Is research on the greenhouse effect itself. Right now the theory is that greenhouse gases absorb IR radiation in the upper atmosphere that would normally escape to space, and reradiate that in all directions, including back to earth, thus forming a greenhouse effect.

This part needs more confirmation. Has anyone done more empirical tests on this effect itself? You know, actually measure controlled IR emissions from earth to space to analyze absorption?

I think the research is heading towards more of the secondary effects - CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but so is, water. Will increase CO2 cause reduced H2O in the air? that sort of effect..

Another thing i'm curious about is just energy production causing global temperatures to rise.. Do all the carbon & nuclear production of energy, do they cause global temperatures to increase directly? (and not just via a greenhouse effect) All that heat production has to end up somewhere, and all the power plants just end up dissipating the heat into the atmosphere (or convert to electricity, which eventually gets turned to heat somewhere else..) Is that enough energy to cause global temperatures to rise?

Lots of research still left to be done.

Don't need a heavy-duty web browser every time you need to watch a movie.

But yeah, right now it is the content providers' call. The W3C is going to compete against the native apps, and they need content providers more than the content providers need the W3C.

RIght now, the web is filled with low-quality garbage content, like YouTube. They are so completely worthless compared to professional content that the web could disappear and nothing of value would be lost.

If the W3C implements DRM, then the web might actually be worth something.

When you get your drivers license.. don't they already store your photo in a database?

The simple solution to this is to just NOT get a drivers license. You know that's a perfectly fine thing to do. Build your life around that fact, instead of lazily building your life around the need to drive a car on a taxpayer subsidized highway system.

Use public transportation. Or hitchhike and ride on the back of freight trains and take photographs of it, like what this guy did: http://mikebrodie.net/

What's that? You want to drive your own car on taxpayer funded roads, but you DON'T want to follow the rules set by the people that built that for you? HAHAHA... I didn't know we spent tax-money on an interstate system so that you can do whatever YOU want with it.

They probably don't pay ISP charges if they have peering directly to the IXPs

I agree this is good.

I'd go a step further and put in words with known difficulty levels of computation, all the way from "password" to "Password1234" to "April01,2001" to "gh89w$5ag", etc.. to see what level of effort the attackers were able to breach.

A bigger, more controlling government is going to lead to a safer society.

We definitely do not want the public to have more freedom, since it is obvious that the public is not to be trusted with it. With great power comes great responsibility, and at this point the public fucked up with it, so the public's power must be reduced.

Thankfully, the demographic trends point to this happening! =^) It is only a matter of time before the populism of a bigger socialist government is going to take over the special-interests of civil liberties.

Besides, civil libertarians have never advanced the human conditions or the arts, or has ever done anything to make someone else happy, since they are fundamentally against the idea of socialization. Why should they benefit someone else, when the fruits of their labor belong to them, correct?

Rules become guidelines for those with power.

This is why the purpose of life is to move up the ladder.

The weakest people are those that just want to be left alone.

Might makes right.

Protip: If you want actual freedom, you need to gain power. And to gain power, you need to align yourself with the powerful.

The question for you is: Which members of our society are more powerful: the socialist statist that aligns themselves with government? or the gun-owning libertarian that doesn't want to be tread on?

Figuring out who is power, and subsequently aligning yourself with that power, is going to be key to your success. Feel free to argue against that.

Dear Citizen,

Sucks to be you..

-gub

They love their freedoms.

Freedom is only one principle used to achieve results.

But life is about results, not principles.

Really... the only content areas still fighting the DRM fight are:
Video
eBooks
software

So, anything of value?

I'd much rather have DRM content than no content.

Just because you don't want something, doesn't mean other people don't.

Life isn't about principles, it's about results.

The point is that the internet causes culture to stagnate.

The GP complained about beehive hairdos. He thinks beehive hairdos should not exist. He wants everyone to have a common uniformity in culture. Yet, he has no background in style or tastemaking, yet he continues to try and influence the public. This is the exact kind of damage that the internet causes - it gives a voice to those untrained, and someone else might listen to that, causing culture to stagnate.

Like, here's a well known, pretty awesome fashion photoshoot from a couple of years ago inspired by 50's rockabilly with beehive hairdos. http://fashiongonerogue.com/rock-town-thierry-le-goues-french-revue-de-modes-fw-2010/

Pretty cool huh? And any fashion-editor or stylist would consider this an advancement, because professional tastemakers know about this. So, wouldn't it be awesome if culture didn't stagnate so that a beehive hairdo or a punk mohawk or something else is now common?

Yet, because of the democratic screaming of the internet, it can't.

This is exactly the destructive nature of the internet on culture.

"Professional tastemakers" gave us all kinds of bullshit like tailfins on cars, beehive hairdos, Backstreet Boys, the butt-ugly cars of the 70s, Britney Spears, and many more abominations of good taste than I can possibly count.

BTW all these advanced the state-of-the-art. This is why people need to listen to professional tastemakers instead of mere commoners like you.

The real question you need to ask is how you get rid of your destructive ego that causes you to override a professional's taste?

You do need to figure out why a beehive hairdo is an advancement instead of a regression.

People like you are EXACTLY why culture stagnated during the last 20 years, and you have to ask how you can limit your own influence and power, since you do not have a developed sense of taste.

How would YOU limit the power of your own ego?

What a pile of populist drivel.

Basically everything you said was completely incorrect, due to flawed theories.

There has been very little advancement in the cultural world since around 1995. This should be obvious wherever you look.

And the reason this happened is because the internet happened, which democratized culture and spread information freely, resulting in the stagnation of arts because democratic sensibilities prevents the advancement of the arts.

Cultural advancements can ONLY come from the elite and professional tastemakers. Do you know why?

Hint: It has to do with the experience and expertise of professional tastemakers.

The worst thing that happened to culture is that the mere commoner was given a voice on the internet.

We really need to remove the voice of the commoner from the internet. The commoners are just so BAD at everything, causing all manner of stagnation in the cultural world.