We're in a grand solar minimum, so the rest of this century will be much cooler, not warmer.
First part of that appears to be correct (From WikiPedia):
During 2008–2009 NASA scientists noted that the Sun is undergoing a "deep solar minimum,"... "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center...
. And yet
Their non-linear character makes predictions of solar activity very difficult.... Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) also developed a computer model of solar dynamics (Solar dynamo) for more accurate predictions and have confidence in the forecast based upon a series of test runs with the newly developed model simulating the strength of the past eight solar cycles with more than 98% accuracy.[5] In hindsight the prediction proved to be wildly inaccurate and not representative of the observed sunspot numbers.
which basically says "we don't know what's going to happen next". It reminds me of the standard disclaimer: Past performance is not indicative of future outcomes, which indicates that claiming that solar activity will make the earth cooler is misleading. Also consider that the report may have taken the Grand Solar Minimum into account (TL;DR).
For me, the Bottom Line is that the Trump Administration, a bastion of vociferous climate change deniers, has decided to agree with the "climate change hysteria". Their approach though is "We're gonna get buggered anyway, so forget the vaseline. Let's use Capzasin.". I guess when you control 40% of the wealth, you can build temples to yourself on the bodies of the middle-class.
"With a modern PC, you have so much extra power, you don't need to be a hotshot programmer to make a game people love. You don't really have that convenience on any mobile platform, really, but especially not on our platform."
In other words, game developers have become less interested in hardware familiarity, algorithm efficiency, and counting cycles, preferring to let the compiler optimize out their f**kups or the hardware to overwhelm bad style with massive parallelism. I guess I can understand; features and delivery schedules are set by marketing and management and aren't related to reality. And if you are a manger needing to cut overhead, and you decide to hire a bunch of fresh-out-of-school straight-A engineers in, let's say, southeast Asia who look good on paper but can't program worth s**t, you get what's coming to you.
We must engineer a way to displace the blood-sucking kind of mosquitoes with varieties that do not suck blood at all.
Make the non-blood-sucking females more desirable as mates or something.
Soooo. Something that prefers sucking mosquito dick to human blood? Splice in a little Pr0n-star DNA? Nympho-squitoes? Mostormyquitos? Bring your big 'ol stinger over here daddy and get some dis. Uh-huh, you know you want it.
... Food chains are in fact pretty delicate things.
I think flexibility and adaptability could be key. Picture, for example, CRISPR modifications that inadvertently kick humanity down a few rungs on the food chain. Enough to make life "interesting".
... Let him post it once so he's heard, then delete any reposting in the same article.
I don't like it either, but I wouldn't want to see anything deleted unless it's libelous or illegal. Free speech shouldn't stop for the sensitivity du jour. I suggest per-user filter options to render a post in 1px font if it matches any of a list of regular expressions. Not deleted; not censored; not hidden, just hard to read.
... And our memories are not nearly as accurate as they feel
Reminds me of this witness memory demo on youtube.
IMHO, the problem of synthesized eyewitness videos will, to paraphrase JBS Haldane or Arthur Eddington, eventually lead to trouble that will not be just worse than we imagine, but worse than we can imagine.
... tracks all kinds of physiological signals as you move from room to room: breathing, heart rate, sleep, gait, and more.
Cool. Can it tell me if I've got a woodie? Used to be it was pretty obvious. Nowadays I can't feel nothin. Plus it's as unimpressive hard as soft and hidden below my beerbelly..
Yea, you young pups go ahead and laugh. You'll get here sooner than you think.
... When do we start referring to Irag as the 20 Year war? Even that is optimistic.
And let's not forget the our remarkable success in Afghanistan. A real garden of paradise and it only cost a trillion (as of 2017). That's about $4 million per square mile or $6640 per acre. ($1.07T / (251,773 * 640)). A real bargain. Not counting American lives lost or ruined, medical and other expenses for the killed and wounded, opportunities lost due to funds diverted to defense and interest to be paid on the whole pile.
... we might see some real change in the corporate monsters that are destroying the middle class right now
I'd like to think that the destruction of everything below the upper-class is somehow related to the top 1% of americans controlling 40% of the wealth. It allows a select group of americans to sway the outcome of elections and buy the loyalty of our elected "representatives".
I'd like to think my distractibility is an inherited trait from caveman days. While everyone else in the hunting party would be focused on deciding which wooly whatzis to go after, I would have been the only one who noticed the bushes off to the side rustling because there was a saber-tooth whatever preparing to attack the hunting party.
I would have liked to have been in the meeting where the on-chip radio product manager was told his feature had to be pushed onto center stage to redirect attention away from the whole speculative execution / prefetch arena. What minor wifi improvement could be spun as the greatest thing since politician retirement announcements?
What do you call a system where the rich eat everyone else or burn them in their power plants? Or is this the premise for a science fiction movie / series?
... most people don't carry the same type of weapons that mass shooters do. I would feel pretty stupid if I got in a gunfight against a guy in level 3 body armor and carrying a fully automatic assault rifle while armed with a short barrel 9mm.)
I must have missed something. Since North Hollywood in 97, how many or what percentage of mass shootings have been committed with a fully-automatic weapon?
Allow multiple unlock passwords / patterns. Each one would do something different. Of course there's still the one to unlock the phone. The others would do one of the following:
* Unlock the phone and start in a sandboxed environment that looked like the real one but contained fake user data. Maybe show initial screen like "Congratulations on the purchase of your new XXXX phone! Let's get started personalizing it!!"
* Display a message like "Internal battery short detected. This device is being halted to prevent possible damage. Please contact vendor." then shutdown.
* Display a message like "CPU error CORE-14901. HALT" then shutdown
* Display a sequence that looks like a full factory wipe and restart
Any of the error + halt messages would become "sticky". Subsequent power-on attempts would immediately show the same error and power off. There would need to be a way to interrupt this and enter an "escape" password/pattern that could return the phone to normal operation.
The goal being to convince the party demanding the unlock code that there's nothing to see here, move along, move along.
the solution is to break up the USA and make it into more state-like entities.
But not geographic divisions. Divide it by a combination of :
* Favorite OS
* Tabs or Spaces
* # of firearms
* xkcd or Dilbert
* Favorite barista-prepared beverage
Easy divisions like age or current position on political spectrum are not included because it'll be irrelevant once the individual states are assimilated by the Chinese, Russians, Iranians or North Koreans.
Theoretically, how to lose a trial with your buds at Direct TV.
Ok, so you got saddled with having to prosecute this case against your friends over at DirectTV who just happen to be campaign contributors of the boss . How do you make it look to the dumb-ass public like you're doing your job, but not cause any undue financial burden on the (cough-cough) accused? I've got an idea; take all the competent lawyers off the case, have them take a bunch of evidence and documents with them, then assign some rookies to do the prosecution. The new team won't know about the missing evidence and they won't have enough of it to get a conviction. It'll look like DirectTV is innocent, or just being silly. Problem solved! Theoretically.
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We're in a grand solar minimum, so the rest of this century will be much cooler, not warmer.
First part of that appears to be correct (From WikiPedia):
During 2008–2009 NASA scientists noted that the Sun is undergoing a "deep solar minimum," ... "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center ...
. And yet
Their non-linear character makes predictions of solar activity very difficult. ... Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) also developed a computer model of solar dynamics (Solar dynamo) for more accurate predictions and have confidence in the forecast based upon a series of test runs with the newly developed model simulating the strength of the past eight solar cycles with more than 98% accuracy.[5] In hindsight the prediction proved to be wildly inaccurate and not representative of the observed sunspot numbers.
which basically says "we don't know what's going to happen next". It reminds me of the standard disclaimer: Past performance is not indicative of future outcomes, which indicates that claiming that solar activity will make the earth cooler is misleading. Also consider that the report may have taken the Grand Solar Minimum into account (TL;DR).
For me, the Bottom Line is that the Trump Administration, a bastion of vociferous climate change deniers, has decided to agree with the "climate change hysteria". Their approach though is "We're gonna get buggered anyway, so forget the vaseline. Let's use Capzasin.". I guess when you control 40% of the wealth, you can build temples to yourself on the bodies of the middle-class.
"With a modern PC, you have so much extra power, you don't need to be a hotshot programmer to make a game people love. You don't really have that convenience on any mobile platform, really, but especially not on our platform."
In other words, game developers have become less interested in hardware familiarity, algorithm efficiency, and counting cycles, preferring to let the compiler optimize out their f**kups or the hardware to overwhelm bad style with massive parallelism. I guess I can understand; features and delivery schedules are set by marketing and management and aren't related to reality. And if you are a manger needing to cut overhead, and you decide to hire a bunch of fresh-out-of-school straight-A engineers in, let's say, southeast Asia who look good on paper but can't program worth s**t, you get what's coming to you.
Right in your lap. Here's where you say "Thank you Microsoft".
We must engineer a way to displace the blood-sucking kind of mosquitoes with varieties that do not suck blood at all.
Make the non-blood-sucking females more desirable as mates or something.
Soooo. Something that prefers sucking mosquito dick to human blood? Splice in a little Pr0n-star DNA? Nympho-squitoes? Mostormyquitos? Bring your big 'ol stinger over here daddy and get some dis. Uh-huh, you know you want it.
I think flexibility and adaptability could be key. Picture, for example, CRISPR modifications that inadvertently kick humanity down a few rungs on the food chain. Enough to make life "interesting".
Just in case a friend needs it : Alcoholics Anonymous.
What? Like Windows 8?
... Let him post it once so he's heard, then delete any reposting in the same article.
I don't like it either, but I wouldn't want to see anything deleted unless it's libelous or illegal. Free speech shouldn't stop for the sensitivity du jour. I suggest per-user filter options to render a post in 1px font if it matches any of a list of regular expressions. Not deleted; not censored; not hidden, just hard to read.
Reminds me of this witness memory demo on youtube. IMHO, the problem of synthesized eyewitness videos will, to paraphrase JBS Haldane or Arthur Eddington, eventually lead to trouble that will not be just worse than we imagine, but worse than we can imagine.
Cool. Can it tell me if I've got a woodie? Used to be it was pretty obvious. Nowadays I can't feel nothin. Plus it's as unimpressive hard as soft and hidden below my beerbelly..
Yea, you young pups go ahead and laugh. You'll get here sooner than you think.
... When do we start referring to Irag as the 20 Year war? Even that is optimistic.
And let's not forget the our remarkable success in Afghanistan. A real garden of paradise and it only cost a trillion (as of 2017). That's about $4 million per square mile or $6640 per acre. ($1.07T / (251,773 * 640)). A real bargain. Not counting American lives lost or ruined, medical and other expenses for the killed and wounded, opportunities lost due to funds diverted to defense and interest to be paid on the whole pile.
That'll be a trigger signal to emergency responders to get out the tranquilizer gun.
I'd like to think that the destruction of everything below the upper-class is somehow related to the top 1% of americans controlling 40% of the wealth. It allows a select group of americans to sway the outcome of elections and buy the loyalty of our elected "representatives".
I'd like to think my distractibility is an inherited trait from caveman days. While everyone else in the hunting party would be focused on deciding which wooly whatzis to go after, I would have been the only one who noticed the bushes off to the side rustling because there was a saber-tooth whatever preparing to attack the hunting party.
Obligatory "Oh look, a squirrel".
Well, if THAT'S how you're going to be. We'll just have to outsource that work to SE Asia. So there. Woo-Hoo! Great idea! Bonuses for all VPs!
I would have liked to have been in the meeting where the on-chip radio product manager was told his feature had to be pushed onto center stage to redirect attention away from the whole speculative execution / prefetch arena. What minor wifi improvement could be spun as the greatest thing since politician retirement announcements?
I don't think so. Been using "retired-hit-man@IKnowWhereYouLive.com" for years and never had anyone say anything bad about it.
What do you call a system where the rich eat everyone else or burn them in their power plants? Or is this the premise for a science fiction movie / series?
I must have missed something. Since North Hollywood in 97, how many or what percentage of mass shootings have been committed with a fully-automatic weapon?
What ever happened to "do over"?
...-- When Chuck Norris throws an exception, it is always fatal.
Extra points for that sig.
Allow multiple unlock passwords / patterns. Each one would do something different. Of course there's still the one to unlock the phone. The others would do one of the following:
* Unlock the phone and start in a sandboxed environment that looked like the real one but contained fake user data. Maybe show initial screen like "Congratulations on the purchase of your new XXXX phone! Let's get started personalizing it!!"
* Display a message like "Internal battery short detected. This device is being halted to prevent possible damage. Please contact vendor." then shutdown.
* Display a message like "CPU error CORE-14901. HALT" then shutdown
* Display a sequence that looks like a full factory wipe and restart
Any of the error + halt messages would become "sticky". Subsequent power-on attempts would immediately show the same error and power off. There would need to be a way to interrupt this and enter an "escape" password/pattern that could return the phone to normal operation.
The goal being to convince the party demanding the unlock code that there's nothing to see here, move along, move along.
the solution is to break up the USA and make it into more state-like entities.
But not geographic divisions. Divide it by a combination of :
Easy divisions like age or current position on political spectrum are not included because it'll be irrelevant once the individual states are assimilated by the Chinese, Russians, Iranians or North Koreans.
Homeopathy is to medicine what Donald Trump is to America.
Theoretically, how to lose a trial with your buds at Direct TV.
Ok, so you got saddled with having to prosecute this case against your friends over at DirectTV who just happen to be campaign contributors of the boss . How do you make it look to the dumb-ass public like you're doing your job, but not cause any undue financial burden on the (cough-cough) accused? I've got an idea; take all the competent lawyers off the case, have them take a bunch of evidence and documents with them, then assign some rookies to do the prosecution. The new team won't know about the missing evidence and they won't have enough of it to get a conviction. It'll look like DirectTV is innocent, or just being silly. Problem solved! Theoretically.