Hey! I shave occasionally!

There should be a special area for <5 digit UID's - call it the Slashdot Elders Area or something ;)

After an apt-get upgrade on my Debian Jessie/Sid workstation, I discovered to my dismay that the eric5 IDE segfaulted when I tried to run it this morning.

After an extensive Google trawl (like it took 30 seconds!) I managed to find a solution, which was to apt-build install python-qscintilla2.

A short while later, after I installed the newly-rebuilt packages, eric5 happily began to run again, and all was well with the Universe.

(well, that was FAR more interesting than this supposed \. news item - which was apparently a load of crap seeing as Facebook is behaving as expected, as I write this)

This new layout is absolutely SHITE.

Please read the immense amount of comments about it.

Seriously, this site will cease to have readership if you decide to go ahead with this - it's nothing more than the (shite) dice.com layout but green, for starters, and don't get me started on the non-fluid layout.

Whoever came up with this abomination needs a kick in the balls. Then fired. Then kicked in the balls again. Then when they're down, let the rest of the readership at them with pitchforks and burning torches.

Don't do it. I repeat, DO NOT USE THIS PILE OF SHITE.

The next guy will throw developers at chairs.

Human study of this phenomenon is still in its infancy. We didn't really have the tools to observe it in the past - what's to say this isn't anything "special" at all, and that this type of event has naturally occurred many times in the past and in the same manner?

Buuuuullshit, AC , that's a video of The Door To Hell, near a village in Turkmanistan called Derweze

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell

Wow. It's quite apparent that you're the insane one.

>>Geothermal is not clean power. Crap comes out of the vents and must be disposed of.

Perhaps you should take a trip on the Azuma Sky Line road, and view the constantly venting poisonous gases spewing out the top of the mountain there. I have.

Perhaps you should visit the Hakone region, and take the rope-way (cable car) over the open sulphur mines there, looking at the poisonous fumes reeking from that. I have.

And then when you reach the visitor's centre at the top, observe the sign which tells you to be aware of the Hydrogen Sulphide gas around, and to escape if you hear the gas alarm, and which also informs you of the smell of the gas and how damaging it can get in higher concentrations - fatal at the highest. I have.

There are many places in Japan where volcanic venting of gas occurs completely naturally, and out of control of humans.

Your "argument" about Geothermal is null and void.

It looks like you haven't got the slightest clue about geothermal energy, and are spouting Greenie propaganda from some leaflet you were handed one day or just happened to read on a web page.

>>>The solution is to move manufacturing out of Japan, it makes no sense there anyway as you can't help but put a manufacturing plant close to where people live.<<<

WTF. You clearly have no grasp on reality. Which country would you displace all your manufacturing capability in? What happens to the people who previously worked in Japan? How are people in Japan going to make a living once you moved all manufacturing out of it? And so on...

Clearly, utterly fuckwitted.

I live in Japan, my house in Koriyama is just 33 miles (about 58 kilometers) due west of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. My Japanese in-laws have a remote mountain house "2nd home" just 21km (1km outside the exclusion zone) in Tamura city where myself, my wife and son lived for a year and a bit before moving to Koriyama.

I completely and utterly agree with what you said, and well said it was too.

It's not the nuclear technology that's wrong, it's the people in charge of running it who are entirely at fault for what happened. The Error Cascade is monumental for Daiichi - not placing the emergency generators up the nearby hill behind the plant, for example.Ignoring people who have been stating for years if not decades, that a 14 meter+ tsunami was more than likely in that area (and others), is another.

There are ancient stone markers all around the coastal areas of Japan, on high ground, left there by previous generations of Japanese, all saying things like "do not build below this level".

And yet, they did. And this is what happens, and their coastal cities and towns get washed away by massive tsunami. And they're planning on rebuilding homes, towns, and cities on the very places that got inundated by tsunami.

After 5+ years of living in this country, I've come to the conclusion that Japan is like a real life gigantic game of Lemmings. If the quakes and tsunami don't get you, then the volcanoes, sulphur gas, flooding, landslides, avalanches, and typhoons will.

But I still agree with you 100% though that civilization cannot live without the energy provided by nuclear power stations, and that's including the Japanese. They just need to re-think the design and layout of any new nuclear plants they might build in the future.

And for those who proclaim that wind and solar are the answer - your grasp of reality is severely depleted. I can see great potential for Japan to use its Geothermal resources, but wind and solar do NOT have the capability to offer a stable and reliable energy supply for a country like Japan, nor do they have the energy density required to supply the cities and towns of that country.

Good old slashdot. Overridden by AGW Chicken Littles and shills, it seems.

So one person cites 16k scientists as supporting The Sky Is Falling! theory.

And the parent above replies with a citation of 37k against it, and gets marked as flamebait? Incredible.

In a different post, recently, I did an experiment, and found that on Slashdot it's OK to smear skeptics as DENIERS, but you get marked as troll if you call those people assholes. Very suspicious, and quite obvious that this site really is overrun by the Chicken Littles.

My guess is a few AGW Alarmists/Chicken Littles had mod points.

Sure, mark my comment down as flaimbait... doesn't matter, what I said is true.

Stone Age SUV's of course. ;)

There is, however, only one type of AGW alarmist such as yourself;

1) ASSHOLE.

Seriously getting tired of the sheer amount of AGW Chicken Little's there are on Slashdot.