The Gaming Museum website in your sig is riddled with PHP errors. You might want to have a look at that.

Generally speaking, the people who write the papers are the same cast of characters who do the reviews on the papers. Its a fairly incestuous process, so I don't put a lot of stock in "peer review" when it comes to something as unphysical as climate science. Peer review in general, in all sciences, is also undergoing a kind of crisis of confidence. http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34518/title/Opinion--Scientific-Peer-Review-in-Crisis/

People treat climate science like it was a hard science like physics or chemistry, where input A results in output B. It isn't. It is at best a "soft science" where opinion and confirmation bias creep in at every opportunity.

Keep in mind that people are trying to make predictions about the future behaviour of a complex, chaotic, non-linear dynamic system based on poorly founded, unphysical simulations of the past behaviour of that system -- you cannot simulate a system unless you understand all of its inputs and outputs, and the physical relationship between them. Prediction is, if not impossible, is very very hard. http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/504.htm

I'd be worried more about all the methane leaking from drilling and fracking sites... just saying.

You only have one job while you're driving. Drive the car. To do this, you have to watch out for other cars, be aware of road conditions, read signs along the road, watch for animals or humans crossing the road, monitoring your speed, etc. It's a lot to work on. You really even shouldn't daydream or let your mind wander - concentrate on the job at hand. If it's too boring, take the bus and stop endangering other people's lives.

FYI, Office 365 on Mac just gets you a copy of Office 2011.

The free market has fixed the problem. It's called the iPhone. Or if you don't roll that way, a newer Android phone from any number of other suppliers. I hear HTC makes a heck of a phone. To not engage in the free market (i.e. not buy the better product) and then complain that the free market isn't solving your problems seems like self evident stupidity to me. Just sayin.

This has to be one of the more ridiculous claims to come out of the alarmosphere about climate change I've ever heard. There's a cool list of things that are supposed to be attributable to climate change (according to the alarmists): http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/17/global-warming-ate-my-homework-100-things-blamed-on-global-warming/ . I guess we can add this to the list.

What does it say about the state of Slashdot's editorial practices that I assumed the headline was just the usual word salad of grammatical errors on first parse?

Well, ideally, it should depend on how the type size is defined in the CSS. 12pt != 12px. Well, they are equivalent if your screen resolution is 72pixels per inch, but screens have not been that coarse for quite some time. So If you specify a font-size of 12px, then the type should take up 12 pixels on the screen, no matter how large or small those pixels are. It would be better if you specify a font-size of 12pt -- then the type would be the same size across all viewing devices because a point is a finite, defined, literal measurement unit - modern usage pins it at 1/72 of an inch. But I have yet to see browsers actually treat font sizes in this way - they scale points up and down as if they were some variable measurement system.

I pretty much instantly lost interest when I saw the hats.

You know what I love to read about? Americans bitching about their taxes. Their infrastructure is falling down all around them, their schools, police, fire departments, utilities, etc. are all chronically underfunded. But lawdy lawdy, don't dare raise their taxes to try to FIX some of this stuff. From the outside looking in, all this complaining just seems so... what are the words? Stupid and shortsighted.

Well, your memory might be different from mine. I remember Pac-Man as a flickery unplayable mess, but Ms. Pac-Man on the exact same hardware you describe was significantly better in all respects. I assume because it was written by a professional with experience, instead of by a high-school intern. Just my recollection though.

I looked up the exact location of my office within the building I work in every day. "unlucky.sublet.deciding"

Sorta. It "boots" to running a startup script that executes a series of CLI commands (to mount various directories as aliases and to move some critical libraries to a RAM disk) before (usually) ending in a call to LoadWB, which prompts the system to load up the graphical workbench. When I had an Amiga I almost always left that step off my startup script because I did my work from, more often than not, the CLI, not the clumsy Workbench.

Now you're just trying to make me cry. :P