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  1. OK, there's 100% consensus that climate change is happening. It's a fucking dynamic system, how can it be static?
    HOWEVER, there is ZERO consensus that it is caused by human activity.
    The sum total of human activity on this planet takes place in the lower 37,000 feet of the atmosphere, to a depth of about a thousand feet beneath the surface.
    THERE IS MUCH MORE in the Universe than that seven and a half miles. A LOT more that directly affects this planet, to much larger extent than even our entire nuclear arsenals are capable of.

    Vulcanism. Tectonics. Solar flares. Asteroids. Tidal forces. Precession. Whale farts.

  2. no, bringing it up as a "thing to be proud of" is racism. When you bring up being black as a "thing to be proud of" that makes *me*, a *white man*, feel ashamed to be white. Fuck you, and fuck the horse you rode in on.

  3. She wasn't the only one on The 'Human Computer' Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was a pool of women (and men) at NASA who were ALL referred to as "computers". NASA didn't start using electronic computers for flight dynamics calculations until 1962, and continued to rely on the pool to crosscheck the electronic calculations until 1984.

  4. I feel ya.

  5. well, shit. I should've got a screengrab.

  6. somebody should have gone to Specsavers, it's right there on the second line of the fucking summary.

  7. Re:this is illegal in Minnesota on Anti-Piracy Firm Rightscorp Will Hijack Pirates' Browsers Until a Fine is Paid (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    do it over State lines, it becomes a Federal offence.

    Where are Rightscorp based again?

  8. Re: If ever a company and its people deserved to d on Anti-Piracy Firm Rightscorp Will Hijack Pirates' Browsers Until a Fine is Paid (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Chaucer.

    Shakespeare came much later.

  9. Rightscorp are the same as patent trolls on Anti-Piracy Firm Rightscorp Will Hijack Pirates' Browsers Until a Fine is Paid (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    They hold no intellectual property of their own, they're scummy fucking bandwaggoners. They come anywhere near me, I will ram their malware so far up their arses I will hit teeth.

  10. Re:They tried that on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    we have a winner!

    (you read the article, didn't you?)

    In my limited experience, what Apple require is:

    the identity of the owner of the phone
    proof of death
    your ID (proof of address is enough) ...and your signature on a triplicate sheet that absolves them of any liability.

    Throwing legal threats at Apple will get you much the same results as you'd get from me. A rolleye, then a fuckoff biscuit.

    I'm not sure how they do it, but they had my mum's phone unlocked immediately and all the data intact. Contact lists, call/message logs, the lot. I'm guessing the fact that it was on contract and she actually took notice of my warning her about keeping backups and actually used the cloud service, meant that her encryption key was stored up there as well so all Apple had to do was apply that after locating it. IF you don't backup to the cloud and you don't backup your encryption key and you lose it, well, then you're in the same boat as the FBI and you need to seek out an Israeli hacker.

  11. have I just slept the last 363 days? on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    What the hell kind of alien goes out of his way to visit a planet where the most technologically advanced species still kill each other over tribal god-images and petrochemicals?

  12. Re:Jamming GPS? on North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com) · · Score: 2

    http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/... explains why it wouldn't (page 4).

  13. Re:Pitch Black? on Astronomers Find Rare Triple-Star Planet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    oh yes. I don't think they could top Katee Sackoff getting her kit off tho. :D

    SPOILER ALERT!

    Thrace gets nekkid.

  14. Re:Legal: Son was a Minor on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I just fucking said that, you tool!

  15. Re: this isn't a problem for Apple on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    hers was a 5C. I think. She got rid of her 3GS years ago, she never liked that one.

  16. Re:They tried that on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    no they don't because if it's a phone with a Secure Enclave, THEY CAN'T.

  17. Pitch Black? on Astronomers Find Rare Triple-Star Planet (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Not afraid of the dark, are you?

    (yes, it was a satellite of a ringed gas giant that orbited in a system with three suns: a red dwarf and a white dwarf which co-orbited outside the orbit of the planet M6-117 (the desert planet) and a blue giant in the barycentre. I think).

    Damn. I'm a geek.

  18. Re:Legal: Son was a Minor on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    wrong.

    The dead son might well have been the owner of the phone, he may well also be the named account holder - but all he needs for that is parental consent! It's HIS account.

    You don't have to be majority aged to OWN ANYTHING. You DO have to be majority aged to be able to sign a commercial contract. Someone CAN sign it on your behalf, but if that's your name on it YOU are responsible for it.

  19. this isn't a problem for Apple on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They unlocked my late mum's iPhone last October after they were shown the death certificate. No problem.

  20. Re:Jamming GPS? on North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com) · · Score: 1

    if the Iraqis managed it with COTS hardware...

  21. Re:Jamming GPS? on North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com) · · Score: 2

    any idea how much energy is required just to reach the GPS system?

    ON TOP OF WHICH, you have to go ballistic to 12,540 miles, in 6 staggered orbits 60 degrees apart, and take out a significant number of the 32 birds to the point where it is impossible to get a lock on four at once. Which means taking down 60% of them.

    Easier just to jam it. 1575MHz gear can be had over the counter.

  22. Re:Jamsed! on North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Lone Starr!

  23. I did wonder about a couple of them but decided to give the benefit of the doubt.

  24. oh, snap!

  25. name one.