According to Skeptical Science. Which is kind of like saying that under current definitions of "safe", cigarettes fit the bill (according to Philip Morris).

The German people have been systematically zombified on this and other issues. They are getting fed a lot of propaganda, they've been led around by people like Hermet Kohl and Angela Merkel for so long they just don't know any better.

Actually, the amount of relevant radiation that reaches the earth shows a pretty compelling correlation with global temperatures. It's certainly a better correlation that the CO2 concentrations.

That's not even necessary - to close source it - since they can just end up as the only source of signed Linux binaries that run on a critical mass of manufacturer's computers, which require it on their UEFI Secure Boot systems. This is one of the goals of systemd. As outline their own presentation.

Thanks for that, because this seems to be the source of much of the angst among the systemd detractors. Not that they can't ask the question politely, but that the answer so often is "Yes, it's supposed to be that way, because there is something wrong about the way you've been writing to logs for the last 5 years. You will have to change your code to conform with the systemd-journald way of doing things if you ever want to see your logs again."

Yes, but it's required for the goals of systemd, which include being able to have signed binaries and control of the OS from the firmware all the way up to to user programs and everything, like an Apple walled garden or Windows 8 on secure boot. If you don't believe that's the goal, feel free to check out the Presentation on a perspective systemd for yourself, especially page 6 and the last page.

Oh, a "glitch"? Really? That's the explanation, right? That's all we need to know?

Really sick of all this dumbed-down "tech news" these days. Is there a new phone out? Oh, then no tech news! Idiots.

"Glitch" - it's why the IRS lost a bunch of people's emails. It's why nobody could sign up for Obamacare - oh, "it was a glitch". Why did the UK ground all flights for most of a day back it May? Oh, it was a "glitch".

I'm really getting sick of this shit. Is the general public really this stupid?

Oh, it worked for your girlfriend. That's a great anecdote. I wonder how many people are paying more so she can pay less? Or did you think it was "free"? The biggest proponents of Obamacare are people like you that have a pre-existing condition, or a relative / loved one in that situation. As you mentioned, though, the New York ALREADY had that rule, so there was no need for a national boondoggle of a law to help your girlfriend. And, clearly, since some states did it without the asinine "individual mandate", the claim that it was required for Obamacare was another LIE.

You should be horrified that the government has enabled a set of private corporations to collect a tax, yes.

It would have been orders of magnitude cheaper to just put all those people on Medicaid. In fact, that's what a lot of those numbers are, because the exchanges will automatically sign up everyone (including children of ineligible parents) for Medicaid. So we're spending all this money, insurance companies, hospital corporations, and pharmaceutical companies are the big winners, and we're going to say it's a "success" to go from 46 million uninsured to 41 million uninsured? "No cost is too high" is an emotional response, not a rational one.

Netflix also offer interconnects on their own private CDN. Netflix offers what they call "Open Connect". Netflix already has the space, and the data lines, and the caching appliances. Not sure why you think Netflix should pay datacenter "rent" to an ISP for that.

Oh, I see. You're deeply entrenched in the partisan ideology blinders trap. Buying into Krugman's bullshit is one of your worst problems.

You can cherry-pick insurance rates all you want. They are going up for everyone (pre-existing interventionist state systems notwithstanding). Here's your sign, which you will also dismiss because you are one of the partisan shills that are convinced if only the other party could be defeated, everything would be unicorns and rainbows.

Obamacare is a tax. And if you don't think it's a tax, you're one of the stupid people that Jonathan Gruber was talking about.

The whole premise that anything in the ACA would make health insurance "more affordable" was a LIE. Lie of the year? "If you like your plan, you can keep it."

How mature. I'm sure those decisions - the same one also made by Democrat governors (or should I use the partisan-bickering-friendly term "Democrap"?) - are all about spite and had NOTHING to do with state budgets and weighing the benefits and risks. Oh, can't be. We have to complain about ending the bickering in Washington while we show them what name-calling and hyper-partisanship is REALLY like.

The colos that Netflix installs are paid for by Netflix. Why would you not want to provide improved service to your customers at no cost to yourself? Anyone else that wants to offer colos can do the same thing. Comcast has Google's colos already. But they refused to allow Netflix to do that.

That's just a straw man. If you're healthy and don't need a lot of doctor visits and prescription medication, you get a plan that covers trauma, major medical (for serious illness and disease). There are lots of ways to have health coverage without allowing every pharmaceutical company and hospital consortium putting in coverage for all their little pet treatments. And then you've got a nice risk pool, not a corporate welfare program.

That's the problem with requiring all these "government approved" mandates that most people don't need - insurance coverage has gone from barely-affordable to even less affordable. Expand Medicare / Medicaid and be done with it. Implementing a welfare tax using insurance companies as revenue collectors is a failure.