This new reformed woman had a bit of a road rage incident, followed a 73 year old woman home, ran over her with her car, then started to back up to run over her again but fortunately was stopped.
I haven't looked at TED talks the same way ever since .
I thought the east cost had some record cold last December, or possibly early January.
I'm not certain, I live there, and had fine motorcycle rides both months.
Seriously warm weather.
Possibly, you are seeing what I call the Weather channel effect. Every winter, they go into hysterics mode, and report on record lows, huge snowstorms, and jumble it all together with various places, so that unless you have an hour to digest it, you would think that your place is going to be 20 below zero, and getting a record 100 inch snowfall. I almost never watch it, but the wife does occasionally, and they get worse every year.
Funny how when its extra cold (snow storms, record cold winters, etc) all we hear is 'weather is not climate'.
However when its extra hot, is seems weather is climate?
Umm, who exactly makes that argument that you are talking about? You are saying weather is climate, and you are cherry picking one area to do it from. Here is NOAA's global data. Rather different from your "Coldest month evah!" so there is no such thing as global warming.
Even the fact that 2015 was a global record setter - that doesn't prove that the world is getting warmer. That's just one year. That's weather. But there is a trend of many warmer than normal years, and that is indicating climate.
Not arguing a side here, just pointing out one of many many obvious logical faults both sides seem to have.
It astounds me how high these extremes at both ends of this argument have climbed up their pedestals.
It will take future analysis and records. If the trends continue, it's not an anomaly. If the temperature trends drop, then we know it was a temporary blip in the record. Only time will really tell.
Which means? Are you saying that 99 percent surety is non actionable? It must be 100 percent, or else full steam ahead?
Geologically speaking, we've only been recording temperatures for an infinitesimally small amount of time.
Infinitesimally is pretty vague, If you know it's infinitesimal, how many years is it?
Moreover, there's obviously no experimental control possible - i.e., we can't tell what the temperature would be without humans with any certainty - it's all theoretical models that are describing the trends we're seeing.
Here's part of your mistake. You are focusing on the "human" Humans don't make the CO2, they release it when they burn the sequestered CO2 in various fuels. That CO2 is the same as any other source, such as volcanic activity.
I'm not saying the models are necessarily incorrect. I'm just pointing out that they are, in fact, only predictions and models. The only way to judge their validity is to measure their ability to predict trends over time.
The problem is, the models are making predictions, and they are looking like a strong degree of correlation.
Issues or things that don't look right are constantly being compared adjusted, and updated. Science doesn't sit still. One of the big claims of the denialists about the presumed slowdown of the warming trend was announced as solved when it was found that there were measurement errors between balloon data and satellite data even the scientist who noted the discrepency. Oddly or not oddly, the denialists don't mention the later work. I've cited the work in here before. I'm not home, so I don't have the documents and links at hand.
Your post is thoughtful, so if you are interested, what I would suggest is to actually look into the data. And to look at both sides. In fact, go to denialist websites first and take a look at what they are using to refute AGW.
Then do searches. Some times it is difficult, as citations are often incomplete. But the detective work is kind of fun.
Then do a new search. Find the scientists who wrote the papers referred to. This is how I found the self refutation of one of the so called model failures. Self refutation might be a strong word - I don't meant to disparage the scientist involved, because he updated and agreed with the end correlation of data.
Perhaps after enough perusal, you might agree with me that there is a lot of cherry picking going on, and using outdated research. There is also a fair amount of disingenuous messing with data.
Check out some of the refutation sites as well. Those can be pretty illuminating.
How many near consecutive broken records does it take for weather extremes to no longer be called 'anomalies'?
Because we live in a country where people get their weather education from politicians and a Groundhog in Punxatawny PA, and not from scientists.
Even when it' is found out that a leading oil company kew and lied about AGW decades ago - they still cling to their denialism..
So it ain't gonna happen.
Isn't health care practically the highest critical tier of the "Internet of Things"?
Yes.
We can't even motivate ourselves to properly secure medical data, literally life and death stuff, even after they get pwned like this. The folks on the IoT bandwagon actually want to hitch more of our daily technology to the Internet, things with even lower security motivation?
Hey, you've seen it. If a person even dares to say that the Internet of things is a disaster waiting to happen, they are accused of being luddites, that they want those kids off their lawns, or just hateful of progress.
This is a perfect example of Internet of things and it's inevitible problem. As well, how exactly did life critical systems get plugged into a non-life critical OS. and then put on teh same network that is soon to demand that we allow our computers to be a little more secure by using ad and scriptblockers. Be that as it may at least set up a air gapped system, and structure it like a DoD system.
Most likely ransomware (which can be very pervasive) and has spread to hospital equipment that was never secured or backed up, no-one thinks to backup data on a pain-pump or a smart-bed, all have software so theoretically can be infected or at least be a hiding place.
Freaky, Just yesterday, I wrote a Hypothetical bit about hackers Breaking and entering an Insulin pump and demanding bitcoin for not having it over-pump, send a person into insulin shock and kill the patient. While it was reviled then, little did I know my only error was in magnitude. I wrote of one person, here the bastards pulled their stunt on an entire hospital.
I dunno - it seems like the exact reason the internet of things is a disaster waiting to happen. Oh wait... it has happened
I have no problems using Linux. I've been a Linux user since 1995. The problem is applications. Without Word, Solidworks and a few others, I am dead in the water.
I needed cross platform compatibility, so that makes Word a non-starter. If a document prepared in word on a Windows machine breaks when you take it to Mac - it's a big fail
I switched to Linux in the early 2000's. Never looked back.
I understand there are hurdles for the average user to understand the differences in operating systems, but I've yet to find a situation that I can't do a specific task under Linux, and would requir Windows.
I have exactly one program that requires Windows. SmartSDR, which controls a Software defined radio that I have. So I run Windows 7 in bootcamp, and have a W10 computer I'm testing.
The exciting thing is there is some software in beta for the radio on OSX that I'm testing. I managed 4 years Windows free and loving it. I'll raise a glass of Patron if I can kick it again soon. Now if a Linux version comes out, I'll drain the bottle.
I didn't accuse you of lying: I think you're delusional and genuinely believe your paranoia.
Also the entire premise seemed to be founded on a fact you just invented. Why should I read further?
Depends on whether you want to learn something or not.
Make shit up? Not once not ever, unless I'm making a joke.
Now serviscope_minor, do you care to have a discussion, frank and open? Feel free to challenge anything I wrote, feel free to bring up your own ideas, or just prove once again you are living proof of how people cannot have an intelligent discussion of this matter, lest they get your reflexive knee jerk reaction.
I've read your posts, to me you seem like a fairly traditional internet troll, of limited intellect, yet long on insult. Your long suit is your entertainment value.
I expect nothing else, but could be happily proven wrong. Otherwise you are starting to bore me. So unless you care to kick it up a notch and talk with the adults, you can do another neener, neener, neener post and declare yourself the king of teh internetz.
Go tell it to the Progressives in the anti-vaccine movement:
As it turns out, there are about equal numbers of progressive and conservative anti-vaxxers. It's not a political issue, merely what the boys down at the shop call stupid assholes.
You are talking about yourself right? That's how I read that. Because you just explained yourself perfectly. Thanks for finally admitting you are a nut job.
serviscope_minor makes a telling example of exactly why there cannot be an frank and open discussion.
I go to the trouble of presenting a fairly in-depth and detailed post giving first hand experience, and the knee jerk reaction is "BOOM! calling me a nutcase and of lying.
Thank you serviscope_minor, for proving my point exactly and in only one sentence.
It is incredibly difficult to have a frank discussion when one party is a raving nutcase who just invents his own facts to support his immovably held views.
Then just don't buy it... That's some crazy hate for crap out there.
Of course I won't buy it. But just like I'm going to warn people against timeshare condos, I'll warn them against the IoT.
It could save thier lives, because someone so stupid as to need a glowing light on their water bottle connected to teh intertoobz to remind them to drink water, could be killed by water intoxication when it gets hacked, id glows steadily.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but my version of utopia doesn't have everybody working 80-hour weeks. I might feel less accomplished having no work to do, but as long as I can enjoy the same quality of life, I would appreciate the extra free time.
Having retired from a career where I worked those long weeks, I gotta say it ain't too bad. I keep myself very busy, but it's what I want to do.
If the CEO is making 10 million, and there are 10,000 employees, then he is only making $1000 per employee. Even if you paid the CEO nothing, it wouldn't make a huge difference to the employees. Also, assuming the employees made $40,000 each a tear, decreasing the CEOs salary to zero would only allow 250 more employees, or 2.5% more employees. And that's a pretty low salary for skilled workers. At $60,000 salaries, that's only 166 more workers, or 1.66% more employees.
So if the CEO can reduce the number of employees and expenditures to zero, the company would be much better off. They could pay the CEO 40 million a year, and realize better profit.
It turned out that they could get cheap used Android and iOS phones that, although a few years behind what first-worlders were using, could still run old versions of Android and iOS that were far superior to even the latest versions of Firefox OS.
The people giving you crap are missing the point. Where do they think those old phones and computers are going? As noted in TFA, Data is cheap in India, so an old bit of kit that isn't restricted is much preferable to a ecosystem that Kim Jung Il would approve of.
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The stuff they talk about at TED doesn't apply to anyone's life. TED is hot air, fluff, and pie-in-the-sky bullshit. It's a fucking joke!
My favorite TED talk
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The talk itself is some self indulgent stuff about how she came to believe that there is a God. But irony abounds!
http://gawker.com/professional...
This new reformed woman had a bit of a road rage incident, followed a 73 year old woman home, ran over her with her car, then started to back up to run over her again but fortunately was stopped.
I haven't looked at TED talks the same way ever since .
I thought the east cost had some record cold last December, or possibly early January.
I'm not certain, I live there, and had fine motorcycle rides both months.
Seriously warm weather.
Possibly, you are seeing what I call the Weather channel effect. Every winter, they go into hysterics mode, and report on record lows, huge snowstorms, and jumble it all together with various places, so that unless you have an hour to digest it, you would think that your place is going to be 20 below zero, and getting a record 100 inch snowfall. I almost never watch it, but the wife does occasionally, and they get worse every year.
Funny how when its extra cold (snow storms, record cold winters, etc) all we hear is 'weather is not climate'. However when its extra hot, is seems weather is climate?
Just to avoid the 'but that doesnt happen!' here we have one: http://drsircus.com/world-news...
Umm, who exactly makes that argument that you are talking about? You are saying weather is climate, and you are cherry picking one area to do it from. Here is NOAA's global data. Rather different from your "Coldest month evah!" so there is no such thing as global warming.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/...
Even the fact that 2015 was a global record setter - that doesn't prove that the world is getting warmer. That's just one year. That's weather. But there is a trend of many warmer than normal years, and that is indicating climate.
Not arguing a side here, just pointing out one of many many obvious logical faults both sides seem to have.
It astounds me how high these extremes at both ends of this argument have climbed up their pedestals.
The last time I checked we could be certain that most of the models were incorrect, because they differed significantly in their predictions.
Which models and when did you check them? I'll do a little research for you and report back.
It will take future analysis and records. If the trends continue, it's not an anomaly. If the temperature trends drop, then we know it was a temporary blip in the record. Only time will really tell.
Which means? Are you saying that 99 percent surety is non actionable? It must be 100 percent, or else full steam ahead?
Geologically speaking, we've only been recording temperatures for an infinitesimally small amount of time.
Infinitesimally is pretty vague, If you know it's infinitesimal, how many years is it?
Moreover, there's obviously no experimental control possible - i.e., we can't tell what the temperature would be without humans with any certainty - it's all theoretical models that are describing the trends we're seeing.
Here's part of your mistake. You are focusing on the "human" Humans don't make the CO2, they release it when they burn the sequestered CO2 in various fuels. That CO2 is the same as any other source, such as volcanic activity.
I'm not saying the models are necessarily incorrect. I'm just pointing out that they are, in fact, only predictions and models. The only way to judge their validity is to measure their ability to predict trends over time.
The problem is, the models are making predictions, and they are looking like a strong degree of correlation.
Issues or things that don't look right are constantly being compared adjusted, and updated. Science doesn't sit still. One of the big claims of the denialists about the presumed slowdown of the warming trend was announced as solved when it was found that there were measurement errors between balloon data and satellite data even the scientist who noted the discrepency. Oddly or not oddly, the denialists don't mention the later work. I've cited the work in here before. I'm not home, so I don't have the documents and links at hand.
Your post is thoughtful, so if you are interested, what I would suggest is to actually look into the data. And to look at both sides. In fact, go to denialist websites first and take a look at what they are using to refute AGW.
Then do searches. Some times it is difficult, as citations are often incomplete. But the detective work is kind of fun.
Then do a new search. Find the scientists who wrote the papers referred to. This is how I found the self refutation of one of the so called model failures. Self refutation might be a strong word - I don't meant to disparage the scientist involved, because he updated and agreed with the end correlation of data.
Perhaps after enough perusal, you might agree with me that there is a lot of cherry picking going on, and using outdated research. There is also a fair amount of disingenuous messing with data.
Check out some of the refutation sites as well. Those can be pretty illuminating.
Finally - take a look at some of the Exxon data.
How many near consecutive broken records does it take for weather extremes to no longer be called 'anomalies'?
Because we live in a country where people get their weather education from politicians and a Groundhog in Punxatawny PA, and not from scientists.
Even when it' is found out that a leading oil company kew and lied about AGW decades ago - they still cling to their denialism.. So it ain't gonna happen.
Isn't health care practically the highest critical tier of the "Internet of Things"?
Yes.
We can't even motivate ourselves to properly secure medical data, literally life and death stuff, even after they get pwned like this. The folks on the IoT bandwagon actually want to hitch more of our daily technology to the Internet, things with even lower security motivation?
Hey, you've seen it. If a person even dares to say that the Internet of things is a disaster waiting to happen, they are accused of being luddites, that they want those kids off their lawns, or just hateful of progress.
This is a perfect example of Internet of things and it's inevitible problem. As well, how exactly did life critical systems get plugged into a non-life critical OS. and then put on teh same network that is soon to demand that we allow our computers to be a little more secure by using ad and scriptblockers. Be that as it may at least set up a air gapped system, and structure it like a DoD system.
Most likely ransomware (which can be very pervasive) and has spread to hospital equipment that was never secured or backed up, no-one thinks to backup data on a pain-pump or a smart-bed, all have software so theoretically can be infected or at least be a hiding place.
Freaky, Just yesterday, I wrote a Hypothetical bit about hackers Breaking and entering an Insulin pump and demanding bitcoin for not having it over-pump, send a person into insulin shock and kill the patient. While it was reviled then, little did I know my only error was in magnitude. I wrote of one person, here the bastards pulled their stunt on an entire hospital.
I dunno - it seems like the exact reason the internet of things is a disaster waiting to happen. Oh wait... it has happened
Yeah it's all fine and dandy until it locks up and needs to go back to the factory to get you loose.
Maybe an emergency blowout device of compressed air.
Oh boy, I just know where this is going to end up.......
Well, to be fair, if the CEO can do that and still maintain the same level of productivity then he's absolutely worth that much.
Indeed. Then if they can just get rid of the CEO, the shareholders enter Nirvana,
I have no problems using Linux. I've been a Linux user since 1995. The problem is applications. Without Word, Solidworks and a few others, I am dead in the water.
I needed cross platform compatibility, so that makes Word a non-starter. If a document prepared in word on a Windows machine breaks when you take it to Mac - it's a big fail
I switched to Linux in the early 2000's. Never looked back.
I understand there are hurdles for the average user to understand the differences in operating systems, but I've yet to find a situation that I can't do a specific task under Linux, and would requir Windows.
I have exactly one program that requires Windows. SmartSDR, which controls a Software defined radio that I have. So I run Windows 7 in bootcamp, and have a W10 computer I'm testing.
The exciting thing is there is some software in beta for the radio on OSX that I'm testing. I managed 4 years Windows free and loving it. I'll raise a glass of Patron if I can kick it again soon. Now if a Linux version comes out, I'll drain the bottle.
If it is a recording device, that's what it is supposed to do.
I have many recording devices that merely record and play back. They don't phone home to someone to let them know what I am saying.
I didn't accuse you of lying: I think you're delusional and genuinely believe your paranoia.
Also the entire premise seemed to be founded on a fact you just invented. Why should I read further?
Depends on whether you want to learn something or not.
Make shit up? Not once not ever, unless I'm making a joke.
Now serviscope_minor, do you care to have a discussion, frank and open? Feel free to challenge anything I wrote, feel free to bring up your own ideas, or just prove once again you are living proof of how people cannot have an intelligent discussion of this matter, lest they get your reflexive knee jerk reaction.
I've read your posts, to me you seem like a fairly traditional internet troll, of limited intellect, yet long on insult. Your long suit is your entertainment value.
I expect nothing else, but could be happily proven wrong. Otherwise you are starting to bore me. So unless you care to kick it up a notch and talk with the adults, you can do another neener, neener, neener post and declare yourself the king of teh internetz.
Go tell it to the Progressives in the anti-vaccine movement:
As it turns out, there are about equal numbers of progressive and conservative anti-vaxxers. It's not a political issue, merely what the boys down at the shop call stupid assholes.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
You are talking about yourself right? That's how I read that. Because you just explained yourself perfectly. Thanks for finally admitting you are a nut job.
serviscope_minor makes a telling example of exactly why there cannot be an frank and open discussion.
I go to the trouble of presenting a fairly in-depth and detailed post giving first hand experience, and the knee jerk reaction is "BOOM! calling me a nutcase and of lying.
Thank you serviscope_minor, for proving my point exactly and in only one sentence.
It is incredibly difficult to have a frank discussion when one party is a raving nutcase who just invents his own facts to support his immovably held views.
You are so right. But we love ya anyway.
Then just don't buy it... That's some crazy hate for crap out there.
Of course I won't buy it. But just like I'm going to warn people against timeshare condos, I'll warn them against the IoT.
It could save thier lives, because someone so stupid as to need a glowing light on their water bottle connected to teh intertoobz to remind them to drink water, could be killed by water intoxication when it gets hacked, id glows steadily.
That was a joke son.... at least I hope it was.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but my version of utopia doesn't have everybody working 80-hour weeks. I might feel less accomplished having no work to do, but as long as I can enjoy the same quality of life, I would appreciate the extra free time.
Having retired from a career where I worked those long weeks, I gotta say it ain't too bad. I keep myself very busy, but it's what I want to do.
And in some parts of the country, sex robots will put domestic farm animals out of work.
Quick skim......huh?
second read..... Oh, well done sir, well done.
If the CEO is making 10 million, and there are 10,000 employees, then he is only making $1000 per employee. Even if you paid the CEO nothing, it wouldn't make a huge difference to the employees. Also, assuming the employees made $40,000 each a tear, decreasing the CEOs salary to zero would only allow 250 more employees, or 2.5% more employees. And that's a pretty low salary for skilled workers. At $60,000 salaries, that's only 166 more workers, or 1.66% more employees.
So if the CEO can reduce the number of employees and expenditures to zero, the company would be much better off. They could pay the CEO 40 million a year, and realize better profit.
It's just distributed and horded in such a way
It's not "distributed", it's earned. Until you understand this, you have nothing to contribute.
-jcr
I inhereited a fair bit of money. Was that earned?
No Sexually transmitted diseases
What about Electro-Gonorrhea, the Noisy Killer?
I thought that was something some folks liked.
You don't have to use navigation features.
Which is good because they don't work.
It turned out that they could get cheap used Android and iOS phones that, although a few years behind what first-worlders were using, could still run old versions of Android and iOS that were far superior to even the latest versions of Firefox OS.
The people giving you crap are missing the point. Where do they think those old phones and computers are going? As noted in TFA, Data is cheap in India, so an old bit of kit that isn't restricted is much preferable to a ecosystem that Kim Jung Il would approve of.