This is something I've wondered about for a long time. The "High End" enthusiasts, the Absolute Sound types, give more credence to their ears than to instrumentation.
So if they're using ears as instruments, shouldn't they publish calibration curves from an audiology exam?
Even healthy ears vary in frequency response from person to person.
Is there anything whatever here to indicate that CO2 sensitivity is outside the (wide) range that climate scientists have been working with?
Oh, and research the Heartland Institute before deciding whether their interpretation of the paper is the most reliable one. It's also interesting to read about Roy Spencer.
Another article in Googlespace suggests that gold nanoparticles stay inside blood vessels normally and come out where the vessel is leaky, as happens in tumors.
At "176-194 F", I'm not familiar with any plants that grow well.
The efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference between input and output temperatures, so this can't be very efficient, though efficiency is less important when the input is so cheap.
That's not all. People in the valleys that get filled in have to move. People in West Virginia tend not to have a lot of money for relocating. Sometimes they move in with relatives.
The Clean Water Act has some things to say about poisoning the streams at the bottom of the valleys, but it happens anyway.
Legal recourse is theoretically possible, but Massey Coal's CEO spent $3 million on one judicial race.
In fact, the architect for Ben-Gurion airport's security calls them "expensive and useless", Google "Rafi Sela".
Bureaucracies are more likely to reorganize than to do the right thing, so there's greater chance of success if the public comment advocates one of Sela's suggestions, which is to separate risk assessment from implementation. Right now, the TSA can claim that any possible threat is worth any additional expense, an expense that just happens to be their income. Imagine if the TSA's security measures had to come from a panel of people like Bruce Schneier.
A friend of mine had a phone call with a hospital billing department where they insisted that yes, during her hospital stay her mother had had a prostate exam.
I got called in for a deposition when $BIGCOMPANY was sued for infringing a patent on $OBVIOUSTECHNIQUE in $FIELD. The level of inefficiency in the proceedings was staggering, particularly since the project I was on hadn't even used $OBVIOUSTECHNIQUE. One of $BIGCOMPANY'S attorneys told me that progress in $FIELD has halted due to fear of patent litigation, which anyone much smaller than $BIGCOMPANY couldn't possibly afford.
If an authorized user can decrypt the data, then a phisher or a password cracker with the authorized user's credentials can decrypt the data. Not to mention that the key has to be stored somewhere, which will be accessible to root unless it's in a HSM.
If you have a business account where the bank won't cover losses from fraud; if your bank doesn't implement effective security measures; if you have some reason to stay with that bank anyway; if you feel compelled to sign up for online banking:
Use a dedicated computer. They're cheap. You can afford to have one computer that's off limits for web surfing, online videos, dancing cursors and so on. For extra credit put it on a separate LAN segment, and of course you should have disabled Autorun anyway. Set it up so it can only connect to your bank's web site and to Windows Update.
Rather than shipping factories to outer planets and extracting helium-3 from a dilute mixture, why not use technology that already exists? Irradiate lithium in a fission reactor, get tritium as a result, and let it decay to helium-3.
Lack of energy has risks. Electricity is not just a luxury, it provides safety and supports health. Dwelling heat can be the difference between life and death in many climates. Energy-intensive industrial societies have longer life expectancies than low-tech ones.
There may still be COMINT in the HF spectrum, and there's no substitute for a sensitive antenna/receiver combination. Imagine, for example, if they want to listen to mobile HF stations.
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Higher temperatures cause increased atmospheric CO2.
Higher CO2 concentrations lead to higher temperatures.
These two statements do not contradict each other. It's a self-reinforcing feedback system.
This is something I've wondered about for a long time. The "High End" enthusiasts, the Absolute Sound types, give more credence to their ears than to instrumentation.
So if they're using ears as instruments, shouldn't they publish calibration curves from an audiology exam?
Even healthy ears vary in frequency response from person to person.
Is there anything whatever here to indicate that CO2 sensitivity is outside the (wide) range that climate scientists have been working with?
Oh, and research the Heartland Institute before deciding whether their interpretation of the paper is the most reliable one. It's also interesting to read about Roy Spencer.
sciencenews.org
Slim weekly, decent reporters.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254058410009041
Another article in Googlespace suggests that gold nanoparticles stay inside blood vessels normally and come out where the vessel is leaky, as happens in tumors.
At "176-194 F", I'm not familiar with any plants that grow well.
The efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference between input and output temperatures, so this can't be very efficient, though efficiency is less important when the input is so cheap.
We eat food because we're animals. We seek knowledge because we're humans.
That's not all. People in the valleys that get filled in have to move. People in West Virginia tend not to have a lot of money for relocating. Sometimes they move in with relatives.
The Clean Water Act has some things to say about poisoning the streams at the bottom of the valleys, but it happens anyway.
Legal recourse is theoretically possible, but Massey Coal's CEO spent $3 million on one judicial race.
In fact, the architect for Ben-Gurion airport's security calls them "expensive and useless", Google "Rafi Sela".
Bureaucracies are more likely to reorganize than to do the right thing, so there's greater chance of success if the public comment advocates one of Sela's suggestions, which is to separate risk assessment from implementation. Right now, the TSA can claim that any possible threat is worth any additional expense, an expense that just happens to be their income. Imagine if the TSA's security measures had to come from a panel of people like Bruce Schneier.
A friend of mine had a phone call with a hospital billing department where they insisted that yes, during her hospital stay her mother had had a prostate exam.
Back in the old days, governments would authorize private parties to go out and do bad things to the enemies of the governments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
Reviving that concept might work better than trying to use the military for a task it's not optimized for.
You don't need electricity or hydrocarbons, just a source of high heat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur-iodine_cycle.
The process heat could come from a solar concentrator or a next-generation high temperature reactor.
Of course then you're faced with the problems of transporting and storing hydrogen, which have solutions but not easy ones.
I got called in for a deposition when $BIGCOMPANY was sued for infringing a patent on $OBVIOUSTECHNIQUE in $FIELD. The level of inefficiency in the proceedings was staggering, particularly since the project I was on hadn't even used $OBVIOUSTECHNIQUE. One of $BIGCOMPANY'S attorneys told me that progress in $FIELD has halted due to fear of patent litigation, which anyone much smaller than $BIGCOMPANY couldn't possibly afford.
If an authorized user can decrypt the data, then a phisher or a password cracker with the authorized user's credentials can decrypt the data. Not to mention that the key has to be stored somewhere, which will be accessible to root unless it's in a HSM.
Haven't termite gut bacteria been known to digest wood for years?
If you have a business account where the bank won't cover losses from fraud; if your bank doesn't implement effective security measures; if you have some reason to stay with that bank anyway; if you feel compelled to sign up for online banking:
Use a dedicated computer. They're cheap. You can afford to have one computer that's off limits for web surfing, online videos, dancing cursors and so on. For extra credit put it on a separate LAN segment, and of course you should have disabled Autorun anyway. Set it up so it can only connect to your bank's web site and to Windows Update.
Rather than shipping factories to outer planets and extracting helium-3 from a dilute mixture, why not use technology that already exists? Irradiate lithium in a fission reactor, get tritium as a result, and let it decay to helium-3.
This one's x-ray instead of optical.
Chemicals stay toxic forever. We isolate them in hazmat landfills and hope for the best.
Science labs aren't the world's best guarded places, and one of the thefts mentioned in the article was the theft of a safe from a lab.
Insightful, and the point can be taken further.
Lack of energy has risks. Electricity is not just a luxury, it provides safety and supports health. Dwelling heat can be the difference between life and death in many climates. Energy-intensive industrial societies have longer life expectancies than low-tech ones.
There may still be COMINT in the HF spectrum, and there's no substitute for a sensitive antenna/receiver combination. Imagine, for example, if they want to listen to mobile HF stations.
http://xkcd.com/221/
http://xkcd.com/490/
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski loves his work passionately and lives in pain from carpal tunnel syndrome.