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  1. Re:Just security theater on Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially as a few shenanigans with the battery will give you a pretty big bang no extra explosives needed.

    Not necessarily a big bang, but a very nasty fire.

  2. Re:Collectivists took over Universities. on YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Except zero of those countries are marxist.

    Right. The problem with Marxism is that it cannot exist in a practical way, because the system is inherently unstable.

  3. It's the sun, you fucking idiot.

    The light from the Sun is carefully measured, and it's been remarkably stable, with a very small (0.1% or so) decrease in average radiation since the 80's.

  4. Re:It's all a load of horse shit on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    No, you missed the point. Instead of labeling someone and dividing people, lets try and have a conversation.

    Claiming all studies (on both sides) are fake, discredited, and falsified, doesn't really sound like an attempt to unite.

    Of course if a study doesn't prove the funder's narrative,

    Who's funding NASA now, and what's their narrative ?

  5. Re:Collectivists took over Universities. on YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    wtf is an "actual marxist"

    I assume it's someone who follows the writings of Marx.

    Of course, those are just writings, ideas, not an actual stable functional system.

  6. In fact, when you search "vaccination" on YouTube, you also get mostly good quality results.

  7. Define "good quality".

    When you search "vaccinations" on Google, good quality results show up on top. Apparently, they already have the tools.

  8. Echo chamber on YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    YouTube could break the echo chamber effect by recommending good quality videos on the same topic. If someone is interested in vaccinations, there's no reason to just recommend conspiracy videos on the topic.

  9. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    There is high correlation between stations up to 1000 km apart:

    https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs...

    What you call "precious little data" is actually quite abundant for a climate scientist.

  10. A cron job would be less intrusive

    Good idea. I think we're getting somewhere.

  11. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    So for those two graphs presented (all blue = corrected, red + blue = original) you would say the anomaly from 1960 until now would be the same? Really?

    No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm referring to your comment about "determined to heat the past rather than cool the current".

    I assume you agree that the step error needs to be corrected. We can either do that by pulling up past temperature, or lowering the recent ones. But in either case, the slope of the blue, corrected curve would stay the same. The slope determines the anomaly. The vertical offset of the entire curve is not relevant for the anomaly calculation.

  12. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    You are getting climate information from a website on collecting postage stamps ?

  13. The great thing about painted tunnels is that birds can go through them but predators cannot

    Provided you use ACME paint, of course.

  14. Re:My research indicates... on Researchers Trick Tesla Autopilot Into Steering Into Oncoming Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How about dropping a couple of big chunks of concrete on the road, in the dead of night ? When you throw them from a pick-up truck, that's easier than getting out, and carefully applying stickers to the road.

  15. I think they should put a small 'like' button on the desktop. And if you press it, an automatic tweet to the developers is generated saying that you really like their product, and please make more.

  16. Putting a fake stop-sign on the middle of the highway should be fun too.

    Or painting a fake tunnel on a rock.

  17. Do they want a mint ?

  18. Re:People are easy to fool on Researchers Trick Tesla Autopilot Into Steering Into Oncoming Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, I'm sure you can, idiots will always exist, but I bet you can't find anything that will systemically cause human drivers to

    Accidents caused by idiot drivers are still accidents, and harder to fix.

  19. Re:Like sitting beside a first-time teen driver on Researchers Trick Tesla Autopilot Into Steering Into Oncoming Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And people find driving with Autopilot to be less stressful than driving without it? I guess I'm different from most people.

    Because in most cases the system works fine, and people get complacent.

  20. Re:Film at 11 on Researchers Trick Tesla Autopilot Into Steering Into Oncoming Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The difference being a human that sees lane markers leading into active oncoming traffic will decide there are shenigans and not follow.

    If there's active traffic, people will avoid it. But there are plenty of times that human drivers get confused by road markings, especially during construction, worn paint, poor lighting, rain, and blinding headlights from oncoming traffic.

  21. Re:It's all a load of horse shit on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    I don't give a shit how many articles you point to, how many FAKE, DISCREDITED studies you point too.

    In other words, you're a denier.

  22. Re:What a good thing! on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    The winters here are frickin freezing. Just a few days ago we had snow, and it's April already, for Christ's sake. I welcome global warming with open arms.

    Unfortunately for you, global warming is only adding a few degrees to average temperature. That's never going to be enough to make winters in Canada disappear.

  23. Re:Permafrost bomb on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    Concentration is meaningless. You need to compare absolute numbers (on a log scale).

  24. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Anomalies"? Really? Not "conflicting data"?

    No. Please educate yourself: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/moni...

    Anomalies vs. Temperature

    In climate change studies, temperature anomalies are more important than absolute temperature. A temperature anomaly is the difference from an average, or baseline, temperature. The baseline temperature is typically computed by averaging 30 or more years of temperature data. A positive anomaly indicates the observed temperature was warmer than the baseline, while a negative anomaly indicates the observed temperature was cooler than the baseline.

  25. Re:WTFUWT is a blogroll,not scientific on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    They overlap like your FM stations overlap. They occupy the same band, they do not occupy the same frequencies.

    Wrong, the spectral 'lines' are not actually thin lines, as you can see in the explanation here:

    http://www.barrettbellamyclima...

    'Lines' overlap

    Pressure broadened lines or bands overlap so that over the spectral range there are no instances of 100% transmission. This is illustrated by spectra of CO2 with 100 m and 200 m path lengths respectively that show that over the spectral range there is some absorption at all wavenumbers. Please note that the spectra have been replaced with their correct titles. The previous titles were for 100 m and 200 m path lengths in error, pointed out by Brenden O'Connor.

    Also: http://www-star.st-and.ac.uk/~...