Le Monde had an in depth article on Bitcoin just a few days ago. I think if you really researched it you'd find the same to be true for most countries. Bitcoin has entered public consciousness.
This would be the Pirate Parties that haven't any manifesto beyond "movies should be free"?
Strange claim, since it's very far from the truth:) I suggest going through the manifestos and policies of both the German Piratenpartei as well as the Swedish Pirate Party - both having been elected by voters into local and international parliaments.
It actually makes a lot of sense, even when you're reading the legalese, the influence of having the Pirate Party on board (and actually drafting a lot of it) shows.
I do hope everyone applauding this initiative make sure to vote for their local Pirate Party (represented in over 40 countries). Sweden did in 2009 and our two representatives have been doing great work in parliament ever since.
Real researchers put together a model and compare it to past data
As a start, sure. Real researchers then use that model to make a prediction from their original hypothesis, and wait until reality has either disproven or not disproven the hypothesis.
You're kidding, right? Our (Dutch) minister of justice recently suggested it might be a good idea to use DNA gathered and stored for research (with the donors being told that it would be used for that specific reason alone) for criminal investigations like this one as well.
FYI, that did happen in Sweden. The donors are all citizens born after 1975.
När Kulturnyheterna talar med Jan-Olof Brunila på Swedbank säger han att det är kortföretag som Visa och Master Card som bestämt om de avtal som Swedbank följer.
It will end as more and more people vote for their local Pirate Party (represented in over 60 countries) - the political solution when it comes to privacy and your rights online.
I'm quite convinced something wasn't right. It was not an isolated incident - more often than not Felix did not respond or did not seem to understand what was required of him. It took several attempts to start the egress checklist and I'm not convinced he secured the door (even though he confirmed it).
Also, he didn't confirm turning on the vest/helmet cameras and no shots from those were broadcast at all. Weren't they supposed to?
I have yet to encounter a business which uses BitCoins as a means of payment. They must exist and I could look them up, but I have yet to encounter one as part of my regular Internet usage. None of the big businesses use it, none of the smaller businesses use it, even geeky sites don't use it.
Not to take anything away from your experience, it's yours and valid for you. Myself I used Bitcoin for the first time to donate to Wikileaks, during the banking blockade. I found it to be an excellent proof of concept of what Bitcoin really is about - a way to perform borderless monetary transactions without states of no interest to me meddling in.
After that I've used it to buy storage on Wuala (it's half the price if you pay in BTC) as well as paying for an anonymizing VPN service.
An availability cascade is a self-sustaining chain of events, which may start from media reports of a relatively minor event and lead up to public panic and large-scale government action. On some occasions, a media story about a risk catches the attention of a segment of the public, which becomes aroused and worried. This emotional reaction becomes a story in itself, prompting additional coverage in the media, which in turn produces greater concern and involvement. The cycle is sometimes sped along deliberately by “availability entrepreneurs,” individuals or organizations who work to ensure a continuous flow of worrying news. The danger is increasingly exaggerated as the media compete for attention-grabbing headlines. Scientists and others who try to dampen the increasing fear and revulsion attract little attention, most of it hostile: anyone who claims that the danger is overstated is suspected of association with a “heinous cover-up.” The issue becomes politically important because it is on everyone’s mind, and the response of of the political system is guided by the intensity of public sentiment. The availability cascade has now reset priorities. Other risks, and other ways that resources could be applied for the public good, all have faded into the background.
- psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, from the book Thinking fast and slow
(Note: I'm sure he didn't think of climate science when he wrote it. My point has to do with your "conspiracy" response - not the topic itself.)
there is very little doubt the Sahara and the rest of the sub-tropical deserts will continue to expand
You mean, besides actual observation that Sahara is greening - not expanding?
"Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall.
The green shoots of recovery are showing up on satellite images of regions including the Sahel, a semi-desert zone bordering the Sahara to the south that stretches some 2,400 miles (3,860 kilometers).
Images taken between 1982 and 2002 revealed extensive regreening throughout the Sahel, according to a new study in the journal Biogeosciences.
The study suggests huge increases in vegetation in areas including central Chad and western Sudan."
The Holocene has been getting colder and colder from its start, where it was about 2 degrees warmer than now. It's difficult to see how that fits with any hypothesis that 1 degree warming from the Holocene's coldest point (the Little Ice Age) would be strange in any way.
Along the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska, there are indications of summer temperatures 2–3 C warmer than present. Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present
Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Exceed Losses
Zwally, H. Jay; Li, Jun; Robbins, John; Saba, Jack L.; Yi, Donghui; Brenner, Anita; Bromwich, David
Abstract:
During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt/yr (2.5% of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change. The net gain (86 Gt/yr) over the West Antarctic (WA) and East Antarctic ice sheets (WA and EA) is essentially unchanged from revised results for 1992 to 2001 from ERS radar altimetry.
Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall.
If sustained, these rains could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities.
The green shoots of recovery are showing up on satellite images of regions including the Sahel, a semi-desert zone bordering the Sahara to the south that stretches some 2,400 miles (3,860 kilometers).
Images taken between 1982 and 2002 revealed extensive regreening throughout the Sahel, according to a new study in the journal Biogeosciences.
To be fair, in context the difference between "Linux" and "BSD" is of no relevance;) However - while the iPhone created the market, which Sony Ericsson P800 failed to do even though it was in effect the same type of product, the question was then which system in that new market would provide the best experience. Symbian was obviously a contender, but failed in comparison to Android on the relevant metrics.
The following two blog posts of mine contains the reasoning behind that choice:
Oh I know, but none of mine. Any given day the company you work for might be on the receiving end of a dawn raid (at least in the EU) - I'm of the opinion that when they copy all my server data and all the contents of my work laptop, work stuff is all they get.
(But hey, if someone were to dig up my old post from 1999 in the Symbian General Notes group on how Linux on mobiles would be the end of Symbian I'm all for having that one published and well known... )
You're correct - there's nothing there, and why anyone would send private email to my work address I can't fathom. I treat work email as I treat a code repository or a document versioning system - what I produce is most likely going to be continued on by someone else the next day.
If you work in the public sector the public is your employer. Of course your employer is allowed to verify that you're doing what they're paying you for. It's also not a surprise - it's something Mann signed up for when he accepted the position. While I'm Swedish, and our laws might differ, there's nothing unusual about those holding public office having their communication verified this way.
I've been of the opinion that Mann believed in his own research, up until he so vigorously tried to keep his email exempt from FOI requests. Now I'm less sure, although I lean towards the real explanation being of a private nature (and of the very, very, embarrassing kind).
(I also noticed in ATIs account of the ruling that judge was quite displeased with Mann having interjected himself into the proceedings)
Now, my private email is of course something very different, and I'd be the first to man the barricades when it comes to defending it. The public should demand transparency by the state, as well as privacy from it. As is the Pirate Party official policy.
The Court then stated that, under VFOIA’s exemption 4 for “proprietary” information, so long as the discussions somehow reflect discussion about research among academics — even ‘hide the decline’ — they may be withheld or disposed of so long or however the university sees fit.
The court did not accept any “academic freedom” or First Amendment arguments. Its ruling was purely grounded in the meaning of the term ‘proprietary’ in the Virginia statute
Would you honestly be happy to have your last 20 years worth of work emails published on the web? If not, then you do understand the problem.
Of course I would, as long as they're not company secrets. If I was paid by the public the public would of course be free to read every single one of them.
For private communication I have a private email account.
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It's not global warming that is killing coral reefs. It is ocean acidification.
No. Ocean pH varies an order of magnitude more than the slight change over the last centuries we believe we can measure.
Coral reefs bleaching due to cold water:
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/weeklynews/mar10/cwcoral.html
Coral reefs bleaching due to warm water:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/2005-11-02-coral-caribbean_x.htm
Which model accurately predicts ENSO?
Also, are you saying that IPCC AR4 WG1 statements on cloud uncertainty are now no longer accurate?
Why would you buy any piece of consumer electronic equipment today when the same amount of money would buy you better equipment tomorrow?
Le Monde had an in depth article on Bitcoin just a few days ago. I think if you really researched it you'd find the same to be true for most countries. Bitcoin has entered public consciousness.
http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2012/11/29/payer-et-vendre-sans-les-banques_1798066_1650684.html
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/dollar-less-iranians-discover-virtual-currency
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628925.200-virtual-economy-looms-as-digital-cash-grows-up.html?full=true
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20510447
http://www.ftd.de/finanzen/maerkte/:kunstwaehrung-das-bitcoin-virus/70118697.html
This would be the Pirate Parties that haven't any manifesto beyond "movies should be free"?
Strange claim, since it's very far from the truth :) I suggest going through the manifestos and policies of both the German Piratenpartei as well as the Swedish Pirate Party - both having been elected by voters into local and international parliaments.
German (in English): http://www.piratenpartei.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/parteiprogramm-englisch.pdf
Swedish: http://annatroberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Piratpartiets_principprogram.pdf
(to be updated with results from the autumn conference just held - see https://mote.piratpartiet.se/forumdisplay.php?f=825 for the results of individual motions and propositions)
It actually makes a lot of sense, even when you're reading the legalese, the influence of having the Pirate Party on board (and actually drafting a lot of it) shows.
I do hope everyone applauding this initiative make sure to vote for their local Pirate Party (represented in over 40 countries). Sweden did in 2009 and our two representatives have been doing great work in parliament ever since.
If your example is in hope of
My post had nothing to do with causes of warming. It disproved the parent's statement about the speed which with climate changes.
Real researchers put together a model and compare it to past data
As a start, sure. Real researchers then use that model to make a prediction from their original hypothesis, and wait until reality has either disproven or not disproven the hypothesis.
At all other times in the planet's history when there have been periods of warming, it's taken orders of magnitude longer than the current period.
No.
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/transit.html
How do we know? Ice cores.
No.
http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~stocker/papers/bereiter09grl.pdf
You're kidding, right? Our (Dutch) minister of justice recently suggested it might be a good idea to use DNA gathered and stored for research (with the donors being told that it would be used for that specific reason alone) for criminal investigations like this one as well.
FYI, that did happen in Sweden. The donors are all citizens born after 1975.
http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/19/sweden-paradise-lost-part-3-comprehensive-population-dna-database/
Here you go:
När Kulturnyheterna talar med Jan-Olof Brunila på Swedbank säger han att det är kortföretag som Visa och Master Card som bestämt om de avtal som Swedbank följer.
http://www.svt.se/kultur/banker-stoppar-kop-av-skrackfilm
It will end as more and more people vote for their local Pirate Party (represented in over 60 countries) - the political solution when it comes to privacy and your rights online.
http://www.pp-international.net/
Did you watch?
I'm quite convinced something wasn't right. It was not an isolated incident - more often than not Felix did not respond or did not seem to understand what was required of him. It took several attempts to start the egress checklist and I'm not convinced he secured the door (even though he confirmed it).
Also, he didn't confirm turning on the vest/helmet cameras and no shots from those were broadcast at all. Weren't they supposed to?
I have yet to encounter a business which uses BitCoins as a means of payment. They must exist and I could look them up, but I have yet to encounter one as part of my regular Internet usage. None of the big businesses use it, none of the smaller businesses use it, even geeky sites don't use it.
Not to take anything away from your experience, it's yours and valid for you. Myself I used Bitcoin for the first time to donate to Wikileaks, during the banking blockade. I found it to be an excellent proof of concept of what Bitcoin really is about - a way to perform borderless monetary transactions without states of no interest to me meddling in.
After that I've used it to buy storage on Wuala (it's half the price if you pay in BTC) as well as paying for an anonymizing VPN service.
An availability cascade is a self-sustaining chain of events, which may start from media reports of a relatively minor event and lead up to public panic and large-scale government action. On some occasions, a media story about a risk catches the attention of a segment of the public, which becomes aroused and worried. This emotional reaction becomes a story in itself, prompting additional coverage in the media, which in turn produces greater concern and involvement. The cycle is sometimes sped along deliberately by “availability entrepreneurs,” individuals or organizations who work to ensure a continuous flow of worrying news. The danger is increasingly exaggerated as the media compete for attention-grabbing headlines. Scientists and others who try to dampen the increasing fear and revulsion attract little attention, most of it hostile: anyone who claims that the danger is overstated is suspected of association with a “heinous cover-up.” The issue becomes politically important because it is on everyone’s mind, and the response of of the political system is guided by the intensity of public sentiment. The availability cascade has now reset priorities. Other risks, and other ways that resources could be applied for the public good, all have faded into the background.
- psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, from the book Thinking fast and slow
(Note: I'm sure he didn't think of climate science when he wrote it. My point has to do with your "conspiracy" response - not the topic itself.)
http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/
there is very little doubt the Sahara and the rest of the sub-tropical deserts will continue to expand
You mean, besides actual observation that Sahara is greening - not expanding?
"Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall.
The green shoots of recovery are showing up on satellite images of regions including the Sahel, a semi-desert zone bordering the Sahara to the south that stretches some 2,400 miles (3,860 kilometers).
Images taken between 1982 and 2002 revealed extensive regreening throughout the Sahel, according to a new study in the journal Biogeosciences.
The study suggests huge increases in vegetation in areas including central Chad and western Sudan."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-green-sahara.html
The Holocene has been getting colder and colder from its start, where it was about 2 degrees warmer than now. It's difficult to see how that fits with any hypothesis that 1 degree warming from the Holocene's coldest point (the Little Ice Age) would be strange in any way.
Along the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska, there are indications of summer temperatures 2–3 C warmer than present. Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum
Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Exceed Losses
Zwally, H. Jay; Li, Jun; Robbins, John; Saba, Jack L.; Yi, Donghui; Brenner, Anita; Bromwich, David
Abstract:
During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt/yr (2.5% of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change. The net gain (86 Gt/yr) over the West Antarctic (WA) and East Antarctic ice sheets (WA and EA) is essentially unchanged from revised results for 1992 to 2001 from ERS radar altimetry.
July 2012
http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20120013495
In science, observation beats models:
Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall.
If sustained, these rains could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities.
The green shoots of recovery are showing up on satellite images of regions including the Sahel, a semi-desert zone bordering the Sahara to the south that stretches some 2,400 miles (3,860 kilometers).
Images taken between 1982 and 2002 revealed extensive regreening throughout the Sahel, according to a new study in the journal Biogeosciences.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-green-sahara.html
(This _might_ be slightly off topic ;)
To be fair, in context the difference between "Linux" and "BSD" is of no relevance ;) However - while the iPhone created the market, which Sony Ericsson P800 failed to do even though it was in effect the same type of product, the question was then which system in that new market would provide the best experience. Symbian was obviously a contender, but failed in comparison to Android on the relevant metrics.
The following two blog posts of mine contains the reasoning behind that choice:
http://developer.sonymobile.com/2009/09/02/its-not-about-smartphones/
http://developer.sonymobile.com/2009/11/03/speed-of-innovation/
Oh I know, but none of mine. Any given day the company you work for might be on the receiving end of a dawn raid (at least in the EU) - I'm of the opinion that when they copy all my server data and all the contents of my work laptop, work stuff is all they get.
(But hey, if someone were to dig up my old post from 1999 in the Symbian General Notes group on how Linux on mobiles would be the end of Symbian I'm all for having that one published and well known ... )
You're correct - there's nothing there, and why anyone would send private email to my work address I can't fathom. I treat work email as I treat a code repository or a document versioning system - what I produce is most likely going to be continued on by someone else the next day.
If you work in the public sector the public is your employer. Of course your employer is allowed to verify that you're doing what they're paying you for. It's also not a surprise - it's something Mann signed up for when he accepted the position. While I'm Swedish, and our laws might differ, there's nothing unusual about those holding public office having their communication verified this way.
I've been of the opinion that Mann believed in his own research, up until he so vigorously tried to keep his email exempt from FOI requests. Now I'm less sure, although I lean towards the real explanation being of a private nature (and of the very, very, embarrassing kind).
(I also noticed in ATIs account of the ruling that judge was quite displeased with Mann having interjected himself into the proceedings)
Now, my private email is of course something very different, and I'd be the first to man the barricades when it comes to defending it. The public should demand transparency by the state, as well as privacy from it. As is the Pirate Party official policy.
The Court then stated that, under VFOIA’s exemption 4 for “proprietary” information, so long as the discussions somehow reflect discussion about research among academics — even ‘hide the decline’ — they may be withheld or disposed of so long or however the university sees fit.
The court did not accept any “academic freedom” or First Amendment arguments. Its ruling was purely grounded in the meaning of the term ‘proprietary’ in the Virginia statute
http://www.atinstitute.org/update-on-ati-v-uvamann/
It does sound somewhat strange. Publicly funded research is proprietary?
Would you honestly be happy to have your last 20 years worth of work emails published on the web? If not, then you do understand the problem.
Of course I would, as long as they're not company secrets. If I was paid by the public the public would of course be free to read every single one of them.
For private communication I have a private email account.