Yes MM were measuring the speed of light, they were using the motion of the Earth around the sun to see if it added/subtracted from to the speed of a light beam. They could show that their equipment was sensitive enough to detect a change with direction if there was one, that's why their results were so convincing . MM were testing what Maxwell had predicted, ie: the speed of light is a constant value regardless of relative motion, Maxwell's constant (and it's value) falls out of his equations, it's a physical constant in the same way as the strength of gravity, or the charge of an electron, is a physical constant. Since the speed of light is a physical constant, time and distance must vary in different reference frames, this was the insight that Einstein came up with. To be fair to Newton, he only had two stated assumption in his "Principia", one stated that "time is constant". Everyone just accepted that as fact until Albert took a very fast tram ride.
Look up "polar amplification" or "stratospheric cooling", these are phenomena that were seen in models before they were observed in nature. There are about a dozen such phenomena that have been discovered via climate models.
BTW: Climate models are based on finite element analysis, AKA numerical integration. Statistics doesn't come into it until you compare the results to historical data (hindcasting). Hindcasting is the standard method to test any FEA model, doesn't matter if you are modeling the casting of an engine block or the earth's climate.
Last I check you need at least eight decimal places and statistically significant sample not to be laughed out of most fields.
In cosmology and astrophysics getting a result that is within a few orders of magnitude is considered "accurate". In archeology a radioactive dating result with 10% is considered a "good result". Science isn't all about measuring the width of a proton, other than particle physics, there are actually very few scientific fields that "demand" eight decimal places of accuracy.
The problem I have with critiques of climate models like yours is they are non-sequiturs and born from ignorance, they don't make any sense because they are sourced from MSM articles that (for political reasons) aim to convince you that modeling physical phenomena is some kind of scam that scientists are using to make money. If you want to critique the models then write a paper explaining why you need "eight nines" to convincingly demonstrate to others that the north pole is melting. There are lists of rebuttals to these fake critiques on the web, skepticalscience is one of the better ones, I'm sure you will find a few of your favorite talking points torn to shreds on that page..
It's no longer a problem with MS libraries but it can still be a problem with third party dll's, the problem is not that different to having symlinks point to multiple versions of an.so file in unix. In both cases it works when done correctly, but it's easy to get the wires crossed if you're not careful.
The "problem" here is that the machine was compromised before the installers are executed. Yes, you could make a more secure installer that fingerprints the dlls it uses, but that doesn't solve the root problem. The root problem is a compromised machine.
There is no "bug" with the installers or windows, the machine has been compromised prior to running the software.
TFA is a "beat up" (likely paid for by Oracle), it does not explain how the attacker is able to put the compromised dll on the machine in the first place. If an attacker can put a random binary on your local drive then they already own your machine. What a random installer subsequently does on a compromised machine is irrelevant to how the machine was hacked.
Car analogy: If a miscreant cuts your brake line without your knowledge, it is not the manufacturer's fault that the brakes no longer work as advertised. If the manufacturer's can make it more difficult to cut the brake line that's great, but they cannot, and should not, be held accountable for malicious damage caused by someone who had unrestricted access to your brake line.
I left HS in 1975, boys in my HS were not allowed to learn typing, cooking or dressmaking. Girls were not allowed to learn woodwork, metalwork or mechanical drawing. I also thought typewriters were "cool" but never so much as touched one until I bought a second hand Apple ][ (a decade after leaving HS). I have been a degree qualified software developer for 25yrs now. I don't give a flying fuck if you are 'embarrassed' by my inability to touch type because it has had exactly zero impact on my career.
First let me say I agree with your post, rapid deflation is as bad or worse as rapid inflation. Stability is desirable however it also has problems, "growth" is in many ways just another way of saying "increased efficiency. So today's widget should be cheaper than yesterday's because it's cheaper and easier to make than yesterday's widget. This may in turn spur more growth since you would expect the number of widgets sold to increase as their price decreases. In this way society as a whole benefits from growth, stopping that "natural" deflation means that those who control production reap ALL the benefits of growth. This is what people are currently pissed off about, the last three decades have seen little or no real wage growth, all that growth has gone into the pockets of those few who control production. Sure they helped create that growth, but no more than the people who clean the executive bathroom who gave them the time to do so.
Their excuse sounds like bullshit to me. If the BC people move away after the electricity company have built the extra capacity then there's a thing called a "national grid" that allows them to sell it to other electricity companies. If they are really worried that the extra capacity is only a temporary fad then theu could use the same grid to buy the extra power at wholesale.There is no electricity company in the US that sells exactly the same amount of power it generates, The grid is a giant electricity "market", wholesale electricity is traded 24/7 and moved to where it is required, plus or minus a couple of hundred MW in a particular location is business as usual.
Well said. Wish I had a mod point for you. The story sounds a bit like the plot to a "Dad's army" episode about a carrier pigeon, but the fear and mistrust (on both sides) is a rational response to their environment.
Mustard gas has been around since WW1, I supposed you could call it a WMD but when politicians say "mushroom cloud" and "WMD" in the same breath, they are talking about nukes. The Bush administration were pretty adamant Saddam had a bomb, we all knew he had gas since the west sold it to him in the 1980's and then acted all morally superior when he used some on the Kurds (rather than the intended targets - Iranians). It was also pretty obvious from early on the "mushroom cloud" was pure propaganda used to justify the invasion, that's the WMD that people are "still looking for", the one that makes a mushroom cloud.
The conservative tabloid stories you point to conveniently forget about Powell's "Saddam has Nukes" slide show that failed to convince the UN to back their crusade. Personally I think they set Powell up to take the fall for the mushroom cloud propaganda before they got anywhere near the UN, at the time he was the only moderate in the upper ranks of the administration.
Freedom of speech does not give you the right to spray paint your rant on a private wall, whether the wall is made of bricks or pixels is irrelevant. It does however give you the right to argue against free speech.
It's interesting to google the bookmaker odds for elections, particularly in the US were elections seem to drag on forever. If I were a betting man I would have put money on Sanders a few months ago. The odds they are offering for Trump winning the general election are not realistic given his poll numbers. He does have a good chance of winning the nomination.
Trump is about the republican party imploding and/or dividing. The same thing has happened to the conservative side in Australia, there'a a divide in conservatives between the tea party types and the moderates over things such as climate change. Currently the conservatives are in power in Oz, the moderates within them have the upper hand in Oz with the leader of the TP faction having been sacked as PM by his own party. In the US Trump is the charismatic king of the tea party, the moderates are nowhere to be seen (in public). Cruz and Carson are alternative TP kings, and if you're not in the top three you're not in the race.
Bright colours are not enough these days, the icon must vibrate wildly to catch the users eye. When the eye is trained it may become lazy, so you regularly change and move the icon to keep the user alert.
My Chrome browser recently started putting up an error page because python.org's certificate was a few days out of date. The error page has a big blue button marked "back to safety", the other button is a little harder to spot. It was mildly annoying since I was using the online docs while writing a script and the browser forgets your "fuck off" answer to the error between sessions. I'm sure there's an option somewhere that will automate my willful blindness to this error page, I'm just too lazy to look it up
Subcontractors code, consultants consult. They are different jobs.
There are different levels of software services offered by different companies, in rough order of cost you have....
- The one man act, an employee with few legal rights who costs a bit more than a full timer but can be dismissed on a whim.
- The body shop, a group of consultants that rent out multiple one man acts.
- The coding shop, an external group of one man acts who write code to spec on their own premises and equipment.
- The big guns, large multi-nationals that take over the entire project and impose their processes and people onto the customer.
Nobody gets fired for hiring a "big gun" because they will get the job done.
Both the coding shop and the big gun will cost you an arm and a leg but you will get what you asked for (which if you are not careful might not be what you wanted).
Yes, but the FCC is not, both the BBFC and FCC impose obscenity rules on broadcasters, both can levy large fines for non-compliance. Censorship exists in every nation, if you doubt that then try broadcasting kiddy porn from anywhere on earth. There are limits to freedom of speech around the world (even in the US), some are for common-sense, some for common decency, and far too many for political gain.
I'm a huge Bowie fan, I saw it at the drive in 40yrs ago. It didn't make much of an impression on me, all I can remember about it is that I wanted to see midnight express but was out-voted. IMO midnight express is still a better movie.
Complaining about the inconsistency of the location of certain keys across keyboards started when typewriters were invented and hasn't stopped, I have the same complaint about my English desktop vs my English laptop. I have to press two keys on my laptop for "home", my desktop has a single home key. Like most developers a lot of my work is copy-paste-edit, inconsistency in the placement and shift status of the home/pgup/pgdn keys is a pain in the arse.
I don't really care about French keyboards. I do have to work on Japanese servers at times, but I do not read/write/speak Japanese. To do that I need another English PC beside me so I can compare the locations of menu items in the GUI. Oddly enough a Japanese dos box usually works in English, the Japanese logs are often in English too. The software I help develop ( for a Japanese multi-national) is the same, everything under the hood is in English, our Japanese masters just provide Japanese translations of English resource strings for the front end. To make things just that bit more confusing, the bulk of the coding is done by Russian sub-contractors working in Moscow. The Russians we deal with are all bilingual and very fluent in written English, with a few exception the Japanese and Aussies are all mono-lingual.
I was under the impression that it was wrong to dig through a customer's files without reason
Of course it is, a decent person will pay due respect to their customers privacy, but that same decent person won't go so far as to ignore evidence of a serious crime in the name of privacy. If everyone was a "decent person" there wouldn't be any need for laws, right?
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Yes MM were measuring the speed of light, they were using the motion of the Earth around the sun to see if it added/subtracted from to the speed of a light beam. They could show that their equipment was sensitive enough to detect a change with direction if there was one, that's why their results were so convincing . MM were testing what Maxwell had predicted, ie: the speed of light is a constant value regardless of relative motion, Maxwell's constant (and it's value) falls out of his equations, it's a physical constant in the same way as the strength of gravity, or the charge of an electron, is a physical constant. Since the speed of light is a physical constant, time and distance must vary in different reference frames, this was the insight that Einstein came up with. To be fair to Newton, he only had two stated assumption in his "Principia", one stated that "time is constant". Everyone just accepted that as fact until Albert took a very fast tram ride.
I like Ethan, used to read his scienceblogs column long before he popped up on slashdot.
In the same vein the TV weatherman is not a climate scientist, in many cases they are not even a meteorologist, and some of them are women!
BTW: Climate models are based on finite element analysis, AKA numerical integration. Statistics doesn't come into it until you compare the results to historical data (hindcasting). Hindcasting is the standard method to test any FEA model, doesn't matter if you are modeling the casting of an engine block or the earth's climate.
Last I check you need at least eight decimal places and statistically significant sample not to be laughed out of most fields.
In cosmology and astrophysics getting a result that is within a few orders of magnitude is considered "accurate". In archeology a radioactive dating result with 10% is considered a "good result". Science isn't all about measuring the width of a proton, other than particle physics, there are actually very few scientific fields that "demand" eight decimal places of accuracy.
The problem I have with critiques of climate models like yours is they are non-sequiturs and born from ignorance, they don't make any sense because they are sourced from MSM articles that (for political reasons) aim to convince you that modeling physical phenomena is some kind of scam that scientists are using to make money. If you want to critique the models then write a paper explaining why you need "eight nines" to convincingly demonstrate to others that the north pole is melting. There are lists of rebuttals to these fake critiques on the web, skepticalscience is one of the better ones, I'm sure you will find a few of your favorite talking points torn to shreds on that page..
It's no longer a problem with MS libraries but it can still be a problem with third party dll's, the problem is not that different to having symlinks point to multiple versions of an .so file in unix. In both cases it works when done correctly, but it's easy to get the wires crossed if you're not careful.
The "problem" here is that the machine was compromised before the installers are executed. Yes, you could make a more secure installer that fingerprints the dlls it uses, but that doesn't solve the root problem. The root problem is a compromised machine.
There is no "bug" with the installers or windows, the machine has been compromised prior to running the software.
TFA is a "beat up" (likely paid for by Oracle), it does not explain how the attacker is able to put the compromised dll on the machine in the first place. If an attacker can put a random binary on your local drive then they already own your machine. What a random installer subsequently does on a compromised machine is irrelevant to how the machine was hacked.
Car analogy: If a miscreant cuts your brake line without your knowledge, it is not the manufacturer's fault that the brakes no longer work as advertised. If the manufacturer's can make it more difficult to cut the brake line that's great, but they cannot, and should not, be held accountable for malicious damage caused by someone who had unrestricted access to your brake line.
I left HS in 1975, boys in my HS were not allowed to learn typing, cooking or dressmaking. Girls were not allowed to learn woodwork, metalwork or mechanical drawing. I also thought typewriters were "cool" but never so much as touched one until I bought a second hand Apple ][ (a decade after leaving HS). I have been a degree qualified software developer for 25yrs now. I don't give a flying fuck if you are 'embarrassed' by my inability to touch type because it has had exactly zero impact on my career.
First let me say I agree with your post, rapid deflation is as bad or worse as rapid inflation. Stability is desirable however it also has problems, "growth" is in many ways just another way of saying "increased efficiency. So today's widget should be cheaper than yesterday's because it's cheaper and easier to make than yesterday's widget. This may in turn spur more growth since you would expect the number of widgets sold to increase as their price decreases. In this way society as a whole benefits from growth, stopping that "natural" deflation means that those who control production reap ALL the benefits of growth. This is what people are currently pissed off about, the last three decades have seen little or no real wage growth, all that growth has gone into the pockets of those few who control production. Sure they helped create that growth, but no more than the people who clean the executive bathroom who gave them the time to do so.
Their excuse sounds like bullshit to me. If the BC people move away after the electricity company have built the extra capacity then there's a thing called a "national grid" that allows them to sell it to other electricity companies. If they are really worried that the extra capacity is only a temporary fad then theu could use the same grid to buy the extra power at wholesale.There is no electricity company in the US that sells exactly the same amount of power it generates, The grid is a giant electricity "market", wholesale electricity is traded 24/7 and moved to where it is required, plus or minus a couple of hundred MW in a particular location is business as usual.
Since the company that makes velcro also made up the name "velcro", there's only one context for the word - ie: talking about the "velcro" they make.
"Parents React," "Celebrities React," and "Parents React";
Well said. Wish I had a mod point for you. The story sounds a bit like the plot to a "Dad's army" episode about a carrier pigeon, but the fear and mistrust (on both sides) is a rational response to their environment.
Mustard gas has been around since WW1, I supposed you could call it a WMD but when politicians say "mushroom cloud" and "WMD" in the same breath, they are talking about nukes. The Bush administration were pretty adamant Saddam had a bomb, we all knew he had gas since the west sold it to him in the 1980's and then acted all morally superior when he used some on the Kurds (rather than the intended targets - Iranians). It was also pretty obvious from early on the "mushroom cloud" was pure propaganda used to justify the invasion, that's the WMD that people are "still looking for", the one that makes a mushroom cloud.
The conservative tabloid stories you point to conveniently forget about Powell's "Saddam has Nukes" slide show that failed to convince the UN to back their crusade. Personally I think they set Powell up to take the fall for the mushroom cloud propaganda before they got anywhere near the UN, at the time he was the only moderate in the upper ranks of the administration.
Freedom of speech does not give you the right to spray paint your rant on a private wall, whether the wall is made of bricks or pixels is irrelevant. It does however give you the right to argue against free speech.
It's interesting to google the bookmaker odds for elections, particularly in the US were elections seem to drag on forever. If I were a betting man I would have put money on Sanders a few months ago. The odds they are offering for Trump winning the general election are not realistic given his poll numbers. He does have a good chance of winning the nomination.
Trump is about the republican party imploding and/or dividing. The same thing has happened to the conservative side in Australia, there'a a divide in conservatives between the tea party types and the moderates over things such as climate change. Currently the conservatives are in power in Oz, the moderates within them have the upper hand in Oz with the leader of the TP faction having been sacked as PM by his own party. In the US Trump is the charismatic king of the tea party, the moderates are nowhere to be seen (in public). Cruz and Carson are alternative TP kings, and if you're not in the top three you're not in the race.
Bright colours are not enough these days, the icon must vibrate wildly to catch the users eye. When the eye is trained it may become lazy, so you regularly change and move the icon to keep the user alert.
I'm not an engineer! I just want to sit behind the steering wheel and drive the horseless carriage, I don't care about the pedals and sticks.
My Chrome browser recently started putting up an error page because python.org's certificate was a few days out of date. The error page has a big blue button marked "back to safety", the other button is a little harder to spot. It was mildly annoying since I was using the online docs while writing a script and the browser forgets your "fuck off" answer to the error between sessions. I'm sure there's an option somewhere that will automate my willful blindness to this error page, I'm just too lazy to look it up
What's it like to work in a utopian environment?
Subcontractors code, consultants consult. They are different jobs.
There are different levels of software services offered by different companies, in rough order of cost you have....
- The one man act, an employee with few legal rights who costs a bit more than a full timer but can be dismissed on a whim.
- The body shop, a group of consultants that rent out multiple one man acts.
- The coding shop, an external group of one man acts who write code to spec on their own premises and equipment.
- The big guns, large multi-nationals that take over the entire project and impose their processes and people onto the customer.
Nobody gets fired for hiring a "big gun" because they will get the job done. Both the coding shop and the big gun will cost you an arm and a leg but you will get what you asked for (which if you are not careful might not be what you wanted).
In the USA, film rating is voluntary
Yes, but the FCC is not, both the BBFC and FCC impose obscenity rules on broadcasters, both can levy large fines for non-compliance. Censorship exists in every nation, if you doubt that then try broadcasting kiddy porn from anywhere on earth. There are limits to freedom of speech around the world (even in the US), some are for common-sense, some for common decency, and far too many for political gain.
I'm a huge Bowie fan, I saw it at the drive in 40yrs ago. It didn't make much of an impression on me, all I can remember about it is that I wanted to see midnight express but was out-voted. IMO midnight express is still a better movie.
he was doing as he was ordered
Telling people what they want to hear is not "advice".
Complaining about the inconsistency of the location of certain keys across keyboards started when typewriters were invented and hasn't stopped, I have the same complaint about my English desktop vs my English laptop. I have to press two keys on my laptop for "home", my desktop has a single home key. Like most developers a lot of my work is copy-paste-edit, inconsistency in the placement and shift status of the home/pgup/pgdn keys is a pain in the arse.
I don't really care about French keyboards. I do have to work on Japanese servers at times, but I do not read/write/speak Japanese. To do that I need another English PC beside me so I can compare the locations of menu items in the GUI. Oddly enough a Japanese dos box usually works in English, the Japanese logs are often in English too. The software I help develop ( for a Japanese multi-national) is the same, everything under the hood is in English, our Japanese masters just provide Japanese translations of English resource strings for the front end. To make things just that bit more confusing, the bulk of the coding is done by Russian sub-contractors working in Moscow. The Russians we deal with are all bilingual and very fluent in written English, with a few exception the Japanese and Aussies are all mono-lingual.
I was under the impression that it was wrong to dig through a customer's files without reason
Of course it is, a decent person will pay due respect to their customers privacy, but that same decent person won't go so far as to ignore evidence of a serious crime in the name of privacy. If everyone was a "decent person" there wouldn't be any need for laws, right?