Thanks for the confirmation, Meta, that Haidt was 100% correct.

Oh, fluffernutter.

ICE is only convenient because of a hundred years of infrastructure build-out. But you think having an electrician spend two hours running a 50 amp line from your panel to the side of your house, which takes a few hours, is somehow an insurmountable block.

"Nice horseless carriage, Mr. Ford, but can you produce enough to switch *all* transportation to it? As of today, call for horseless only transportation means that personal vehicle ownership becomes impossible. To put it differently, you can drive your horseless carriage only because other people drive horses."

US male life expectancy is 76.5 years. If I tell you every year that you're probably going to die by the time you're seventy-seven, and you hit seventy-eight, do you now believe you're immortal?

And? Hypertext isn't 'the internet.' It's a logical extension to the concept of a page reference.

Says the person still posting on slashdot.

Correct -- the AI did the math based on the average temperature reported for the water volume (~1.5C), not the topline 3C. I thnk you're at 4C here (dT=4 K)? Yes, that would be rather higher again!

Mostly I agree.. but that's because I remember how much energy is required to heat water.

In this case, I wondered; 4 degrees doesn't "sound" like a lot. Until one looks into the sheer volume of water involved...so I asked AI for some help....

Turns out, the critical El Niño tracking zone is about 1000x6000 km, 200 meters deep; so ~1.M cubic kilometers of water. (I asked; 970 billion acre-feet, or enough to cover the entire continental US to about a 486-foot depth)

The energy required to lift to the current level (about 1.5C through the depth of the water involved; 3C at the top today) is about 6.38 trillion Gigajoules... or about 1.5 trillion tonnes of TNT-equivalent energy.

In a more readable level; that's an energy amount on the approximate order of blowing up the entire nuclear arsenal of the planet, 300 times over.
Or, maybe better; there's "excess" energy in the El Nino event, roughtly equivalent right now to 10 years of the entire energy consumption of the entire human race, in all forms -- oil, coal, gas, nuclear, renewables, everything put together.

Just... absolutely staggering energy numbers.!

And yet when Sony removed Linux support for the PS3, a change that affects 'virtually zero of their customers,' Slashdot was calling for lawsuits.

My advice: don't lament Raspberry Pi RAM upgrades, especially given they're only slightly harder to perform now. Very few hackers ever performed them, the main audience for them turned out to be dodgy hardware resellers online, and in most cases, repair doesn't seem to be impeded at all, either. Think of the users that will no longer be fooled by a shady seller on Amazon, especially now that the perverse incentives for board mods and reusing harvested RAM chips are at their highest.

This doesn't pass the 'would you say the same thing if it wasn't your baby' test.

You're right, they could have made that choice. However, they would have priced themselves out of the market, as while they would have gained a small uptick in 'I want a cool Linux computer' sales, they would have faced a massive loss in 'I want a game console' and 'I want a Blu-Ray player' sales, which were the two primary drivers of PS3 sales.

Console price is king. There's a reason Sony's entire console launch presentation for the original PlayStation at E3 in 1995 was, and I quote, '$299.'

You can find it on YouTube, if you're interested.

Unless the watch can initiate chest compressions and AED functions, simply calling emergency services when you lose your pulse isn't going to accomplish anything.

And then they pulled the Linux support when they realized how many people were buying PS2s for Linux, and not buying games, thus costing Sony money under the 'razors and blades' paradigm.

The problem here is that when you turned on the TV for the first time and clicked the 'I accept' button, you agreed to the recording, and probably agreed that you'd be responsible for letting anybody else who might be in range of the TV know that they're subject to recording.

Is that going to hold up in court? Who knows, but can you afford to spend the money to find out? Somebody eventually will, and you'll get a coupon for twenty bucks off of a new TV as the settlement.

Yeah, my bad, I just automatically assumed this would involve a transfer switch to avoid backfeeding.