I gues you missed the fact that I was replying to a post that Wikipedia claims to be accurate, when in fact they claim the opposite.

Good find. It's hard to call that an objective article. Both IP addresses in the edits belong to Bell Canada. Sounds like he may have a case.

I won't believe it unless you link to the Wikipedia article.

There were no US scientists who believed in the Medeival Warm Period at the time (800 - 1300).

Wikipedia makes no guarantee of validity

Weight goes up as the cube of size while area goes up as the square, which is one reason there are no 2 meter geckos.

Wait, OPEC employees post on slashdot? That explains a lot...

It actually turns out to be very easy to do something about it:
https://supporters.eff.org/don...

Auto manufacturers supporting open standards? LOL

Prepositions on the end of sentences is something up with which I will not put.

Except that those don't work from light pressure

Sending adult humans on a 70,000 year trip is pointless. If you want a human visit to the stars start thawing the fertilized eggs 20 years before arrival.

There are no withdrawal symptoms from GPS devices.

He didn't really discuss the software in the demo, but it looked fairly polished (not surprising from a professional software engineer) and if you noticed even had a PiPhone logo boot screen. It was certainly a lot more work to do this than the people who claim to have "built their own computer".

The manufacturers are pretending to develop electric cars. They have an interest in preserving the status quo. When GM first developed an electric concept car, they named it the "Impact". It's hard to imagine a scarier name for a small, light-weight car. They cancelled the EV-1 despite the customers who loved it.