And here in Finland it is completely ok to not serve you, for just saying that it is Monday and you don't like the red shirt you are wearing (of course it is not *that* simple, when you include advertisements - you can't walk away from those that easily just by saying that "I really did not mean that"). And we are in EU too:)
If it can be proven that you are selecting your customers racially or by religion or sexuality you are easily in quite deep shit.
Export restrictions have a very long history and they are taken seriously - in this case maybe the clerk was a bit too serious but it is not a simple "I will torrent the new blockbuster movie with this new awesome ADSL thingy" that gets you in trouble.
For the most part the restrictions are just a form of trying to to get the other part to like you, like not selling luxury cars openly to North Korea and the like, to make it a bit more difficult to live a luxury life for those who you don't like. And iPads and Iran clearly fall in to this bucket. It is simply a diplomatic act to make it a little bit not-nicer to live in Iran, both to them who are in power and those who are regular folks - nobody is really designing nuclear weapons with iPads, there are much more efficient ways to do that. But because it is assumed that Iran designs nuclear weapons we deny export of toys to them. Simple playground tactics - If you do not play by my rules I will take my toys home.
And again - this is not new, Playstation 2 was classified dangerous enough to get the same treatment. But really, is banning a game console really hurting the military? There are rules that are enforced (someone mentioned high quality ball bearings, there are similar rules to buying high-grade industrial automation devices and so on which together can be used to build enrichment equipment) but iPads, please, it's just politics.
Yes, so you can with a truck, if you got a mass of people you get one shot where you probably will manage to kill or injure many successfully. But after that it is over, you can't continue your rampage. Compare that to lunatic using a gun they can go on for quite some time and get their body count high. There is a reason the school shooters do not use explosives - they are actually enjoying their killing spree and / or want to emphasis their point by making the act longer, not just a single bomb in a crowd. A terrorist thinks that blowing up a cafe or nightclub associated with people of wrong skin color must be done efficiently and he puts explosives there. A lunatic mass murderer uses a gun. And frankly, while the former can be more effective I'm more worried about the second type, we can deal with the first by politics, the second ones are badly mentally ill. (Although in the case of Breivik I admit that he is probably both sick and a terrorist with a gripe towards current society).
What would be productive (if we assume that you have to market something to girls that makes them "hot") is to show Dr. Gray in the ads, the interviewer is not really mean but (as he himself says) plays the devils advocate and Dr. Gray very nicely and in a warm way shoots down every attempt - and that makes her easily approachable and "hot" in my book. Intelligence is where the sexy is.
I think the director was in contact with Maybelline and this is scrapes of what was rejected by them as a lipstick-ad.
Luckily we live in a social media world and youtube is is full of rebuttal videos in response to this made by both male and female scientists, students and marketing people who point out very clearly what is wrong with this approach. The sad part is that we (the European taxpayers) paid for this facepalm.
"Most countries in the world already have this option at their disposal to deal with this problem. If site blocking broke the internet, then the internet would already be broken." Countries like China and Iran. Do we want the Internet controlled like those countries?
Not only countries like Chine and Iran - countries from EU like UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Finland have court orders to block copyright-infringing material search engine (TPB). Many western countries also have child porn block lists which are enforced on DNS (or IP) level. So the legal means are already in place, it is only the question how hard they are enforced, Iran and China are much further in that respect on making sure you can't use work-arounds.
Probably said a thousand times but here comes again:
Using a filtering software has a very limited use - sure, it can block porn ads (but so does adblock) on torrent sites and you can easily block chat sites you don't want your kids hanging in. But - this works for a very limited time. I would say a few years max just in the 7--10 age - if at that. Then they find out that hey, they can access the blocked sites at their friends house or at library, and while it has been previously forbidden it must me exciting and they want to find out what it is.
So put the computer in the living room. Give them privacy over time (room to write personal messages without observation on Facebook etc. when they demonstrate that they can act responsibly) as they mature. If they screw up educate, and encourage them to report online bullying or inappropriate behavior without the feat that *they* are disciplined. Sure, they will see a few porn images if they are interested - you can't watch them every second. But kids did see those back in the day from porn mags in the garage of someone who's dad had a stash piled up there. It will not destroy their mental health or anything. Just educate them on the real threats - do not meet strangers from chat rooms without adult present, as you would not meet a stranger from the street in private, this stuff is easy and easily taught when you do not over-mystify it.
Umm...Siemens PLCs are not that hard to acquire, sure, there are some safeguards that they don't sell you all the parts you need to make a centrifuge capable of enriching uranium from the same shop. But those S7-300's and their control/programming software is not hard to come by, an ebay search gets you everything you need to test your version of stuxnet on a real hardware for about a thousand dollars.
And if you work in any decent sized engineering company you can just "loan" the demo units.
In the case of Stuxnet Verisign was at fault - they somehow screwed up along the way - leaked the JMicron and Realtek signing certificates or actually someone at JMicron or at Realtek (or someone impersonating as employee wanting to sign code legitimately) got someone to sign something they should not have signed.
Not a first time, and won't be the last - if someone paid somebody is irrelevant, there seems to be several ways to hack the signing process socially.
I had the tour there and they seemed pretty serious about the environment - and they showed species which have found safe harbors in the space center area.
I'm no expert in evaluating if the environment would be better off without the Space Center and it was all propaganda but it very much seemed that they do care, and have attracted all kinds of life there. I guess you could build a space center in a way that you just make a giant concrete parking space out of every inch and make sure anything alive in the premises is human, but Canaveral proves you don't have to.
Yes, and in Finnish among other languages, F-Secure has identified a lot of localized versions. Although that malware is not that well sophisticated as zeus (instructions to get away from it are quite simple and included in the blog article) the method is the same - display the logo of a local law enforcement agency (police, internal police...) and demand (an anonymous) payment because they have found cp on your machine.
Easy money because it is a big accusation (even stronger than copyright infringement - with cp you are totally destroyed instantly by the community, copyright infringement at least gets yous some good-will) and just paying a relatively small sum may seem like an easy way out of the trouble. Of course education will help but there are those who are so freaked out by the accusation that they will not even think of seeking help and those who feel guilty because they have surfed "free porn" and are not really sure if that is all ok (no intentional cp, but you can never be sure with those shady things, can you, maybe those girls were 17 and not 18 after all...) and are afraid of if anyone else finds that out.
To be fair - Amazon.co.uk lists that available as of September 24, 2012 and I believe they happily ship to Germany. So not 2-3 years but about a half a year after the last episode is aired in the US.
I feel your pain (I'm from Finland and just until recently our TV was about reruns of Friends and The Simpsons - now we are getting series in a decent time-frame also on broadcast TV, not immediately, but in a reasonable time-frame which is acceptable because of the need to subtitle the shows, in Germany I would guess dubbing *puke* would take a little bit longer and a little bit of extra money) - but there are reasonable alternatives if you want to go legit, but in the end it is still easier to pirate because you get superior quality and very timely releases on torrent sites - wake up tv studios already!
I do not know a kid stupid enough to image-search "forefinger" without actually wanting to get to the page you linked. And for those who did not click it - it shows a couple of animated gifs of a guy masturbating - also a picture of a handgun. That stuff that you will also see in the ads of torrent sites advertising pill to grow your penis.
I'm not defending wikipedia - I think they should enforce "no porn" rule - as in you can show excerpts of Kamasutra (it is available in the US in libraries, right?) but no cucumber-insertions just for fun, those can be googled easily enough from elsewhere and serve of no additional value - but I have a really hard time believing it is an actual problem for casual users to stumble upon porn accidentally.
I may sound like a salesman but seriously, grab this just for the (choice of FLAC or mp3) soundtrack of Sword & Sworcery - it is really that good.. And the game is not bad either - looking forward to the others which are new to me....
I'm pretty sure the Scottish plan is to somehow join Scandinavia
You have seen the Swedish women's beach volleyball team, right?
Beach volley is ruined by know if it is athletic bodies of women you like to see - the standard outfit is no longer tight tops and bikini bottoms but loose shirts and men's shorts. Yes, there actually was a rule which mandated the women to wear tight clothes in beach volley, but it is now dissolved. So no eye candy there, just pure sports - I will leave the speculation to others if this is a good thing or not....
You are partly right - Jobs got the product right. But he also "bolstered sales force" - you know - those product launches were not made from garage in Silicon Valley. Those shiny Apple Store "cubes" just did not magically appear out of space, and I bet a lot of thinking in sales went on to how to market the iPod and iPhone. Sales is just not drones cold-calling customers, it is also partly product management and more importantly - how to present your offering to customers. It does no good if you have the best product / service in the world but no one knows about it - and Jobs very clearly knew that.
It is easy to say when (I assume) you are not a billionaire. Because when there is the opportunity to save money, people tend to do so - be it $1 discount on something or $500 million savings on taxes. And changing citizenship is just one way to do it - some nations just make it easier than others (and you get to keep "your flag").
You could be the exemption to the rule (and there are rich people who for example pay their taxes through income tax and not the lower capital gains tax) - but the rule is that everyone tries to get away from taxes. And for the rich even extreme measures are extremely profitable and people don't differentiate if their account balance is $5 or $5 billion - just the means to get the savings are different.
Easily. As long as there are humans doing the flying and not a computer they can fly into the mountain just by pointing the plane there. Sure - if the safety features are working "terrain, terrain, pull up, pull up" will sound constantly in the cockpit but that will not *prevent* you from flying into terrain if you choose to ignore those warnings for some reason.
My attitude is a little bit in the same category - If they want to grope me, fine, that is their loss. But I understand those who oppose pat-down and nude-scanners based on that they should not be treated that way. But points for you on making fun of your your naked appearance instead of hysteria:-)
Abandoning TSA is a quick fix (and as others has pointed out not necessarily effective because it could be replaced by even more unprofessional "private" employees), but a more permanent one should be in people attitudes - when it did happen that people choose to get a job groping people or watching then in nude scanner? I understand that a doctor has to do that, but a security guard? If they all just said "no - I am not doing this shit anymore" we could end up (in all ways) with a better society. But I guess the job market is that bad.
Copy-paste may work in some forums but in Slashdot it does not, people will just mod you down. Use a link to your previous post if you want to repeat your arguments, not copy-paste.
Yes, those guys managed to kill quite a few people. I'm not going to count who is the worst in history, but the motives are the same. Power.
Be it Mao, Stalin, Hitler, the "gods" of ancient Greece and Egypt, rulers of the middle times in Europe who sanctioned crusades, Osama on even G.W. Bush who himself declared that god has told what he must do - it is about power. And violence is a very effective way of showing that you have power. Religion - be it christian, muslim, or whatever else is just an excuse. And as a society in my opinion we should not give those who want power these excuses they can ride on.
On on-topic note: Yey for porn sites getting their shit together, they are slowly realizing that condoms are in fact ok (after a few HIV breaks in porn valley, not that they have been *that* bad in the past but I think they should lead by example) - and even the better if they invest in web security for their clients also.
With "stupid people" do you mean the people asking the credentials or those who give them? Because both can be classified as "stupid" but as the other one has the power to decide who will get the job the power is on the side who is asking - on current job market. And while I do believe that in the end those that do ask for credentials to Facebook and other social networking sites will fail (because if your hr is clueless as that how can you run a long-term successful business?) these practices have been popping up also in public sector and even on some recruitment agencies. So clearly it is needed to say it out loud - this is not ok.
At least for me the space is already consolidated. I have bought 20Gb extra and Picasa shows 21Gb of "total space" and GDrive 25Gb. (Difference is due to what they offer for free by default.)
Problem is not the reactor and where it is - as you said, you can't just walk in and steal the fuel.
The problem is that if you have a large scale deployment of things that require weapons-grade fuel, you have to have the means to produce it in large quantities. And that is the problem - if you want to have AK-47s in the grey market you probably won't steal them one-by-one from existing end users (who have their own security in place) but do it somehow at manufacturing/distribution phase.
There is a reason why alarm bells at IAEA go off instantly when they smell even a slightest possibility of production of weapons-grade uranium and "civilian" fuel (new and used) is not *that* hard guarded (yes, they also have pretty tight security measures because that thing can be used for quite bad purposes - but we are still talking massive differences in scale).
I would love to see global warming addressed satisfactorily, the harm mitigated, and in a half a century people saying "See! It was never that bad!". Unfortunately, we might be in for a little harsher lesson this time around.
And right here is the problem - we are not the ones who are going to suffer about global warming (if it creates problems and if it caused by co2). Y2K was a a clear problem with a deadline - if you did not make sure that it would not cause problems - you were in trouble. Global warming is something with no clear deadline so it is easy to dismiss and declare it as something only communist hippies care about.
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And here in Finland it is completely ok to not serve you, for just saying that it is Monday and you don't like the red shirt you are wearing (of course it is not *that* simple, when you include advertisements - you can't walk away from those that easily just by saying that "I really did not mean that"). And we are in EU too :)
If it can be proven that you are selecting your customers racially or by religion or sexuality you are easily in quite deep shit.
Export restrictions have a very long history and they are taken seriously - in this case maybe the clerk was a bit too serious but it is not a simple "I will torrent the new blockbuster movie with this new awesome ADSL thingy" that gets you in trouble.
For the most part the restrictions are just a form of trying to to get the other part to like you, like not selling luxury cars openly to North Korea and the like, to make it a bit more difficult to live a luxury life for those who you don't like. And iPads and Iran clearly fall in to this bucket. It is simply a diplomatic act to make it a little bit not-nicer to live in Iran, both to them who are in power and those who are regular folks - nobody is really designing nuclear weapons with iPads, there are much more efficient ways to do that. But because it is assumed that Iran designs nuclear weapons we deny export of toys to them. Simple playground tactics - If you do not play by my rules I will take my toys home.
And again - this is not new, Playstation 2 was classified dangerous enough to get the same treatment. But really, is banning a game console really hurting the military? There are rules that are enforced (someone mentioned high quality ball bearings, there are similar rules to buying high-grade industrial automation devices and so on which together can be used to build enrichment equipment) but iPads, please, it's just politics.
Yes, so you can with a truck, if you got a mass of people you get one shot where you probably will manage to kill or injure many successfully. But after that it is over, you can't continue your rampage. Compare that to lunatic using a gun they can go on for quite some time and get their body count high. There is a reason the school shooters do not use explosives - they are actually enjoying their killing spree and / or want to emphasis their point by making the act longer, not just a single bomb in a crowd. A terrorist thinks that blowing up a cafe or nightclub associated with people of wrong skin color must be done efficiently and he puts explosives there. A lunatic mass murderer uses a gun. And frankly, while the former can be more effective I'm more worried about the second type, we can deal with the first by politics, the second ones are badly mentally ill. (Although in the case of Breivik I admit that he is probably both sick and a terrorist with a gripe towards current society).
What would be productive (if we assume that you have to market something to girls that makes them "hot") is to show Dr. Gray in the ads, the interviewer is not really mean but (as he himself says) plays the devils advocate and Dr. Gray very nicely and in a warm way shoots down every attempt - and that makes her easily approachable and "hot" in my book. Intelligence is where the sexy is.
I think the director was in contact with Maybelline and this is scrapes of what was rejected by them as a lipstick-ad.
Luckily we live in a social media world and youtube is is full of rebuttal videos in response to this made by both male and female scientists, students and marketing people who point out very clearly what is wrong with this approach. The sad part is that we (the European taxpayers) paid for this facepalm.
"Most countries in the world already have this option at their disposal to deal with this problem. If site blocking broke the internet, then the internet would already be broken."
Countries like China and Iran. Do we want the Internet controlled like those countries?
Not only countries like Chine and Iran - countries from EU like UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Finland have court orders to block copyright-infringing material search engine (TPB). Many western countries also have child porn block lists which are enforced on DNS (or IP) level. So the legal means are already in place, it is only the question how hard they are enforced, Iran and China are much further in that respect on making sure you can't use work-arounds.
Probably said a thousand times but here comes again:
Using a filtering software has a very limited use - sure, it can block porn ads (but so does adblock) on torrent sites and you can easily block chat sites you don't want your kids hanging in. But - this works for a very limited time. I would say a few years max just in the 7--10 age - if at that. Then they find out that hey, they can access the blocked sites at their friends house or at library, and while it has been previously forbidden it must me exciting and they want to find out what it is.
So put the computer in the living room. Give them privacy over time (room to write personal messages without observation on Facebook etc. when they demonstrate that they can act responsibly) as they mature. If they screw up educate, and encourage them to report online bullying or inappropriate behavior without the feat that *they* are disciplined. Sure, they will see a few porn images if they are interested - you can't watch them every second. But kids did see those back in the day from porn mags in the garage of someone who's dad had a stash piled up there. It will not destroy their mental health or anything. Just educate them on the real threats - do not meet strangers from chat rooms without adult present, as you would not meet a stranger from the street in private, this stuff is easy and easily taught when you do not over-mystify it.
Umm...Siemens PLCs are not that hard to acquire, sure, there are some safeguards that they don't sell you all the parts you need to make a centrifuge capable of enriching uranium from the same shop. But those S7-300's and their control/programming software is not hard to come by, an ebay search gets you everything you need to test your version of stuxnet on a real hardware for about a thousand dollars.
And if you work in any decent sized engineering company you can just "loan" the demo units.
In the case of Stuxnet Verisign was at fault - they somehow screwed up along the way - leaked the JMicron and Realtek signing certificates or actually someone at JMicron or at Realtek (or someone impersonating as employee wanting to sign code legitimately) got someone to sign something they should not have signed.
Not a first time, and won't be the last - if someone paid somebody is irrelevant, there seems to be several ways to hack the signing process socially.
I had the tour there and they seemed pretty serious about the environment - and they showed species which have found safe harbors in the space center area.
I'm no expert in evaluating if the environment would be better off without the Space Center and it was all propaganda but it very much seemed that they do care, and have attracted all kinds of life there. I guess you could build a space center in a way that you just make a giant concrete parking space out of every inch and make sure anything alive in the premises is human, but Canaveral proves you don't have to.
Yes, and in Finnish among other languages, F-Secure has identified a lot of localized versions. Although that malware is not that well sophisticated as zeus (instructions to get away from it are quite simple and included in the blog article) the method is the same - display the logo of a local law enforcement agency (police, internal police...) and demand (an anonymous) payment because they have found cp on your machine.
Easy money because it is a big accusation (even stronger than copyright infringement - with cp you are totally destroyed instantly by the community, copyright infringement at least gets yous some good-will) and just paying a relatively small sum may seem like an easy way out of the trouble. Of course education will help but there are those who are so freaked out by the accusation that they will not even think of seeking help and those who feel guilty because they have surfed "free porn" and are not really sure if that is all ok (no intentional cp, but you can never be sure with those shady things, can you, maybe those girls were 17 and not 18 after all...) and are afraid of if anyone else finds that out.
To be fair - Amazon.co.uk lists that available as of September 24, 2012 and I believe they happily ship to Germany. So not 2-3 years but about a half a year after the last episode is aired in the US.
I feel your pain (I'm from Finland and just until recently our TV was about reruns of Friends and The Simpsons - now we are getting series in a decent time-frame also on broadcast TV, not immediately, but in a reasonable time-frame which is acceptable because of the need to subtitle the shows, in Germany I would guess dubbing *puke* would take a little bit longer and a little bit of extra money) - but there are reasonable alternatives if you want to go legit, but in the end it is still easier to pirate because you get superior quality and very timely releases on torrent sites - wake up tv studios already!
I do not know a kid stupid enough to image-search "forefinger" without actually wanting to get to the page you linked. And for those who did not click it - it shows a couple of animated gifs of a guy masturbating - also a picture of a handgun. That stuff that you will also see in the ads of torrent sites advertising pill to grow your penis.
I'm not defending wikipedia - I think they should enforce "no porn" rule - as in you can show excerpts of Kamasutra (it is available in the US in libraries, right?) but no cucumber-insertions just for fun, those can be googled easily enough from elsewhere and serve of no additional value - but I have a really hard time believing it is an actual problem for casual users to stumble upon porn accidentally.
I may sound like a salesman but seriously, grab this just for the (choice of FLAC or mp3) soundtrack of Sword & Sworcery - it is really that good.. And the game is not bad either - looking forward to the others which are new to me....
I'm pretty sure the Scottish plan is to somehow join Scandinavia
You have seen the Swedish women's beach volleyball team, right?
Beach volley is ruined by know if it is athletic bodies of women you like to see - the standard outfit is no longer tight tops and bikini bottoms but loose shirts and men's shorts. Yes, there actually was a rule which mandated the women to wear tight clothes in beach volley, but it is now dissolved. So no eye candy there, just pure sports - I will leave the speculation to others if this is a good thing or not....
or 6.25e14, that's 625 trillion. At a million cracking attemps per second,
that gives 19.8 years for an exhaustive search.
You are right in principle, but your cracking speed is way off - we are not talking millions of attempts per second but instead billions.
You are partly right - Jobs got the product right. But he also "bolstered sales force" - you know - those product launches were not made from garage in Silicon Valley. Those shiny Apple Store "cubes" just did not magically appear out of space, and I bet a lot of thinking in sales went on to how to market the iPod and iPhone. Sales is just not drones cold-calling customers, it is also partly product management and more importantly - how to present your offering to customers. It does no good if you have the best product / service in the world but no one knows about it - and Jobs very clearly knew that.
It is easy to say when (I assume) you are not a billionaire. Because when there is the opportunity to save money, people tend to do so - be it $1 discount on something or $500 million savings on taxes. And changing citizenship is just one way to do it - some nations just make it easier than others (and you get to keep "your flag").
You could be the exemption to the rule (and there are rich people who for example pay their taxes through income tax and not the lower capital gains tax) - but the rule is that everyone tries to get away from taxes. And for the rich even extreme measures are extremely profitable and people don't differentiate if their account balance is $5 or $5 billion - just the means to get the savings are different.
Easily. As long as there are humans doing the flying and not a computer they can fly into the mountain just by pointing the plane there. Sure - if the safety features are working "terrain, terrain, pull up, pull up" will sound constantly in the cockpit but that will not *prevent* you from flying into terrain if you choose to ignore those warnings for some reason.
You Sir made my day :)
My attitude is a little bit in the same category - If they want to grope me, fine, that is their loss. But I understand those who oppose pat-down and nude-scanners based on that they should not be treated that way. But points for you on making fun of your your naked appearance instead of hysteria :-)
Abandoning TSA is a quick fix (and as others has pointed out not necessarily effective because it could be replaced by even more unprofessional "private" employees), but a more permanent one should be in people attitudes - when it did happen that people choose to get a job groping people or watching then in nude scanner? I understand that a doctor has to do that, but a security guard? If they all just said "no - I am not doing this shit anymore" we could end up (in all ways) with a better society. But I guess the job market is that bad.
Copy-paste may work in some forums but in Slashdot it does not, people will just mod you down. Use a link to your previous post if you want to repeat your arguments, not copy-paste.
Yes, those guys managed to kill quite a few people. I'm not going to count who is the worst in history, but the motives are the same. Power.
Be it Mao, Stalin, Hitler, the "gods" of ancient Greece and Egypt, rulers of the middle times in Europe who sanctioned crusades, Osama on even G.W. Bush who himself declared that god has told what he must do - it is about power. And violence is a very effective way of showing that you have power. Religion - be it christian, muslim, or whatever else is just an excuse. And as a society in my opinion we should not give those who want power these excuses they can ride on.
On on-topic note: Yey for porn sites getting their shit together, they are slowly realizing that condoms are in fact ok (after a few HIV breaks in porn valley, not that they have been *that* bad in the past but I think they should lead by example) - and even the better if they invest in web security for their clients also.
With "stupid people" do you mean the people asking the credentials or those who give them? Because both can be classified as "stupid" but as the other one has the power to decide who will get the job the power is on the side who is asking - on current job market. And while I do believe that in the end those that do ask for credentials to Facebook and other social networking sites will fail (because if your hr is clueless as that how can you run a long-term successful business?) these practices have been popping up also in public sector and even on some recruitment agencies. So clearly it is needed to say it out loud - this is not ok.
At least for me the space is already consolidated. I have bought 20Gb extra and Picasa shows 21Gb of "total space" and GDrive 25Gb. (Difference is due to what they offer for free by default.)
Problem is not the reactor and where it is - as you said, you can't just walk in and steal the fuel.
The problem is that if you have a large scale deployment of things that require weapons-grade fuel, you have to have the means to produce it in large quantities. And that is the problem - if you want to have AK-47s in the grey market you probably won't steal them one-by-one from existing end users (who have their own security in place) but do it somehow at manufacturing/distribution phase.
There is a reason why alarm bells at IAEA go off instantly when they smell even a slightest possibility of production of weapons-grade uranium and "civilian" fuel (new and used) is not *that* hard guarded (yes, they also have pretty tight security measures because that thing can be used for quite bad purposes - but we are still talking massive differences in scale).
I would love to see global warming addressed satisfactorily, the harm mitigated, and in a half a century people saying "See! It was never that bad!". Unfortunately, we might be in for a little harsher lesson this time around.
And right here is the problem - we are not the ones who are going to suffer about global warming (if it creates problems and if it caused by co2). Y2K was a a clear problem with a deadline - if you did not make sure that it would not cause problems - you were in trouble. Global warming is something with no clear deadline so it is easy to dismiss and declare it as something only communist hippies care about.