The fact that we now know of yet another effect that depletes signigicant ozone should make efforts to reduce the human induced ones MORE important.
For example, if we know now that future solar events are going to take away ozone, then we're going to want all the ozone there we can get!
In fact, the 11 year solar cycle sets some time lines over which getting rid of CFCs would have practical impact. We want to be prepared for the times of high solar activity.
I don't think the source article is saying that convential explanations of missing ozone are incorrect at all.
> All I'm saying is that theories are one thing.
Your view is far too simplified to be useful. (I don't mean to be a dick about it. Read on you might like me by the end).
There is a huge spectrum between 'theory' (as you state it) and 'fact' as you state it, and the continuous parameter that flows from one to the other is 'uncertainty'.
The one thing that's missing from conventional media presentation of things is this very factor... uncertainty.
More than a third of the 493 PC users surveyed by the nonprofit National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) said they had a greater chance of winning the lottery or being struck by lightning than of being hit by malicious code.
Those survey respondants might not have been able to estimate the odds on those things all that well, but I think they are actually answering a different question:
How much do you worry about each of these things happening?
Fact is, winning the lottery and getting hit by lighting have huge consequences compared to having your computer go down, especially if you're not in the Slashdot crowd!
I'm keener to become an astronaut than even the average slashdotter. I came this --> I find your characterization of a more liberal economic policy childish and self-centered. To paint a broad brush stroke over a whole pile of people as 'ghetto' and 'trailer trash' exposes what appear to be a total lack of respect for humanity.
America should be ashamed of the way it doesn't take care of its worst off. In other places a social safety net gives people just like yourself a second chance when they live through hard times and can pull themselves out of it.
The person who eventually touches Mars first, may right now be born, and count as 'trailer trash' in your world. Are we going to be able to find them?
As for the nuclear waste generated aftewards there are a number of clever idea's about how to deal with it including one which disposes of it in the giant fusion reaction that is our Sun.
This is a non-starter for a surprising reason. Assuming a completely safe launching vehicle, it still takes too much rocket fuel to deorbit from the earth-around-the-sun orbit to make this viable.
It's not the best solution for all email situations, but I'm getting so sick of SPAM that I think I might like to have an ultra clean account that used the following...
Require the sender to have a password of some sort stored in their system. How they get the password is up to the as yet uncontacted recipient. How about a phone call? Or snail mail? The vast majority of the people I want to email me are easily contacted this way to get the ball rolling.
If ever someone who knows the password gets JIGGY in some way that the recipient no longer wants to recieve email from them, the receivers client could send a password change notice to all registered senders except for the soon to be ousted offender.
All of this could be managed in the background.
The cleanliness of email from such an account would be staggering!
Now I'm not suggesting that ALL email accounts be like this, but I sure as hell would like to have the option on an account or two.
Oh... I think the slashdot editors could use a little scolding on this one.
1) Everyone knows the c limit for information transmission. (Hands up those of you that don't know this.)
2) In the unlikely event that the speed of light had been broken (which while I'm sceptical about happening, I'll leave it open as a possibility) the editors ought to be using the principle that 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.' Not doing so risks my readership. Sensationalism is just a waste of time.
3) If the speed of light is ever broken, slashdot isn't going to be given much credit for breaking the story first, so why don't we start asking more of the editors?
Why didn't CNN mention OpenOffice.org? I'm often frustrated when journalists include the obligatory 'other side of the story'. Sometimes journalists will dig far too deep to create some sort of representation of the 'opposite opinion'.
In this case, though, where the story was so related to old formats going out of date, and the consumer being ridden for more cash to save old formats, it is clear to me that we have some pretty shifty journalism going on here.
This journalist was remiss in not mentioning that there is a program available for free that doesn't have this security flaw, and that this is a real threat to the largest seller of software on the planet.
Does anyone know how to contact CNN editorial? This need to be pointed out and they need to give OpenOffice.org it's due credit.
The problem you refer to is on a different scale. You could dump every farm in the US into the Pacific ocean and it wouldn't mean much. The earth is much bigger than that.
You could use the exact same argument to say that Boeing should hand a million or so over to me. For I, have made some measurements that suggest that time travel is possible on the macro scale. I've taken an apple and sent it forward in time. I can tell because the rotting processes have sped up.
Truth is, Boeing should NOT give me 1 $million.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but somehow, people LOVE extraordinary claims and are seemingly happy to push forward with things in the absense of that extraordinary evidence.
Slashdot Mirror
> If they cut off the air supply to Itunes ...
Frankly I'd support it if the music execs cut Air Supply out of iTunes.
www.*> rm -rf
The fact that we now know of yet another effect that depletes signigicant ozone should make efforts to reduce the human induced ones MORE important.
For example, if we know now that future solar events are going to take away ozone, then we're going to want all the ozone there we can get!
In fact, the 11 year solar cycle sets some time lines over which getting rid of CFCs would have practical impact. We want to be prepared for the times of high solar activity.
I don't think the source article is saying that convential explanations of missing ozone are incorrect at all.
> All I'm saying is that theories are one thing.
Your view is far too simplified to be useful. (I don't mean to be a dick about it. Read on you might like me by the end).
There is a huge spectrum between 'theory' (as you state it) and 'fact' as you state it, and the continuous parameter that flows from one to the other is 'uncertainty'.
The one thing that's missing from conventional media presentation of things is this very factor... uncertainty.
1 milligram of plutonium spread on a field would kill the grass, no matter how you dilluted it and grass wouldn't grow again for a long time.
No way!
Dilute it many many orders of magnitude until the activity levels are several orders or magnitude below background radiation levels?
Kerry didn't answer the question either. He spoke in general terms and we were all supposed to be thinking of GWB as he replied. (Were you?).
In fact, the question asked for a specific case where they themselves had changed their minds. Look for that in Kerry's answer.
Here goes all my Karma.
More than a third of the 493 PC users surveyed by the nonprofit National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) said they had a greater chance of winning the lottery or being struck by lightning than of being hit by malicious code.
Those survey respondants might not have been able to estimate the odds on those things all that well, but I think they are actually answering a different question:
How much do you worry about each of these things happening?
Fact is, winning the lottery and getting hit by lighting have huge consequences compared to having your computer go down, especially if you're not in the Slashdot crowd!
Why are you trying to jack around buying proprietary solutions or exotic mini-computers for your needs?
Um... Two Things:
1) This is slashdot, a.k.a. exotic-hacks-r-us.
2) The poster gives away what kind of marriage this is. The simple technical solution is not necessarily the best.
I'm keener to become an astronaut than even the average slashdotter. I came this -->
I find your characterization of a more liberal economic policy childish and self-centered. To paint a broad brush stroke over a whole pile of people as 'ghetto' and 'trailer trash' exposes what appear to be a total lack of respect for humanity.
America should be ashamed of the way it doesn't take care of its worst off. In other places a social safety net gives people just like yourself a second chance when they live through hard times and can pull themselves out of it.
The person who eventually touches Mars first, may right now be born, and count as 'trailer trash' in your world. Are we going to be able to find them?
As for the nuclear waste generated aftewards there are a number of clever idea's about how to deal with it including one which disposes of it in the giant fusion reaction that is our Sun.
This is a non-starter for a surprising reason. Assuming a completely safe launching vehicle, it still takes too much rocket fuel to deorbit from the earth-around-the-sun orbit to make this viable.
This parent is SO correct that it needs to be raised to be the FIRST post that people read.
So moderators... supress the mod points for all comments before this one.
All this will take to reverse is one gold medalist posting a bunch of photos and movies their parents took of them.
It doesn't matter what any court anywhere would say, they would be so pressured by public opinion over the matter that this wouldn't last.
Just imagine if they tried to not let them compete, or take away a medal or something.
Case closed.
I would like to create a similar set up for myself.
I'm particularly interested in recording the conversations around me and possibly creating transcripts from them.
What's the best hardware for the job?
Funny... THIS place here in BC has been peddling the
sports car
of submersibles for quite some time.
How about the following solution to spam:
It's not the best solution for all email situations, but I'm getting so sick of SPAM that I think I might like to have an ultra clean account that used the following...
Require the sender to have a password of some sort stored in their system. How they get the password is up to the as yet uncontacted recipient. How about a phone call? Or snail mail? The vast majority of the people I want to email me are easily contacted this way to get the ball rolling.
If ever someone who knows the password gets JIGGY in some way that the recipient no longer wants to recieve email from them, the receivers client could send a password change notice to all registered senders except for the soon to be ousted offender.
All of this could be managed in the background.
The cleanliness of email from such an account would be staggering!
Now I'm not suggesting that ALL email accounts be like this, but I sure as hell would like to have the option on an account or two.
>It gets worse the higher you go
Not true.
Cosmic rays 'shower' in the atmosphere leading the a peak in charged particle flux well below the ISS.
Oh... I think the slashdot editors could use a little scolding on this one.
1) Everyone knows the c limit for information transmission. (Hands up those of you that don't know this.)
2) In the unlikely event that the speed of light had been broken (which while I'm sceptical about happening, I'll leave it open as a possibility) the editors ought to be using the principle that 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.' Not doing so risks my readership. Sensationalism is just a waste of time.
3) If the speed of light is ever broken, slashdot isn't going to be given much credit for breaking the story first, so why don't we start asking more of the editors?
That would depend on whether the program forwards the command to the next ones in the network before it executes it.
Can you or anyone confirm that it does it in the right order?
Why didn't CNN mention OpenOffice.org? I'm often frustrated when journalists include the obligatory 'other side of the story'. Sometimes journalists will dig far too deep to create some sort of representation of the 'opposite opinion'.
In this case, though, where the story was so related to old formats going out of date, and the consumer being ridden for more cash to save old formats, it is clear to me that we have some pretty shifty journalism going on here.
This journalist was remiss in not mentioning that there is a program available for free that doesn't have this security flaw, and that this is a real threat to the largest seller of software on the planet.
Does anyone know how to contact CNN editorial? This need to be pointed out and they need to give OpenOffice.org it's due credit.
You can't teach someone to be a renaissance person. They are born that way.
What about the 50% of the engineering cirriculum that they have to cut out to facilitate this? Let's not have these people building our bridges.
Missing $ on loop variable at -e line 1.
That's what your sig produces.
The problem you refer to is on a different scale. You could dump every farm in the US into the Pacific ocean and it wouldn't mean much. The earth is much bigger than that.
Everything is flawed. FP.
Hmmm...let's take a PEEK.
POKE.
No. Not worth it.
You could use the exact same argument to say that Boeing should hand a million or so over to me. For I, have made some measurements that suggest that time travel is possible on the macro scale. I've taken an apple and sent it forward in time. I can tell because the rotting processes have sped up.
Truth is, Boeing should NOT give me 1 $million.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but somehow, people LOVE extraordinary claims and are seemingly happy to push forward with things in the absense of that extraordinary evidence.
Mod this parent down, and while your asking, ask him again how much antimatter has been made, and how he knows this.