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Comment: Once again... (Score 1) 1027

The jury is still out, though the preponderance of evidence points to AGW being real.

The folks arguing against it are doing so because they are resisting change. They don't want to change in their lifestyle or perceive action taken to address AGW as a threat to their livelihood. Certainly the oil lobby does opposes it because their profits are potentially impacted.

The folks arguing for it are doing so because they want change or are scared what might happen if they don't change. These are businesses who think they'll benefit from the changes and regular folks who perceive a threat to the globe.

For myself, I don't know. However, I think we should use this as an opportunity to live more sustainably and impact the environment less. Instead of dominating the Earth with an iron fist, instead be caretakers of all species and environments.

Comment: What about parents of multiple (Twins/etc)? (Score 1) 832

by DontBlameCanada (#43613885) Attached to: So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms?
My wife gave birth to twins 2 years after my eldest was born. I got *no* company supported paternity leave, because only mothers got time to recover. HR spun this as medical recovery for females that men didn't need as we weren't the child bearers. Let me tell you, parents of multiples need BOTH parents off for the first couple months in order to handle things. Add in a toddler... I don't recall the first year my twins arrived. I have the odd snapshot of a big, usual bad, event but otherwise the entire year is blank except for a vague recollection of utter exhaustion.

Comment: Re:Phablets over tablets (Score 2) 564

by DontBlameCanada (#43594737) Attached to: BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying
I think that's right.
My kids use the tablets at my house. I use my smartphone/desktop and my wife uses her phone or laptop. The tablet is a convenience, but totally not necessary.
Phone with data service: almost necessary in today's wired world. Desktop/laptop, this where the large-task computer work is done. Lots of horse power, long lasting battery (laptop) and tonnes of screen real estate.
Phone: required
Heavy duty cpu (laptop/desktop): required
Tablet: convenience.
Businesses

The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers 180

Posted by samzenpus
from the say-goodnight dept.
dcblogs writes "Virtualization, cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. Of the new data center space being built in the U.S., service providers accounted for about 13% of it last year, but by 2017 they will be responsible for more than 30% of this new space, says IDC. 'We are definitely seeing a trend away from in-house data centers toward external data centers, external provisioning,' said Gartner analyst Jon Hardcastle. Among those planning for a transition is the University of Kentucky's CIO, who wants to reduce his data center footprint by half to two thirds. He expects in three to five years service provider pricing models 'will be very attractive to us and allow us to take most of our computing off of our data center.' IT managers says a big reason for the shift is IT pros don't want to work in data centers at small-to-mid size firms that can't offer them a career path. Hank Seader, managing principal of the Uptime Institute, said that it takes a 'certain set of legacy skills, a certain commitment to the less than glorious career fields to make data centers work, and it's hard to find people to do it.'"
Security

Did the Spamhaus DDoS Really Slow Down Global Internet Access? 70

Posted by samzenpus
from the what's-to-blame dept.
CowboyRobot writes "Despite the headlines, the big denial of service attack may not have slowed the Internet after all. The argument against the original claim include the fact that reports of Internet users seeing slowdowns came not from service providers, but the DDoS mitigation service CloudFlare, which signed up Spamhaus as a customer last week. Also, multiple service providers and Internet watchers have now publicly stated that while the DDoS attacks against Spamhaus could theoretically have led to slowdowns, they've seen no evidence that this occurred for general Internet users. And while some users may have noticed a slowdown, the undersea cable cuts discovered by Egyptian sailors had more of an impact than the DDoS."
Power

Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America 89

Posted by samzenpus
from the guided-by-the-light dept.
First time accepted submitter markboyer writes "The Solar Impulse just landed at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California to announce a journey that will take it from San Francisco to New York without using a single drop of fuel. The 'Across America' tour will kick off this May when founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg take off from San Francisco. From there the plane will visit four cities across the states before landing in New York."
Power

Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope 115

Posted by samzenpus
from the coming-together dept.
First time accepted submitter szotz writes "The National Ignition Facility has one foot in national defense and another in the future of commercial energy generation. That makes understanding the basic justification for the facility, which boasts the world's most powerful laser system, more than a little tricky. This article in IEEE Spectrum looks at NIF's recent missed deadline, what scientists think it will take for the facility to live up to its middle name, and all of the controversy and uncertainty that comes from a project that aspires to jumpstart commercial fusion energy but that also does a lot of classified work. NIF's national defense work is often glossed over in the press. This article pulls in some more detail and, in some cases, some very serious criticism. Physicist Richard Garwin, one of the designers of the hydrogen bomb, doesn't mince words. When it comes to nuclear weapons, he says in the article, '[NIF] has no relevance at all to primaries. It doesn't do a good job of mimicking secondaries...it validates the codes in regions that are not relevant to nuclear weapons.'"
Media

Roku Finally Gets a 2D Menu System 80

Posted by samzenpus
from the new-look dept.
DeviceGuru writes "Many of us have griped for years about Roku's retro one-dimensional user interface. Finally, in conjunction with the release of the new Roku 3 model, the Linux-based media streaming player is getting a two-dimensional facelift, making it quicker and easier to access favorite channels and find new ones. Current Roku users, who will now begin suffering from UI-envy, will be glad to learn that Roku plans to push out a firmware update next month to many earlier models, including the Roku LT, Roku HD (model 2500R), Roku 2 HD, Roku 2 XD, Roku 2 XS, and Roku Streaming Stick. A short demo of the new 2D Roku menu system is available in this YouTube video."

Beam me up, Scotty!

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