Handedness is genetic. There are plenty of stories of people trying to beat their children out of being left-handed.

I think "You have been Björked" will now enter the Android lexicon.

No attempt at humor. I'm not going to be offended by you calling me willfully ignorant, because I didn't give you enough information. I've just noticed there seems to be an editorial bias on slashdot towards stories that deny anthropogenic global warming. I'd seen the science paper retraction story on another site. It is indeed disturbing, but it does show that the process of science still works. If those bad papers weren't being retracted then we'd be in a much worse situation. As soon as I saw the globalwarming tag, I knew the asshats who put them there were still trying to cast doubt on that humans were changing the climate. I'm not seeing anything in the article about retractions of papers on global warming, or rather about the study of ice cores, of tree rings, of sediment cores, of analysis of weather records over time--all the disciplines that are studied to form a picture of our climate and to predict what is happening.

The rise in retractions seems to have almost become exponential over the past 6 years. That we knew and had predicted humans were causing climate change by increasing the warming of the climate was pretty well understood by the late 1980's. In fact many of the predictions have been born out since then. We aren't seeing retractions of papers from the 1980's, but the late 2000's.

Anyway, here is an excellent resource called The Discovery of Global Warming (See the timeline: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/timeline.htm). It's also a book. I hope that clarifies where I stand on the issue and why I called them asshats. Because only an asshat would try to make a connection. And I'm still waiting for that list of retracted papers about global warming.

on this story. Asshats. Seriously? How many of those retracted papers dealt with the studies relating to climate change?

I thought it was bad enough there were global warming denialists running slashdot, but now antivaxxers. The people running this site should know better than to feed these trolls. What has this become? The last refuge of semi tech-literate libertarian nutjobs?

with the best of them.

the cost of LED lighting will have come down. The Chinese will have done what they did to the solar cell market and flood the market with cheap LED bulbs. Anyway, you people do know there are energy efficient incandescent bulbs. They're not as efficient as LED or CFL bulbs but use about I think about 70% the energy a regular bulb does. I'm using those where I can't use CFL or LEDs.

There is no such thing as an 'extreme position' on carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. The Earth would be a colder without it. Without any atmosphere the Earth's surface would be frozen. It is the thousands of years of empirical data that shows unequivocally that humans have changed and are changing the climate. Humans have pumped tens of millions of years of sequestered carbon back into the atmosphere in a little over two centuries. It means that there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and in the oceans. Not only is the climate getting warmer our oceans are acidifying.

For those who don't wish to remain willfully ignorant as some slashdotters seem to want to, here's an excellent resource that discuss the 100+ years worth of science of the study of global warming and the climate: The Discovery of Global Warming.

these planets shouldn't exist according to our current understanding, or challenged what we think we know.

how the Moon was formed. It is not the so-called Giant Impact Hypothesis. It is called the Giant Impact Hypothesis and that's what it is an hypothesis, not a theory. It doesn't cast any doubt on the Moon's origins. It is a strike against the GIH. It just means that scientists have to come up with a new idea of how it was formed. Now this isotopic analysis will help to formulate a new hypothesis and even theory about the Moon's origin.

C'mon doesn't anyone watch Gilligan's Island anymore? Remember when Gilligan launches himself off the roof of a hut with a pair of wings flapping them.

Skipper: "Gilligan what are you doing?"

Gilligan: "Skipper, I'm going to fly for help."

Skipper: "Gilligan you can't fly!"

Gilligan: "I can't?"

loaded with an atomic bomb. Sure it might take weeks or months for a ship to pull into port. It doesn't have to be unloaded nor very powerful to shut a port down and cause tremendous local damage but even more economic damage.

I'll repeat myself. The carriers shouldn't oversell the network and set reasonable customer expectations. But if you want to rant against "socialist/facist/communist/liberal/lunatic tripe" be my guest. Whatever that means.

The problem is the AT&T and other carriers have oversold network capacity. They should build up to make sure the bandwidth is there. And until that happens I'd be OK with them throttling only on towers that are in danger of being swamped. Maybe even send out a notice to users saying, "Yes we suck at providing you with bandwidth, but there are a lot of users on this tower and we have to throttle the data speeds so others can use it. Consider laying off sucking up bandwidth for the next 15 minutes or so."

I guess you never heard of the robo-signing scandal.

Also you must be rich because you have no empathy.