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  1. Re:It's about time on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1

    no you need to prove your absurd comments. sun spot activity and volcano's are the driving force in climate change.there is no scientific evidence to prove otherwise.
    theories,conjecture and,pre-programmed computer models are not proof.

    Sorry, not seeing it.

    http://woodfortrees.org/plot/sidc-ssn/from:1980/mean:36/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1980/scale:200/mean:36

  2. Re:Prediction on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1

    Global warming ended in May 2014. You heard it here first.

  3. Re:GLobal warming scien is simple on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 2

    So bottom line the increase of CO2 in our atmosphere is 100% man made. Well, 95%? Not sure if there was an event in recent history that had a natural release.

    Actually the CO2 increase is about 200% man made - i.e. we're releasing around twice what the increase is. Turns out that natural sinks can take up about half of what we release.

  4. Re:records go back to 1880, very funny on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how it is that in all these discussions, no one ever talks about the problems with the monitoring stations.

    What are you talking about? Anthony Watts wrote a peer reviewed paper about it:

    Fall, Souleymane; Watts, Anthony; Nielsen-Gammon, John; Jones, Evan; Niyogi, Dev; Christy, John R.; Pielke Sr., Roger A. (2011). "Analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends". Journal of Geophysical Research 16 (D14). Bibcode:2011JGRD..11614120F. doi:10.1029/2010JD015146.

    The opposite-signed differences of maximum and minimum temperature trends are similar in magnitude, so that the overall mean temperature trends are nearly identical across site classifications.

    Whoops.

  5. Re:AP Statistics isn't really computational thinki on Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? · · Score: 1

    Mod these motherfuckers up.

    Fucking Americans and their fucking assumption that we fucking understand their fucked educational system.

    FUCK!

  6. Re:To help prevent people from buying AMD and nVid on Intel To Offer Custom Xeons With Embedded FPGAs For the Data Center · · Score: 1

    So, does the FGPA "code" get swapped on a context switch?

  7. Re:Those sheds are sheds on Restored Bletchly Park Opens · · Score: 1

    Only if Baby (ancestor of the Manchester Mark 1, which spawned Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer), EDSAC (ancestor of the LEO, the first computer used for commercial operations) and Pilot ACE (ancestor of the Bendix G15, an early washing machine) had no impact on later computing developpment.

    EDVAC's major introduction to the world of computing was the destructive patent dispute.

  8. Re:I'm so confused how to feel on Restored Bletchly Park Opens · · Score: 1

    the fact remains that the "computer" used by the British was purpose built for a single task. It was not reprogrammable for the simpler commercial machine, a hardware rebuild would have been necessary.

    No, the commercial Enigma was effectively a sub-set of the military Enigmas - a Bombe would have no problem with the lack of the plug-board (it would just be one possible setting of the plug-board: no letters swapped). The four-rotor Enigma only came into use in 1942 and the army continued to use the three rotor machines.

    The US Navy Bombe contained 16 four-rotor Enigma-analogues and was much faster than the British three-rotor Bombes, even for a three-rotor task.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe

    When you say "computer" I get the feeling you are confusing the Collosus with the Bombes, and although Collosus was not a stored program machine it could be "reprogrammed" for different tasks by changing switches and plugs, and was used for more than one task.

  9. Re:I'm so confused how to feel on Restored Bletchly Park Opens · · Score: 1

    Well, the AC has posed the question in an amazingly ham-handed way, but it is a point worth making.

    Bletchley Park was the direct ancestor of the NSA and GCHQ.

    It was the start of industrial scale sigint, and the largest part of the project was being run in the US by the end of the war. (Bletchley handed over the Enigma decoding to the US in order to concentrate on the trickier Lorenz cipher, for which they built Colossus).

  10. Re:I'm so confused how to feel on Restored Bletchly Park Opens · · Score: 1

    German military cipher machines were small variants of the commercial "Enigma" cipher machine.

  11. Re:Those sheds are sheds on Restored Bletchly Park Opens · · Score: 2

    The EDVAC was a real general purpose computer, with the "von Neumann architecture" all later computers followed.

    The contract to build EDVAC was signed in Aprl 1946, it was delivered in August 1949 and started work in 1951,

    Meanwhile, Baby was running in June 1948, EDSAC was running in May 1949 and Pilot ACE was running in May 1950.

    So "all later computers followed"?

  12. Re:yuck epresso on How To Make Espresso In Space · · Score: 1

    I'm old, jaded and can remember the times when life was good and code was C.

    You're not old.

  13. Re:So wait... what? on California Regulators Tell Ride-Shares No Airport Runs · · Score: 1

    everyone in calif is required to have auto insurance, so THAT's a total non-argument about ride-sharing.

    You may want to research what is covered by that insurance.

  14. Re:Somewhere in my mind... on Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Somehow in my mind Cisco and Oracle are the same company. Maybe I have reached my dotage, but when I see one mentioned the other may as well be there too. They are like Satan had identical twins separated at birth.

    Nah, Oracle never wanted to produce a pdp-10 clone.

    Come on Cisco, wer're waiting.

  15. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    license = permission slip.
    a citizen doesn't need a permission slip.

    How do you know he's a citizen without a bit of paper from the evil government?

  16. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    Who are the "don't tread on me" types killing? Oh, that's right, nobody.

    Have you been hiding under a rock? Have you never heard of Jerad and Amanda Miller? Or Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo and some poor anonymous bystander?

    Witnesses told police one of the shooters yelled “This is the start of a revolution” before shooting the officers. [...]

    The shooters then stripped the officers of their weapons and ammunition and badges, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. They then covered the officers with something that featured the Gadsden flag, a yellow banner with a coiled snake above the words, “Don’t tread on Me.”

  17. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    Men are required to undergo military training and be in the reserves for 10 years, keeping their sealed army-issued firearm at home or in the Zeughaus,

    In my experience it was under the bed. When you stub your toe on a Stgw 90 it fucking hurts.

  18. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    Those cities enacted gun control laws because they were already the most dangerous cities.

    After which they became even more dangerous.

    Less. Less dangerous.

    Crime rates are going down.

  19. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    i would say lead in paint would be a better factor. less people would drink gasoline. but lots of kids would like the walls.

    Most kids breathe.

  20. Re:Why are taxpayers funding this? on NASA Names Gavin Schmidt Director of the Goddard Institute For Space Studies · · Score: 2

    Ah, so we're not to use models any more.

    That'll make getting into an airplane more exciting in the future.

    As for being "correct", Schmidt himself said: "Models are not right or wrong. They are always wrong. They are always approximations. The question you have to ask is whether a model tells more information than you would have had otherwise. If it does, it is skillful."

  21. Re:Why are taxpayers funding this? on NASA Names Gavin Schmidt Director of the Goddard Institute For Space Studies · · Score: 1

    In what sense is "one of the primary architects of GISS Model E" not doing "responsible science"?

  22. Re:GiB on Crucial Launches MX100 SSD At Well Under 50 Cents Per GiB · · Score: 1

    If you count to ten on your fingers are you working in unary or decimal?

    Both the 1620 and the 1301 worked in decimal, store was available in 10's, 100's or 1000's of words.

    Anyway, if insist on claiming that those decimal machines were "really" binary.

    What about ternary machines? Where each "bit" position could have one of three values. E.G. Setun.

  23. Re:Color me on NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images · · Score: 2

    History?

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gchq-spying-edward-snowden

    The real history is that the UK found it didn't have the resources to fund Bletchley Park without American help and by the end of the war most of the work was being done in the US:

    By December 1943, 120 machines were installed. For the remainder of the war, the US took care of breaking the majority of German Naval Enigma traffic and in particular the messages of the dreaded German U-Boats.

    http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/bombe/

  24. Re:Color me on NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images · · Score: 1

    Just remember, they're only doing what the rest of the world does! Because they're all bastards.

    Well, in this case they're following the lead of the British GCHQ, so in some sense they are doing what the rest of the world does.

    But since GCHQ is a bought and paid for subsidary of the NSA...

  25. Re:Was it Fox news? on Iranian Hacker Group Created Fake News Organization For Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    bogus profiles of attractive women and even created a fake online news organization to get digitally closer to more than 2,000 U.S. military members, defense contractors and lobbyists it wanted to spy on,

    Wait! So the Iranians actually created Fox News as a way to mess with the minds of American right wingers, and undermine the country?

    Why, that's just...well...actually it explains a lot.

    Well,no.

    Fox is Saudi owned, not Iranian.

    Ever wondered why Iraq got attacked after 9/11?