This doesn't make any sense, but I suppose it goes to show the state of financial education folks have in general.

Didn't you know nothing stays on your credit report longer than 7 years, including bankruptcies and delinquent loans? Only if you've paid part of them can it stretch longer and from the sounds of it, you did not.

You have bad credit now because you have no credit now.

Why does Coke spend far more than that on all sorts of TV commercials when everyone obviously is fully aware of their brand? Advertising works, and gets more people familiar with and using your products. If this is a goal of Mozilla, this is not an outrageous expenditure depending on how they calculate return.

Is this somehow shocking for onshore/local resources? The IT shop I managed at, I always estimated each full-time senior as costing about $250,000 a year. They didn't make nearly all of that, but once you factor in office space cost, training, pension, benefits, savings plan, bonus, etc., etc., the cost escalates over $200k very> easily, and this is nowhere near silicon valley.

You whine and moan about them trying new things, but why not? Don't they have employees that want to try new things, learn new stuff? Who says they have to remain doing the same old thing forever? That's how you become irrelevant in your market, and like it or not they are fighting for marketshare. Your arguments make no sense.

Now hurry up and print the rest of the dinosaur!

I'd just like to point out I incredulously followed this link to find out more, and it turns out the bill is actually banning rental of recalled vehicles that were illegal to sell in the first place. The article states "..current law prohibits car dealerships from selling recalled vehicles to consumers, no law bans rental companies from doing the same or renting them to unsuspecting consumers".

Bad law or not, I'm just sayin'... the actual bill was far different from the words you cherry-picked for an inflammatory response. Leave that to big media.

I'm gonna go ahead and get flamed and *defend* SharePoint here...

Having worked in an MS-based company for a few years now, data in SharePoint is much, much better than data in Excel, most of the time. With SharePoint, at least there's a known web service interface to query the data and it's container. It can be extracted to excel in a heartbeat, or queried by reporting services. In short, it's far more accessible to my team of developers, regardless of it's other failures. Isn't that one of the most important aspects of data anyway, being able to get at it?

Moving to a full powered relational database solution (SQL) is EXPENSIVE! To do it well you need to design interfaces to the data, testing cycles, yadda yadda - it's a full software development cycle anyway. SharePoint is a reasonable first step up from Excel for those not dealing with huge amounts of data, mission criticality, or who don't have a lot of money to build an application to replace their spreadsheet. Using it where it does not make sense is like any other case of using the wrong tool for the job in IT, it will leave you frustrated to no end.

I'm not sure it will really matter in the end.

Why wouldn't the company, if it saw itself getting close to losing, simply withdraw and sell it's "assets" (patents) to some other shell company and simply start the game all over again under a different entity?

I read through the IPCC report, and here's what I got..

Not only is the anecdotal evidence pretty strong, but now we have scientific evidence: we've burned so much gas in so many combustion engines over the past century we can now measure the effect or "leftover" from that at every corner of the globe. The science tying climate change to anthropomorphic means however, is far from bulletproof and the report itself cannot say it is anything more than "likely".

I think it's obvious humanity now plays a significant role in the carbon cycle. Plant life has been robbing the atmosphere of carbon for millions of years, and for all I know humans are just another counterbalancing act of this earth intended to dig up what plants buried and start it all over again.

In terms of it's effects, I, and most of those around me, could not give a rat's ass. I live in a cold climate - we just had one of the most mild, warm, enjoyable Septembers I can remember in my life. If we're going to chalk up all the weather incidents as anecdotal evidence of climate change, I'm going to start touting the positive aspects. For those folk living on coastlines, too fucking bad. You should have known damn well that rising or lowering sea level was a risk, and you should probably be thankful you haven't had one of those instantaneous sea-rise events (aka a tsunami) wash your ass away already. The nice places to live on this planet are shifting, and the miserable long winters most places on this earth have to endure are disappearing - deal with it. The only people I hear complaining are those with the most in terms of $$$ of real estate value to lose.

I find the predictions of more severe weather events disingenuous. We've always had severe weather events, and making sure those don't kill us all is what we should be planning for. To those shouting doom and catastrophe over small rises in global temperatures, you just sound silly.

While in most of Canada you can use your bank card (Interac/Debit) for nearly everything, I still prefer good old anonymous and physical bank notes.

I chose plastic because our new bills are made of a plastic polymer, and I've found it's far superior to the old paper notes. I think most countries have found this as well.

But didn't you know, crotches kill?

One of them is more commonly referred to as a "pharmacist".

This will be ready to go far sooner than 2030.

There are already carbon sequestration projects underway in Alberta that expect results within the next two years.

Sure, but with this article we should admit there is still a lot of climate phenomena we do not understand, and therefore cannot accurately predict what will happen in the future

BS!

You claim there is some impending or inevitable catastrophe - what is it? You don't know anything, and all we know is the global temperature is increasing.

I realized something this weekend, out enjoying a beautiful mid-September day, that ultimately even knowing global warming to be true, a large amount of people simply will not care.

We will continue to get weather disasters, but you know what, they're really no more frequent than before. People have short memories. And know what? This is where people as a community adapt. We move communities further from flood zones, or we build office towers that can withstand earthquakes. We know how bad hurricanes can get and learn immensely from each disaster. We've been adapting to catastrophe for centuries.

The other, perhaps less talked about reason, is the net effect for a large amount of people will be more positive. In my area, rarely have we had such beautiful weather into September. We have to deal with a lot of long and harsh winters, so a longer summer or more mild winters would be fully welcomed. Sure, this really sucks for people living in some areas, probably along the oceans. Oh well, you've been living a lot of nice mild days while we toughed out winters inland. Sucks to be you, as with most things on this planet. You'll move when shit happens, even if just slightly inland, as people have been doing for our entire history.

Typical Slashdot whining in this thread! Dismissive at first glance of anything that doesn't immediately fit what you know is best.

I was excited to read about this, and I'll cheer on Seagate for advancing this technology. I've owned an old 4th or 5th generation iPod for about 6 years, it has one of the 80gb small disks in it. It's been through everything and I've dropped it probably a dozen times (a couple really bad). Haven't had a single hardware issue with it (don't get me started on Apple's problematic software), and in general all "mobile" hard disks I've owned have shown exceptional resiliency. No doubt that aspect of it was improved as well by their engineers.

Maybe they found a way on this small scale to eliminate most shock damage. As we have seen, cheaply made solid states are not shock resistant either. Maybe this drive is even more resistant that average. Anyway, to be immediately dismissive is childish.

I still jostle my electronics, and wouldn't even consider myself to take above average care of them. To me the order of magnitude more storage and lower cost is more important (in most applications) than an increase in access speed. Either way, I definitely appreciate the advance that will keep both great technologies pushing for new extremes.

It's not that surprising really. The US government holds command over a lot of wealth and power, and so over centuries it's not surprising it was slowly overtaken by a clique of people who want to hold onto that power.

The US government has now evolved into something a bit separate from the people within it or their desires. It thinks for itself, makes it's own decisions, and really is only one group of elite men wearing one of two badges. It is too big to control, too entrenched to change.

I'd wager many European countries had to learn lessons about government getting that out of control the hard way over thousands of years.