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Not quite as true as they said, but basically correct; however they misinterpret it. The way they said this you would have thought that T and CO2 are anti-correlated; but if you overlay the full 400/800 kyr of ice core record, you can't even see the lag because its so small. The correct interpretation of this is well known: that there is a T-CO2 feedback: see RC again for more.

So they say that if you "zoom out" you can't even see the lag (since 800 years v.s. 400/800 thousand years isn't really visible). Is that a joke or something? There is still a bloody 800 year lag! Doing more research going into their linked explanation they say the follow:

Does this prove that CO2 doesn't cause global warming? The answer is no. The reason has to do with the fact that the warmings take about 5000 years to be complete. The lag is only 800 years. All that the lag shows is that CO2 did not cause the first 800 years of warming, out of the 5000 year trend. The other 4200 years of warming could in fact have been caused by CO2, as far as we can tell from this ice core data. The 4200 years of warming make up about 5/6 of the total warming. So CO2 could have caused the last 5/6 of the warming, but could not have caused the first 1/6 of the warming.

So here they claim that CO2 could have caused the next 4200 years of heating? But the truth is we aren't even sure? Furthermore, this explanation is also clearly false. Why? Taking a look at this graph of temperature vs CO2 concentration graph from the Vostok ice core samples, you can clearly see that temperature actually started to fall before CO2 falls (by hundreds of years too). How does this work? How could it be that CO2 is causing the warming (through feedback) if temperature fell while CO2 was still rising!

The most important point that the movie makes (IMHO), is that we aren't even sure if CO2 actually drives climate change. Having read many of the attempted debunks of the movie, I have yet to come across an explanation that holds water. Excuses like, "oh well that was in the past, the warming happening now is from CO2" clearly show the unwillingness to look at evidence and try to get a more meaningful scientific theory.

There were some factual errors in the movie (volcanoes producing more CO2 then humans is not true, the temperature records were shown to go to the year 2000 but were in fact up to 1980). However, there were numerous factual and exaggerated points made in Al Gore's (who btw isn't even a scientists, and you attack the real scientists in The Great Global Warming Swindle?) An Inconvenient Truth (claiming that CO2 matches temperature but never overlaying to see the 800 year lag, temperature increases are occuring only small parts of the Antarctic not everywhere, etc) yet it is seen as an accurate film by AGW proponents (including those that write realclimate.org). I suggest that instead of launching personal attacks on the filmmakers and those that participated in it that you (and others) instead look at their arguments. The 800 year lag argument casts a very long shadow (IMHO) on AGW proponents claims and really shows how much more research we need before we start making economy crushing decisions.

This has been fixed in the trunk for a long time (but not the branch Firefox 1.0 comes from), and will be in Firefox 1.1, whether Mozilla increments to 2.0 or not.

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If you really, really need a fix now, visit this URL and download one of the nightlies from the trunk [fair warning - some nightlies have some annoying bugs in them, but generally, are pretty good]. It works just fine there, but I'm told requires too many changes to backport into the ff1/mozilla whatever branch.

Apologies for the repost, but it seems this will be noted over and over again:

If you download one of the nightly builds, you'll see it's actually fixed in the "trunk," but not in the "branch" 1.0 came from, because it apparently caused too many other flaky reactions.

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The good news is that Slashdot WORKS again in the nightlies. If you really want, you can grab a nightly build here and check it out for yourself. They are generally pretty stable, but thy sometimes f with your extensions.

If you download one of the nightly builds, you'll see it's actually fixed in the "trunk," but not in the "branch" 1.0 came from, because it apparently caused too many other flaky reactions.

bug 264913
bug 217527

The good news is that Slashdot WORKS again in the nightlies. If you really want, you can grab a nightly build here and check it out for yourself. They are generally pretty stable, but thy sometimes f with your extensions.

What should I do with my copy of Slackware 4.0 then, genius?

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Pixels are unique prototypes, and are not for sale. I am sorry for all those who would like to buy one.

Too bad I can't buy one... Do you know if it's possible to buy an equivalent or to build my own? Is it a hard work?

Looking at the pictures it doesn't seem hard to do...

* In Flanders, the cable was until recently provided by local governement-owned companies. There only was competition in one city, Leuven. Telenet, a communications company that provides phone and internet via the cable bought they cable system from the communities and now owns the network too. (Shortly after that they raised tv subscription prices, but that's another story).

You've got cable access from Telenet. This costs 41,95 euros/month. For this price you may connect 1 pc (a second one raises the subscription cost to 45 euro). You get a traffic quota of 10 Gb, of which 15% may be upstream (1,5 Gb). At night (from 0 am to 10 am) the traffic only counts for 50%. If you exceed this quota you are being placed on a slower-then-dialup speed until your average goes down again or you buy extra traffic blocks.
Until some months ago you *had* to connect trough the Telenet proxy, which was frequently down, and almost all inbound ports were blocked. Telenet also actively searches for servers homsted on their lines. Static IPs are not possible.

In Brussels and Wallonia you can also get broadband via cable, but I don't know how the pricing is there. I suppose it's comparable to Telenet.

* DSL: The former Belgian telecom monopoly, Belgacom, which owns the POTS network offers DSL trough a range of providers. Skynet, which is owned by Belgacom, takes the largest part of the market. One of the means they achieve is is by claiming a user is located too far from the LEX if they try to subscribe trough a competitor, but when they want to subscribe to Skynet they 'magically' are close enough. Prices vary around 39 euro / month. ADSL also has got a quota of 15 Gb, though it's not enforced as strictly as Telenet does. (Some providers don't overcharge you unless you really overuse excessively, some don't even count your traffic)

Recently Scarlet, which also offers ADSL via Skynet, has begun installing their own BAS equipment in Belgacom LEXes. Subscribers that are connected via the Scarlet BASes get higher up- and downstream speeds.

Even more recently Versatel has begun offering what they call "ADSL Light". They've got two formulas: Free ADSL and Always ADSL. The first one charges no monthly rate, but a per minute rate of 0,0425 euro and a per-session setup cost of 0,25 euro. Always ADSL costs 19,90 euro per month, for which you get a traffic quota of 250 Mb. Extra usage is charged at 5 eurocent per MB, with a maximum of 10 euro. The speeds are also somewhat slower than 'classic' Adsl offered by Belgacom.

To sum up: you can choose between two monopolies, which offer a comparable product. Static IPs or running servers are out of the question, but the prices are quite nice. According to the Internet Service Providers Association, over 55% of all residential users is connected via broadband.