Financial disclosure is standard procedure in scientific publishing. Problem is, of course, that few AGW denialists ever publish anything in scientific journals.

Yep. This is blogspam.

So TV and internet sites like Slashdot have pretty much the same functionality, then.

How, if we stumbled across intelligent life, would we be able to recognise it?

As a mobile developer I'm drawn to Tizen because it doesn't have the cruft that Android does and is possibly even more open. I want a Tizen phone to play with. The SDK and tools look mature and the simulator works well. I like that you don't have a .Net/Java virtual machine in your way.

Despite Android having a much improved java engine, it's still lacking in a lot of ways:

• - no Java8 Lambda goodness on Android(and likely never will be)
• - Dalvik still has garbage collection slowdowns at inexplicable times...
• - To use native code you're running many things through the JNI, which is not elegant

Blade Runner is a Frankensteinian tale about creation revolting against its creator, questioning the meaning of death, whereas Do Androids ... is about empathy as an essential human quality in a world where everything is artificial. Much of the novel is about Deckard's desire to buy a pet, required for spiritual fulfilment according to the religion of Mercerism. Death is as unimportant to the book as Mercerism is to the film.

That's only true if you're surrounded by arseholes.

Eh, it's not like Blade Runner was a faithful adaptation either. For one, its theme is completely different from the book. Still, it's one of the best SF movies and one of the best adaptations ever.

Yeah, it'll be excellent for independent 'writers' who get picked up only by random chance, when it's 'free' anyway, and detrimental to the likes who know how to spell Stephen King's name.

Yes. All those faults, and still the best science fiction serials ever. Doesn't that say a lot for the potential of the genre?

Out of interest: how old are you?

The CO2 from kegged beer will have less C14 as the carbon will be from fossil sources. This makes all the difference in the world.

(Maybe not.)

Funny how whenever Apple is into shady anti-competitive practices, it's always someone else's fault.

Mmm, wrong.