Here in Copenhagen, Denmark at busy intersections you will see 2-3 or more cars running the red at the end of each green period simply because they don't really respect the light; they only respect the risk of hitting cross traffic, and the 2 second all red period allows them to stretch their green a second or two into the full red. Most know this and most do it. It's not just a single car here and there; it's simply standard behavior and if someone actually stops as intended, the cars behind will honk and give the finger as they expect to make it across.
This is why there's a movement here to make them wake up because the late cars reach the far crosswalk after it has tuned green (or 'walk'), thus creating some very dangerous situations. We simply start walking the very second the light turns red across, thus bringing us well out into the intersection before the late cars are through, thus causing some emergency breaking (and a few accidents from loss of control). If we pay attention we can avoid stepping out right in front of a car (we give the driver the finger instead) and I've not heard of a single accident involving a pedestrian doing this.
The yellow light should have a duration based of the maximum legal speed, How long (including normal attentive reaction time) will it take to come to a rest safely from that speed? - Not emergency braking, just a normal stop. That is how long the yellow should be. No all red needed.
If you drive too fast or not paying attention, you deserve to get in trouble. A camera will determine if you ran the light and thus are at fault. Criminal charges in addition to the traffic fines should be applied, plus you get to pay all damages, both material and human. I'm sure that text can wait when the alternative is mandatory jailtime, a huge fine and a lifetime of paying for damages.
Im sorry, where did you get the idea that this helped keep intersections safe? Keeping intersections safe is actually fairly trivial without any sort of RLC or punishment. All you need to do, which many places already have done, is slightly increase the length of yellow lights, and delay the green transition on the other traffic lane, so that there is a period of 1-2 seconds where all sides are red; and thus cars that may have been late past the line, have time to make it through.
Sure it may not play into some people's fetish for punishment and strict rules enforcement, but, it does a great job of increasing safety.
And in light of that, when cities get caught reducing the yellow light time at lights, which is less safe and increases the chances of an accident, then YES it is a money making scheme.
Increasing the yellow light period is an incredibly stupid idea. Sure, in theory it may allow late vehicles to get through safely, but is has two major drawbacks.
The first is human psychology. It will make people keep going even if they could stop safely, making them even later, and then you'd have to extend the yellow again to make if safe etc.
The second is the waste of time the all red period causes. It adds up. It either adds to the time lost to transportation (which is already immense due to queues and congestion) or makes people try to catch up by driving even faster, causing more and more serious accidients.
Oh, and there's a movement here where pedestrians start walking as soon as the light turns red across, not waiting for the green (or 'walk') to come on. It has caused some pretty hefty emergency braking and hopefully a massive shock to the late driver, making him or her think twice before running a light on what we call taxi-green (because it used to be mostly taxies that tried to avoid having to wait for the next green). I'm more or less part of this movement. After all, yellow also means stop so there's always ample time to stop, especially at city speeds.
That is because some vitamins are easy to overdose on, often with nasty side effects. Vitamin D is actually of the few almost impossible to overdose on. Normal daily dose is around 5 micrograms and the overdose limit is in the 100 gram range, 100.000 times the normal daily dose. They really should put it everywhere, not just in milk.
If you feel better because of a multivitamin, it's almost certainly because of a single vitamin deficiency. Probably vitamin D, which is common and which can cause depression. A blood workup probably would have shown.
Yup, extremely common, especially here in Scandinavia with our long dark winters. I'm eating - on doctors orders - four 25 microgram vitamin D pills each day and have been for the past couple of years. Vitamin D deficiency is known to to cause what's called "winter depression" but will also affect your immune system. People lacking vitamin D tends to get more colds than average. Since I started my treatment I've had a total of one cold and zero flu. Before that I had around 3-4 colds during a year.
The word 'stealing' implies an evil act of greed. When I infringe on copyright it is an act of last resort. I download the most recent episodes from the series that I follow. Most are never going to be aired here in my country, and there's nowhere online I can pay for these. Sure, there's probably some people out there that would accept money for the pirated content but that not what I'm talking about. I want to send money in the direction of the people that should get paid (cast, crew etc.) but there's simply nowhere I can get to do that. I'm left with the choice of waiting or downloading illegally, leaving me with no choice.
What's up with you, rights holders?! - I want to pay but you won't sell - but you will procecute?! Just release your stuff globally on all formats at the same time. Then we can support the shows we love instead of random internet pirates.
I've got ADD. I was diagnosed with it in 5th grade. My parents refused medications and instead demanded the school address it via teaching techniques. Right or wrong that decision lead to me being who I am. They used to tell me in my special ed class that I was the only one in there that actually had ADD, the rest were just lazy. lol. It does bother me how many people I meet that claim to have ADD and clearly do not. Just about everyone self diagnoses themselves with it at a whim.
That is the real problem. Too many people looking for excuses, combined with doctors all too happy to prescribe medication (often combined with them being on the payroll of the pharmaceutical companies making the medication), has created a massive abuse of the diagnosis, leading to nobody respecting it. Spend 5 mins with almost any child with an AD(H)D diagnosis and it will become obvious that whatever attention deficit it has, it is clearly the result of lack of discipline and upbringing. If there is a underlying medical basis, it is completely obscured by the lack of basic discipline.
A diabetic that stops taking insulin will most like drop dead early as a result, perhaps going blind along the way.
A ADD-patient that stops taking his medicine is most likely to end up in jail way before he/she kills anyone. We're not talking anti-sociopathic medicine here, just impulse-reducing stuff. Serial killers are usually schizophrenic if they have a mental disorder, and most are also sociopaths. An ADD patient (real) is just more likely to be upset or to loose patience, not to commit violence or murder. They might yell or throw things but they will not kill anyone unless there's something more wrong with them.
As a lesbian (yes, some of us do browse Slashdot), I find the attitudes of the political correctness crowd far more distasteful than the attitudes of the Russians in this matter.
It's very hypocritical for the politically correct crowd to clamor on about how bad discrimination is, but in doing so they end up discriminating against those who wish to hold viewpoints that may be considered controversial. The political correctness crowd's attempt to take a stance against discrimination is inherently discriminatory in and of itself.
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While the Russians may severely dislike homosexuality, to the point of criminalizing it, at least they're honest about it. They don't pretend to be against discrimination, while simultaneously engaging in it, like the political correctness crowed constantly does.
I find honest dislike or disapproval to be much less onerous and disgusting than the veiled, denied-but-omnipresent hatred that the political correctness crowd engages in.
Honesty about it does not make the stance even the slightest more acceptable. What makes it worse is that religion (which is abuse in itself) is abused to justify the stance. It simply makes it triple-wrong.
PS: Welcome to/. !!! - Everybody is welcome here, from boring nerds and geeks to retarded religious bigots too stupid to keep their mouth shut. Expect to have your opinions questioned and challenged.
Adult Discipline Deficiency... a better de-acronymization. Way too many diagnosed with ADD don't need medication, they just need boundaries and discipline.
I really wish you kids would stop discovering Mitnick and worshiping him like a hero.
Lets get some facts about Mitnick straight.
He wasn't a fucking hacker, he was a socially inept douche back who actually was capable of lying his way into accounts of people who didn't know that giving your password out to some random guy that calls you is a bad idea.
Nothing he did was even a little bit impressive. Ever. Again, let me repeat since it might not have been clear: NOTHING HE EVER DID WAS EVEN A LITTLE BIT IMPRESSIVE.
I'm certainly not impressed... by your comment and your complete lack of knowledge concerning the subject you're commenting on.
First of all: Social Engineering is most certainly part of what professionals are calling hacking. It was never just about wardialing and guessing passwords. In the movie "wargames" the lead character does some guessing and goes to the library to figure out that many passwords are weak and that people often use named of family member as password, thus "Joshua". Today, in real life, much of this is done using social engineering. You can get very far just calling people connected with your target or one of it's suppliers (enter 'dumpster diving' which will tell you quite a bit 'innocent' information about someone). Using name dropping and a bit of charm-based persuation you can get just about everything you want. Kevin Mitnick made this an art and wrote the book on it, "The Art of Deception".
Among the stuff he gained full access to was manufactorers of IT-infrastructure, defense sub-contractors etc. - it is not known what he did with all this (the Motorola hack is possibly the most well known) so the NSA is still watching him close to this day. He did modify firmware code to allow himself administrative access and he could "whistle into a phone" to get free long distance etc. - although no actual whistling was involved. He just punched a string of numbers and sent it to the exchange, which activated those hidden features. There was also a code which turned a cell phone into a bug. The phone and the exchange has to be Motorola but if they were, the phone would transmit audio while appearing to be idle. He didn't create this functionality - he just found it and learned how to activate it.
In Scandinavia it's a common pre-court procedure to deny the suspect of news and other means to by which they might influence or be influenced by the world outside.
In this case this is also done due to the seriousness of the crime and the impact on Danish national security. After all, he's charged with the crime of stealing massive amounts of personal data on every danish citizen (most than enough to steal the identity of everyone), including police records and a few other specialized databases. The hacker did have unlimited access to the mainframe holding all these data for many months and petabytes of data was transferred out of the system so it's quite certain that most or all data found was stolen. Not exactly peanuts. It's not like a few millions passwords or a few million credit card numbers, it's the complete identity of every danish citizen in the world, something not easily changed.
Homework is not that important! - I did very little homework in math during most of my regular school year except for stuff that needed to be handed in, and I still got the very top grade at the exams both orally and written. I learned by reading ahead in class and asking relevant questions when ever needed.
I know it helps your grade when you correct the problems posed by the teacher in addition to both answering the flawed problems and the problem the teacher usually intended to pose. Math always came very easily to me and I just did the first 11 problems of that test with no errors (took about 5 mins), even though I'm 47 now and thus left school quite a long time ago.
I know someone who had his original work taken down by a Warner Bros DMCA bot (without recourse, naturally, since only lawyers are people nowadays).
Really?!? That's the best you've got?
At least offer a SOURCE or a FRAME OF REFERENCE.
"I know this one guy..."
Fuck you. You are part of the problem.
No, YOU are a part of the problem. Why do you need more details? - Do you want to fight for this guy or something?
The details doesn't matter. There are millions like him out there. People recording themselves (thus owning the rights) playing classical music (which isn't copyrighted anymore) gets taken down daily. I've even heard of videos with no musical content - pure nature stuff - being DMCA'ed.
The system is severely broken and severely abused, yet it is still exceedingly easy to find any kind of pirated content online. DMCA is a complete failure.
And once they were released back to the society they commit crimes again, and again, and again
This is actually an important point. I think we need to consider that criminalism actually is a mental illness. Once thing is that people in need commit crimes, but for some strange reason they are a small minority. Most repeat offenders are greedy/lazy types that keep repeating the same mistakes over and over in order to get rich fast, no matter what kind of therapy they receive while incarcerated. Maybe they need psychological or psychiatric therapy or something to that effect? - And stay inside until they are 'cured'?
If I were to construct the policy of a country, I'd go for unlocked doors and very strict punishments for those 'breaking in' and stealing, i.e. an open society with harsh punishments for those breaking the rules.
Punishments should be 4-5 years minimum and double each time when re-offending. Prison time should be hard labor and not a paid vacation. Resocializing should only happen the first time. Re-offenders are just kept away from society so they can do no harm while they're locked up. No parole system for reoffenders either.
Actually - denying that there is a cyclic component is madness. We are quite certain about the ice ages being a recurring (cyclic) phenomena and we know that the (cyclic) sunspot activity also affect the terrestrial climate, so there's two cycles for you, and there's certainly more than that. We do not know what else might affect the climate except there's been significant fluctuations in historical times that cannot be attributed to human activity or geological events, and thus are unexplained.
It is therefore madness to attribute all recent climate changes to human activity only, when you have significant historical changes that cannot possibly be attributed to human activity. The only way to move forward is to first explain the historical changes and then scientifically exclude these explanations from the recent activity, and then - and only then - to look at human activity as an explanation. You need to exclude everything else before you can attribute human activity as the primary cause of the recent changes with any degree of certainty.
In my humble opinion BH does some truly admirable work documenting abusing blocking and documenting/creating ways around blocking.
I'm a strong supporter of the old cyberpunk credo: "Information want to be free". I'm opposed to all filtering and blocking, no matter if it's stupid parents that think that their child benefits from living in a rose-colored bubble completely unaware of the real world and possibly unable to find support for whatever 'deviant' thoughts he or she might have, or employers that think that their minions gets more productive if they are forced to check their Facebook accounts from their phone in the bathroom instead of their work computer... Creating work-arounds to combat blocking is Admirable Work in my world, and BH has been doing that for a long time. Sure, he might be annoying at times, but I can live with that.
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RLC cause more accidents because people slamming on their brakes for yellow lights. It is documented.
If you need to slam on your brakes you're either going too fast or not paying attention - or both.
Here in Copenhagen, Denmark at busy intersections you will see 2-3 or more cars running the red at the end of each green period simply because they don't really respect the light; they only respect the risk of hitting cross traffic, and the 2 second all red period allows them to stretch their green a second or two into the full red. Most know this and most do it. It's not just a single car here and there; it's simply standard behavior and if someone actually stops as intended, the cars behind will honk and give the finger as they expect to make it across.
This is why there's a movement here to make them wake up because the late cars reach the far crosswalk after it has tuned green (or 'walk'), thus creating some very dangerous situations. We simply start walking the very second the light turns red across, thus bringing us well out into the intersection before the late cars are through, thus causing some emergency breaking (and a few accidents from loss of control). If we pay attention we can avoid stepping out right in front of a car (we give the driver the finger instead) and I've not heard of a single accident involving a pedestrian doing this.
It doesn't require college level math.
The yellow light should have a duration based of the maximum legal speed, How long (including normal attentive reaction time) will it take to come to a rest safely from that speed? - Not emergency braking, just a normal stop. That is how long the yellow should be. No all red needed.
If you drive too fast or not paying attention, you deserve to get in trouble. A camera will determine if you ran the light and thus are at fault. Criminal charges in addition to the traffic fines should be applied, plus you get to pay all damages, both material and human. I'm sure that text can wait when the alternative is mandatory jailtime, a huge fine and a lifetime of paying for damages.
Im sorry, where did you get the idea that this helped keep intersections safe? Keeping intersections safe is actually fairly trivial without any sort of RLC or punishment. All you need to do, which many places already have done, is slightly increase the length of yellow lights, and delay the green transition on the other traffic lane, so that there is a period of 1-2 seconds where all sides are red; and thus cars that may have been late past the line, have time to make it through.
Sure it may not play into some people's fetish for punishment and strict rules enforcement, but, it does a great job of increasing safety.
And in light of that, when cities get caught reducing the yellow light time at lights, which is less safe and increases the chances of an accident, then YES it is a money making scheme.
Increasing the yellow light period is an incredibly stupid idea. Sure, in theory it may allow late vehicles to get through safely, but is has two major drawbacks.
The first is human psychology. It will make people keep going even if they could stop safely, making them even later, and then you'd have to extend the yellow again to make if safe etc.
The second is the waste of time the all red period causes. It adds up. It either adds to the time lost to transportation (which is already immense due to queues and congestion) or makes people try to catch up by driving even faster, causing more and more serious accidients.
Oh, and there's a movement here where pedestrians start walking as soon as the light turns red across, not waiting for the green (or 'walk') to come on. It has caused some pretty hefty emergency braking and hopefully a massive shock to the late driver, making him or her think twice before running a light on what we call taxi-green (because it used to be mostly taxies that tried to avoid having to wait for the next green). I'm more or less part of this movement. After all, yellow also means stop so there's always ample time to stop, especially at city speeds.
That is because some vitamins are easy to overdose on, often with nasty side effects. Vitamin D is actually of the few almost impossible to overdose on. Normal daily dose is around 5 micrograms and the overdose limit is in the 100 gram range, 100.000 times the normal daily dose. They really should put it everywhere, not just in milk.
If you feel better because of a multivitamin, it's almost certainly because of a single vitamin deficiency. Probably vitamin D, which is common and which can cause depression. A blood workup probably would have shown.
Yup, extremely common, especially here in Scandinavia with our long dark winters. I'm eating - on doctors orders - four 25 microgram vitamin D pills each day and have been for the past couple of years. Vitamin D deficiency is known to to cause what's called "winter depression" but will also affect your immune system. People lacking vitamin D tends to get more colds than average. Since I started my treatment I've had a total of one cold and zero flu. Before that I had around 3-4 colds during a year.
yeah, and those that don't get a balanced diet?
Exactly. Most regular people don't so for them there's bound to be a benefit from a daily multivitamin pill.
The word 'stealing' implies an evil act of greed. When I infringe on copyright it is an act of last resort. I download the most recent episodes from the series that I follow. Most are never going to be aired here in my country, and there's nowhere online I can pay for these. Sure, there's probably some people out there that would accept money for the pirated content but that not what I'm talking about. I want to send money in the direction of the people that should get paid (cast, crew etc.) but there's simply nowhere I can get to do that. I'm left with the choice of waiting or downloading illegally, leaving me with no choice.
What's up with you, rights holders?! - I want to pay but you won't sell - but you will procecute?!
Just release your stuff globally on all formats at the same time. Then we can support the shows we love instead of random internet pirates.
I've got ADD. I was diagnosed with it in 5th grade. My parents refused medications and instead demanded the school address it via teaching techniques. Right or wrong that decision lead to me being who I am. They used to tell me in my special ed class that I was the only one in there that actually had ADD, the rest were just lazy. lol. It does bother me how many people I meet that claim to have ADD and clearly do not. Just about everyone self diagnoses themselves with it at a whim.
That is the real problem. Too many people looking for excuses, combined with doctors all too happy to prescribe medication (often combined with them being on the payroll of the pharmaceutical companies making the medication), has created a massive abuse of the diagnosis, leading to nobody respecting it. Spend 5 mins with almost any child with an AD(H)D diagnosis and it will become obvious that whatever attention deficit it has, it is clearly the result of lack of discipline and upbringing. If there is a underlying medical basis, it is completely obscured by the lack of basic discipline.
That does not make sense.
A diabetic that stops taking insulin will most like drop dead early as a result, perhaps going blind along the way.
A ADD-patient that stops taking his medicine is most likely to end up in jail way before he/she kills anyone. We're not talking anti-sociopathic medicine here, just impulse-reducing stuff. Serial killers are usually schizophrenic if they have a mental disorder, and most are also sociopaths. An ADD patient (real) is just more likely to be upset or to loose patience, not to commit violence or murder. They might yell or throw things but they will not kill anyone unless there's something more wrong with them.
As a lesbian (yes, some of us do browse Slashdot), I find the attitudes of the political correctness crowd far more distasteful than the attitudes of the Russians in this matter.
It's very hypocritical for the politically correct crowd to clamor on about how bad discrimination is, but in doing so they end up discriminating against those who wish to hold viewpoints that may be considered controversial. The political correctness crowd's attempt to take a stance against discrimination is inherently discriminatory in and of itself.
While the Russians may severely dislike homosexuality, to the point of criminalizing it, at least they're honest about it. They don't pretend to be against discrimination, while simultaneously engaging in it, like the political correctness crowed constantly does.
I find honest dislike or disapproval to be much less onerous and disgusting than the veiled, denied-but-omnipresent hatred that the political correctness crowd engages in.
Honesty about it does not make the stance even the slightest more acceptable. What makes it worse is that religion (which is abuse in itself) is abused to justify the stance. It simply makes it triple-wrong.
PS: Welcome to /. !!! - Everybody is welcome here, from boring nerds and geeks to retarded religious bigots too stupid to keep their mouth shut. Expect to have your opinions questioned and challenged.
Adult Discipline Deficiency... a better de-acronymization. Way too many diagnosed with ADD don't need medication, they just need boundaries and discipline.
I really wish you kids would stop discovering Mitnick and worshiping him like a hero.
Lets get some facts about Mitnick straight.
He wasn't a fucking hacker, he was a socially inept douche back who actually was capable of lying his way into accounts of people who didn't know that giving your password out to some random guy that calls you is a bad idea.
Nothing he did was even a little bit impressive. Ever. Again, let me repeat since it might not have been clear: NOTHING HE EVER DID WAS EVEN A LITTLE BIT IMPRESSIVE.
I'm certainly not impressed... by your comment and your complete lack of knowledge concerning the subject you're commenting on.
First of all: Social Engineering is most certainly part of what professionals are calling hacking. It was never just about wardialing and guessing passwords. In the movie "wargames" the lead character does some guessing and goes to the library to figure out that many passwords are weak and that people often use named of family member as password, thus "Joshua". Today, in real life, much of this is done using social engineering. You can get very far just calling people connected with your target or one of it's suppliers (enter 'dumpster diving' which will tell you quite a bit 'innocent' information about someone). Using name dropping and a bit of charm-based persuation you can get just about everything you want. Kevin Mitnick made this an art and wrote the book on it, "The Art of Deception".
Among the stuff he gained full access to was manufactorers of IT-infrastructure, defense sub-contractors etc. - it is not known what he did with all this (the Motorola hack is possibly the most well known) so the NSA is still watching him close to this day. He did modify firmware code to allow himself administrative access and he could "whistle into a phone" to get free long distance etc. - although no actual whistling was involved. He just punched a string of numbers and sent it to the exchange, which activated those hidden features. There was also a code which turned a cell phone into a bug. The phone and the exchange has to be Motorola but if they were, the phone would transmit audio while appearing to be idle. He didn't create this functionality - he just found it and learned how to activate it.
In Scandinavia it's a common pre-court procedure to deny the suspect of news and other means to by which they might influence or be influenced by the world outside.
In this case this is also done due to the seriousness of the crime and the impact on Danish national security. After all, he's charged with the crime of stealing massive amounts of personal data on every danish citizen (most than enough to steal the identity of everyone), including police records and a few other specialized databases. The hacker did have unlimited access to the mainframe holding all these data for many months and petabytes of data was transferred out of the system so it's quite certain that most or all data found was stolen. Not exactly peanuts. It's not like a few millions passwords or a few million credit card numbers, it's the complete identity of every danish citizen in the world, something not easily changed.
It goes without saying that the moronic get what they deserve
The moronic parents aren't getting what they deserve, it's their children that are paying the price.
Yes, but we can hope that the parents are unimmunized too... Measles are much worse in an adult...
Homework is not that important! - I did very little homework in math during most of my regular school year except for stuff that needed to be handed in, and I still got the very top grade at the exams both orally and written. I learned by reading ahead in class and asking relevant questions when ever needed.
I know it helps your grade when you correct the problems posed by the teacher in addition to both answering the flawed problems and the problem the teacher usually intended to pose. Math always came very easily to me and I just did the first 11 problems of that test with no errors (took about 5 mins), even though I'm 47 now and thus left school quite a long time ago.
I know someone who had his original work taken down by a Warner Bros DMCA bot (without recourse, naturally, since only lawyers are people nowadays).
Really?!? That's the best you've got?
At least offer a SOURCE or a FRAME OF REFERENCE.
"I know this one guy..."
Fuck you. You are part of the problem.
No, YOU are a part of the problem. Why do you need more details? - Do you want to fight for this guy or something?
The details doesn't matter. There are millions like him out there. People recording themselves (thus owning the rights) playing classical music (which isn't copyrighted anymore) gets taken down daily. I've even heard of videos with no musical content - pure nature stuff - being DMCA'ed.
The system is severely broken and severely abused, yet it is still exceedingly easy to find any kind of pirated content online. DMCA is a complete failure.
And once they were released back to the society they commit crimes again, and again, and again
This is actually an important point. I think we need to consider that criminalism actually is a mental illness. Once thing is that people in need commit crimes, but for some strange reason they are a small minority. Most repeat offenders are greedy/lazy types that keep repeating the same mistakes over and over in order to get rich fast, no matter what kind of therapy they receive while incarcerated. Maybe they need psychological or psychiatric therapy or something to that effect? - And stay inside until they are 'cured'?
Just display candy-ads on a page on the way to checkout. You'll still get impulse buys.
The weather is much better in Solvang, at least in the winter...
Why make it all so complicated?
- Require valid user with unique ID and password
- Allow NJ citizens to sign up
- Filter out 'undesirables' (non-NJ, banned, underage etc.)
Now, just allow anybody that's a valid user to play regardless of their location.
If I were to construct the policy of a country, I'd go for unlocked doors and very strict punishments for those 'breaking in' and stealing, i.e. an open society with harsh punishments for those breaking the rules.
Punishments should be 4-5 years minimum and double each time when re-offending. Prison time should be hard labor and not a paid vacation. Resocializing should only happen the first time. Re-offenders are just kept away from society so they can do no harm while they're locked up. No parole system for reoffenders either.
Of course not! - If they believe enough, God will find a way...
Actually - denying that there is a cyclic component is madness. We are quite certain about the ice ages being a recurring (cyclic) phenomena and we know that the (cyclic) sunspot activity also affect the terrestrial climate, so there's two cycles for you, and there's certainly more than that. We do not know what else might affect the climate except there's been significant fluctuations in historical times that cannot be attributed to human activity or geological events, and thus are unexplained.
It is therefore madness to attribute all recent climate changes to human activity only, when you have significant historical changes that cannot possibly be attributed to human activity. The only way to move forward is to first explain the historical changes and then scientifically exclude these explanations from the recent activity, and then - and only then - to look at human activity as an explanation. You need to exclude everything else before you can attribute human activity as the primary cause of the recent changes with any degree of certainty.
In my humble opinion BH does some truly admirable work documenting abusing blocking and documenting/creating ways around blocking.
I'm a strong supporter of the old cyberpunk credo: "Information want to be free". I'm opposed to all filtering and blocking, no matter if it's stupid parents that think that their child benefits from living in a rose-colored bubble completely unaware of the real world and possibly unable to find support for whatever 'deviant' thoughts he or she might have, or employers that think that their minions gets more productive if they are forced to check their Facebook accounts from their phone in the bathroom instead of their work computer... Creating work-arounds to combat blocking is Admirable Work in my world, and BH has been doing that for a long time. Sure, he might be annoying at times, but I can live with that.