Yep, that's the only option. There's nothing between doing nothing and that option. It's all we have. And if anyone starts to talk about mitigation strategies, planning ahead of time or devoting a single cent of taxpayer money toward preparing for it, we are just all going to have a meltdown and throw a tantrum with teabags on our hats. Thank god we have these strawman arguments for what these ivory tower Oxford elitists are telling us to do: eliminate the human race to protect the human race. I cannot believe they would actually come to that conclusion but there it is, right in the article. Those environmentalists will have us starving in mud huts by the end of the month if we just sit by and let this academic report go unabated and without criticism!

*tortured sigh*

Well, they started to become popular in the late 70s, or roughly 35 years ago, so there are no doubt grannies, even great-grannies running around with them.

Artisanal automobiles.

Oh, yeah, because he's hurt so many people with his ambition and ego. He's practically Stalin.

Because nobody's ever managed to do anything useful in Python...

So the argument you are making is that for their to be global changes in climate, their cannot have been local changes of climate?

The above is what is known as a straw man argument, i.e. implying that climate change evidence amounts to measuring tree rings in a single place.

Thermometer readings are proxies of temperature.

I see no evidence that it has. What's more if it *had*, then predicting negative climate change impacts isn't going to change the mind of the denialists; it'll only make their hostility toward scientific research greater.

By that argument we should encourage depressed elderly people to commit suicide, then tax their estate.

The problem is that while money is a pretty good proxy for human welfare, it's not a perfect one.

I was figuring .125/kWh for 30 hours/week.

Having read the article, it seems pretty clear to me that there is more to this than just a bar code, that there's an app with information stored in it. At the very least giving the officer access to the data in this app will require an additional layer of legal ceremony, e.g., "I grant you permission to access my license data, but I do not consent to any access to other data on my phone."

In any case I wonder why we need physical licenses and registrations at all. Why not give the *officer* a smartphone and an app that scan's the license plate, and pulls up your license data when you give him your name and address?

... and then carry it in my wallet. Maybe it could have my picture on it to prove it's really mine.

I don't see this as necessarily the case. The back door issue is actually more national security driven. They want to track "bad guys", and of course will end up tracking "potential bad guys", which could be anyone.

But there a lot of concerns here which fall within the purview of legitimate Federal law enforcement. Back when cars became common thieves used to hit banks and drive across state lines to hamper state and local law enforcement. And of course there was piracy -- the real kind with boats. River piracy was common in the US until the mid 1800s, and continued on the Great Lakes until well into the 20th C.

Local authorities are hampered operating across state and especially international borders, which makes cyber-crime a situation that calls for Federal involvement.

Some people just choke in interviews. Worse, other people sound *great* in interviews. What I find is the best guide is references, especially if you can *interview* the references. Just be aware that you have to scale the response you get. If the reference sounds very positive and enthusiastic, the candidate is just OK.

Anyhow, I wouldn't necessarily expect a senior developer to automatically have much experience with public key encryption. Most developers in "hot" fields like mobile apps will have some familiarity with it because of app signing, but you can easily spend twenty years as a developer in certain kinds of contexts without ever having to give much thought to it.

You interview developers with 20+ years of experience? Good for you! I found it so hard to land an interview with 25 years of experience as a lead developer that I decided to leave the field. People just assumed because I was over 50 I wasn't up to date with the latest technologies.