To anyone who has ever had anything to do with industrial strength desktop support, that post is a giant neon sign that your haven't got a clue.
The AC (not me) is giving solid advice on the subject at hand - for free - when know-it-all's such as yourself empty their bile on them, it discourages that educational charity.
Disclaimer: Degree qualified computer scientist working as C/C++ software engineer for the last 25yrs.
Downloading is legal in most places, if you think about for a bit the internet simply wouldn't work if it was illegal. The catch is that most torrent clients upload by default, not a problem here in Oz because nobody has ever been sued for "illegal downloading". The MAFIAA have said they will start the US system threatening letters here but they haven't because they know it would be seen by Aussie courts as extortion, which is a 'real' crime. The current communications minister has basically said that if they want legislative help with piracy then they will need to get rid of regional locking and stop price gouging Aussies on content.
The thing about uploading in Oz is that the copyright holder can only sue for REAL damages, the imagined "lost sales" does not come into the equation. If the real damages do not exceed $100 there's nothing the Aussie MAFIAA can do but cry.
All IPCC group reports are finalised via political negotiation except for one group. WG1 is the scientific group, all the others refer back to the WG1 report for factual information, the other groups argue about how to present those facts in their own working group(WG). In 25yrs of incredibly intense scrutiny, nobody has ever found a factual error in the final versions of a WG1 report. That really is a very robust outcome and a credit to the scientists involved.
Only nations that donate to the IPCC budget get a vote on the other reports, last I checked there were ~135 nations who together represent pretty much every political view in the rainbow, it takes a long time for them to agree. The IPCC budget is $5-6M/yr, nobody who actually works on the reports is paid a dime by the IPCC, all of the scientists involved DONATE their time. Their financial accounts are on their web site. Try finding the accounts for an anti-science no-think-tank such Senator Inhofe's barking dog - the heartland institute.
What's at risk is often forgotten, every web site wants you to register just to post a fucking one line comment on a story. I use a junk email and a fixed password for all of them. Even if someone cracks it, all I have lost is a registration I didn't want in the first place.
What I do wonder is why so many SWAT raids end in violence in the US when so many other countries just dont have that sort of problem. My guess is poor training.
Other countries don't have that problem because we don't send a swat team to investigate a routine 911 call, we send a patrol car and knock on the fucking door. Sure we have swat teams, we send them in to end confirmed sieges because that is what a swat team is trained for. Also the knowledge that everyone and his dog is armed to the teeth in the US encourages the cops shoot first and make up excuses later. If you ask me the cop who shot the kid in Ferguson was a coward, he panicked because he was alone and and could not control a black kid who was bigger than him. The last people you want waving a gun around like John Wayne, are fucking cowards.
The next thing you know, we get a law banning incandescents in refrigerators passed alongside more subsidies for corn-based ethanol fuel.
Off course, but that doesn't mean a regulation telling fridge manufacturers and importers to stop using incandescents is a bad idea. The US is the largest market in the world, California is the 5th largest all by itself. Efficiency regulations for manufactured goods in the US, and in particular California, can and do have a significant impact on the world market.
My fridge is over a decade old and wasn't expensive at the time, even it is smart enough to pump out the warm air after the door is closed and the light goes off.
You mean the "environmental impact" of lowering the sea level in the Pacific
The environmental impact of any desal plant itself is that it dramatically raises the salinity of the water near it's outflow, the water is not lost from the normal hydrological cycle. You can minimise the salinity problem by not placing your outflow in a shallow bay. Wind, wave, and tidal power are ideal for desal plants since they are normally built near the coast, those built in deserts can obviously use solar. Unfortunately the one they built here in Melbourne was accompanied by a new brown coal plant which will only accelerate the unwelcome feedback loop between the climate and our species.
Desalination from seawater costs about 8.5 kWH / m^2. That is a lot of power.
I think you mean cubic meters, not square meters.
waste heat from existing power plants via secondary heat exchangers
Usable heat is already converted to electricity, that's the one thing a coal plant does best.
And they will be scorned for creating a "white elephant" when the drought breaks.The last drought here in Victoria saw the states drinking water supplies down to 10% capacity (basically the mud at the bottom), which is why they built one of the world's largest desal plants (as did almost every state capital in Oz at the time). The drought broke before it was completed and everyone started bitching it was a waste of money. When PDO flips to el-nino, the rains will come to California and the drought will return to Australia's east coast. Why my fellow Victorians think we won't need the desal plant next time is a complete mystery to me?
Note that here in Oz we have strict water rationing during a severe drought, ration levels are based on dam levels with different rationing rules for residential, industrial, and agricultural. The rationing receives overwhelming support and "neighborhood watch" style policing from society. My brother lost his wholesale nursery business to the last drought, yet still supports the rationing. Maybe I'm wrong but I just can't see that level of political and economic cooperation happening in 'freedom loving' CA.
Been a C/C++ developer for 25yrs, in my experience this stuff is very rare in working code.
Normal workplaces are a lot better in my opinion.
I can only assume you have never worked in a male dominated blue collar job, such as a mechanics workshop, garbage depot, or a building site. I did that sort of work for 15yrs before moving to a white collar job. The first thing I noticed about working in an office was how polite most people are, the boss even says please and thank you. The second thing I noticed, the walls aren't covered with posters of semi naked women.
Thing is, TFA isn't about workplace behaviour, it's just some junk someone posted on the internet with the express purpose of becoming (in)famous for 15 minutes.
the mechanism by which the mind optimizes information directly, rather than through simulation
Your entire nervous system is a continuous feedback simulation of body/environment interaction that predicts ~0.25 seconds into the future and adjusts the chemistry of your body to react accordingly. Your mind is the self referential part of that simulation. Everywhere we look in the universe we see systems of enormous complexity emerging from matter and the simple rules of physics, many are also self referential in the sense they display a fractal nature or feedback loops, the human mind is no more or less "miraculous" than those systems.
I lost interest in GP about the same time Moore and the other scientist founders left in disgust. Their anti-GMO campaign is a perfect example, it's just as intellectually dishonest as the anti-AGW campaign from the FF industry. I don't agree with Moore here, I think he's an old man who's been mislead/misinformed, but he is correct when he says greenpeace have been putting politics before science for the last 30yrs.
The IPCC's objective is to "change the weather", do you realise how monumentally ignorant that statement is? Science is not groupthink, it's just politically and financially inconvenient for some. I admire Patrick Moore and Jane Goodall but Patrick is wrong about AGW, and Jane is wrong about GMO's. Being a genius doesn't automatically make you immune to anti-science propaganda.
Dictators and demigods are the antithesis of democracy no matter which side they claim to represent.Blaming the "left" for Stalin and Mao makes as much sense as blaming the "right" for Mussolini and Hitler, none whatsoever.
When I went for my taxi license back in the 80's it was;
1. Pee in a cup.
2. Find an address in a street directory.
3. Calculate a split fare.
4. Memorise a handful of regulations, must display license, what to do if customer refuses to pay, etc.
Shit job, shit pay, but if driving a cab doesn't teach you how to handle random arseholes, nothing will.
despite all signs pointing the other way
If you read the statistical "signs" they all say the cab driver is in far more peril than the passenger.
They quote you a price and try and charge you more
I drove cabs for 3yrs, never, ever, gave "quotes", I gave estimates but made it clear you were on the meter since half of what was on the meter wasn't mine to give away in the first place. Very rarely someone would give you a big bill to drive their elderly mum home, in those cases the meter wasn't switched on;)
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To anyone who has ever had anything to do with industrial strength desktop support, that post is a giant neon sign that your haven't got a clue.
The AC (not me) is giving solid advice on the subject at hand - for free - when know-it-all's such as yourself empty their bile on them, it discourages that educational charity.
Disclaimer: Degree qualified computer scientist working as C/C++ software engineer for the last 25yrs.
Protecting the what?
Ignoramus, most Hollywood films are not made in Hollywood studios, they're not even made in the US.
Downloading is legal in most places, if you think about for a bit the internet simply wouldn't work if it was illegal. The catch is that most torrent clients upload by default, not a problem here in Oz because nobody has ever been sued for "illegal downloading". The MAFIAA have said they will start the US system threatening letters here but they haven't because they know it would be seen by Aussie courts as extortion, which is a 'real' crime. The current communications minister has basically said that if they want legislative help with piracy then they will need to get rid of regional locking and stop price gouging Aussies on content.
The thing about uploading in Oz is that the copyright holder can only sue for REAL damages, the imagined "lost sales" does not come into the equation. If the real damages do not exceed $100 there's nothing the Aussie MAFIAA can do but cry.
All IPCC group reports are finalised via political negotiation except for one group. WG1 is the scientific group, all the others refer back to the WG1 report for factual information, the other groups argue about how to present those facts in their own working group(WG). In 25yrs of incredibly intense scrutiny, nobody has ever found a factual error in the final versions of a WG1 report. That really is a very robust outcome and a credit to the scientists involved.
Only nations that donate to the IPCC budget get a vote on the other reports, last I checked there were ~135 nations who together represent pretty much every political view in the rainbow, it takes a long time for them to agree. The IPCC budget is $5-6M/yr, nobody who actually works on the reports is paid a dime by the IPCC, all of the scientists involved DONATE their time. Their financial accounts are on their web site. Try finding the accounts for an anti-science no-think-tank such Senator Inhofe's barking dog - the heartland institute.
What's at risk is often forgotten, every web site wants you to register just to post a fucking one line comment on a story. I use a junk email and a fixed password for all of them. Even if someone cracks it, all I have lost is a registration I didn't want in the first place.
If you really believe there's no difference between left and right in Oz, you're simply not paying attention.
I am an Aussie ;)
What I do wonder is why so many SWAT raids end in violence in the US when so many other countries just dont have that sort of problem. My guess is poor training.
Other countries don't have that problem because we don't send a swat team to investigate a routine 911 call, we send a patrol car and knock on the fucking door. Sure we have swat teams, we send them in to end confirmed sieges because that is what a swat team is trained for. Also the knowledge that everyone and his dog is armed to the teeth in the US encourages the cops shoot first and make up excuses later. If you ask me the cop who shot the kid in Ferguson was a coward, he panicked because he was alone and and could not control a black kid who was bigger than him. The last people you want waving a gun around like John Wayne, are fucking cowards.
Why do Americans automatically accept that kicking the door down and holding everyone at gunpoint is a reasonable response to an anonymous 911 call?
The next thing you know, we get a law banning incandescents in refrigerators passed alongside more subsidies for corn-based ethanol fuel.
Off course, but that doesn't mean a regulation telling fridge manufacturers and importers to stop using incandescents is a bad idea. The US is the largest market in the world, California is the 5th largest all by itself. Efficiency regulations for manufactured goods in the US, and in particular California, can and do have a significant impact on the world market.
My fridge is over a decade old and wasn't expensive at the time, even it is smart enough to pump out the warm air after the door is closed and the light goes off.
Don't worry too much, when the PDO flips to el-nino conditions, we Aussies will be ripping up our orchards and buying Californian oranges....again.
You mean the "environmental impact" of lowering the sea level in the Pacific
The environmental impact of any desal plant itself is that it dramatically raises the salinity of the water near it's outflow, the water is not lost from the normal hydrological cycle. You can minimise the salinity problem by not placing your outflow in a shallow bay. Wind, wave, and tidal power are ideal for desal plants since they are normally built near the coast, those built in deserts can obviously use solar. Unfortunately the one they built here in Melbourne was accompanied by a new brown coal plant which will only accelerate the unwelcome feedback loop between the climate and our species.
Desalination from seawater costs about 8.5 kWH / m^2. That is a lot of power.
I think you mean cubic meters, not square meters.
waste heat from existing power plants via secondary heat exchangers
Usable heat is already converted to electricity, that's the one thing a coal plant does best.
And they will be scorned for creating a "white elephant" when the drought breaks.The last drought here in Victoria saw the states drinking water supplies down to 10% capacity (basically the mud at the bottom), which is why they built one of the world's largest desal plants (as did almost every state capital in Oz at the time). The drought broke before it was completed and everyone started bitching it was a waste of money. When PDO flips to el-nino, the rains will come to California and the drought will return to Australia's east coast. Why my fellow Victorians think we won't need the desal plant next time is a complete mystery to me?
Note that here in Oz we have strict water rationing during a severe drought, ration levels are based on dam levels with different rationing rules for residential, industrial, and agricultural. The rationing receives overwhelming support and "neighborhood watch" style policing from society. My brother lost his wholesale nursery business to the last drought, yet still supports the rationing. Maybe I'm wrong but I just can't see that level of political and economic cooperation happening in 'freedom loving' CA.
Please name a "mom and pop shop" that has been investigated for anti-trust behaviour, just one will do.
I see this sort of stuff all the time,
Been a C/C++ developer for 25yrs, in my experience this stuff is very rare in working code.
Normal workplaces are a lot better in my opinion.
I can only assume you have never worked in a male dominated blue collar job, such as a mechanics workshop, garbage depot, or a building site. I did that sort of work for 15yrs before moving to a white collar job. The first thing I noticed about working in an office was how polite most people are, the boss even says please and thank you. The second thing I noticed, the walls aren't covered with posters of semi naked women.
Thing is, TFA isn't about workplace behaviour, it's just some junk someone posted on the internet with the express purpose of becoming (in)famous for 15 minutes.
In this case it's an advertising tool.
the mechanism by which the mind optimizes information directly, rather than through simulation
Your entire nervous system is a continuous feedback simulation of body/environment interaction that predicts ~0.25 seconds into the future and adjusts the chemistry of your body to react accordingly. Your mind is the self referential part of that simulation. Everywhere we look in the universe we see systems of enormous complexity emerging from matter and the simple rules of physics, many are also self referential in the sense they display a fractal nature or feedback loops, the human mind is no more or less "miraculous" than those systems.
I lost interest in GP about the same time Moore and the other scientist founders left in disgust. Their anti-GMO campaign is a perfect example, it's just as intellectually dishonest as the anti-AGW campaign from the FF industry. I don't agree with Moore here, I think he's an old man who's been mislead/misinformed, but he is correct when he says greenpeace have been putting politics before science for the last 30yrs.
The IPCC's objective is to "change the weather", do you realise how monumentally ignorant that statement is? Science is not groupthink, it's just politically and financially inconvenient for some. I admire Patrick Moore and Jane Goodall but Patrick is wrong about AGW, and Jane is wrong about GMO's. Being a genius doesn't automatically make you immune to anti-science propaganda.
Dictators and demigods are the antithesis of democracy no matter which side they claim to represent.Blaming the "left" for Stalin and Mao makes as much sense as blaming the "right" for Mussolini and Hitler, none whatsoever.
1. Pee in a cup. 2. Find an address in a street directory. 3. Calculate a split fare. 4. Memorise a handful of regulations, must display license, what to do if customer refuses to pay, etc.
Shit job, shit pay, but if driving a cab doesn't teach you how to handle random arseholes, nothing will.
despite all signs pointing the other way
If you read the statistical "signs" they all say the cab driver is in far more peril than the passenger.
They quote you a price and try and charge you more
I drove cabs for 3yrs, never, ever, gave "quotes", I gave estimates but made it clear you were on the meter since half of what was on the meter wasn't mine to give away in the first place. Very rarely someone would give you a big bill to drive their elderly mum home, in those cases the meter wasn't switched on ;)
Do you still get your 50 cent astroturf fee when you post AC?
The problem is boot sector or BIOS malware is now a real thing that needs real defences. It's not some obscure academic attack any more.
Boot sector attacks have been a malware vector since..well...forever, back in the DOS3.x days we had Norton disk doctor to remove them manually.