I listened to this on the radio, and they left some bits out.
Apparently Bill Clinton and GW Bush substantially increased funding ironically. The lab community were foolish, took all that money and used it to build new labs... they assumed the funding would continue indefinitely and they were wrong. Now all those new labs are floundering looking for funds. It's not that funding has dropped from historic levels... it's that there was a massive increase in the late 90s early 2000's that didn't continue.
The Koch' brothers also funded the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatur project, which started out with key people being sceptical about global warming. But the data convinced them otherwise: http://www.theguardian.com/sci...
right... and that's even to be expected. I don't fault the oil industry for funding research that furthers their goals. It makes sense.
The problem is with the public. You have less than 100 credible scientists worldwide that have a problem with the idea of Climate change being a problem created by human activity. And of those only a few actually flat out deny it entirely. The entirety of the rest of the scientific community world wide, scientists that number in the millions, fully support the idea. This isn't just a majority, it's a broad and overwhelming consensus. There are more scientists that deny Relativity, Evolution or Continental drift, than deny climate change. If you doubt the scientific consensus on climate change at this point you're just an ideolog that will argue your political point until the house burns down around you.
The farm he spent his entire life building is going to literally be turned into an open pit 150ft deep.... He plans to use his new found wealth to buy some land that has a trout stream running through it up the road and spend the rest of his days fishing.
This is the very definition of a bi-partisan bill. Your attempt to demonize the republican party and therefor cast your party, the democrats, as some kind of protector of the people is a joke. The democrats are just as corrupt as the republicans. And... this wasn't a bad bill anyway! The US government shouldn't have control over the entire supply of an Element!
Right... my kids never played the game, he can't do WASD yet because he's only six. He's never seen a show about it and doesn't even know what it's about. But he has a minecraft Tshirt, lunchbox and a couple of toys and regales me with Tales of Creepers and Zombies. I've no idea what kind hallucinogenic crack Notch put in that game but it seems to be particularly effective on small children.
Ship fuel is the cheapest of the cheap. It's what's left over when all the good stuff is refined out of it. Where do you think it'll go if ships don't use it?
Diesel engines are also more efficient than petrol. Poorly tuned or old diesel engines pollute. Modern diesel engines are much better at catching particulates in the exhaust system and also produce less.
No, sorry, Diesel is worse in every way. I work on both kinds of engines. Put a super charger on it and the diesel can get over 40mpg... but the pollutants are still awful. It made a huge difference when the US finally started mandating low sulfur diesel, but not enough. If you count the pollution produced my the refinery (Gas requires more refinement) They come up almost even, but Diesel is still a tad worse.
If you doubt me, go work on a diesel engine and then check your hands when you're done. Do the same with Gas. I'm jet black from the solders to my finger tips after I get done on a diesel.
Ocean going vessels to my understanding have basically no pollution controls on them nor emission standards that they must follow. Consequently they make up some of the worst sources of environmental pollution. Ideally they'd be nuclear powered, but even if they were to implement even basic pollution controls they'd make a world (pun intended) of difference.
They must obey the environmental laws of the port from which they hail. i.e. the flag they fly. This is why huge transport ships will often fly flags of countries that don't even have a port that could harbor the ship. This is where the term "Flag of Convenience" comes from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
In recent years however, many ports will refuse ships that don't meet that ports regulations. Some of the ships output was so horrible that places like California would see air pollution levels sky rocket just because a ship was in port. I read an article once described how a small number of those large ships (16?) put more pollution into the air than the combined output of automobiles in the world combined.
Let me clarify for you... this will fall into the grey zone of: The FCC will enforce it if they want to. The primary driver of "if they want to" is which side of the argument has the most money. This company? Or Google? If they had just targeted drones they might have been ok... but Google? lol... good luck.
I doubt the Bigass iPhone thing today's the reason why they tipped on this.
Right... the Amazon Fire is half the speed and double the price of every other popular phone on the market. Their marketing and product development departments failed big time. There's no reason to buy a fire other than the 3D effect, and 3D has failed as a gimick in every market it's ever entered starting with Time Traveler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Stack on top of that Amazon creating their own closed app store and you have a money grab so obvious it drove even the particularly naive American Public away from it.
There's a lot of nonsense posts in this thread about how it doesn't benefit anyone... I live right in the middle of this so let me provide some anecdotal evidence...
My Uncle is a farmer (cranberries) and has a 160 acre farm. His son worked in factories. Those factories pretty much left the state for China and my cousin, who admittedly is an idiot and therefor can't get a decent job that involves thinking, has been bouncing from fast food job to fast food job for about a decade. The cranberry market crashed a while back as the 'cranberry fad' died. Berries went from $80/barrel to around $12/barrel. My uncles farm was floundering, he was about $200k in debt and pulling in $40k/year after expenses.
Then came fracking.
My cousin got a job hauling pipes... he went from working at McDonalds to making $55k/yr over night. That may not seem like a lot to most slashdotters but in the Northern/Midwest area thats a very good salary. He's got land, a house, he's very happy though the commute is terrible. (up to 4hrs to work and back depending on the site hes working on)
Cranberries grow in sand... Sand is used in fracking. My Uncle just closed a deal to sell his farm to a Sand Mining operation for $2 million. In fact, nearly every Cranberry farmer he knows is selling as well. The sand mining companies are offering 400% the going rate for the land and are buying everything... everywhere... Some people are getting as high as $20k/acre depending on the Sand quality and how close they are to the railroad.
Now... as far as environmental impacts... The farm he spent his entire life building is going to literally be turned into an open pit 150ft deep. He hates the idea, but he can either retire a millionaire or leave his children so much debt they'll be forced to sell to the mine as well. The farmers that aren't selling are happy about it to because with fewer farmers around, the price of cranberries will go up. He plans to use his new found wealth to buy some land that has a trout stream running through it up the road and spend the rest of his days fishing.
So yes, the environmental impacts are huge. But to say it's not a boom for local people and the poor, that's just disingenuous. If you live anywhere near this stuff you're economic situation is going to improve. My uncles retaining ponds will, however, no longer be the best fishing spot in the county.
Look at Minecraft – it's unbelievable that it was made by one person, right?
Wrong... the community created minecraft. All Notch did was let them do it. Shooters used to let you do that. Remember that? When we were allowed to make our own maps? I used to not even play the boxed game at all! I'd just go strait to the player made maps. Now you want so much control over the experience because you feel you need to monetize every damned pixel on the screen...
Hell, if you want to monetize it... monetize the map editor tools... Want copy&paste? $5! Pre-fab German bunker? $1! Allow map makers that attract a lot of players to earn these tools based on visitors... Give the players up-votes that would give the map makers in-game currency to improve maps with. That would sell.
Seriously, never consent to a search again. 45min is nothing... 10yrs because your cousin dropped a bottle of Oxy under your seat last time he borrowed your car to go get beer sucks.
Does this violate the copyright of the sites the user is visiting? By modifying the content stream, they're creating a derivative work without authorization.
On the other hand, user-controlled plugins and ad blockers do that all the time, so I wouldn't be too quick to make that argument in court.
I'd argue against that... except... by modifying the content en-route, they are likely pushing legitimate ad-content out of the users view. i.e. If I ran a search engine, and paid for that service by placing a banner add at the bottom advertising chicken wings... and then Comcast did their injection attack and pushed that add further down, they would most certainly be affecting my commercial revenue.
If the user chose to block that add themselves, that would be entirely different. They made a choice to do so, or to scroll their screen. But this is an intermediary company forcing that content out of the users view for a profit. I'd say the EFF should throw up a page, visit it on one of these networks and then sue the living crap out of Comcast.
I maintain several cloud based applications. STAY AWAY.
There is no time when "The Cloud" is a good idea. In fact, I'd say it's even worse than "Closed source" software. Because no you not only lose access to the application, you lose access to your data as well. And trust me, the cloud service provider will use that access against you. I have yet to see a contract negotiation with a cloud service provider that didn't eventually devolve into the Cloud threatening to cut off access to the data with no option to export if the user didn't agree to unfavorable terms. This doesn't happen "Sometimes" this happens every time... with multiple vendors. They are very friendly and the rates are cheap at first, but after you've been with them for a few years... Then they start turning the screws. Unless you control "The cloud" yourself, stay very very far away.
Right, I've run into this before. Always refuse a search. When you do that, if they are a police officer or not will become apparently rather quickly. Non-police will stall and try to get you to hang around so they can bully you into it. Ask if you're under arrest or otherwise being detained against your will, if not, leave. Have no further discussion with that person. Keep in mind that even the police departments get to keep seized cash. It may not go directly into their pocket but it goes to buying them new squad cars, weapons, vests and even towards their bonuses and promotions. So they have a very strong incentive to "Find" something on you. In a large metropolitian department it may not seem so direct to the officers. But you get into your average town that only has half a doze cops and finding a couple of hundred K in a trunk becomes a big win for them.
Right, they got the data illegally, seized the servers, then examined them for a vulnerability they could have used to legally seize them and claimed that was the source.
I have a feeling most docs will give out antibiotics for this anyway. It helps makes everyone feel like something is being done.
In most cases they are prescribed to treat secondary Sinus infections that result from the virus. I, for example, get a sinus infection every time I get a cold. Literally, every time. I was genetically cursed with terrible closed off sinuses that easily become infected, and as a result it's a matter of course that I get antibiotics when I get a cold. They do normal inspections to make sure I really have an infection, and I always do. Some people are just like that.
So, school started a week ago and their is a sudden and unexpected rise in respiratory infections? People are really falling for this click bait? It's called a "COLD" and this has happened every year since summer break was introduced.
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Thanks for the link, that made it easy. I should have done that years ago.
I listened to this on the radio, and they left some bits out.
Apparently Bill Clinton and GW Bush substantially increased funding ironically. The lab community were foolish, took all that money and used it to build new labs... they assumed the funding would continue indefinitely and they were wrong. Now all those new labs are floundering looking for funds. It's not that funding has dropped from historic levels... it's that there was a massive increase in the late 90s early 2000's that didn't continue.
Seriously?
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
The Koch' brothers also funded the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatur project, which started out with key people being sceptical about global warming. But the data convinced them otherwise:
http://www.theguardian.com/sci...
right... and that's even to be expected. I don't fault the oil industry for funding research that furthers their goals. It makes sense.
The problem is with the public. You have less than 100 credible scientists worldwide that have a problem with the idea of Climate change being a problem created by human activity. And of those only a few actually flat out deny it entirely. The entirety of the rest of the scientific community world wide, scientists that number in the millions, fully support the idea. This isn't just a majority, it's a broad and overwhelming consensus. There are more scientists that deny Relativity, Evolution or Continental drift, than deny climate change. If you doubt the scientific consensus on climate change at this point you're just an ideolog that will argue your political point until the house burns down around you.
Is the submitter of the article a developer looking for ideas?
No, it's Apple AstroTurfing. And I'm pretty sure Slashdot gets paid for these but whatever.
So they realize that Microphones are a lot cheaper than wrist bands and Guns tend to make a loud noise when used right?
Odds are he outlives the fishing.
He's 82, I'll take those odds.
Give me a break.
411 voted Yea, including 180 democrats.
Only 10 democrats voted Nae.
https://www.govtrack.us/congre...
This is the very definition of a bi-partisan bill. Your attempt to demonize the republican party and therefor cast your party, the democrats, as some kind of protector of the people is a joke. The democrats are just as corrupt as the republicans. And... this wasn't a bad bill anyway! The US government shouldn't have control over the entire supply of an Element!
Right... my kids never played the game, he can't do WASD yet because he's only six. He's never seen a show about it and doesn't even know what it's about. But he has a minecraft Tshirt, lunchbox and a couple of toys and regales me with Tales of Creepers and Zombies. I've no idea what kind hallucinogenic crack Notch put in that game but it seems to be particularly effective on small children.
Ship fuel is the cheapest of the cheap. It's what's left over when all the good stuff is refined out of it. Where do you think it'll go if ships don't use it?
Diesel engines are also more efficient than petrol. Poorly tuned or old diesel engines pollute. Modern diesel engines are much better at catching particulates in the exhaust system and also produce less.
No, sorry, Diesel is worse in every way. I work on both kinds of engines. Put a super charger on it and the diesel can get over 40mpg... but the pollutants are still awful. It made a huge difference when the US finally started mandating low sulfur diesel, but not enough. If you count the pollution produced my the refinery (Gas requires more refinement) They come up almost even, but Diesel is still a tad worse.
If you doubt me, go work on a diesel engine and then check your hands when you're done. Do the same with Gas. I'm jet black from the solders to my finger tips after I get done on a diesel.
Ocean going vessels to my understanding have basically no pollution controls on them nor emission standards that they must follow. Consequently they make up some of the worst sources of environmental pollution. Ideally they'd be nuclear powered, but even if they were to implement even basic pollution controls they'd make a world (pun intended) of difference.
They must obey the environmental laws of the port from which they hail. i.e. the flag they fly. This is why huge transport ships will often fly flags of countries that don't even have a port that could harbor the ship. This is where the term "Flag of Convenience" comes from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
In recent years however, many ports will refuse ships that don't meet that ports regulations. Some of the ships output was so horrible that places like California would see air pollution levels sky rocket just because a ship was in port. I read an article once described how a small number of those large ships (16?) put more pollution into the air than the combined output of automobiles in the world combined.
Here the guardian describes how they put out more than 50million cars each: http://www.theguardian.com/env...
To really reduce emissions we need nuclear power. Converting CO2 heavy transport to using electricity generated by CO2 heavy coal wont do any good:
http://www.epa.gov/climatechan...
Let me clarify for you... this will fall into the grey zone of: The FCC will enforce it if they want to.
The primary driver of "if they want to" is which side of the argument has the most money. This company? Or Google?
If they had just targeted drones they might have been ok... but Google? lol... good luck.
This is why coffee is good for your health. It makes me get up and walk twice an hour. Once to get it, and once to put it back.
He meant the camera your wife put behind you.
They failed on their own merits.
I doubt the Bigass iPhone thing today's the reason why they tipped on this.
Right... the Amazon Fire is half the speed and double the price of every other popular phone on the market. Their marketing and product development departments failed big time. There's no reason to buy a fire other than the 3D effect, and 3D has failed as a gimick in every market it's ever entered starting with Time Traveler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Stack on top of that Amazon creating their own closed app store and you have a money grab so obvious it drove even the particularly naive American Public away from it.
There's a lot of nonsense posts in this thread about how it doesn't benefit anyone... I live right in the middle of this so let me provide some anecdotal evidence...
My Uncle is a farmer (cranberries) and has a 160 acre farm. His son worked in factories. Those factories pretty much left the state for China and my cousin, who admittedly is an idiot and therefor can't get a decent job that involves thinking, has been bouncing from fast food job to fast food job for about a decade. The cranberry market crashed a while back as the 'cranberry fad' died. Berries went from $80/barrel to around $12/barrel. My uncles farm was floundering, he was about $200k in debt and pulling in $40k/year after expenses.
Then came fracking.
My cousin got a job hauling pipes... he went from working at McDonalds to making $55k/yr over night. That may not seem like a lot to most slashdotters but in the Northern/Midwest area thats a very good salary. He's got land, a house, he's very happy though the commute is terrible. (up to 4hrs to work and back depending on the site hes working on)
Cranberries grow in sand... Sand is used in fracking. My Uncle just closed a deal to sell his farm to a Sand Mining operation for $2 million. In fact, nearly every Cranberry farmer he knows is selling as well. The sand mining companies are offering 400% the going rate for the land and are buying everything... everywhere... Some people are getting as high as $20k/acre depending on the Sand quality and how close they are to the railroad.
Now... as far as environmental impacts... The farm he spent his entire life building is going to literally be turned into an open pit 150ft deep. He hates the idea, but he can either retire a millionaire or leave his children so much debt they'll be forced to sell to the mine as well. The farmers that aren't selling are happy about it to because with fewer farmers around, the price of cranberries will go up. He plans to use his new found wealth to buy some land that has a trout stream running through it up the road and spend the rest of his days fishing.
So yes, the environmental impacts are huge. But to say it's not a boom for local people and the poor, that's just disingenuous. If you live anywhere near this stuff you're economic situation is going to improve. My uncles retaining ponds will, however, no longer be the best fishing spot in the county.
Look at Minecraft – it's unbelievable that it was made by one person, right?
Wrong... the community created minecraft. All Notch did was let them do it. Shooters used to let you do that. Remember that? When we were allowed to make our own maps? I used to not even play the boxed game at all! I'd just go strait to the player made maps. Now you want so much control over the experience because you feel you need to monetize every damned pixel on the screen...
Hell, if you want to monetize it... monetize the map editor tools...
Want copy&paste? $5!
Pre-fab German bunker? $1!
Allow map makers that attract a lot of players to earn these tools based on visitors...
Give the players up-votes that would give the map makers in-game currency to improve maps with.
That would sell.
Seriously, never consent to a search again. 45min is nothing... 10yrs because your cousin dropped a bottle of Oxy under your seat last time he borrowed your car to go get beer sucks.
Does this violate the copyright of the sites the user is visiting? By modifying the content stream, they're creating a derivative work without authorization.
On the other hand, user-controlled plugins and ad blockers do that all the time, so I wouldn't be too quick to make that argument in court.
I'd argue against that... except... by modifying the content en-route, they are likely pushing legitimate ad-content out of the users view. i.e. If I ran a search engine, and paid for that service by placing a banner add at the bottom advertising chicken wings... and then Comcast did their injection attack and pushed that add further down, they would most certainly be affecting my commercial revenue.
If the user chose to block that add themselves, that would be entirely different. They made a choice to do so, or to scroll their screen. But this is an intermediary company forcing that content out of the users view for a profit. I'd say the EFF should throw up a page, visit it on one of these networks and then sue the living crap out of Comcast.
I maintain several cloud based applications. STAY AWAY.
There is no time when "The Cloud" is a good idea. In fact, I'd say it's even worse than "Closed source" software. Because no you not only lose access to the application, you lose access to your data as well. And trust me, the cloud service provider will use that access against you. I have yet to see a contract negotiation with a cloud service provider that didn't eventually devolve into the Cloud threatening to cut off access to the data with no option to export if the user didn't agree to unfavorable terms. This doesn't happen "Sometimes" this happens every time... with multiple vendors. They are very friendly and the rates are cheap at first, but after you've been with them for a few years... Then they start turning the screws. Unless you control "The cloud" yourself, stay very very far away.
Right, I've run into this before. Always refuse a search. When you do that, if they are a police officer or not will become apparently rather quickly. Non-police will stall and try to get you to hang around so they can bully you into it. Ask if you're under arrest or otherwise being detained against your will, if not, leave. Have no further discussion with that person. Keep in mind that even the police departments get to keep seized cash. It may not go directly into their pocket but it goes to buying them new squad cars, weapons, vests and even towards their bonuses and promotions. So they have a very strong incentive to "Find" something on you. In a large metropolitian department it may not seem so direct to the officers. But you get into your average town that only has half a doze cops and finding a couple of hundred K in a trunk becomes a big win for them.
Right, they got the data illegally, seized the servers, then examined them for a vulnerability they could have used to legally seize them and claimed that was the source.
I have a feeling most docs will give out antibiotics for this anyway. It helps makes everyone feel like something is being done.
In most cases they are prescribed to treat secondary Sinus infections that result from the virus. I, for example, get a sinus infection every time I get a cold. Literally, every time. I was genetically cursed with terrible closed off sinuses that easily become infected, and as a result it's a matter of course that I get antibiotics when I get a cold. They do normal inspections to make sure I really have an infection, and I always do. Some people are just like that.
So, school started a week ago and their is a sudden and unexpected rise in respiratory infections? People are really falling for this click bait? It's called a "COLD" and this has happened every year since summer break was introduced.
Hydroelectric dams are "green" now?!?! Then it goes on to describe the devastation they cause to the environment up and down the river?