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Submission + - Who's Bankrolling the Climate-Change Deniers? 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Bryan Walsh writes in Time Magazine that climate denialism exists in part because there has been a long-term, well-financed effort on the part of conservative groups and corporations to distort global-warming science. "The blows have been struck by a well-funded, highly complex and relatively coordinated denial machine," say sociologists Riley Dunlap and Aaron McCright. Fossil-fuel companies like Exxon and Peabody Energy — which obviously have a business interest in slowing any attempt to reduce carbon emissions — have combined with traditionally conservative corporate groups like the US Chamber of Commerce and conservative foundations like the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, to raise doubts about the basic validity of what is, essentially, a settled scientific truth. The naysayers seem to be following the playbook written by the tobacco industry in its long, ongoing war against medical findings about the dangers of smoking. For both Big Oil and Big Smoke, that playbook is lethally simple: don't straight-up refute the science, just raise skepticism and insist that the findings are "unsettled" and that "more research" is necessary."
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Submission + - slashdot blocked in china 2

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tvlinux writes: I woke up this morning, and accessed /. I received a "connection reset". After living in China to a few years, I know what that means. Slashdot is being blocked by "Golden Shield". I am in ShenZhen, anybody else being blocked?
Slashdot is a great place to keep track of the latest technology advances. Google is some times throttled. Many other technical sites are blocked just because they are on a blog site.
Is China cutting it throat learning about new technology?
Windows

Submission + - Windows 8 to reduce memory footprint (msdn.com)

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bheer
bheer writes: "Microsoft's Windows 8 blog has a good post about the work being done to reduce Windows 8's memory footprint. The OS will use multiple approaches to do this, including combining RAM pages, re-architecting old bits of code and adding new APIs for more granular memory management. Interestingly, it will also let services start on a trigger and stop when needed instead of running all the time."

Comment Re:Not as bad as it sounds! (Score 3, Interesting) 521

by mabhatter654 (#29761773) Attached to: Doubts Raised About Legal Soundness of GPL2

Because it's like that saying if you get handed lemons, make lemonade. GPL relies on the exact same copyright law pertaining to EVERYBODY and available to EVERYBODY but turns the implementation on it's ear by giving things away in a very specific and legal manner that software companies don't like. They can't break GPL without seriously breaking the law that protects their own copyrights.

Comment Re:ID what? (Score 1) 1055

by wezeldog (#28109257) Attached to: What Free IDE Do You Use?
I use interactive debugging, but I try not to be in such a rush to hit f5, f8, f10 or whatever. I read the error message that was generated and think about it and the code for a few moments. I may not have to fire up the debugger at all. Maybe there are assertions that help identify the bug. This may be the only option in some environments where interactive debugging is verboten. Nothing wrong with the interactive debugger. I've used it to brute-force my way through some ugly and unfamiliar stuff. It may not be the most efficient debugging tool for every occassion.

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