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Last year was very warm due to 'super El Nino' conditions. El Nino occurs every 4 years or so, and is then followed by La Nina conditions which are usually very cold. This is probably why temperatures have plummeted so much that it snowed in the SAHARA yesterday. This is all natural fluctuations on top of the gradual rise that started 150 years ago at the end of the Little Ice Age (where solar magnetic activity started changing terrestrial cloud formation, see the work by Svensmark and Shaviv for example). A mere 2% increase in water vapor has the same effect as a 100% increase in CO2, water vapor really is the dominant 'greenhouse gas'.

Here are pictures of yesterday's snow in the Sahara for anyone who is interested, the last time it was cold enough to snow here was 37 years ago:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12...
So much for all the clueless new agencies that said 'snow is a thing of the past' a decade ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
and all the 'ice free Arctic summer' forecasts also made by clueless mainstream media outlets
http://realclimatescience.com/...
They are a bunch of liars ! Don't fall for the lies anymore, dear Slashdotters. Especially don't let the frauds take your hard-earned cash as 'green tax' or take your individual liberty away in the name of 'saving the planet'. They got the science wrong and think they can win by lying to you to continue their globalist One World Government (UN) scam - which they control and you do not elect.

With regard to the claim that the Arctic won't freeze I believe the people making the claims don't seem to understand that an El Nino often delays winter conditions by months, but when they do come and form La Nina conditions then they come with a vengeance. Expect next year to be colder than normal. And after that the 4-year El Nino/La Nina cycle driven by the Pacific Ocean will start again.

Here are data from the Arctic (Danish sources that are not fraudulent politicized entities like US ones):
http://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland...
We see that Greenland (in the Arctic) has massive amounts of MORE ice than normal. We also see normal variability in the ice cover data, things look fairly normal and ice cover is currently in an increasing phase both for this time of year and since 2012
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/ice...

Have a great Christmas dear Slashdotters, and I hope each of you has a much better 2017 than this year.

Just view the internet like it was back in the 90's...

I'd take black text on grey any day... heck resurrect the rotting corpse that was called frames too -- still an improvement!

https://archive.org/web/

No, the "fake news" of the last few months has been the fabricated news pupping up hysterical memes so as to generate millions of dollars in ad revenue. It's genuinely fake. The people writing it don't even believe it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites

This is an example of a well-shared fake news story on a fake news site: http://web.archive.org/web/20161107053425/http://denverguardian.com/2016/11/05/fbi-agent-suspected-hillary-email-leaks-found-dead-apparent-murder-suicide/?utm_content=buffer013fc

"Denver Guardian is Denver's oldest news source and one of the longest running daily newspapers published in the United States. With a focus on local content, the Guardian thrives to maintain a non-partisan newsroom making our content the most reliable source available in print and across the web. "

The Denver Guardian isn't a real newspaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Guardian

Also, it's a fine time to put our money where our mouths are, as donations are being matched (presumably out of the same concern):

Dear Internet Archive Patrons:
You’ve come to the Internet Archive in search of knowledge, to find Web pages you would have lost. Now we need your help in return. Will you help sustain this non-profit library built on trust? We have a huge mission: to give everyone access to all knowledge, forever. For free. The Internet Archive has only 150 staff but runs the #250 website in the world. Your privacy is very important to us, so we don’t collect your personal information. We don’t accept ads. But we still need to pay for servers, staff and rent. That’s where you can help us. Right now a generous supporter will match your donation 1-for-1. So you can double your impact! If you find our site useful, please give what you can today. Thank you.

Guess I'm chipping in again...

http://archive.org/

Also, it's a fine time to put our money where our mouths are, as donations are being matched (presumably out of the same concern):

Dear Internet Archive Patrons:
You’ve come to the Internet Archive in search of knowledge, to find Web pages you would have lost. Now we need your help in return. Will you help sustain this non-profit library built on trust? We have a huge mission: to give everyone access to all knowledge, forever. For free. The Internet Archive has only 150 staff but runs the #250 website in the world. Your privacy is very important to us, so we don’t collect your personal information. We don’t accept ads. But we still need to pay for servers, staff and rent. That’s where you can help us. Right now a generous supporter will match your donation 1-for-1. So you can double your impact! If you find our site useful, please give what you can today. Thank you.

Guess I'm chipping in again...

http://archive.org/

Socialism not having a causative relationship to millions dead?

Funny how a Nobel prize winning economist wrote an entire book back in the 40s illustrating and predicting why that sort of mass murdering dictator would always end up in power under that sort of system. It turns out that we have lots of examples (Germany, USSR, Spain, Cuba, China, Venezuela, etc...) of how it works in practice.

The main problem is that people who get ahead under socialism are those who are more and more ruthless about wanting to run other people's lives, while the people who want to do good for people and let them run their own lives aren't the type to go after government power. If you put the power to run people's lives for them (which is ultimately what socialism is, as it's actually implemented in government) in the hands of government officials, then don't be surprised when people who want to run other's lives are attracted to controlling that power.

Sure, if you don't have full blown socialism, just some socialist programs, their power is more limited over you, but that's not an argument for continuing and expanding the government's power over people's lives... which is what the government has been doing for at least 70 years or more in the United States and many the places.

At the Correos de Cuba and the hotels, you have access to practically all news websites such as lemonde.fr, bbc.com, El Nuevo Herald (a Miami-based Spanish-language daily) and even to dissident sites. This is also the case for government employees with a computer and Internet access.

“I haven’t opened Granma for years,” says Luis, who works for the culture ministry. “I get my news from Google and the BBC website and I have never had any problem getting to websites operated by government opponents.
In fact, of all the news stories I wanted to read on the Internet, only one has been blocked.

I do not say that Cuba has freedom of informations, when it's a totalitarian regime. But, saying that Cubans have limited access Internet because of Chinese-style informations filter is not correct:
* they don't have this kind of technology. Also, in fact, the Great Firewall does not works perfectly, I used Internet inside this curtain, and it's extreme annoying. That's why Chinese have been paying much money for VPN, proxy for accessing Internet outside.
* The main reason for this (limited access Internet in Cuba) is the price, the bandwidth.

> The *worst* outcome is when the "laws" are secret or unknowable and enforced arbitrarily.

We are heading in that direction (if not there already).

There are a bajillion laws and "ignorance of the law is no excuse", also there are various regulatory agencies that make regulations which have the force of law.

There are so many laws that you are probably violating something that you don't know about, and some things you know about but figure no one will care about.

"Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime."

https://mic.com/articles/86797...

http://wayback.archive.org/web...

https://www.cato.org/events/te...

Believe what, exactly?

Most people don't believe there's been any proof that these guys are pedophiles, no, that's why people are investigating. Nobody has been calling for violence or to do illegal things, only to examine public records, as is the right of every person.

Now, if you mean that people believe the (gone but archived) jimmycommet Instagram was super-creepy, then yes, yes they do. If they believe that Podesta had some weird emails, like the handkerchief with a pizza-related map (whatever THAT is), then yes, anyone can go and read it. If they believe that there was an email asking whether they'd play dominoes better on pizza or pasta, then yes, there's a weird email like that. This led a lot of people to believe they're talking in some sort of code, because it makes no sense whatsoever.

Then along comes a group of stores, like Comet Ping Pong Pizza where someone matched an FBI doc of known pedophile logos to the businesses there. Then they find this pretty creepy Instagram tagging pictures of a kid with things like #chickenlover (slang for someone who likes young males) and they have lots of questions. Someone investigating this dies in Haiti, they have questions.

Even in this story, all of them say he shot the gun. But we have witnesses saying otherwise on Twitter:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161205044956/https://mobile.twitter.com/bayreef/status/805593857744310272

So it's really not clear WTF is going on any more. If you want to kill this, go down the list of evidence and figure out the innocent explanations for it. Because yelling that some lone nutcase did something idiotic isn't going to help and it's not going to answer any questions.

Go look at Twitter and you have witnesses saying there was no gunfire.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161205044956/https://mobile.twitter.com/bayreef/status/805593857744310272

Three arrests happened in Ukraine, the head of the group is from Ukraine, some photos and video made by local police: http://soft2secure.com/news/av... Other commentators were right about Ukraine. This country is famous for its hackers. What more interesting and sad that the guy already released by the judge and disappeared: http://poltava.to/news/40985/ and here: http://obozrevatel.com/crime/1... So, four years of investigation and now their boss may just restructure and launch Avalanche 2.0 with his money and connections and experience. FBI, Europol and 30+ other organization should have known Ukraine is totally corrupted. I am not surprised at all. Hacker steal our money and become politicians there: http://voices.washingtonpost.c... and here - http://wayback.archive.org/web...

= Drive-by web nasty unmasks Tor Browser users, Mozilla dashes to patch zero-day vuln

"Mozilla is scrambling to patch a vulnerability in Firefox that is apparently being exploited in the wild to unmask Tor Browser users.

Earlier today, a small package of SVG, JavaScript and x86 code popped up on a Tor mailing list that, when opened by Firefox or Tor Browser on a Windows PC, phones home to a remote server and leaks the user's MAC address, hostname and potentially their public IP address. Typically, this exploit would be embedded in a webpage and leap into action when opened by an unsuspecting visitor."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... [theregister.co.uk]
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

= Firefox 0day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users

http://arstechnica.com/securit...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

= [tor-talk] Javascript exploit

"This is an Javascript exploit actively used against TorBrowser NOW. It
consists of one HTML and one CSS file, both pasted below and also
de-obscured. The exact functionality is unknown but it's getting access to
"VirtualAlloc" in "kernel32.dll" and goes from there. Please fix ASAP."

https://lists.torproject.org/p...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

= Drive-by web nasty unmasks Tor Browser users, Mozilla dashes to patch zero-day vuln

"Mozilla is scrambling to patch a vulnerability in Firefox that is apparently being exploited in the wild to unmask Tor Browser users.

Earlier today, a small package of SVG, JavaScript and x86 code popped up on a Tor mailing list that, when opened by Firefox or Tor Browser on a Windows PC, phones home to a remote server and leaks the user's MAC address, hostname and potentially their public IP address. Typically, this exploit would be embedded in a webpage and leap into action when opened by an unsuspecting visitor."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... [theregister.co.uk]
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

= Firefox 0day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users

http://arstechnica.com/securit...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

= [tor-talk] Javascript exploit

"This is an Javascript exploit actively used against TorBrowser NOW. It
consists of one HTML and one CSS file, both pasted below and also
de-obscured. The exact functionality is unknown but it's getting access to
"VirtualAlloc" in "kernel32.dll" and goes from there. Please fix ASAP."

https://lists.torproject.org/p...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

= Drive-by web nasty unmasks Tor Browser users, Mozilla dashes to patch zero-day vuln

"Mozilla is scrambling to patch a vulnerability in Firefox that is apparently being exploited in the wild to unmask Tor Browser users.

Earlier today, a small package of SVG, JavaScript and x86 code popped up on a Tor mailing list that, when opened by Firefox or Tor Browser on a Windows PC, phones home to a remote server and leaks the user's MAC address, hostname and potentially their public IP address. Typically, this exploit would be embedded in a webpage and leap into action when opened by an unsuspecting visitor."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... [theregister.co.uk]
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

= Firefox 0day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users

http://arstechnica.com/securit...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

= [tor-talk] Javascript exploit

"This is an Javascript exploit actively used against TorBrowser NOW. It
consists of one HTML and one CSS file, both pasted below and also
de-obscured. The exact functionality is unknown but it's getting access to
"VirtualAlloc" in "kernel32.dll" and goes from there. Please fix ASAP."

https://lists.torproject.org/p...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

At some point MS seemed to like the Korn shell, right until a pretty famous encounter. After that they really had to invent the most incompatible-with-anything shell imaginable, so it would never happen again.

Mocking Obama was always fine. [...] Mocking Obama in a transparently racist manner was racist.

I seem to remember, during Bush's presidency, a popular website named www.bushorchimp.com, on which users would submit pairs of photos - one of Bush, and one of a chimpanzee - in which the two subjects had a similarity of posture or other resemblance.

If a similar site had mocked Obama in exactly the same way, would you consider it racist? Do you think the media would consider it racist?

There's a fairly massive barrier to entry there though. Maybe there're aircraft out there cheaper than Cessna's; but given that they're canonical and ubiquitous, I went looking for pricing on the 172. And it the cheapest model offered starts at $274,900. That being the cheapest, lowest-end, most bare-bones model available; stock, with no add-ons. That, of course, does not include the time and money for training to get your license.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

The pollsters did not use the same methods as before, Reuters changed polling formulas when it did give them answer they wanted http://www.breitbart.com/2016-... and just deleted polls http://archive.is/B12MC when that didn't work.
Trump used a UK internal pollster had no problem correctly predicting where to campaign http://mashable.com/2016/11/10....
  Look at Trumps schedule the last few days , do you think his campaign went to MI,WI,NC,PA, and FL for the hell of it? Notice he only lost one of those https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Germany?

In the movie Blackhat there's a screen where a hex editor is used to analyze some malware code. The hex code is just random nonsense, but the ASCII conversion contains lines from an erotic novel, but with each word reversed

Here's a screenshot:

http://imgur.com/VIWNahL

The text on the right says

Her lover one day takes O for a walk ....
in a section of the city where they never go the Montsouris Park. After they have taken a stroll in the park, and have sat together side by side on the edge of a lawn, they notice at one corner of the park, at an intersection where there are never any taxis, a car which, because

--

which comes from this:

https://archive.org/stream/The... ... O_djvu.txt

Same here. IIRC, I started with local BBSes when I was a teen(ager) with internal 2400 dial-up modems (ZOOM and Hayes). It got so addicting that I got in trouble with long distance calls (didn't know same area codes can be toll calls based on the phone service), prank calls for being a r0d3nt/n00b, etc. :/

Don't forget that rad(ical) old BBS Documentary -- Watch it for free on The Archive. Even old /. has a few old stories about this documentary:

• A Documentary About Bulletin Board Systems
• The BBS Documentary: A One Year Report
• 7 hour BBS Documentary Nearly Ready
• BBS Documentary Now Shipping
• Hundreds of Hours of BBS Documentary Interviews

Good memories. I'd like to see an updated version!

TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook

FM 5-31 Booby Traps

FM 5-250 Explosives and Demolitions

They aren't that special.

TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook

FM 5-31 Booby Traps

FM 5-250 Explosives and Demolitions

They aren't that special.

TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook

FM 5-31 Booby Traps

FM 5-250 Explosives and Demolitions

They aren't that special.

Months ago, Michael Moore predicted a Trump win based on the blue wall in the rust belt turning red. He gave simple, excellent reasons why. People are sick of being thrown under the bus by the wealthy and powerful, which establishment Republicans and Democrats both have been doing for decades now. Trump campaigned on preserving rust belt jobs, threatening to put serious hurt on Ford if they followed through on their plan to move a factory from Michigan to Mexico. That was what really won it for him in the rust belt, not all that white male supremacy garbage.

All the media noise focusing on Trump's ignorance and sexist and racist antics missed badly. They thought they could cynically use Trump to boost their numbers, thought they could skimp on covering the meat and focus mainly on personality and scandal, without affecting the outcome of the election, because Trump couldn't possibly make it all the way to election day without imploding spectacularly, he was too dumb, arrogant, undisciplined, and impulsive to run a serious campaign, or so they believed. Some even entertained the idea that his campaign was all just an elaborate publicity stunt, he didn't really want to be President, and would simply drop out at an opportune moment.

Liberals have been pretty smug about the conservative turn towards deliberate ignorance, their preference for living in an echo chamber full of like minded people. And now we see liberals did the same thing, didn't see a Trump victory coming. How could our polls have been so wrong? Hillary was supposed to not just win, but win big, win in a landslide. And now they're calling this election the biggest upset in history, as if no one could have seen it coming. Michael Moore saw it, and was right on all counts.

For entertainment value, here's the Nvidia driver download page from 2001, with the driver weighing in at 6Mb.

Compare with 15 years later, driver is now 300Mb....

Software bloat at it's finest.

Even more entertainment value: https://sourceforge.net/projec.... The libraries that get linked in/to are much larger now as well.

For entertainment value, here's the Nvidia driver download page from 2001, with the driver weighing in at 6Mb.

Compare with 15 years later, driver is now 300Mb....

Software bloat at it's finest.

Relativity didn't explain why radio waves traveled at the speed of light. It was not developed for any near-term applications. It was developed as a response to the Michelson-Morley experiment, which had no practical applications. Quantum mechanics was a way to explain some puzzling results, but didn't do anything useful for some time, nor was it clear what use it was.

And I already have corrected this assertion. I might add that explaining puzzling results that just so happen to then result in considerable near future economic value is precisely why scientific research gets funded.

And your assertion that quantum mechanics didn't do anything "for some time" ignores the near future applications I have already mentioned. The TV was invented (1925) about a decade after the Bohr model of the atom and 30 years of the discovery of the electron, for example. The first electron lens (which became key parts of the electron microscope developed within the decade) was developed the next year.

Newtonian gravity didn't affect gun accuracy before the very long ranged guns in WWI, for which the difference between an elliptical and a parabolic trajectory mattered. Gravity and air resistance determine the trajectory, but at least through WWII shell trajectories were not calculated from first principles. They fired guns with different elevations at different times, and interpolated to create tables showing the important features of the trajectories. These tables were nearly useless in the Italian mountain fighting, since it was very common for the target to be at a significantly different elevation from the guns.

And yet we have "New Principles of Gunnery" published in 1742 which researched exactly these points and was based on research that apparently was conducted during the previous decade, including development of a timing "ballistic pendulum" for determining the speed of projectiles.

It's ridiculous to say that such research "didn't matter at the time" when it was so quickly transformed into inventions and further discoveries. Funders would have been quite aware of this. It's also not that hard to see that research in the areas you mentioned would result in new important inventions and discoveries in the near future even if no one truly wasn't sure what they'd be.

Compare that to now. There are whole, very pricey fields such as space sciences, fusion research, and subatomic physics that have effectively abandoned any claims to near future progress. Meanwhile fields such as high frequency trading risk which have enormous near future benefit are threatened with destruction because they benefit rich people and a large part of the world can't have that.

My view is that we are seeing in this a growing sickness over so much of science and perhaps the coming end of a golden age of science. So I believe we should continue to hold high expectations of scientific research. It should continue to benefit us in this life with concrete near future benefits just like it has for centuries. Low expectations on the other hand, results in useless science of no value to us or to future generations. Disengaging science from its utility is an ongoing disaster.

Jagadish Shukla and about 19 others; and of course there is always AGs United for Clean Power a coalition consists of 15 state attorneys general (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington State), as well as the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.

It's amazing that a change to an interface somehow makes customer data flow out somewhere. I'm going to assume you can't follow a conversation and just froth at the mouth at the opportunity to mention telemetry every chance you get.

Amazing isn't the word I would chose to describe it. Quite mundane and easy to understand is more appropriate.

Step 1.

Develop single search UI that blends everything and does not provide any obvious indication or option to limit searches and obviously resulting data leakages. The point of this is maximizing intentional leakage of data by intentional malicious UX design.

Step 2.

Lawyer working a case types "Rob's rap sheet" into the search box on their computer intending to bring up file for case they are working. This data is sent to a public search engine with no expectation of privacy.

Doctor types "Gloria's Gonorrhea" into the search box on their computer intending to bring up file for patient they are working. This data is also sent to a search engine.

Windows 10 is intentionally ENGINEERED to leak information and invade privacy and confidentiality of information at every opportunity.

Also worth remembering Windows 10 is distributed with a fully functional RAT (Remote Access Trojan) installed and ENABLED by DEFAULT granting Microsoft the ability to exfiltrate data without either your explicit consent or knowledge.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

It's amazing that a change to an interface somehow makes customer data flow out somewhere. I'm going to assume you can't follow a conversation and just froth at the mouth at the opportunity to mention telemetry every chance you get.

Amazing isn't the word I would chose to describe it. Quite mundane and easy to understand is more appropriate.

Step 1.

Develop single search UI that blends everything and does not provide any obvious indication or option to limit searches and obviously resulting data leakages. The point of this is maximizing intentional leakage of data by intentional malicious UX design.

Step 2.

Lawyer working a case types "Rob's rap sheet" into the search box on their computer intending to bring up file for case they are working. This data is sent to a public search engine with no expectation of privacy.

Doctor types "Gloria's Gonorrhea" into the search box on their computer intending to bring up file for patient they are working. This data is also sent to a search engine.

Windows 10 is intentionally ENGINEERED to leak information and invade privacy and confidentiality of information at every opportunity.

Also worth remembering Windows 10 is distributed with a fully functional RAT (Remote Access Trojan) installed and ENABLED by DEFAULT granting Microsoft the ability to exfiltrate data without either your explicit consent or knowledge.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

I like the audio recordings of the entire "Book of Urantia" in a computer generated Robot Voice, like for example "The Paradise Sons of God" from "The Central and Superuniverses": https://archive.org/download/U...

On their 10th anniversary, their front page had things you wanted to read about and things you cared about: conspiracies!

9/11 Revisited: Scientific and Ethical Questions

September 11th Revisited - Were explosives used?

;)

It's odd, I see plenty of discussion about the robots.txt nonsense:

https://archive.org/post/10194...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
https://archive.org/post/18880...


But no solid answers as to why.

It's odd, I see plenty of discussion about the robots.txt nonsense:

https://archive.org/post/10194...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
https://archive.org/post/18880...


But no solid answers as to why.

http://archive.org/details/old...

if I owned a shortwave broadcasting station i would play those old radio shows exclusively

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Much of the US too: http://web.archive.org/web/200...

You have cited no research at all.

Every one of my links is well-sourced with numerous references to peer-reviewed research to support the argument that they (and I) are making. I'm not the one making completely unsupported assertions here.

the IPCC represents opinion, not fact

In your own opinion. In everyone else's, the IPCC's summaries and countless references to peer-reviewed research are a heck of a lot more reliable than some random web comment.

you are pointing to the 2007 report

Your point is? Would you like me to cite more cost-benefit research? There's plenty out there. Or perhaps you'd care to present actual evidence for a change?

That's an assumption you're making without any justification.

Well, only justified by the historical track record of successful government interventions in other emissions issues, as I stated further down. Where's the justification for your own assumptions?

you haven't cited any research

No, you've just dismissed and ignored it all.

putting solar cells on the roof and buying electricity from renewable sources

Good for you. Leaving aside all the people in rental properties, apartment buildings, shaded areas, multistory shopping malls, industrial factories, developing nations etc who can't meet their needs with solar cells, how many of them have any alternate options of renewable grid sources? What makes you so confident they will get an alternate option in any reasonable time-frame, if fossil-fuel companies are allowed to continue offloading their biggest costs?

The existence of externalities a century from now

Well, those and the hundreds of billions annually in health costs that I already mentioned.

even for RCP8.5, sea level rise by 2100 will likely stay below 3 ft, yet you conjure up disaster scenarios.

And you think 3 feet isn't a problem? The research I didn't conjure is concerned with rises beyond 2100 - if their model is valid, there could be far more drastic sea level rise over the next 500 years than was anticipated, to the point that almost every coastal city on the globe will be heavily flooded. I'd like to see that possible scenario avoided, and I don't share your faith that it'll automatically happen on its own.

making any other arguments irrelevant

And here you've lost me. Leaving aside the various other studies that disagree with you, your apparent insistence that all other human, social, and health costs, risks & uncertainties, etc are completely valueless in your cost-benefit analysis makes any further discussion fairly pointless. If discounted direct costs are your only metric for action then I don't see that we can agree on anything.

I'll leave you with this: most current power stations will EOL sometime in the next 30 years anyway, and will need to be replaced. So long as they are required to be replaced with low- or zero-carbon alternatives, be they wind, solar, nuclear, or whatever, then we will have eliminated a lot of our CO2 emissions at minimal additional cost, especially considering that renewables have low ongoing costs. Similarly, most vehicles will be up for replacement in much the same time frame, and mandating most replacements to low- or zero-carbon (EV, hydrogen, biodiesel, etc) would also have a relatively low impa

yes, even if a domain squatter gets the domain.

Additionally, their interpretation of robots.txt is questionable.

It was meant to prevent automated crawlers, not human-requested fetches, yet often the web archive will disallow me from archiving a page because of robots.txt.

This is one reason I often will archive to both http://web.archive.org AND archive.is.

Archive.is explains its robots.txt policy in its FAQ.

http://archive.is/faq#Why_does...

> Why does archive.is not obey robots.txt?

> Because it is not a free-walking crawler, it saves only one page acting as a direct agent of the human user. Such services don't obey robots.txt (e.g. Google Feedfetcher, screenshot- or pdf-making services, isup.me, )

People have asked about this on the archive.org forum but I haven't read them all to see if there are any good answers.

Zoo keeper mauled to death 'after defecating on tiger'

A young Chinese tiger keeper has been mauled to death after apparently trying to defecate on one of his big cats.

The 19-year-old appears to have climbed the railings of the Bengal tiger cage and pulled his trousers down.

Evidence at the scene of the death at the Jinan animal park included toilet paper, excrement and a trouser belt.

Zoo officials think Xu Xiaodong either slipped into the cage or was pulled in by one of the four angry tigers.

According to the South China Morning Post, the man told a co-worker he needed to go to the toilet but police were called when he failed to return.

They found his body lying on the ground surrounded by tigers. The teenager had reportedly been bitten in the neck and was covered in blood.

Police believe Xu climbed the wall of a partially constructed building used to raise the tigers to relieve himself. They said the smell probably caused the tigers to pounce.

You can see more stories about tigers and zoos on Ananova,
or read our Animal attacks file.

The odd thing about the rating from Charity Navigator rating is a few weeks ago I checked the Clinton Foundation there, they were de-rated, not having an understandable business plan, now they're listed with a good rating! Obviously somebody is trolling somebody, but you can't tell who

I think it's you: https://web.archive.org/web/*/... I sampled three random dates and all of them had high ratings. Happy to be proven wrong, but so far you claim isn't stacking up.

Macworld cast out one of its largest mail order advertisers after widespread complaints about undelivered products. See "What's Wrong With Mail Order?", December 1987 Macworld Magazine, pp. 82-101. Bunnell was editor-in-chief during this era of Macworld.

His successor, Jerry Borrell, remarks that he caught a lot of flak for doing the same in his final column. He notes it cost the magazine "about $200,000". (Macworld Magazine, November 1992, p.26)

I can't speak for the rest of the publications you mentioned. Macworld did turn into crap after 1997 but, as I was told by a former contributing editor, most of the staff was fired wholesale when management changed. R.I.P. The Good Era of Macworld Magazine.

Sincerely,
—I Spent Too Much Time Reading Macworld As a Child

Macworld cast out one of its largest mail order advertisers after widespread complaints about undelivered products. See "What's Wrong With Mail Order?", December 1987 Macworld Magazine, pp. 82-101. Bunnell was editor-in-chief during this era of Macworld.

His successor, Jerry Borrell, remarks that he caught a lot of flak for doing the same in his final column. He notes it cost the magazine "about $200,000". (Macworld Magazine, November 1992, p.26)

I can't speak for the rest of the publications you mentioned. Macworld did turn into crap after 1997 but, as I was told by a former contributing editor, most of the staff was fired wholesale when management changed. R.I.P. The Good Era of Macworld Magazine.

Sincerely,
—I Spent Too Much Time Reading Macworld As a Child

The problem isn't the trouble of having to read and modify so much, it's that even if you do all that you can't trust what you have; you can't be sure those "41 pages of switches, GPOs, and reg hacks" will grant you the privacy you seek even on the Enterprise variant of Windows. Anyone who tells you otherwise is speculating from ignorance. You can't stop any variant of Windows from tricking users into "upgrading" to some more recently-released variant (like the trouble Windows users had with Windows 10 "upgrades" recently). That's the thing about proprietary software; you're never in charge of what it does. Even if you think you've set the switches the right way, programmers can make a UI that looks like it is doing what the user wants but actually does something the user does not want and does this without the user's permission or control. No configuration of switches can fix this. Users need software freedom to fix this.

Satya Nadella and Bill Gates before him focused on what's important for modern proprietors—spying on the user because that's profitable and secures powerful friends. Consider that Microsoft tells the NSA about bugs before fixing them. This doesn't help most Windows users, but it helps the NSA know to devalue those bugs. And it tells you to devalue proprietary software. With proprietors, you're the product: all the data you generate including what you run, when you're using the computer, and where you take the computer (for computers with cell phone capability or GPS units) can and is spied upon. You don't get out of that trap without software freedom either.

This day and age? Hell, the Grateful Dead did it for DECADES ... and yet, they always seemed to sell tickets to the next show.

Why, you can even go and download high bitrate MP3s of shows, often recorded directly from the sound board. Here ya go - only 11000 recordings... https://archive.org/details/Gr...

Many of those recordings (definitely all the audience ones) aren't recorded by the band, but by tapers in the audience. Which, yes, the Grateful Dead did allow. (I don't know whether they had special taper tickets, to ensure that taper rigs didn't disrupt nearby audience, and be disrupted by that audience.)

That said, Phish does give out a free recording to everyone with a ticket, while still also allowing tapers, and still selling recordings. The model seems to work well enough for them.

This day and age? Hell, the Grateful Dead did it for DECADES ... and yet, they always seemed to sell tickets to the next show.

Why, you can even go and download high bitrate MP3s of shows, often recorded directly from the sound board. Here ya go - only 11000 recordings... https://archive.org/details/Gr...

While there's no doubt that temperature has a major influence on both biology and chemical processes, perhaps we should consider other possible influences as well. Some might even be loosely correlated with temperature changes.

Has anyone really studied the effects of induced Earth (including ocean) currents related to space weather? Even the sinkhole events around south-east AU seem to be correlated to space weather. These things are worthy of more research.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

The data shown is transient, but who is to say that some reef damage doesn't occur in spurts??

While there's no doubt that temperature has a major influence on both biology and chemical processes, perhaps we should consider other possible influences as well. Some might even be loosely correlated with temperature changes.

Has anyone really studied the effects of induced Earth (including ocean) currents related to space weather? Even the sinkhole events around south-east AU seem to be correlated to space weather. These things are worthy of more research.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

The data shown is transient, but who is to say that some reef damage doesn't occur in spurts??

While there's no doubt that temperature has a major influence on both biology and chemical processes, perhaps we should consider other possible influences as well. Some might even be loosely correlated with temperature changes.

Has anyone really studied the effects of induced Earth (including ocean) currents related to space weather? Even the sinkhole events around south-east AU seem to be correlated to space weather. These things are worthy of more research.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

The data shown is transient, but who is to say that some reef damage doesn't occur in spurts??