Why do people think that the cause matters so much?
Is it happening?: Yes.
Is it harmful to us?: Almost certainly yes eventually. Probably even in the relative short term, some things like the recently severe arctic inversions have caused harm to farming. Harm to the food supply is certainly bad. So put this as a Yes.
What can we do about it? Here's where knowing the cause is useful, but not essential. If we caused it, then it's probably easier for us to stop it than if it's a purely natural cycle. Even if it is purely natural we might still be able to geoengineer a solution. The expense/difficulty of fixing it cause problems, but as long as those problems are lesser than ignoring the problem a rational actor will act to fix global warming.

Now, has anyone seen a rational actor? Anyone?

Except that in the vast majority of cases the manipulators and the speculators are the exact same people.

That's Nexus series only, not for all Android phones, or even all with a certain version and up of the OS. Hopefully it will get adapted to other phones soon.

LUKS Manager for Android lets you create encrypted volumes, similar to TrueCrypt. TextSecure encrypts incoming text messages. There is not yet a way to do full disk encryption that I know of.

Not just embedded. Look at Coreboot, where Linux is used as a BIOS.

Back in high school a friend and I created a 4-bit CPU from discrete components. It was a big, semester-long project, but it worked and we made some very simple programs for it. So I've done half of it, once. I'll probably never do that again.

I believe they were, they mention that as the maximal error of basic GPS systems, then describe their system, which uses a PolaRx2e reciever.

Relativity is derived from the application of the Lorentz transformations onto Maxwell's equations. It's defined in terms of light. Change C from light to neutrinos and the derivation no longer applies, since neutrinos don't follow Maxwell's equations.

They know the positions of the 2 ends of the neutrino baseline to 2cm accuracy via GPS. They used those 2 sets of coordinates to measure the straight-line distance. They repeated the measurements daily to account for the slow drift of the continental plates. See page 10 of the paper.

GPS is accurate to +-100ns. That wasn't enough, so they used atomic clocks and GPS AND a few other steps of sync (basically they set 2 atomic clocks to GPS time at CERN, then carted one to Italy and calibrated the atomic clock + GPS clocks there to it. This got them an accuracy of +-0.9ns.

Relativity is incompatible with the standard model (quantum mechanics). One or both must therefore be incorrect. The standard model does not predict this sort of behavior for neutrinos, and Relativity indicates that they should not travel faster than c. IFF this result is correct, then both are incorrect.

I have. They tend to go corrupt because the disk is failing though, so it's almost never not a windows specific error. /etc getting trashed is effectively the *nix equivalent.

I use a pseudonym in real life. Several of my friends don't even know my "real" name, and probably never will. After all, my name is the identifier people associate with me.

Most optical media shine when you reflect light off them. Or scatter light through them, in this case.

I have 2 pairs of headphones, both about $40-50 range. SteelSeries Siberia (pretty nice sound, VERY comfortable), and VModa earbuds (good sound for earbuds, quite comfortable.) I've used Grado SR-125s before, and while the sound is a bit better than either of my $40 sets they're $125+ and nowhere near as comfortable for long periods. I'll stick with the headphones I can actually wear.