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Comment Re:The problem with human beings (Score 0) 401

There is no evidence (still standing at least) that link CO2 emissions (produced by burning fossil fuel) to the global warming. There is no evidence that CO2 emissions will have or did have any meaningful impact on the planet climate. If anything, the planet is getting greener because all those trees love all that CO2.

Furthermore, there is no evidence that the global warming is going to be harmful in any way for humans. But most of all, there is no shred of evidence that humanity can do anything to stop or act on the global warming.

So before shouting out loud that we are "turning this planet into a hellhole", let's stop for a minute and think about it. Because in every scenarii studied so far, most lead to an economic disaster, but none to a better climate.

Comment Re:Choices. (Score 5, Insightful) 416

These people have made fools of all who applauded them in the past

No they haven't. People applauded him because he was brilliant onstage giving physics lectures, not because they thought his sex life was exemplary. Nobody is perfect, and I'm sure we most of us have secrets that we wouldn't want anyone to know about. His were just worse. His physics lectures are still as good as they were yesterday.

Comment Re:Liar (Score 1) 129

Let's say you remove the executable flag on the GZIP binary, but leave me with read access to said binary. You think I won't be able to run GZIP on your box with a guest account and a writable home directory? (let's assume I can't bring in some other binary of my own, I just have access to your system)

Comment Re:Liar (Score 1) 129

The original answer was to a post that claimed to have a filesystem "non-executable", which pretty much means nothing. Also, a socket does not reside on a file system (at least not a regular one). At last, a shell with UID=0 *can* be executed by at least one user. The original claim was for a "non-executable" filesystem.

The claim that was answered to implied that you can store any binary (say, gzip) on a "non-executable" filesystem and that would prevent users from ever running it. Which is moronic.

Context people, context.

Comment Apple nolonger cares for minority users. (Score 1) 370

Their focus group isn't working professional any longer, its fashion sensible teens and facebookers.

I have plenty of coworkers on MacBook Airs and they look happy about it. Furthermore, all those people work in IT. My wife is a MacBook Air user and she looks happy as well. She's a teacher and does everything on Mac.

You *wish* for Apple to cater only to hipsters because it fits your distorted view of Apple, but really, it's not the case.

Comment Don't be afraid of Apple (Score 1) 370

Are you high? Your world most certainly doesn't look like mine. My Wife is a MacBook Air user and let me tell you: I've never seen a laptop that good from a hardware standpoint. By a pretty wide margin. Light, strong, extra thin with an entire day battery life. The software she doesn't care all that much about. She basically needs MSOffice and the rest is bonus.

I'm a linux user, my kids Windows users. There is stuff for everyone. And nobody is afraid to leave anything.

Nice troll though.

Comment Re:The last sentence in the summary... (Score 2) 232

While I'm not denying reality - global warming is happening - I'm questioning the models proposed by the scientists. Let them come up with a model that doesn't completely fall apart 10 years later. So far, all models produced before 2000 have proven to *not* forecast the reality of things.

I'm not saying those guys are charlatans, but if they try to convince me that the sea level will rise by 2m in 100 years I'll laugh, and pretty hard at that. Nobody is actually able to predict anything beyond a couple of years, so 100 years is well beyond their best effort so far.

Granted the climate is an extraordinarily complex thing to model and so to predict. What exactly are going to be the consequences of the global warming is yet a thing to discover.

Now, this doesn't mean that we should do nothing about it and wait & see. But shouting all over that in XX years, YY will change by ZZ is in my view discrediting the cause for the simple reason that those claims have always proved to be just plain wrong. So far.

Comment Re:30-46% less force is required to deform?! (Score 4, Informative) 304

Wait, wait, wait...

iPhone 5: 130lbs. force to deform

iPhone 6+: 90 lbs. force to deform -> 30% less force
iPhone 6: 70 lbs. force to deform -> 46% less force

A reduction in resistance to deformation of nearly one third to one half over previous models and they are supposedly "not as bendy as believed"? WTF? That's a recall class problem in my book.

Is it? So if I design a phone that can withstand 1 ton, then I am not allowed to ship any phone that withstand less than that or it's a recall? Man, come on. If the thing is too weak for regular use, it's case for a recall. If not, it's not a case for a recall. Nothing to do with "is it weaker than the latest model".

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