Please, you're condemning the science community based on the ramblings of random, functionally-anonymous forum posters? And you think they're the reason why the general public distrusts science? You're aware that Slashdot discussions are not streamed on the ticker at Times Square, right?

Give me an example (since you're allergic to the word 'citation') of a bonafide climate scientist making such a claim in a mainstream publication or program and I'll concede your point. You're right, it ain't wikipedia, but you're still full of shit until you demonstrate otherwise.

All too often in the debates about GCC someone who is a climate researcher will go "Well I'm a climate researcher so I'm right and the people that don't agree with me are idiots."

I've never heard a climate researcher say anything remotely like that. Can we haz citations?

That's not what we "learned." The information coming from the hacked emails is ambiguous at worst and probably tells us nothing more than that scientists are humans. There's no serious evidence of falsifying data. If you believe there is, out with it, please.

Yeah, like driving to the mailbox.

I work for the government, and uh, bullshit.

The advantage to using Drupal for the White House is that it's a popular CMS and has lots of people patching exploits and vulnerabilities. The second a proof of concept piece of code or an easy exploit is discovered, a few thousand developers will descend to get their patches submitted.

As opposed to your homegrown CMS, where you only discover the security holes when 3gotiZt posts pictures of full frontal nudity on the home page of your site.

It is certainly the point. If you keep up with European politics, you know that's the big issue right now. "Access" is not the same thing as "paid for by someone else." No one can deny you *access* if you're guaranteed. End of story.

I think you're reading way too much into this. No one ever said broadband would be provided, any more than the US government provides people with firearms. The point, I think, is that this would prevent anyone from arbitrarily shutting you down the way France is considering doing in the event of IP violations.

Did you read the article? There's no indication there or in any of the source reports that the Finnish government ever said anything at all about prices.

Who said anything about price controls?

Who pays for the arms you have the right to bear?

Way to change the subject there.

Get yourself elected president and we'll talk.

Dude, give the guy props for not being George W. Bush. That's an accomplishment the U.S. can be proud of.

Er, uh, how is the genius engineer going to explain his/her idea to the communication genius if he/she is not capable of communication?

You understand that this isn't about marketing, right? The purpose of the essay is to distinguish between the engineer who can engage other engineers and the one who can't — it's not aimed at finding the engineer who can develop a branding campaign for his/her widget.

The notion that there is _any_ field of human endeavor in which communication is not essential is just ridiculous.