...Like the technology itself. Right now, the focus is on using CRISPR to eliminate genetic diseases. Ethically there is no problem with that usage. But if a hipster fad develops for making their children really tall, we will have to call the ethicists back in for a discussion.
The poor image that mass transit has with the general public could go away if all usage of it is made by subscription. No more single ride tickets. Every user is known to the system in the same way that every Uber user is, and maintains a transit account that is used to pay for rides, with appropriate discounts for long-term usage. Not only will the riffraff and gangbangers stay off the system, but eliminating tickets and fare conductors cut costs while making the system easier to access for those who subscribe to it.
This is a case where anonymity is bad and surveillance is good.
Watch for Uber-style ridesharing to become unified with mass transit in areas where this is available, so that with one app you can arrange a ride from single address A to address B, with a single price for both transit modes, and with prices for alternative routes so that users can choose between changing from car to mass transit at stations for less vs taking a car the whole way. Users will make choices based on weather, traffic at time of day, and proximity of a transit station to one address or he other. (How much will I save if I walk a block? If I walk 5 blocks?)
Now envision what happens when the ridesharing part of such trips takes place in self-driving cars.
"The big problem with that idea is that water vapor is a GHG. We don't want more evaporation."
Significant evaporation, enough to form clouds, would increase the area's albedo, just as if it were still an ice sheet. Let's see if this effect overpowers the greenhouse effect of water.
There are long-standing speculations about decrease of ice in the Arctic possibly causing more evaporation from this ocean, hence more precipitation around it. Before we go about refreezing the area, let's see if this effect occurs.
Scientists rarely use stock photos of any kind in their publications, so you're not responding, just insinuating and deflecting.
My beef is not with scientists, but with the political screech owls who write scare articles that purport to interpret science. Isaac Asimov they're not, just hacks whose whole agenda is to insinuate and deflect.
The good news is that Sacramento will be wiped out. The bad news is that Los Angeles will go dry without the California Aqueduct. If you still own a bathtub in LA, fill it now. You will soon be able to parcel it out for a hundred bucks a gallon.
When the Banqiao dam system failed in 1975, killing 230,000, the hydro lobby's excuse was that because Chinese dams were built to different design standards from the US, such an accident could never happen here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But this failure of a modern American design means that the hydro lobby has finally run out of excuses. No matter how up-to-date the design, no dam is walkaway safe. No large project can be built without the possibility of corner-cutting by some person at some time. Some of this country's largest dams are approaching 80 years of age, and there are no provisions for dealing with the costs of eventual decommissioning. And after all these years, nobody knows how to deal with the increasing amount of leftover silt.
" (DuckDucking for it is turning up nothing and I don't want to press it with Google or some other search engine that spies on people)"
You know Google saves search results because that's part of their business model. Because you don't know what DuckDuckGo's business model is, you don't know whether they are spying.
People who look at CP deserve everything that comes to them. Including malware
To me, the key point is: can the FBI be dead certain that anyone who runs this malware got it from their salted CP images?No possibility that the malware could spread to innocent parties? No possibility that it could be contracted by someone who misspells a URL?
Countries that want to keep given kinds of content out are welcome to try firewalling. Doing this effectively for highly specific kinds of content costs diamonds and will deplete the treasury of any dictatorship with lesser resources than China. I consider this a feature, not a bug.
Geoblocking makes no sense to the person selling content. It's purely for middlemen who hope to sell for different prices in different parts of the world, because they have grown used to the fact that for physically distributed goods there are real costs that vary with selling in different places. That this no longer applies in the digital world has not sunk in yet.
An enterprise installation is a different animal. The admin sets up one user system to the desired configuration, images it, and then copies the image into umpty identical machines. This works the same way for Mac and Windows, so the easy IT path is for the lowest-cost hardware. When a Windows box gets trashed by the usual malware, you just re-image it from the company standard.
"As to the issue itself, if H1Bs are reduced enough or made economically non-viable, companies will just move the jobs offshore."
Setting up a whole new offshore operation, or having to deal with a new international subsidiary, is a much more expensive and complicated process than just lying to the feds about your abuse of the H-1B system.
In a migration, OS X carefully identifies applications that are not compatible with an OS upgrade and places them in a special folder. In a major release there is usually one or two of these.
Nuclear winter has nothing to do with radioactivity. It's all about dust kicked up by sufficiently large explosions blocking sunlight. The same effect can be caused by impactors.
In the year 535, Something Happened. For several years the Earth turned cold and dark. Crops failed and multitudes died. Ice cores for the period show excess sulfur but no iridium, which points to volcanism as a cause. The point of eruption has not been identified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What makes things easier for English speakers is that a lot of the Old Norse geographical terms have survived as English place names in areas that have a history of Viking contact. In hiking the northern UK I encountered a lot of -fell (mountain), -foss (waterfall), -ness (point), -water (lake) and -wick (bay) names.
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...Like the technology itself. Right now, the focus is on using CRISPR to eliminate genetic diseases. Ethically there is no problem with that usage. But if a hipster fad develops for making their children really tall, we will have to call the ethicists back in for a discussion.
The poor image that mass transit has with the general public could go away if all usage of it is made by subscription. No more single ride tickets. Every user is known to the system in the same way that every Uber user is, and maintains a transit account that is used to pay for rides, with appropriate discounts for long-term usage. Not only will the riffraff and gangbangers stay off the system, but eliminating tickets and fare conductors cut costs while making the system easier to access for those who subscribe to it.
This is a case where anonymity is bad and surveillance is good.
This attitude will change when we see China clean its air by going nuclear.
Watch for Uber-style ridesharing to become unified with mass transit in areas where this is available, so that with one app you can arrange a ride from single address A to address B, with a single price for both transit modes, and with prices for alternative routes so that users can choose between changing from car to mass transit at stations for less vs taking a car the whole way. Users will make choices based on weather, traffic at time of day, and proximity of a transit station to one address or he other. (How much will I save if I walk a block? If I walk 5 blocks?)
Now envision what happens when the ridesharing part of such trips takes place in self-driving cars.
Rocks are dated by radiometry, looking at combinations of unstable isotopes that are appropriate to the type of rock.
Can we get the same data from lavas? Lava has flowed in any given year of Earth's history.
"The big problem with that idea is that water vapor is a GHG. We don't want more evaporation."
Significant evaporation, enough to form clouds, would increase the area's albedo, just as if it were still an ice sheet. Let's see if this effect overpowers the greenhouse effect of water.
There are long-standing speculations about decrease of ice in the Arctic possibly causing more evaporation from this ocean, hence more precipitation around it. Before we go about refreezing the area, let's see if this effect occurs.
Scientists rarely use stock photos of any kind in their publications, so you're not responding, just insinuating and deflecting.
My beef is not with scientists, but with the political screech owls who write scare articles that purport to interpret science. Isaac Asimov they're not, just hacks whose whole agenda is to insinuate and deflect.
"For years, client scientists have been saying that AGW will bring about more droughts and more floods."
Then why until this last rainy year has every story floated by the Church of Warminetics used the same stock photo of a dry lakebed?
The good news is that Sacramento will be wiped out. The bad news is that Los Angeles will go dry without the California Aqueduct. If you still own a bathtub in LA, fill it now. You will soon be able to parcel it out for a hundred bucks a gallon.
When the Banqiao dam system failed in 1975, killing 230,000, the hydro lobby's excuse was that because Chinese dams were built to different design standards from the US, such an accident could never happen here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But this failure of a modern American design means that the hydro lobby has finally run out of excuses. No matter how up-to-date the design, no dam is walkaway safe. No large project can be built without the possibility of corner-cutting by some person at some time. Some of this country's largest dams are approaching 80 years of age, and there are no provisions for dealing with the costs of eventual decommissioning. And after all these years, nobody knows how to deal with the increasing amount of leftover silt.
" (DuckDucking for it is turning up nothing and I don't want to press it with Google or some other search engine that spies on people)"
You know Google saves search results because that's part of their business model. Because you don't know what DuckDuckGo's business model is, you don't know whether they are spying.
People who look at CP deserve everything that comes to them. Including malware
To me, the key point is: can the FBI be dead certain that anyone who runs this malware got it from their salted CP images?No possibility that the malware could spread to innocent parties? No possibility that it could be contracted by someone who misspells a URL?
Countries that want to keep given kinds of content out are welcome to try firewalling. Doing this effectively for highly specific kinds of content costs diamonds and will deplete the treasury of any dictatorship with lesser resources than China. I consider this a feature, not a bug.
Geoblocking makes no sense to the person selling content. It's purely for middlemen who hope to sell for different prices in different parts of the world, because they have grown used to the fact that for physically distributed goods there are real costs that vary with selling in different places. That this no longer applies in the digital world has not sunk in yet.
Azure is a server OS that has nothing to do with consumer Windows.
An enterprise installation is a different animal. The admin sets up one user system to the desired configuration, images it, and then copies the image into umpty identical machines. This works the same way for Mac and Windows, so the easy IT path is for the lowest-cost hardware. When a Windows box gets trashed by the usual malware, you just re-image it from the company standard.
"As to the issue itself, if H1Bs are reduced enough or made economically non-viable, companies will just move the jobs offshore."
Setting up a whole new offshore operation, or having to deal with a new international subsidiary, is a much more expensive and complicated process than just lying to the feds about your abuse of the H-1B system.
Yes, names like Prestwick are derived from -vik for bay. And i forgot to mention all those -ey names, for islands, and -stead, for place.
Your link goes to a Not Found page, but there was a Windows migration utility in the past. It is no longer offered with 10.
In a migration, OS X carefully identifies applications that are not compatible with an OS upgrade and places them in a special folder. In a major release there is usually one or two of these.
Nuclear winter has nothing to do with radioactivity. It's all about dust kicked up by sufficiently large explosions blocking sunlight. The same effect can be caused by impactors.
In the year 535, Something Happened. For several years the Earth turned cold and dark. Crops failed and multitudes died. Ice cores for the period show excess sulfur but no iridium, which points to volcanism as a cause. The point of eruption has not been identified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
An interesting book if you want to know more about this event: https://amazon.com/Island-Fire...
What makes things easier for English speakers is that a lot of the Old Norse geographical terms have survived as English place names in areas that have a history of Viking contact. In hiking the northern UK I encountered a lot of -fell (mountain), -foss (waterfall), -ness (point), -water (lake) and -wick (bay) names.