Actually, "global warming skeptics" should hopefully be rare. There's zero doubt we're in a warming trend, and of course, if someone denies this, then we can just dismiss them as being completely ignorant on the topic and move on. It's better to clarify and say there are doubt as to whether humans are causing this or if it's a natural trend - more more precisely still, to what degree humans versus nature are causing the changes. That, of course, then leads into how much we'll have to correct our current behavior to halt the trend.

Still, when 97% of the scientific papers out there are saying that humans are causing global warming in a significant way, you'd better have some solid research to back up a contrary position, and I haven't really seen that either. I call myself an agnostic on this position simply because the results I've seen have all been based on still very theoretical models which can't themselves be empirically tested. If, over time, they models prove reasonably accurate, I'll accordingly modify my status away from "agnostic" and toward "belief" - simple as that.

Because clicks is money.

Don't worry. You're a fine mixture of baryons and leptons. Any WIMPs or SIMPs are just along for the ride.

This article is a bit frustrating in that they haven't actually discovered a dark matter particle—they've just come up with a new idea for what it might look like. So it's not even a virtual particle. It's a hypothetical particle. But interesting nevertheless...

This!

Why is there such a price difference. I don't care what insurance saved me, I want the same price for everyone. Is that so hard ?

You probably don't even realize what you did, but you admitted there is a double standard and that you don't care. Nicely done.

I recall seeing that death rate from gunshot wounds is about 1 in 2 for rifle and 1 in 7 for handgun. Ebola death rate is what, about 2 in 3? So which one should we restrict?? /sarcasm

There are clocks everywhere. Practically every electronic device has one. It cost about $.02 to put one in anything, so it goes into everything. Ubiquity is the one reason I stopped wearing a watch; there is no practical need to carry one. The additional fact that unless your clock is Atomic Clock Synced, it isn't accurate enough is another issue worth considering.

Which is why i suggested that the best watch to carry, is a statement piece. A 150 year old time piece is just classy.

That would work.

And I think that the summary kind of misses the point of what "air-gapped" means. It does NOT mean that your system is invulnerable. No system is invulnerable.

It DOES mean that it can ONLY be attacked by someone with physical access to it. Or someone with control of the hardware manufacturing / transportation channels prior to the computer being installed in the secure location. So you're removing potential channels of attack AND reducing the number of potential attackers.

Now you need metal detectors at the entrances. And "no lone zones" where EVERYONE is accompanied by someone else. Depending upon the level of security that you want.

The fact that Microsoft already has a "Me Too" product in a market that doesn't have much traction, proves that market is doomed.

FYI, I shed my wrist clock years ago, and couldn't be happier. If I went back to wearing a watch, I'd go old school Waltham pocket watch. Now there is Class.

The fact that cash price for surgery is $65,000 while insurance paid only $6200 is criminal.

That, and adding middlemen always increases prices. Insurance is middleman.

Reporting only the fact you like, ignoring the facts you don't on an incomplete process is factually inaccurate at BEST. I've always said, liberal bias isn't what is being reported as much as what is not being reported.

Case in point, Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol's Bruhahah has been reported on several times (as many as a dozen on one network), while the more serious charge of Cocaine possession caused him to be discharged by the Navy was not covered by most and only once by those that did.

What is the difference other than liberal disdain for anything "Palin" and covering up anything that makes the current Administration look bad? FYI, the Bidens are part of the "1%" that liberals love to hate (except when it is liberal democrat)

Mind you, I don't have a dog in this fight between (R) and (D), since I am an (L). I just wish coverage was equal. But then again, I believe that politics is so infused in reporting these days, watching news from either MSNBC or FOX NEWS is only getting part of stories, and why we all should spend more time getting news from raw sources.

Not to mention, the coal plants aren't just simply going to disappear. I really doubt Denmark is just going to dismantle them, at least in the near future - they'll surely just maintain them and keep them around for emergencies (such as an energy war with Russia or whatnot).

Like locks in general keep honest men honest...

Figure if someone really wants to steal 'em, well, that's why they're insured.

Kinda. Thing is, the trend lately has been to decouple stuff. So for example, where Entity Framework used to be shipped in box with .NET (which in turn ships in box with Windows), it is now a NuGet package - and open source; but it doesn't ship with Windows anymore. In a similar vein, ASP.NET is a part of .NET Framework, and hence also ships in the box - but ASP.NET MVC, its replacement, is, again, an independent NuGet package. And .NET itself is moving into the same direction in general, being detangled from the OS and becoming more like Mono, a separate redistributable runtime that you can just put alongside the app.

I don't know if the same is going to happen with C# and VB command line compilers. Today, they also ship as part of .NET, so any Windows install since Vista comes with those compilers. The new ones were rewritten from scratch as part of the Roslyn project, and that is open source, but they might also want to stop shipping them as OS components.

I admit that I don't know much about the F/OSS MS story outside of development and admin stack, but there it's very heavy - VS does ship with a bunch of F/OSS stuff in the box, including some of its own components, and more so as time goes by. A bunch of Azure stuff, SDKs and admin tools, is also open sourced.

By the way, most new MS open source projects (and some of the older ones) have moved to GitHub, so that's the latest and greatest, not so much CodePlex anymore.