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I don't think curly quotes are dead, either. I think they just keep getting morphed into Ã(TM) trash, as can be seen in many past Slashdot stories.

NBC uploads the Tonight Show to YouTube's ContentID system to declare their right to the 'NBC' broadcast. Except of course it contains the musical bit from someone else. Yet NBC is now claiming ownership of something they most certainly don't

This violates the terms of service of YouTube Content ID. A copyright owner that uploads reference material to Content ID is expected to scrub its uploads of all material to which it does not own the exclusive right.

The entire world is laughing at these ridiculous, groundless accusations, Putin included.

Perhaps he was thinking of the opposite situation, where demand is high and their servers can't cope (like Pokemon Go) they can then arrange extra server capacity in advance.

Exactly. And I realized after the fact that the Play store does actually have a rerelease feature. Mario Run is already in there.
https://play.google.com/store/...

In fact from the mid 40s to around around 1980 there actually was a slight decrease in measured temperature at surface stations around the globe, although not to early 20th C levels. This was due to the rise of SO2 above many of the temperature stations, which reduced sunlight reaching the surface. You probably aren't old enough to remember, but this is what cities often looked like in the 60s.

So in the mid 60s the future direction of climate was still somewhat open. On one hand increasing CO2 (by then measurable) was warming the Earth; on the other natural variations in the Earth's orbit and increased SO2 would have a cooling effect. The question was which effect would prevail. By the mid 70s the vast majority of papers concluded that the balance would tip toward warming, successfully predicting the warming seen after 1980 before it actually happened. Of course public understanding of the current state of science is usually a decade or more out of date. In the case of AGW, almost nobody outside of Earth Sciences was aware of the newly emerged consensus until An Incovenient Truth came out -- which left people feeling blindsided. But you can go back in Google Scholar and watch that consensus emerge some thirty years earlier. I was aware of it in the 80s because I'd married a geophysicist.

As for peak oil that's a much tougher nut to crack because it depends on predictions of future oil recovery technologies and the discovery of future energy reserves. If technology hadn't improved since the 1970s we'd surely be looking at much more expensive petroleum. Economists have never predicted we'll "run out of oil", by the way, because that's not how markets work. What will happen is oil will someday become too expensive to use to power things like cars. We're still headed there eventually, but nobody can say exactly when.

Remember a few years ago when "Android first" was a thing that everybody knew was going to happen? Good times.

...Hillary is pretty similar to Putin then.

Gad we dodged THAT bullet!

Then Anna Politkovskaya is to Seth Rich what Vladimir Putin is to Hilary Clinton

...Hillary is pretty similar to Putin then.

Gad we dodged THAT bullet!

Meanwhile, everyone with a brain moves away from Russia (even the oligarchs!) or drinks himself to death

Oh, another interesting information!
Stratfor, IMRussia (but I think imrussia is more honest) all sing songs that Russia faces another wave of brain-drain.
Yes, they have some examples, some apps startups, some game companies, but look at the numbers they provided.
Firstly, the number from Stratfor:
https://translate.google.com/t...
(honestly, I actually like some anti-Putin jokes here)
Now, dig into those numbers (forget about the pro-Russian stand of the author below, focus on the number):
https://translate.google.com/t...
That is, the number of emigrants move to Western countries slightly above the 2011.

Meanwhile, everyone with a brain moves away from Russia (even the oligarchs!) or drinks himself to death

Oh, another interesting information!
Stratfor, IMRussia (but I think imrussia is more honest) all sing songs that Russia faces another wave of brain-drain.
Yes, they have some examples, some apps startups, some game companies, but look at the numbers they provided.
Firstly, the number from Stratfor:
https://translate.google.com/t...
(honestly, I actually like some anti-Putin jokes here)
Now, dig into those numbers (forget about the pro-Russian stand of the author below, focus on the number):
https://translate.google.com/t...
That is, the number of emigrants move to Western countries slightly above the 2011.

Ducks are notorious rapists.
https://www.google.com/search?...

> He's also telegraphed every company that the way to be on his good book is jobs...

Lol. Not even close.
He gave Carrier $7M tax dollars in order to replace people with robots.

What he's "telegraphed" is that the way to be on his good book is to say great things about him because then he'll say great things about you.

Also, "A guy calls me a genius and they want me to renounce him? I'm not going to renounce him."

So yeah, if you want Donald Trump to like you, all you gotta do is praise him like a puppy.

I prefer PURPLE thank you very much! https://www.google.com/search?...

So FL is like AZ, which is where Uber already loaded up their cars and drove to?

This seems too little, too late, when the cars have already been unloaded from their trailers in AZ....

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That's unfair, the MacBook Pro is doing really well.

Doesn't matter. The haters make up their own reality where everything Apple sells is crap, and people only buy it because they are somehow hypnotized by the shiny. I predicted that the average user will be quite happy with their iPhone 7, and won't care about the jack. I predicted that the average user will be quite happy with the new MacBook, and don't care that it's not cutting edge enough. No matter what Apple creates or sells, or how well it sells, the complaints are the same. So no, reality doesn't matter.

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you think there is no malware in official google store?
There you go: https://play.google.com/store/...

4.5 stars :DDD 161,829 positive reviews :)

Yeah, but it says it's "A professional & powerful optimize tool ever for free on market". I can't imagine they would lie about that.

1) iPad Pro: Meh. 2) Apple Watch: Meh. 3) MBP 2016: Meh 4) iPhone 7: Meh 5) Airpods?

I'm going to go with "Meh".

That's unfair, the MacBook Pro is doing really well.

you think there is no malware in official google store?
There you go: https://play.google.com/store/...

4.5 stars :DDD 161,829 positive reviews :)

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I think the problem people have is that there are various pieces of mobile OS functionality that have been moved out of the open Android Open Source space into the proprietary Google Play space (like location). Google Play services are not free (as in beer or freedom), it's another walled garden with commercial restrictions on usage. It's not just a matter of "replace Google search, maps and other services". The Android kernel itself is a decreasing amount of the software footprint required to build mobile apps.

Google Search shows over 12 million results for the phrase "vegetable garden".

Another guess is that "farming" has a connotation of energy-rich grains and soy as opposed to micronutrient-rich vegetables.

Any more simple questions?

When were you diagnosed with your mental condition?

This is what the pipelines are being built to prevent:

https://www.google.com/search?...

Anyone who supports the status quo over the much safer pipelines is for environmental damage. If you would prefer the numerous train derailments that lead to massive oil spills, then keep protesting every pipeline trying to protect the environment from oil spills, it really increases your enviro-cred!

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I've been using CeroWrt (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/ - the initial testbed for all of the bufferbloat work) for at least four years. For the majority of that time I had 1.5Mbps DSL service, but now I'm connected via a 12Mbps ADSL2+ link.

Prior to the installation of CeroWrt, it was painful for me to attempt to work remotely using an SSH tunnel if someone was watching a show via Netflix, but after setting up CeroWrt everyone was happy (me for not having to yell at my daughter and my daughter for being able to watch Netflix without me yelling).

With the 12Mbps link, it doesn't seem to be the ingress traffic that causes issues, but the egress traffic (at times, I upload large data sets). Without shaping the outbound traffic, I can see round-trip times in excess of 2 seconds which is just a bit excessive. ;-)

I recently installed LEDE (https://lede-project.org/) (an OpenWrt (https://openwrt.org/) fork) on a spare router (the same model as the CeroWrt router - WNDR3800) and it is obvious that the software continues to improve.

It appears that LEDE may be approaching its first stable release (https://forum.lede-project.org/t/criteria-for-first-lede-stable-release/552). If you have a spare router that is supported by LEDE, please consider installing a current build and report any issues found.

If you would like to learn more, here are a few random links to get you started:

• Explaining RRUL Charts (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/RRUL_Chart_Explanation/)
• The Cerowrt-devel Mailing List Archives (https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cerowrt-devel/)
• The Lede-dev Mailing List Archives (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/)
• Does LEDE support my router? (https://lede-project.org/supported_devices)
• The Make Wi-Fi Fast Wiki (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/make-wifi-fast/wiki/)
• The Make-wifi-fast Mailing List Archives (https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/make-wifi-fast/)
• Possible OpenWrt and LEDE merge (https://www.google.com/search?q=OpenWrt+LEDE+merge)
• All of Dave's Patreon posts (https://www.patreon.com/dtaht/posts)

I feel that the work that Dave (and everyone else that is involved) is so important that I send a few coins his way every month via Patreon. Here's his most recent update: "Where your donations go" (https://www.patreon.com/posts/where-your-go-7564906).

Dave, a belated Merry Christmas to you and I'm looking forward to a New Year where all of the efforts to tame bufferbloat and make WiFi fast benefit everyone.

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See here. Also, I have no brain so whatever. ;)

How come we don't see dinosaur or other fossils with cancer?

Because you didn't look?

No problem. I'm down with the magic underwear, floating, and bubbling.

I love how frothy you're getting. I'm still repeating a few basic points, though, and you keep posting things that are trivially contradicted, which is a real shame. As I keep saying, there are and have been much better arguments against AGW in the past, and you do need some specific evidence to refute the theory. Such evidence has not been observed and there is no particularly compelling reason to believe it ever will be, of course, but you can't just hold up some tangentially-related failed prediction and claim it invalidates the whole thing.

The CAGW skeptics understand and practice science, because they accept the empirical evidence being presented by independent satellite and balloon measurements and comparing them with the IPCC's predictions, and the predictions have failed quite badly.

No, the deniers are cherry-picking datasets and presenting no evidence which affects the underlying theory, which is based on easily-verified physical properties of atmospheric gases. Empiricism means looking at all the data, not just that which supports your theory.

This is a complete failure of logic, sorry to say.

The theory is called anthropogenic global warming. It predicts global warming. There are number of specific ways that we expect that to happen, but we put the big prediction right in the title there.

But what the satellites saw is consistent with CO2 only warming with negligible effect from water vapor (and water vapor is the CORE of IPCC's claim for requiring political action).

That's not what the wikipedia article on the UAH records says, and it seems to be well cited.

IPCC's 'Global Warming' meme they have now very sneakily moved to the meaningless meme 'Climate Change

No, the name 'climate change' is older than 'global warming'. You would know this if you had bothered to read any of that history site I linked. As I said, the prevailing idea before the 1950s was that the climate did not change, or if it did, it was a cyclical change, and that things would go back to normal afterwards. Despite knowing that Ice Ages had occurred in the past, there was a pervasive belief that the climate could not change, or if it could then that would take place over millions of years. Multiple lines of evidence overturned this belief, and you can read all about it on that history site, or if you like you can get on Google Scholar and read the papers that were published yourself. Various incorrect theories of climate change accompanied the gradually-mounting evidence for Ice Ages in the 19th century, and it was on Ice Ages that climate change research initially focused. Carbon dioxide was not even known to be increasing until Keeling's measurements began in 1958, although there was some evidence to that effect previously. We can also reference Plass, 1956 "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change.", which you'll note refers to climate change in the title. The understanding that humans were emitting CO2 in excess of what the natural sinks could absorb also took several decades to overcome apparently contradictory measurements. After it was established that the climate could change, there was still necessary work to determine that CO2 could affect it. Global warming is a hyponym of climate change, and although currently they are more-or-less interchangably used today, we did have evidence for climatic changes and theories about it before anyone was concerned about warming, and the shift to using the term 'global warming' happened only after that became the obvious climatic change. Again, this is easily verified in the literature.

The wikipedia article [wikipedia.org] on the UAH dataset doesn't seem to support the idea of a large divergence.

This is the observed da

The goal is technology that would automate most of the firmâ(TM)s management. It would represent a culmination of Mr. Dalioâ(TM)s life work to build Bridgewater into an altar to radical opennessâ"and a place that can endure without him. At Bridgewater, most meetings are recorded, employees are expected to criticize one another continually, people are subject to frequent probes of their weaknesses, and personal performance is assessed on a host of data points, all under Mr. Dalioâ(TM)s gaze. Bridgewaterâ(TM)s new technology would enshrine his unorthodox management approach in a software system. It could dole out GPS-style directions for how staff members should spend every aspect of their days, down to whether an employee should make a particular phone call.

I think the Wall Street story (here gets you past the paywall once) is obsessing over the micromanagement side of the thing and missing the big picture. This is among the first examples of someone using AI to try to maintain strategic and organizational integrity of an organization after their death. While there's a good chance this just fails utterly (particularly with the obsession on micromanagement and dysfunctional business dynamics), it does lead to a potential problem or opportunity down the road when many of these things have been set up with conflicting interests. There have been many examples through history of powerful people trying to create an enduring legacy through creation and propagation of something throughout time. These endeavors often fail merely because successors have different interests and high levels of incompetency, leading eventually to dissolution of the thing. Here is a possibility to create something enduring, a machine capable of surviving long durations and implementing its creators' will long after their deaths. Here, the alleged goal is retention of a particular business culture, but who knows what else has been tossed in? There could be all sorts of covert purposes and priorities, some introduced by the patron and perhaps, some introduced by other parties? Then there's the matter of what happens in the distant future, if this approach turns out to be successful without a corresponding improvement in human longevity? Either it's the only one of its kind, and we have a build up of economic power not subject to the usual restrictions of human lifespan or we have multiple powerful parties in permanent conflict with each other. This need not be universally bad. For example, an AI could be set up to further environmentalism or poverty elimination goals just as easily as it could a particular business's interests.

In a lot of complex systems, the influence of the inputs and outputs are not linear and uncorrelated.

AI setup for environmentalism and poverty elimination might influence other systems and those influences might be huge in the wrong sectors. It might attribute environmentalism and poverty elimination with population reduction, war etc.

Just like the stock market, there is no real way to predict what will be successful and what will fail. As humans, we always have our 20/20 hindsight bias. As an exercise in proving this, just read slashdot predictions from five to ten years ago. It's almost painful how inane most predictions were.

In short, if it sounds like a good idea try it. It will either succeed or fail, and even if it succeeds it will rarely succeed in the way it was intended to.

Point is someone is doing something. Let's wait and see how it goes. We don't have to convince ourselves that this is good or bad.

Once again, your arguments are equivalent to "nuh uh!". Once again, you are completely wrong and arguing merely from an ideological bias. The entire fucking point of a "reactionless drive" is that it violates CoM. That's what "reactionless" means. But hey, it's not like every reputable physicist has same the same damn thing. It's not like multiple independent lines of evidence and every physical theory we have say this is impossible. No, that stuff is all wrong because you would rather it not be true.

I've read the wikipedia articles. I've read Shawyer and White's papers, and McCulloch. All of which were lacking in basic physical knowledge at best, and word salad at worst. The EmDrive does not work, but if it did work, it would violate CoM/CoE. Source: literally everything that has ever been reported, plus all known physics. Your warp drive fantasies are not real and will never be real.

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The goal is technology that would automate most of the firmâ(TM)s management. It would represent a culmination of Mr. Dalioâ(TM)s life work to build Bridgewater into an altar to radical opennessâ"and a place that can endure without him.

At Bridgewater, most meetings are recorded, employees are expected to criticize one another continually, people are subject to frequent probes of their weaknesses, and personal performance is assessed on a host of data points, all under Mr. Dalioâ(TM)s gaze.

Bridgewaterâ(TM)s new technology would enshrine his unorthodox management approach in a software system. It could dole out GPS-style directions for how staff members should spend every aspect of their days, down to whether an employee should make a particular phone call.

I think the Wall Street story (here gets you past the paywall once) is obsessing over the micromanagement side of the thing and missing the big picture.

This is among the first examples of someone using AI to try to maintain strategic and organizational integrity of an organization after their death. While there's a good chance this just fails utterly (particularly with the obsession on micromanagement and dysfunctional business dynamics), it does lead to a potential problem or opportunity down the road when many of these things have been set up with conflicting interests. There have been many examples through history of powerful people trying to create an enduring legacy through creation and propagation of something throughout time. These endeavors often fail merely because successors have different interests and high levels of incompetency, leading eventually to dissolution of the thing.

Here is a possibility to create something enduring, a machine capable of surviving long durations and implementing its creators' will long after their deaths. Here, the alleged goal is retention of a particular business culture, but who knows what else has been tossed in? There could be all sorts of covert purposes and priorities, some introduced by the patron and perhaps, some introduced by other parties?

Then there's the matter of what happens in the distant future, if this approach turns out to be successful without a corresponding improvement in human longevity? Either it's the only one of its kind, and we have a build up of economic power not subject to the usual restrictions of human lifespan or we have multiple powerful parties in permanent conflict with each other.

This need not be universally bad. For example, an AI could be set up to further environmentalism or poverty elimination goals just as easily as it could a particular business's interests.

I use the native 2FA feature for Gmail that leverages an app on any smartphone and it works great. No USB port required. https://www.google.com/landing...

You question how dedicated security hardware is "better" than one of the most hacked platforms on the planet?

Give me a fucking break. This is the #1 reason I do not want my corporate users using hackedphones as the other half of 2FA.

First, the app name is Google Authenticator. Second, it works with more that Gmail, I have my DNS provider, my GitHub and GitLab accounts, my Google accounts, my corporate accounts, etc all inside that application. It works on more that one site because they all support TOTP, an open algorithm, that is what the app, and many other alternatives like FreeOTP.

About what is better is the USB device that an application? The keys are stored on the device, and good devices are designed so keys are unreadable outside of it, only the generated code. Applications are vulnerable to malware on the device running it. The device ideally is less vulnerable of malware, it will be able to intercept current generated codes, but not extract the keys and generate codes themselves (unless the firmware is too buggy that it exposes the keys to the host device)

I use the native 2FA feature for Gmail that leverages an app on any smartphone and it works great. No USB port required. https://www.google.com/landing...

This would be a skeptical perspective, there are various other wrong arguments. As it happens it's one of the better wrong arguments available, but still insufficient. Links are likely to be first resource available rather than an authoritative source; the nice thing about empiricism is that it's consistent.

Doubling the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increases global surface temperatures by 1.16 K.

Yes, that's a reasonable figure.

we are not far off the conditions of CO2 starvation for plants where all plant life dies, since they evolved in an atmosphere of 2000 ppmV CO2

Carbon dioxide levels have not been at that level for since, what, the mid-Cretaceous? Tens of millions of years at any rate. For most crops the saturation point will be reached at about 1,000—1,300 ppm under ideal circumstances., higher levels inhibit growth. There are any number of studies which bear these figures out, but as it happens I have also personally experimented with gardening with supplemental CO2, and with my hydroponic setup anything higher than 1500 ppm produced noticeably less healthy plants.

...[plants] rapidly absorb human-emitted CO2..."

If plants were starved for CO2, we would not be seeing the global concentration rising. This also misses a much better argument. In the first decades of the 20th Century, AGW was discredited for a number of reasons, the relevant one being that it was thought that the oceans would be able to absorb and buffer any increase of CO2. There is 50 times the amount of dissolved carbon in the oceans than there is in the atmosphere, and it seemed obvious that anything happening to the atmosphere would necessarily be minor. That turned out not to be the case.

the lifetime is certainly under 10 years and possibly as short as 10 months

This is an extraordinary claim. I would ask you to provide a citation from a reputable journal, but I cannot imagine that a claim so blatantly unphysical would ever be accepted into a reputable journal. However, it's clear that the excess carbon is not being sequestered; however long it stays in the atmosphere is irrelevant to whether it is increasing.

The debate is entirely about what the effect of water vapor (clouds have) on these sensitivities.

Clouds are not water vapor, actually, they're condensed water. Water vapor is the stuff that's not visible. The Earth is actually opaque to IR. Water vapor and CO2 in the laboratory have a very strong feedback effect. Clouds do not cover 100% of the Earth's surface, but water vapor does, so we should intuitively expect that clouds should not have a greater effect than water vapor. Also, since it is undisputed that clouds also contribute to warming, the required negative feedback would need to be that much greater. Given that the positive feedbacks are as you say of alarming magnitude, this negative feedback should be fairly obvious. And yet no skeptic has been able to propose a mechanism. Sufficient evidence has not been presented to overturn the IPCC results.

Meanwhile the skeptics believe the IPCC computer models are wrong

Of course they are, "all models are wrong, some are useful". Modeling that atmosphere in two dimensions or as a column of gases is a very easy way to demonstrate the warming effect. But having an accurate or inaccurate model is irrelevant to whether the observations that it's built on are correct. You need the observat

They already have proving grounds there.

Or cannot use google, where you can get to a cheaper and better solution in under 2 minutes.

If Russia isn't invading and attacking Ukraine, as Putin has been saying for over two years now, why would Russian artillery be targeting Ukrainian artillery in Ukraine?

I guess when you've lost over 2,000 soldiers during your invasion, and the weekly shipments of cargo 200 keep crossing into your country, it becomes time to drop the facade of the charade and just admit the truth you've been denying.

we will never be rid of fake news.

It's far too useful to some folks when they need to sway public opinion on something. The truth be damned.

fake news... What is it?

Is it a new thing entirely? Is it just a new word for propaganda or is it simply lies? Could it just be a more extreme form of the baseless "opinion piece"?

Whatever it is, I'm already getting sick about hearing it. If someone doesn't like a news story they label it as "fake news" regardless of whether it is or not. Once that happens, we're all fucked because nothing is true any more. As that writer succinctly points out — don't play chess with pigeons: even if you win they'll just upset the board and shit on it. I'm not sure where the pigeons come from, but the analogy makes more sense than a lot of other stuff right now.

If it could do passwords

I host all my 2FA codes from the Google Authenticator app on my watch. You can also sign in to anything Google using your watch,
https://support.google.com/acc...

I'm pretty sure I remember you have previous posts calling people "space nutters", and are pretty rabid in attacking anything outside mainstream NASA. The claim that CAST has nothing just because the English version has nothing means nothing...unless you've gone through the Chinese language version and can prove the two sites contain the same information.

I found another reference in English at http://spaceflight101.com/shijian-17-rendezvous-with-chinasat-5a/: "and debuting a Hall-Effect Thruster system for use on future Chinese GEO satellites"

Digging into this via Google Translate does provide far more information. The information your claiming doesn't exist actually DOES exist, on the stdaily.com article. It's just all in Chinese, so you have to put some effort in to translate it. My link is at translate.google.com and https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://digitalpaper.stdaily.com/http_www.kjrb.com/kjrb/html/2016-12/11/content_357005.htm%3Fdiv%3D-1&usg=ALkJrhhkYPDNKL_9BxSu6OAkt5KIHsse9Q but I don't know if this link will work for anyone else.

Using Google page translation:

Chen Yue said: "We use the classic electromagnetics and electrodynamics to design several different shapes of thrusters, theoretical analysis can generate thrust thrust, and through the test of the thrust, the results in line with theoretical analysis. Science and Technology Daily Beijing December 10 " Roger Xiaoe in an interview was also asked this "eternal" problem, he made it clear that the EM engine does not violate Newton's law of mechanics: "EM engine in a direction to generate propulsion, if circumstances permit, will In another direction, the momentum of the whole process is conserved. "This explanation is considered ambiguous.

"We have successfully developed several specifications of several prototype principle, the establishment of experimental verification platform to complete the milli-level micro thrust measurement test, through several years of repeated tests and the corresponding interference factor investigation test, confirm that the type of thruster Thrust exists. "Chen Yue introduced that they have completed the test device can be used for flight test development, is in orbit verification.

"This technology is currently in the latter stages of the proof-of-principle phase, with the goal of making the technology available in satellite engineering as quickly as possible," said Li Feng, chief architect of the China National Space Technology Institute's communications satellite division. , The principle prototype volume, thrust is small, require special engineering methods, optimize the cavity design, improve the cavity quality factor, reduce the loss, the microwave energy is more effective for generating thrust. At present, the thrust is measured to micro-cow level to millennial level, at least to improve the level of 100 cents or even cattle-level satellite can be used for attitude control, orbit and so on.