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  1. There is no Theory of gravity, Newton derived a model, F = G(m_1 * m_2/r^2) which works in everyday situations, but both mass values and the distance, radius are variables due to relativistic effects. Einstein's theory of General Relativity refined the relativistic effect and gave us a conceptual frame work on which his models have been consistently shown to be descriptive of observed data, but nobody really believes it to be the final answer.

    When Gravity can be explained in a Quantum Mechanical framework, we'll have a theory, until then it's all very much "Works in Progress"

  2. Re:Why did FBI claim they would start helping poli on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 1

    As likely as not a bald-faced lie to make Apple look good. They can probably hack into any Iphone now, but made a big show about a legal case against Apple and now to buy an exploit into an almost obsolete phone as a distraction. People especially bad actors will stay with Apple thinking they are secure.

  3. GPS is Global Positioning System, it gives a means to determine a geographic coordinates to a Precision of 5 meters, has nothing to do with an Internet Protocol address, especially IP address issued by DHCP from a regional server.

  4. Re:Information Sharing Treaty on US ISPs Refuse To Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody is suggesting the Canadian Government violate the rights of Canadians in the US, but that is not the same as the US Government giving Canadians more rights than Americans have in the US.

  5. Re:Define Pirates on US ISPs Refuse To Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    What the rest of the World doesn't get is just because the POTUS signs a treaty, and there is a big televised signing ceremony and all of the big-wigs stand around smiling and shaking each others hands in front of the cameras for the news; it don't mean jack unless the Senate ratifies it.

    I also suspect that a treaty that " grants Canadian citizens in the US the same rights of privacy and data access they have in Canada, stronger rights than Americans." would be unconstitutional in the US under the 14th amendment that grants equal protection of the law. That is also the reason the US isn't a signatory to, but follows several of the Geneva Conventions.

  6. Re:That really depends... on Internet Mapping Glitch Turned a Random Kansas Farm Into a Digital Hell (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    or if your riding a bicycle in a tornado

  7. Re:Magnified stupidity on Internet Mapping Glitch Turned a Random Kansas Farm Into a Digital Hell (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    Obviously you don't work in Climatology, they learn how to interpolate a mercury thermometer to 3 decimal places.

  8. It's not GPS thing, It's your IP address you got via a DHCP server at the ISP's datacenter is usually kinda-sorta assigned somewhere arround, when their is no full moon +- 100Km of this coordinates to 5 decimal places thing. I'm impressed they get the city right more than 50% of the time.

  9. 31th december of 1974: - 30 degrees
    23rd december of 2013: + 23 degrees

    This is celsius. Feel free to check wolframalpha.com what that is in fahrenheit

    No idea what you want to say.

    A temperature difference of 50 C degrees because of a global average increase of .73 C ? (In german winter on two places roughly 100km from each other)

    That's BS, no way Germany was anything like -30 deg C as a representative temperature unless it was taken on the highest peak of the Germany Alps, Zugspitze, back in the 40's; -30 is Arctic temperatures. citation please, original data.

  10. Re:Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    Well the point was could the exit node filter based on content, the real answer is no, anybody using TOR is very likely to be using end to end encryption. In the particular case 4chan.org did in fact report the possible illegal upload, 4chan.org is the nexus of oppositional-defiant youth and mostly Not Workplace Safe anyway.

  11. Re:Could be, they just don't understand how TOR wo on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Tor is for Child Pornography on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    By that logic, Comcast is in trouble, the police should confiscate their whole network whenever some dirtbag looks at some kiddie porn while connected to them.

  13. Re:Surprised on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously the Cop's knew the allegations were bogus, but if they didn't go through the motions to make it look good, they'd either get some federal grants yanked or get smeared for not "protecting children". If they thought there was really any child porn there, it would have been a full-on SWAT roll-out between 3 and 4 AM and every thing with an electrical plug would have undergone forensic analysis, and held from years to forever as evidence.

  14. Re:More Information on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    I got warm fussy feelings reading the cop's affidavit for the search warrant; there actually is someone who's spelling and grammar is worse than mine! If I were a Judge, I'd be tempted to hold him in contempt just for presenting such rubbish to me. If you can't even invest the time and effort to get the boilerplate correct, why should anything else be considered?

  15. Re:Real reason on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    A bootable USB stick with Linux on it can analyse the disk with tripwire, if you can get something past that, your dealing with NSA/CIA level skills at a minimum.

  16. Re:Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    How would they know, if I connect through HTTPS, only the two end point computers would ever know what was in the packets because it would be encrypted before they entered the TOR network.

  17. Re:Minimal Inconvenience on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody is quick to criticise the Police and the Judge but :

    SPD says it "served a warrant at the home while investigating information received from the National Center for Missing and Exploiting Children" involving the possible distribution of child pornography.

    once again we see a NGO Advocacy group involved; you would think that a specialized group would be more astute about doing through due diligence before filing a complaint. In the future when SPD de-prioritises their complaints and tips, whos fault will it be?

  18. No that's a list of things that no one knows all though some have pretended to.

  19. 6. less than a degree on average for the whole planet!

    31th december of 1974: - 30 degrees
    23rd december of 2013: + 23 degrees

    This is celsius. Feel free to check wolframalpha.com what that is in fahrenheit

    Since 15 - 20 years we have no winters anymore, I call that global warming. How you call it, is up to you.

    +0.73 deg C is less than a degree

    The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March, 2016 is +0.73 deg. C, down a little from the February record-setting value of +0.83 deg. C (click for full size version). This makes March 2016 the warmest March in the satellite record (since 1979), and statistically tied with April 1998 for the second warmest month. UAH V6 Global Temperature Update for March, 2016: +0.73 deg. C

    Back in the 70's the Alarmists were talking about a coming ice-age

  20. At U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), the second link on the page, Quality Controlled Datasets which contains the links for Monthly, Daily01, hourly02 and subhourly01 datasets, there is also links for FTP access; seemed pretty clear to me, sorry it was over your head, I'll leave the other for you to practice on.

  21. Re:Doubt is essential to science on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think your grasping the concept of logarithms properly, it's more of a calculus thing than a arithmetic thing. Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity is how many degrees of temperature change we would expect for each doubling of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. If Climate Sensitivity is 2, (a middle of the road value); and we have 280 ppm (a generally excepted value for pre-industrial levels); then you would expect a 2 degree when CO2 hit 360 ppm, another 2 degrees when CO2 hits 720 ppm. Each 2 degrees require twice as much CO2; there is no linear area, it might look that way when graphed, but if you look at the scale, the numbers are not equally spaced, they are logarithmically scaled

  22. Re:Doubt is essential to science on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    Your right of course, right now they are saying most of the warming is in the Arctic, if that means it's up to -25 instead of the more typical -35 winter temperatures, I don't see that having a lot of practical physical significance; however if it starts hitting 0 earlier in the spring and the Tmax is a couple degrees higher all summer, you have a different situation. The Arctic is a tough nut for climatologist, the historical record isn't as accurate as they would have you believe. DEW line radar jockeys getting paid basically minimum wage, aren't the most reliable about going outside where you can freeze to death in minutes or get eaten by a polar bear to read a thermometer when they can just sit in the ready room and just write down whatever they feel like. Even satellite coverage isn't the best over the Arctic.

    There have been plenty of predictions of an ice free Arctic and 20m increases in sea-level that haven't panned out.

  23. The first link shows no statistically significant warming, RSS even show a statistically insignificant cooling. The second and subsequent links describe the datasets and have links to the actual data, so you could do something like do your own analysis on the data if your were so inclined. Additionally the first link has the data, which can be add to the graphs through by clicking the add series button selecting the data on the drop-down lists and then clicking the plot graph button.

  24. Re:Doubt is essential to science on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    The effect of increasing CO2 on temperature diminish logarithmically; unlikely to be severe. we might not even have enough fossil fuel left in the ground to get to severe..

  25. We've heard it before, back when we were running nosed kids, and have been around long enough to see how it didn't panned out; same shit, different day.