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  1. Re:Catastrophic man-made global warming on China Cancels Over 100 Coal-Fired Power Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Turns out the climate is quite big and complicated and trapping more energy in the system doesn't lead to perfectly distributed warming all over the planet, at all times.

  2. Links, for the interested on Ask Slashdot: Who's Building The Open Source Version of Siri? (upon2020.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... Their main community website is: https://community.mycroft.ai/ They also have a slack here: https://mycroftai.slack.com/me...

  3. Re:Red herring on Shuttleworth On Ubuntu Community Drama · · Score: 1

    Up until very recently, I thought they really dropped the ball with the GUI changes and they were driving people away. I thought in a way that it was nice that they were at least trying to differentiate themselves, but that it wasn't for me. But them I saw Mark Shuttleworth's presentation on Ubuntu phone and tablet and it all clicked into place. Even the name - Unity - as in one front end for everything. Now I see where they're going with it and I realise that they've guessed what the future is going to bring and are taking steps now so they won't be caught with their pants down when it's all touch screens and tablets. Windows did it fairly drastically with metro, apple's doing it more subtly by slowly merging iOS with the desktop, and Linux is going to have to do it sonner or later. Now I'm back on board and using Ubuntu with unity over KDE again and I'm willing to forgive the minor annoyances and put them down to teething problems. As for mir, they've obviously worked out that if they have a way to allow people to easily get Ubuntu onto all of the squillions of existing android devices easily then hardware manufacturers and hobbyists can start putting it on there without all the hardware problems that linux used to be notorious for. Luckily for anyone who doesn't want to go through the teething pains, there are loads of other distros to choose from and you can come back to Ubuntu when unity is more mature. All he's asking is that in the mean while, please don't slag it off online. I think after all the money he's put on and all he's done for Linux, we should give the guy the benefit of the doubt with this one. I'm back in

  4. Why wait for an disaster? on Connecting Android Phones Without Carrier Networks · · Score: 2

    Why wait for an disaster?

  5. Re:Yes on Rise of the Online Code Schools · · Score: 2

    "College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either." Mark Twain

  6. Re:Patch-Clamping To the Masses on Robot Brings Patch-Clamping To the Masses · · Score: 1

    I used to do this for a living, does that mean I'm finally almost somebody?!

  7. Re:Not economics; theft. on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was because all the money disappeared into a supermassive Black-Schole

  8. Re:Interesting Social Network Stats on The Humble Indie Bundle 3 Released · · Score: 1

    I just moved to Google+ and +1'd it, but it was already ' Facebook liked' from when I'd done so for the first and second humble bundles. HB3 has only just come out and it doesn't tell you how many people just 'liked' HB3 on its own, so seeing as though Google+ wasn't around previously, I don't think we can read too much into these figures

  9. Phew! I read that as Skype on Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack · · Score: 1

    "Skype Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack"

  10. Genetically engineer plants to grow it as fruit.. on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...then we can call it "Bo-vine"

  11. Re:Make applications on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 1

    Yeah - proving evolution would probably fall into the Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster....