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International Environmentalism: Flaunting White Privilege
Environmentalism is Political White Privilege
Whiteness and Sustainability: Reflecting on Race, Class, and Green Living
On Why the Environmental Movement is Failing to "Diversify"

The prols have noticed that "environmentalism" is an anxiety indulged almost exclusively by conformable white folk.

why there are no penguins on the North-pole

Good point. It's wrong to stereotype rednecks generally.

Except if a defining trait of rednecks is that they are violent against gay and trans people when drunk.

like this particular guy..
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2...

I love the crowd's reaction in this case. :) :)

"The man in the cowboy hat can be heard saying loudly, âoeNo way! No way, you motherfucker. You ainâ(TM)t doinâ(TM) that fucking shit, motherfucker.â" (As the crowd rushes to the guy in the pink shirt's aid and takes down the drunk redneck)

Personally, I suspect that drunk violent assholes attack gays (and often people they merely think are gay who are not actually gay) for two reasons.
1) They are drunk violent assholes.
2) They are struggling with homosexual desires and filled with fear, anger, and hatred as a result.

Jeremy Todd Addaway is a self described redneck who posted a video supporting gay rights after the gay marriage laws successfully passed in Alabama. So #notallrednecks

So I guess we are dealing with an overloaded word.

Redneck
1) Someone who's neck is red from working outdoors, usually in blue color labor or farming. Usually lacks a college education.
2) Someone who may have a red or white neck and who may have a college education but who hates gays.
3) Someone who is conservative and from a rural area and hates gays. Perhaps because they have sexual attraction to the same sex.
3) Someone who is liberal or conservative and from a rural area and who has no problems with gays.

We've had wealthy, conservative, young assholes beat travel 30 miles to beat young gay men to death in my home town. In the worst incident, a couple decades ago the police were actually dumb enough to say, "they had no intention of solving the [gay] murder". Ultimately the murderer was sentenced to a 45 year prison term and his accomplices served shorter terms. They were not "rednecks".

That said... some redneck jokes

You might be a Redneck if ...

        A night on the town includes city jail.
        All of your relatives' cars have "Tag Stolen" signs in the rear window.
        All of your relatives would have to die to wipe out illiteracy.
        All your tupperware is old butter containers.
        All your wall decorations have horns on them.
        All your wedding guests were seated on the same side of the church.
        Any of your children are the result of a conjugal visit.
        Counting sheep makes you more aroused than sleepy.
        Coworkers start a petition over your coffee cup.
        Directions to your house include "turn off the paved road."
        Drying your clothes depends on the weather.

Here's what the interface looked like:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GYn... ...That's not a 'bad user interface', that's an awful user interface.

The Professor is one of my favorite radio personalities.
I really enjoy the "Words to the Wise" segment.
In particular I like his tagline, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”

OK, I've just learned that 1/7th of all married Polish women are, according to you, "complete twats", and that, somehow, that's not an uncommon opinion. Where the fuck do you live and what idiots think that way?! Never mind that in some countries, like Poland, having a hyphenated last name and being female leads to higher wages. So, following your inane worldview would leave a female at an economic disadvantage. Yeah, there are real studies about it.

Basically, in some countries it's entirely normal for a female to change to a hyphenated name upon marriage, and some men do it too at that time.

I think an anti-satellite missile would result in more than 5 pieces.

To say nothing of the fact that any interceptor capable of getting to Hitomi would be detected by the US Joint Space Operations Center and the Russian equivalent.

It takes a big rocket to get up there.

Given the velocities involved, a few flecks of paint that broke off of an earlier mission could do it, especially if they managed to hit something pressurized. (Note: I have no idea if Hitomi had propellant).

I don't know, do you think Hitomi had "propellant"?

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0-N...

...if they happened at all....

Look at this graph. See how from 2003-2006, the violence was generally increasing? That's roughly what you would expect in a counter-insurgency, and historically it would just get worse and worse. It's what happens when you try to rule over a people.

But it didn't continue getting worse, it reversed, and it was the counter-insurgency strategy of Petraeus that caused it.

Solar cells are made of sand. Not really a rare substance. Tellurium is available in vast quantities on the ocean bottom, so that is not a constraint either. Fuel-free energy is really the only Real Energy. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/

Fight? You're a leftist, you're terrified of firearms.

Excellent, that's a textbook example of the Hasty Generalization fallacy.

You won't even be in the same room when one is lying unloaded on a table. The Second Amendment is your worst enemy, you want all the power out of the hands of the people and into the federal government.

Your Strawman is coming along very nicely here.

How were you planning on revolting? Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

We move on to the Unsupported Assertion. It's impressive how you manage to totally ignore the examples of social change via peaceful protest... in fact, most of the best examples we have of productive action by the people were mostly or completely nonviolent. Look at the liberation of India, or the Civil Rights Movement. For some examples of what politicking via firearm gets you, check out Syria. The people have plenty of guns there yet their government is less than perfectly representative for some reason...

Moreover you're physical cowards unless you're provoking a few punches from someone while being videotaped. But you're tigers when it comes to running down the streets smashing out the windows of every car with Republican bumper stickers on it.

Brilliant! Topping it off with a stirring finale of Unsupported Assertion and Hasty Generalization all wrapped in a tasty casing of Ad Hominem.

So, other than demonstrating every logical fallacy in the book, did you have another goal with this post? Because the fact that you use such completely deplorable methods of argumentation makes me think that your main goal is to demonstrate your prowess as a blind, partisan ideologue, and undermine the credibility of gun rights advocates. If this isn't your intention, perhaps you should consider presenting a fact-based, rational case for gun rights, rather than typing up another baseless, vitriolic opinion piece.

Fight? You're a leftist, you're terrified of firearms. You won't even be in the same room when one is lying unloaded on a table. The Second Amendment is your worst enemy, you want all the power out of the hands of the people and into the federal government. How were you planning on revolting? Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Moreover you're physical cowards unless you're provoking a few punches from someone while being videotaped. But you're tigers when it comes to running down the streets smashing out the windows of every car with Republican bumper stickers on it.

A problem with highly intelligent people like you, is that you assume that your opinions are facts. The only place a "social justice war" is going on is in the social normalization of deviance that is taking place inside your head. And even if it is, the rest of us would rather live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies like yourself, because you will will torment us without end with the full approval of your own conscience.

It is actually a completely unreasonable position. No government will ever return to using commodity money. Some discussions of the issue here, here, and here. Probably any number of textbooks cover the issue as well.

Generally, just being subject to (large) volatility having nothing to do with the actual need for money for exchanges is a bad enough trait to disqualify it, without getting into any other issues. Anyone who is willing to ignore the problems with commodity money is put into the position of needing some alternate explanation for its abandonment by one and all. A conspiracy theory of some sort is a requirement; the exact form is immaterial. Lizard men are only slightly sillier than Rothschilds (Rothschildren?), Illuminati, Bilderbergs, Jews, or whichever other group our gold bug decides to blame: a difference of degree, not character.

All other justifications aside, I sure as shit don't need to pander to any given worldview in the context of a joke.

So.. cowards basically, right?

If that makes you feel better, sure. My question still stands.

I stayed at an EasyHotel in London. I think it was about 100 square feet (about 10 square meters) and it included a bathroom. It was possible, but not easy, to use the toilet, sink, and shower at the same time. I would have had to stretch out my legs. When you closed the shower curtain, the curtain bulged inwards on the shower stall because the edge of the sink pushed it in. I'm assuming that's what that particular line means. I stayed in London for forty quid a night, though, so I had that going for me, which was nice.

Here is somebody else's really good picture that shows the layout.

Nope, those diplomats are busily engaged in consular services, having a limited amount of time, they can't do all jobs at once, like it or not. And whatever was done in the past, is not the way things are done now, for a variety of reasons, including simply not needing to do things that way due to changing circumstances related to technology and even economic development.

Besides, it's still just supposition on your part, and while you keep insisting on implementing some pattern of behavior that not only can you not implement, you cannot prove would result in improved results, and yet are fervently declaring it to be better. You've even denied it being supposition on your part. But that is what you are offering, which is reasonably fine, you can conjecture if you wish, but it doesn't cost you anything to be upfront about it. Instead, you are insisting that your way is the method that works best, even asserting that it is the way supported by past practice. A poor claim of authority there, when you don't even offer specific observed facts to validate it.

Which is further compounded by your ignorance towards standardization of contracts, a pattern which actually has been developing, because contrary to your expectation, customization of deals does not necessarily lead to maximization of profits. It would be another matter if you recognized it as a discussion where there are many considerations being weighed, but your response is a declarative one, with your own position being presented as the only acceptable one. It's one thing to have an opinion upon a subject, it's another when your presentation is done through overweening arrogance yourself while lacking the basic acknowledgement towards the current state of affairs.

Then there's your lack of recognition of the quite common practices towards collaboration in trade policy. I mean really, if you wanted to discuss individual efforts, why not go for a historical example at least?

I've been willing to let your conjectures stand with only the barest of disagreement, but if you're going to complain, then perhaps you should look in thine own eye?

Anyway you can argue whatever you want about the inevitability of the TPP or not, but the fact is, the TPSEPA already existed as a collaboration so absent methods to change the past, you would have to live with conditions as they had developed, which as I mentioned in the case of the TPP was that other countries were already collaborating, and as such, your preferred state of affairs would require effort to achieve through altering an existing state of affairs.

Still, whether or not you can do so, it being rather obvious that you consider the TPP bad, you wanting better goes in hand with it.

So examining what actuality you think is better, in a manner that identifies your goals in some achievable form is useful. Unfortunately, what you've offered has been a change of approach, which while a possible point of alteration, remains conjecture, one that as interesting as it may be, is simple one you wish to achieve, yet lacks in any ability for you to effect, and still does not establish your desired end result of achievement. You keep trying to evade a response to that by saying

You may want to think twice about relying on that:

http://theinvisiblethings.blog...

Its just one of very many examples of Linux security mechanisms failing ...and that was hardly even trying. Here is another reason why kernel security cannot protect you:

http://theinvisiblethings.blog...

"Jails" sounds impressive and strong, but its still kernel-based and therefore built on sand. Kernels are great at supplying functional features -- and that's what Qubes uses them for -- but their complexity means their isolation mechanisms don't hold water.

You may want to think twice about relying on that:

http://theinvisiblethings.blog...

Its just one of very many examples of Linux security mechanisms failing ...and that was hardly even trying. Here is another reason why kernel security cannot protect you:

http://theinvisiblethings.blog...

"Jails" sounds impressive and strong, but its still kernel-based and therefore built on sand. Kernels are great at supplying functional features -- and that's what Qubes uses them for -- but their complexity means their isolation mechanisms don't hold water.

... sacrificing babies to satan ...

I am getting really sick of you guys!

The Christian people are being sacrificed by the jihadists, as we speak, what are you guys doing here?

Pissing contest over whether or not Donald J. Trump is the right person?

Wake up, dudes , please!! Real Christians are being slaughtered, in the name of religion !

The link below is a very gory picture, of a religious sacrifice, whereby a Christian Lady being slaughtered

Be forewarned: Don't click the link if you ain't got the stomach !

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FRBJ...

There's no reason for MS to do this. It makes no sense.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

http://wikidumper.blogspot.com...

Microsoft's overeagerness to screw over their customer just smacks of sufficiently advanced incompetence.
Just like when, oh, say, polling places "run out" of ballots. Whocouldanode?

Plausible deniability will only get you so far.

even in cases of obvious market failure

There is simply no such thing, boys and girls...

APK, you are the pigeon.

Money Money

http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/20...

Who makes what?

Would this work?
http://getthemonourside.blogsp...

> So it's an OS?

What is QubesOS?

> Is a Linux derivative?

Is Qubes just another Linux distribution?

> Can it run software targeted as other OSes?

Managing Operating Systems withing Qubes

> Does it has system?

???

> Is it targeting anything specific in terms of hardware.

Hardware Compatibility List

> Or purpose (embedded, desktop, phone, server)?

How is QubesOS different from..?

In particular, it's worth noting that there is a rupture disk here precisely to prevent the reactor pressure vessel from experiencing a catastrophic rupture

This seemed wrong to me, since the RPV in Unit 2 was already breached. I believe AmiMoJo was talking about is pressure in the the primary containment vessel (PCV), not the RPV. Just to be clear the reactor core is inside the metal RPV and the RPV is inside the reinforced concrete PCV. The in the Mark 1 reactor design the PCV is the outer wall of the "dry well".

I also looked up some design diagrams for the venting system. While venting system rupture disk is indeed designed to protect the PCV it is not built into the PCV itself. Operators have to open two sets of valves in order to transfer pressure from inside the PCV to the disk. So while it's true the purpose of the rupture disk is to prevent catastrophic failure, that can only happen if the venting system is activated and works as expected.

Now the report you linked to is four years old and assumes that the venting system worked correctly, delivering overpressure to the the rupture disk. AmiMoJo is referring to evidence which came out later which indicates that the venting system almost certainly failed.

In a way I do agree with you. It's not mysterious why the PCV didn't explode; it didn't explode because it failed in some other, unknown way. Under the circumstances that was a very good thing in comparison to the alternative, but it takes a rather determined optimism to construe it as an endorsement of the reactor's design. It was more like a stroke of good luck.

This article has both a detailed diagram of the Oyster Creek reactor, which is the same design, and a schematic of the venting system.

Li will eventually learn to manipulate the machine; it's *very* intelligent, but not creative or insightful.

Not creative? That's your opinion. Here are what other people (including serious Go professionals) think...

"AlphaGo met Lee’s solid, prudent play with a creativity and flexibility that surprised professional commentators" - https://gogameguru.com/alphago...

An Youngil (8d) wrote of AlphaGo playing Black: "Black 13 was creative ... Black 37 was a rare and intriguing shoulder hit ... Black 151, 157 and 159 were brilliant moves, and the game was practically decided by 165 ... AlphaGo’s style of play in the opening seems creative! Black 13, 15, 29 and 37 were very unusual moves." -- https://gogameguru.com/alphago...

Redmond (9d) wrote "I was impressed with AlphaGo’s play. There was a great beauty to the opening ... It was a beautiful, innovative game. ... AlphaGo started with some very unusual looking moves ... It played this shoulder-hit here which was a very innovative move ... I really liked the way it played in the opening, because I wasn't so impressed about the orthodox October games, but now it's playing a much more interesting exciting game." -- http://googleasiapacific.blogs...

Anders Kierulf (3d, creator of SmartGo) wrote: "The peep at move 15: This is usually played much later in the game, and never without first extending on the bottom. AlphaGo don’t care. It adds 29 later, and makes the whole thing work with the creative shoulder hit of 37 ... AlphaGo don’t care, it just builds up its framework, and then shows a lot of flexibility in where it ends up with territory." -- http://www.smartgo.com/blog/al...

Maybe you start with a philosophical axiom that "a computer can by definition never be considered creative". That's fair enough, but it's not the way that the Go playing community use the word "creative".

Without evaluating this particular statement about radiosondes, I don't place a whole lot of credibility in what he says. This is based on his reputation. It doesn't guarantee that Goddard is wrong, but it means his claims should be viewed with more skepticism than someone with a better record on climate change issues.

Let us keep in mind that Goddard's "Debunking" of AGW isn't even based on surface temperatures.

And what is interesting is that instead of him asking "Why", he just decided My dat is right, everyone elses is wrong."

Ain't necessarily so. http://journals.ametsoc.org/do...

Goddard has been thorougly debunked and quite often:

http://rankexploits.com/musing...

https://www.skepticalscience.c...

http://reallysciency.blogspot....

https://rhinohide.wordpress.co...

We can read an actual paper about his issue : https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibl...

Enough of this stuff. It won't change any deniers minds even if they continue to spew long debunked Proofs of their position.

Here's one data point - based on from experience migrating a pretty big system from [a major proprietary database mentioned in the article] to Postgres, I think the two biggest advantages Postgres has are:

GIST and GIN indexes (and soon BRIN indexes), and

Writeable CTEs.

We migrated a very busy, pretty large (24 CPU core, 256GB RAM, 20TB disk space) system from [a major proprietary database mentioned in the article] to Postgres about a year ago. These graphs measuring CPU and disk activity provide a nice visualization of the improvement:

http://imgur.com/a/bp2ky

Note that with [a major proprietary database mentioned in the article], all 24 CPU cores in the system were over 40% utilized (and growing) 24x7 most days a year. After a pretty naive port (November to May in the graph) the CPU load fell to an average of about 10%, and the disk array's queue length fell from painful to near zero. After adding some Postgres-specific code, we got it down to an average of near 5% (shown in the most recent month in the graph).

CPU differences seem to have been mostly related to the availability of GIN indexes in Postgres, which can be much more efficient on certain types of data (like the OpenStreetMap road network).

Disk I/O improvements seems to be mostly related to Postgres's far more compact storage of XML data. Seems SQL Server stores XML data using 2-bytes-per-character for the data itself; and on top of that adds extremely large indexes. In contrast, the "toast" feature in Postgres means the XML data takes an average of less than one byte per character for the data and its "functional index" feature allowed for far more compact indexes. One of our XML-heavy databases went from over 600GB in SQL Server down to 140GB in Postgres, with more efficient indexes.

For a few months we tried to stay database-agnostic so it'd be easy to port back if we needed to -- but after a while we started adding Postgres specific changes. The benefits of those Postgres specific changes can be seen near the end of those graphs. An enormous improvement occurred when we changed the inserts and updates to use the Writable CTE features following recommendations someone outlined here

.

In the end, Postgres looks to me like it's saving us like 5X in hardware costs as we continue to grow.

Edit: I'm told this proprietary database vendor dislikes users publishing benchmark results comparing their software to F/OSS databases. I'd argue that this is more of an anecdote than a benchmark; but just in case I edited the comment to remove the vendor and product name from the parts that talk about performance.

Disclaimer: As mentioned in a comment below, we tried to tune each the systems to the best of our team's abilities, but aren't really experts in tuning either database system. No doubt each system's results could be improved by people who were deeply available with each databases internals (which I argue is much easier to find for Postgres, since its mailing lists have thousands of people familiar with the internal code).

he's trying to bring attention to the issue, that the FBI is trying to fool everyone into thinking they cannot crack an iphone.

“That video, on my YouTube account, it has 700,000 views. My point is to bring to the American public the problem that the FBI is trying to [fool] the American public. How am I going to do that, by just going off and saying it? No one is going to listen to that crap.

“So I come up with something sensational,” he continued. “Now, what I did not lie about was my ability to crack the iPhone." ...

Later in the interview, McAfee described his method, which involves “decapping” the phone’s processor and acquiring the device’s unique identifier (UID), that may allow someone to brute force the phone’s password

he's not wrong either. a grad student explained this in a blog post from October 2014.

Why Apple's iPhone encryption won't stop NSA (or any other intelligence agency)
excerpt from the post:

If Apple did their job properly, however, the UID (device encryption key) is completely inaccessible to software and is locked up in some kind of on-die hardware security module (HSM). This means that even if Eve is able to execute arbitrary code on the device while it is locked, she must bruteforce the passcode on the device itself - a very slow and time-consuming process.

In this case, an attacker may still be able to execute an invasive physical attack. By depackaging the SoC, etching or polishing down to the polysilicon layer, and looking at the surface of the die with an electron microscope the fuse bits can be located and read directly off the surface of the silicon.

Since the key is physically burned into the IC, once power is removed from the phone there's no practical way for any kind of self-destruct to erase it. Although this would require a reasonably well-equipped attacker, I'm pretty confident based on my previous experience that I could do it myself, with equipment available to me at school, if I had a couple of phones to destructively analyze and a few tens of thousands of dollars to spend on lab time. This is pocket change for an intelligence agency.

Once the UID is extracted, and the encrypted disk contents dumped from the flash chips, an offline bruteforce using GPUs, FPGAs, or ASICs could be used to recover the key in a fairly short time.

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I don't know if the deficit has come down at a record rate under Obama but he certainly has reduced the deficit from where he started. Here is a post by David Brin that shows how the rate of increase in the national debt increases under Republican administrations and drops under Democratic administrations, at least since Nixon:

So Do Outcomes Matter More than Rhetoric?

It wouldn't be the first time. ladies and gentlemen meet the freedom tank where a Czech found an old Nazi battle tractor, slapped hillbilly armor on that bitch, and drove it right through the iron curtain. I'm sure there are tractors in NK that could similarly be made into "freedom tanks".

I thought the same thing until I read an article by David Newman, an engineer for Cineform. He personally defined visually lossless as "when the compression error falls well below the inherent noise floor of the imaging device" (Visually Lossless and how to back it up).

He says, more or less, that if you set a camera on a tripod and shoot a still life of, say, a bowl of fruit, there still will be a difference from one frame to the next in the video, even in a totally uncompressed signal. This can mainly be blamed on noise in the image sensor. All sensors have a noise floor. So first you measure what that noise is. Then you measure how much degradation a certain compression introduces. If the difference between the uncompressed and compressed signal is less than or equal to the difference between uncompressed frames, then you might call the codec visually lossless.

Actually he takes it one step further. He averaged 72 frames of the stationary object to mostly remove the noise even from the image sensor. He then saw whether the compressed image differed from this "golden frame" by more than any given uncompressed frame differed from it.

Yes, yes, yes, there's no telling what standard VESA used, but at this point I think visually lossless can have some meaning. Usually, in fact, video that's called visually lossless is very, very good and can only be discerned at much closer-than-average viewing distances and often with various image enhancements to bring out the noise. In normal viewing conditions, most video professionals, and certainly even more consumers, cannot tell the diffference between the original and any of the codecs that tout themselves (scientifically or otherwise) as visually lossless.

Actually, that happens quite a bit. When it happens and prices keep increasing, due to the "greater fool" phenomenon, it's called a bubble. Eventually, the world runs out of "greater fools", and the bubble bursts.

When a commodity like gold or copper maintains a fairly steady value (if your time-frame is long enough) and many owners buy it but don't use it as a production input, something else is going on.

There's an interesting article which I plan to read carefully. In it, the author states that commodities have, in the post silver- and gold-standards world, served as "partial money". They provide a hedge against inflation and exchange rate fluctuations.

Once I've read what I've so far only skimmed, I may have learned something substantial enough to share here. (Low threshold, I know. ;-) )

It starts about 1/3 of the way in, with the section labelled "Prelude to the First Malthusian Scare", in http://unenumerated.blogspot.c...

You know what REALLY won't do any good? Sitting on your ass doing nothing except crying "woe is us" on Slashdot.

That's why I'm getting off my ass and voting TRUMP. It's going to be glorious...

Shawn,

Thanks for posting on Slashdot about this and sharing your ideas as an engineer (then checking Google documentation afterwards). Part of the reason I trust Google is because my assumption is that people work there that have values like me. If unethical marching orders came in one day then engineers might resist them or one person might leak it. It took just one technician to blow the lid off of Room 641A. Google's past record of exiting mainland China because of Chinese spying should illustrate the commitment of Google to its users. This serves as an effective deterrent to people that might think of coercing Google to abuse its power. (Let's ignore the fact that Google did NOT leave the US market when the NSA tapped its server room interlinks.)

Unfortunately, this is not enough. The biggest risk to privacy and security is trust itself. The FBI / Apple case has made obvious that Apple has the ability to collect information from iPhones (before 5s). The effort would be herculean, but is it possible.

Bo Xilai is a political dissident in China and was jailed by premier Xi Jinping for conspiring to take over the national party. The level of assurance provided by Apple's iPhone 5c was not enough for Mr. Bo to conduct his operations. It is assumed that Apple's 5s and on are beyond even the reach of Apple.

In summary, when considering the privacy and security assurances of a system, it is usually the human element or the implementation details that are weakest. This can be quantified with the "ransom factor":

How many people would need to be served National Security Letters, served with All Writs Act injunctions or have their children taken ransom would it take to break the system?

Cross post to: http://privacylog.blogspot.com...

the projection though no doubt well-sourced is no more accurate than the models that it is based off

Naturally, though those same sources have been through rigorous peer review, and have been widely accepted by most fellow experts in the field. Again I'm not seeing you cite any evidence like peer-reviewed studies finding those models to be "deeply broken" - only the usual unsourced claims cribbed from the standard rabble of denialist blogs. Plenty of studies supporting them, though. And of course real life.

A key bit of evidence is that the IPCC backpedaled significantly from the Third Assessment Report to the Fifth Assessment Report. For example, here's a collection of weak remarks from the IPCC's latest report on the connection to extreme weather.

Now, let's look at your links. The first link is to a computer model description with no actual data to support the model aside from what they used in the first place. Second, you link to a single bit of extreme weather. One point is not evidence. These two examples show common fallacies associated with extreme weather claims. First, conflating a model with reality. Second, confirmation bias. Even in the complete absence of global warming, we would expect to continue to see "strongest ever" storms.

you don't understand my position

Unsurprisingly, since it's a position you've adopted with no actual evidence. Despite your use of the present tense, you've not shown any examples of said industry "milking the public teat" over climate change (though I can provide many examples of e.g. fossil fuel industries milking away).

Assertions aren't automatically true. Let's look at recent actions that SunCorp Group, the sponsor of the original research claiming elevated claims payouts from certain unproven models of extreme weather, is seeking a huge rate hikes in flood insurance for certain locations that had payouts in recent years:

Suncorp has confirmed that new policies will not be offered in Emerald and Roma - two of the towns worst affected by recent years of flooding.

Existing policyholders face hikes of up to 10-fold.

Suncorp has a reputation for being the only insurer left in some towns abandoned by southern-based companies who are wary of massive payouts.

But Suncorp chief executive Mark Milliner said Queensland's biggest insurer had taken $4 million in premiums in Emerald and Roma in the past two years and paid out $150 million in claims.

Notice the bolded paragraph? Right there we have my original assertion, an insurance company rationalizing after-the-fact rate hikes for making bad risk decisions. They also got burned by recent drought in Australia.

While the outlook is challenging for life insurance, Suncorp says relatively benign weather has so far kept general insurance claims around $25 million below expectations.

However, drought conditions, particularly in north-west Queensland, have resulted in an increase in loan loss provisions, and the bank's holdings of impaired assets rose to $485 million.

I haven't yet figured out what Suncorp's investments are in. But right here we have a reason for the research article - to CYA in a couple of significant losses which otherwise would reflect poorly on management.

Well, at least don't try to get a job in a warehouse.

Or as a taxi driver.

Or in a restaurant.

crap. Looks like the Robopocalypse is nigh.

The FBI is trying to get Apple to push a special version of iOS software to JUST that phone that would allow them to have unlimited attempts at guessing the pin code and allow them to do it programmatically.

Yes, and I'm saying: that should be impossible to do. The fact that this is possible on iPhones is a design flaw of iPhones and iOS.

The user data is encrypted with a key that is, itself, encrypted with a couple of unique pieces of data, one of which is the pin code to unlock the phone

PINs need to be implemented in some form of secure hardware, either a special chip or the SIM card itself (that's what it's designed to do). If what you describe is what the iPhone does, then that's the problem: that is not a secure way of implementing PINs. http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2...

I pray to every god known to mankind that Apple fights this until the DOJ gives up or is bitch slapped back into place by someone with the power and the intelligence to see how overreaching and dangerous this step would be.

The fact that the FBI can demand this from Apple and that we are even talking about it is a technical deficiency in Apple products; that's not going to get fixed by winning legal cases. Manufacturers like Apple need to fix their products, not engage in legal posturing.

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Another day, another failure for the open sores community. Shouldn't you freetards be spending time fixing the weekly zero day remote exploit in your shit code instead of talking with the adults online?

Or they could store it at the corner of Irving Avenue and Moffat Street, Queens. I'm sure no-one would notice a little extra radioactivity.

It was an originally a science fiction story called The Twonky, later made into a movie of the same name.

I tried watching that movie last week and gave up on it half way through. And its not often that I give up on watching bad TV

It was an originally a science fiction story called The Twonky, later made into a movie of the same name.

Servo is being written to be provably memory correct and thread safe.

While I think it is true that Rust is a major step forward in this area, Servo is emphatically not "provably correct" - it just encapsulates the unverified stuff in "unsafe" blocks. Yes, this matters in practice: the first Ariane 5 rocket launch failed catastrophically because Ada's default protection against numerical overflow had been manually disabled in a critical piece of code.

Also, since the "proof" system (the Rust language standard and compiler) has not itself been proven correct, even "safe" code is not "proven" to really be safe. Yes, this matters in practice: for years, the Java standard library (among many others) contained a "formally verified" sorting algorithm that would fail due to integer overflow, because the formal verification had been performed without giving consideration to overflow.

No one in the world today has the tools necessary to prove any program correct on real non-trivial hardware, because the execution environment is too complex and buggy to model fully and correctly. Formal "proofs" are, in practice, just another means of finding some problems that were missed by other methods of quality assurance.

Okay guys, calm down. Assuming iOS is really based on OS X, I'll test something on my Mac right this instant.

Setting the clock to january first 1970 right noW. I DO NOT SEE ANY DIFFERENCE.

OH WAIT, ALL THE COLOURS ARE GONE. IN FACT I THINK THE RESOLUTION IS WAY DOWN AND I'M ONLY SEEING PURE BLACK AND WHITE PIXELS.

Are you sure? Actually, it should have looked similar to this.

Well, given what passes for trolling online, we really need to help educate people on how to be better allys.