Hard disagree. We have to look at more than 5 years of data. And when we look at hundreds / thousands of years of data, things get murkier as to what the "temperature should be today".

I'll leave this here to show what I'm talking about why we can't just predict the next 5 or 10 or 100 years so easily.

I don't follow politics as closely as some people, so I don't know how she meant it, but I parsed her statement as "A top climate scientist is warning that if we don't stop using fossil fuels over the next five years, climate change will wipe out humanity [at some point in the future]."

If climate change is really a science, if the science is really settled, what testable predictions does it make?

I'll agree with this statement, but it's also a strawman thrown in by both sides. We can't test climate change. We don't have two earths. We have to rely on other methods to determine if we're screwing ourselves (via environmental changes) or not.

Don't ever think that any large corporation doesn't think about extinguishing other companies. It happens all the time -- and large companies are the worst offenders. They may pause the trend for PR purposes, but every large company will happily buy up a smaller company that is doing better, gut that little company, and discard the carcass. We see it happen over and over and over again even in today's world.

Oh, good point. Maybe that's why Netflix didn't want to pay: they were like, hey, this is your fault, fix it.

Luckily it's Netflix's own IP that was leaked, and it won't affect their partnerships with other studios, although they obviously need to get a handle on their security.

After that, you pre-pay $10 for 10gb beginning with the first bit over 150gb.

Kids these days. With dial up the struggle was real.

From Gawker's own article: "Shiva Ayyadurai didn't invent email—he created "EMAIL," an electronic mail system implemented at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. "

The question becomes - was this the first full-fledged implementation of the RFCs and was it the first to be commonly referred to that way? It seems dubious, but this guy is not patent trolling. He's merely trying to make sure his place in history is noted.

Honestly I don't feel good about him getting a settlement because I think you should generally be too busy to care what is written about you by professional bloggers and by all accounts he's gotten plenty of recognition from other sources, such as the Smithsonian.

At least no one's trying to take away from Eric Allman, who wrote delivermail (on which sendmail is based).

This is what "bravery" gets you. People are holding onto their older iPhones longer and likely considering alternatives.

Mycroft.ai

More than half of the time people spend online is on Facebook, for better or worse.

Anyone had any?

I haven't replied to any thread on Slashdot since I last screamed "Fuck Beta" as often as I could over a year ago. I believe I logged in once when Slashdot said they had removed Beta. (It didn't look like it to me.) I'll occasionally look at a story if something looks interesting on my RSS feed. I don't come to the website except to log in. It's been a long time since I've actually visited.

Want to show a really good faith move to attract the "old farts" back? When Soylent News was formed, they took the old Slashdot code and saw it hadn't been updated in years, and was severely broken.

Open source it again. Put a nice link on the website in an easy to find location. As a matter of fact, make it a front news story once you've done it. If you think that this is a bad move because you need to keep the code close to your chest so you don't have another split off like Soylent News, then you don't understand the "old farts" and they are not your target audience.

And even after you've done that, it will still take time for the old farts to trust you. Trust is not earned with a single action nor in a short period of time.

Fair point. X.computer would be more applicable to them now, anyway, but you're right: domains don't mean nearly what they used to thanks to search engines.

You don't think that attitude leads to even worse user behavior? Don't get me wrong. Qubes would be on my list if I made it time to write it, but if it were strictly a security list and there were prizes to be had, I'd vote something more likely to wind up Joe America's hands, like the Tor Browser or Tox.im.