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Comment What a real climate scientist says about this (Score 1) 1057

by Wantok on Monday June 29, 2009 @12:49AM (#28509943) Attached to: EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming

Gavin Schmidt, notable NASA climate scientist, provides a nice reality check on this story, concluding with this:

"So in summary, what we have is a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at. Seriously, if that's the best they can do, the EPA's ruling is on pretty safe ground."

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/06/bubkes/

Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL 315

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 20, 2007 @08:06PM from the running-it-up-the-flagpole dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For the first time in the U.S., a company is being taken to court for a GPL violation. The Software Freedom Law Center has sued Monsoon Multimedia over alleged GPL violations in the Hava, a place- and time-shifting TV recorder similar to the SlingBox. Interestingly, Monsoon Multimedia is run by a highly experienced international lawyer named Graham Radstone. According to his corporate biography, Radstone has an MA in Law from the University of Cambridge, England, and held the top legal spot at an unnamed "$1 billion private multinational company." He also reportedly held top management positions with Philip Morris, Pfizer, and DHL. Sounds like the makings of a good old legal Donnybrook ahead."

Feed The Register: Nobel-winning boffin slams ISS, manned spaceflight (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @09:33AM

'Infantile fixation on putting people into space'

A Nobel laureate physicist has poured scorn on human space exploration, saying "the whole manned spaceflight programme, which is so enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value".

Comment Lethality 0 (Score 2, Insightful) 380

by Wantok on Wednesday November 09, 2005 @03:37AM (#13986869) Attached to: Set PHASRs On Stun

Blinding someone driving at high speed through a roadblock... oh yeah, that sounds non-lethal.

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