You do realize where the WWW was created, right? Well, you probably do not.

Truth matters. That is not the truth. All you are doing by lauding somebody that made a good contribution beyond all reason is adding lies. That is not good.

So, no, here contributions were not "incredible". That requires a bit more.

Better programming means better programmers. We are currently going the other way with bad programmers being replaced by even worse slop.

It seems enough time has passed since the last catastrophic failures in this space that people do not remember. No, this does not work except in some very specific scenarios. What Meta is probably doing is get hardware done for their very special and very irrelevant elsewhere use-case. That does not even merit a story.

A phrase used by every science denier in history.

Have some education: The world of science is split into direct research and incidental discoveries. A lot of your life is attributed to the latter. There's no causal reason why it "wouldn't have happened anyway". Many of these discoveries took years for their actual applications to become apparent and as no one was seeking these discoveries there's no reason for any sane person to believe they would have been discovered.

As for return on investment, that's not yours to decide. We spend a lot of money on science that leads to actually zero discoveries. If you want to do simple division you'll realise that the ROI from space tech is infinitely larger.

Anyway you want to impress us, stick with your convictions. Next time you're in hospital with a complex break and the doctors wheel you to that CT scanner, refuse. Tell them no, you don't believe the science funding that made that machine possible was a good use of money and stand you ground. Don't let yourself be a beneficiary of money you think is poorly spent!

That's your confirmation bias. Back in the day people specifically used hardware RAID precisely because it was faster, measurably so. Also I/O performance wasn't the only metric. Software RAID consumed considerable CPU resources back when we weren't running threadrippers with half their cores idle. Not only was I/O performance better on hardware RAID but your CPU utilisation was lower allowing for more cycles to be dedicated to the application (quite critical for database servers of old).

Uh huh.

With Greed furiously whipping and beating at a steed named Corrupt Profit racing up AI mountain, victim consumers are starting to wonder if we should just shoot the fucking horse.

Then we'll get a livestream going to guillotine Fiduciary Duty in the town square.

Who, me? Bitter about the corrupt pressure put on publicly traded companies and the "magnificent" house of seven cards now holding US investment markets hostage? OK, you got me. Got you too.

Very true. At the end of the Pennsylvanian, the last age of the carboniferous, so much carbon had been sequestered that the temperatures dropped, and much of the fauna couldn't handle it. Even Oxygen has killed off a lot of life. As things like stromatolites oxygenated water and the atmosphere, the so called "great rusting"event happened. Happened in cycles. and as the oceans started turning blue from green, iron precipitated and sunk to the seafloor, and created the banded formations , which is where we get most of our iron today. And the giant insects, needed a high oxygen content because of the way they respired, at the time when it dropped, so did they. Which is too bad - I'l love to see giant dragonflies!

I was using the term "we" in reference to everything on earth. You have to have known that.

You are not even wrong. Humans have been through such things - although it was rapid cooling for the most part. But even then, there is at least one known historical warming event.

The Medieval warm period or the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, that lasted from about 950 CE to about 1250 CE. or the so called "little ice age" that followed and continued off and on until around 1850.

And one of the biggest rapid cooling events, happening in 536 CE a volcanic winter ensued, extended by another in 540 CE then another 547CE , that extended the rapid cooling. At it's worst, the temps were 2.7 C (4.9 F) below normal.

There are greenhouse gases, and there are anti-greenhouse gases. In addition to the particulate matter when volcanoes erupt, huge amounts of sulfur aerosols are injected, into the atmosphere.

So there ya have it homie, not only did you go pedantic on my colloquial use of the word "we", while I was easily and discernibly referring to all the part and parcel of Earth, you were 100 percent wrong in your assertion that humans were never involved in rapid temperature changes based on what was in the atmosphere.

We most definitely were, attested to by historical, geographic and biological (think tree rings and other corresponding evidence)

Global warming, and global cooling is a thing, all part of the energy retention characteristics of an atmosphere based on its constituent gases and their relative percentages is a fact. Gases like Carbon Dioxide and Methane are gases that retain energy, and Sulfur dioxide which attracts atmospheric water to become an aerosol, rejects energy, all facts.

I post toward three separate audiences. Toward those who cannot comprehend that there is a well proven fact - at least as close to one as a scientist will admit - that the energy retention or rejection of an atmosphere is controlled by its gaseous composition. I always ask them how something that can be proven by grade school students and is in use every day to grow plants, utterly fails on a global level.

The second audience is those who appear to believe that we are dead unless we inject Aerosols into the atmosphere for thousands of years, which has to continue for thousands of years, because the acid rain that is a side effect will rain out and acidify the oceans, kill forests, destroy buildings and infrastructure, do significant harm to wildlife and humans. A cure worse than the problem.

I'm probably not going to convince either of the first two groups. The first is either stupid or simply doesn't care. The second appears to have something else going on, acknowledging the problem as real, but needing a panic situation. Those two groups even feed off each other, taking it political, and having a group to dehumanize. Problem is, we aren't going to have votes on the laws of physics.

The group I'm actually interested in reaching is those that might be uncommitted. People who can handle a bit of science. People who might eventually be the ones to act as the adults in the room, maybe make good solutions.

Finally, my own thesis on the matter is that while a lot of scientists speak of avoiding "tipping points" at some future time, I'm inclined to believe teh tipping point has already happened, probably in the mid 1980's.

My solution is based on doing what we can and should do. We need to accept that we have a pretty big problem. We need to stop de-sequestering, and ramp it down as quickly and in a method that doesn't cause global social collapse. We need to research crops that will handle the increased CO2. We need to research re-sequestering a good bit of what we dug up and released its CO2. All that said, we need to slow the transition, and not perform actions that make it worse, or introduce new actions that just bring new problems. We have problems that will not likely respond to denial or panic.

Why so stupid?

YOU do. Most people don't. Most laws and rulings don't deal with individual cases attempting to bypass it. A very significant portion of the population have no idea how to change their DNS settings.

That said this is becoming a bit more pointless in the past 2 years with major browsers shipping with DoH enabled by default.

It's not going to just go away. It's not going to go away unless you get rid of the Epstein class. That means you need to change how you vote. You can't just keep posting on Old fumes from Ronald Reagan slogans anymore.

Most all of humanity existed in a lower CO2 in the atmosphere.

In a bit of irony, in that era, the more likely problem was the opposite - global coolingYou could get a huge volcano eruption that pumps particulates and sulfur aerosols into the atmosphere. And it would cool the earth for some time. That is also where some people get the idea of aerosol injection to cool the planet, which is like saying "We'll cool teh earth, and put up with a thousand years of acid rain and it's health effects on animal, destroying buildings, acidifying the oceans and destroying forests. A terrible idea, but with all the FUD, some think it is a good idea - or else they ignore the likely greater destruction. It would probably cause more extinctions than AGW.

But back to the volcanoes I came up with a doomsday scenario based upon a huge eruption cycle that cooled the earth for say a decade. A number of huge volcanic eruptions pump large amounts of fine volcanic ash and Sulfur aerosols into the atmosphere. It has happened in the past, with 536 C.E. being considered the worst example, almost 2 years of crop failures. There were indeed deaths worldwide. Now possibly connected due to a weakened state, a plague a few years later, and the end was around half of humanity left.

Today, the results could be pretty horrifying. We could have crops fail in places where surplus food is shipped to other nations that already have a shortage of food the shipments make up for the deficit. So we could end up with an even larger percentage end up dead.

In irony, this could happen in an AGW affected earth. Is it likely? No. But you never know. The earth doesn't really care about humanity, almost every living organism on earth has gone extinct. It is hubris to believe we are exempt.

In most cases politicians have no obsession with DNS. They simply recognise that DNS services of ISPs is one of the few things they can control for any company that's registered within their country. It's not like they have authority outside their borders. The fact that *you* can bypass it is irrelevant. Most people don't. It's a solution to the uncommitted, and an attempt to block incidental piracy, not to put in place a technical solution that would stop the highly technical folk of Slashdot or those committed to finding a source of pirated material.

The actual alternative is build a great firewall, and politicians are clever enough to know that won't fly.

Your obsession (actually not just yours, it's a wide spread trend here on Slashdot) with absolutism is what is really stupid.

When all sides of the debate are equally stupid ignorant dolts it's not whataboutism.