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Comment So this is the new Slashdot? (Score 2, Insightful) 961

Really? This is what it's come to?

I come here for the nerdy, techy, geeky news items of the day. This story is none of those.

  There are plenty of sites that I can go to that cover the activist social ranting scene. There is only one Slashdot. Please don't wreck the latter by trying to make it the former.

Submission + - When did Irene stop being a hurricane? (blogspot.com)

jamesl writes: Cliff Mass, a climate researcher at the University of Washington and popular Seattle blogger asks, "When did Irene stop being a hurricane?"

" ... there is really no reliable evidence of hurricane-force winds at any time the storm was approaching North Carolina or moving up the East Coast."

"I took a look at all the observations over Virgina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. Not one National Weather Service or FAA observation location, not one buoy observations, none reach the requisite wind speed. Most were not even close."

"Surely, one of the observations upwind of landfall, over Cape Hatteras or one of the other barrier island locations, indicated hurricane-force sustained winds? Amazingly, the answer is still no."

Cliff supports his statement with data from NOAA/NWS/NDBC presented in easy to understand charts.

Comment Re:that was fast (Score 1) 1027

If it takes weeks for news to get here it is because no one submits a story on that subject. The editors on /. may occasionally take a lax attitude towards grammar and punctuation but I've found that they're fairly quick on approving breaking news articles.

Comment SSDD (Score 1) 637

Wow. I heard this same crap ten years ago or so. 'Video games are too long', 'Video games cost too much', 'If the game is shorter, it'll be super awesome'.

Then, as now, it's all about charging more for less. Same Shit, Different Decade.

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