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Usually the changes have been gradual such that life had time to adjust.

Not really, temperature reconstruction is a bit of black magic. The error bars are so huge that it's hard to determine a lot. See for example, the Greenland ice core series, there are multiple periods where the temperature fluctuated very rapidly. Here is another selection of various reconstructions to give you an idea of the difficulty of coming up with an accurate picture. Which temperature record is the most accurate? Here's another one that is older, but shows temperature changes coming on very quickly. (An interesting thing about that graph is that CO2 changes follow temperature changes).

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My neighborhood is served by Spectrum (Charter Communications). They have a whole one-and-a-half stars on Yelp. Their prices suck, and they send lots of junk mail, even if you're already a customer. Oh, they also frequently call you on your cell phone and attempt to up-sell you, too (even when you're on the do-not-call list, and have told them repeatedly you do not want marketing calls). Their broadband service is also prone to many random brief outages. Short of starting a cable channel where their executives murder kittens on live TV, I can't imagine their reputation sinking much lower.

We have no other choice of land-based high speed provider. AT&T no longer offers DSL, and they have no plans to ever offer U-Verse. The only other competing providers are cellular networks, which don't offer the kind of data allowance you'd need for a home internet connection. Spectrum literally has a monopoly over the markets they serve. If they decided tomorrow that Netflix is now an extra $5/mo, or online gaming is an extra $15/mo, the choices are "cough it up", or "do without."

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Funny that this is now in the news. Last October my son called me. He had purchased an Asus router for his mother at Best Buy, and when he got it to her house, it simply would not work - he could not connect to the router's interface, and the computer connected to it was not receiving an IP address via DHCP. He's set up several routers before, so it's not like it's the first time he's ever done this.

His receipt actually contained the words, "As a mind Best Buy Elite member, we are pleased to extend your return and exchange period on eligible products to 30 days from purchase date."

When he went to return it to Best Buy, only about an hour and a half after he had purchased it, and WITH his receipt, a message popped up on the register saying he would no longer be allowed to return items to Best Buy (they did give him a refund for the defective router, though).

A copy of the notice they gave him can be seen at http://tinypic.com/r/20gikno/9 . Apparently they required him to sign a copy of this, which they retained, as a condition of getting the refund.

When they did this, he was pretty upset about it because he was returning a defective product that he had just purchased, WITH a receipt, and the transaction (both sale and refund) was made with a Best Buy credit card. And, he told me that it had been probably about a year since the last time he returned anything to Best Buy.

When they sprang this on him, his response was predictable, he informed the clerk that he would never again make a purchase at Best Buy and that they would probably be joining the long list of companies that are going out of business (my words, not his, but that's the gist of what he said).

My son says he can't remember ever returning anything to Best Buy without a receipt.

So, I went online and found this thread, which showed that his experience was not unique: BANNED FROM RETURNING OR EXCHANGING ITEMS FOR 365 DAYS AND I AM AN ELITE MEMBER!!!! (Sorry I had to use a TinyURL link, for some reason when I included the full link it went to a "Page Not Found" error. The link is to a thread on the Best Buy support site.)

I understand that the point of this is to prevent people from shoplifting items and then returning them without receipts, and I have no problem with that. But why is Best Buy using it against customers who have a receipt and may need to return a defective item? Something seems clearly wrong about the way this is being implemented.

So, we have this company that no one has ever heard of making decisions on whether customers are allowed to return items (despite what the store's published return policy may be). And they are even flagging honest customers that only return items they have purchased (and have a receipt for).

If you read that thread, my son is not the only person that this has happened to, and Best Buy doesn't seem to care, preferring to pass the buck to this TRE outfit.

I wonder if it is illegal for them to deny a return, if their published policies indicate that you can return something with a receipt for a certain number of days, and you have your receipt and are within the return period? I know that in this case my son signed that notice in order to get a refund, but he did it because they more or less twisted his arm - if he hadn't signed it, he'd have been stuck with a defective router and no refund.

To me it sounds like this TRE company that nobody's ever heard of is making decisions about whether a store can ignore its own return policies for certain customers that it has flagged. And it sounds like perhaps it's doing this at multiple stores, so if you get flagged at one store you may have a problem making a valid return to another. They do appear to have a some process where you can call them and more or less beg to be taken off their list (I have to wonder if people with Middle American accents get removed a lot quicker than people with strong ethnic ac

For reference this is the ISO I downloaded. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dail...

And a screenshot: Hitting the down arrow in the top right and going for wired settings leads to the window which is open: http://i63.tinypic.com/2i7mrzp...

Where is the time that upgrades actually worked?

Good question. In all fairness this is pre-releases we are talking about. So I give them a pass here. Then I would also complain if a release upgrade dramatically changed running software (which I know it already does). There's really no good answer to this.

When I click the link it wants me to give them my email address before I can read the article. It cannot be any worse than Intel (ME )
The HP Z840 workstation BIOS has 3 menu layers to switch it off so it declares. But I do not believe it switches it off it hides it. When running the Intel-SA-00075 Detection and Mitigation Tool it says not vulnerable does not get a response from it. If I move clip 40 and switch on the machine BIOS flashes a message before booting about it being vulnerable and download the patch fix from HP.
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creimer somehow ended up on a plane, following the smell of food. Once in the air, the other passengers had to feed him to keep him calm.

creimer insisted that he was on a low carb diet and would only eat power bars high in refined sugars.

In fact, we have climate data going back further than you apparently believe. There are direct measurements of sea temperatures from the mid-18th century (ships logs) and many proxy measurements, going back far, far, further.

The margin of error on those measurements are huge, and even in those there are rather large swings. Check out the historical rate of change in this reconstruction, or look at around 1100 in these reconstructions. The green in that second graph definitely shows a rate that changes more than our current rate. But again, the error bars are so huge in the reconstructions that a lot of questions remain: the science is definitely not settled there.

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Quake is 21 years old man. Come on.
I mean I still play games with CGA/EGA graphics but at the same time I still recognize that Quake ain't no spring chicken anymore.

But look where the Quake engine has taken us - http://i47.tinypic.com/14ke7bt... think I picked this up 5-10 years ago so not up to date.

APK hosts file generator makes me immune from such attacks. No ones gonna profit from me!

This came my way http://i64.tinypic.com/152p9nb... (cloudfront.net of course). It was searching the number I came across many who paid a lady who knew little english.

Me? I was running Linux Mint it crashed Flash with a segfault (buffer overflow), and let me down load a small html file that said little.

Unfortunately the general public has been fed a steady diet of FUD from the O&G industry for so long that they have an army of followers to help spread it. Meanwhile, the average person is completely ignorant of the real risks in comparison to stuff they accept every day.

I've used GIF many times to show just that...
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.p... -Have hosts file-,

Even worse, how long can they survive at 129C, as the headline says?

why is he modded troll? from the RSS feed the headlinbe does indeed come up with 129C!

Iranian City Soars To Record 129C Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements

pic or it didn't happen? ok then!

Here you go

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Could it be the rate of temperature change is unprecedented throughout the history you described

Probably not. Look at this reconstruction, for example. You'll see there were times in the past temperature changed just as quickly. Here's another one.

You can see more if you do a search for "temperature reconstruction graph." Of course I picked two graphs that show my point most dramatically, but in many (not all) of the reconstructions you will see dramatic swings of temperature over time.

I don't know anything about coral, though.

Why would I care then? Are you implying that transgender people are in some way dangerous to my child?

Have you no critical-thinking skills?

Chester the Molester does. He figures this will be a pretty sweet opportunity to go into the women's bathroom after your little girl goes in by just saying he identifies as female today.

Aw, are we trying critical thinking today?

1. 1. Where is it legal for Chester to molest? If Chester were following any laws at, he'd avoid the biggest one first. This isn't an end-all argument, just used to judge impact vs consequences.
2. 2. Almost all the people this law will affect are law abiding citizens. People too afraid to think just haven't noticed most of them before.
3. 3. So, now you're creating a law that makes more people uncomfortable than there are right now, and tempting a whole lot of law-abiding citizens to break the law. (I think it's like speeding on the highway, I'd be for autobahn-style laws that actually make sense but I digress).
4. 4. It makes me wonder why are normally anti-government-regulation types all of a sudden wanting over-regulation?
5. 5. So I looked it up, and found that the idea that sexual predators benefitting from bathroom choice is a myth, and most of the victims of bathroom violence are actually the trans-gender people.

From Samsung perspective even with the verdict it was worth it since it made them the #2 smartphone seller at the time.

Common misconception. Apple was never #1. Nokia was #1 all the way until 2011, when Samsung overtook it.

I hear ya, I got 1, 2, 3 Bohica'd by VA, OPM, Anthem.

Here's to you Nancy Pelosi you fucking traitor.
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I applied for a name change, having served the military, I think I want an ADDRESS change as well. They ain't paying that. But this way I make their information worthless. Start making them "not know."

This was because my ISP purposely kept their bandwidth to netflix low. The other ISP in my area did the same thing.

Peering and network egress. They want predictable charges (and profit!) and so push their own service in liew of those outsiders that they have to pay to access.

It's not just NetFlix, it's access to the entire internet. NetFlix and YouTube are just a (large bandwidth) part of it. I don't see why people don't mention the larger picture.
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You've got Mr. Comcast's house and Miss AT&Ts house, next door to each other, but completely separate. Both are completely wired and have lots and lots of rooms, and a basement where all of the equipment lives for each house.

Johnny Comcast fires up his phone and connects wirelessly. Jimmy Comcast connects his Ethernet cable in the room across the hall. They BOTH talk to servers downstairs running Kodi, email, ESPN, and what-not. And they play multi-user games with everyone else in the house.

Next Door, Jane AT&T and Julie AT&T do the same thing with their own servers in their own basement. All of them use their computers 24 hours a day to interact with their siblings. (kids these days -- they NEVER sleep!)

And both parents are happy -- the kids are busy using free* internal resources (* well, they'd have to keep those servers up anyway) and the kids even pay the parents part of their bi-weekly allowance. Life is good.

SUDDENLY DISASTER -- puberty! Johnny discovers Jane and vice-versa. They begin to email, then talk, then video-stream to each other. "Use our basement servers? Hell no, I've got someone else to talk to now."

So how does the House of Comcast and House of AT&T actually talk to each other? Well DUH -- they have an ISP who charges internet usage fees. [It's an analogy, give me a break!] Suddenly the negligible predictable outside fees become outrageous because the kids are now always talking outside their own network. Those weekly fees the kids pay are suddenly going to the outside upstream ISP and not profiting the house. INGRATES! Even worse, we can completely control the network costs within the house but can't control access or fees going outside. And we can't stop them!

Well, no, but the next best thing: if we don't pay our ISP bill they'll shut us off but we can limit the outgoing bandwidth and more importantly those unpredictable corresponding fees. If you want it bad enough you'll just put up with it and if you don't you'll switch back to our servers in the basement. [Basement cat anyone?]

Now, exit analogy: Comcast and AT&T are "Real People (tm)", the houses are each corporations, the rooms are cities, WiFi wireless is actually 3G/4G/5G cell access, the offspring are the customers, the monthly payments are real and so is the network egress problem. The more you talk outside their network the more it costs them (for no good reason in their eyes) so they try to entice you to stay internal and/or make you suffer to visit outside sites. They'll put up with GeoCities and BestBuy, but NetFlix? You're paying someone ELSE, using up all of our bandwidth, and not paying US for it? Insufferable! Outrageous! How rude!

THIS is the problem. I've heard that "Network Neutrality" -- the real, actual law -- is a misleading name akin to the Patriot Act and does something else; I haven't looked into that. But the IDEA is that internet PIPES connecting to CONTENT shouldn't restrict bandwidth. If they can overall minimize bandwidth somehow, great. And if not, that's fine too -- do your connectivity jobs and handle it. (Conversely you are going to have occasional network limiting spikes. Who's to say how much is acceptable? Well that would be the customer *IF* they had some place else to go.)

"Directed space nuttery can result in new scientific and engineering knowledge "

Never happened. In all cases, normal progress and human innovation came *first*, then it was used in space.

", whether its a self-sustaining colony on Mars"

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" or abundant energy collected from satellites and microwaved to an Earth based collector,"

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the...

"or harvestable H3 on the Moon to power a fusion power plant,"

We don't even have fusion here on Earth where we can bring every resource to the problem, and we certainly don't have a clue what to do with He3 (not H3) for fusion either.

But I'm the moron, not you with your decades-obsolete sci-fi fantasy garbage and you can't even tell H3 from He3.

Got it.

Expectation
Reality

Pretty much. The Moon is a dead airless rock. Whoopee.

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At first I edited the entry for Kennewick Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man) by placing this photo for use in the
aritcle http://i44.tinypic.com/j7ffoz.... it was a straight text entry.

Then all of these programs started showing up to add to your browser or stand alones. It
got to the point one had to specifically be set up to make any entries; it was too much for me when an entry would of been a rare occasion.

Note:
I got all the permissions for posting the photo (It's a bust outside the door of a library), all was good.

Then the photo had a history of reappearing in the article then being removed - appears one involved in it's construction claimed ownership having it removed from Wikipedia, and refused any email from me questioning ownership of a stature.
-and yes it does look like Patrick Stewart.

Do you feel that current Christian evangelism efforts are more strident than past efforts?

Would you acknowledge that the current efforts are failing?

Got a late start eh, I don't think many on /. haven't worked on computers

cute :)

I get it man, you miss remembered something and now just cant let go. Its ok, its not the end of the world. I will leave you and your cognitive dissonance in peace.

If I found it to be Sram you can sure bet I'd of sent off a message, so in all fairness.

I stopped by my storage today to pick my stereo with no HDMI. I'm going digital optical connections instead - it's a much nicer receiver.

Just so happened all my Amigas were there, so I brought the 3000 home, snapped a shot of the ram and found it's not Sram and it's not Dram
it's called static column ram - which is as close to Sram as you can get (but not Sram, yet we called it that). In fact if you search for 9A9Z you get
all sorts of answers of what it is.

This ram allows the same search and grab as Sram, the bottom line being "Under some conditions, most of the data in DRAM can be recovered even if the DRAM has not been refreshed for several minutes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... How I got there https://groups.google.com/foru...

So shutdown, wait then reboot.

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Also...

Don't forget that bacon makes your feet small.

sadly this didn't work.

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Actually, I was looking for a rifle emoji last weekend. One of my friends was celebrating his birthday. I think he's originally from Florida, I've lived in Florida, and have a friend in Orlando who almost went to the nightclub where the shooting occurred. So I made a crack about his birthday fireworks being provided by the Orlando shooter. I typed "rifle"....but no rifle emoji popped up for selection.

Here's our (redacted) group chat on LINE, probably the most popular messaging app in Japan:

Part 1: http://tinypic.com/r/k2isy1/9
Part 2: http://tinypic.com/r/35jl1ty/9

Actually, I was looking for a rifle emoji last weekend. One of my friends was celebrating his birthday. I think he's originally from Florida, I've lived in Florida, and have a friend in Orlando who almost went to the nightclub where the shooting occurred. So I made a crack about his birthday fireworks being provided by the Orlando shooter. I typed "rifle"....but no rifle emoji popped up for selection.

Here's our (redacted) group chat on LINE, probably the most popular messaging app in Japan:

Part 1: http://tinypic.com/r/k2isy1/9
Part 2: http://tinypic.com/r/35jl1ty/9

Civilian gun people actually tend to be better trained in the safe handling and accurate use, than police or soldiers.

Please join me on a virtual tour of poor trigger discipline. And these are all "gun enthusiasts" and "Second Amendment activists".

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Let's review:

Civilian gun people actually tend to be better trained in the safe handling and accurate use, than police or soldiers.

"Hobbyists tend to be better trained than professionals".

Religious nonsense.

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Non-Google replacements, free or not, whatever.

I've always used http://www.tinypic.com/ just bloody simple, and of course it's free. TinyPic® owned and operated by http://photobucket.com/

"TinyPic does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post on or through the TinyPic Services."

I can actually see the waveform from all the dropped pants and masturbating from the Space Nutters ready to go to Mars!

Fap fap fap!!!

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She would look something like this with HoloLens.

Lastly, the Common Dialogs DLL is upgraded with every version of Windows. Take an application written in 1995 and run it on Windows 10. It still works. It uses the Windows 10 UI for opening/saving files, instead of the old clunky Common Dialog UI for 1995.

This is not completely true. Here's some comparisons of common dialog UI The Windows 3.1 application still has the same panes it always had, though you get lower case letters... as long as it's not a long filename, in which case you get ~1.

The Windows 9x era common save dialog still has squared off buttons, and doesn't have the navigation junk that Windows 7 or 10 offer in their native dialogs. However you get icon styles of the native OS, and copy / paste work, and sometimes you get the enormous Windows 7 icons that isn't possible in Windows 9x. Aside from visual styles, the dialogs are very similar between Windows 7 and 10, so I suspect applications use the same API calls and they will look identical.

My take on censorship

Here, let me sum it up for you in a "nut" shell. And I *do* mean nut.

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Seems pretty simple to me. There is a kind of mental illness going around in certain circles. Otherwise sane and rational people completely loose their bowels whenever space is mentioned. They should know better.

Ok. How about the UK then.

The overall UK homicide rate is roughly the same now as it was prior to the ban: graph
So a decrease in firearms cannot be conclusively correlated with a decrease in fatalities (firearms fatalities yes, overall fatalities no). Likewise, in the case of the US, we have seen a large increase in the quantity of firearms in America yet overall fatalities and violent crime have been on a consistent decline. graph So firearms and deaths are again not positively correlated.

I'm not informed enough to comment on what social factors enable effective policing by unarmed police in the UK. I know it works here in Japan....which is part of the reason why I live here.

No requirements for storage, no requirements for training, no requirements for mental health, etc..

Storage requirements somewhat negate the utility of the weapon as a last-ditch means of home defense. Of course, if we built better houses in the first place, maybe home invasions wouldn't be so easy and whipping out your shotgun in the dead of the night wouldn't even be necessary. I don't think breaking into my apartment is particularly easy....but I live in a building that is proof against Category 5 hurricanes (we get a Cat5 typhoon about once a year here), which of course affects how the doors and windows are reinforced.

Training and mental health screening are things that I would agree with. I think most "pro-gun" people see training requirements as an infringement of their rights...maybe an alternative is to instead offer MASSIVE tax breaks (like the Earned Income Tax Credit) for those who complete training. So you could still legally own weapons with no training, but you have very little incentive to do so. With the exception of my parents, every firearms owner I know is ex-military or law enforcement, so we are already at least somewhat proficient in basic weapons handling and marksmanship.

You think they just walked down to the CAD store at the mall in the 1960s and bought a commercial package? "CAD" in the 1960s often meant writing your own software to run the math you came up with. That is, they were using a computer to assist in design. They already knew in the 1950s that things were going to get complicated real quick.

And yes, I *DO* know what I'm talking about, history of technology is my specialty. There is nothing incredible or odd about using a computer in the 1960s to prepare CNC tapes to run plotters for preparation of films for PCBs or ICs. What would have been odd is if a small company like Intel was doing it back then.

But saying there was "no" CAD software back then is wrong.

But no, I can't "name" the specific CAD software from the 1960s because the authors are dead, the companies no longer exist, and in any case, they mostly never had a name in the first place.

They were already using computers in the 1960s to design not only the IC wiring, but running electrical constraint checks.

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(And I'm the wrong one when someone else asserted "In the 60's, ICs had a few tens of transistors"?)

Like I said, dead trees. I aint' scanning in the whole thing for someone who never bothered to learn history on his own. I did, at my own expense.

And you want me to name a CAD software that started in the 1960s? SciCards.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...

http://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/in...

Pay attention to the 1960s section.

What do you conclude now? Specifically: why would someone invent a file format specification in the 60s? CAD had to start somewhere, I'm showing you the first self-replicating proteins here.

A space program? Sure. Drink all the Tang in Low Earth Orbit you want. Bounce all the Ku band you want off satellites. Heck, it's what I do for a living.

Thinking the species must leave this rock and colonize the universe on 3D printed space elevator private startups, not so much.

Bringing up all this tiresome shit about how I only have a computer because of Apollo? Blow it out your ass.

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We're on a large group of X5680's with about 2 times that in storage (SAS), less in CPU.

And the hardware was 2 orders of magnitude less than $4million.

There was a big cost overrun on cooling (was much harder than expected), but as one off costs the whole kit paid for itself in the first month, that's been good for a while now:
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Personell - virtually nothing - especially given the personell they replace, everything is pretty much fully automated.

So should probably get something more than "rough figures" for how much it would cost. because they are way out.

Dell gives significant discounts for bulk orders.

Space Nutter brains are typically filled with the vacuum they worship so much. Don't expect any deep thoughts from them...

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Blow it out your airlock, Nutboy.

"If it's so easy, why don't you put a robot where your mouth is, and pick some fucking blueberries with it?"

Because I'm too busy doing LED horticulture, where the REAL money is.

Or do you forget that I can very easily build and program mechanical things to do a fucking given task?

OCR is simple as fuck. Pressure-sensitive motor drive is easy as fuck. Wake me up when you can even do HALF of that.