Friel's book may or may not be a valid critique of Bjørn Lomborg's work, but that doesn't change the fact that when it came out, Lomborg's book "The Skeptical Environmentalist" was investigated by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty and found to be scientifically dishonest, but that Lomborg was not guilty of gross negligence because of his lack of expertise in the field.

In other words, he was deemed incompetent, not dishonest.

However, in his subsequent work over the years, I think it's safe to say he's not only dishonest, but forcefully dishonest with his repeated, controversial stances against climate science and his willfull misinterpretations.
Lomborg has a Ph.D. in political science. He has no training in climatology, meteorology, biology, physical sciences, or anything that would allow him to actually understand the science of the issues he's publically talking about.

What Lomborg is doing is "meta-science" where he's selectively collecting other people's research without understanding any of it, and massaging it to fit his agenda. This sort of research aggregation is the most error-prone of all and quickly deteriorates into pure statistics based on numbers of which you have no understanding. The results are absolutely meaningless because you're no longer finding the statistic significance of facts, you're finding the statistic significance of research papers.

The investigative committee cited of "the skeptical environmentalist":
      1. Fabrication of data;
      2. Selective discarding of unwanted results (selective citation);
      3. Deliberately misleading use of statistical methods;
      4. Distorted interpretation of conclusions;
      5. Plagiarism;
      6. Deliberate misinterpretation of others' results.

The original biologist who submitted a complaint to the committee still maintains a website listing all the errors of Lomborg's work.

Bjørn Lomborg is no better than all the other nutcases on anti-climate blogs claiming they've found discrepancies in the scientific literature, when in fact the issue is that reading a lot of these scientific climatology papers requires at least a graduate-level understanding of statistics, biology, oceanography, etc, etc.

You wouldn't expect a meaningful result if you had a bunch of old ladies from the local knitting club review the specifications for the latest CERN particle accelerators. I don't know why people think climate science is any different.

they're 'enabling the Speech 3.0, Voice 3.0, and Business 3.0 markets,' whatever that means."

It obviously means they're outsourcing all the work to 3.0rd world countries.

Idiots. Just install the 'Tab Mix Plus' extension if you want Firefox tabs to work properly.

In fact, make that the default functionality of Firefox so I don't have to install it all the time. Firefox is useless without it.

As far as I'm concerned, physical games will survive for as long as the downloaded types will be DRM-tied to an account that someone (like Steam) can cancel at anytime for any reason, or otherwise deny you access to.

We had a solution for that at the place I used to work. There was one computer in the hallway serving as a time punch-in machine. You'd go there, type your login and password and it would register you as being at work from then on, regardless of your own computer being booted up or not.

We had computers running Windows 2000 that took 15-20 minutes to boot up, what with all the corporate network scripts and anti-virus updates it needed to run before you'd even see the login box. Then it took another 2-4 minutes for the desktop to become responsive, and god knows how long to start up all the applications you needed.

If employers don't want to pay you for booting up, make a boot up script. I can't imagine how this can ever become an issue.