I am pretty stunned to see that no one else here has mentioned this. This is scarier than it even appears. Their entire argument was that it was all made up - and now - even though Trump admits it in 'plain language'- they ignore it and there are still Trumpeters here saying they don't believe it and want evidence.
Selectively omitted non-factual click-bait Headline: "20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report"
Proper headline: "20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain NAME Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report"/. - we made you famous by coming here. There was a good reason for that. You are clearly getting worse. We don't need - or want - glitter and sparkles.
Not sure that is a fair summary of the horrific distribution of wealth in this economy. i.e. an inheritance is not 'working hard'. Crime is not 'working hard'. Offshore havens are not 'working hard'.
99% of readers would have long ago been through this - since quantum non-locality has long been mainstream science.
The simple upshot is that setting a state for a particle in another light-cone, is a long way from sending a message - let alone a sensical one containing information a human could understand.
This "incredible idea to exploit quantum weirdness" is neither incredible nor an exploit as this reader found out in about 1996, in about 2nd year Uni.
For those looking to actually crunch some basic numbers regarding the size of this project when compared to other renewable projects, here are some sources:
Highest output renewable option in existence - a 1.5gW onshore wind farm already 90% built for $2B (Alta Wind Energy Center). Most expensive option in existence - a 3.2gW nuclear station being built for $35B.
Seems fairly clear cut - for $35B you could build something like 25gW of wind farms. So why are these alternatives - and others - not a smart financial option?
Even assuming failed efficiencies etc, renewable systems would have to operate at only 10% of expected efficiency to fall as low as the expected returns for this nuclear plan. What am I doing wrong here?
Do any of the group claiming that M$ is *pushing* W10 updates on people care to explain why only a very small percentage of users have reported this specific behaviour?
Why has it not happened to me or all the others?
Do you people possibly have cats? Children? Because they love to push keys and click the mouse when no one is looking.
William of Ockham says hello, 'STEM' students.........
Of course, the ability of plants to deal with CO2 concentrations has evolved - alongside the CO2 fluctuations themselves. That is one of the reasons you see so few Cambrian period plants around.
"The optimum level of carbon dioxide for plant growth, given enough water and nutrients, is about 1,500 parts per million, nearly four times higher than today. Greenhouse growers inject carbon-dioxide to increase yields." - Dr. Patrick Moore.
Completely false. Why would a 'Doctor' misrepresent such basic facts regarding plant biology? Plants have 2 types of CO2 requirements - during the photo-period and during the non photo-period. Such extreme and sustained levels of 1500ppm CO2 during the non photo-period will result in chlorosis, stretching, wilting and eventually fatal compromise of their immuno-suppressant functions. 1500ppm is not the optimum level for plants - it is the level at which it is guaranteed plants will die. To avoid these negative factors, CO2 levels must be reduced to 400-500ppm during non photo-periods, especially in the presence of moisture.
Does Dr Moore have knowledge of a global CO2 photo-period regulator that I am unaware of? What an amateur. It is terrible these people are quoted and listened too at all.
If your goal was to train hundreds of Jihadis in the art of hijacking modern jet-liners, then there is no real substitute for having the real thing in your possession - even if it is forever grounded in an underground bunker. You cannot just go and buy a 777-200 without leaving a trail. Plus a fair deposit......
I still wonder if the plane was stolen. No 'terrorist announcement' motive needed.
The fact that nothing has been identified is too mysterious. No oxygen masks, foam, rubber, sandals-nothing, 300 tonnes makes a big debris field, which expands exponentially over the weeks and months. All it takes is a single identifiable object found by a fisherman, beachcomber, surfer, coast guard, shipping or dog, in what is now a 12 month period.
They can't predict the weather next week very accurately, but we are supposed to "trust" the experts when they tell us what is going to happen in the next few years or longer?
There is quite some difference between predicting an outcome of a chaotic system (tomorrow's weather) and accurately enumerating data sets already acquired in the past.
Your 'Climate Skepticism' (global warming denial) is very thinly veiled. Top points for smugness, though.
.....so I truly regret drawing your attention to paragraph 7 of the article:
"The idea for the statue came from Mr Dormino and Charles Glass, an American author, journalist and broadcaster. British journalist Vaughan Smith, with whom Mr Assange stayed while he was on bail in 2010, is organising the Kickstarter campaign."
Furthermore, Mr Smith added:
“If you look at the statues we do have, they’re mostly of people who've done various things during our past in conflict and killed rather a lot of people. I think it’s refreshing to have a statue that’s perhaps owned by the public a little bit more.”
What is wrong with these people? Are they unaware that such has been proposed time and again by past luminaries? Predicted dates come and pass and we are as yet not in any danger. This points to the fact that we have failed to comprehend the nature of both consciousness and survivalism.
These machines will not magically become ANYTHING that we do not tell them to become - including dangerous to us. The real fear is, by what date are dumb people going to THINK machines need these functions......
This is just the beginning. Moon Alliyah and settlements to come, replete with extremely loud, religious 19th century gun-toting god-botherers claiming God said the moon was theirs.
Slashdot Mirror
Congratulations. You have removed yourself from the gene pool using your intellect.
Wow that's...that's pretty damn ignorant. Global Warming is as much about floods as drought.....talk about uneducated.
One of the few dystopian futures scifi writers seem to have not spent so much time investigating;
*All* humans simultaneously start suffering serious mental health issues.
I am pretty stunned to see that no one else here has mentioned this. This is scarier than it even appears. Their entire argument was that it was all made up - and now - even though Trump admits it in 'plain language'- they ignore it and there are still Trumpeters here saying they don't believe it and want evidence.
Selectively omitted non-factual click-bait Headline: "20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report"
Proper headline: "20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain NAME Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report" /. - we made you famous by coming here. There was a good reason for that. You are clearly getting worse. We don't need - or want - glitter and sparkles.
'worked hard'
Not sure that is a fair summary of the horrific distribution of wealth in this economy. i.e. an inheritance is not 'working hard'. Crime is not 'working hard'. Offshore havens are not 'working hard'.
More than that already. Just because a figure is printed, does not mean you should not go check (or already know) yourself.
..why is this /. news?
99% of readers would have long ago been through this - since quantum non-locality has long been mainstream science.
The simple upshot is that setting a state for a particle in another light-cone, is a long way from sending a message - let alone a sensical one containing information a human could understand.
This "incredible idea to exploit quantum weirdness" is neither incredible nor an exploit as this reader found out in about 1996, in about 2nd year Uni.
For those looking to actually crunch some basic numbers regarding the size of this project when compared to other renewable projects, here are some sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Highest output renewable option in existence - a 1.5gW onshore wind farm already 90% built for $2B (Alta Wind Energy Center).
Most expensive option in existence - a 3.2gW nuclear station being built for $35B.
Seems fairly clear cut - for $35B you could build something like 25gW of wind farms. So why are these alternatives - and others - not a smart financial option?
Even assuming failed efficiencies etc, renewable systems would have to operate at only 10% of expected efficiency to fall as low as the expected returns for this nuclear plan. What am I doing wrong here?
Do any of the group claiming that M$ is *pushing* W10 updates on people care to explain why only a very small percentage of users have reported this specific behaviour?
Why has it not happened to me or all the others?
Do you people possibly have cats? Children? Because they love to push keys and click the mouse when no one is looking.
William of Ockham says hello, 'STEM' students.........
...nooooo.........I said we should set up fake elections for the dumb people, so our elections WORK.
Am I on slashdot?
These people will be the death of us all.
People with IQ's averaging UNDER 100 are 50% of the vote. Some day dumb people should be just set up to vote in fake elections. They won't know.
Yeah. Go away. This is a technical place.
...but not just because someone else is too lazy to do it themselves. Soing the maths would have taken less effort than writing this /. fill-piece.
Exactly.
This headline is unacceptable and amounts to direct misinformation.
The article clearly states:
".....commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying".
So FUCK YOU SLASHDOT
My calculations show that from the time life started on earth, planetary ejecta from Earth has had the time to travel across our entire Milky Way.
I have no idea why I had to work that out myself. It is quite the problem I suspect.
Of course, the ability of plants to deal with CO2 concentrations has evolved - alongside the CO2 fluctuations themselves. That is one of the reasons you see so few Cambrian period plants around.
"The optimum level of carbon dioxide for plant growth, given enough water and nutrients, is about 1,500 parts per million, nearly four times higher than today. Greenhouse growers inject carbon-dioxide to increase yields." - Dr. Patrick Moore.
Completely false. Why would a 'Doctor' misrepresent such basic facts regarding plant biology? Plants have 2 types of CO2 requirements - during the photo-period and during the non photo-period. Such extreme and sustained levels of 1500ppm CO2 during the non photo-period will result in chlorosis, stretching, wilting and eventually fatal compromise of their immuno-suppressant functions. 1500ppm is not the optimum level for plants - it is the level at which it is guaranteed plants will die. To avoid these negative factors, CO2 levels must be reduced to 400-500ppm during non photo-periods, especially in the presence of moisture.
Does Dr Moore have knowledge of a global CO2 photo-period regulator that I am unaware of? What an amateur. It is terrible these people are quoted and listened too at all.
If your goal was to train hundreds of Jihadis in the art of hijacking modern jet-liners, then there is no real substitute for having the real thing in your possession - even if it is forever grounded in an underground bunker. You cannot just go and buy a 777-200 without leaving a trail. Plus a fair deposit......
I still wonder if the plane was stolen. No 'terrorist announcement' motive needed.
The fact that nothing has been identified is too mysterious. No oxygen masks, foam, rubber, sandals-nothing, 300 tonnes makes a big debris field, which expands exponentially over the weeks and months. All it takes is a single identifiable object found by a fisherman, beachcomber, surfer, coast guard, shipping or dog, in what is now a 12 month period.
Maybe it didn't 'go down' at all.
...no.
The fact that they did not accurately predict the weather, does NOT have a bearing on the legitimacy of the theory of human-induced global warming.
None. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Not significant.
So you can stop posting about it.
They can't predict the weather next week very accurately, but we are supposed to "trust" the experts when they tell us what is going to happen in the next few years or longer?
There is quite some difference between predicting an outcome of a chaotic system (tomorrow's weather) and accurately enumerating data sets already acquired in the past.
Your 'Climate Skepticism' (global warming denial) is very thinly veiled. Top points for smugness, though.
.....so I truly regret drawing your attention to paragraph 7 of the article:
"The idea for the statue came from Mr Dormino and Charles Glass, an American author, journalist and broadcaster. British journalist Vaughan Smith, with whom Mr Assange stayed while he was on bail in 2010, is organising the Kickstarter campaign."
Furthermore, Mr Smith added:
“If you look at the statues we do have, they’re mostly of people who've done various things during our past in conflict and killed rather a lot of people. I think it’s refreshing to have a statue that’s perhaps owned by the public a little bit more.”
Shame...........um Assange. Shame.
What is wrong with these people? Are they unaware that such has been proposed time and again by past luminaries? Predicted dates come and pass and we are as yet not in any danger. This points to the fact that we have failed to comprehend the nature of both consciousness and survivalism.
These machines will not magically become ANYTHING that we do not tell them to become - including dangerous to us. The real fear is, by what date are dumb people going to THINK machines need these functions......
This is just the beginning. Moon Alliyah and settlements to come, replete with extremely loud, religious 19th century gun-toting god-botherers claiming God said the moon was theirs.
How can anyone be suprised by this - let alone /. readers/submitters?