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  1. Re: noooo on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    Please explain why it isn't.

  2. Re: noooo on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    Do you have any indication about what's wrong with these assertions?

    Well, the first one is basing itself on just one dataset, RSS. Why? Well it turns out that RSS has been giving significantly cooler temperatures than all other datasets, so why pick this one?

    Also, looking at RSS for the last 18 years gives us:

    Trend: 0.022 +/- 0.169 C/decade (2sigma)

    So it's not a trend of zero as WUWT claims, it's somewhere between +0.218 and -0.174 C/decade, but the period is too short to give a significant trend.

  3. Re:conditions in steerage were deplorable on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on, you're not as bad as that.

    Oh, hang on a sec, you are.

  4. Re:Hydroelectric and the environment on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    They also kill many thousands of people.

  5. Re:Vs Driving? on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Define polution.

    Your source is not talking about CO2.

  6. Re: why ? on Red Hat Engineer Improves Math Performance of Glibc · · Score: 1

    No, the next letter after C is P.

  7. Re: C versus Assembly Language on Red Hat Engineer Improves Math Performance of Glibc · · Score: 1

    No they're not. They're written in C. There are assembly versions where that is useful.

  8. Re:C versus Assembly Language on Red Hat Engineer Improves Math Performance of Glibc · · Score: 1

    That's a very interesting example, if you look at the code (yay free software!) you'll see that what makes glibc memcpy & pals fast is being careful about the algorithms.

    For example strchr runs about 4-8 times faster in C than a naive assembly implimentation.

  9. Re:And that's still too long on Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Ne moment's inspiration?

    You've never created anything, have you?

  10. Re:revolutionary idea? on Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 · · Score: -1, Troll

    English, motherfucker, learn to write it.

    ITYM "hire"

  11. Re:RAH had this in the 50's on The Billionaires' Space Club · · Score: 1

    Government is a system for getting useful work out of possibly incompetent workers. (Stross has some talk of this in the Laundry series).

  12. Re:Allegiance to a foreign power? on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    It's not likely that American citizens have sworn allegiance to Israel.

    apart from those serving in the Israeli armed forces, or sitting in the Knesset of course.

  13. Re:Slashdot's refusal to accept climate change... on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    There is evidence that the more a normal person knows about the science the more they accept that AGW is real, but the more a RWA personality knows about the science the more they deny AGW.

  14. Re:Doesn't matter on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 2

    The 3 worst things England gave to the world:

    Australia
    Canada
    The USA.

    New Zealand seems ok.

  15. Re:yeah not really on Peter Diamandis: Technology Is Dissolving National Borders · · Score: 1

    wooosh.

  16. Re:yeah not really on Peter Diamandis: Technology Is Dissolving National Borders · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Almost. It's about the laws that control where you may abide.

    The author of the piece is a rich American. An Afghan living rough in Calais, waiting for a chance to sneek across the channel into the UK would never have written such drivel.

  17. Re: Don't give the rich anything. on Peter Diamandis: Technology Is Dissolving National Borders · · Score: 0

    Tbis is an American view, because your 'pollce' forces don't accept the peelian principles.

    All police forces tend to diverge from the ideal, but yours are worst than most (outside the 3rd wormd).

  18. Re:That's revolutionary on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    So, now you just need to make about 29 gigatonnes of archery cases a year.

    Better get to work straight away.

  19. Re:That's revolutionary on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    The only problem is that they're temporary carbon sinks.

    If you just leave them in place they die and rot and release the carbon into the atmosphere.

    If you cut and down and use them for something (paper, furniture, house building) they'll eventually be incinerated or buried in landfill and release the carbon back into the atmosphere.

    The only way they can be long term sinks is if you bury them and turn 'em back into oil or coal. And nobody is going to do that.

  20. Re:Forked the Debian? or the Debian? on Devuan Progress Report Published · · Score: 1

    A weird attitude for a project that previously have forked such things as Firefox over a licensing issue.

    Debian didn't fork Firefox. Mozilla told Debian that if Debian didn't build exactly the code that Mozilla released then Debian weren't allowed to use any Mozilla trademarks -- the name, the logo and so on.

    Since Debian stable doesn't change versions (that's what stable means) that would have meant no bug fixes for Firefox (and Thunderbird) for a whole Debian stable release, which was unacceptable. So Debian made a version of Firefox with no Mozilla trademarks, Iceweasel. It's not a fork, Debian writes no code for it, it's just Firefox with a new name, logo, and whatever security patches are needed.

  21. Re:PHP? on MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language · · Score: 1

    If by go and swift you mean Haskel and ML.

    This will make PHP programmers head explode.

  22. Re:western world full of frauds on Bill Gates Sponsoring Palladium-Based LENR Technology · · Score: 1

    What on earth are you banging on about?

    Germany had a thorium reactor, THTR-300. It was a buggy piece of junk.

    The CDU got Germany out of nuclear power (fucking idiots). No maoists were involved.

    Berlesconi got Italy out of nukes. No maoists involved.

  23. Re:Will RTL8192 still be broken? on Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features · · Score: 1

    It worked always great, then I think after 3.12 it doesn't work anymore.

    Seems to be working for me with Debian's 3.16.

    Bug report numbers?

  24. Re:systemd? on Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features · · Score: 1

    Great, we look forward to seeing your new upstart-based distro.

    That'd be Debian. Jessie will support systemd, upstart or sysvinit.

  25. Re: Their comments on trolls/trolling on Devuan Progress Report Published · · Score: 1

    Hooray! The anti-systemd paedophiles have turned up again! Now the gang's all here.