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Comment Re:Did it "confirm" it was caused by man? (Score 5, Insightful) 967

The Economist estimates 2% of global GDP to meaningfully cut emissions. (By comparison, the recent round of bank rescues cost about 5%)

Nobody know what the cost of adjusting is, because we don't know what scale of the change will be. If the changes are less than 2 degrees, that's likely to be tolerable. ON the other hand, some of the worst case predictions are very, very bad for human civilisation.

This uncertainty is being used to encourage inaction when the opposite is true: any sensible approach to risk management would suggests taking reasonable action to avoid it.

Comment Re:Now just watch (Score 2, Informative) 248

Power in the EU is not with the parliament, but with the commission

Actually the most powerful body in the EU is the Council of Ministers, which made up of serving European government ministers and very much in the euro-driving seat in recent years.

However, the European Parliament does have the power to reject or amend international trade agreements, which ACTA would appear to be.

Programming

Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"

Comment Re:Well, it's about time (Score 2, Insightful) 208

Personally, I never understood why someone would want to buy money in an MMO...

I've bought MMO money, and did it because I have already spent way too much of my life farming cash in meatspace for it ever to be fun in a game.

The absolutely last thing I want to do when I finally get some computer-based relaxation time is a pretend job. My gaming time is limited and I want to cut straight to the fun parts.

United States

Submission + - Classified Wiki for U.S. Intelligence Community

CortoMaltese writes: The U.S. intelligence community has unveiled their own classified wiki, the Intellipedia. From the Reuters article:
The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web much like its more famous namesake on the World Wide Web.

A "top secret" Intellipedia system, currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users since its introduction on April 17. Less restrictive versions exist for "secret" and "sensitive but unclassified" material.
Intellipedia uses MediaWiki as the wiki engine. Wikipedia also has a page on Intellipedia.
Operating Systems

Submission + - Dual booting cellphones

An anonymous reader writes: DoCoMo has published the first revision of its OSTI (open and secure terminal initiative) specification, allowing for the dual booting of operating systems on handsets. telecoms.com has the story [reg.req.]. "The platform uses a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) to allow one domain to run in the background and the other to run in the foreground, while allowing instant switching between the two." Each domain could be installed with a different OS. Looks like it may only run on Intel hardware though.

Feed Stem-Cell Fix for Diabetic Ulcer? (wired.com)

Facing almost certain amputation, an Indian woman with a nasty-looking leg wound undergoes an experimental treatment using bone-marrow stem cells. Two months later, she's all better. Scott Carney reports from Chennai, India.


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