Nature also makes its own fission reactors on occasion, through natural processes concentrating fissionable materials. And through other natural processes which turn over portions of the land, some of those materials can become exposed or even distributed across large areas. One would expect this to happen very rarely, but over sufficiently long time scales it may be something which could be expected to happen nonetheless.

Well, here's a nickel. Get yourself a real OS and run Firefox as another user when you want low rights mode. Most of us have that kind of functionality in our operating system. Even Windows users. I dabble in Chrome occasionally and it's gotten to the point where for most operations it's just as slow as Firefox. It was pretty fast once, though.

Why is it still so much slower at javascript and when, if ever, will this change? I'm still using it, but it's frustrating that loading a webpage often causes the entire browser to choke hard (whether I run it on SSD or not.)

My lady is running less plugins than I am, and literally running a subset of the plugins I am running, and her Firefox crashes fairly frequently while mine crashes only occasionally on a resume from suspend. The notable difference is that she is running Windows (7 x32) and I am running Linux (Ubuntu somethingrecent.) If one of us has more stable hardware, it's her, and not me.

Look, I've had western humanities, I know how influential it became. But that's the only reason it's important. It wasn't the first monotheism or even the first orthodox religion. It wasn't even the first to use most of the tales in its mythology, most of which were lifted from other places. It's so very interesting today only because it was successful.

The work that the religion was based on was deliberately (and also accidentally and incompetently) altered over time.

The truth is that Christianity is a religion created by a subclass of an ethnic minority which granted them dominion over all the Earth. It might be some other things too, but that's what you have at the core. It's a religion of domination, control, and ownership.

The FCC's new plan is to move phone service to VoIP. The phone will be over the internet and not the other way around. They won't obstruct anything within your sip tunnel. Woo hooo.

Please stop showing us on Slashdot where your parents didn't nurture you.

Uh, that's what we have now, except the standard is set by the government and not the majority. Anyway, what the fuck are you doing in left field anyway? How the hell did you even get there?

A scooter that comes out of a luggable case is a great idea. But if it has to cost this much then it's a non-starter.

Maybe in a hundred years we'll have the battery and materials technology to do it for real. Or twenty, who can say any more.

It seems that these days, adding "with drones." to any old headline makes it newsworthy.

Yeah. Why would a tech site has any interest in autonomous(?) robotic couriers flying around the city? Tell me something about the sci-fi future we were supposed to have already!

Why do you think the UK founded the nation of Israel? You don't think it was out of altruism, do you? Because that would be hilarious. A lot of people are that amusing, of course. No, Israel was created to keep the region destabilized. T.E. Lawrence famously wrote on the issue of the results of what such a union would be, well before it happened. But there's always some people who want to use a cautionary tale as a user's manual; See also The Prince. And so it goes.

I've read your comments, you cannot possibly be this stupid. You have to be aware that corporations outlive people. So, why did you leave this comment? The deal Gates was obviously offered when the USDoJ had him over a barrel clearly does not benefit the rest of us in the long run. If the heavily moneyed interests would just butt out of a lot of these countries, and let them make their own deals with whoever they like, these nations could lift themselves out of their own problems. Take the foot off of their head and they can save themselves from drowning. But a lot of people have been hoodwinked into thinking that Gates is a good guy, when history proves that he has a small, dark heart.

Any increase in resource consumption results in an increase in price. Any increase in production results in a reduction of price. If the system gets to a point where consumption outpaces production then the price rises, and it can rise a lot! This results in people using less of the resource and finding alternatives.

The collapse results when neither the supply (because all oil fields are already producing all they can) nor the demand (because you must get stuff from place to place somehow) are elastic, and are forced past each other. At that point the resulting shocks going through the system tear it apart, and individual parts die from losing their inputs and outputs.

The problem is that developing alternatives takes time and energy; they don't simply materialize the moment you need them. But until that moment, it always makes more short-term profit to not invest in the research, so no one does. Add the enviromental groups who complain no matter what solution anyone tries, be it a nuclear plant or even a windmill, and you have a system reaching a local optimum optimizing for a dead end.

They did. I'd still have bought one but it doesn't support 4 controllers with displays. That was a massive failure.

I know you just thought you were being clever, but you were wrong. An airsoft gun isn't going to take down a drone. You're going to need at least a good airgun for that. Not even a .22; a .177 pellet packs plenty of punch, especially if it is pointy. And it has the added advantage of being trivial when it comes down, so long as you don't fire it at a shallow angle.