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Submission + - Wikipedia: No such thing as Medieval Warm Period

zulux writes: In a manner startlingly reminiscent of Orwell's Memory Hole, Wikipedia's articles have been purged of most references to the Mideval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in order to bolster the current threat of Global Warming. According to The National Post "Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions."

Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/18/370719.aspx#ixzz0acuhm3RB

Comment Re:ZFS, supported equally on your OSes (Score 3, Interesting) 484

Did you "zpool export tank" before you moved the drives over? If not, then the FreeBSD box saw the drives but said to itself "Those drive don't belong to me!" I've done a migration from FreeBSD to Solaris, but always with full drive devices ie /dev/ad0 - thus ignoring partitions tables and other such cruddyness.

Comment It depends (Score 1) 467

Honesty mode, and only speaking for me:

If you're clean cut, articulate and not at all slimy - then it will be a good thing to have gambling experience.

If you're even remotely suspicious looking, it will hinder you as it will give seemingly tangible evidence that you *may* by a risk. ..

That said, I did hire someone who worked at at offshore gabling site, and the stories were awesome. He came across as someone who I could trust - so that made the hire easy.

Comment Re:BS (Score 0, Troll) 219

>>Conversely, most informed audience: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Oops.

I'm a Daily Show viewer here.... and I don't read too much into "being informed."

Sure - knowing the triviality of short-term world events is great and all.

But raising a family, working hard, being kind, helping your friends and neighbors, looking around for love and perhaps spirituality are worth so much more in the long term.

I have more respect for a man who can drop a transmission than one who knows the top three reasons why Chavez is an awesome leader.

Comment Re:This is just sheer stupidity. (Score 1) 417

Thanks for the nice posting, I was hoping it would degrade to name calling and then I'd win :)

When most of us right-wing-nut-job think of Socialism, it's Stalin, Pol-Pot, or Cuba. As you would term it "Authoritarian Socialism" - and I don't see any practical difference between it and Fascism. Both are devolve into one-party states that kill millions of people and have shitty economies.

But here's my silly point - democratic Socialism is not the panacea that we all wish it was, as there's no democratic socialism state that can even support it's own population. All of western Europe is having trouble keeping their birth-rates up. My pet theory, is that mentally people are so taxes that they can't even thing about having children - especially when both parents work.

Socialism also removes a bit of Darwinin strees on a culture/people - it protects people who don't or can't contribute. This may or may not be bad given your long term viewpoint.

Our family fought this by just not being greedy - we don't own a bunch of junk so we have enough money and time to spawn. ...

I do love a good CoOp - but they work simply because you can leave whenever you want to and thus have to 'compete' to survive. ...

Enjoy your latte - I hope it's shade grown organic fair trade. ;)

Comment Re:This is just sheer stupidity. (Score 1) 417

Nazi was short for National Socialist or more specifically Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei - National Socialist German Workers' Party.

Facism/Socialism/Communism are all the same thing: Collectivism. Where the good of the group is put ahead of the individual.

While it sounds good, I haven't seen an examples of where it works out. Even the in the best example, Norway can't even produce enough children to maintain their native population.

The scientist in me rejects collectivism - the evidence points to it not working.

Comment Re:Ghosts (Score 1) 550

>>2) There're are no fact that could lead us to think after-life exists (from a scientifical point of view)

Given that it looks like there's an infinite number of universes and an infinite amount of time - I imagine that at some-point in that infinite space and time there will be a point where we will exist again.

Google

Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity 489

holy_calamity writes "After launching in a blaze of publicity that even warmed Slashdot, Google's browser grabbed a 3% share of the market, but has been slipping ever since, and now accounts for 1.5%. Google has also stopped promoting the browser on its search page. Assuming they wanted it to grab a significant share of the browser market, have they dropped the ball, or is this part of the plan?" On Slashdot, Chrome is still the #4 browser (after FF, IE, and Safari) but it was ahead of Safari for a few days, hitting almost 10% of our traffic.
Science

Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s 661

LABarr writes "AP and CNN are carrying a story that has forced scientists to re-evaluate the longevity of mammals. A bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt over a century ago. 'Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3½-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old. The bomb lance fragment, lodged in a bone between the whale's neck and shoulder blade, was likely manufactured in New Bedford, on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, a major whaling center at that time. It was probably shot at the whale from a heavy shoulder gun around 1890.' "

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