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A computer monitor that might have some top-secret images left on it?

Seriously? How does stupidity of this level actually make it to the real world?>

Monitor burn-in.

http://stevenandy.files.wordpr...

I've been reading that guy's blog since day one:

http://takingsenseaway.wordpre...

Unfortunately, Firefox has a problem. Single-thread. Those UI freezes keep getting worse and as web pages become more complex. And this problem has been acknowledged by Firefox devs on Mozillazine multiple times. Solving this is no easy task and will require a complete rewrite of the XUL rendering engine, potentially breaking everything. The days of Firefox as it currently is are numbered.

Here is Bill McCloskey's blog post about the efforts from Mozilla to rescue the situation.

Depends on which side you're on...

Does not matter, same story of politicians bribed, lobbyists behind closed doors present their wishes and common folks get screwed - in some cases for 1/2 a century:

https://friendsofthecoloradopu...

They have a "Privatization Board" there!!!

It's a total money game selling one's butt to be used at the payers liking. Isn't that called prostitution and generally prohibited in most states in the US? Maybe not at the Capitol, I'll have to check on that.

In effect, that means that the winning Senate candidates needed to raise an average of $14,351 every day between Jan. 1 2010 and election day, 2012 in order to pull of a win, while the victorious House members raised $2.315 per day, MapLight found.

From: http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

My brain is full

We all descended from aliens anyway.

And if you think that's bad, try floating text some time.

This tag here solely for the purpose of clearing the float so the box containing the floats actually contain the floats, because nobody wants to suggest that w3c add something like clear:contain to the spec so an extra tag isn't required.

BTW: no, overflow:hidden is not the answer.

Dealing the coriolis and tidal forces might be worse than the problem it's trying to solve, unless you have a really enormous centrifuge.

Or two modules with a long tether spinning round their mutual centre of gravity

Certainly I googled the picture of eve online conventions. I don't have that as one of my bookmarks.

FWIW most of the pictures of NFL fans are cool looking people and stadium crowds and hot chicks, same as with Yuropean football except the camera is more wide angle with soccer pictures for some reason. Judging by anomalies isn't fair, as "nfl chicks" is all hot women despite this picture being a top result for "NFL chicks."

But that would not give you an offsite back up.

And yes you can do it now over XMPP. http://socialvpn.wordpress.com...
It sucks that Google is dropping XMPP. I wish they had kept it

Congratulations, You just made a new soldier prototype for the army. http://rollinoatsmarket.files....

The hockey stick has stood the test of time. The facts hold. The data continue to support it. Here's Mann recently, and discussion.

Here are myths about the hockey stick debunked.

I'm not denying that the climate is changing, or that we should burn every combustible material we can get our hands on. But we also don't need to throw society a tailspin either. From your link:

after a single study I co-wrote a decade and a half ago found that the Northern Hemisphere’s average warmth had no precedent in at least the past 1,000 years. Our “hockey stick” graph

Which would be pretty scary if the planet was 6,000 yeas old. But it's not, and this type of warming is not new. Even during the time that Homo Sapiens has been on the planet. Also from your link:

James Hansen, who has turned to civil disobedience ... ...in 2011 and 2013 in Washington protesting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf. He has warned that the pipeline, which awaits approval by the State Department, would open the floodgates to dirty tar sands oil from Canada, something he says would be “game over for the climate.”

This is such over the top hyperbole it's ridiculous. The tar sands in Alberta are going to be extracted whether the XL pipeline is built, or not. IF it's not built, then the oil will be sent by another pipeline to the coast to be shipped to China. It will also be shipped to the US via rail instead of pipeline. Which means more fossil fuels will be used in transporting it by train and ship; and the likelihood of an accident will be increased as well as there will be a pipeline, trains and ships hauling it. .

Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia’s Earth Institute, and other scientists, making a compelling case that emissions from fossil fuel burning must be reduced rapidly if we are to avert catastrophic climate change. They called for the immediate introduction of a price on carbon emissions, arguing that it is our moral obligation to not leave a degraded planet behind for our children and grandchildren.

How scientific of them. We have a "moral" obligation? Yes, very scientific. Even if the planet is warming entirely because of man, there is no definitive proof that it will reach worst case. How do we know it will reach a cataclysmic event(s) if we don't' stop right this very second? I've been hearing that "if we don't fix things right now, we are all doomed" (from one thing or another) for almost my entire life. If that's the case, we're already too late. So if we can't leave our children a non-degraded planet, we must give them a pile of cash? Or who is supposed to get this money?

Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who has argued that “the only ethical path is to stop using the atmosphere as a waste dump for greenhouse gas pollution,”

You know what else is a greenhouse gas? Water. So should we support the Stop Dihydrogen Mono-Oxide people too? What about CO2? Do we need to stop expiration by all animals on the planet? Should we all go on the Atkins diet? After all, herbivores expel more methane. Hmm, that's probably very sustainable.

This virulent strain of anti-science infects the halls of Congress, the pages of leading newspapers and what we see on TV, leading to the appearance of a debate where none should exist

By the way, if you're more interested in the social effects of e.g. telegraphy technology rather than the science behind it, I heartily recommend Tom Standage's The Victorian Internet.

http://xpressrazor.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/enable-and-use-open-source-radeon-drivers-in-a-muxless-hybrid-graphics-intelamd-setup/

$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x7d cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 4 associated providers: 0 name:Intel
Provider 1: id: 0x57 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 6 outputs: 2 associated providers: 0 name:radeon

Then

$ xrandr --setprovideroffloadsink 0x57 0x7d

Now setting DRI_PRIME to 1 runs things on the radeon:

$ DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TURKS

Finally, I'll leave you with the words of a noted global warming proponent and researcher: "Pauses as long as 15 years are rare in the simulations, and âwe expect that [real-world] warming will resume in the next few years,â(TM) the Hadley Centre group writes. Researchers agree that no sort of natural variability can hold off greenhouse warming much longer." - Richard Kerr, Science (2009) So, we'll see...2009 is already five long years in the past, and the pause shows no sign of stopping at this point...

What pause? The one you've been hearing about on denialist websites? How about instead of hearsay, we actually look at the data?

No, the one that everyone admits is ongoing, including climate scientists and the latest IPCC report.

For instance:

Leading climate scientist Kevin Trenberth has told reportingclimatescience.com that he believes the pause in global warming may be caused by long term changes in the Pacific Ocean.

So, the very real pause is a subject of hot debate even among climate scientists. I suggest you re-read the quote from Richard Kerr above, as it also references the pause way back in 2009. It will be interesting seeing how things go over the next few years. We're currently right at solar maximum, and the tail end of this solar cycle will be long and low. Then, Cycle 25 will begin (starting probably in roughly 2020-2022) and it is predicted to be much lower than the current cycle, with the first estimate being a maximum sunspot number of 7 (versus about 67 for the current very low cycle - this one is already the lowest in over a century). So, the next 20+ years will give us an excellent idea of the true influence of extremely low solar activity on climate - and I believe the results will not be positive for climate alarmism.

As to the big picture on CO2, the US is no longer the biggest producer, nor will it be going forward. If growing CO2 concentration is in fact a crisis, the task of the alarmist community will be to convince China, India, Russia and the host of growing third-world economies to forgo growth and save the planet. Good luck with that.

The one possibility that might be a win-win is the proliferation of thorium or LENR nuclear technology in a major way. That route would provide plenty of energy at low cost, without producing a gram of CO2. Regardless of CO2 production, there are a lot of good reasons to displace coal electricity production with cleaner technologies. Solar will also play a role, but it is not a good source of baseline power, and is unlikely to ramp up to the levels needed anytime soon.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time on the rest of your post (for the three people that might actually read this lol) but I'll hit a couple of high points...

They aren't "theories". They are measurements.

You know, legitimate climate scientists going out with scientific instruments and collecting real-world sea-temperature measurements to do legitimate reliable science.

The ocean temperature measurements aren't nearly as straightforward as you make out. The purported "extra heat hiding in the oceans" amounts to changes of hundredths of a degree in the water column. Reliable measurements of that accuracy simply don't exist.

On the other hand, we do have accurate satellite measurements of sea surface temperatures going back for some time. Here's the most current data I could find. (If you track it down, you'll find temperatures have been similar back to 1998, the year of a major El Niño event.) You'll note that sea surface temperatures have not noticeably risen. As I said before, it doesn't pass the "sni

Ya! Look vat ve do to your autonomeautomobil!

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I don't see how your example of blaming specifically Google/Glass for this problem has anything to do with the current cache of thousands of walking cameras under government control. The nightmare of surveillance is already upon us. If Google Glass were pulled as a product tomorrow, the absence of "glassholes" will not guarantee an absence of abuse. The dossier man you fear can still come regardless.

Ironically, the person wearing Glass in a movie theater is being watched by several cameras at that time. Like I said, the abuse mechanisms are already in place, and you don't control any of them.

Well said!

For ICE or Homeland Security being called I blame the stupid MPAA task force and the theatre for letting them be there in the first place, might have to stop patronizing AMC Theatres now...sad.

For ICE or Homeland Security being stupid enough to show up I blame them. Surely there are many more important things to be checking and/or watching than a guy wearing Google Glasses in a Theatre.

Of course they already have all the FEMA data collection data centers around the country, I know there are more than 12, but am unsure of the exact count, I beileve there are at least 15. People are so clueless.

Would be nice if the Police / Sheriff departments did not blindly follow along as they sometime do. I think an honest citzen's last defense is not being armed, though I have no problem with gun rights or the 2nd Amendment, rather the last line of defense is a well informed citzendry with a well informed County Sheriff who will stand up to illegal searches and seizures and simply say NO!

Is your County Sheriff an OathKeeper? Perhaps they should all be or elect someone who will be an Oath Keeper!

With the Sheriff and Local Police guns on the sides of citizens, it is much less likely that abuses will come from any government agency, no matter what label they give themselves.

Such committment would have prevented the Orange County (CA) Sherrif office prompted by the Milk producers from going to a health food coop Rawesome Foods in Venice Beach, CA and dumping all their products, esp the unpastuerized goat milk, even though their warrent only allowed them to collect samples and data only. They emptied the store of product, including produce, vegetibles, etc and basically filled a dumpster.

The government has kept pursuing Stewart and his club for years, despite a lack of any reports of illness or injury from consumption of his foods.

As for the unpastuerized goat milk, it was not being sold by the health food store, rather the parents bought into a coop that owned a piece of the goats and they simply collected their share of that coop milk at that location. The Health food store helped a organic farmer's business while increasing the flow of traffic to his business. The families that owned shares of the coop, did not have to drive individually much farther to collect their share of the goat milk. A win - win - win, just not for the milk producers who only wanted their pasteurized product availble for sale and worked through federal agencies to secure the warrant that was served by the Orange County Sherrif.

I would not have had a problem if the Sherrifs only collected samples (per the warrant) and not thrown everything else away, they would have complied with the warrant, unfortunately they went further than they should have, legally per the warrant. An OathKeeper would not have gone to the extreme and harmed the business through excessive action.

I don't see how your example of blaming specifically Google/Glass for this problem has anything to do with the current cache of thousands of walking cameras under government control. The nightmare of surveillance is already upon us. If Google Glass were pulled as a product tomorrow, the absence of "glassholes" will not guarantee an absence of abuse. The dossier man you fear can still come regardless.

Ironically, the person wearing Glass in a movie theater is being watched by several cameras at that time. Like I said, the abuse mechanisms are already in place, and you don't control any of them.

Well said!

For ICE or Homeland Security being called I blame the stupid MPAA task force and the theatre for letting them be there in the first place, might have to stop patronizing AMC Theatres now...sad.

For ICE or Homeland Security being stupid enough to show up I blame them. Surely there are many more important things to be checking and/or watching than a guy wearing Google Glasses in a Theatre.

Of course they already have all the FEMA data collection data centers around the country, I know there are more than 12, but am unsure of the exact count, I beileve there are at least 15. People are so clueless.

Would be nice if the Police / Sheriff departments did not blindly follow along as they sometime do. I think an honest citzen's last defense is not being armed, though I have no problem with gun rights or the 2nd Amendment, rather the last line of defense is a well informed citzendry with a well informed County Sheriff who will stand up to illegal searches and seizures and simply say NO!

Is your County Sheriff an OathKeeper? Perhaps they should all be or elect someone who will be an Oath Keeper!

With the Sheriff and Local Police guns on the sides of citizens, it is much less likely that abuses will come from any government agency, no matter what label they give themselves.

Such committment would have prevented the Orange County (CA) Sherrif office prompted by the Milk producers from going to a health food coop Rawesome Foods in Venice Beach, CA and dumping all their products, esp the unpastuerized goat milk, even though their warrent only allowed them to collect samples and data only. They emptied the store of product, including produce, vegetibles, etc and basically filled a dumpster.

The government has kept pursuing Stewart and his club for years, despite a lack of any reports of illness or injury from consumption of his foods.

As for the unpastuerized goat milk, it was not being sold by the health food store, rather the parents bought into a coop that owned a piece of the goats and they simply collected their share of that coop milk at that location. The Health food store helped a organic farmer's business while increasing the flow of traffic to his business. The families that owned shares of the coop, did not have to drive individually much farther to collect their share of the goat milk. A win - win - win, just not for the milk producers who only wanted their pasteurized product availble for sale and worked through federal agencies to secure the warrant that was served by the Orange County Sherrif.

I would not have had a problem if the Sherrifs only collected samples (per the warrant) and not thrown everything else away, they would have complied with the warrant, unfortunately they went further than they should have, legally per the warrant. An OathKeeper would not have gone to the extreme and harmed the business through excessive action.

I don't see how your example of blaming specifically Google/Glass for this problem has anything to do with the current cache of thousands of walking cameras under government control. The nightmare of surveillance is already upon us. If Google Glass were pulled as a product tomorrow, the absence of "glassholes" will not guarantee an absence of abuse. The dossier man you fear can still come regardless.

Ironically, the person wearing Glass in a movie theater is being watched by several cameras at that time. Like I said, the abuse mechanisms are already in place, and you don't control any of them.

Well said!

For ICE or Homeland Security being called I blame the stupid MPAA task force and the theatre for letting them be there in the first place, might have to stop patronizing AMC Theatres now...sad.

For ICE or Homeland Security being stupid enough to show up I blame them. Surely there are many more important things to be checking and/or watching than a guy wearing Google Glasses in a Theatre.

Of course they already have all the FEMA data collection data centers around the country, I know there are more than 12, but am unsure of the exact count, I beileve there are at least 15. People are so clueless.

Would be nice if the Police / Sheriff departments did not blindly follow along as they sometime do. I think an honest citzen's last defense is not being armed, though I have no problem with gun rights or the 2nd Amendment, rather the last line of defense is a well informed citzendry with a well informed County Sheriff who will stand up to illegal searches and seizures and simply say NO!

Is your County Sheriff an OathKeeper? Perhaps they should all be or elect someone who will be an Oath Keeper!

With the Sheriff and Local Police guns on the sides of citizens, it is much less likely that abuses will come from any government agency, no matter what label they give themselves.

Such committment would have prevented the Orange County (CA) Sherrif office prompted by the Milk producers from going to a health food coop Rawesome Foods in Venice Beach, CA and dumping all their products, esp the unpastuerized goat milk, even though their warrent only allowed them to collect samples and data only. They emptied the store of product, including produce, vegetibles, etc and basically filled a dumpster.

The government has kept pursuing Stewart and his club for years, despite a lack of any reports of illness or injury from consumption of his foods.

As for the unpastuerized goat milk, it was not being sold by the health food store, rather the parents bought into a coop that owned a piece of the goats and they simply collected their share of that coop milk at that location. The Health food store helped a organic farmer's business while increasing the flow of traffic to his business. The families that owned shares of the coop, did not have to drive individually much farther to collect their share of the goat milk. A win - win - win, just not for the milk producers who only wanted their pasteurized product availble for sale and worked through federal agencies to secure the warrant that was served by the Orange County Sherrif.

I would not have had a problem if the Sherrifs only collected samples (per the warrant) and not thrown everything else away, they would have complied with the warrant, unfortunately they went further than they should have, legally per the warrant. An OathKeeper would not have gone to the extreme and harmed the business through excessive action.

Wow...bravo on that citation. The very first sentence of that wiki answers link is:

People have not been killed in dolphin attacks, but bitten and pulled under water.

And then continues with:

According to the National Geographic program Dolphin Attack, there is one confirmed case of a bottlenose dolphin killing an adult human male. However, it was a provoked attack.

I'm scratching my head about that wordpress article...the headline seems to be almost completely disconnected from the actual article, which talks about the dolphin "saving" beached whales...being abused by humans, in fact...and no details whatsoever about the actual woman in question. Wat. Presumably this is referring to this incident, which the coroner declared natural causes. But supposedly it's a conspiracy. And this was all after people were attacking the dolphin. Again, don't fuck with dolphins. I have my doubts about this website, too.

While a lot of these claims (if they're to be believed) are pretty extreme, they all fall under dolphins being abusive to non-humans...and allegedly Demi Moore may have been accosted.

The only one of those citations that give me any faith in your claim is the first:

Although dolphins generally interact well with humans, attacks have still occurred, most of them resulting in serious injuries and even death. The attacks can occur both in the wild and captivity. Tilikum at SeaWorld. In 2010 he attacked and killed his trainerDawn Brancheau, in his third fatal incident. There is a registered occurrence in the coast of Brazil in 1994, when a man died after being attacked by a bottlenose dolphin named Tião.

Three of the four deaths they mention was from the same dolphin, which apparently has a taste for human flesh or something. Which results in a grand total of 3 killer dolphins if we count the earlier sources. Hell, I could probably find more people killed by...hmm, what's some other harmless animal...domesticated cats, or pet rabbits, or something.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2009/05/13/dolphins_are_violent_predators_that_kill_their_own_babies.html
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_have_been_killed_in_dolphin_attacks
http://feww.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/us-woman-killed-swimming-with-dolphins-in-nz/
http://www.aardvarknyc.com/about/dolphins-rape-people/

Obligatory Far Side.

As to the "pause" being a statistical artifact, warming has in fact flattened for about fifteen years so far - despite CO2 being at record levels. We'll see how long it continues, we're right at solar maximum currently and looking at a long stretch of low solar activity ahead. So, the next 20-40 years should give us a true concrete idea of how a solar Grand Minimum effects the climate.

The real reason for this pause in global warming is the increased incidence of piracy since the 90s. Ramen!

It's not a peer-reviewed study, it's an informal systematic review.

http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/11/15/why-climate-deniers-have-no-credibility-science-one-pie-chart

Yeah, except that entire effort is a straw man of colossal proportions. "Climate deniers", really? What, do they deny the climate exists?

Many climate change skeptics accept the idea of greenhouse gasses and potential warming. What is contested is the severity of future warming, if any, and the certainty expressed by the IPCC when instead much is uncertain.

As to the "pause" being a statistical artifact, warming has in fact flattened for about fifteen years so far - despite CO2 being at record levels. We'll see how long it continues, we're right at solar maximum currently and looking at a long stretch of low solar activity ahead. So, the next 20-40 years should give us a true concrete idea of how a solar Grand Minimum effects the climate.

I was going to post about nobody using BSD... but... there is that one guy in Romania... Hmmm... But there is still that question... Is this even newsworthy...? Check this out... http://aboutthebsds.wordpress.com/ o_p

Of course, it must be remembered that:
there's no such thing as a Nobel prize in economics!

See Fake Nobel

Like the original contract for this website which went to a college buddy of the POTUS' wife, without open bidding.

The executive whose company won the no-bid contract is Toni-Townes Whitley and the only association she and Michelle Obama have had is that they were classmates at Princeton.

The right-wing media attempted to twist this fact of attending the same school at the same time as proof of cronyism. Fortunately for those of us who would be informed rather than manipulated, the biggest evidence of this failed smear campaign is the blasted Google landscape around the search terms "michelle obama yale classmate".

The only people repeating this as proof of corruption are biased right-wing media organs and poorly informed /. readers.

• joemiller.us/.../michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-executive-company..
• foxnewsinsider.com/.../hannity-krauthammer-michelle-obamas-connecti..
• www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-b
• freedomoutpost.com/.../michelle-obamas-college-classmate-toni-townes-...
• dancingczars.wordpress.com/.../surprise-michelle-obamas-princeton-bud...
• www.thecollegefix.com/post/15151/
• www.rightwingnews.com/...obama/michelle-obamas-classmate-a-senior-...

These are the very reasons that the non-traditional press needs as much or more protection than the mundane, risk-averse mainstream media.

I absolutely agree with you. However, I'm not sure that this particular blogger is the best representative of the "non-traditional press." From TFA:

Cox's blogging activities have attracted their share of controversy. According to the court's opinion, Cox has a history of making allegations of fraud and other illegal activities "and seeking payoffs in exchange for retraction."

Further, if you start doing any basic internet searches, you'll find all sorts of sordid claims about this blogger. If stuff on this link is true, for example -- this blogger is the kind of person who registers the domain names of not only enemies, but the children of her enemies, and then posts horrible stuff about them (apparently sometimes made up), and then sends letters asking for money if they want it taken down.

I have no idea if all of this is true, but it's clear from a number of stories -- both on blogs and in the "institutional press" that you accuse of not asking the hard questions, like the NY Times -- that the blogger at the center of this case is not just a "non-traditional press" representative or journalist. This appears to be someone who deliberately posts offensive material about people in order to extort money.

So, is this really a victory for the "non-traditional press," or an invitation for a new kind of "shake-down" scheme where the mob comes after your business and acts for "protection" money? (I haven't been following this story, so I don't know the answer to this, but this is the kind of stuff I've found with a few quick searches, so it appears more complex than a simple "freedom of the press" victory.)

"It's possible that both the AGW deniers and AGW alarmists are wrong. Climate change could be real, but caused by natural factors that are out of our control, the same ones that have caused ice ages and warm periods in the past when carbon outputs were nowhere near as high as they are now."

The problem with this is that it is exactly what many of those so-called AGW "deniers" have been saying all along. [Jane Q. Public]

Exactly what who's been saying all along? Aside from all your short term "cooling/recovery" trends, you've smeared paleoclimate studies while making these uncited claims about the paleoclimate:

NOBODY in their right minds has -- and I certainly have not -- been arguing that the globe has not been getting warmer! That is not the issue and never was. The globe has been trending warmer for the last 6,000 years! The data are clear. Someone would have to be an idiot or totally uninformed to make such a claim. [Jane Q. Public, 2007-10-24]

Not quite 0.74 degrees, but yes it has warmed. So what? The earth has been trending steadily warmer for the last 6,000 years!!! [Jane Q. Public, 2008-06-22]

The trend over 5 or 6 THOUSAND years has been warmer. [Jane Q. Public, 2008-06-22]

I do not disagree that the globe is warming. That would be denying facts... the earth has been trending warmer for over 6,000 years! [Jane Q. Public, 2008-06-22]

Trying to prove to me that the globe is warming was a pretty silly thing to do. I do not dispute that the earth has been getting warmer, and never did! It has been trending warmer for the last 6,000 years! [Jane Q. Public, 2009-04-18]

We know the earth has been warming. It has been doing so for approximately 6,000 years. [Lonny Eachus, 2009-07-02]

Certainly the globe has been warming... it has been trending warmer for thousands of years. [Jane Q. Public, 2010-02-03]

First, people with at least half a brain -- including in the U.S. -- know the climate is getting warmer. It has been trending warmer for roughly 6,000 years, industry or not. [Jane Q. Public, 2011-07-17]

Jane and Lonny Eachus are wrong. According to Marcott et al. 2013 (PDF), the world has actually been cooling for most of the last 6,000 years.

"Other so-called education texts being used by the Responsive Ed program teach Western superiority and how feminism forced women to 'turn to the state as a surrogate husband.'" I don't know what this has to do with either creationism or "anti-science". "According to anthropologist Lionel Tiger, the ancient unit of a mother, a child and a father has morphed from monogamy into “bureaugamy,” a mother, a child and a bureaucrat. The state has become a substitute husband. In fact, it doesn’t replace just the husband, it replaces the entire nuclear and extended family, raises the children and cares for the elderly." Quoted in 'The Fatherless Civilization' :: http://tresmontes.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/the-fatherless-civilization/

I'd argue that no, it actually doesn't trump it.
IME it is *far* easier to switch between two completely different systems, than to switch between two systems which are exactly the same, except for one or two minor parameters.

Agreed. I can switch between QWERTY, Dvorak, and Workman on-the-fly without any ramp-up time, but a one-month stint in Germany with QWERTZ threw me off for at least half my stay. And then it took time getting used to QWERTY again when I got home.

The innovation I would really like to see from laptop keyboards is to make them mechanical. It doesn't bother me that most desktop keyboards are membrane crap, because I can replace them with a good keyboard, such as the Das Keyboard (yes, I know the redundancy of "the Das"). But attaching a mechanical keyboard to a laptop largely defeats the purpose of a laptop.

At the same time, I'm not sure it could be done in a way that's satisfying. You could never replicate a desktop mechanical keyboard perfectly without drastically increasing the thickness of the case. I'm not sure if a "low-travel" version of mechanical keys would be as satisfying or worth the extra cost. For the time being, my favorite laptop keyboard is Apple's. The keys aren't mushy or sticky like on a lot of keyboards, and their low travel distance lets you bottom out quicker (which is important for this type of keyboard, if not mechanical ones).

http://topicalisle.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/3200280414_69cbfa327a1.jpg (NSFW-ish, but with working link)

http://topicalisle.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/3200280414_69cbfa327a (NSFW-ish?)

Pretty sure that it was the work of K'Breel and the council.

Exactly. That's why "we can't blame climate change for any one event". You need to look at the overall, long-term trend to see what the overall, long-term trend is, such as: "The report, which will be released in full in February, finds that climate change is having a key influence on a trend that has seen the number of hot days in Australia double and the duration and frequency of heatwaves increase in the period between 1971 and 2008." If you graph the temperatures in Australia over many decades, you can easily see the warming trend.

Read Wayne Hale's take on it; he was there:

The excerpt that sticks with me:

Jon Harpold was the Director of Mission Operations, my supreme boss as a Flight Director. He had spent his early career in shuttle entry analysis. He knew more about shuttle entry than anybody; the guidance, the navigation, the flight control, the thermal environments and how to control them. After one of the MMTs when possible damage to the orbiter was discussed, he gave me his opinion: "You know, there is nothing we can do about damage to the TPS. If it has been damaged it’s probably better not to know. I think the crew would rather not know. Don’t you think it would be better for them to have a happy successful flight and die unexpectedly during entry than to stay on orbit, knowing that there was nothing to be done, until the air ran out?" I was hard pressed to disagree. That mindset was widespread. Astronauts agreed. So don’t blame an individual; looks for the organizational factors that lead to that kind of a mindset. Don’t let them in your organization.

It's happening right this instant to large numbers of actual humans in every country in the world

Are you referring to the present epidemic of human trafficking hysteria? Because that's solidly established as almost entirely utter nonsense. Slavery is done; and if you try to enslave an AI, I rather expect you'd get what you deserve: nothing.

That's great if you have income to buy your own robots

I'm not talking about a transition period here. I'm talking about an actual environment of plenty. Arguing today's economic situation to justify how a radically different future economic situation would work is kind of fruitless, don't you think?

The extremes are that either we start adjusting things now as we see the nigh-inevitable robot "utopia" on the horizon, or we have violent insurrection as the bulk of humanity start starving to death or get relegated to third-class citizens.

The extremes are the least likely outcomes. Further, options we have failed to consider repeatedly turn out to be pivotal, *particularly* in the area of technology.

How, exactly? If most anything you do can be done better and cheaper by robots, what's left for you to do to improve anyone's life? Sure, maybe you could compose a sonnet for the ages, or discover a new law of physics that allows wonderful things (rote science is already starting to be automated), but most people could spend their lives pursuing such goals without accomplishing anything of note.

Anything of note? Why should I care if you think my accomplishments are "of note"? What I desire is happiness. That means good company, comfort, recreation, good and enjoyable nutrition, as little rote labor as possible, and time to enjoy myself doing such things as having sex, swimming, playing music, listening to music, learning about the world and the universe, hanging with my cat... it's not about accomplishment at all. In fact, that strikes me as a pathology brought about by the idea that it's an "achievement" to get your face on television. If you live for a dose of approval from outside sources, first of all, you're likely to find that fountain quite dry, and second, you won't be happy in *any* kind of society, because no one really gives a hoot about you -- or me, etc. :)

Quote: "So it appears that Iron Man is either powered by Open Source software or made of Lego. I’m not sure which is cooler." http://deeperdesign.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/is-iron-man-made-of-lego/ I agree with this sentiment. This is both cool and enhances believably. If I was stuck in a cave, with a magnet in my chest and I had some code I know is reliable, I might not spend too much time building a new code-base.

So how weather extremes will be and how good the predictions are we will see THEN!

I completely agree with this statement. We shall certainly see what happens. Unfortunately, that's the only reliable way to know future weather and climate patterns. Maybe someday climate change science will become in the net useful, instead of a ridiculous, politicized distraction and drain on our international economies.

#BadBIOS - BIOS Malware

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- Copernicus: Question Your Assumptions about BIOS Security

http://www.mitre.org/capabilities/cybersecurity/overview/cybersecurity-blog/copernicus-question-your-assumptions-about

- "Seems to have a BIOS hypervisor, SDR functionality that bridges air gaps, wifi card removed."

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/388512915742937089

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- #BadBIOS

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BadBIOS

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- "More on my ongoing chase of #badBIOS malware."

https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365/posts/9fyh5R9v2Ga
https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365

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- Nobody Seems To Notice and Nobody Seems To Care: Government & Stealth Malware

http://slexy.org/view/s2otvoDuKW

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- Gpu based paravirtualization rootkit, all os vulne

http://forum.sysinternals.com/gpu-based-paravirtualization-rootkit-all-os-vulne_topic26706.html

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- #badBIOS (and lotsa paranoia, plus fireworks)

https://kabelmast.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/badbios-and-lotsa-paranoia-plus-fireworks/

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- Air-Gap-Breaching BIOS Rootkits with SDRs Inside (and smartphones, Snowden, NSA, Wikileaks)

"A little while back I covered a paper on FPGAs that could turn themselves into SDRs. I suspected this would be one way to breach an air gap.

It seems I was right on the money. If a little behind the times.

Researchers have found an incredibly persistent BIOS rootkit in the wild that includes SDR functionality⦠literally turning your computer into a radio transmitter to exfiltrate data even if youâ(TM)re not connected to the Internet." [..]

"The researchers were using a new tool, Copernicus, which sadly seems to be Windows-only. Nevertheless a number of you might be interested in checking it out.

There is one enduring mystery of this rootkit⦠how does it survive BIOS reflashes?" [..]

https://kabelmast.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/air-gap-breaching-bios-rootkits-with-sdrs-inside-and-smartphones-snowden-nsa-wikileaks/

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/388511686744764416

- IMHO Copernicus is the most important security tool in recent history. Already found persistent BIOS malware (survives reflashing) here.

#BadBIOS - BIOS Malware

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- Copernicus: Question Your Assumptions about BIOS Security

http://www.mitre.org/capabilities/cybersecurity/overview/cybersecurity-blog/copernicus-question-your-assumptions-about

- "Seems to have a BIOS hypervisor, SDR functionality that bridges air gaps, wifi card removed."

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/388512915742937089

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- #BadBIOS

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BadBIOS

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- "More on my ongoing chase of #badBIOS malware."

https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365/posts/9fyh5R9v2Ga
https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365

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- Nobody Seems To Notice and Nobody Seems To Care: Government & Stealth Malware

http://slexy.org/view/s2otvoDuKW

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- Gpu based paravirtualization rootkit, all os vulne

http://forum.sysinternals.com/gpu-based-paravirtualization-rootkit-all-os-vulne_topic26706.html

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- #badBIOS (and lotsa paranoia, plus fireworks)

https://kabelmast.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/badbios-and-lotsa-paranoia-plus-fireworks/

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- Air-Gap-Breaching BIOS Rootkits with SDRs Inside (and smartphones, Snowden, NSA, Wikileaks)

"A little while back I covered a paper on FPGAs that could turn themselves into SDRs. I suspected this would be one way to breach an air gap.

It seems I was right on the money. If a little behind the times.

Researchers have found an incredibly persistent BIOS rootkit in the wild that includes SDR functionality⦠literally turning your computer into a radio transmitter to exfiltrate data even if youâ(TM)re not connected to the Internet." [..]

"The researchers were using a new tool, Copernicus, which sadly seems to be Windows-only. Nevertheless a number of you might be interested in checking it out.

There is one enduring mystery of this rootkit⦠how does it survive BIOS reflashes?" [..]

https://kabelmast.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/air-gap-breaching-bios-rootkits-with-sdrs-inside-and-smartphones-snowden-nsa-wikileaks/

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/388511686744764416

- IMHO Copernicus is the most important security tool in recent history. Already found persistent BIOS malware (survives reflashing) here.

I just looked at the Aereo website, and it appears that they are actually restricting the service to users who live in the same metro area as the Aereo antenna farm in question. If things are as they seem, it impossible for people in Australia to register for Aereo, and the local ads remain relevant.

I'll first point out that my statements were referring to ABC's claims in their filing brief, rather than Aereo's TOS.

Now I'll point out how easy it is to violate Aereo's TOS:

VPN for when they check the IP address:
http://watchvideoonlinevpn.wordpress.com/tag/watch-aereo-live-outside-usa/

Credit card address in case they check that:
In terms of a U.S. credit card with a NY address: there are mail forwarding services that can be had very cheaply, but most credit card companies pester you to go electronic constantly so that they don't have to pay for paper statements, and so that they can blame your email for losing changes in contracts, meaning it's your fault when they fail to notify you. So either sign up for a month with one of those services or have a friend in NYC let you use their address to get the card in the first place, and then switch everything over to electronic communications immediately. Congratulations, your credit card is now a NY resident.

It's pretty trivial; a lot of people do this so that they can access U.S. iTunes from outside the U.S., as well. It works for pretty much any geographically tied service, including Netflix.

Start a movement, but for this to work it would really need to happen at least at a state level, preferably federal. The first hurdle is that you will find >50% of the lawmakers voting on the proposal will be lawyers, sons of lawyers, etc. You'll need to get some kind of explosive viral adoption of the campaign that will shock and awe the change into being before the lawyers have a chance to launch a counter-appeal for public opinion. You'll need people who are far more talented and experienced than I am to pull that off, and who also are not self-interested in keeping lawyers lives posh - the list of qualified individuals will be short, and you'll have to be careful when building it lest you tip-off the other side and give them a head start.

Best of luck, and if you fail, maybe you could re-direct your efforts toward saving the planet:

http://5050by2150.wordpress.com/

That concept, too, could be better expressed and promoted, it lacks mass appeal - but addresses a problem that is inevitable as long as positive population and economic growth continues.

Yes, the data is incredibly hard to find.... http://thelongrunblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/lets-go-postal/ The USPS has lost money a lot more often than it's made money, and that's even WITH TAXPAYER subsidies every year. If it was a privately held business it would have been shuttered 30 years ago.

Lonny Eachus responds to a tweet using the acronym RWNJ with a rant about "Nut Jobs" (NJ):

That is what ideologues do. They can't stand to even hear you disagree. THOSE are real NJ, and why they must not win. Another example: Reddit just banned any discussion that does not agree with "climate change" from their science forum. They claimed that "deniers" were rude, aggressive, and not actually discussing science. Funny, but I've seen exactly the opposite: THEIR "side" doing that. [Lonny Eachus, 2013-12-17]

... says Lonny Eachus, who is rude, aggressive, and doesn't actually discuss science. Perhaps Lonny Eachus refers to Jane Q. Public's rude, aggressive comments that don't actually discuss science. After all, Jane insists he's NOT a contrarian, so maybe Lonny Eachus wrongly thinks Jane Q. Public is on the side of mainstream science?

Or maybe Lonny refers to my visit to WUWT, when David M. Hoffer suggested at 3:16pm that I should be referred to as "it". His suggestion obviously appealed to ATheoK, who agreed at 7:44pm that I don't deserve a human pronoun. Other WUWT commenters called me a corrupt lying Godless Anti-American murderer, which WUWT regular geronimo found so distasteful that he assumed Anthony Watts would apologize... until I pointed out that Watts already knew and had responded by banning me from WUWT. Maybe Lonny Eachus wrongly thinks Anthony Watts and WUWT commenters are on the side of mainstream science?

Or maybe Lonny Eachus refers to Foxgoose whose egregious victimization rippled back in time. Or maybe Lonny Eachus refers to Geoff Chambers's blog, where commenters like Foxgoose called me and others lying borderline insane cult member guard dogs committing savage attacks. Maybe Lonny Eachus wrongly thinks Foxgoose and Geoff Chambers are on the side of mainstream science?

Here's what Dr. Nathan Allen, reddit science forum moderator, actually said. My emphasis:

...no topic consistently evokes such rude, uninformed, and outspoken opinions as climate change.

Instead of the reasoned and civil conversations that arise in most threads, when it came to climate change the comment sections became a battleground. Rather than making thoughtful arguments based on peer-reviewed science to refute man-made climate change, contrarians immediately resorted to aggressive behaviors. On one side, deniers accused any of the hard-working scientists whose research supported and furthered our understanding of man-made climate change of being bought by "Big Green." On the other side, deniers were frequently insulted and accused of being paid to comment on reddit by "Big Oil."

After some time interacting with the regular denier posters, it became clear that they could not or would not improve their demeanor. These problematic users were not the common "internet trolls" looking to have a little fun upsetting people. Such users are practically the norm on reddit. These people were true believers, blind to the fact that their arguments were hopelessly flawed, the result of cherry-picked data and conspiratorial

Jane Q. Public writes "Christ Turney, a climate researcher at University of New South Wales, and some other researchers chartered a ship to go to Antarctica to further their Anthropogenic Global Warming ("climate change") research. The expedition, consisting of 74 researchers and crew, radioed for help on Christmas day, stating that they are trapped in the ice. A chinese ice breaker called "Snow Dragon" came within a few miles of the stuck ship but had to turn back. The researchers and crew are now hoping that the ice breaker Aurora Australis, out of Australia, will be able to reach them." [Jane Q. Public, 2013-12-28]

As Tom Curtis noted:

"There is an irony about the various sailors, scientist, reporters and tourists currently being trapped in sea ice. They are not trapped because of the growth of Antarctic Sea Ice. Although the current Antarctic SI is 1.5 million square kilometers greater than 1979-2008 mean for this time of year, it is nonetheless melting rapidly, including just north of Commonwealth Bay where the Shokalskey is trapped. Rather, it is trapped as a consequence of portions of ice shelves breaking of the Antarctic coast line. Specifically, in 2010, Iceberg B-9B, a remnant of a calving event on the Ross Ice Shelf in 1987, collided with the tongue of the Metz Glacier, breaking it of. The debris from that collision, it appears, has remained more or less in situe for the last three years, until b winds shifted out from the terminus of the Metz Glacier towards Commonwealth Bay, trapping the Shokalskey. This is described in more detail on the mission blog."

Tom also noted that the mission's 2nd goal was to "explore changes in ocean circulation caused by the growth of extensive fast ice and its impact on life in Commonwealth Bay."

For some strange reason, the CFACT link Jane provided tells a different story.

Jane Q. Public writes "Christ Turney, a climate researcher at University of New South Wales, and some other researchers chartered a ship to go to Antarctica to further their Anthropogenic Global Warming ("climate change") research. The expedition, consisting of 74 researchers and crew, radioed for help on Christmas day, stating that they are trapped in the ice. A chinese ice breaker called "Snow Dragon" came within a few miles of the stuck ship but had to turn back. The researchers and crew are now hoping that the ice breaker Aurora Australis, out of Australia, will be able to reach them." [Jane Q. Public, 2013-12-28]

As Tom Curtis noted:

"There is an irony about the various sailors, scientist, reporters and tourists currently being trapped in sea ice. They are not trapped because of the growth of Antarctic Sea Ice. Although the current Antarctic SI is 1.5 million square kilometers greater than 1979-2008 mean for this time of year, it is nonetheless melting rapidly, including just north of Commonwealth Bay where the Shokalskey is trapped. Rather, it is trapped as a consequence of portions of ice shelves breaking of the Antarctic coast line. Specifically, in 2010, Iceberg B-9B, a remnant of a calving event on the Ross Ice Shelf in 1987, collided with the tongue of the Metz Glacier, breaking it of. The debris from that collision, it appears, has remained more or less in situe for the last three years, until b winds shifted out from the terminus of the Metz Glacier towards Commonwealth Bay, trapping the Shokalskey. This is described in more detail on the mission blog."

Tom also noted that the mission's 2nd goal was to "explore changes in ocean circulation caused by the growth of extensive fast ice and its impact on life in Commonwealth Bay."

For some strange reason, the CFACT link Jane provided tells a different story.

Jane Q. Public writes "Christ Turney, a climate researcher at University of New South Wales, and some other researchers chartered a ship to go to Antarctica to further their Anthropogenic Global Warming ("climate change") research. The expedition, consisting of 74 researchers and crew, radioed for help on Christmas day, stating that they are trapped in the ice. A chinese ice breaker called "Snow Dragon" came within a few miles of the stuck ship but had to turn back. The researchers and crew are now hoping that the ice breaker Aurora Australis, out of Australia, will be able to reach them." [Jane Q. Public, 2013-12-28]

As Tom Curtis noted:

"There is an irony about the various sailors, scientist, reporters and tourists currently being trapped in sea ice. They are not trapped because of the growth of Antarctic Sea Ice. Although the current Antarctic SI is 1.5 million square kilometers greater than 1979-2008 mean for this time of year, it is nonetheless melting rapidly, including just north of Commonwealth Bay where the Shokalskey is trapped. Rather, it is trapped as a consequence of portions of ice shelves breaking of the Antarctic coast line. Specifically, in 2010, Iceberg B-9B, a remnant of a calving event on the Ross Ice Shelf in 1987, collided with the tongue of the Metz Glacier, breaking it of. The debris from that collision, it appears, has remained more or less in situe for the last three years, until b winds shifted out from the terminus of the Metz Glacier towards Commonwealth Bay, trapping the Shokalskey. This is described in more detail on the mission blog."

Tom also noted that the mission's 2nd goal was to "explore changes in ocean circulation caused by the growth of extensive fast ice and its impact on life in Commonwealth Bay."

For some strange reason, the CFACT link Jane provided tells a different story.

... I was probably arguing against something other than what you actually meant. ... I think we are again discussing two different things. I wasn't trying to argue that creationism was falsifiable. Or any of those other things you have brought in to the conversation. ... you have done an awful lot of arguing over things I have NOT said.

No, I debunked these things you said:

... All currently known life forms have structures based on DNA or RNA. This is a fact. Creationists argue that because we know of no actual examples of the evolution of DNA or RNA from simpler molecules, then DNA (or RNA at least) were created and did not evolve. NOTE: I do NOT claim it is evidence of creation, only that it is evidence that can reasonably be interpreted as supporting a creationist's arguments. (By the way: the claim of the existence of organisms that use arsenic rather than phosphorus has not been substantiated.) Now, let's be clear: I also did not and do not claim that this argument is sound. I am simply saying that it is not an inherently silly argument, it is based on genuine observable evidence, and I am not aware of counter-evidence. (Though I do not deny that some may exist. The very same evidence might be interpreted as supporting the argument for evolution, for all I know, but I am not sure how at this time.) Therefore I have found a bit of evidence that supports the creationism argument. [Jane Q. Public, 201]

You were wrong. Again. You didn't find "a bit of evidence that supports the creationism argument." As I explained, you found evidence that supports evolution.

In the case of the evolution argument, I have nothing further to say after this. My original comment was clear and I stick by it for, as I explained to you very plainly before, statistical reasons. You may have misunderstood what I meant, and that happens. But getting into whether creationism is falsifiable, or what your arguments are for or against it, stray far from the mark. They have next to nothing to do with my original point, which was that very few areas of science (or any ideology, for that matter) have ALL of the evidence on their side.

You were wrong. Again. You didn't find "a bit of evidence that supports the creationism argument." As I explained, you found evidence that supports evolution.

... my original comment was: "some facts exist that are evidence of creationism". (Or close enough as makes no difference.) But that was all I meant. I said or implied nothing else; only that some facts can support the argument of creationism... whether it is valid "science", or not. Something they can use to argue. I didn't even say that the argument had to hold up under scrutiny... only that there is evidence for it.

Thanks for finally being honest. You're not interested in valid science, just something you can use to argue, even if it doesn't hold up under scrutiny. You've used this "principle of superficiality" to spread civilization-paralyzing misinformation which seems plausible at first glance to non-scientists, but doesn't hold up under scrutiny. In fact, I said as much last year:

"... each contrarian is more effective at superficial "science communication" than the average scientist. ... Once you get a contrarian started, a stream of regurgitated-but-superficially-plausible nonsense spews forth. Just consider Jane Q. Public. ..."

... why you insist on continuing to bring these things [dark matter] up after they have been beaten into the ground baffles me.

The invitation is going to be to testify over a video link, according to this pirate party MEP (and member of the LIBE committee).