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"immanent"???

http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

WTF?

You mean "misandry?"

http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

http://www.oxforddictionaries....

There are definitions for misandry in both the sources I referred to.

"Liberal" is indeed a word that has several meanings.

In this case, the use of the word in the headline is clarified in the text: it is used as the opposite of "repressive", in its meaning of "most free."
(Definition 3: "of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism, especially the freedom of the individual and governmental guarantees of individual rights and liberties.")

(The phrase used in the actual article is "liberal democracies." This does not mean "democracies that elect governments from the Liberal party."):

This might run counter to some people's intuition; wouldn’t liberal democracies have little need for Tor? “But because it's dual-use, you start to see a different pattern,” Jardine said, meaning that Tor is not just used to circumvent censorship in oppressive regimes, for example. Instead, the technology could be to protect privacy, or for criminal purposes. (It's worth remembering that the study looked at data largely before the fallout of Edward Snowden's June 2013 revelations).

No, deleting the key does not conceal the document.

conceal
1. to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight.
2. to keep secret; to prevent or avoid disclosing or divulging
http://www.dictionary.com/brow....

The key obviously allows observation and disclosure so deleting the key is an act that prevents something from being observed or disclosed.

And the FBI can examine the phone to their beady little hearts content. Apple isn't stopping that. They're just refusing to help, ...

Unless they take your advice and destroy the key.

... there is no evidence that there is ANYTHING of value on the phone ...

Only probable cause would be needed for examination, and the fact that it was a communication device of the murder is probable cause. Evidence can be both positive and negative, for example the evidence may be that there is no data related to terrorism on the phone.

Maybe the FBI shouldn't have ordered the cloud password changed. If anyone should be charged with hiding evidence, it's them.

As a government agency they probably have legal immunity, unlike you, me and Apple. :-)

America needs to once again put Americans first

Trump is just a Flim-Flam man.

http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

If you want a president who puts American workers first then Sanders is your guy.

Doesn't rebuff mean to reject, not renew?

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Yeah...words have meaning, and they got that one way off.

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Deficit: 1. the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.

Now, somehow the Federal Government claimed the deficit in 2014 was "just" $483 billion. Yet it had to borrow nearly $1.1 trillion to cover what it decided to spend. So which is correct? What was the actual shortage? HINT: it wasn't $483 billion.

So what's your definition for deficit? In fact, when have you EVER posted a link to anything? I've backed up what I've posted, and apparently that gets your panties in a bind. That's your problem, not mine. You're showing your failings here, not me.

And you know this HOW?

Haven't you read her blog, as well as the copious amount of letters she writes to the local paper?

Because she doesn't agree with you - by using a gas powered leaf blower?

Nope, it's because she resents the thought of her crew of undocumented workers being told not to use a gas-powered leaf blower.

You actually think she uses it herself? What a world of delusion you live in!

What.

The.

Fuck?

Typical liberal.

You're assuming you know everything about another person's life and arrogating to yourself the right to judge them.

And patting yourself on the back for it.

Like I said - a shallow moron.

And note well - I'm judging YOU on YOUR judgmental posts - reactionary knee-jerk unthinking regurgitation of drivel.

Oh the irony. But at least you're cognizant of your judging, if not the actual lack of verification to your judgment.

Still, if I could mine the irony here, I'd be able to run rails across the whole country!

They're shallower than an August parking lot puddle in a dilapidated Florida strip mall.

You're so typical - sheltered in your first-world suburban environment, so close-minded and arrogant in your moral superiority you're hilarious. Drop you into the African savannah or a Southeast Asian rainforest without your iPhone and you probably wouldn't have time to shit your pants before you died of anxiety - and there'd be no psychiatrist for you to whinge to.

Let me guess - you'd reflexively call someone a "RAAAACIST!!!!" were they to point out to you that raising the minimum wage results in HIGHER minority unemployment.

Wow, you've got a whole screed going on, huh? And you can Google a random trite phrase to boot!

Amazing. You're such a non-moron there, aren't you?

That's a good boy. Think well of yourself. I'll give you an achievement trophy.

Why bother to THINK when you FEEL a higher minimum wage is better! You can even congratulate yourself on how you "care" about minorities! Way to go!!

Yeah, but "facts have a liberal bias".

BWAAAA HAA HAAA HAAA

Raising the minumum wage OBJECTIVELY puts minorities and lower-skilled workers OUT OF WORK.

Who's the "selfish moron who could care less about whatever anybody else goes through"?

So exactly what are you planning to do, besides sit on your high horse perched on a pedestal positioned in an ivory tower that is filled with shit that doesn't stink?

People like you are the reason why Detroit, Greece, and Venezuela are fucking broke.

I'm afraid I don't know what the people involved in the government of Michigan, German and other European bankers, or those who run any petroleum conglomerates are like, can you elucidate for me?

What is their position on leaf blowers, the minimum wage, and racism?

PS - It's "couldn't care less".

You fucking moron.

From :

When you want to colloquially express that you don’t care at all about something you might say “I couldn’t care less.” This phrase first popped up in British English at the turn of the 20th century and is still popular today. In the 1960s, a controversial American variant of this phase entered popular usage: “I could care less.” Many native English speakers, both in the UK and US, find this expression to be logically flawed. If you couldn’t care less, then you care so little about something that it would be impossible for you to care any less than you do. If you could care less, however, you are saying, literally, that it is possible for you to c

Then buy a gun at a local gun store

I wish I could. Unfortunately, local laws prohibit sellers from selling weapons to me, until I get government's permissions. This permission requirement turn the Constitutional right, which can only be taken away by the Judiciary upon successful prosecution by the Executive, into a mere privilege, which the Executive may (or may not) grant and can withdraw on a whim.

I applaud the people in TFA for mocking these unconstitutional laws thus helping their eventual abolition.

This is akin to those idiots who felt the need to walk around with AR-15s and AK-47s slung over their shoulders and go into restaurants and other public places. Rights should be exercised, yes.

Ok, so you agree, that rights should be exercised. Now, please, explain, just how else could those "idiots" have exercised their right to bear arms — without bearing them?

But the 2nd Amendment is different as it is the only one that should be exercised responsibly, since it is the only one that can actually kill or injure.

Some rights are more equal than others? No, all rights should be exercised responsibly — famously, "Ballots are stronger than bullets". But please do explain, what was so "irresponsible" about those "idiots" you mentioned above...

To get over this endless debate, we just need to define "care" properly.

That is correct, but it is not the definition that you used. From the dictionary:

By using this definition, it is not possible to go negative.

http://m.dictionary.com/defini...

Look at definition 3. Choice and option are synonyms.

Is English not your first language? In this language the same word can sometimes have multiple meanings.

Obscure does not mean not popular.

1. (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract. 2. not clear to the understanding; hard to perceive: obscure motivations. 3. (of language, style, a speaker, etc.) not expressing the meaning clearly or plainly.

If anything Windows practices security through obscurity as only MS really knows how it works.

That's quite the spin. If I could be so bold as to suggest a different conclusion...
Kids these days don't understand the meaning of the word fortitude.

So..... you're saying that Science and English are both hard?

p.s.
fortitude

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So that's a meaningless definition. Perhaps you would care to try again - remember something quantifiable than can be applied as a straight-forward yes/no test.

We can go with US vs Microsoft which you rejected or Dictionary.com

1. exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. 2. an exclusive privilege to carry on a business, traffic, or service, granted by a government. 3. the exclusive possession or control of something.

or Merriam-Webster

1 : exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action 2 : exclusive possession or control 3 : a commodity controlled by one party 4 : one that has a monopoly

Since you deny that the term "monopoly" is one that does not apply to shades of grey - even for layman's use - then black-and-white tests are your only option.

There are shades of gray; however, your definition is unsupported and overly simplistic. By your definition the most popular in town is a monopoly. By your definition, Apple is a monopoly only because you are redefining it to support your uninformed notion of monopoly. However a simple logic test destroys your argument. Apple does not have any exclusive control. Therefore it cannot be a monopoly.

Since we aren't lawyers, that isn't particularly useful.

Then why don't we go with general reference sources like Dictionary.com

1. exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. 2. an exclusive privilege to carry on a business, traffic, or service, granted by a government. 3. the exclusive possession or control of something.

or Merriam-Webster

1 : exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action 2 : exclusive possession or control 3 : a commodity controlled by one party 4 : one that has a monopoly

Seriously, I've said from the start that your literalism wasn't helpful and to retreat further into legalistic definitions is even worse.

Please. This is your excuse that you cannot find anywhere in the whole of the Internet that supports your definition of monopoly. Just one source. Since you created your own interpretation of what monopoly means, everyone is being literal when they go with the commonly accepted definitions. Are you going to try to say black is white next?

You have indeed cited case law, my argument from the start has never been about case law.

I have support for my position. You have none. Period. End of story.

So far you've already denied that the RIAA is a monopoly, which destroyed your entire argument since my very first post made the equivalence between RIAA and Apple domination of the markets.

First of all, I said the RIAA is a cartel. The proper term is "cartel". Monopoly comes from the Greek with mono meaning "one". By definition, the RIAA is more than one company and by defintion not a monopoly. But there's me using the exact word in English (which isn't my first language) to describe something. What is it like in your world where can redefine words as you like?

Second of all, how is there any equivalence when the two things being compared are not even in the same category. The RIAA are exclusive owners while Apple is a non-exclusive reseller. The term that you seem to miss everytime is "exclusive". Wood is not a metal no matter how you want to redefine metal or wood.

Lastly, you can't refute any of my points that you can get music without ever going through Apple?

You keep using the term "monopoly". I do not think it means what you think it means.

However the browser is not a perfect interface. You need to scroll around, to zoom in, to zoom out... even a simple application that has only one input field and one output area will be a huge timesaver.

I can't speak for Japanese dictionary sites, but dictionary.com's mobile site is pretty straightforward--no pinching or zooming required.

http://m.dictionary.com/definition/Drivel
http://m.dictionary.com/definition/Dribble

Choose your words more carefully next time.

http://m.dictionary.com/definition/Drivel
http://m.dictionary.com/definition/Dribble

Choose your words more carefully next time.

Your criticism of my post is well deserved. It does appear that I am judging you and your story, but that was not the intention. I neglected to put something in my message that I had in mind when I hit the reply button. Unfortunately I got sidetracked with the other part about there being too many bundles, and it got omitted.

I do not think that you are a shill. (I wouldn't call anyone that word, for the same reasons that you give.) I do not think that you were wrong to post the story.

However, I do believe that this story is an advertisement; it's just not a paid advertisement. (That was the missing bit.) If you look at the definition of advertisement, it can mean "the action of making generally known; a calling to the attention of the public". That seems to be exactly what is happening here. It is true that this definition could be extended to virtually any story, but I think that it is fair to limit it to those that talk about a product for sale.

I do stand by my statement that this isn't really newsworthy, especially because it is not the first time that they have released the source code for Humble Bundle games. I also stand by my assertion that it was not a "bad thing to advertise the bundle, as it is for charity after all", although the charity part was a bit flippant. Announcing products on Slashdot (even products from Microsoft and Apple) is reasonable because this is the kind of news that is interesting to nerds.

Anyway, I apologise for any implication that you had a vested interest in the Humble Bundle or that money may have changed hands for the story. I am sure that this was what the original Anonymous Coward meant, but it had been my intention to counter it by agreeing, but to a different definition of the word "advert".

Copy one thousand blocks of bread to standard output. I think it means feed a thousand people. It should have been written

dd -n 1000 if=/dev/bread

So, googling "feed a thousand people" yields the following quote off Zora Neale Hurston on top:

"If you feed a thousand people you are a nice man with suspicious motives. If you kill a thousand you are a hero. Continue to get them killed by the thousands and you are a great conqueror than which nothing on earth is greater. Oppress them and you are a great ruler. Rob them by law and they are proud and happy if you let them glimpse you occasionally surrounded by the riches that you have trampled out of their hides. You are truly divine if [...]"

http://quotes.dictionary.com/if_you_feed_a_thousand_people_you_are

I don't know if the intent was for it to lead there but if not, thank you serendipity.

They MONOPOLIZE the search industry

All of my freinds agree with me and we have all switched to bing for searching

Monopoly

monopoly, market condition in which there is only one seller of a certain commodity

from
http://m.dictionary.com/r/?q=Monopoly

The mere fact that you can switch to Bing means Google isn't a monopoly.

Haha.. funny that that's a real word

From Dictionary.com:

complementary (kmplmntr, -tr) — adj
1. acting as or forming a complement; completing
2. forming a satisfactory or balanced whole
3. forming a mathematical complement: sine and cosine are complementary functions
4. maths, logic (of a pair of sets, etc) mutually exclusive and exhaustive, each being the complement of the other
5. (of genes) producing an effect in association with other genes
6. involving or using the treatments and techniques of complementary medicine

complimentary[kom-pluh-men-tuh-ree, -tree] adjective, noun, plural -ries –adjective
1. of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
2. given free as a gift or courtesy: a complimentary ticket.
–noun
3. something given or supplied without charge, as lodging, transportation, or meals, especially as an inducement to prospective customers.

discrete [dih-skreet] –adjective
1.apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
2.consisting of or characterized by distinct or individual parts; discontinuous.
3.Mathematics .
a.(of a topology or topological space) having the property that every subset is an open set.
b.defined only for an isolated set of points: a discrete variable.
c.using only arithmetic and algebra; not involving calculus: discrete methods.

discreet [dih-skreet] –adjective
1.judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
2.showing prudence and circumspection; decorous: a discreet silence.
3.modestly unobtrusive; unostentatious: a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace.

Science is demonstrable, repeatable and self-correcting. Most importantly: Science Delivers. Not understanding the intricacies doesn't make it "faith". Faith is an idea with no evidence to back it up no matter how adept the 'experts'. Even more important, the 'experts' often don't agree on even the basics. Witness all the various religions and factions thereof.

Sad how off your understanding f the word "faith" is. The Bible's definition: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." {Heb 11:1, NASB}

Dictionary.com's rendering #1, #4, #6, #7: "confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability." "belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty." "the obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.: Failure to appear would be breaking faith." "the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc.: He was the only one who proved his faith during our recent troubles."

you wouldn't be reading Slashdot, and thus wouldn't be able to answer the question of "what would you do if you were there"...

"what would you do if you were there."

You see it's the 'if' that makes the assumption that you are *not* there - which obviously can be made given that if you were there you likely wouldn't be reading this - therefore making this a hypothetical question.

Personally I have been using Dictionary.com for years now, got it incorporated with my dropdown list of search engines in Firefox to. Can't really see myself changing unless something drastic happens as Dictionary.com is plain, functional and provides the information without any hassle.

http://www.dictionary.com/ might also work. (Funny how people overlook the obvious.)

Who appointed Apple to be the legal guardian and nanny of iPhone users? Are they going to block internet access to http://dictionary.com/ because you can look up words like "motherfucker" there too?

Wrong again.

"Again"? What's that supposed to mean?

The word implies an expectation, not an obligation, to act.

Various dictionaries disagree with you.

In the case of computer configurations, the expectation is regarding the options the user can customize.

There is no expectation that users change the default; it's an option. The expectation is that most users won't. Even if we accept that "default" in its original meaning never implied an unsatisfied obligation, there is still a semantic shift.

I know living in the ghetto must be tough and all, but it appears you have the capabilities to steal a computer, so one would guess you'd probably have the capabilities to steal a dictionary. You should try using one some time. Hell, here's a reference site for you: http://www.dictionary.com/

It even negates the need for you to buy one. Next time that you want to go out on a limb and make some half-hearted want-wit attempt at insulting someones IQ, maybe next time you will think twice.

> ... percentage of successful convections and I knew I was assigned...

From Dictionary.com:

convection [kuhn-vek-shuhn]:
-noun
1. Physics. the transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of a liquid or gas.
2. Meteorology. the vertical transport of atmospheric properties, esp. upward (distinguished from advection ).
3. the act of conveying or transmitting.

Main Entry: aftercataract
Pronunciation: -"kat-&-"rakt
Function: noun
: an opacity of the lens capsule that occurs following an operation for cataract

A tesseradecad is an arrangement into groups of fourteen.

Symmetrical arrangements of texts and genealogies into tesseradecads were common Jewish customs. One example is the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the book of Luke and in the book of Matthew. Some names have been omitted in order to create tesseradecads in both genoalogies.
Matthew genealogy

Aftercataracts for the win.

I work for a company in Japan and information is one of our key assets. We have a fairly good relationship with google but what concerns quite a bit right now is the direct use (consolidation) of third party information that's slowly but surely encroaching on every single little possible market they can figure out how to intergrate into their enormous system. We are struggling now to post information on the web as all our information is short and digestable and likely to be swallowed up as a "useful features" on the side of one of these google maps searches. This isn't bad for people but, its gonna kill so many industries in the coming years. I just hope the "dont be evil" philosophy holds up 'cause I cant see this direction changing.

Communication != language. Language is far more complex and deep, containing tenses and vocabulary. Humans are the only animal that truly uses language -humans invented language- other animals simply interact. Dolphins clicking at eachother are not speaking with language, they are signaling with rudimentary noises.
http://www.dictionary.com/ and Google: 'Linguistics.'

In http://dictionary.com/ myth is defined as "an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution." Myths can not be true.

Oh buh-whah, you sound like a little girl. Get over yourself, you made a very weak argument that was entirely irrelevant to the posts you were replying to.

In other words, a copyleft license TREATED AS A CONTRACT...

See, this is where you reveal how little you understand. A license *is* a contract. A contract that is entered into willfully by both parties, the licensor, and the licensee. There is no coercion (check out http://dictionary.com/ you may want to look this word up). It would be a pretty useless contract, however, if there were not provisions. The provisions of the GPL are very simple:

(1) The licensor relinquishes his legal right to limit your usage of this software, and

(2) If you redistribute it to others, identically or modified, you must extend this same license.

If you don't like (2), then don't do (1). There's no coercion, you can just walk away if you want (might not be a bad idea, in your case). Not sure how much simpler I can make this for you. And it's exactly the opposite from how the RIAA works, which was in fact the point of the earlier posts.

A contract is an agreement between two or more parties.

Thus, a license is a contract, but a contract is not necessarily a license. I may not be a lawyer, but I -do- have access to a dictionary.

You are also spewing some nonsense about copyright, which doesn't belong there either: not abiding the terms of a license has nothing to do with copyright law.

It's really amusing that all the best FOSSie minds in the world just started crying because the GPLv3 they just custom crafted in order to specifically attack Microsoft doesn't amount to anything. It seems like FOSSies losing out to Microsoft is kind of a universal theme, like Cobra's schemes always losing out to GI Joe.

No, that is not how civil rights were won... Insightful my ass.

You know about sarcasm, right?

spam
n. Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.

tr.v. spammed, spamming, spams

1. To send unsolicited e-mail to.
2. To send (a message) indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups.
From http://www.dictionary.com/

If people opt-in, it's not spam. These 50,000 members asked to be on the list for hs newsletter.

If he was trying to sell those 50,000 members viagra, or another unreated product, yes, he would be a spammer.

Please understand and comprehend the meanings of words before you speak again.

Hint: the difference that you're looking for is the difference between "innocent" and "guilty". http://www.dictionary.com/ is your friend.

Dictionary.com defines "robot" as:

        1. a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.

        3. any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.

Dictionary.com: One
Dictionary.com: Two
Dictionary.com: Three

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Dictionary.com defines "robot" as:

        1. a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.

        3. any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.

Dictionary.com: One
Dictionary.com: Two
Dictionary.com: Three

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Dictionary.com defines "robot" as:

        1. a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.

        3. any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.

Dictionary.com: One
Dictionary.com: Two
Dictionary.com: Three

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Cervantes Gymnasium. Am I the only one that thought "that must be where the Soul Calibur people go to train."

I bet most Slashdotters don't know the following, which comes from http://www.dictionary.com/

Gymnasium - An academic high school in some central European countries, especially Germany, that prepares students for the university.

The term is used a lot in the former Soviet Union. I've heard it used in Ukraine to describe what we in America would call "high school".

I use http://dictionary.com/, their FF2 search-bar plugin is here: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/dictionary.com.htm l. I use the first one listed.

In many cases you are completely wrong. Market share is the percentage of people using a product.

You're not off to a good start yourself.

Ferrari and Lambourgini would have much larger market shares if dollars spent affected the market share.

So now higher price = higher market share? Keep in mind there's another factor in there. Units sold. How many ferraris do you see on a daily basis? Now, how many toyotas? fords? saturns? I don't have the numbers, but I'm guessing the few hundred thousand autos sold by each major manufacturer each year adds up to a bit more than the few thousand Ferraris and Lamborghinis sold. Call me silly.

I would put forth the idea that total time played is an very good indication of the popularity (or market share) of a game.

Popularity != market share. Popularity != time used. The word you're looking for is "quality".

I'd like to also put forth the idea that it would probably be a great idea for a company to give a game away for free (perhaps their own pirated copy even) that was extremely popular to get people to buy their console.

It's called shareware. These days, you might know it as a demo. Remember the Doom shareware back in the day? Probably not from the sounds of it.

Definitions can be very subjective things.

I would like to point you to a dictionary. I'd point you to your local high school too, if I knew where you lived.

Which is to say, you didn't read it. Honestly, have a look at chapter 12 (Attribution) of the IPCC Third Assessment Report. You'll find just a single mention, buried in the qualitative section, of Mann's study, listed amongst 5 other different palaeological climate reconstructions by different authors, and only to note that "the 20th century warming is highly unusual."

You said the SUMMARY not the chapter. The centerpiece of the SUMMARY was the thoroughly discredited "Mann Hockey Stick" a piece of shit so bad that not even Mann bothered to defend it when he testified in Congress recently. It was Mann's study that was touted as the "Smoking Gun" of man-made climate change and it was Mann's study that was reproduced five or six times in the Summary for Policymakers.

You can see those reconstructions (plus several others) charted together if you're curious. Mann's studies, let alone the "Hockey Stick", far from being "the centerpiece", get scant mention.

Actually the Mann Hockey Stick gets scant attention now because it's been revealed to be a fraud, which was shoved down the throats of scientists, politicians and the public. The other studies in that spaghetti graph are siblings of the Hockey Stick, using the same flawed proxies over and over again, as the Wegman report made clear. Steve McIntyre has shown that ALL of those studies fail statistical verification tests just like the Hockey Stick.

Hockey Stick Denialism means rewriting history, and Wikipedia is the perfect medium to do it.

Of course calling Mann's work a "scientific fraud" is rather unfounded too. You may note, in the chart linked above, that there are many other historical temperature reconstructions, done indepdently by different people, that arrive at a similar result to Mann.

As Wegman noted, all of those studies used the same flawed proxies, and some used Mann's flawed PC1 as a proxy in itself, even though it had already been shown to be a product of bad data in 2003 and bad statistics in 2005. There's even a nice table in Wegman showing how they are all related. Wegman testified that Mann's study was a piece of "bad mathematics" and was meaningless.

The Mann Hockey Stick was a deliberate fabrication of the climatic record. It removed the Little ice Age and Medieval Warm Period as global phenomena and even last year Mann confirmed that the Hockey Stick did not have those events. It should be obvious that writing "Medieval Warm Period" and "Little Ice Age" across the top of a set of graphs that doesn't show them is not exactly evidence, but we're dealing with Denialism here.

There is also the recent National Academy of Sciences report on the subject which concluded, with high confidence, that the earth was the warmest it had been in 400 years, and that while there was less confidence in reconstructions going further back, they still point to the earth undergoing unusual recent warming.

What they effectively was re-establish the Little Ice Age, which Mann had said didn't exist and downgraded the rest of his crap to "plausible" which my dictionary defines as

1. having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
2. well-spoken and apparently, but often deceptively, worthy of confidence or trust: a plausible commentator.

That the Mann Hockey Stick was deliberately fabricated and knowingly false was the discovery of

p.s. Ubuntu has released a version today based on the 2.6.17 kernel, and that kernel includes many new supported wireless cards, one of which I have in my laptop (broadcom 4308)

That's super. Now that you can connect to the intarweb with your wireless card in Ubuntu, go here and learn how to spell.