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  1. Re:Yay, another prediction! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible (vice.com)

    I've never understood the fascination with "failed" predictions of the exact year as if it was a big deal. So what? When people say "As soon as year XXXX", they mean it's possible if the trend continues, but there is inevitable variation that means you can't be precise even if the overall trend continues. It's an approximation that always had +-years of uncertainty. It's not like the long-term trend for arctic sea ice has turned around and steadily started increasing for the last decade to negate the likelihood it will reach zero soon. It has wiggled around year by year but the downward trend is really obvious. If it reaches zero ice cover in September 2022 or 2030 (for example) instead of 2016, how does that substantially change the situation?

  2. Re:Expert Advice by auric_dude · · Score: 2 · on Chinese Firm Huawei In Control of UK Net Filters

    Looks like google is now storing and managing access to UK government publications and data https://b1cba9b3-a-5e6631fd-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/independent.gov.uk/isc/files/20130606_ISC_CNI_Report.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7co3BLJXxRecJyw4qt6s8mQlJ0HxT47B9817fKlG-TIe_qCKnXGlpYK7NfVbH-e0pCuIxtKM8F85qRJ8Ip9xtlyW8urklyL-sAd7IVMHQh78R4rltwWSI8EfjxSDMb-zwADhL9qRbsUO08XLrOebcwQP34v_IkLPoGUlf_QouYd-0DgTZrswZSDgZwPCe8vMUZe5MYBFtVrE0dM3BpE6MSLsqNDq-fdm0AxRjh5atdJz0_326jg%3D&attredirects=0, not something I can recall on any the last party manifestos. Come to think of it I'm sure I did not vote for Huawei keeping an eye on my browsing habits, what next Mozilla getting in on the act? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/26/mozilla_personalisation_experiment/

  3. Re:Empirical curve fitting suggests sooner. by speederaser · · Score: 1 · on NOAA: Arctic Likely Free Of Summer Ice By 2050 — Possibly Much Sooner

    So when 2016 rolls around with no significant change to the ice caps can we cut this stupid "ice caps r gunna melt" meme?

    No? I didn't think so.

    You must be trolling because It's hard for a rational person to look at this chart and think there will be "no change" when 2016 rolls around. (Hit "download attachment" to see the chart).

    In 1979 the minimum was over 16,000 cubic kilometers of Arctic ice. In 2005 the minimum was 9,000 cubic kilometers. Last year it was just above 3,000. The best curve fit of the data (seen on the chart) shows the Arctic will probably be ice-free by 2016.

  4. Google has this problem with their forms, too. by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative · on JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style

    It's not just JotForms. Google is now the leading site being exploited to host phishing pages. Google has reasonable defenses against phishing for their "sites" product. However, Google doesn't seem to have those protections on their document and spreadsheet products. Here's a fake login form hosted by Google. That's been up since 2010. Here's a fake login page hosted as a Google spreadsheet. Google allows unlimited HTML in a spreadsheet, which means it can be abused in this way. We have a full list, if anyone is interested.

    "formbuddy.com" and "surveymonkey.com" can also be abused in this way. Formbuddy seems to kick phishing pages off quickly. Surveymonkey, not so good at this.

    If you offer free hosting, and don't have aggressive anti-phishing controls in place, you will be pwned.

  5. I know it's april, but check out the google ads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo and Grml Merge

    Is google ads also doing april fools? Check out the banner I got with this story: screen shot

    The ad was linking to: this

  6. Re:Peer review vs. "gray literature" by farlukar · · Score: 1 · on UN To Create Independent Panel To Review IPCC

    Holy blap, what part of "crap" don't you understand?

    A LaTeX document with lots of formulas doesn't automagically mean proper science, you know.

    See this and this.
    And thrown in for good measure: The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus

  7. Re:Clojure by slasho81 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby

    Slides and code for the 5th screencast about Clojure linked in the parent message.

  8. Re:Clojure by slasho81 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby

    Slides and code for the 5th screencast about Clojure linked in the parent message.

  9. Re:Clues so far... by rumith · · Score: 1 · on Mystery Company Recruiting Talent With a Puzzle

    The Google groups page links to a file, which holds symbols of Mars and Venus.

  10. No more bandwidth for google? by dotancohen · · Score: 2, Interesting · on GOOG-411's "Biddy-Biddy-Boop" Sound Backstory

    You cannot view this page because this group has exceeded its bandwidth quota. That's what I get when I try to play the wav file.
  11. Re:No sound by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on GOOG-411's "Biddy-Biddy-Boop" Sound Backstory

    I opened up quicktime direct, file menu| open url in order to hear it on my mac

    http://goog411.googlegroups.com/web/1-800-goog-411.mp3?gda=Y0TV50MAAAB7GA88RxiKfMmJbBD-l3LOftcXfMw_zBUSWbpHeV8HeGG1qiJ7UbTIup-M2XPURDTr3bKJgB1KeNxedXzzC5fjaRO12GarSki7FMoIuUXfNA

  12. The WebKit implementation is superior IMO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser

    Testing javascript with Safari is like testing javascript with NoScript -- of course it's going to be faster since it doesn't really work The WebKit implementation of JavaScript is easily better than the implementation in FireFox, Opera or Internet Explorer's JScript. Note I'm not saying just 'different', actually better - by which I mean it's demonstrably faster, is more feature complete, and requires less workarounds when you start doing complicated things (all centered around event handling though really, both FireFox and IE have issues with what you can/can't do when it comes to events and referencing properties of objects - in Safari everything I would expect to work, just does, though YMMV).

    I've written both simple demos and fairly sophisticated JavaScript apps (which can do Sim City / Civilization 2.5 isometric views like this - and render them extremely quickly so you that you can pan around the environment as if it was a native title)).

    When it comes to looping through a large array of arrays (e.g. the terrain tile detail in one of the above examples), applying style or class attributes to DOM elements, creating or moving DOM elements on a page and dealing with event handlers Safari wins hands down, followed by FireFox, Opera and IE (in all respects). The "Opera is the fastest" claim holds very little weight with me having compared them. What Opera has is a very fast UI that's extremely responsive, which is all a bit smoke and mirrors really. It's not particularly fast at script execution or object manipulation as soon as things get interesting (it lags behind Safari and FireFox certainly, but it's still far ahead of IE), and of course it renders perfectly valid pages very differently from Safari and FireFox (for which is sometimes possible to blame ambiguities in the standards, but that it doesn't follow the lead of Gecko/KHTML/Webkit or IE is a bit annoying - though do I appreciate the complexity involved).

  13. This is news? by ElliotLee · · Score: 1 · on New Google Groups in Beta

    Google Groups beta has been around for well over two months. Slashdot even reported on it at one point.