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You claimed that satellites don't measure air temps.

No, I claimed that they don't measure surface air temperature. There's a standard definition for that, and it doesn't mean the bottom half kilometer of the atmosphere. It means the temperature a small distance above the surface.

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Not sure if you're trolling or stupid, but at least this conversation can help to educate others, so I guess it doesn't really matter either way.

Of the industrialized countries only Australia is worse. We beat the American's by over 5% and that's not counting the fact that we fudge the numbers. The Canadian government chose not to include methane being released by rotting wood from forests. It turns out if you clear cut large areas and then replant those areas with only one type of tree those trees become susceptible to disease. Who would have thought. I guess there is some justice in seeing the Australians suffer but I can't see many Canadians complaining.
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Yep. I also have a maneki-neko to help me save money for my retirement.

A woman can have multiple partners, become pregnant, and pick which one she wishes to raise a child with.

Not sure which country you are in but in the UK that isn't the case. In the event that you are wrongly named as the parent of a child you can request a DNA test, and if the mother refuses then you are deemed not to be the father.

In order to get a DNA test you of course have to suspect that you are not the parent first. But if you do, there is pretty much nothing the mother can do to avoid the DNA test other than to accept you have no legal obligation to pay maintenance.

I'm in the USA. I'm not certain where you get your information from, but we have a lot of men paying child support for children that are not theirs biologically.

https://www.abc15.com/news/nat...

Florida: https://www.myfloridalaw.com/c...

In 2014, a rape victim was forsce to pay child support! https://www.usatoday.com/story...

He was 14, she was 20. She raped him, became pregnant, and the law says that he must support the child that his rapist mothered.

Here's Wikipedia on the subject : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Now if you want to know why a lot of men are pissed, we live in a country where bullshit like punishing rape victims is sancioned by the threat of jail time as long as they are males, and as I wrote, you can be forced to support a child that your wife just felt like fucking someone else for fun. It's real, and it carries the force of law. The only part the internet plays is giving us the links to the examples.

Fake news is not benign. It can be dangerous. Consider that Pizzagate agitated some guy into taking a rifle into the restaurant that was the supposed site of human trafficking.

Fake news is written by fake reporters. It is not news with mistakes, or even news with a bias. It is not intended to inform. It is intended to cause fear, anger, or confusion -- the kinds of emotions that can lead people to make poor choices at best, or carry out violence at worst. Both the left and the right should strive to debunk it.

Link shorteners have ALWAYS been a shitty, stupid idea. They're a great way to trick people into visiting some shitty malware site, but more importantly they break a fundamental part of the web- the fucking URL itself.

That depends on what your intent is -- if you're using them to spread malware, then it's you who suck, not the code.

What you call "link shorteners" actually have three distinct uses:
1) Bona-fide link shortening -- If you have a 200 character link that's awkward to paste around (especially in small text display areas), this seriously does help
2) Analytics and tracking -- If you need to track outbound links or for some reason need to analytic who's getting to your destination, this helps.
3) A permanent URL for content that may move in the future.

But the OP is wrong. At least as far as #3 is concerned, the tech behind a link shortener is at least as old as pURLs.

Also known as NOC.

"As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds."

Onus probandi or Burden of Proof - is a principle in philosophy, science, and law.

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I've never even heard of one!

They go by the brandname Xperia. I have never seen one in America. I have seen a few in Japan, but they are far from popular even there.

Does it also use the logo?

You give people more credit for being 'smart' than they deserve. Mistakes do happen all the time. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor

However, we are comparing height increase of US to Netherlands. Netherlands has had universal health since 1941. Of course there are other factors, but health care and nutrition are huge ones.

Not only are Americans getting relatively shorter compared to other developed countries, they are dying younger too. Time to quit the denial.

He took a hammer to the windshield.

Well, at least he had an educational opportunity and may have learned something. He hopefully learned that windshields are made of laminated safety glass and are much more difficult to break through with a hammer than the side windows which typically shatter easily because they are made of tempered glass. This will be an important skill to speed his progression through the criminal ranks.

The ADA contemplates public accommodations. If an application's publisher fails to make the application accessible to a little person or a congenital amputee, said publisher could be held liable.

FYI, I mean this OS-9 and not some Apple hi-jinks

An excellent read on the state of Missile defense.

LOL, all it takes is ONE to reach the egg.

Not true. An ovum has a protective membrane called the zona pellucida. Sperm bind to the zona pellucida in a process known as sperm binding. This triggers a chemical reaction by enzymes to digest the membrane and allow the sperm to tunnel toward the egg’s plasma membrane.

If not enough sperm reach the ovum, this reaction doesn't happen, and none can penetrate.

One is not enough. It is a group effort.

JIF = JPEG Interchange Format you self-righteous moron.

These people are exploited as part of a for-profit prison system

Only 8.4% of State and Federal prisoners in the U.S. are in private prisons.

You probably think local schools in the U.S. also have problems because they're all for-profit, right?

For exactly the same reason that some white people smell like stool: a medical issue affecting the bowel.

Wikipedia's summary of Mr. Musk's ventures doesn't appear to list anything related to health care.

Where can I find a good gopher client to joint the revolution?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gopher_clients

Wikipedia says 5' 11" self-reported. Self-reported.

There was also the massive Polyus Orbital Weapons Platform that the Soviet Union actually launched in 1987. This would have been a major step to space weaponization as an armed orbital platform designed to attack other orbital stuff, unlike Reagan's SDI which was proposed (but never launched) as a system to shoot down non-orbital ICBMS.

The only reason Polyus never became operational is that it failed to achieve orbit, and then the Soviet Union collapsed before another could be attempted.

Who gets to determine the "value" of someone?

Lots of people do. The DOT, for example. They think the value of an American's life is a bit under 10 million.

And, before you get the pitchforks out, this is actually pretty good - in Russia, for example, public opinion polls put the value a human life to ~$71500.

That's old information. The National Background Investigations Bureau has done most of the background investigations for a while, but NBIB is now moving that entire function to be part of the DoD.

The people who are questioning the impact theory, to the best of my knowledge, are not claiming dinosaurs were already extinct by the time the asteroid hit. Rather they're saying it came at a bad time during an already in progress mass extinction, caused by volcanic activity. Gerta Keller, for example, says "I'm sure the day after, they had a headache," but adds "we vastly overestimate the damage to the environment and to life that this Chicxulub impact had".

(Note this is an old quote and she may have updated her views since given relatively recent research into the size and power of the asteroid. I do know though that she and others believe that the formation of the Decca Traps, which changed the atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years, was the primary culprit.)

Animated Gifs are quite common nowadays - often being used as 'reaction-images' in forums and social media. In fact, the Millennials call any moving image that isn't a 'video' a 'Gif'. Their main limitation is that they are limited to 8 bits per pixel (with a palette) - hence 256 colours. Seeing that nowadays, just about everyone uses 24-bit colour, the MNG and APNG formats did not take off despite having been around for more than 10 years (IIRC, Mozilla deliberately decided to drop MNG from their browser back in 2003(?) for reasons unknown to myself). An image such as this satisfying animation of tea being poured would look a lot better if it wasn't limited to 256 colours. I really hope that whoever created it kept the source-material.

Animated Gifs are quite common nowadays - often being used as 'reaction-images' in forums and social media. In fact, the Millennials call any moving image that isn't a 'video' a 'Gif'. Their main limitation is that they are limited to 8 bits per pixel (with a palette) - hence 256 colours. Seeing that nowadays, just about everyone uses 24-bit colour, the MNG and APNG formats did not take off despite having been around for more than 10 years (IIRC, Mozilla deliberately decided to drop MNG from their browser back in 2003(?) for reasons unknown to myself). An image such as this satisfying animation of tea being poured would look a lot better if it wasn't limited to 256 colours. I really hope that whoever created it kept the source-material.

You seem to think that our economy is based on "making stuff". But manufacturing is only 12% of the economy.

12% of the US economy. That is not true globally.

The most valuable companies in the world do no manufacturing.

Want to bet on that? Of the 10 largest companies in the world by revenue, the only one in the top ten that arguably isn't a manufacturer is Walmart and their business is almost exclusively selling manufactured goods made by other companies. Yes oil and gas is wildly valuable and processing fossil fuels IS manufacturing.

If you are measuring by market cap you still have lots of companies that make some/most of their revenue via manufacturing. The top ten there includes Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson and Johnson, Apple, Amazon and Alibaba who all either make stuff themselves or sell manufactured goods made by others.

You'll hear the meme that the US doesn't manufacture anymore which is simply not true at all. The US manufacturing sector is worth about $3 Trillion annually which by itself would one of the top 7 economies in the world.

If suddenly, machines could make everything we currently make, there would be little change in our economy.

Machines CAN make much of it. What they cannot do is make it economically. The limitations on automation are not primarily physical. They are economic. Automation carries large up front costs which require substantial production volume and/or value to recoup. There are and will remain no lack of labor intensive products where it makes no economic sense to automate. Nobody is going to buy a machine that costs more to operate than it does to hire a person.

You seem to think that our economy is based on "making stuff". But manufacturing is only 12% of the economy.

12% of the US economy. That is not true globally.

The most valuable companies in the world do no manufacturing.

Want to bet on that? Of the 10 largest companies in the world by revenue, the only one in the top ten that arguably isn't a manufacturer is Walmart and their business is almost exclusively selling manufactured goods made by other companies. Yes oil and gas is wildly valuable and processing fossil fuels IS manufacturing.

If you are measuring by market cap you still have lots of companies that make some/most of their revenue via manufacturing. The top ten there includes Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson and Johnson, Apple, Amazon and Alibaba who all either make stuff themselves or sell manufactured goods made by others.

You'll hear the meme that the US doesn't manufacture anymore which is simply not true at all. The US manufacturing sector is worth about $3 Trillion annually which by itself would one of the top 7 economies in the world.

If suddenly, machines could make everything we currently make, there would be little change in our economy.

Machines CAN make much of it. What they cannot do is make it economically. The limitations on automation are not primarily physical. They are economic. Automation carries large up front costs which require substantial production volume and/or value to recoup. There are and will remain no lack of labor intensive products where it makes no economic sense to automate. Nobody is going to buy a machine that costs more to operate than it does to hire a person.

Yes, there are a self questionnaires:
Maslach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

and there's also this which I can't find an English version of:
KES/KEDS: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Last time I looked the risk seems to be related to long term lack of recovery and not the stress itself. From what I remember, as long as your stress doesn't affect your recovery (sleep etc) you have a low risk of clinical burnout. Once it starts affecting sleep and preventing recovery there is an increased risk.

If we assume lack of recovery is the real cause and then guess a lot, it could explain the current trend. There would not be one single factor but many like the increased efficiency of many jobs where simple and repetitive tasks are eliminated (thus fewer short breaks for the brain). Smartphones also remove a lot of short mental breaks when our brains used to rest (for example during commutes or waiting for the water to boil).

audio watermarking in the video industry (cinavia) is still not cracked. It can be slightly defeated by smearing the audio by pitch shifting. But you loose quite a large amount of signal doing so. Now with audio this can be semi acceptable.

It has yet to be properly defeated by finding the signal and correcting just that signal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A stingray is a subverted mobile tower that collects information?

Not really subverted equipment. It's a portable cell transceiver that can be located close enough to the target phone to force that phone to force that phone to negotiate with itself as the closest cellular base station.

There are no Saudi Arabia mobile phone spies here.

Lots of private investigators. And some moonlighting cops that can borrow equipment. All for hire. If you think only the Feds and law enforcement have Stingrays, I have a bridge to sell you.

Solar mirrors can be aimed at space targets or ground targets, as can the "flying crowbar" project known as Project Pluto.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Firstly, solar mirrors aren't a practical weapon. The sun subtends an angle of 0.5 degrees, so any beam of reflected sunlight must have a beam size of at least 0.5 degrees. From low Earth orbit, at an altitude of ~1000 km, that means the spot size of the beam on the surface will be at least 10 km. If you want to (say) double background sunlight in the target area, your satellite mirror also needs to be 10 km across. And from low orbit it will only spend a few minutes over any given point before it disappears over the horizon.

Second, Project Pluto was nothing to do with flying crowbars or space. It was a program to develop an unmanned bomber with a nuclear jet engine. The idea was that it could cruise continuously, for years on end without landing - and if given the signal, it would fly over enemy territory, dropping nuclear bombs as it went. It's a conceptual retaliation weapon, like ballistic missile submarines, but less practical - and no component of it is ever intended to go to space.

Is this architecture susceptible? Can I look at the gears during a speculative execution branch and read protected data?

No speculative execution, but I'm sure you can read protected data right from the gears.

I'm replying mostly because this reminded me of another computer you can read data from. If anyone gets the chance, they should absolutely see the Harwell Dekatron computer on display at the UK National Museum of Computing's functional vintage computers display in (next to?) Bletchley Park. The museum is next to the "main" Bletchley Park exhibits, in a building that was probably the world's first data center.

There's lots to see there but best of all is the Harwell Dekatron machine, the world's oldest still-operational computer. It's a decimal computer, not binary, and each all of the registers and memory are made up of odd vacuum tubes with 10 cathodes in them, called "dekatrons". The tubes are mounted in the machine so the tops face outward, and you can literally read the (base 10) value in each memory location by looking at which portion of the tube is lit up. The machine is typically running in single step mode, with the running program printed on a card. They'll hand you the single-step control button and you can step through the code one instruction at a time, looking at the register values, seeing the adder function, watching values moved to and from working memory.

Most computer science and computer engineering students (well, many) have had the experience of building a tiny computer from solid state logic gates and being able to write and run small programs on it. That's cool, but being able to actually see the operation in real time is really incredible. And I really mean "see" since all of the data is represented by glowing cathodes right in front of your eyes.

If single-stepping through instructions while watching the data flow from one place to another isn't enough, you can also flip the machine into another mode that single-steps through microcode. You can watch each step of the adding process, for example.

If you're a nerd like me, do be sure to go on a day when there won't be lots of other people there. I got to spend two full hours by myself with the machine; I didn't have to share it with anyone because no one else was there. It was awesome.

As a cryptography and crypto history buff, I actually went to Bletchley Park to see Turing's Bombe, etc. And I did, and it was great. But next time I go I won't bother with that, I'll go straight to the vintage computers display.

Is this architecture susceptible? Can I look at the gears during a speculative execution branch and read protected data?

No speculative execution, but I'm sure you can read protected data right from the gears.

I'm replying mostly because this reminded me of another computer you can read data from. If anyone gets the chance, they should absolutely see the Harwell Dekatron computer on display at the UK National Museum of Computing's functional vintage computers display in (next to?) Bletchley Park. The museum is next to the "main" Bletchley Park exhibits, in a building that was probably the world's first data center.

There's lots to see there but best of all is the Harwell Dekatron machine, the world's oldest still-operational computer. It's a decimal computer, not binary, and each all of the registers and memory are made up of odd vacuum tubes with 10 cathodes in them, called "dekatrons". The tubes are mounted in the machine so the tops face outward, and you can literally read the (base 10) value in each memory location by looking at which portion of the tube is lit up. The machine is typically running in single step mode, with the running program printed on a card. They'll hand you the single-step control button and you can step through the code one instruction at a time, looking at the register values, seeing the adder function, watching values moved to and from working memory.

Most computer science and computer engineering students (well, many) have had the experience of building a tiny computer from solid state logic gates and being able to write and run small programs on it. That's cool, but being able to actually see the operation in real time is really incredible. And I really mean "see" since all of the data is represented by glowing cathodes right in front of your eyes.

If single-stepping through instructions while watching the data flow from one place to another isn't enough, you can also flip the machine into another mode that single-steps through microcode. You can watch each step of the adding process, for example.

If you're a nerd like me, do be sure to go on a day when there won't be lots of other people there. I got to spend two full hours by myself with the machine; I didn't have to share it with anyone because no one else was there. It was awesome.

As a cryptography and crypto history buff, I actually went to Bletchley Park to see Turing's Bombe, etc. And I did, and it was great. But next time I go I won't bother with that, I'll go straight to the vintage computers display.

Not even that. It's Moral Injury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Because Physicians aren't doing what they dreamed of doing, which is help the patient. The patient has become a product, and the physician is a wealth generator for the medical system.

This guy explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yeah those Russians certainly held back from deploying weapons in space

Anti-ICBM systems don't leave crap in orbital space, it's all sub-orbital, on both sides.

You can't fix Kessler Syndrome by turning it off and on again. Who would've thought it would be India that started it.

Neither extortion nor blackmail requires a threat of a criminal act, such as violence, merely a threat used to elicit actions, money, or property from the object of the extortion

Are we finally on the path to Soma? No more pain, no more stress.

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> Didn't Cousteau invent SCUBA and the acronym? Isn't he french?

Nope. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_J._Lambertsen

It's relevant because nobody has come up with a more-widely supported animated graphics format. GIF is laughably outdated - it only supports 256 discrete colors picked from a regular 24-bit color palette in a weak non-lossy compression format. Most of you probably have no idea what that means because everything has supported at least 24-bit color for the last 20-30 years. As a graphics format it's been displaced by formats which handle full 24-bit color - JPEG for lossy compression (my first PC took nearly a minute to decode a 1024x768 JPEG while a similar size GIF could decode in about a second), and PNG for better non-lossy compression.

The only reason GIF sticks around is because it supports animated graphics, and nothing else has managed to displace it at that. There was an attempt at an animated PNG format. But it's not as widely supported as animated GIFs. (Microsoft IE and Edge were the major holdouts. Hopefully that'll change now that Microsoft is giving up on their own browser engine and using Chrome's. And we can finally give GIF the viking funeral it deserved two decades ago.)

27 days paid? You're clearly not the norm in the US.

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and the creators of the format will kick you in the throat. And the rest of us will then piss on your slowly asphyxiating body...

Please post a link to an animated .png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

Bohnett and Rezner just shed a tear, as millions of construction working animated GIF guys cried out in terror...

FYI you shield electric transmission by burying it.

EMP works through electromagnetic induction. How do you propose to shield buried cables magnetically? They'll still get affected.

Perhaps you want to grasp what AI actually means. A starting point would be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Australia, NZ, Argentina, Chile are all decent places to live and have over 30 paid days of time off per year by law. This isn't only in Europe -- this is most of the non-US world. Not everyone wants to "take over the world". Some of us just want to live comfortably and have some fun while we're here.

You clearly don't know the history of Argentina or Chile then. And Nordic countries with large nationalized oil funds to pay for expansive social programs are nice if you can get them but unless your country is lucky enough to have those properties, its likely that their policies won't work for you like you (all of us really) wish they might.