OK guys. We've promoted Open Source for decades. We have to own up to our own problems.

This was a failure in the Open Source process. It is just as likely to happen to closed source software, and more likely to go unrevealed if it does, which is why we aren't already having our heads handed to us.

But we need to look at whether Open Source projects should be providing the world's security without any significant funding to do so.

The cells Panasonic supplied were not fault. The way Sony used them was incorrect, resulting in overheating. If you go read the datasheets and app notes from Panasonic on charging various types of battery they all make it very clear that you must carefully monitor temperature.

Inaction up to this point does not signal that the other 2,307 disagree, they have merely not stated an opinion yet. That's how these things work: a small but significant group makes a proposal for the others to consider.

Japan has already deployed several 50MW battery packs to smooth out wind generation. That combined with simply having a lot of wind turbines, preferably off-shore and distributed over a wide area means you get reliable power all year round.

Renewables are already cheaper than nuclear and approaching coal and gas. Well, the US has super cheap gas so there is further to go there, but even with fracking Europe probably won't get near those levels. As for coal it's only cheaper because the real costs are not paid by the people running the plant.

Nuclear doesn't work like coal or gas at all. It isn't well suited to spooling up or down in response to load as it takes a very long time to do, and when it is operating with a surplus of power you have a massive amount of heat that needs dumping somehow. On hot days French plants have been known to use local rivers, killing most of the wildlife in them. The major renewables can ramp up and down almost instantly to meet demand.

Thing is if God did have a direct hand in the Bible, or dictate the Koran as is claimed, he did a pretty terrible job. For a guy who is supposed to be super smart and all knowing he didn't make his wishes and intentions very clear, and arguably ended up doing far more harm than good.

As far as I am aware only humans have religion, all "lower" animals don't. Even for humans it appears we only stick to the same religion for a relatively short amount of time, a few thousand years at most during which each one evolves and changes greatly. Now we are coming to a point where religion will probably die out for the most part within a couple of hundred years, and if we last another million it will have been an anomaly in our early history.

The problem with your argument is that it is essentially meaningless. Okay, we can't preclude the existence of God, but so what? What can we do with that knowledge?

It provides no evidence or support for any religion's definition or description of God. It doesn't suggest that we should worship him. It doesn't even suggest he is uncaring because we have no way of knowing if we can influence his creation now it exists, or if we can even observe it. At best we can say he doesn't appear to have built any kind of morality or fairness into the universe itself, but we have no way of knowing if that is by design, lack of ability or accident.

In other words it's pointless speculation that doesn't help anyone live their life or derive any kind of comfort. A novelty at best.

Exactly. No point kissing God's arse in the hope of getting favours because there is no evidence that he works like that. In fact if you look at all the bad things that happen to religious people the only possible conclusions are that either worship has no effect or actually pisses him off.

Your Sundays would be better spent doing something productive or enjoying, rather than on some silly ceremony.

To be fair to Zuck I don't think he ever said every coal miner could become a programmer, merely that if you start teaching it from a fairly young age at school the majority of children could become computer literate (able to write some basic software or a web page) and the number of highly skilled ones would increase dramatically too.

I think it should be clear by now that simply being able to use Word and Excel to a basic level is not going to cut it this century. There is also the argument that programming teaches logical thinking, much like learning Latin used to, but when I read Slashdot I'm not always sure that is the case.