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Submission + - Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"

Forrest Kyle writes: A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has recieved multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. From the article, "'Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened,' said the professor. 'I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be sceptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal.' Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...recently claimed: 'Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science.'"
Windows

Submission + - Indian reseller discover the cost of MS addiction

the_womble writes: "It looks as though Indian resellers have found out the hard way how the Microsoft monopoly works. After decades of being tacitly encouraged to sell pirated copies of Windows, they now find themselves being forced to pay up.

Are people dependent enough on MS for this to work in countries where the cost of a Windows license relative to incomes is several time higher than in developed countries? Will this open more opportunities for FOSS? I live in Sri Lanka, a country where MS backed off from a planned crackdown because even corporate users threatened to switch if they had to pay."
Enlightenment

Submission + - Hybrid Recommendation

whisper_jeff writes: I finally had the chance to watch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and it got me thinking (which all good documentaries should do and this was a good documentary). One thing it got me thinking about was hybrid cars, which are becoming more and more popular. I was wondering if slashdot readers had any insights into good hybrids that are worth taking a serious look at. Which are most effecient? Which maintain high performance while cutting emissions? Which cut operating costs drastically to offset the higher purchase price of the hybrid technology? Which, all things considered, are worth considering?

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