I'm not ready to embrace new Windows 8 technology. I'm not ready to manage my finances on an insecure Android phone. I'm not ready to spend uncounted hours ingesting inane trash on social networks (unless there's a member of the opposite sex involved, naturally). I'm not ready to browse a web dominated by animated ads and twisted news. I am a obviously a Luddite.

"We're going to be even handed and cover both sides of the controversial theorem of Pythagoras."

Global warming is real. About 5 billion years from next Thursday, the sun is going to become a red giant, expand beyond earth's orbit, and the temperature on earth will be in the neighborhood of 3,000 degrees,

I'm still mad at Unisys for abusing the GIF patent.

AP is "advanced placement", and the average student should not pass. That would make it meaningless.

Why would the DOJ obey a court order? The executive branch has been above the constitution since 2000.

Platinum is a catalyst, urine is a fuel. A catalyst is not consumed during a reaction.

You can also make explosives out of urine, but that doesn't make it economical.

With enough energy, you can convert water, urine, or almost any common chemical into a fuel cell and make the headlines. However, that does not make it practical. There are always the problems of efficiency, scalability, portability, and sometimes availability (as in the case of urine and bacteria). In other words, don't pee in your gas tank any time soon.

Sea level has risen 7-8 inches over the past 100 years. By the year 2200, sea level is expected to rise somewhere between 4 and 30 inches. The sea level in the Pacific has not risen significantly more than on the rest of the earth.

When people exaggerate the effects of global warming, it only provides ammunition for the global warming deniers.

There's GOT to be a way we can get people to buy Windows 8!

Pale Moon works pretty well. Slashdot must be running on Windows 8 because it insists that I waste time typing crap in order to take longer to leave a message. Jerks.

Take a look at Amazon's patent history. First, they kill Barnes and Noble with one of the most obvious and trivial patents ever issued, the infamous 1-click patent, and now they've patented a photo on a white background. Very nice. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

You've omitted from your calculations the fossil fuels required to raise the corn and produce the ethanol. This is significant.

Excellent sanity check!

You're right. The crux of powering cars is the efficient storage of energy.