"Massive deforestation is not being considered? Seriously. One unit of burnt coal or gas produces 1 unit of CO2 and one of H2O! Yes, water is a greenhouse gas. What we see is rainfall and storms moving north/south"
Considering that the U.S. is more is forested today than in 1900, not much of an issue there. There is an issue with warped weather due to micro climate issues caused by excessive urban areas causing monstrous heat thermals. But, overall, forestation is not an issue in the country. Once you get away from the urban blight it's all copacetic.
And, if you can believe the Greenpeace study of the Amazon Rain Forest; the higher CO2 percentage in the atmosphere has increased the growth rate of the canopy by 7% (2010 measurements compared to a baseline check in the late 1970s)
A higher CO2 percentage causes an increase in green plant growth.
This concept that a manufacturer can dictate what you can do with a purchased piece of tech has precedents going back over 150 years. The Edison Trust lawsuits set precedent that such a practice is unlawful. Time for some more class action to reinforce it.
With crowdfunding sites like PledgeMusic or BandCamp; a record label is irrelevant any more. Many musicians have found it is easier to fund production by pre-sales at a crowdfunding site then all sales royalties go to the musicians instead of a parasitical label. Most of the per track sales are via iTunes or Amazon these days making a record label even more irrelevant.
Nokia was dying long before the iPhone. They stayed with the candy bar phone with a 1" LCD monochrome screen when Motorola went to color screen flip phones. Poof went the market share.
You have to really search for good films that aren't "Hollywood". I'm sick of films getting the "Hollywood" treatment for the U.S. audience and being totally ruined. "Ghost in the Shell" is a good example.
Shoot, there are some Russian films that beat out Hollywood but you can't find them in the U.S. market.
Since Microsoft has a habit of every patch returning Bing and Microsoft Edge to be the default; 1/3 of the internet searches sounds right with the percentage of clueless net users that have no clue how to change defaults.
Yep, back in the day; Nullsoft got my shareware check.
Winamp was the program implementing the Fraunhoffer codec for the 90s. Motion Picture Expert Group Layer 3 encoding (MP3 for short) became synonymous with the Fraunhoffer Codec developed by Germany's Fraunhoff Institute. https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html
The Codec was copyrighted but the decoding algorithm was released for non commercial use and the source code could be downloaded from the Fraunhoff Institute's website. For a nominal fee; you could license and download the encoding software.
It was a big gigglefest and a flurry of copying files to a different file name when a Microsoft patch implemented MP3 playback one week and tried to patch it out again the next week as they had never gotten rights to use the Fraunhoffer Codec for commercial use. It seems that Winamp, being a shareware program, slid right past the copyright restrictions of the time.
When AOL acquired Winamp; I wondered how long it would take to destroy the product. I was surprised that they didn't destroy it trying to make it AOL exclusive. (AOL never got over the internet and thought everyone really wanted their proprietary sandbox.) But, lack of improvements left Winamp to be outmoded over time.
Gad, I wish there were a decent alternative to iTunes.
Ships have several backup systems. One is map and sextant if you want the end fallback. Another is radio triangulation. Yeah, you can use a loop antenna to get a bearing from a commercial radio station broadcasting from a known position. Get bearings from three, and you have a rather exact position. Loran is an automated version of doing the manual bearings I just described.
GPS is a very good convenience for navigation. But, if that is the only way you know how to navigate; you need a Sea Daddy to teach you how to be an adult seafarer.
For over a decade there has been FCC encouragement for last mile internet service to be upgraded to allow true broadband to homes. Now, someone is saying that cellular data speeds, reminiscent of old dial up modem speeds, are sufficient for consumers.
Or, is it a bit of corporate self interest of the major internet providers to NOT have to upgrade hardware to handle higher broadband throughput? After all, they are trying to get net neutrality killed so they can throttle any content providers that doesn't pay them for full speed access. Yes, AT&T and Comcast, I'm talking about you.
BTW, 12mbps is just fine for two people checking email and one streaming Netflix. If you have a larger household and HD streaming Amazon Prime going on while two play an online RPG and another person is in the home office dumping work documents to a cloud share point... 12mbps doesn't cut it. And I still think AT&T Uverse requiring a TV package to be eligible to buy an unlimited data plan is a (insert your favorite biological function epithet) business practice.
The Shuffle? Why? It started and finished as an overpriced under powered piece of tech that could be replaced for less than $10 with a generic SD Card player.
The original iPod that was discontinued a few years ago allowed you to put a 40 year music collection in a package that could fit in the shirt pocket. For the "iPod Classic" there is a thriving after market industry upgrading to better battery and replacing the hard drive with a higher capacity SSD drive. It all depends on what you want; just something to play music while jogging a half hour a day or something that can carry all your music with you on a multi week road trip.
Thunderfoot did a good job of debunking the hyperloop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk
Passenger rail died out due to being more expensive and a miserable experience. When you could fly for $120 and be there in a day but a train took almost 3 days and cost $250; people took flights and ignored the passenger rail. (1968 prices for trip from Mississippi to Baltimore.) Remember, this was a day when a meat and two veg lunch ran 25 cents. The cost difference was a budget breaker.
Boiling down the indictment; it is like prosecuting a manufacturer of lock picks because a customer committed a burglary with his brand of lock pick. It could be argued that malware is a tool with only a malevolent function. This case may well set an interesting precedent. Can a gas station and hardware store be prosecuted for selling the products a terrorist uses to make a bomb with?
Unless you are feeding your pets coal and oil; this article is pure fakery. The expiration of animals is part of the cycle of conversion that drives the whole planet. It is when you bring more of one element into the cycle that things shift. Re-introducing carbon into the cycle that was bound up during the cretaceous epoch is what is shifting the climate. Poochie farts have nothing to do with it.
Yeah, the bozo that wrote the article seems to infer that lack of choice translates into better code. Personally, I don't use a phone for photography as the options and resolution are much too limited. I do take "quick and dirty" shots for documentation but I want a real camera for posterity shots.
Was the email provided the one used for official communication or just the personal one on the work server? I have email for biz and email for other stuff. I have no compunctions about sharing my "other stuff" email address even if that means I need a third party spam manager on that address. (gad, the GP email gets a couple of hundred posts a day of which about 20 are of interest - including the daily cartoons I like. The work email; about six posts and those are very pertinent to projects.)
Someone contacts you. Claims to have worked with you on Project ABC. Sharing an email for further contact and vetting seems reasonable to me. It is not like having an email address gives access to a network. I think the telling thing is the fellow was fooled into sharing his "PRIVATE" email address. Who cares if a person's private email gets put on the megaspam list?
Two solutions I've used in the past for old copper cable...
A> Use it to bring in the signal from a roof mounted digital TV antenna. B> Make a short wave antenna for the old radio out in my workshop. C> Sell to a recycle company for enough change to take the kids out for burgers. BTW, you get a better price per pound for the copper if you burn off the insulation first.
Being enough of an old fart I remember when a sonic boom was a regular if not frequent occurrence. Frequent as in not weekly but more than once a month in rural Mississippi. Irritating but not scary. A problem for things like the cow jumping due to the boom while trying to load it in the trailer to go to market.
A sonic boom is actually a very distinctive double boom that can't be confused with rail cars slamming together or an explosion where the neighbor is blowing out a stump. You get a double boom. The first boom is the compression wave from the leading edge of the aircraft and the second is from the collapse boom as air rushes back into the void left by the passing aircraft. Back in the day; they taught us what caused the boom in 3rd grade science class.
Just a related kvetch. The concept of laws that mandate standards you have to pay to see is something I've long found irritating. Why should there be a legally mandated "standard" that is kept a secret behind a pay wall? You can't find out what the testing requirements are for a filter to view the eclipse without paying to look at the standard...
I have a feeling that the article emphasized a feature it that is not he one the Coasties are really interested in.... database of caller voices to prosecute repeat pranksters.
For the caller environment algorithms: Like 911 operators; if the caller says they are on the side of the road at an accident and you can hear the television going in the background; more questions are warranted before rolling emergency personnel. A person calling the Coast Guard from their living room and claiming to be watching a boat go down warrants more questions as well. Hopefully this tech will become prevalent with local police as well then it might be easier to incarcerate jokers who think a SWAT call on a person is hilarious.
With the solenoid disengage system used by the cited weapon; you can open the gun, engage the solenoid, and lock it in place with a drop of superglue. No more "smart" to the gun.
This article is a good example of why there was so much vehement and vociferous opposition to politicians that mouthed the concept of making smart firearm technology mandatory. Smart gun tech is expensive, cumbersome, and flat out doesn't work reliably in the real world.
Why is Trump even mentioned in an article about the prosecution of rioters? Can't anyone do a straight up report without inserting fake causality.
Why is it newsworthy that a State's Attorney subpoenas phone records and email records to check for conspiracy in those arrested for crimes against the public?
No wonder the bozo in chief keeps asserting "fake news".
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"Massive deforestation is not being considered? Seriously.
One unit of burnt coal or gas produces 1 unit of CO2 and one of H2O! Yes, water is a greenhouse gas. What we see is rainfall and storms moving north/south"
Considering that the U.S. is more is forested today than in 1900, not much of an issue there. There is an issue with warped weather due to micro climate issues caused by excessive urban areas causing monstrous heat thermals. But, overall, forestation is not an issue in the country. Once you get away from the urban blight it's all copacetic.
And, if you can believe the Greenpeace study of the Amazon Rain Forest; the higher CO2 percentage in the atmosphere has increased the growth rate of the canopy by 7% (2010 measurements compared to a baseline check in the late 1970s)
A higher CO2 percentage causes an increase in green plant growth.
This concept that a manufacturer can dictate what you can do with a purchased piece of tech has precedents going back over 150 years. The Edison Trust lawsuits set precedent that such a practice is unlawful. Time for some more class action to reinforce it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company
With crowdfunding sites like PledgeMusic or BandCamp; a record label is irrelevant any more. Many musicians have found it is easier to fund production by pre-sales at a crowdfunding site then all sales royalties go to the musicians instead of a parasitical label. Most of the per track sales are via iTunes or Amazon these days making a record label even more irrelevant.
Nokia was dying long before the iPhone. They stayed with the candy bar phone with a 1" LCD monochrome screen when Motorola went to color screen flip phones. Poof went the market share.
Long before there WAS an internet; you sent "electronic mail" via Fidonet.
The invention of email was evolved in the public domain software community.
You have to really search for good films that aren't "Hollywood".
I'm sick of films getting the "Hollywood" treatment for the U.S. audience and being totally ruined. "Ghost in the Shell" is a good example.
Shoot, there are some Russian films that beat out Hollywood but you can't find them in the U.S. market.
Since Microsoft has a habit of every patch returning Bing and Microsoft Edge to be the default; 1/3 of the internet searches sounds right with the percentage of clueless net users that have no clue how to change defaults.
Yep, back in the day; Nullsoft got my shareware check.
Winamp was the program implementing the Fraunhoffer codec for the 90s. Motion Picture Expert Group Layer 3 encoding (MP3 for short) became synonymous with the Fraunhoffer Codec developed by Germany's Fraunhoff Institute.
https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html
The Codec was copyrighted but the decoding algorithm was released for non commercial use and the source code could be downloaded from the Fraunhoff Institute's website. For a nominal fee; you could license and download the encoding software.
It was a big gigglefest and a flurry of copying files to a different file name when a Microsoft patch implemented MP3 playback one week and tried to patch it out again the next week as they had never gotten rights to use the Fraunhoffer Codec for commercial use. It seems that Winamp, being a shareware program, slid right past the copyright restrictions of the time.
When AOL acquired Winamp; I wondered how long it would take to destroy the product. I was surprised that they didn't destroy it trying to make it AOL exclusive. (AOL never got over the internet and thought everyone really wanted their proprietary sandbox.) But, lack of improvements left Winamp to be outmoded over time.
Gad, I wish there were a decent alternative to iTunes.
Ships have several backup systems. One is map and sextant if you want the end fallback. Another is radio triangulation. Yeah, you can use a loop antenna to get a bearing from a commercial radio station broadcasting from a known position. Get bearings from three, and you have a rather exact position. Loran is an automated version of doing the manual bearings I just described.
GPS is a very good convenience for navigation. But, if that is the only way you know how to navigate; you need a Sea Daddy to teach you how to be an adult seafarer.
For over a decade there has been FCC encouragement for last mile internet service to be upgraded to allow true broadband to homes. Now, someone is saying that cellular data speeds, reminiscent of old dial up modem speeds, are sufficient for consumers.
Or, is it a bit of corporate self interest of the major internet providers to NOT have to upgrade hardware to handle higher broadband throughput? After all, they are trying to get net neutrality killed so they can throttle any content providers that doesn't pay them for full speed access. Yes, AT&T and Comcast, I'm talking about you.
BTW, 12mbps is just fine for two people checking email and one streaming Netflix. If you have a larger household and HD streaming Amazon Prime going on while two play an online RPG and another person is in the home office dumping work documents to a cloud share point ... 12mbps doesn't cut it. And I still think AT&T Uverse requiring a TV package to be eligible to buy an unlimited data plan is a (insert your favorite biological function epithet) business practice.
The Shuffle? Why? It started and finished as an overpriced under powered piece of tech that could be replaced for less than $10 with a generic SD Card player.
The original iPod that was discontinued a few years ago allowed you to put a 40 year music collection in a package that could fit in the shirt pocket. For the "iPod Classic" there is a thriving after market industry upgrading to better battery and replacing the hard drive with a higher capacity SSD drive. It all depends on what you want; just something to play music while jogging a half hour a day or something that can carry all your music with you on a multi week road trip.
"Many companies receive subsidies from the US Government."
And the point is that many if not most of them should not be sucking the public teat.
Thunderfoot did a good job of debunking the hyperloop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk
Passenger rail died out due to being more expensive and a miserable experience. When you could fly for $120 and be there in a day but a train took almost 3 days and cost $250; people took flights and ignored the passenger rail. (1968 prices for trip from Mississippi to Baltimore.) Remember, this was a day when a meat and two veg lunch ran 25 cents. The cost difference was a budget breaker.
Boiling down the indictment; it is like prosecuting a manufacturer of lock picks because a customer committed a burglary with his brand of lock pick.
It could be argued that malware is a tool with only a malevolent function. This case may well set an interesting precedent.
Can a gas station and hardware store be prosecuted for selling the products a terrorist uses to make a bomb with?
"There is no such thing as a cyanide atom."
But there are cyanide radicals. We need to pull the green card of those radcalized cyanogens.
Unless you are feeding your pets coal and oil; this article is pure fakery.
The expiration of animals is part of the cycle of conversion that drives the whole planet. It is when you bring more of one element into the cycle that things shift.
Re-introducing carbon into the cycle that was bound up during the cretaceous epoch is what is shifting the climate. Poochie farts have nothing to do with it.
Yeah, the bozo that wrote the article seems to infer that lack of choice translates into better code.
Personally, I don't use a phone for photography as the options and resolution are much too limited. I do take "quick and dirty" shots for documentation but I want a real camera for posterity shots.
Was the email provided the one used for official communication or just the personal one on the work server?
I have email for biz and email for other stuff. I have no compunctions about sharing my "other stuff" email address even if that means I need a third party spam manager on that address. (gad, the GP email gets a couple of hundred posts a day of which about 20 are of interest - including the daily cartoons I like. The work email; about six posts and those are very pertinent to projects.)
Someone contacts you. Claims to have worked with you on Project ABC. Sharing an email for further contact and vetting seems reasonable to me. It is not like having an email address gives access to a network. I think the telling thing is the fellow was fooled into sharing his "PRIVATE" email address. Who cares if a person's private email gets put on the megaspam list?
Two solutions I've used in the past for old copper cable...
A> Use it to bring in the signal from a roof mounted digital TV antenna.
B> Make a short wave antenna for the old radio out in my workshop.
C> Sell to a recycle company for enough change to take the kids out for burgers. BTW, you get a better price per pound for the copper if you burn off the insulation first.
Being enough of an old fart I remember when a sonic boom was a regular if not frequent occurrence. Frequent as in not weekly but more than once a month in rural Mississippi.
Irritating but not scary. A problem for things like the cow jumping due to the boom while trying to load it in the trailer to go to market.
A sonic boom is actually a very distinctive double boom that can't be confused with rail cars slamming together or an explosion where the neighbor is blowing out a stump. You get a double boom. The first boom is the compression wave from the leading edge of the aircraft and the second is from the collapse boom as air rushes back into the void left by the passing aircraft. Back in the day; they taught us what caused the boom in 3rd grade science class.
Just a related kvetch. The concept of laws that mandate standards you have to pay to see is something I've long found irritating. Why should there be a legally mandated "standard" that is kept a secret behind a pay wall?
You can't find out what the testing requirements are for a filter to view the eclipse without paying to look at the standard...
https://www.iso.org/standard/59289.html
Try reading the science and not what some fake news journalist that can't comprehend middle school science class tells you the science says.
I have a feeling that the article emphasized a feature it that is not he one the Coasties are really interested in.... database of caller voices to prosecute repeat pranksters.
For the caller environment algorithms: Like 911 operators; if the caller says they are on the side of the road at an accident and you can hear the television going in the background; more questions are warranted before rolling emergency personnel. A person calling the Coast Guard from their living room and claiming to be watching a boat go down warrants more questions as well. Hopefully this tech will become prevalent with local police as well then it might be easier to incarcerate jokers who think a SWAT call on a person is hilarious.
With the solenoid disengage system used by the cited weapon; you can open the gun, engage the solenoid, and lock it in place with a drop of superglue. No more "smart" to the gun.
This article is a good example of why there was so much vehement and vociferous opposition to politicians that mouthed the concept of making smart firearm technology mandatory. Smart gun tech is expensive, cumbersome, and flat out doesn't work reliably in the real world.
Why is Trump even mentioned in an article about the prosecution of rioters? Can't anyone do a straight up report without inserting fake causality.
Why is it newsworthy that a State's Attorney subpoenas phone records and email records to check for conspiracy in those arrested for crimes against the public?
No wonder the bozo in chief keeps asserting "fake news".