My point was not whether global warming is a fact or not, or whether it's caused by humans or not, but that EU as a political power went from being in favour of green initiatives and tough goals, highly touted, to scaling down its ambitions to the point that what's left are merely non-binding goals. I find that more than a little strange.

I would tend to think that personal interests or interests of friends in high places are behind such a major change of "heart", perhaps even with a sizeable monetary benefit attached to it. After all, what changed? I admit it, I'm against the EU's interference in almost all aspects of our lives. And then with an issue like this, EU could really make a difference, but decides not to. I'm sorry, something's wrong with this picture.

It's exactly the kind of place where I would expect artificial intelligence to really come into its own.

I didn't take your comment all that seriously, especially when you went completely against it with your community comment :-)

That's fair enough. Let me rephrase then: I hope that those spending their time and abilities programing a toothbrush will do so for only a brief but intense and productive time, and then move to (not move ON to) something else where their time and abilities can ALSO be of great value. That better? ;-)

"(...) the company has created an API, hoping that third-party developers will come up with additional apps that will inspire users to brush more and more effectively (...)" My hope is that people will spend their time and abilities on something other than developing apps for a toothbrush. I would hate to see people become obsessed with something like brushing their teeth.

My own opinion has been that Hotmail was far inferior to both Google's and Yahoo's offerings. In that light, Google was the only better alternative. Thus "competitor" :-)

I see your point.

You said they didn't know each other...

Wow is all I can say. I had no idea so many people are so incompetent.

You're absolutely right. I forgot that changing your email address can be a big hurdle/insurmountable task for many people.

I should say behind competitor, not competitors. But the question still stands.

I don't understand how yahoo can be alive today. It's been way behind competitors for about a decade. This type of story fits right in with that picture. Okay, if they are still alive, I guess they must be making money. But I'm happy they are still around. Now and then I find that I need to reconnect with a site I haven't used for years, where I registered with my yahoo address... And in that case, it's nice that I'm able to receive a password reset link. But what's the attraction today, besides that?

But you need to remember who you gave the password to. No good for someone with amnesia.

I decided a while back to only access sites that employ biometrics-based access. Unless an event destroys my biometric signature, I'll be safe. Obviously, at Slashdot I use a standard strong password, namely "abc". Slashdot allows password resetting, so no issue there. Darn clever, I think.

Depends on the paper. Might have been intercepted by NSA under its TAO program. In that case, you might have network connected paper.