a professor at the University of Edinburgh DOES = good science and for things like this... i think i'll ask someone i KNOW to be an expert.... good idea don't you think?
Come to think of it, it probably is a good idea. The more people get to know about this guy, the better.
Holy blap, what part of "crap" don't you understand?
A LaTeX document with lots of formulas doesn't automagically mean proper science, you know.
See this and this.
And thrown in for good measure: The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus
Peer review indeed isn't a guarantee for proper science if easily-debunkable crap like this can get through peer review.
In fact many companies are also breathing a sigh of relief along with us techies, but for different reasons. They don't want their users watching videos while they should be working.
Um, no. What part of
“On March 13, we are dropping support for your browser. You’ll still be able to watch videos after that date, but new features may not work properly.”
don't you understand?
There is nothing to see here folks, move on. The bug kicks in only under certain circumstances. The circumstances are apparently running a Windows system with Internet Explorer as the default browser. Come on, how many slashdotters do that?
All the slackers browsing the intarwebs from work?
If Homeland Security tried to spy on us with drones, it would become a sport to shoot them down. And they WOULD go down, too. Lots of expensive wreckage.
But I guess they'd have footage of the culprit who shot it down and let him pay for the expensive wreckage...
Umm because IE is shit, lagging about 3 years behind the rest. They STILL have not managed to produce a *fully* standards compliant browser.
Well, IE is shit, but currently there isn't any browser that's fully standards-compliant.
HTML5/SVG next-generation browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Epiphany, and other Web-Kit based browsers
i.e. anything non-IE
He could have not been taking pictures of a sewer grate.
Now that's terrism.
News at eleven:slashdot editor posts non-story.
I wouldn't buy anything from Microsoft with a ten foot pole, even if they were on fire.
I don't think ten-foot poles are considered legal tender.
They don't lie
[snip]
My girlfriend
Who's lying now?
As if slashdotters would search for exercise bikes...
decade = 2001-2010
But at least they didn't make it a 87-page article.
If anything, it shows that charts are pretty worthless these days, regardless of who decides the #1 spot.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
