Sad: I link to the actual article which has the scientists explaining why it hasn't been debunked (at least in their expert opinions) and you get an 'informative' with an uncorroborated statement.
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan (both known nuclear powers, who don't get along) could conceivably be enough to cause a 'nuclear winter': Scientific American
Basically, soot would get blown into the stratosphere, where it shades the planet. (Oh, and destroys the ozone layer while it's at it.)
So, it could be a problem for the rest of the world.
In a way, I think they did better this way than if they'd just never agreed to filtering in the first place. They now have a presence in China, which they can remove, and it will affect China.
When they were first asked to filter, they had no presence, and saying no would have meant very little to China: They'd just go on as they were, and do their own thing. Google pulling out now is a disruption.
I think part of the reason is Google's reaction: It was clear, big, and public. Google is apparently fully willing to walk out of China, and it's entire market. If not directly over this, at least because it is the last straw.
If the company involved were to just hush it up and sweep it under the rug, then there is apparently no problem and nothing for the governments to react to. Google made them react.
Sure they do. They just think there are more useful things to do.
I don't see either scroll lock or pause in the pic of their layout, insert/prt scr is there, and fn + delete is 'decrease brightness'.
Basically, there is a limited amount of space, and Lenovo has to prioritize which keys and functions they think their customers want. Based on their research, for the customers this specific line is aimed at (which isn't their entire line), the don't think SysRq is a key they want access to with any priority. Other things are more useful.
The one I manage at work doesn't have DomainKeys, and it does send tens of thousands of messages an hour to those services. We get deferred by Yahoo regularly, but that's about it.
You start running into issues with the filesystem: how many files you can create in a single directory, how well it can handle that, etc. (Also, a database means you can change how you are doing the redirects should you want/need to at some future point with very little work.)
The people building the site in question seemed to think a database was a better solution overall. If you want to create one that uses a filesystem instead, it should be a very short Perl script to run it. Go right ahead and see if you can make it work.;)
Quite how popping up a page stating the service was busy is any easier than just issuing a redirect to the required site I don't really know, but it did, and it was stupid as there was no way to ascertain the underlying URL it was meant to redirect to from the stupid shortened URL I clicked.
Static page vs. database lookup. The latter will take a lot more resources.
The article's point isn't to ignore all that. It's that to say that some random blogger likely doesn't have the tools to correctly analyze the data, and may well be doing their own shaping of the facts. And proving that to yourself is going to take a couple of hours (at least) of research and your time. The end result of which is probably going to be that the people who posted the data were aware of the factor in question, went and checked what the source was, and have a good explanation for what's going on with the data and why they did what they did.
All of which is public record, and has been analyzed six ways from tuesday, by people with far better credentials than you or the blogger is likely to have.
So, in this writer's opinion, it's not worth his time. If someone can get into the peer-reviewed journals, where the standards of competence and knowledge are much higher than on a random blog, he'll pay attention. Because every time he's gone and done the background check on some blogger's new climate data scandal, he's found it isn't a scandal at all, and quite often (like in this case) the blogger already knew that. But was posting it as a scandal anyway.
So it was a waste of time, both to read the blog and to take it seriously.
Actually, in the article it specifically says that the climate station was moved from the post office (downtown, and near the harbor, both of which are heat centers for different reasons) to the airport.
Because they only way to make the cops become something other than corrupt power-mongering jerks is to stand up, make a fuss, get noticed, and have someone above those cops do something about it. Which takes public outcry and attention.
If everyone rolls over, it no longer matters if what they are doing is wrong: They got away with it. With a cop, you have the chance you might be able to make a change by standing up to them. (At least in a country where the government is still concerned with public opinion.)
The main problem with PDFs is simple: People seem to think 'pages' are a good idea for book. They aren't. The are an artifact of using a printing press, and are the best way available for paper books to be assembled.
Books are stretches of text, possibly divided into chapters. Pages are interruptions in the reading experience. Pages that aren't the same size as your reading area just interrupt your reading experience multiple times.
True, but people do forget that Apple wedged the door open: Theirs was the first non-uber-draconian DRM. (And could be broken, with Apple's own default install, right at launch.) At the time, it was a major step forward, and something only Apple could have pulled off.
Once they showed that the piracy boogyman wasn't as bad as was feared, and started showing exactly how much power even that little bit of DRM got Apple, then the music companies were willing to talk to others like Amazon about going without.
ePub. It works on all of the above, and all ebook readers except the Kindle. (And is the one they are talking about in the article.) It's an open format, with DRM extensions. (Adobe, here, is the main seller of DRM-encoding software for it.)
The pre actually ships with a fair amount of code on it: It's based on a Linux system, after all. Hook it up as a USB drive, and there will be a folder with a copy of the GPL and the full code for much of the OS.
If Palm actually shipped this without the right licensing, I'll bet it's an oversight. I'm betting the first Palm knew of this was when the lawsuit reached them.
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Sad: I link to the actual article which has the scientists explaining why it hasn't been debunked (at least in their expert opinions) and you get an 'informative' with an uncorroborated statement.
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan (both known nuclear powers, who don't get along) could conceivably be enough to cause a 'nuclear winter': Scientific American
Basically, soot would get blown into the stratosphere, where it shades the planet. (Oh, and destroys the ozone layer while it's at it.)
So, it could be a problem for the rest of the world.
In a way, I think they did better this way than if they'd just never agreed to filtering in the first place. They now have a presence in China, which they can remove, and it will affect China.
When they were first asked to filter, they had no presence, and saying no would have meant very little to China: They'd just go on as they were, and do their own thing. Google pulling out now is a disruption.
I think part of the reason is Google's reaction: It was clear, big, and public. Google is apparently fully willing to walk out of China, and it's entire market. If not directly over this, at least because it is the last straw.
If the company involved were to just hush it up and sweep it under the rug, then there is apparently no problem and nothing for the governments to react to. Google made them react.
Sure they do. They just think there are more useful things to do.
I don't see either scroll lock or pause in the pic of their layout, insert/prt scr is there, and fn + delete is 'decrease brightness'.
Basically, there is a limited amount of space, and Lenovo has to prioritize which keys and functions they think their customers want. Based on their research, for the customers this specific line is aimed at (which isn't their entire line), the don't think SysRq is a key they want access to with any priority. Other things are more useful.
On a laptop, it is an extra button on the keyboard. They made the print screen key an alt-key on the insert key.
So it saves them some space, which is valuable in the specific market they are in.
Do you realize just how crazy it is that we've been to the moon?
Not while I've been alive.
Sure they have: They have always strived to make sure everyone is able to use their standards via their products.
Come on, I've watched DBZ: Why would you need an animated gif? And a straight audio loop would do just fine.
Simplest non-root way (assuming they have it allowed): Edit the ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file.
The one I manage at work doesn't have DomainKeys, and it does send tens of thousands of messages an hour to those services. We get deferred by Yahoo regularly, but that's about it.
You start running into issues with the filesystem: how many files you can create in a single directory, how well it can handle that, etc. (Also, a database means you can change how you are doing the redirects should you want/need to at some future point with very little work.)
The people building the site in question seemed to think a database was a better solution overall. If you want to create one that uses a filesystem instead, it should be a very short Perl script to run it. Go right ahead and see if you can make it work. ;)
Quite how popping up a page stating the service was busy is any easier than just issuing a redirect to the required site I don't really know, but it did, and it was stupid as there was no way to ascertain the underlying URL it was meant to redirect to from the stupid shortened URL I clicked.
Static page vs. database lookup. The latter will take a lot more resources.
The article's point isn't to ignore all that. It's that to say that some random blogger likely doesn't have the tools to correctly analyze the data, and may well be doing their own shaping of the facts. And proving that to yourself is going to take a couple of hours (at least) of research and your time. The end result of which is probably going to be that the people who posted the data were aware of the factor in question, went and checked what the source was, and have a good explanation for what's going on with the data and why they did what they did.
All of which is public record, and has been analyzed six ways from tuesday, by people with far better credentials than you or the blogger is likely to have.
So, in this writer's opinion, it's not worth his time. If someone can get into the peer-reviewed journals, where the standards of competence and knowledge are much higher than on a random blog, he'll pay attention. Because every time he's gone and done the background check on some blogger's new climate data scandal, he's found it isn't a scandal at all, and quite often (like in this case) the blogger already knew that. But was posting it as a scandal anyway.
So it was a waste of time, both to read the blog and to take it seriously.
Actually, in the article it specifically says that the climate station was moved from the post office (downtown, and near the harbor, both of which are heat centers for different reasons) to the airport.
Where is that time and place?
Because they only way to make the cops become something other than corrupt power-mongering jerks is to stand up, make a fuss, get noticed, and have someone above those cops do something about it. Which takes public outcry and attention.
If everyone rolls over, it no longer matters if what they are doing is wrong: They got away with it. With a cop, you have the chance you might be able to make a change by standing up to them. (At least in a country where the government is still concerned with public opinion.)
Great. Now, who's set of observations do you trust? And who's analysis of those observations?
Doing the observations and analyzing them is a specialized skill, and quite often these days takes complicated and expensive equipment.
So we still have to trust the scientists to tell us what they've observed, so we can tell which scientists to trust.
The main problem with PDFs is simple: People seem to think 'pages' are a good idea for book. They aren't. The are an artifact of using a printing press, and are the best way available for paper books to be assembled.
Books are stretches of text, possibly divided into chapters. Pages are interruptions in the reading experience. Pages that aren't the same size as your reading area just interrupt your reading experience multiple times.
True, but people do forget that Apple wedged the door open: Theirs was the first non-uber-draconian DRM. (And could be broken, with Apple's own default install, right at launch.) At the time, it was a major step forward, and something only Apple could have pulled off.
Once they showed that the piracy boogyman wasn't as bad as was feared, and started showing exactly how much power even that little bit of DRM got Apple, then the music companies were willing to talk to others like Amazon about going without.
PDF isn't an ebook format. It's an e-paper format. It gets used for ebooks fairly often, but it's not very good at it.
ePub. It works on all of the above, and all ebook readers except the Kindle. (And is the one they are talking about in the article.) It's an open format, with DRM extensions. (Adobe, here, is the main seller of DRM-encoding software for it.)
In some sports they go in straight lines.
Maybe a gift certificate and a picture of the Nook...
B&N sells those.
The pre actually ships with a fair amount of code on it: It's based on a Linux system, after all. Hook it up as a USB drive, and there will be a folder with a copy of the GPL and the full code for much of the OS.
If Palm actually shipped this without the right licensing, I'll bet it's an oversight. I'm betting the first Palm knew of this was when the lawsuit reached them.