Hear me out. Having spent a significant amount of time around JSC and realized that it was essentially a pestilential swamp that nobody in their minds (other than a bunch of confused cows) would voluntarily live in, I can see that a couple of decades of hanging out between the air conditioners and the mosquitoes and surrounded by millions of Texans (and a similar number of confused cows) would drive anybody insane.
They're in Hell anyway, what's a few more degrees Kelvin? They wouldn't understand the concept of the planet getting hotter if it walked up and bit them on the nose.
Cause actually carbon dioxide isn't all that strong of a greenhouse gas.
True, but the sheer magnitude of CO2 release dwarfs other greenhouse gasses. Further, it's not just the amount of CO2 (or water vapor which is another 'greenhouse gas' or methane) it's the rate of change of the concentration.
Yes CO2 can be 'useful' and plants like it. Yes, the planet had higher concentrations of CO2 in the past.
The big issue is whether or not a significant fraction of the human (and since we're an apex predator, everybody else's) population is at risk for near term major perturbations in the population's health and well being due to changes in climate that are in part due to rapidly rising CO2 levels which are most likely man made.
Actually, IMHO, the government does NOT have a right to force you to get a vaccination but does have the responsibility (and right) to quarantine you in the event of a an epidemic.
A vaccination is an individual decision (albeit forgoing vaccination is a stupid individual decision but you get to make stupid decisions), once an epidemic starts it is a public health issue. Of course, the dividing line between a public health issue and an individual decision is not black and white - hardly ever is - but them's the breaks. Life if complex and messy.
Most assuredly . Has anyone ever seen a Windows XP embedded system actually upgraded? (Stares at GE portable Ultrasound purchased in 2006 with 'copyright 1997-2001' splashed everywhere.)
Oh bullshit. Panspermia has been around for decades and lots of mainline scientists (including Francis Crick, one it's earliest proponents) have thought it interesting.
But it is more entertainment than anything else - until we get off planet enough to test it. A dozen probes to Mars and a Europa would be good start, but as always - if you've got the money, I've got the time....
Amino acids don't self replicate. That's what DNA (or RNA) is for. However, your primary point is still valid. Time allows nature to futz around until something works. 500 million years is a long time. A very long time.
Bread and circuses. Don't discuss anything important, especially if it's complex. Go after something visceral like this case or Kim Kardishiam's bra / toenail / latest sex change operation.
Oh, we just invaded another country? Look! Over there! A breast!
Nobody is getting 'crushed' on this. At worst, a couple of publishers and Apple will pay a fine. Most likely they will sign something that said 'we didn't really do anything, but we agree not to do it again'. Some lawyers will make money. The DOJ lawyers will carve another notch in their desks.
Consumer prices won't go down. (But they will go up).
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Why do I always have to be the one to point out that porn looks better in wide screen?
Because you're the only person who thinks "People of Wal-Mart" is a porn site?
It's George Bush's fault.
Hear me out. Having spent a significant amount of time around JSC and realized that it was essentially a pestilential swamp that nobody in their minds (other than a bunch of confused cows) would voluntarily live in, I can see that a couple of decades of hanging out between the air conditioners and the mosquitoes and surrounded by millions of Texans (and a similar number of confused cows) would drive anybody insane.
They're in Hell anyway, what's a few more degrees Kelvin? They wouldn't understand the concept of the planet getting hotter if it walked up and bit them on the nose.
Brwando! It's got what plants crave.
Cause actually carbon dioxide isn't all that strong of a greenhouse gas.
True, but the sheer magnitude of CO2 release dwarfs other greenhouse gasses. Further, it's not just the amount of CO2 (or water vapor which is another 'greenhouse gas' or methane) it's the rate of change of the concentration.
Yes CO2 can be 'useful' and plants like it. Yes, the planet had higher concentrations of CO2 in the past.
The big issue is whether or not a significant fraction of the human (and since we're an apex predator, everybody else's) population is at risk for near term major perturbations in the population's health and well being due to changes in climate that are in part due to rapidly rising CO2 levels which are most likely man made.
Thunderbolt separates those who know how to use Google from the users.
No, that's porn.
Actually, IMHO, the government does NOT have a right to force you to get a vaccination but does have the responsibility (and right) to quarantine you in the event of a an epidemic.
A vaccination is an individual decision (albeit forgoing vaccination is a stupid individual decision but you get to make stupid decisions), once an epidemic starts it is a public health issue. Of course, the dividing line between a public health issue and an individual decision is not black and white - hardly ever is - but them's the breaks. Life if complex and messy.
The developers are waiting for holographic storage. Or fusion.
But there is progress - Duke Nukem was finally released!
Guess what has even longer support... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Embedded#Windows_XP_Embedded
Most assuredly . Has anyone ever seen a Windows XP embedded system actually upgraded? (Stares at GE portable Ultrasound purchased in 2006 with 'copyright 1997-2001' splashed everywhere.)
Anyone?
sounds like a nice list of reasons to avoid proprietary software for mission critical applications like SCADA...or anything really.
Actually, it sounds like a nice list of reasons to avoid any software for mission critical applications.
please bring back ethanol-fueld and ban hairyfeet instead... e-f is way more entertaining
thx
Oh and you are the absolute height of intelligence and wit, Mr. or Ms. AC?
You don't need a live connection to the Internet to get a network into trouble. See Stuxnet.
Got an open USB port? That Hello Kitty USB drive that you 'found' in the parking lot - I wonder what it has on it?
Man, our CIO posts on Slashdot. Who knew?
Hi there! Meeting at 9:00, right?
Oh bullshit. Panspermia has been around for decades and lots of mainline scientists (including Francis Crick, one it's earliest proponents) have thought it interesting.
But it is more entertainment than anything else - until we get off planet enough to test it. A dozen probes to Mars and a Europa would be good start, but as always - if you've got the money, I've got the time....
Amino acids don't self replicate. That's what DNA (or RNA) is for. However, your primary point is still valid. Time allows nature to futz around until something works. 500 million years is a long time. A very long time.
Employment law is ever so slightly different in the EU.
True that. In the US, you are expected to sleep under your desk. Non of this 'pod' nonsense.
Don't you love it when you answer your own question?
Who wrote this summary, anyway, and with what agenda?
Yeah, I second that. Took me a few minutes to figure out that this isn't a story about 'Middle Earth'.
I hate that sort of thing early in the morning.
No. I spend a day coding, I look up at the screen, and I depend on Slashdot to tell me what's going on in the world.
Man are you gonna be confused.
Stand your ground!
Bread and circuses. Don't discuss anything important, especially if it's complex. Go after something visceral like this case or Kim Kardishiam's bra / toenail / latest sex change operation.
Oh, we just invaded another country? Look! Over there! A breast!
I heard you like pen testing so I put a pen test on your pen test!
There is no 'controversy' of the scientific persuasion when it comes to evolution. At least, none at the level of high school biology.
I'd be totally impressed if a high school curriculum got to discussing evolution at the level of gradualism vs. punctuated equilibrium.
Save your Dixie cups! The South shall rise again!
Nobody is getting 'crushed' on this. At worst, a couple of publishers and Apple will pay a fine. Most likely they will sign something that said 'we didn't really do anything, but we agree not to do it again'. Some lawyers will make money. The DOJ lawyers will carve another notch in their desks.
Consumer prices won't go down. (But they will go up).
Well, they could ask four out of five doctors.