The second part of that claim is *utterly* falsified by the science. Temperatures are moving in the wrong direction: you'd expect global cooling as we exit the current interglacial.

You forgot to mention which side you're accusing of spreading FUD.

It amazes me that so many Slashdotters are trying to convince the world that change isn't coming, rather than trying to figure out how they can get richer than Bill Gates by founding a startup for mitigation technologies.

This ain't the Slashdot it used to be.

And naturally, we should reject the opionions of an international group of scientists who specialize in the area in favor of the opinions of some slashdotters.

Big bang, climate, dark matter, evolution, ..., vacinations - if you don't like what the evidence points to, just reject it. You won't lack company.

There was a flat spot - even a dip - around the 1970s as well, and look what has happened since then.
The denialism is fueled by something other than the data. People are cherry-picking the data to cast doubt on the obvious longer-turn trend.
Ignorance also helps. On an utterly unrelated topic a co-worker once pointed out that the last point in a plot was lower than the second-last, and concluded that there was a downward trend.

"laser based" is irrelevant, except as a way to get the quantum effects.

And even if those effects are real, I'm guessing that 'quantum' is not able to provide stronger encryption, only to make it easier to *break* encryption.

Tell your boss to spend the money on a new yacht instead.

Do you have any fukken idea what probiotics are?

Why is "evolving" necessary? Some of us want tools, not eye sores^w candy.

There's no inherent advantage in having a desktop that looks like Windows, a Mac, or a cell phone.

I ditched GNOME for MATE about two weeks ago. A few bugs (e.g., screensaver timer is off), but also fixes things that have been broken in GNOME for years (single left-click on window list to pop something up, vs. right click and pick a menu option).

Restoring my customizations was surprisingly easy - easier than restoring them after the last few GNOME upgrades.

No regrets whatsoever.

Merely following the news makes it obvious that a lot of people in law enforcement (and "national security") think getting their man trumps conforming to the constitution.
I suppose a lot of citizens ("law and order types") think the same way, but that's not how it's supposed to work. A country's Constitution is its rule book.

They could have saved themselves the trouble and just read the Wikipedia article. This has been known since at least 2007, according to one of the quotes there.

I thought it said "Unitarian".

Our economy is increasingly based on collecting, trading, and exploiting customer information, rather than actually making and selling a product.

When's the bubble going to burst?

Also, he ignores the role of the philosophy that a corporation's first and only concern is maximizing shareholder value in battering the middle class with downsizing, offshoring, and squeezing every penny from the few remaining employees, and the role of the utterly corrupt banking and real estate businesses in causing the financial meltdown.

But then people who write editorials for the WSJ aren't going to call a spade a spade if it reflects poorly on unbridled capitalism.