically the fully imported turn key call centre and web 2.0 GUI front ends to complex databases are a great success in keeping local development costs down.
A team of UK lawyers and a few security cleared consultants will sign over the fully imported pre built systems and its win win.
The real loss will be the ongoing education efforts to make computing, crypto and maths interesting by the GCHQ.
If a loss of math and computer science interest gets to be policy over a decade of emerging educational standards it will difficult to draw top staff from a shrinking number of security cleared expert graduates. Even with top gov/mil wages and support
GCHQ staff teach 'future spies' in schools (9 March 2011)
http://www.bbc.com/news/educat...
Re 'What could possibly go wrong?"
The UK cold end up been totally dependant on US contractors for all advanced mil, gov products, design and long term support services.
Great for the US contractors and shareholders but very interesting policy considerations for the UK.
During the cold war the UK always had top language experts, translation, maths and crypto skills. A near endless pool of top graduates with the skills ready for any advanced mil and gov tasks.
Low pay, further education while working and advancement was a huge budget issue but the UK always had the skills.

The Celts, according most thinking on the subject, originated in Central Europe or there abouts some time in the bronze age, something like 1200BC. The earliest evidence of humans in Ireland, according to the BBC article quoted in the OP says:

Since the 1970s, the oldest evidence of human occupation in Ireland has been the hunter-gatherer settlement of Mount Sandel on the banks of the River Bann, County Derry, which dates to 8,000 years ago.

Actually, just today in the news that has been pushed back to 12500 years ago. But this article is about remains from ~4000 years ago.

I can't imagine the level of stupidity required for Google to make such a request. Google's own reports (which they resist being required to provide) show quite clearly that human drivers are frequently a very necessary supplement to their autonomous systems:

"Between September 2014 and November 2015, Google said there were 272 occasions when a technology failure forced the test driver to re-take control."
https://ia.acs.org.au/news/goo...

And this request comes shortly after a Google car was found fully-responsible for crashing into a bus:

http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

And that's not a one-off... Google's small fleet of self-driving cars are getting in numerous accidents. 8% is the last figure I saw. Google spins it as the fault of everyone else except its own vehicles, but that claim is specious at best:

http://gizmodo.com/self-drivin...

There's ample evidence that self-driving cars do several things which (while they MIGHT be safe if all cars were autonomous) cause clashes with existing human drivers on the road:

http://pipedot.org/story/2015-...

Even the much-simpler task, of drive-by-wire in existing automobiles has proven too unreliable to trust human lives with. Toyota screwed this up badly, and it has cost them dearly:

http://www.eetimes.com/documen...

McAfee is owned by Intel Corporation. Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini bought McAfee for $7.6 billion.

Quote from that New York Times story: "There are no immediate synergies that I can see," said Stacy A. Rasgon, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. "It is a strategic deal, and it is a pretty rich price for a strategic buy."

Ohhh. It's a "strategic deal". Oh, well then, that's okay? Why are writers with no interest or understanding of technology allowed to write stories about technology?

My best guess is that's why Otellini was fired.

Stories about John McAfee, who started the company:

1) Meet the harem of SEVEN women who lived with fugitive software tycoon John McAfee before he fled Belize

2) Bath Salts, Orgies, Murder, and Anti-Virus Software

3) U.S. antivirus legend John McAfee wanted for murder in Belize

McAfee is a "legend"? McAfee software was always undesirable, in my experience.

4) John McAfee: Addict, coder, runaway

Quote from that BBC story: "At the time of the raid, McAfee had begun an affair with a 16-year-old ex-prostitute he had met on Belize Independence Day."

She was an "ex-prostitute"? She was no longer a prostitute?

Another quote: "One night Emshwiller took McAfee's gun. She aimed it at his head, squeezed her eyes shut and pulled the trigger. She missed." John McAfee's response: "All she did was burst my eardrum. I'm deaf in one ear now, but I don't have a bullet in my head. Forgiveness is one of the graces that we have as human beings. Can I be faulted for indulging in it?"

Not-prostitute Emshwiller is quoted as saying, " 'One time before, I held him in the corner and I put a knife at his throat," she says.'

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini got Intel, a hardware company, involved in that by buying McAfee, a software company. Would you use Intel McAfee software? It seemed to me that buying McAfee damaged Intel's reputation, and continues to damage Intel's reputation.

Its worth advocating a book by Noam Chomsky

No, it is not worth advocating. Mr. Chomsky is a Marxist — a self-admitted follower of a man behind the most murderous school of thought known to humanity so far (Hitler's genocidal form of Fascism is but a distant second).

The facts remain [...]

Whatever you can throw at the US government, a Marxist one is guilty of far worse.

we have engaged in proxy warfare through state-sponsored terrorism in the Ukrane

You misspelled the name of the country, erroneously put "the" in front of it, and made a wild-ass accusation without any substantiation... A typical Chomsky fan, I suppose...

If you look carefully, you'll realize, the gloomy predictions tend to include non-committal words like "may" or "could":

Sea Rise Could Force Millions In Florida To Adapt Or Flee

This makes them non-falsifiable and thus unscientific...

Unscientific, but convenient... Years later, when the earlier peddled fears fail to materialize, the peddlers offer you new ones without having to blush about the past ones: we never said, it will stop snowing in Scotland, only that it could .

I know you're just trying to be funny, but when the shit hits the fan the military and law enforcement will be on our side, not the government's.

Which is probably driving interest in the development of automated weaponry:
http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

I, for one, do not welcome our robotic overlords....

If Google AI you can beat Lee Se-dol at Go, can it beat the IRS and Her Majesty's government at Tax Evasion? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... http://www.theverge.com/2016/1... http://www.thelocal.it/2016021... http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi... http://news.yahoo.com/italy-cl...

Indeed http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

What, like this?

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/u...

there's also links for http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... and http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-p... in the TFA: the way you speaks appears is an Instituto Lula PR only...

He is probably referring to a Princeton study: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...

Thanks! Though that study doesn't actually say what he said, it does look interesting.

I stand corrected, CO2 increase influences temperature logarithmic. However two points:
1) The formula makes not much sense, left side is delta temperature in Farenheit, the right side is "watt / m^2" ... so it must be a layman's formula for some approximation?
2) the formula is based on "ppm" ... with the current values of ppm and future values we are in the area of a ln function where it is more or less linear. For future estimations of the planet temperature it is irrelevant if the increase is linear or based on ln.

The feedbacks are one of the most controversial and least verified parts of the AGW hypothesis.
I disagree. We know what is going to happen, and actually it is already happening e.g. in Alaska. We only don't know how much Methane gets released and how strong the influence of albedo changes is. Which means we have no idea how strong the amplification effects are. But we know: they are happening and will continue to happen. See e.g. http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...