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It's easier to deal with things when the change is slow - there's no rush then, and migrations are gradual rather than spontaneous. [...] It's not just the projected magnitude of the change that's worrying, it's the speed at which it is happening.

Where are the facts showing that the speed of global warming is problematic? The IPCC "worst case scenario" projects 4C warming over a century and a sea level rise of 60cm. That seems pretty gradual. Let's look at what Greenpeace has to say: http://tinyurl.com/3hsj69p Adaptation to a 1m sea level rise would cost the US $156 billion over a century; peanuts really, and that's the global worst case. Greenpeace correctly points out that some island nations would get submerged, 17% of Bangladesh would get flooded, some ground water would become undrinkable, and crops would fail in some places, but over the span of a century, but those changes are small compared to the kind of environmental changes humans have caused and experienced for other reasons anyway.

The actual problem, if you can call it that, is that given population pressures, people will always settle in marginal habitats, and they will always have to migrate sooner or later. This only becomes a problem if you prevent their migration and if there is no place for them to move to. Both of those are issues unrelated to global warming (if anything, global warming likely creates more habitable land than it destroys).

By coincidence, yesterday I read (well, skimmed) this paper, which is basically the same principle except the focus was on intelligence:

http://tinyurl.com/7azcpea

Genes make us what we are; what we *do* with that genetic potential is what makes "spirit".

... Brown Squares And Blowed Up Trucks, http://tinyurl.com/86tx2e5 ... a white splash mark in the middle ...

The white splash mark looks like a dispersal pattern originating from the center point, as would be caused by wind or blast from the other side. In keeping with the artillery target theory, it could be some kind of marker to measure the force or blast characteristics of an explosion.

IANAPIA (I Am Not A Photo Intelligence Analyst), so don't take this as proof of anything.

Meat and grease is good for your metabolism anyway. Best Q&D article on the subject...

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
or
http://tinyurl.com/3hk3a2r

Being a long-ago biochem major, I'm going "But we already knew all this stuff!" Funny thing, this here carnivore wears the same clothes I did in college. :)

But yeah, used to be the obese adult wasn't typical and the obese kid was an extreme rarity; now both are the norm. And the two biggest differences between then and now are the anti-red-meat/fat craze and being glued to the computer screen instead of making their own entertainment (which usually required effort, tho downtime "wastes of time" like watching clouds and playing in the mud are just as important).

Your source appears to be nearly two years out of date. A lot has happened in that time, so I don't think we can read too much into those figures today.

Ups. My bad. The UK have in fact overtaken Japan by now in total debt to gdp.

Debt by nations

Yeah, it's horrendous, how dare the UK be one of the few countries in the EU capable of balancing it's books making it one of perhaps 2 or 3 economies in Europe whose AAA rating is perfectly safe.

+5 funny

The UK actually have the second highest total-debt-to-gdp ratios in the world. Only slightly below Japan who is wide seen as a bug in search of a windshield.

Total Debt to GDP ratios

Sorry to burst Your bubble but the bond market will discover this fact eventually.

This one? http://tinyurl.com/ckxrbvr

Paint ball field.... and it looks fucken awesome!

Since a lot of people are responding to me, any BF3 gamers, please check the below out.

http://tinyurl.com/42mjw4c
(sorry slashdot refused to accept the URL based on the lameness filter, regardless it is legit)

That is a legitimate link ran by DICE / EA - despite the dodgy URL it's their feedback forum, I suggest EVERYONE bump / respond to that post and ensure dice is aware that we NEED squad based chat "as default" which will vastly improve the teamplay of the game, causing people to stick together, it's how it should've been as default.

Mailwasher does it. Can do it automatically so you won't even see it. But not free. http://tinyurl.com/6fprnb9

Besides which, we have more serious problems to deal with... If you've not read the Naomi Klein book, here's a primer

You can fire a wide variety of "non-bullety" items from shotguns:

http://tinyurl.com/63fyzb9

The only browser that I know probably won't support it is IE (even the newer versions, I think - support for data URIs is limited to certain parameters, e.g. backgrounds), but I was also unsure of the mouse events since clientX, clientY are not computed the same over all browsers. Although since it doesn't care about the actual x,y of the click, just the relative distance between two clicks, that shouldn't cause a problem.

It is handy, though, to have a free host for a few k worth of HTML to do a demo like that. It was pretty cool when I discovered tinyurl allows data URIs. E.g. here's another I did to demonstrate multiple background images (transparent PNG) with prime tile sizes to create a background pattern with a long repeat interval.

Yes you can do it in Javascript, but the code would be convoluted.

Proof-of-concept demo. Click and drag the empty image frame to dynamically relocate it.

(Only works in browsers which recognize the data: URI scheme. Tested in FF and Opera.)

And also ban slashdot for posting this URL
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5uj8jux just for fun.

" Even with our best efforts, we're not going to change the rate at which that happens by a measurable amount."
http://tinyurl.com/4ybhdw8

don't underestimate human ability to change the world..
Just so you know, to replace current energy need with geothermal, we would need about 30PWh per year. So, how much geo thermal heat is that?

CockInABox has been doing this for even longer, in DLR on top of IronRuby. There's source and binary packages for everything from DOS 6.2 to WFW 3.11.

sound like:
sssshhhhhhsssshshhssssss.

seriously, mars sounds like this:
http://tinyurl.com/453kvj5

+5 Troll Analysis
I like this

Apparently so. I got an email regarding the upcomes closed Beta.

See the email here: http://tinyurl.com/3hec3aw

Washington Post wrote about this last December: http://tinyurl.com/3x8wdnw) . AmericasBlog noted a major campaign contributor is likely responsible for the change of heart: http://tinyurl.com/2dqyzjx

Washington Post wrote about this last December: http://tinyurl.com/3x8wdnw) . AmericasBlog noted a major campaign contributor is likely responsible for the change of heart: http://tinyurl.com/2dqyzjx

Let me Google that for you. http://tinyurl.com/3r4m3t3

Obligatory PBF:

http://tinyurl.com/3ekkkvv

Didn't profits of NetLogic sunk dramatically this year? Its actually right on the edge of bankruptcy.
So to spend that much??? Are they crazy, that all I could think off.

China (and S. Korea too) are also using a first-to-file patent law system (and trademarks work the mostly same way too!, first-to-file) and there is a nightmare over there with competitors filing for patents and then blocking sales and exports of various products because they infringe their newly-granted patents or trademarks

patents in China
http://preview.tinyurl.com/Chinese-Patent-doc

trademarks in China:
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/pdfs/general/trade_mark_protection_China.pdf

http://www.chinalawblog.com/2009/11/china_trademarks_the_apple_of.html
quote from China law blog:
China is a first to file country, which means that, with very few exceptions, whoever files for a particular trademark in a particular category gets it. So if the name of your company is XYZ and you make shoes and you have been manufacturing your shoes in China for the last three years and someone registers the XYZ trademark for shoes, that other company gets the trademark. And then, armed with the trademark, that company has every right to stop your XYZ shoes from leaving China because they violate its trademark. /quote

Really? Nothing to do with reality? His predictions have been far better than most. http://tinyurl.com/3bqefxx In particular, the WSJ was saying years ago that rampant inflation was just around the corner. When again?

Current Population:
http://tinyurl.com/currentpopulation
6.9 billion people

World fertility rate for population replacement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
2.33 children per woman

From:
http://tinyurl.com/futurepopulation

According to the United Nations, the global population could be as high as 11 billion in 2050 or as low as 8 billion, if the right programs are put in place now.

Population growth stretches natural resources to their limits. Deforestation, food and water shortages, and climate change are all intensified by the addition of nearly 80 million people a year to the world's population.

Current Population:
http://tinyurl.com/currentpopulation
6.9 billion people

World fertility rate for population replacement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
2.33 children per woman

From:
http://tinyurl.com/futurepopulation

According to the United Nations, the global population could be as high as 11 billion in 2050 or as low as 8 billion, if the right programs are put in place now.

Population growth stretches natural resources to their limits. Deforestation, food and water shortages, and climate change are all intensified by the addition of nearly 80 million people a year to the world's population.

I had just learned about what Facebook had been doing by reading GameBoyRMH's sig:

Facebook's pure HTML tracking system - How long has this been going on?

Hi Jesse!

There's a page of the bugs I looked at http://tinyurl.com/6ek4zu (although if you edit the filter then it will find more bugs I touched.). My username is Sitsofe Wheeler and if you're logged in you can dig up my email address on bugzilla from my previous link...

For some reason, your name sounds familiar... Was mpt around back then too?

There's been a lot of hubbub lately with G+ and the the nymwars where they want to expose everyone to public scrutiny by using their real names.

What's your take on Google's stance ("go somewhere else if you want privacy") with it being an identity service as it pertains both to individual privacy and changes in how pretexting crimes will occur?

Boring. Better click http://tinyurl.com/3fczjvb .

Why not click a hot link instead?

http://tinyurl.com/3fczjvb

Here's your reminder:

http://tinyurl.com/42jo3qv

I even apologized to the site I posted it to. This was about
a week ago.
----

Start of groveling
"The link I provided had a prefix that changed each time it was
used, I apologize for that. It wasn't intentional and it wasn't the
fault of http://www.tinyurl.com/ apparently I picked the link from ??
(no clue) I used Tinyurl as the link split in my editor.
http://hijackthis.de/en says everything's fine on my end.

Peerblock stopped these prefix's and how I found it out
http://send.onenetworkdirect.net/z/30811/CD133407/wpfvns76cw7p&lnkurl=
http://affiliates.digitalriver.com/z/30811/CD133407/wpfvns76cw7p&lnkurl=
http://affiliates.digitalriver.com/z/30811/CD133407/1anre0fx5ksq&lnkurl=
End of groveling

After reading the article, it would appear I must of missed a letter or
two in the original link.

http://tinyurl.com/3dhhm5w

I had to build my own Safari version. There are some issues that prevent the EFF from standing behind an official binary; you've probably encountered info about it by this point.

Here is a link to my build, if you're willing to trust me:

http://tinyurl.com/6dul8vr

Just what we need at home; more psycho contractors to torment US civilians while enjoying limitless impunity and Elvis music, as they cruise around the interweb looking for anything that has an IP. Crap. see cyber gangsta for my view on the matter: http://tinyurl.com/3v9z5bo

We now return you to the appropriate software state

http://tinyurl.com/55bsxu

I've always believed this. It's like saying the strong economic times of the "Roaring 20s" were a result of Calvin Coolidge's policies, when in reality it was because we suddenly had manufacturing prowess and WWI gave us a huge economic boost. However, by 1929 we were in our worst economic downturn. Sound familiar?

Also, Clinton's supposed surplus was nothing of the kind but rather a robbing of social security to boost government revenue. http://tinyurl.com/5u7zvo

It took a while as it's buried under some of the more esoteric Live services. You might need to log-in.
http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

Slashdot are never going to do IPv6. Luckily we can have slashdot.org as IPv6 anyway using a public NAT64 server. I would link directly but slashcode does not have support for IPv6 literals in URLs (bug!). So here is a tinyurl to the IPv6 slashdot: http://tinyurl.com/3pwuq98

By the way that URL should work for the majority of windows users. Your computer will automatically use a Teredo IPv6 tunnel to connect to it.

The tinyurl is short for this: http ://[2001:778:0:ffff:64:0:d822:b52d]/ (but without the extra space which is there to prevent slashcode from removing all the colons).

This works because the address is from the public NAT64 available at http://ipv6.lt/nat64_en.php.

You will actually get a 400 Bad Request from the slashdot webserver, but this too is a bug in slashcode. These guys do really not grok IPv6...

If slashdot put that IPv6 address in as a AAAA for slashdot.org they would have IPv6 support just like that.

Incidentally, a search for the Team Fortress 2 official wiki on Bing brings you just that as its first result, whereas on Google you get an old, defunct fake version of the real thing, which I suspect stays at the #1 spot due to SEO abuse. Just throwing that out there.

Really? Funny, it doesn't seem to actually do that...

As an aside, is the brain damage a side effect of guzzling Ballmer's semen, or was that just why you started doing it?

The share of Linux (and by that I mean any OS executing a Linux kernel) is way more than 1%.
Evidence from the sales of games etc puts the desktop penetration at around 10% (if not more http://tinyurl.com/6fcua8d http://tinyurl.com/3f6mf8w and http://tinyurl.com/3poo5rp).
Something else to consider; in your home you may have one or two Windows PCs. You probably have four or more devices running Linux (often in the guise of BusyBox). Common examples are routers, set-top boxes, printers.
Public-facing web-servers are predominately Linux stacks of some kind (LAMP etc) at 50%+.The back-end grunt servers are mostly Linux (datacenter etc). Supercomputers are almost exclusively Linux. In the enterprise, even in Windows shops the virtual hosts are mostly Linux (VMWare ESX et al). Many smartphones are Linux (Android, MeeGo). The new "fast-boot" options are Linux (e.g. WebOS). As I have already pointed out, home devices are predominately Linux.
If one looks beyond North America to the future emerging economies (e.g. Brasil, to pick one at random) then there is a decided push away from MS. This is also why MS is happier to see illegal copies of Windows in use in the likes of China than legal copies of a Linux. If China were to crack down too hard on piracy and people made a switch to something else (Apple or a Linux or whatever) then MS would be well and truly boned.

The share of Linux (and by that I mean any OS executing a Linux kernel) is way more than 1%.
Evidence from the sales of games etc puts the desktop penetration at around 10% (if not more http://tinyurl.com/6fcua8d http://tinyurl.com/3f6mf8w and http://tinyurl.com/3poo5rp).
Something else to consider; in your home you may have one or two Windows PCs. You probably have four or more devices running Linux (often in the guise of BusyBox). Common examples are routers, set-top boxes, printers.
Public-facing web-servers are predominately Linux stacks of some kind (LAMP etc) at 50%+.The back-end grunt servers are mostly Linux (datacenter etc). Supercomputers are almost exclusively Linux. In the enterprise, even in Windows shops the virtual hosts are mostly Linux (VMWare ESX et al). Many smartphones are Linux (Android, MeeGo). The new "fast-boot" options are Linux (e.g. WebOS). As I have already pointed out, home devices are predominately Linux.
If one looks beyond North America to the future emerging economies (e.g. Brasil, to pick one at random) then there is a decided push away from MS. This is also why MS is happier to see illegal copies of Windows in use in the likes of China than legal copies of a Linux. If China were to crack down too hard on piracy and people made a switch to something else (Apple or a Linux or whatever) then MS would be well and truly boned.

The share of Linux (and by that I mean any OS executing a Linux kernel) is way more than 1%.
Evidence from the sales of games etc puts the desktop penetration at around 10% (if not more http://tinyurl.com/6fcua8d http://tinyurl.com/3f6mf8w and http://tinyurl.com/3poo5rp).
Something else to consider; in your home you may have one or two Windows PCs. You probably have four or more devices running Linux (often in the guise of BusyBox). Common examples are routers, set-top boxes, printers.
Public-facing web-servers are predominately Linux stacks of some kind (LAMP etc) at 50%+.The back-end grunt servers are mostly Linux (datacenter etc). Supercomputers are almost exclusively Linux. In the enterprise, even in Windows shops the virtual hosts are mostly Linux (VMWare ESX et al). Many smartphones are Linux (Android, MeeGo). The new "fast-boot" options are Linux (e.g. WebOS). As I have already pointed out, home devices are predominately Linux.
If one looks beyond North America to the future emerging economies (e.g. Brasil, to pick one at random) then there is a decided push away from MS. This is also why MS is happier to see illegal copies of Windows in use in the likes of China than legal copies of a Linux. If China were to crack down too hard on piracy and people made a switch to something else (Apple or a Linux or whatever) then MS would be well and truly boned.

(Cracks knuckles).... First, the CRTs themselves last a long time (and apparently survive heat waves better). More recently, many of the CRT TV are assembled with cheaper tuner boards and speakers, etc., are not "solid state". The failure to last longer was not the cathode ray tube's fault, and most CRTs exported are rebuilt with a new board (see article on exports of used CRT tubes http://tinyurl.com/5wz37u2). So while the Cathode Ray Tubes themselves last much longer than the LCDs fluorescent lamps (don't know about LED), as the CRT market went downscale, quality suffered, and e-waste may increase if we are not allowed to re-export them to have those tunerboards replaced (the same factories which assembled them buy them back, but that's increasingly illegal because Americans assume the factories are paying $10 apiece and then burning them).

What is incredible at our Vermont "e-waste" recycling plant are the number of flat TVs coming in with a small impact crack in the corner. They are called "Wii Screens" by the staff. Apparently, people "bowling" and doing other arcade stuff on the games tend to forget to attach the wrist strap. So the E-Waste jury is still out - the CRT TVs are heavier, but if they have solid state boards will last longer, and they deflect flying plastic "ewaste" satellite gadgets.

So regarding TFA, the moral is that the "ewaste" volume is not going down, but the "ewaste" export we were worried about was not as bad as we thought it was in the first place.

Finally, if the CEA and industry was really concerned, they'd make the LCDs so you could replace the LCD and the fluorescent lamps. The LCD screens appear to us to be designed to make that virtually impossible.

I wonder what she's got:
NSFW!!! http://tinyurl.com/3bb97pn

Yes.

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=42+St+-+Port+Authority+Bus+Terminal+%4040.757308,-73.989735&daddr=350+5th+Avenue,+New+York,+NY+10118+(Empire+State+Building)&hl=en&ll=40.75267,-73.987169&spn=0.009899,0.016158&sll=40.752459,-73.987169&sspn=0.009899,0.016158&geocode=FTzobQIdmQGX-w%3BFUvGbQIdERKX-yFzdY-mZOGFkSlpdBGzqVnCiTEsrLWKpFygrA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&z=16

is much better than

http://tinyurl.com/3e38b5d

1) In the former, I know what I'm clicking on at a glance: Google Maps.
1.5) I can also get a general idea of where in Google Maps it points.
2) Infinitely many such long links exist; not so with the short ones.
3) The long one can be shown as maps.google.com/maps?...

...the police will open it...

There is the big difference. You didn't have to do or say anything. Same for say a blood sample or DNA sample. You don't have do (or say) anything to provide it. They do all work. But in forcing you to decrypt, they are forcing you to take action against yourself. That's self incrimination, and that's a violation of the fifth amendment.

Not that it will help much when most judges think they are above the law. Case in point.