>don't we have a bunch of satellites that do nothing but watch the sun and monitor space weather? If there's been some finding that the power delivered by the sun has increased, I missed it
Peterson expected to find predictions of cooling and the reality of what was in the literature came as "a surprise to us", according to Peterson. "[S]keptics had repeated their arguments so often and so strongly that we misremembered the tenor of the times".
Another place to look things up is this bibliography of 1970s climate science literature. Most of the papers of the time boiled down to "we don't know", with the occasional "this interglacial is due to end in the next couple of thousand years".
The kindest possible interpretation is that some people got Newsweek confused with the scientific literature and then somehow got hold of a megaphone.
>No one is legally drunk after one drink unless you are drinking something crazy. Even a 100 lbs woman will only be.06 after one drink. See here.
My nerd license requires me to nitpick absolute statements even if the nitpick is almost never relevant, preferably by mentioning some obscure corner case.
Therefore, I point out that the limit in Iceland is.05, which means that a woman at.06 would in fact be legally drunk.
You now have a new useless fact to clutter your mind.
Drunk drivers got convicted before there were breathalyzers. They still get convicted when the breath tests are excluded: my wife was on a jury which did just that.
The only change here is that people can't get convicted on the say-so of a black box. Which isn't even a change, because the legal system has always insisted on quality control for evidence.
A black box machine for convicting people makes as little sense as a black box voting machine.
Or to pick another illustration, what about the error handling?
Google released some data about their disk farm which included sensors reporting drive temperatures of ten thousand degrees. If the sensor in the breathalyzer freaks out that badly, does the firmware o Clip it to the maximum value? o Report an error? o Reuse the value from just before it became clearly nonsensical?
According to the outcome of this case, violating a web site's terms of service is a crime, not just a contract issue.
The MySpace Terms of Service prohibit harassing other users. They also require accurate contact information.
If a website operator can put you in jail for TOS violations as opposed to just closing your account, then as long as they can get a prosecutor to play along, they can put you in jail for signing up with bogus information.
>This has to do with psychological stalking and trauma. Please pull your head out of your ass. I'm sure it's hard to breathe up there.
"The Los Angeles federal court jury on Wednesday rejected felony charges of accessing a computer without authorization to inflict emotional distress on young Megan Meier."
>And at the time, there were no practical results with direct democracy.
There were historical examples, from Classical civilization. The founders of the US were familiar with that era, and the Federalist Papers are full of examples of how some specific idea played out in some Greek city-state.
Now that we have universal literacy and an awesome information network, direct democracy has more of a chance of working. But there are still issues, two of which are: 1. Who sets the agenda? Who decides what questions go to the voters, and how they are phrased? 2. There needs to be a buffer against transient passions. If the US had been a direct democracy, the entire Middle East would have turned into a sheet of glass on 9/12.
The hash databases weren't built in the last time I used it, or at least I didn't find them. Wonderful tool, does much more than search for images, but not quite the same functionality as is being claimed for SimPLE.
"Hoover Dams" are the units used to represent such things as the power output of the Shuttle main engines. Other popular ones are "enough to light N,000 homes" and "equivalent to N nuclear power stations" (always nuclear, for some reason).
Melting copper takes 13.050 kJ/mol. A mole of copper is 63.546 grams. We'll drop everything to two significant figures, which is probably already more precise than the rest of the numbers. 70 tons is one million moles, so melting 70 tons per second is 13E12 J/sec, 13 terawatts, which is close enough to the 10 terawatt figure for the beam dump that's on the web. Five or six thousand Hoover Dams, then.
A local forensics expert says the same thing of his practice. In fact, last time I heard him speak about it, he said he'd never encountered encryption in a case he handled.
There's some sample bias going on there, because he refuses to handle some cases, and child pornography is one of the things he won't touch.
HIPAA has requirements for availability as well as confidentiality, so any place handling protected patient data should set up an ADK. An Additional Decryption Key is a PGP feature that allows reading an encrypted disk with a corporate recovery key.
BitLocker and (moving away from whole disk) EFS have their own ways of accomplishing the same thing.
In February 2005, cryptographers were already saying things like "Until further notice all new designs should use SHA-256" due to recently discovered weaknesses in SHA-1. It hasn't been cracked, and it's not in immediate danger, but in any system that will be around for decades to come it is an unwise choice.
>no reductions to such "secondary peaks" like evening TV-watching (etc.) will help, because the utilities must maintain the generating capacity to meet the highest peak.
The capital cost is set by the highest peak, yes.
On the other hand, every time demand goes above base load the utilities start switching in plants with higher operating costs. That secondary peak doesn't require any new generating stations, but it does potentially fire up some gas turbines that could otherwise have stayed idle for a few hours more.
>Also I could see huge problems later on when the only IT guy who knows the key is fired, hit by the obligatory train, or quits.
If you're covered by the credit card industry's Data Security Standard, you're already required to use encryption and you're required to use it competently, with a key management infrastructure.
Corporate crypto deployments have been using some form of key escrow for many years. Availability is as much part of security as confidentiality is.
If your goal is to get other browsers to improve, then market share is nice but not a necessity. Google wants the world full of browsers that are good platforms for web-based applications.
Star Trek also had an episode devoted to showing both sides of an argument about whether Data should be afforded human rights. It was thoughtful and is not at all a bad starting point for thinking about the issues.
Slashdot Mirror
078-05-1120 will not collide with a real person.
It'll be a cold day in July before that argument works on me.
I can't tell you what the weather will be on any day in July but I can tell you that it will be warm.
I can't tell you the weather in Seattle next week but I can tell you it will have about 30 inches of rain over the next year.
Climate is easier to forecast than weather. Climate is the signal, weather is the noise.
>don't we have a bunch of satellites that do nothing but watch the sun and monitor space weather? If there's been some finding that the power delivered by the sun has increased, I missed it
Indeed we do, with direct measurements of solar output going back to 1978. Draw your own conclusions from the satellite measurements of power delivered by the sun.
>Don't take my word for it, look it up.
Always good advice.
Science News, October 25 2008, page 5: retrospective on 1970's climate change literature.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37590/title/Cooling_climate_%E2%80%98consensus%E2%80%99_of_1970s_never_was
citing a review article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society by climatologist Thomas Peterson and collaborators.
Peterson expected to find predictions of cooling and the reality of what was in the literature came as "a surprise to us", according to Peterson. "[S]keptics had repeated their arguments so often and so strongly that we misremembered the tenor of the times".
Another place to look things up is this bibliography of 1970s climate science literature. Most of the papers of the time boiled down to "we don't know", with the occasional "this interglacial is due to end in the next couple of thousand years".
The kindest possible interpretation is that some people got Newsweek confused with the scientific literature and then somehow got hold of a megaphone.
>No one is legally drunk after one drink unless you are drinking something crazy. Even a 100 lbs woman will only be .06 after one drink. See here.
My nerd license requires me to nitpick absolute statements even if the nitpick is almost never relevant, preferably by mentioning some obscure corner case.
Therefore, I point out that the limit in Iceland is .05, which means that a woman at .06 would in fact be legally drunk.
You now have a new useless fact to clutter your mind.
Drunk drivers got convicted before there were breathalyzers. They still get convicted when the breath tests are excluded: my wife was on a jury which did just that.
The only change here is that people can't get convicted on the say-so of a black box. Which isn't even a change, because the legal system has always insisted on quality control for evidence.
A black box machine for convicting people makes as little sense as a black box voting machine.
Or to pick another illustration, what about the error handling?
Google released some data about their disk farm which included sensors reporting drive temperatures of ten thousand degrees. If the sensor in the breathalyzer freaks out that badly, does the firmware
o Clip it to the maximum value?
o Report an error?
o Reuse the value from just before it became clearly nonsensical?
According to the outcome of this case, violating a web site's terms of service is a crime, not just a contract issue.
The MySpace Terms of Service prohibit harassing other users. They also require accurate contact information.
If a website operator can put you in jail for TOS violations as opposed to just closing your account, then as long as they can get a prosecutor to play along, they can put you in jail for signing up with bogus information.
>This has to do with psychological stalking and trauma. Please pull your head out of your ass. I'm sure it's hard to breathe up there.
"The Los Angeles federal court jury on Wednesday rejected felony charges of accessing a computer without authorization to inflict emotional distress on young Megan Meier."
xkcd explains how to get a sandwich.
Further, according to the reports, the students didn't act at all traumatized but were instead giggling.
>IE7 is set to run in sandbox mode by default.
I believe this is only on Vista.
>And at the time, there were no practical results with direct democracy.
There were historical examples, from Classical civilization. The founders of the US were familiar with that era, and the Federalist Papers are full of examples of how some specific idea played out in some Greek city-state.
Now that we have universal literacy and an awesome information network, direct democracy has more of a chance of working. But there are still issues, two of which are:
1. Who sets the agenda? Who decides what questions go to the voters, and how they are phrased?
2. There needs to be a buffer against transient passions. If the US had been a direct democracy, the entire Middle East would have turned into a sheet of glass on 9/12.
The hash databases weren't built in the last time I used it, or at least I didn't find them. Wonderful tool, does much more than search for images, but not quite the same functionality as is being claimed for SimPLE.
"Hoover Dams" are the units used to represent such things as the power output of the Shuttle main engines. Other popular ones are "enough to light N,000 homes" and "equivalent to N nuclear power stations" (always nuclear, for some reason).
Melting copper takes 13.050 kJ/mol. A mole of copper is 63.546 grams. We'll drop everything to two significant figures, which is probably already more precise than the rest of the numbers. 70 tons is one million moles, so melting 70 tons per second is 13E12 J/sec, 13 terawatts, which is close enough to the 10 terawatt figure for the beam dump that's on the web. Five or six thousand Hoover Dams, then.
A local forensics expert says the same thing of his practice. In fact, last time I heard him speak about it, he said he'd never encountered encryption in a case he handled.
There's some sample bias going on there, because he refuses to handle some cases, and child pornography is one of the things he won't touch.
BitLocker may make encryption more mainstream.
HIPAA has requirements for availability as well as confidentiality, so any place handling protected patient data should set up an ADK. An Additional Decryption Key is a PGP feature that allows reading an encrypted disk with a corporate recovery key.
BitLocker and (moving away from whole disk) EFS have their own ways of accomplishing the same thing.
In February 2005, cryptographers were already saying things like "Until further notice all new designs should use SHA-256" due to recently discovered weaknesses in SHA-1. It hasn't been cracked, and it's not in immediate danger, but in any system that will be around for decades to come it is an unwise choice.
>no reductions to such "secondary peaks" like evening TV-watching (etc.) will help, because the utilities must maintain the generating capacity to meet the highest peak.
The capital cost is set by the highest peak, yes.
On the other hand, every time demand goes above base load the utilities start switching in plants with higher operating costs. That secondary peak doesn't require any new generating stations, but it does potentially fire up some gas turbines that could otherwise have stayed idle for a few hours more.
And if nobody was supervising him to make sure he didn't steal things, what was to prevent him from introducing dangerous items into the luggage?
How hard would it be for someone with ill intent to get a TSA job?
Someone here must have been through an enterprise-wide encryption rollout. What did yours cost?
>Also I could see huge problems later on when the only IT guy who knows the key is fired, hit by the obligatory train, or quits.
If you're covered by the credit card industry's Data Security Standard, you're already required to use encryption and you're required to use it competently, with a key management infrastructure.
Corporate crypto deployments have been using some form of key escrow for many years. Availability is as much part of security as confidentiality is.
That's the theory. In practice, Bruce Schneier and a University of Washington team have found that once the native OS can see the formerly hidden data, copies get scattered all over:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/truecrypts_deni.html
If your goal is to get other browsers to improve, then market share is nice but not a necessity. Google wants the world full of browsers that are good platforms for web-based applications.
Star Trek also had an episode devoted to showing both sides of an argument about whether Data should be afforded human rights. It was thoughtful and is not at all a bad starting point for thinking about the issues.
Most HPV infections do not lead to cervical cancer.
Most cervical cancers are caused by HPV.
These two statements are logically consistent.
The mechanism of action is even known: HPV blocks the action of tumor-suppressing gene p53.