if climate scientists are using applied physics to make their forecasts, then why is absolutely no one absolutely sure what specifically is causing the warming or what specifically could stop it?

oh, that's right, because they aren't applying physics, they are guessing.

flamebait for answering a question honestly? retarded moderators. valve drones. serve your master.

you don't want to know what people pay, you want to know what their costs are.

this must be your first global warming thread. instead of discussing facts, and unbiased moderation, these threads degrade into uselessness almost instantly.

what i'm wondering is if the same forecasting supercomputers were used that were unable to predict the turn around, and burst the mortgage bubble.... sure it's been hot. sure it's been relatively hotter and hotter. that doesn't mean it will keep getting hotter and hotter forever. the next step will just as likely be a complete climate switch to extreme cold rather than continued warming.

there certainly exist people who have made services that haven't YET suffered errors as severe as this one made by valve.

is your vocabulary and logic always so limited when your sarcasm is turned on? why would you ever talk about the capability of errors? i think you meant possibility or proneness or potential for. being prone to errors is not a capability...

uh... that was my point. the original poster called the software they gave them "expensive"... i pointed out that is irrelevant and logically fuzzy.

none of the above.

not that i'm suggesting you should, but you aren't even going to consider your option to start your own competing service?

they allowed something designed to make the game more enjoyable completely remove all ability to enjoy the game from a very very large number of players. the "expensiveness" of the game provided in retribution is as relevant as their claims of billions lost due to piracy. this is far more than "an error" on their part... but an apology and access to content they've already produced and can duplicate trivially at ~no cost is pretty much all they have to give.

and now the market decides: do i want to pay to play games through a service that is capable of making such "errors"

the false implication is that the demo WILL happen. a demo has been scheduled... claims have been made, but there is certainly no certainty that the demo will actually happen and fulfill all the claims.

why would your new research mesh network node ever need to trick users of a competitors network and intercept their traffic? why not just demonstrate a call strictly over your own network relays? is it because the latency of such a network makes voice calls horribly awkward? the advertised device and method of interception has no applicable use for research other than unwarranted interception. the advertised demo is neither ethical or practical.

would it be evil for AT&T to give the FBI the location of the talk and express concern about the electronic transmitter being demoed, which broadcasts a signal to phones before they allow calls to be intercepted?

what about every single person in the audience and surrounding city that might not really care how cell phone security works as long as people aren't advertising how to listen to their calls. he might have an angry mob on his hands.

many emulators are designed from the ground up to match the original hardware's capacity precisely... this article is FUD.

torch something.

i don't think you know what "obscurity" means.

yours was unnecessary.