The "green revolution" depended on cheap fuel and artificial fertilizer. We have already run into peak oil and are soon running into peak phosphorous.
If you also factor in climate change into the equation, you will see that we will have to drastically change how and where food is going to be produced in the future.

Sure we have plenty of food now but that is not the issue.

Mandrake was the only distro that I bought [i]boxed[/i].. but I never used it enough to remember what was so special about it. One thing stands out in my memory though: a post in the Slashdot comments to the name change from Mandrake to Mandriva.

Mandriva - Womenshouta!

The problem is that people sometimes tend to leave their phones to recharge in rooms that they don't occupy, and that would leave a data-acquisition gap.
The microphone in the teddy bear could help fill that gap ...

I wouldn't say that people's tastes calcify. Good music holds up to the tests of time and bad music doesn't.

There is a lot of music of low quality produced in every age that became popular then but doesn't hold up. Even in the 19th century there were then popular composers that practically nobody listened to ten years later.

I started liking early '80s synth-pop when I was in my mid-30's - a genre I didn't listen to when I was younger because it had its peak when I was in kindergarten. But I listen to only a small subset of the music from that era. The music I listen to tend naturally to be from the groups who still go on tours, the songs that are still being made into covers and remixes - because that is the subset of the music of that genre and era that was the best.

Yes, but not only for barfing out of ...

People get car-sick the easiest when there is poor correlation between the sense of sight and the sense of movement.
Thus, having windows on the car prevent travel sickness, to a degree.

As if not owning any smartphone, tablet or GPS-enabled camera would make you a luddite.
Sure, the parent post had a remark at the end that you could interpret as the author being a smart-ass, but you don't have to be a smart-ass in return.

Some people who like tech just happen to prefer other types of devices and other types of interaction than what you can get with a smartphone.
Garmin GPS receivers are considered by many to be superior to any service you can get on a smartphone. If you are used to using one when sailing (there is no data-capable LTE on the ocean), then you might prefer to use the same device on land.
Others prefer phones that are not phablets, that fit in your pocket, with physical tactile buttons.
And when you get older and your eye-sight starts falling then the ability to play 4K video on your GPS receiver (phone) is going to be useless to you.

Your tablet probably has one. Some laptops and even PCs have one.

Huh? A PC that is not a tablet or laptop is a desktop PC. Why would a desktop PC have one? Which one does?

I'm not sure what to vote for...
My house has had a connection to municipal fibre for over a decade, but the municipality has changed its provider twice in that time.

I am not going to say that people shouldn't drink, but if you drink responsibly then you shouldn't get a hangover in the first place.

I can imagine that hangovers were more common in earlier times because alcoholic drinks could have been of lower quality - with more of the chemicals that would worsen hangover. Production and quality control these days are done using scientific methods.
One of those chemicals is methanol, which I would expect there to be more of in moonshine than in store-bought vodka.
Another cause of hangover is dehydration.

So... Know your limit and stick to it, drink high-quality drinks and let every other glass contain a non-alcoholic drink, and then you should avoid the hangover.

The sea level is not going to rise as much as 45.7 metres.

The problem is that neither cancer nor cold are of "common" types: there are quite a few types of each.
One man's cancer could be quite different from another man's, even if they are both found at the same place in the body. The pancreatic cancer mentioned in the article is only one type of pancreatic cancer, although it is the most common form that would originally form there. Cancer in the pancreas could also be another type of cancer that was formed elsewhere and metastasized.
Similarly, there are many different viruses that can cause "cold".

XKCD also covered mobile sites in Server Attention Span.

Search features I depend on:
* Non-English characters. Handle multiple encodings of web pages and URL-encoded characters in search queries.
* site: to search only within a domain. This is often a national domain, such as "site:co.uk" to search only British sites.
* Minus: Begin able to block certain words, or sites.
* Plus: A word prefixed with a plus is required.
* Quotes/hyphen: Searching for exact phrases. "Java class file" is different from "Java File class".

Where current search engines are lacking:
* If there is a period between the words then they do not belong to the same phrase. (A search for "Hello Google" should not return "Say Hello. Google for it." as its top result)
* Use word order in search query to weigh how important a search term is. Rank pages higher wihen those words are closer together.
* Don't correct my spelling by default, assuming that my search query is in US-English. (I am speaking to you Duck-Duck Goo!). I can spell, and I do not always write English. If I misspell then that is my mistake, and sometimes I search for a brand name that was misspelled intentionally.
* When indexing a web page, identify what is the important text on the page and ignore the rest. For instance, on an internet news site, the text in the articles is most important. On a forum text inside the comments. On this forum, articles followed by comments. What people have written in their signatures is not important. Slashboxes are not and ads are definitely not.
It is aggravating when you use Google on a collecting site and you get every other page on that site in every search result because members have listed their collections in their signatures.
If I search for the word "review", I don't want every page on every web store that has a Reviews tab.
Pages on a site often follow a certain pattern - find that pattern to find which text on each page that is the most unique.

"56 per cent of radio listeners use digital radio every day."

I wonder... Would there be more radio listeners overall if stations hadn't closed down on FM already as part of the transition to DAB?
How many stations worth listening to are still on FM? How many radio listeners are there now in total compared to a decade ago?

How in the world did the parent to this post get modded "Score:5 Interesting"?