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The most recent climate model simulations used in the AR5 indicate that the warming stagnation since 1998 is no longer consistent with model projections even at the 2% confidence level.

For reference, the 2% confidence level is out past "wild ass guess" territory and approaching "enemy action" land. Feel free to link me up a model that has made a successful prediction. (Side note: only predictions of the future are accepted, so these links need to be about 5 years old, minimum.)

And then there is Pat Frank. He has made a model that more closely matches reality than anything so far put out by the hockey team, but you won't like it. See his essay.and presentation. Watch the presentation, it is fantastic. And be sure to check the math yourself.

At no time has Assange had a US security clearance. He has no legal obligation to not publish info others have provided. Those others (Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, etc) are legally liable for leaking information they were legally obligated to protect. Not Assange.

The US would have to prove that Assange directed the leakers to collect and transfer the leaked information to him. Other than this article I haven't seen any indication of such a level of control or oversight by Assange on his sources. They have chosen to commit espionage and have voluntarily chosen WikiLeaks. This article brings forth a claim of Bradly being directed by WikiLeaks but I have not seen that before not even during Bradley's trial and considering CNN's current reputation for creating "news" I doubt this unsubstantiated claim. So I'm having a hard time seeing how they charge him with anything that could stick.

As to the Clinton campaign emails, last I heard WikiLeaks still insists they were provided by a disgruntled DNC staffer, not the Russians. But even if from the Russians, WikiLeaks did nothing illegal. They simply published information they had been provided, regardless of the source. They did not steal the data.

Interesting, what I see is interesting here is the double standard. On the one hand saying that you can publish information that is just given to you, but you are just as liable as the person(s) doing the hacking and leaking if you ask for the documents.. and yet

this is not grounds for impeachment?

This is the point that a lot of the neocons on /. are avoiding facing as a consequence of what they are saying. They can slice the pie as many ways as they can but that remains a fact no matter how hard they try to dress this pig of a point up and present it as Sarah Palin with lipstick on and all.

Trump solicited for Russia to hack Hilary Clinton's emails and by that very definition committed a crime that , because he is president and because he is a billionaire, he will never be prosecuted for despite being publicly guilty of it over and over and over and over and over!

NO matter how much you neocons scream about it, the truth remains there on Youtube and you can't make it go away!

Gotta love all the one sided hand wringing and bringing things like this up when it supports your narrative, but they are surprisingly quiet when it proves that their president is guilty!

Saw this and thought it was pertinent to my point. Kind of fucked up if you ask me that the police disarm the Trump/freespeech rally people and then stand idly by as antifa riot and beat people up. How would you solve this kind of violence and complicity of the government?

https://wearechange.org/berkel...

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"... what language is, your brain has executed a compression algorithm on thought, on concept transfer." No, language isn't that. See mandatory South Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?... from "Marklars are wise and true", Starvin' Marvin episode.

Hey - kid who is bricking all the wildly insecure IoT devices that are part of the Mirai botnet that is taking major sites offline and costing the industry millions of dollars a month:

Stop. Don't. Come back.

Post is not complete without a link to a downfall spoof! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No, this is news for the hearing impaired

Like, news for the hearing impaired?

Still not clear? Let me put it in a different way: even in case of ever considering acceptable to have a butler, I couldn't afford an Eddie-like one.

100 words per minutes might be a stretch, but it doesn't sound all that impossible given that the speed record was set with hunt&peck typing by moving a cursor across the screen. Some fancy machine learning that could guess whole words at a time or something along the line should have no problem beating that by quite a margin. It wouldn't even need to be perfect, just close enough, to give a drastic speed up (i.e. like Tab-completion).

See this earlier work that guessed video sequences from brain activity. Getting information in a more 'holistic' form out of the brain instead by just cursor movement seems plausible.

the soy protein is probably healthier food than chicken meat.

It depends on where the chicken came from. Obligatory Portlandia.

Probably Apple wants to prevent people from building iPhones from parts like this guy did in China.

It's your choice, the choices are made by millions of individual people every day who buy Apple products, whatever.

Honestly that sounds better than what they've had for the last 10+ years: a troubleshooting applet that pops up spontaneously whenever something fucks up, spins for a minute acting like it's doing something useful, then tells you it has no idea what went wrong.

(Literally never in my life has that piece of shit solved a single problem.)

And yet we've gotten to a point where politics is so ridiculously polarized that none of the Republicans care about him looting the public treasury and taking bribes from anyone and everyone, as long as he's not a Democrat.

We've also gotten to the point that it doesn't matter if he reverses himself (aka "flip-flops") on his campaign promises. Used to mean hot death for a politician from his... base. But now...

China? No longer a hated job-killing currency manipulator. Iran? Yeah, they're ok. Ban the Muslims? Hasn't stuck, blocked in court, oh well, probably the fault of Dems, move on, move on... what happened to that wall, anyway? and Russia? Liked Russia, g'head and spy on crooked-Hillary, no, don't like 'em anymore, but that has nothing to do with the cyber-spying during the election. NATO? Yeah, maybe they're ok after all. Clean Coal? well yeah, about that, energy prices, invisible hand of the econo-*yawn*. Bridges and roads? headin' off to my golf resort call me later. and Obamacare? That biggest disaster in the history of all mankind ever? Ehhhh, let's keep it... for me to poop on for the next four years.

Nope, nobody seems to care, as long as he's not a Democrat.

I once read a book by Linda Hill that I personally found amazingly valuable, but only because I was careful not to light any matches, because her presentation was dry, dry, dry.

Because of the Indian incompetence story here on Slashdot this morning, I went to paste a link into my files, and chanced upon a past entry concerning HCL Technologies, a topic that Linda Hill has addressed in video, and soon I found myself watching a clip of hers on YouTube I hadn't seen before.

Linda Hill on empowering young sparks at HCL — July 2016

The problem in India with the educational system is that the system dictates and student repeats. ... We all had to unlearn how we were educated. And the leaders had to unlearn what they thought leadership was about. Because if you grow up in that kind of system, when you're a leader what you think your role is, is that you're supposed to set direction and make sure nobody deviates from it. That's fundamentally how they saw their role.

And here we have this Wikipedia article, where the unstated premise seems to be "Surprise! Derf-derf-derf, Wikipedia doesn't actually practice zero-deviation culture, despite their publicly assigned role as the plastic–pocket-protector paragon of geek dysfunction.

No, instead what we have is this: if a source is broadly flagged as tainted, it becomes open season to replace this source with a better citation wherever and whenever, without expecting significant blow back.

Isn't that leadership enough?

Is the underlying zero-deviation fixation that motivates this story just a tired strawman? Or is this derf-derf strawman meme playing to a real audience?

Well, I personally would run, run, run if I found myself in that audience, because anyone who doesn't is doomed to be soon be looking up at India as the management enlightenment movement that just passed you by with a big whoosh.

Riker sees what you did there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They did not observe "negative mass". They created a system wherein, under specific circumstances, part of the system behaved as if it mathematically had negative mass.

Man, you are gonna be angry when you find out about negative temperature.

Heck, or you could let a brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight describe it.

/Oblg. Not exactly Brain Surgery

Well, actually most battles don't result in mass slaughter. Decimation is perfectly capable of routing a foe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We know that the two sides of his brain were talking to each other as he was able to stop the hand moving of its own accord through concious effort, if he had not been able to only then could we infer the two sides were not talking to each other.

Every normal person has two sides to their brain, to become conciously aware of it and be able to introspect/investigate that is indeed a higher state of conciousness.

X11's main flaw is that it's supposed to be inefficient.

It's so much more than just inefficient.

First the there is the security issue. X security is inexistent. The problem in the last link is by design and it is simply unfixable.

X is big, as in really big, old, poorly written and it typically runs as root. Any buffer overflow or unchecked parameter is a potential privilege escalation vulnerability. Do yourself a favor and don't that dinosaur in your servers.

X is bloated. It has stuff in there like font rendering, drawing primitives, printers, mode setting, dozens of extensions and things that nobody uses. Nowadays, toolkits render their own fonts, and manage their own windows and essentially hand over a large image to the X server. The X server does not even render the image, it handles it to the compositor. X does not set the video mode, the kernel does that. X does not handle keyboard and mouse, it sends the data to the compositor, the compositor tells which window should receive the input and X sends the input event to the corresponding application. In short all X does nowadays is IPC, and there are millions of lines of code just sitting there doing nothing right next to this IPC.

It turns out that it is even terrible at IPC. An application does hundreds of requests to the X server just to display a simple window. You know what the worst case is for that? yeap, remote display. All the back and forth is really disastrous over a slow connection like the internet.

People say network transparent. Well, more like network capable. DRI does not work over the network at all.

Something supported by Mac OS X and Windows for decades like VSync so your don't see tearing is not doable in X.org, there is no way to wait for a screen refresh or prevent X.org from rendering your partially drawn window even with double buffering.

I am guessing you embrace the unix philosophy? if so, what is the one thing X does and how is it doing it well?

Heck, the wayland developers are the same X.org developers. They did miracles to keep X.org alive for so long, but they are moving on to greener pastures.

I would highly recommend this talk by Daniel Stone. He does an excellent job explaining why X.org is obsolete and unfixable.

There's a nice CGP grey video on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
No LSD involved but still something you might be interested in.

Poppycock. This stuff has been studied extensively for years, with copious FMRI modeling and psychological measures. See this article or watch this video for some more interesting results that don't rely on psychedelics (not that the results for psychedelics are wrong, mind you).

1) Brian Tracy "The Psychology of Success"

2) This video, by John Cleese

3) Anthony Robbins, "Get The Edge"

Each of these addresses the psychological aspect of creativity.

You do realize that most of the folks that started Wayland were originally long-time X hackers, right? There has to be a reason why they gave up trying to get X11 to behave properly, besides "because it's bloated".

Education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'm all for protest but you are missing the context and what some of those bills are outlawing. Namely BLOCKING A HIGHWAY. Is your pet protest more important than the people that lose their job because they couldn't get to work? Or the emergency response team that was delayed because muh protest? Should you be liable because some protestor walked out in front of your car AT NIGHT on a highway when you going high way speeds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

All of those are in repose to the violence and extreme actions of "protestors" lately. I don't like limiting protest but holy shit do I understand why States are doing it.

Better use a 100 ton hydraulic press and liquid nitrogen !
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President Chump has invented a way to speak out of his arse.

However, we have new missle named the KimJong-Dong!!!

Yours In Peace.

Enjoy !

In any case I stand by my post that the US has two general scams - the non-working poor and the uber rich. Regardless of which one you critisize they point to the other one and say start there. Much like you're doing. I'm in favor of correcting both and I support any action that helps correct either. Until both are addressed the country will continue to deteriorate, debt will accumulate, and services will continue to get worse.

Before criticizing Wayland and extolling X11's virtues, consider watching this talk by Daniel Stone who was formerly intimately involved with X.org and seems to know hist stuff. He makes a good case for Wayland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

I can't second this enough. This should be required viewing before any of the anti-Wayland people spout their bullshit rhetoric.

I just want to see my technocratic government implemented at least once before I die
I too wish to be led by this new world man. Perhaps in the model of the new Soviet Man or the Nietzschean Ubermensch. What could possibly go wrong?

How this will be solved in the long run remains to be seen. In the short run, toolkits that support Wayland still support X11. Mainly I'm talking about GTK and Qt. Thus KDE, Gnome, GTK, and Qt apps will all run either on Wayland or X11 without recompiling. So for many people, remoting needs can be accomplished by simply using X11 on Wayland and tunneling X11 over SSH. Simply ssh into your remote machine and run the apps. Locally on wayland things are silky smooth, remotely they still work, though a bit choppier (X11 over ssh isn't fast enough for anything but LAN anyway... I use X2Go for WAN remote X11 stuff.

Of course in the long run if Wayland is successfull the X11 backend bits will languish in the toolkits and this will not be a sustainable future. I think essentially RDP will be adopted as the standard remoting protocol for wayland desktops. This will be used to forward individual apps or whole desktops. RDP is already a lot faster than X11 over ssh, due to the way X11 works and the fact that all modern toolkits essentially just push bitmaps these days anyway.

Before criticizing Wayland and extolling X11's virtues, consider watching this talk by Daniel Stone who was formerly intimately involved with X.org and seems to know hist stuff. He makes a good case for Wayland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Having lots of fibre and vitamins in your diet is good. But a juicer is basically a machine for separating the fibre from the juice, and it also separates the skin of the fruit which often contains a lot of vitamins.

Juice by itself is sweet and tasty, but it basically gets all of its calories from carbohydrates, and without any fibre the carbs will hit your system quickly. The glycemic index of carrot juice is very high, while eating carrots will not usually have much effect on your blood sugar. (See the difference between glycemic index and glycemic load: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_load)

If you want to enjoy a tasty beverage that is better for you than juice, I recommend you get a VitaMix. The VitaMix company has been around for decades, and their product is an extremely expensive blender that is IMHO worth the expense. A VitaMix is so much more powerful than a cheap blender that it can do things the cheap blender cannot do.

So a typical fruit smoothie will start with some juice or even water and then throw fruit in, where the 2 horsepower motor at full speed breaks the fibre, skin, and even seeds down to the point where you don't really even know they are there. If you want to add a pleasing orange color to a smoothie, throw in some carrots; the texture will be a bit thicker and the color will be orange but you won't find any carrot chunks.

VitaMix has competitors, and some of the competitors may be as good. BlendTec and Ninja seem to have similar horsepower. I'm only recommending VitaMix since I have had one in my house for like two decades now. We use it so much that, despite the high purchase cost, it has a very low cost per operating minute... our food processor cost less but we hardly use the thing.

My favorite recipe: put a cup of plain yogurt into the blender, and add a spoonful of sugar and a squeeze of lime juice. Then dump a 10-ounce bag of frozen organic strawberries in (still frozen!), and run the blender on "high" while using the "tamper" to push the berries down into the blades. When the texture is smooth, serve. Don't overblend because you don't want to heat up the mixture. It's a tasty sweet dessert, and much healthier than any strawberry frozen yogurt you can buy.

Here's an example of throwing various hunks of vegetables into the thing to make a vegetable smoothie. After that demo the next demo is a sweet fruit smoothie. https://youtu.be/1qemLSu63d0?t=1m36s

P.S. LOL, YouTube appears to have a channel called "Blender Babes" where young females demonstrate blenders. I wonder what would happen if they tried to get a booth at a conference that bans "booth babes"... would they not be allowed at their own booth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXG65NgmrIM

TED's been posting some hopelessly feminist content lately, and they know it, too, because they've disabled ratings and comments on those vids. They're also abusing the DMCA to shut down criticism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The DMCA-censored vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And an update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

TED's been posting some hopelessly feminist content lately, and they know it, too, because they've disabled ratings and comments on those vids. They're also abusing the DMCA to shut down criticism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The DMCA-censored vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And an update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

TED's been posting some hopelessly feminist content lately, and they know it, too, because they've disabled ratings and comments on those vids. They're also abusing the DMCA to shut down criticism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The DMCA-censored vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And an update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Office, Submarine

Tis but a scratch

I recently saw a talk about the upcoming "Clean Disruption" which is right around the corner. He looks at secular trends, such as the falling price per watt of solar PV or the price per kwh of Li-Ion batteries, and concludes that our current modes of energy and transportation will be obsolete by 2030.

To portray the speed with which such 'disruptions' can occur, he begins the talk with a photo of 5th Ave., NYC, Easter Sunday, 1900. The street is packed with horse-drawn vehicles, but there is one car ("horseless carriage") in view, if you squint... Then he shows a photo from the same spot, same day, in 1913. The street is packed with Model-T Fords, and there is one horse in view, if you squint even harder.

He claims that we are on the threshold of a similar tipping point right now. By 2030, that same photo of 5th Ave. will show an ocean of EV's with only one ICE vehicle in view.

What we're really finding out here is that we need to build an orbital cleanup satellite.

Or just use mega maid.

So...Mega Maid?

See here for OSS AMD vs proprietary nVidia.
Yes they are perhaps slower, but not slow as hell, and depending on your usage still fast enough. But YMMV.
For me personally, OSS AMD worked fine.
Now I have nVidia, but their OSS drivers are unusable, so I need proprietary.
nVidia proprietary gives me screen tearing during videos, a LibreOffice bug, unable to change refresh rate thru xrandr, no highres text mode, no KMS.
See also the famous Torvalds statement.

I can't give you an exact link as I don't have time to go through the video archive but I CAN give you the place to search...H.A. Goodman's YouTube channel which is where I originally saw the numbers. He is pretty good about backing up his vids with links to the exact figures and he covered the election from the very first primaries all the way through to the end so if you need a source for 2016 election figures? He's your man.

"Lets have some music in here, Boiler" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I have an FX-8320e and on stock clocks when I'm just web surfing and watching vids? It pulls between 14w-39w according to the built on power monitoring on my Asus board, that is with 4 cores parked BTW, and when playing games? I average between 59w-75w which again depends on whether Windows has any cores parked which with most games rarely using more than 4 threads? I usually have at least 2 if not 4 parked, in fact the only time I see all 8 cores running is when I'm doing video transcodes and multitrack audio DSP renders.

So yeah running an FX-8? Really not expensive and I have numbers to back it up which as you can see it would take over a decade to make up the difference in cost between an AMD FX and an Intel, the same numbers would hold true for Ryzen.

CGP Grey covers this in the short video: "The Simple Solution to Traffic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I very much agree with the final statement, though I disagree about how to solve slowdowns. (Slowdowns are a bunch up caused by density rising past a critical threshold.) My solution is that the escaping edge must escape /faster/ to pull the slack forward and drain the pressure from the system.

Joogle hides truth above here & @ InfoWars cutting off ad gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?... but JOOGLE allows violent jihadist videos to get ad GOLD + JOOgle infects users w/ their ads https://blog.malwarebytes.org/... + their execs like heroin https://www.google.com/?gws_rd...

Joogle hides truth above here & @ InfoWars cutting off ad gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?... but JOOGLE allows violent jihadist videos to get ad GOLD + JOOgle infects users w/ their ads https://blog.malwarebytes.org/... + their execs like heroin https://www.google.com/?gws_rd...