luzr - Slashdot User

Comment Re:meme tag stole my post (Score 1) 270

by luzr on Thursday April 02, 2009 @04:58PM (#27436451) Attached to: Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Shrinking

Well, for a time I have agreed.

Anyway, imagine this.

- maybe, global warming is hoax. Now, please, just take this as premise for other points, not as fact

- first of all, if we solely concetrate on reducing co2 levels, this might reduce other pollution as well, but not as effectively as if we have focused on really harmfull substances first.

- anyway, much worse possible problem is if temeperatures start going down (while co2 keep still or rising), high costs of these measures will swing the historical pendulum back and we *might* get another dark age of dismissal of *real* environmental issues.

Sort of: if "science" got wrong this one, nobody will believe it again.... It is too hyped to be tolerated.

Comment Re:A somewhat Conspiracy-Theory-ish observation (Score 2, Insightful) 290

by luzr on Monday February 09, 2009 @11:41AM (#26783971) Attached to: Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter

Well, there e.g. was "arctic summer will be ice free by 2013" claim: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm So, if arctic summer is NOT ice-free by 2013, are you going to reconsider the science?

How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding 187

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 03, 2008 @02:25PM from the money-still-the-root-of-all-evil dept.

mir42 writes "The OpenSource multimedia authorware project Sophie, formerly hosted by USC Los Angeles, may just have been killed by new funding. The original funding organization, Mellon Foundation, approved a grant to redevelop the four year project from scratch in Java. The grant was awarded to a Bulgarian company based on their proposal, which is simply an exact description, including the UI and the artwork, of the current Sophie. Being an OpenSource project, this isn't strictly illegal, but let's say, not nice and definitely not innovative, coming from a former sub-sub-contractor on the project. Some of the original, now laid-off developers started OpenSophie.org trying to salvage the project. As the current version is still somewhat buggy and slow, it might just be enough to alienate all potential users of Sophie to the point that nobody will even try to use the next version. Have others faced similar situations? How would you deal with a situation like this?"

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