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  1. Re:slashdotters are happy on An Artificial Womb Successfully Grew Baby Sheep -- and Humans Could Be Next (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You realise of course that the vast majority of abortions are preformed before 10 weeks? The 'baby' is as a little over an inch long, and this bag will do nothing to help it.

    This technology has little to do with abortions.

  2. Re:Microsoft on Microsoft Kills Off Security Bulletins (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's worse, less accessible information.

  3. Re:It's obviously not that. on Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So do something about funding welfare and educating people and birth control - like planned parenthood does - to reduce the number of people getting pregnant who don't want to be. Then there will be less killing of 'people'. If you JUST target abortions (and defund everything that people who support them do) you create MORE SUFFERING, even if you succeed in less abortions.

    Jesus H Sheesh! It's not complicated.

  4. Re:People without a clue commenting on crypto on Linus Torvalds On Git's Use Of SHA-1: 'The Sky Isn't Falling' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    > If an attacker gets the hash, he can almost certainly recover the password.

    How, other than brute force?

    This is not what this collision attack allows.

  5. India's not on the list.

  6. So you're saying they must be doing it for moral reasons?

    Maybe they have a genuine fear about trump's fairness, proportionality, constitutionality, overreach and what he might do next?

  7. Re:More evil on Chrome 56 Quietly Added Bluetooth Snitch API (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    > This specification was published by the Web Bluetooth Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track.

    Nothing to do with W3C.

  8. Re:More evil on Chrome 56 Quietly Added Bluetooth Snitch API (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How did you work that out?
    > This specification was published by the Web Bluetooth Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track.

  9. Re:They want to be a welfare state? on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    They do!

    Have seen who works is healthcare these days? Ever been to an old people's home?

    Immigrants do the jobs we don't want to. They pay more tax they take from society.
    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

    We need them. Like it or not!

  10. Re:Isn't this just virtue signaling at this point? on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes, reducing energy use is going to be a problem. Does that mean should leave the problem as late as possible, when solving it will be even harder?

    At least it sounds as if you accept 'the truth'. The reason you often get 'the Hornets nest' response is because until everyone accepts that we have reduce energy use and/or change production methods, it's going to be really hard to discuss and implement the alternatives.

  11. Re:Isn't this just virtue signaling at this point? on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sea level rise has not been constant for hundreds of years.
    http://www.realclimate.org/ind...

    Frequency of floods is increasing.
    https://journalistsresource.or...

    Climate science is more than common sense or what you happen to think is true, unfortunately.

  12. Re: Paging Dr. Faustus on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    The hockey stick has not been discredited. It has been replicated numerous times, by numerous people and organisations.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/te...
    > Climate deniers threw all their might at disproving the famous climate change graph. Here's why they failed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    > Arguments over the reconstructions have been taken up by fossil fuel industry funded lobbying groups attempting to cast doubt on climate science.

    https://www.newscientist.com/a...
    > In fact, later studies support the key conclusion: the world is warmer now than it has been for at least 1000 years

    The graphs we /were/ talking about go back much further - XKCD's 20,000 years, and your favourite the Vostok core, 400,000. And they all show the same data.

    Good luck with your research.

    *PLONK*

  13. Re:You omitted a factual argument on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    NASA has a page dedicated to it:
    http://earthobservatory.nasa.g...
    > But the paleoclimate record also reveals that the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events. ... In the past century alone, the temperature has climbed 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming.

    It took me seconds to find. If you really cared, or hadn't already made your mind up, you would know that too.

  14. Re:You omitted a factual argument on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Temperature is not off the scale for natural variation - yet. It's within the ranges we've seen before (when there were ice sheets miles thick or tropical regions covering Europe and the US, of course). But the rate of chance is unprecedented. Utterly. Why might that be?

    And if you update the Vostok Ice Core data with modern CO2 levels... it is off the chart. Literally:
    https://ibb.co/gscNQa

  15. Re: Paging Dr. Faustus on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh sorry - you're right. Because these graphs have totally different scales and orientations they look nothing like each other.

    But wait a minute... if we look at just the data that both graphs cover (temperature, the last 20000 years, highlighted with a black box):
    https://ibb.co/co1ABF

    And then line up the scales so they are the same on both graphs (X=-5C to +5C, Y=0 to -20000 years) we can see that the data does actually match up pretty well, considering I did this with paint:
    https://ibb.co/hX9K5a

    Consistent science FTW! Thanks for playing.

    Of course, it's the last 100 years that are the most interesting - the heating is happening at an _unprecedented_ rate. The ~2 degree increase of the last century would have taken millennia to occur naturally - as shown by the very graphs you supplied as evidence!

    Don't misuse actual data. It doesn't work, because the data shows AWG is happening.

  16. Re:Prepare for deluge of stupid on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    What?

  17. Re: Prepare for deluge of stupid on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's just not true. Fossil fuel subsidies are measured obviously the /trillions/ (http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm). Shift that to green energy and engineering and jobs, and you have a boom on your hands.

    It's the political will and lobbying that's the problem - their personal economies are the ones which will suffer, and that's why nothing is being done.

  18. Re:Prepare for deluge of stupid on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    You really haven't been listening very much then, have you?

  19. Re: Prepare for deluge of stupid on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    See how natural the end of this graph is:
    https://xkcd.com/1732/

  20. Re:Paging Dr. Faustus on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Longer timescales:
    https://xkcd.com/1732/

  21. Re: Paging Dr. Faustus on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    In pictures you might understand:
    https://xkcd.com/1732/

  22. Re:I know it's fun to make fun of Homeopathy on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    While organic food may not necessarily be more healthy, that's not necessarily the point.

    It is better for the environment, and it does define higher welfare standards for animals- that's my reason for eating only organic certified meat. It has a very specific definition, and organic farms are tested regular to make sure they are meeting the standards (by the soil Association in the UK).

    https://www.soilassociation.or...

    Short of knowing your farmer or growing your own, it's your best bet for buying 'real' food. Scepticism is good, but know your stuff, as don't spread FUD.

  23. Re:Replaced power supplies? on Server Runs Continuously For 24 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever used a real server?

  24. Re:Solar rated highest in 2016, but... on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you misinterpreted my comment...

    My point was that fossil fuels are finite. We WILL definitely be using all renewables (and maybe nuclear), one day.

  25. Re:Solar rated highest in 2016, but... on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Renewables/non-fossil will be 100% again, one day. They have to be, these are just reality facts.