Your comment follows the Slashdot standard of not reading the article you are commenting on. The study was not about carbon footprint or the total life cycle costs of wind power. The study suggests that "using wind turbines to meet 10 percent of global energy demand in 2100 could cause temperatures to rise by one degree Celsius in the regions on land where the wind farms are installed, including a smaller increase in areas beyond those regions." So the study is looking at possible local effects of wind farms, not the global climate.

Apropos, "Their analysis indicates the opposite result for wind turbines installed in water: a drop in temperatures by one degree Celsius over those regions."

Full time employees of US tech companies with over $100B in market cap (data from Yahoo! Finance):
1. IBM 410,830
2. HP 304,000
3. Microsoft 93,000
4. Oracle 86,000
5. Intel 79,800
6. Cisco 65,550
7. Apple 34,300
8. Google 19,835

I was also surprised by that, so I looked it up. As of the end of Friday trading, they just edged out Wal-Mart for number 3.

US companies by Market Cap:
Exxon Mobil 315.38B
Microsoft 256.45B
Apple 205.57B
Wal-Mart 205.37B
Berkshire Hathaway 203.20B
Google 184.28B
Procter & Gamble 183.92B
General Electric 181.81B
Johnson & Johnson 176.62B

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe" - René Magritte

Watch the video, they put a trackpad on the back so that you can mouse over. Looks like a neat idea, but hard to say if it will catch on or not.

Not very clear wording. I would interpret that as 90% of those detained are terrorists. Which doesn't tell you anything about your false positive rate.

No, its viral. When his children mate with non-GPL people, their code becomes GPL.

I am an NPR junky. The problem is that local NPR stations generally don't transmit very far. I recently moved to an area that only gets one station, and its programming is mediocre with news and talk for only part of the day and music all evening and night. So I got an XM radio so that I could listen to NPR. XM provides 24/7 BBC world service, world radio network, and 3 public radio channels. And I can get it reliably at home and on the road no matter where I am in the country. No other broadcast radio or internet phone service can match that. So for me satellite radio is definitely worth it.

It will also be live on Hulu in Flash.

If they are only using this code in house then it wouldn't matter if it was BSD or GPL. Remeber, GPL doesn't mean that just anyone can demand to see your code at any time. You are only obligated to give source code to those who you give or sell your binaries.