hairyfish - Slashdot User

+ - Climate Change: Conservative politics still have no clue-> 0

Submitted by hairyfish on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @03:44AM

hairyfish writes "In Australia, acting NSW Premier, Andrew Stoner, has dismissed extreme weather predictions for the state of NSW by the federal government's Climate Commission as ''alarmist''.
"We have heard of all our dams drying up in the past. We've heard predictions of the central coast and other coastal parts of the state going under water, the polar ice caps melting. I'm sorry, none of this has happened. As time goes on I think these people's credibility will be found wanting.''"
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+ - British kids kicked out of US for quoting Family G-> 1

Submitted by hairyfish on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @06:40AM

hairyfish writes "Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and Emily Bunting, 24, said they were detained at Los Angeles International Airport, locked up in prison overnight, and had their bags searched for spades and shovels before they were placed on a flight back to Britain last Wednesday. The crime? Tweeting ""free this week for a quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America? x" and "3 weeks today, we're totally in LA pissing people off on Hollywood Blvd and diggin' Marilyn Monroe up!"
How low can Homeland Security go?"
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+ - The end of time (zones)? 4

Submitted by hairyfish on Saturday August 27, 2011 @02:10AM

hairyfish writes "I have a question for the Slashdot community: Do we still need time zones?
Time zones are a relic of the past when different parts of the world were isolated, and 12pm was whenever the sun was directly above your specific location. Now in the Internet age, time is just an arbitrary number, and time zones are just unnecessary complexity. Why can't we scrap time zones altogether, and all just use UTC across the board?
So here on the eastern seaboard of Australia, lunchtime will now be at 2am, In New York it will be 4pm, and in Moscow it will be 8am. There'll be some pain with the initial changeover, but from then on it's all good.
Got a meeting with colleagues on the other side of the world? 4am means 4am for everyone. Got a flight landing at 3pm? 3pm now means 3pm for everyone.
For DST, you simply change your schedule rather than the clock (ie work and school starts an hour earlier during DST months).
No confusion ever again.
For someone whose work involves travel or communication across time zones this is the best idea I've ever heard. So why aren't we doing it?"