My high school OAC (grade 13, for non-Ontarians) chemistry mark was the highest of any student, in any school in the county, for both semesters of the year I took that class. I got an award for it, actually.
The amount of energy needed to melt ice into water without changing the temperature (remaining at 0 degrees C) is the exact same as the amount of energy you need to remove to freeze water into ice without changing the temperature. Which makes your claim about time scales (WTF does time have to do with energy transfer and average temperatures of a region, anyway?) complete, unadulterated bullshit.
The people who don't have a fucking clue are the ones that are screaming that there's a pause when the global temperatures don't break new records every single year.
We did break temperature records in 2014. Cold temperature records. Records that were over a century old. Yet, somehow, according to the warming apologists, 2014 was still the hottest year on record.
So, we have a western 1/3 of the country that's on average 5-7 degrees warmer than average. Then, we have a central and south east 1/3 that's 5-7 degrees colder than average. These two together make Feb 2015 a completely normal month, as far as averages go.
But then, we've got that 1/4 of the country in the north east around the Great Lakes that's at least 13 degrees colder than average. That will hugely skew the country's average for the month down, making Feb 2015 significantly colder than average. I can virtually guarantee, though, that the warming apologists will be saying in 9 months or so, that every month this year has been warmer than average so far, and 2015 is on track to be the HOTTEST YEAR EVARRR!!!!!1!!11!1eleeventy. I know this, because the exact same thing happened in 2014. Almost everywhere on earth was average or significantly colder than average (like, 6-10 degress C colder than average for most of the northern hemisphere) for the entire year, with the exception of a 3-4 degree C above average heat wave in Australia for the first few weeks of the year. Yet, somehow, in December, 2014 was on track to the the warmest year on record, ever.
So when the temperature falls, it's due to external factors - solar minimum, ocean currents, whatever - but when the temperature rises, it's solely due to human produced carbon dioxide? While that's not exactly specified in what you wrote, I hear that A LOT from global warming proponents. The concept of warming temperatures being due to external factors, just like cooling temperatures, is completely inconceivable to a lot of global warming proponents.
And then all this garbage about the "hottest year ever".
If you're referring to 2014, I think it's just flat out wrong. Almost the entire northern hemisphere experience about a 9 month stretch that was 5-10 degrees colder than normal, to the extent of breaking cold temperature records that were a century old or more. Australia reported a heat wave for a couple of weeks at the beginning of 2014 that was about 4-5 degrees warmer than normal, but that's about all I've been able to find. That is certainly not even close to enough to compensate for the HUGE span of time that the north was significantly colder than normal. If 2014 is the "hottest year on record," that points more to a failure in our methods of measuring average global temperature than the actual temperature being higher.
"Oh...ice ages aren't weather related patterns that last longer than 30 years, because that would disprove my incredibly ignorant comments about climate!"
Not trying to disprove global warming here. Isolated events taken out of context are not proof.
The problem is that every single event that refutes global warming is an "isolated event taken out of context," whereas every single event that points to global warming is "part of an undeniable pattern."
Remember the whole "polar vortex" thing in North America last year? That thing that's repeating this winter? The bitterly cold temperatures are causing pipes to freeze. Pipes that are inside heated and insulated houses. It's getting so damned cold from arctic air making it farther south than normal that people are being advised in some Canadian cities to keep their taps running 24/7 so they don't freeze, and their water bill will be adjusted so they don't pay for the extra water that they use.
If the arctic air coming south is so cold that it's causing issues like this, how is it even remotely possible that the arctic is warm enough for glaciers to be melting in huge amounts due to temperature?
Bullshit. If I have a glass half full of boiling water, and a glass half full of ice water, the two glasses have an average temperature of around 50 degrees C. If I pour one into the other, the hot water will cool, and the ice water will warm; but the average temperature is still 50 degrees. The heat was redistributed, but the average temperature hasn't changed.
This is exactly what ocean currents do; redistribute heat on the earth. A high El Nino/La Nina year like 1997, while it may warm the Arctic, cools the tropics at the same time, keeping the average temperature the same. Despite the "climate change chicken dancer's" claims, a high El Nino/La Nina year cannot affect the average temperature of the earth to any significant extent. Since, considering 1997, it appears to do so, then our method for measuring the average temperature of the earth is badly flawed. We obviously have more temperature measuring locations in spots that are warmed by El Nino than spots And before you say these currents are carrying this heat to the bottom of the oceans, remember that study last year that analyzed ocean temperature data from 2005 to 2013, and found the oceans didn't measurably warm during that period. That was the entire time period they analyzed data for.
Despite the climate change proponents claims, the peak global average temperature of 1997 was not, and could not, be caused by ocean currents. And, despite the majority of the northern hemisphere having the coldest year in decades in 2014, in some cases breaking winter cold temperature records that were a century old or more, and a summer that saw people with quilts and comforters on beds, rather than the single sheet or nothing at all that summer sleeping usually requires, the global warming proponents are still saying that 2014 was the warmest year on record. Really? Was the south pole on fire? Because unless it was, the southern hemisphere certainly wasn't warm enough to counteract the 6-10 degrees C cooler than average that the northern hemisphere saw. Sure, Australia had a heat wave at the beginning of 2014, with temperatures a measly 4 degrees higher than normal for a few weeks. Hardly enough to counteract the 9 months of significantly colder than average temperatures that the north saw.
Good question. The link for that showed up at the same time as the search box, but it was disabled in the same way. I didn't notice that it had disappeared when the site actually went live again.
Original submitter, here. Are you talking about ads on TPB site, or within the/. story page? TPB is actually one of the big reasons I first started blocking ad servers at my router. If I was searching for something with the HTPC that the kids HAD TO WATCH NOW, to see if it was available, I didn't want them seeing the various dating and sex site ads that were pretty much all you'd see on TPB. So, I blocked some of the most notorious ad networks at the DNS level on my router, which solved that problem, and a whole lot of ads on other sites, too. Those overly loud auto play video ads for various pointless crap that show up in forums and such, I never see. Those were done in my second round of blocking after TPB stuff. Every once in a while I go through my squid proxy logs and see what other ad and tracking networks are showing up, and disable them. Best thing is, if I buy a new computer, it's automatically protected, without AdBlock/FlashBlock/CrapBlock/etc being installed.
I guess what I'm trying to say it is, if there are ads on TPB, then I didn't see them before submitting. And if there are ads on the/. story page, well.....I don't see them, either. Sorry if the story caused you any trouble that was my fault.
Security essentials is ok and doesn't spam you, but it's just ok.
HTH,
Security Essentials used to be just ok. Over the past year or so, it's turned into the most useless piece of crap I've ever seen. I used to recommend it as a free option for some people, but lately I've been ripping it out of every machine I see it on, in the same way I used to do with Norton a few years back.
You don't need no brakes on your car to study what happens to some other guy when they crash their car.
Similarly, I don't need antivirus on my computer to reverse engineer the infected files I pulled from a client machine; which, incidentally, their antivirus said was clean, and I found them manually. (But wait! How did you find them without the antivirus telling you that they were infected?! That's unpossible!!! <head explodes>)
Don't forget checking the state tables on your router every once in a while.
Oh...that's right; most routers don't actually let you see that information. You have to be running something actually, you know, useful. Like pfSense.
Hardy har har. I'm pretty sure you were trying to be funny.
But, just in case you, or any of the other similar comments were actually being serious:
Maybe that actually meant "don't run anything resembling antivirus software," since, you know, that's what the thread and the article are all about.....
Well, once I sorted out your bizarre punctuation and capitalization, I realized I agree with you.
Every one of my computers has Sandboxie installed. It's one of the tools I used when analyzing malware, when I want to see exactly what it does to the machine.
I don't execute virus files on my work computer. That would be stupid. I decompile/reverse engineer/etc them.
I have a separate computer that I use if I need to actively infect one. It's not a VM (for the exact reason that some posters have already given) but I do have a Clonezilla image of it, so I can quickly wipe/reinstall after analyzing the infection.
AC: "I'm a fucking idiot, and have no idea how to tell if a computer's infected without big scary warnings from my antivirus software, therefore everybody else is exactly the same."
Never mind the fact that if nobody could detect an infection without a/v software, then it would be impossible to ever add new viruses to the definitions of any antivirus software; meaning, of course, that all antivirus software would have a precisely zero detection rate, and therefore would be completely useless. So, even if you're right, then you're still wrong.
That would be "in before somebody says 'don't run Windows'".
Having said that, I've run Windows (among other things) for years, and haven't run anti-virus in over a decade for two reasons: - it's more trouble than it's worth when you know what you're doing, - it's hard to do any kind of virus research at all when you've got antivirus trying to delete every infected file you're examining.
In the time I've not run a/v, I've never had an infection. (I never had an infection before that, either, but that's beside the point.) I use Comodo Endpoint Security on the kids' computer, and the HTPC, but my main Windows desktop hasn't had it for years, and won't have it for the foreseeable future, either.
All my Linux machines, of course, don't run anything, except for my mail server, which has ClamAV on it, just to scan attachments.
Bullshit. Most (all?) of the Northern hemisphere had the most brutal winter we've had in decades. We broke cold temperature records that were 100 years old or more. Then, on top of that, summer basically never happened. We didn't actually get to normal summer temperatures until September, and there were reports of similarly cool June, July and August temperatures from far afield. So for 2014 to be a record hot year, I have to ask: where the fuck was it actually hot? Unless all the land in the southern hemisphere was actually on fire, this claim seems to be a flat out lie.
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So you're saying the arctic air is warmer than the air half way to the equator?
My high school OAC (grade 13, for non-Ontarians) chemistry mark was the highest of any student, in any school in the county, for both semesters of the year I took that class. I got an award for it, actually.
The amount of energy needed to melt ice into water without changing the temperature (remaining at 0 degrees C) is the exact same as the amount of energy you need to remove to freeze water into ice without changing the temperature. Which makes your claim about time scales (WTF does time have to do with energy transfer and average temperatures of a region, anyway?) complete, unadulterated bullshit.
According to that map, the UK was 1-2 degrees warmer than normal, and much of northern Europe was 2-4 degrees warmer than normal. Yet, news reports state the UK's summer was one of the coldest in decades, 5-6 degrees C colder than normal, the end of 2014 was also exceptionally cold, and while Feb 2014 was slightly above average, during the 2004 to 2014 period, it was only 0.4 degrees higher than the 1860's average for the period from 2005 to 2014, which at 5.2 degrees is also the exact same as the February average for 2014 only.
How does a slight, less than one degree warming over 150 years for one month counteract the 5-6 degree colder summer and "bitterly cold" end of the year?
I stand by my assertion that something is seriously wrong with how we measure average global temperatures.
The people who don't have a fucking clue are the ones that are screaming that there's a pause when the global temperatures don't break new records every single year.
We did break temperature records in 2014. Cold temperature records. Records that were over a century old. Yet, somehow, according to the warming apologists, 2014 was still the hottest year on record.
So, we have a western 1/3 of the country that's on average 5-7 degrees warmer than average. Then, we have a central and south east 1/3 that's 5-7 degrees colder than average. These two together make Feb 2015 a completely normal month, as far as averages go.
But then, we've got that 1/4 of the country in the north east around the Great Lakes that's at least 13 degrees colder than average. That will hugely skew the country's average for the month down, making Feb 2015 significantly colder than average.
I can virtually guarantee, though, that the warming apologists will be saying in 9 months or so, that every month this year has been warmer than average so far, and 2015 is on track to be the HOTTEST YEAR EVARRR!!!!!1!!11!1eleeventy.
I know this, because the exact same thing happened in 2014. Almost everywhere on earth was average or significantly colder than average (like, 6-10 degress C colder than average for most of the northern hemisphere) for the entire year, with the exception of a 3-4 degree C above average heat wave in Australia for the first few weeks of the year. Yet, somehow, in December, 2014 was on track to the the warmest year on record, ever.
So when the temperature falls, it's due to external factors - solar minimum, ocean currents, whatever - but when the temperature rises, it's solely due to human produced carbon dioxide? While that's not exactly specified in what you wrote, I hear that A LOT from global warming proponents.
The concept of warming temperatures being due to external factors, just like cooling temperatures, is completely inconceivable to a lot of global warming proponents.
And then all this garbage about the "hottest year ever".
If you're referring to 2014, I think it's just flat out wrong. Almost the entire northern hemisphere experience about a 9 month stretch that was 5-10 degrees colder than normal, to the extent of breaking cold temperature records that were a century old or more. Australia reported a heat wave for a couple of weeks at the beginning of 2014 that was about 4-5 degrees warmer than normal, but that's about all I've been able to find. That is certainly not even close to enough to compensate for the HUGE span of time that the north was significantly colder than normal.
If 2014 is the "hottest year on record," that points more to a failure in our methods of measuring average global temperature than the actual temperature being higher.
In other words: "It's only a good analogy when it supports MY point of view, dammit!"
Nice try, but 15 years of weather statistics is climate. One winter is not
Err...that would be two winters. And a virtually non-existent summer.
"Oh...ice ages aren't weather related patterns that last longer than 30 years, because that would disprove my incredibly ignorant comments about climate!"
Not trying to disprove global warming here. Isolated events taken out of context are not proof.
The problem is that every single event that refutes global warming is an "isolated event taken out of context," whereas every single event that points to global warming is "part of an undeniable pattern."
Remember the whole "polar vortex" thing in North America last year? That thing that's repeating this winter? The bitterly cold temperatures are causing pipes to freeze. Pipes that are inside heated and insulated houses.
It's getting so damned cold from arctic air making it farther south than normal that people are being advised in some Canadian cities to keep their taps running 24/7 so they don't freeze, and their water bill will be adjusted so they don't pay for the extra water that they use.
If the arctic air coming south is so cold that it's causing issues like this, how is it even remotely possible that the arctic is warm enough for glaciers to be melting in huge amounts due to temperature?
Bullshit. If I have a glass half full of boiling water, and a glass half full of ice water, the two glasses have an average temperature of around 50 degrees C. If I pour one into the other, the hot water will cool, and the ice water will warm; but the average temperature is still 50 degrees.
The heat was redistributed, but the average temperature hasn't changed.
This is exactly what ocean currents do; redistribute heat on the earth. A high El Nino/La Nina year like 1997, while it may warm the Arctic, cools the tropics at the same time, keeping the average temperature the same. Despite the "climate change chicken dancer's" claims, a high El Nino/La Nina year cannot affect the average temperature of the earth to any significant extent. Since, considering 1997, it appears to do so, then our method for measuring the average temperature of the earth is badly flawed. We obviously have more temperature measuring locations in spots that are warmed by El Nino than spots
And before you say these currents are carrying this heat to the bottom of the oceans, remember that study last year that analyzed ocean temperature data from 2005 to 2013, and found the oceans didn't measurably warm during that period. That was the entire time period they analyzed data for.
Despite the climate change proponents claims, the peak global average temperature of 1997 was not, and could not, be caused by ocean currents. And, despite the majority of the northern hemisphere having the coldest year in decades in 2014, in some cases breaking winter cold temperature records that were a century old or more, and a summer that saw people with quilts and comforters on beds, rather than the single sheet or nothing at all that summer sleeping usually requires, the global warming proponents are still saying that 2014 was the warmest year on record. Really? Was the south pole on fire? Because unless it was, the southern hemisphere certainly wasn't warm enough to counteract the 6-10 degrees C cooler than average that the northern hemisphere saw. Sure, Australia had a heat wave at the beginning of 2014, with temperatures a measly 4 degrees higher than normal for a few weeks. Hardly enough to counteract the 9 months of significantly colder than average temperatures that the north saw.
Good question. The link for that showed up at the same time as the search box, but it was disabled in the same way. I didn't notice that it had disappeared when the site actually went live again.
Original submitter, here. /. story page?
Are you talking about ads on TPB site, or within the
TPB is actually one of the big reasons I first started blocking ad servers at my router. If I was searching for something with the HTPC that the kids HAD TO WATCH NOW, to see if it was available, I didn't want them seeing the various dating and sex site ads that were pretty much all you'd see on TPB.
So, I blocked some of the most notorious ad networks at the DNS level on my router, which solved that problem, and a whole lot of ads on other sites, too. Those overly loud auto play video ads for various pointless crap that show up in forums and such, I never see. Those were done in my second round of blocking after TPB stuff. Every once in a while I go through my squid proxy logs and see what other ad and tracking networks are showing up, and disable them. Best thing is, if I buy a new computer, it's automatically protected, without AdBlock/FlashBlock/CrapBlock/etc being installed.
I guess what I'm trying to say it is, if there are ads on TPB, then I didn't see them before submitting. And if there are ads on the /. story page, well.....I don't see them, either.
Sorry if the story caused you any trouble that was my fault.
Security essentials is ok and doesn't spam you, but it's just ok.
HTH,
Security Essentials used to be just ok. Over the past year or so, it's turned into the most useless piece of crap I've ever seen. I used to recommend it as a free option for some people, but lately I've been ripping it out of every machine I see it on, in the same way I used to do with Norton a few years back.
You don't need no brakes on your car to study what happens to some other guy when they crash their car.
Similarly, I don't need antivirus on my computer to reverse engineer the infected files I pulled from a client machine; which, incidentally, their antivirus said was clean, and I found them manually. (But wait! How did you find them without the antivirus telling you that they were infected?! That's unpossible!!! <head explodes>)
Don't forget checking the state tables on your router every once in a while.
Oh...that's right; most routers don't actually let you see that information. You have to be running something actually, you know, useful. Like pfSense.
Hardy har har. I'm pretty sure you were trying to be funny.
But, just in case you, or any of the other similar comments were actually being serious:
Maybe that actually meant "don't run anything resembling antivirus software," since, you know, that's what the thread and the article are all about.....
Well, once I sorted out your bizarre punctuation and capitalization, I realized I agree with you.
Every one of my computers has Sandboxie installed. It's one of the tools I used when analyzing malware, when I want to see exactly what it does to the machine.
I don't execute virus files on my work computer. That would be stupid. I decompile/reverse engineer/etc them.
I have a separate computer that I use if I need to actively infect one. It's not a VM (for the exact reason that some posters have already given) but I do have a Clonezilla image of it, so I can quickly wipe/reinstall after analyzing the infection.
AC: "I'm a fucking idiot, and have no idea how to tell if a computer's infected without big scary warnings from my antivirus software, therefore everybody else is exactly the same."
Never mind the fact that if nobody could detect an infection without a/v software, then it would be impossible to ever add new viruses to the definitions of any antivirus software; meaning, of course, that all antivirus software would have a precisely zero detection rate, and therefore would be completely useless. So, even if you're right, then you're still wrong.
That would be "in before somebody says 'don't run Windows'".
Having said that, I've run Windows (among other things) for years, and haven't run anti-virus in over a decade for two reasons:
- it's more trouble than it's worth when you know what you're doing,
- it's hard to do any kind of virus research at all when you've got antivirus trying to delete every infected file you're examining.
In the time I've not run a/v, I've never had an infection. (I never had an infection before that, either, but that's beside the point.)
I use Comodo Endpoint Security on the kids' computer, and the HTPC, but my main Windows desktop hasn't had it for years, and won't have it for the foreseeable future, either.
All my Linux machines, of course, don't run anything, except for my mail server, which has ClamAV on it, just to scan attachments.
Bullshit. Most (all?) of the Northern hemisphere had the most brutal winter we've had in decades. We broke cold temperature records that were 100 years old or more. Then, on top of that, summer basically never happened. We didn't actually get to normal summer temperatures until September, and there were reports of similarly cool June, July and August temperatures from far afield.
So for 2014 to be a record hot year, I have to ask: where the fuck was it actually hot? Unless all the land in the southern hemisphere was actually on fire, this claim seems to be a flat out lie.
You can see this whole list of tor nodes here: https://torstatus.blutmagie.de...
All Lizard nodes resolve to *.bc.googleusercontent.com
That's not the whole list. I've been running a node for years, and it's not listed on that page.