About a couple months after I purchased a Cisco E2500 WiFi, six or seven years ago, I got had a notice pop up on my screen asking me if I wanted to update the WiFi's firmware. It explained that in order to confirm the update I had to go to Cisco's cloud server and create an account. THEN, they would update the WiFi firmware.
A search around the web at the time revealed that many folks who bought Cisco WiFi's received that notice and requirement. Some suggested that the NSA forced Cisco to update their firmware to include a backdoor. True or False? I don't know, but considering what Snowden blew the whistle on, it would be easy to believe it.
That's when I decided to update my E2500 firmware with DD-WRT instead. In addition to being open sourced and more secure, it gave me access to features on the WiFi that Cisco's HTML interface would supply. My next and current WiFI also has DD-WRT firmware on it.
My wife learned long ago to extend the shelf life of apples, oranges, grapes, lettuce, and other fruits and vegetables by letting them soak for 5-10 minutes in a solution of one cup of white vinegar to a gallon of tap water. She leaves the stems on. Then she rinses them off and put them in the refrigerator crisper.
No, Btrfs has not be superseded by either ZFS or XFS. ZFS has licensing issues that will not be overcome as long as Ellison needs more jet fighters and Pacific Islands. IF ZFS ever becomes GPL then it still won't be adopted because it takes too much RAM, preferable ECC RAM. And, it takes 9 complicated steps to make it a root file system even if you wanted to install it, so Joe and Sally Sixpack won't be running ZFS any time soon. ZFS is already on many corporate servers, which are headless and boot using other operating systems.
But, ZFS is nice in many regards, and I like it, but not running on my personal computer. IMO, Btrfs is the perfect fit.
I use autodefrag in the fstab boot line for @ and @home. I run trim weekly as a systemd service. I limit my snapshots to 5 per subvolume in a rotating manner, deleting the oldest before I create the newest, and I always use the incremental backup method. I do massive amounts testing of various software packages and use the rollback feature quite often.
The last time I used balance was when I reconfigured from RAID1 to a one disk singleton, two or three years ago. My main drive, and SSD is at 2.05 TBW of a 300 TBW max. So I've got 17 years left on my Samsung EVO 960.
All in all, I've been using Btrfs as my root filesystem for almost four years and it has been flawless. I will never use a distro that doesn't offer Btrfs as the root fs.
RH is re-inventing the wheel by dropping Btrfs in favor of their own fs, called Stratis. Considering how long it took ZFS and Btrfs to reach their current state of development Stratis may be years in the making before it's ready for RH servers. Besides, who knows what IBM will do with either Btrfs or Stratis.
As far as Btrfs is concerned, I've been using it for almost four years on both Kubuntu and Neon User Edition and it has been faultless for me. I've used SINGLETON's, RAID0 and RAID1 on two disks, but I haven't tried RAID5 or 6. I limit my snapshots to 5 per subvolume on a rotating manner and all of my archival snapshots were created using the incremental method offered by "btrfs send -p...". A few people at Kubuntuforums.org have used Btrfs longer than I have and two of them keep three and five distros on their primary disk in a multi-boot scenario. Oshunluver and Vinny. Check out their posts.
Personally, I'll never use a distro which does not allow me to install Btrfs as the root filesystem.
KDE with Plasma 5.12.7 is awesome!
I've been using KDE as my DE since SuSE 5.3 offered KDE 1.0 Beta in 1998 and haven't had a single moment of regret. I programmed client-server apps using Qt for nearly 10 years, and the leap from Qt3 to Qt4 was monumental.
TrollTech redesigned Qt's API from the ground up with Qt 4.0 and it was easier for them, both technically and economically, to start fresh than to kludge Qt3.0, which was not modular like Qt4 was. TrollTech could not support 3 and 4 at the same time, and neither could distro developers, so KDE3 disappeared, and after its time so did KDE4.
Kubuntu and KDE Neon User Edition are awesome DEs for Ubuntu.
fix the extremely annoying bugs in iOS 12.0.1
I'm tired of my iPhone 6+ behaving as if a ghost has gone crazy hitting keys randomly, and the display jittering right and left about 1mm at about 3 or 4 jitters per second.
Anecdotally, this summer has been the coolest and wettest I can remember in at least 60 years or more. The average first frost date is November 4th. We had a hard freeze of 27F three weeks early, which followed a 5" snow on Oct 14th. Elephants and Giraffe in Africa are wading through 10" of a late spring snow. While claiming such snow falls are common the news media are still making a big deal of it, so it must not be as common as some claim. How many times in the past have you seen photos of elephants in Africa wading through deep snow? https://www.msn.com/en-za/trav...
And, why would he pay of the "winner" had the advantage of being supported by fudged data?
AGW is all about dialectical materialism: the transfer of wealth from the West to Marxist countries via "Carbon Credits", which made Al Gore a millionaire. http://variable-variability.bl...
... But one must explicitly say: We de facto redistribute the world’s wealth due to climate politics. That the owners of coal and oil are not enthusiastic about this is obvious. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate politics is environmental politics . This has almost nothing to do any more with environmental politics,...
IOW, Climate Change is used by Globalists to justify their push toward Marxist "solutions" to all problems. They have their "Arm and Hammer" and they see every problem as a nail requiring hits from their hammer.
IBM's 5 qbit machine is coherent for 50 microseconds. It is not big enough to solve any useful problems. D-Wave isn't any faster than an ordinary computer and using quantum "annealing" it is limited in the kinds of problems it can solve.
If someone created a 4096 GPG key it would most likely be good for their lifetime.
the "hottest on record". All you have to do is edit the historical record to make it so, and that is exactly what they've been doing. They started by first throwing out the actual thermometer records and replaced them with "synthetic" records, i.e., made up out of thin air. That got them the rising part of the hockey stick. Then they began editing the historical records to flatten out the handle of the stick.
Even back in 2009 & 2011 you could read them plotting, planning and doing the cooking in the CRU emails.
AGW, or "Climate Change", or whatever the Nom de Jur is for it, isn't science. Science isn't "settled" and "settled science" isn't science. Climate Change is closer to Lysenkoism than it is to real science. The most disturbing aspect of today's climate change scientists is their willingness to go back into historical data and "correct" it to agree with their theories about CO2. The changes always cool the past and warm the present to make it appear that we are getting warmer. Yet, all their predictions about the disasters they claim would happen failed to materialize. Al Gore quoted an AGW scientist who predicted in 2007 that "within 5 years" ice would be gone from the North Pole for parts of the summer. It never happened. In fact, ice sheets have waxed and waned as they always have, even with AGW folks cooking, trimming and creating data out of thin air. https://www.investors.com/poli...
Hansen and fellow scientist Michael Oppenheimer reported that if the buildup of carbon dioxide and methane continued at the current rate, the Earth would be between three and nine degrees Fahrenheit warmer by the years 2025-2050, and that sea levels would rise between one and four feet in the same time frame. They've got only 5 years left and our globe has to warm 2.5 to 8.5 degrees during that time.
https://www.thenewamerican.com... Gore’s film predicted a 20-foot sea-level rise in the “near future” owing to ice melt from Greenland and Antarctica. As you can see, it hasn’t happened yet. Gore also predicted the devastation of low-lying Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu because of sea-level rise. But Tuvalu and some other island nations have actually grown in size since Gore’s pronouncement. A British judge concluded in 2007 that the film contained at least nine factual errors and was, therefore, a political film — not a scientific one.
Whenever these predictions of doom don’t pan out, the climate charlatans simply move the prediction back another few decades, long past the time when they’ll actually have to answer for them. It’s a shell game. The real global warming is always under a different cup.
There was only ONE BIG REASON for the climate hysteria of the last 20 years, which was revealed in the 2009 and 2011 whistleblower release of the CRU emails: redistribute wealth from the Western nations to those ruled by Marxists. So arrogant are they about it that a member of the UN-ICCP stated: "We (UN-IPCC) redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy... One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is an environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore..." -Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer. IPCC co-chair of Wkring Group 3, November 13, 2010 interview (with Dr. Charles Battig)
The author paints a picture of capitalist Walmart "exploiting" its workers and customers. Actually, Walmart is exploiting Chinese slave labor, to the benefit of its American customers, with the approval of the Chinese Communist Party rulers. However, even then, the Chinese are living better under China's quasi-capitalist system than when they were living under Mao's pure Marxist system. When pure Marxist/Communism/Socialism is applied to a population duped or forced into accepting it the grocery stores eventually empty out and the people start losing weight as they begin eating their pets, the local rodents and birds, strip the jungles of nearby primates and empty the rivers empty fish. Then, still starving because the shelves are empty, they sneak across the border into neighboring states that were not foolish enough to fall for the promise of free handouts and guaranteed incomes in exchange for their votes. Yes, I'm referring to Venezuela and other Marxist states that have already collapsed.
In 2009 Al Gore quoted scientists who claimed that there is a 75% chance that within the next 5 years all of the north pole ice will be melted sometime during a summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not even close.
Then we learned that the ridge pine tree ring studies involved only 48 trees out of nearly 500, a classic case of cherry picking. Trees were chosen because they "showed" late temperature increases but were next or close to trees which did not show such increases and were not included in the database. In the 2009 CRU zip file released by the whistleblower is a file called HARRY_READ_ME.txt in which the writer tells HARRY how poor is the data from which the hockey stick was generated. Just follow the profanity and it will lead you to sentences like: "ARGH. Just went back to check on synthetic production. Apparently - I have no memory of this at all - we're not doing observed rain days! It's all synthetic from 1990 onwards. So I'm going to need conditionals in the update program to handle that. And separate gridding before 1989. And what TF happens to station counts?
OH FUCK THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they're found.... So, under/cru/cruts/version_3_0/fixing_ tmp_and_ precustom_ anom_comparisons, we have a 'manual' directory and an 'automatic' directory, each with twelve 1990 anomaly files. And how do they compare? NOT AT ALL!!!!!!!!!"
And the author goes on. BTW, the "synthetic" reference is to the fact that they threw out all the thermometer temperature data and replaced it with computer-generated temperatures.
The 2011 CRU zip file has even more internal information which reveals the bogus and politically orientated nature of the AGW research.
Our insurance company sent my wife one of those devices at no cost following her heart mitral valve replacement and hip replacement. It turned out to be touchy and temperamental. She'd just set it down on the coffee table and it would trigger dial the company. The service person had to go through a script before they'd hang up. While hanging around her neck it would swing back and forth and eventually bang against her sternum, setting it off. She averaged 3 to 5 false triggers per day. On the only day she could have used it we were walking to the stadium to watch our grandson play baseball. We went single file through a gap in the curb and I heard a thud behind me. She had fallen face first flat onto the concrete. The device didn't trigger. I drove her to the doctor and she got a 1.5" cut sewed up. Her face was black and blue for months because she was on blood thinner. We boxed the device up and sent it back. Fortunately, it didn't cost us anything.
I suspect that the Series 4 Apple Watch would behave the same way.
You misinterpreted the results. The real meaning of the committee's vote is to confirm that accusation is still NOT the same as guilt. You wouldn't want to be accused of doing something you didn't do and get kangarooed by the media, would you? Consider what happened to 10 Duke Lacrosse players who were accused of rape by a stripper. They were ejected from the team, expelled from the college and labeled as "sexual predators" before they had even a single day in court. Read about it: https://thefederalist.com/2016... and how much it hurts 10 years later, even though the three players were exonerated by an honest DA, not the scumbag DA who withheld exculpatory evidence to win a conviction and further his political career. https://www.huffingtonpost.com... "The media’s coverage of the case inflamed race, gender and class divisions locally and nationally. But upon further investigation by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, Mangum’s allegations were deemed false. Cooper exonerated the students, saying in April 2007, “We have no credible evidence that an attack occurred.”
So, considering how unfair equating accusation with guilt is, wouldn't we all be better off if we let the judicial system work without putting a wrench into the gears? In Kavanaugh's case, he been the subject of SIX previous FBI investigations in the past yet some people believe that a SEVENTH would somehow, someway, uncover what six previous teams did not find. Only if one believes the FBI is totally incompetent, biased, or is part of the "Deep State".
But, did you notice the report released today that Dr Ford is NOT a licensed psychologist and in calling herself a psychologist has violated California law?
"Just one sentence into her sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford may have told a lie.
After thanking members of the committee on Thursday, and while under oath, Ford opened her testimony saying, “My name is Christine Blasey Ford, I am a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.”
The issue lies with the word “psychologist,” and Ford potentially misrepresenting herself and her credentials, an infraction that is taken very seriously in the psychology field as well as under California law.
Under California law, as with almost every other state, in order for a person to identify publicly as a psychologist they must be licensed by the California Board of Psychology, a process that includes 3,000 hours of post-doctoral professional experience and passing two rigorous exams. To call oneself a psychologist without being licensed by a state board is the equivalent of a law school graduate calling herself a lawyer without ever taking the bar exam.
According to records, Ford is not licensed in the state of California. A recent search through the Department of Consumer Affairs License Bureau, which provides a state-run database of all licensed psychologists in California, produced no results for any variation of spelling on Ford’s name. If Ford at one time had a license but it is now inactive, she would legally still be allowed to call herself a “psychologist” but forbidden from practicing psychology on patients until it was renewed. However, the database would have shown any past licenses granted to Ford, even if they were inactive.
Ford also does not appear to have been licensed in any other states outside California. Since graduating with a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Southern California in 1996 it
Running a Linux VM on windows makes it dependent on Win10's vulnerabilities, security holes, etc...
Better would be to run Win10 as a VM on Linux.
Better yet, don't use Win10 at all. Save yourself hundreds of bucks and forget Win10's problems. Isn't being on Microsoft's cash treadmill for 20 years enough punishment?
Models are NOT evidence of anything except the hypothesis, which has to be tested using the null hypothesis. Experiments are not designed to prove something right. They are designed to prove an hypothesis wrong.
Classic case: Einstein's prediction of the bending of light from a star on a certain date during a solar eclipse. He didn't need the support of a newspaper blasting his opponents, or of a radio host denigrating anyone who didn't believe he was right.
Text of email: 1255523796.txt from FOIA-2009.zip "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." forced me to remove some email reply addresses and reduce boundary markers.
From: Kevin Trenberth To: Michael Mann Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:36:36 -0600 Cc: Tom Wigley,...
Mike
Here are some of the issues as I see them:
Saying it is natural variability is not an explanation. What are the physical processes?
Where did the heat go? We know there is a build up of ocean heat prior to El Nino, and a discharge (and sfc T warming) during late stages of El Nino, but is the observing system sufficient to track it? Quite aside from the changes in the ocean, we know there are major changes in the storm tracks and teleconnections with ENSO, and there is a LOT more rain on land during La Nina (more drought in El Nino), so how does the albedo change overall (changes in cloud)? At the very least the extra rain on land means a lot more heat goes into evaporation rather than raising temperatures, and so that keeps land temps down: and should generate cloud. But the resulting evaporative cooling means the heat goes into atmosphere and should be radiated to space: so we should be able to track it with CERES
data. The CERES data are unfortunately wonting and so too are the cloud data. The ocean data are also lacking although some of that may be related to the ocean current changes and burying heat at depth where it is not picked up. If it is sequestered at depth then it comes back to haunt us later and so we should know about it.
Kevin
Michael Mann wrote:
Kevin, that's an interesting point. As the plot from Gavin I sent shows, we can easily account for the observed surface cooling in terms of the natural variability seen in the CMIP3 ensemble (i.e. the observed cold dip falls well within it). So in that sense, we can "explain" it. But this raises the interesting question, is there something going on here w/ the energy & radiation budget which is inconsistent with the modes of internal variability that leads to similar temporary cooling periods within the models.
I'm not sure that this has been addressed--has it?
m
On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Kevin Trenberth wrote:
Hi Tom
How come you do not agree with a statement that says we are no where close to knowing where energy is going or whether clouds are changing to make the planet brighter. We are not close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!
Kevin
Tom Wigley wrote:
Dear all,
At the risk of overload, here are some notes of mine on the recent lack of warming. I look at this in two ways. The first is to look at the difference between the observed and expected anthropogenic trend relative to the pdf for unforced variability. The second is to remove ENSO, volcanoes and TSI variations from the observed data.
Both methods show that what we are seeing is not unusual. The second method leaves a significant warming over the past decade.
These sums complement Kevin's energy work.
Kevin says... "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't". I do not agree with this.
IMHO, climate scientists build all these models and collect all this data, and you don't even quote a single fact to support your argument, or even float a hypothesis as to how your family's house is representative of the worlds climate.... so if its all the same, I'll trust the scientists. Because their mechanisms stand up to basic fact checking, and yours don't even quote facts to check.
There are significant concerns about HOW they built those models and "collected" all their data.
In the 2009 FOIA zip files were 1,072 emails which were dated from 1999 to Nov of 2009, two weeks before the whistle blower released the zip file. In it is HARRY_README.TXT, which describes the horrible state of the data used to generate the hockey stick graph. They dropped all the thermometer temperature data between 1960 to the date prior to the release of the graph and replaced it with "synthetic" data (i.e., made up out of thin air), combined with a "neat trick" (their words) by Mann to hide the decline in global temperature which has obviously been taken place since 1997. The plans to deliberately create a website for propaganda purposes, the deliberate withholding of data on which their published reports were based, their constant and continuing change of data taken decades ago in order to make it fit their agenda... all of it suggests what has been repeated in other posts citing comments made by IPCC reps and supporters that "Climate Change" is about redistribution of wealth from the Western world to Marxist countries.
Various emails discuss getting journal editors who don't favor AGW replaced with people that do, which they did, and stuffing "peer review" panels with AGW proponents, which they did. They colluded between themselves to give each other's papers high "approval" marks.
In the DOCS section of the ZIP file are Word documents in which the "researchers" apply for grant money from the IPCC. In it they set up "milestones" (their word) for delivering "proof" of AGW on a timely basis. When I was doing research in grad school one couldn't claim that any particular line of research would prove any hypothesis. In fact, the exact opposite is how science is done. One assumes their hypothesis is true and designs an experiment to test its validity, the "null hypothesis". A thousand experiments can not prove an hypothesis correct, but it takes only one to prove it wrong. If that happens the hypothesis is modified to take into account the new data and it is retested. Here is an example email about Greenpeace and the IPCC working toward "the globalization agenda" (their words) ******************* From: "paul horsman" To: m.kelly@uea.ac.uk Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:45:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: climate negotiations/wto etc. Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Status: O
Hi Mick,
It was good to see you again yesterday - if briefly. One particular thing you said - and we agreed - was about the IPCC reports and the broader climate negotiations were working to the globalisation agenda driven by organisations like the WTO. So my first question is do you have anything written or published, or know of anything particularly on this subject, which talks about this in more detail?
My second question is that I am invovled in a working group organising a climate justice summit in the Hague and I wondered if you had any contacts, ngos or individuals, with whom you have worked especially from the small island States or similar areas, who could be invited as a voice either to help on the working group and/or to invite to speak?
All the best,
Paul
--------------- Paul V. Horsman Oil Campaigner Greenpeace International Climate Campaign Greenpeace, Canonbury Villas London N1 2PN Tel: +44 171 865 8286 Fax: +44 171 865 8201 Mob: +44 7801 212990
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The 2011 FOIA zip contains more damning evidence of fraud, collusion, corruption...
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About a couple months after I purchased a Cisco E2500 WiFi, six or seven years ago, I got had a notice pop up on my screen asking me if I wanted to update the WiFi's firmware. It explained that in order to confirm the update I had to go to Cisco's cloud server and create an account. THEN, they would update the WiFi firmware. A search around the web at the time revealed that many folks who bought Cisco WiFi's received that notice and requirement. Some suggested that the NSA forced Cisco to update their firmware to include a backdoor. True or False? I don't know, but considering what Snowden blew the whistle on, it would be easy to believe it. That's when I decided to update my E2500 firmware with DD-WRT instead. In addition to being open sourced and more secure, it gave me access to features on the WiFi that Cisco's HTML interface would supply. My next and current WiFI also has DD-WRT firmware on it.
My wife learned long ago to extend the shelf life of apples, oranges, grapes, lettuce, and other fruits and vegetables by letting them soak for 5-10 minutes in a solution of one cup of white vinegar to a gallon of tap water. She leaves the stems on. Then she rinses them off and put them in the refrigerator crisper.
Doesn't have Ubuntu's app for adding proprietary drivers, so I can't set up my wifi on it.
Yes, it does. It's called "ubuntu-drivers". I used it to install my Nvidia GT 650M.
No, Btrfs has not be superseded by either ZFS or XFS. ZFS has licensing issues that will not be overcome as long as Ellison needs more jet fighters and Pacific Islands. IF ZFS ever becomes GPL then it still won't be adopted because it takes too much RAM, preferable ECC RAM. And, it takes 9 complicated steps to make it a root file system even if you wanted to install it, so Joe and Sally Sixpack won't be running ZFS any time soon. ZFS is already on many corporate servers, which are headless and boot using other operating systems. But, ZFS is nice in many regards, and I like it, but not running on my personal computer. IMO, Btrfs is the perfect fit.
I use autodefrag in the fstab boot line for @ and @home. I run trim weekly as a systemd service. I limit my snapshots to 5 per subvolume in a rotating manner, deleting the oldest before I create the newest, and I always use the incremental backup method. I do massive amounts testing of various software packages and use the rollback feature quite often. The last time I used balance was when I reconfigured from RAID1 to a one disk singleton, two or three years ago. My main drive, and SSD is at 2.05 TBW of a 300 TBW max. So I've got 17 years left on my Samsung EVO 960. All in all, I've been using Btrfs as my root filesystem for almost four years and it has been flawless. I will never use a distro that doesn't offer Btrfs as the root fs.
RH is re-inventing the wheel by dropping Btrfs in favor of their own fs, called Stratis. Considering how long it took ZFS and Btrfs to reach their current state of development Stratis may be years in the making before it's ready for RH servers. Besides, who knows what IBM will do with either Btrfs or Stratis. As far as Btrfs is concerned, I've been using it for almost four years on both Kubuntu and Neon User Edition and it has been faultless for me. I've used SINGLETON's, RAID0 and RAID1 on two disks, but I haven't tried RAID5 or 6. I limit my snapshots to 5 per subvolume on a rotating manner and all of my archival snapshots were created using the incremental method offered by "btrfs send -p...". A few people at Kubuntuforums.org have used Btrfs longer than I have and two of them keep three and five distros on their primary disk in a multi-boot scenario. Oshunluver and Vinny. Check out their posts. Personally, I'll never use a distro which does not allow me to install Btrfs as the root filesystem.
KDE with Plasma 5.12.7 is awesome! I've been using KDE as my DE since SuSE 5.3 offered KDE 1.0 Beta in 1998 and haven't had a single moment of regret. I programmed client-server apps using Qt for nearly 10 years, and the leap from Qt3 to Qt4 was monumental. TrollTech redesigned Qt's API from the ground up with Qt 4.0 and it was easier for them, both technically and economically, to start fresh than to kludge Qt3.0, which was not modular like Qt4 was. TrollTech could not support 3 and 4 at the same time, and neither could distro developers, so KDE3 disappeared, and after its time so did KDE4. Kubuntu and KDE Neon User Edition are awesome DEs for Ubuntu.
Thumbs up! +1
fix the extremely annoying bugs in iOS 12.0.1 I'm tired of my iPhone 6+ behaving as if a ghost has gone crazy hitting keys randomly, and the display jittering right and left about 1mm at about 3 or 4 jitters per second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Anecdotally, this summer has been the coolest and wettest I can remember in at least 60 years or more. The average first frost date is November 4th. We had a hard freeze of 27F three weeks early, which followed a 5" snow on Oct 14th. Elephants and Giraffe in Africa are wading through 10" of a late spring snow. While claiming such snow falls are common the news media are still making a big deal of it, so it must not be as common as some claim. How many times in the past have you seen photos of elephants in Africa wading through deep snow?
https://www.msn.com/en-za/trav...
And, why would he pay of the "winner" had the advantage of being supported by fudged data?
https://realclimatescience.com...
https://science.house.gov/news...
https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
AGW is all about dialectical materialism: the transfer of wealth from the West to Marxist countries via "Carbon Credits", which made Al Gore a millionaire.
http://variable-variability.bl...
IOW, Climate Change is used by Globalists to justify their push toward Marxist "solutions" to all problems. They have their "Arm and Hammer" and they see every problem as a nail requiring hits from their hammer.
and it may be decades before they do.
IBM's 5 qbit machine is coherent for 50 microseconds. It is not big enough to solve any useful problems. D-Wave isn't any faster than an ordinary computer and using quantum "annealing" it is limited in the kinds of problems it can solve.
If someone created a 4096 GPG key it would most likely be good for their lifetime.
the "hottest on record". All you have to do is edit the historical record to make it so, and that is exactly what they've been doing. They started by first throwing out the actual thermometer records and replaced them with "synthetic" records, i.e., made up out of thin air. That got them the rising part of the hockey stick. Then they began editing the historical records to flatten out the handle of the stick.
Even back in 2009 & 2011 you could read them plotting, planning and doing the cooking in the CRU emails.
AGW, or "Climate Change", or whatever the Nom de Jur is for it, isn't science. Science isn't "settled" and "settled science" isn't science. Climate Change is closer to Lysenkoism than it is to real science. The most disturbing aspect of today's climate change scientists is their willingness to go back into historical data and "correct" it to agree with their theories about CO2. The changes always cool the past and warm the present to make it appear that we are getting warmer. Yet, all their predictions about the disasters they claim would happen failed to materialize. Al Gore quoted an AGW scientist who predicted in 2007 that "within 5 years" ice would be gone from the North Pole for parts of the summer. It never happened. In fact, ice sheets have waxed and waned as they always have, even with AGW folks cooking, trimming and creating data out of thin air.
https://www.investors.com/poli...
Hansen and fellow scientist Michael Oppenheimer reported that if the buildup of carbon dioxide and methane continued at the current rate, the Earth would be between three and nine degrees Fahrenheit warmer by the years 2025-2050, and that sea levels would rise between one and four feet in the same time frame. They've got only 5 years left and our globe has to warm 2.5 to 8.5 degrees during that time.
https://www.thenewamerican.com...
Gore’s film predicted a 20-foot sea-level rise in the “near future” owing to ice melt from Greenland and Antarctica. As you can see, it hasn’t happened yet. Gore also predicted the devastation of low-lying Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu because of sea-level rise. But Tuvalu and some other island nations have actually grown in size since Gore’s pronouncement. A British judge concluded in 2007 that the film contained at least nine factual errors and was, therefore, a political film — not a scientific one.
Whenever these predictions of doom don’t pan out, the climate charlatans simply move the prediction back another few decades, long past the time when they’ll actually have to answer for them. It’s a shell game. The real global warming is always under a different cup.
https://polarbearscience.com/2...
http://www.aei.org/publication...
https://casf.me/3-decades-fail...
There was only ONE BIG REASON for the climate hysteria of the last 20 years, which was revealed in the 2009 and 2011 whistleblower release of the CRU emails: redistribute wealth from the Western nations to those ruled by Marxists. So arrogant are they about it that a member of the UN-ICCP stated: ... One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is an environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore ..."
"We (UN-IPCC) redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy
-Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer. IPCC co-chair of Wkring Group 3, November 13, 2010 interview (with Dr. Charles Battig)
The author paints a picture of capitalist Walmart "exploiting" its workers and customers. Actually, Walmart is exploiting Chinese slave labor, to the benefit of its American customers, with the approval of the Chinese Communist Party rulers. However, even then, the Chinese are living better under China's quasi-capitalist system than when they were living under Mao's pure Marxist system. When pure Marxist/Communism/Socialism is applied to a population duped or forced into accepting it the grocery stores eventually empty out and the people start losing weight as they begin eating their pets, the local rodents and birds, strip the jungles of nearby primates and empty the rivers empty fish. Then, still starving because the shelves are empty, they sneak across the border into neighboring states that were not foolish enough to fall for the promise of free handouts and guaranteed incomes in exchange for their votes. Yes, I'm referring to Venezuela and other Marxist states that have already collapsed.
In 2009 Al Gore quoted scientists who claimed that there is a 75% chance that within the next 5 years all of the north pole ice will be melted sometime during a summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not even close.
Then we learned that the ridge pine tree ring studies involved only 48 trees out of nearly 500, a classic case of cherry picking. Trees were chosen because they "showed" late temperature increases but were next or close to trees which did not show such increases and were not included in the database. In the 2009 CRU zip file released by the whistleblower is a file called HARRY_READ_ME.txt in which the writer tells HARRY how poor is the data from which the hockey stick was generated. Just follow the profanity and it will lead you to sentences like:
"ARGH. Just went back to check on synthetic production. Apparently - I have no memory of this at all - we're not doing observed rain days! It's all synthetic from 1990 onwards. So I'm going to need conditionals in the update program to handle that. And separate gridding before 1989. And what TF happens to station counts?
OH FUCK THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they're found. ... /cru/cruts/version_3_0/fixing_ tmp_and_ precustom_ anom_comparisons, we have a 'manual' directory and an 'automatic' directory, each with twelve 1990 anomaly files. And how do they compare? NOT AT ALL!!!!!!!!!"
So, under
And the author goes on. BTW, the "synthetic" reference is to the fact that they threw out all the thermometer temperature data and replaced it with computer-generated temperatures.
The 2011 CRU zip file has even more internal information which reveals the bogus and politically orientated nature of the AGW research.
Our insurance company sent my wife one of those devices at no cost following her heart mitral valve replacement and hip replacement. It turned out to be touchy and temperamental. She'd just set it down on the coffee table and it would trigger dial the company. The service person had to go through a script before they'd hang up. While hanging around her neck it would swing back and forth and eventually bang against her sternum, setting it off. She averaged 3 to 5 false triggers per day. On the only day she could have used it we were walking to the stadium to watch our grandson play baseball. We went single file through a gap in the curb and I heard a thud behind me. She had fallen face first flat onto the concrete. The device didn't trigger. I drove her to the doctor and she got a 1.5" cut sewed up. Her face was black and blue for months because she was on blood thinner. We boxed the device up and sent it back. Fortunately, it didn't cost us anything.
I suspect that the Series 4 Apple Watch would behave the same way.
For sure.
It's my 128GB USB stick containing all my data, which I keep in my watch pocket, with copies at two other places.
Typo: 3 Duke Lacrosse players.
You misinterpreted the results. The real meaning of the committee's vote is to confirm that accusation is still NOT the same as guilt. You wouldn't want to be accused of doing something you didn't do and get kangarooed by the media, would you? Consider what happened to 10 Duke Lacrosse players who were accused of rape by a stripper. They were ejected from the team, expelled from the college and labeled as "sexual predators" before they had even a single day in court. Read about it:
https://thefederalist.com/2016...
and how much it hurts 10 years later, even though the three players were exonerated by an honest DA, not the scumbag DA who withheld exculpatory evidence to win a conviction and further his political career.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
"The media’s coverage of the case inflamed race, gender and class divisions locally and nationally. But upon further investigation by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, Mangum’s allegations were deemed false. Cooper exonerated the students, saying in April 2007, “We have no credible evidence that an attack occurred.”
So, considering how unfair equating accusation with guilt is, wouldn't we all be better off if we let the judicial system work without putting a wrench into the gears? In Kavanaugh's case, he been the subject of SIX previous FBI investigations in the past yet some people believe that a SEVENTH would somehow, someway, uncover what six previous teams did not find. Only if one believes the FBI is totally incompetent, biased, or is part of the "Deep State".
But, did you notice the report released today that Dr Ford is NOT a licensed psychologist and in calling herself a psychologist has violated California law?
"Just one sentence into her sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford may have told a lie.
After thanking members of the committee on Thursday, and while under oath, Ford opened her testimony saying, “My name is Christine Blasey Ford, I am a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.”
The issue lies with the word “psychologist,” and Ford potentially misrepresenting herself and her credentials, an infraction that is taken very seriously in the psychology field as well as under California law.
Under California law, as with almost every other state, in order for a person to identify publicly as a psychologist they must be licensed by the California Board of Psychology, a process that includes 3,000 hours of post-doctoral professional experience and passing two rigorous exams. To call oneself a psychologist without being licensed by a state board is the equivalent of a law school graduate calling herself a lawyer without ever taking the bar exam.
According to records, Ford is not licensed in the state of California. A recent search through the Department of Consumer Affairs License Bureau, which provides a state-run database of all licensed psychologists in California, produced no results for any variation of spelling on Ford’s name. If Ford at one time had a license but it is now inactive, she would legally still be allowed to call herself a “psychologist” but forbidden from practicing psychology on patients until it was renewed. However, the database would have shown any past licenses granted to Ford, even if they were inactive.
Ford also does not appear to have been licensed in any other states outside California. Since graduating with a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Southern California in 1996 it
Running a Linux VM on windows makes it dependent on Win10's vulnerabilities, security holes, etc...
Better would be to run Win10 as a VM on Linux.
Better yet, don't use Win10 at all. Save yourself hundreds of bucks and forget Win10's problems. Isn't being on Microsoft's cash treadmill for 20 years enough punishment?
Models are NOT evidence of anything except the hypothesis, which has to be tested using the null hypothesis. Experiments are not designed to prove something right. They are designed to prove an hypothesis wrong.
Classic case: Einstein's prediction of the bending of light from a star on a certain date during a solar eclipse. He didn't need the support of a newspaper blasting his opponents, or of a radio host denigrating anyone who didn't believe he was right.
Text of email: 1255523796.txt from FOIA-2009.zip
"Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." forced me to remove some email reply addresses and reduce boundary markers.
From: Kevin Trenberth ,...
To: Michael Mann
Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:36:36 -0600
Cc: Tom Wigley
Mike
Here are some of the issues as I see them:
Saying it is natural variability is not an explanation. What are the physical processes?
Where did the heat go? We know there is a build up of ocean heat prior to El Nino, and a discharge (and sfc T warming) during late stages of El Nino, but is the observing system sufficient to track it? Quite aside from the changes in the ocean, we know there are major changes in the storm tracks and teleconnections with ENSO, and there is a LOT more rain on land during La Nina (more drought in El Nino), so how does the albedo change overall (changes in cloud)? At the very least the extra rain on land means a lot more heat goes into evaporation rather than raising temperatures, and so that keeps land temps down: and should generate cloud. But the resulting evaporative cooling means the heat goes into atmosphere and should be radiated to space: so we should be able to track it with CERES
data. The CERES data are unfortunately wonting and so too are the cloud data. The ocean data are also lacking although some of that may be related to the ocean current changes and burying heat at depth where it is not picked up. If it is sequestered at depth then it comes back to haunt us later and so we should know about it.
Kevin
Michael Mann wrote:
Kevin, that's an interesting point. As the plot from Gavin I sent shows, we can easily account for the observed surface cooling in terms of the natural variability seen in the CMIP3 ensemble (i.e. the observed cold dip falls well within it). So in that sense, we can "explain" it. But this raises the interesting question, is there something going on here w/ the energy & radiation budget which is inconsistent with the modes of internal variability that leads to similar temporary cooling periods within the models.
I'm not sure that this has been addressed--has it?
m
On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Kevin Trenberth wrote:
Hi Tom
How come you do not agree with a statement that says we are no where close to knowing where energy is going or whether clouds are changing to make the planet brighter. We are not close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!
Kevin
Tom Wigley wrote:
Dear all,
At the risk of overload, here are some notes of mine on the recent lack of warming. I look at this in two ways. The first is to look at the difference between the observed and expected anthropogenic trend relative to the pdf for unforced variability. The second is to remove ENSO, volcanoes and TSI variations from the observed data.
Both methods show that what we are seeing is not unusual. The second method leaves a significant warming over the past decade.
These sums complement Kevin's energy work.
Kevin says ... "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't". I do not agree with this.
IMHO, climate scientists build all these models and collect all this data, and you don't even quote a single fact to support your argument, or even float a hypothesis as to how your family's house is representative of the worlds climate.... so if its all the same, I'll trust the scientists. Because their mechanisms stand up to basic fact checking, and yours don't even quote facts to check.
There are significant concerns about HOW they built those models and "collected" all their data.
In the 2009 FOIA zip files were 1,072 emails which were dated from 1999 to Nov of 2009, two weeks before the whistle blower released the zip file. In it is HARRY_README.TXT, which describes the horrible state of the data used to generate the hockey stick graph. They dropped all the thermometer temperature data between 1960 to the date prior to the release of the graph and replaced it with "synthetic" data (i.e., made up out of thin air), combined with a "neat trick" (their words) by Mann to hide the decline in global temperature which has obviously been taken place since 1997. The plans to deliberately create a website for propaganda purposes, the deliberate withholding of data on which their published reports were based, their constant and continuing change of data taken decades ago in order to make it fit their agenda ... all of it suggests what has been repeated in other posts citing comments made by IPCC reps and supporters that "Climate Change" is about redistribution of wealth from the Western world to Marxist countries.
Various emails discuss getting journal editors who don't favor AGW replaced with people that do, which they did, and stuffing "peer review" panels with AGW proponents, which they did. They colluded between themselves to give each other's papers high "approval" marks.
In the DOCS section of the ZIP file are Word documents in which the "researchers" apply for grant money from the IPCC. In it they set up "milestones" (their word) for delivering "proof" of AGW on a timely basis. When I was doing research in grad school one couldn't claim that any particular line of research would prove any hypothesis. In fact, the exact opposite is how science is done. One assumes their hypothesis is true and designs an experiment to test its validity, the "null hypothesis". A thousand experiments can not prove an hypothesis correct, but it takes only one to prove it wrong. If that happens the hypothesis is modified to take into account the new data and it is retested. Here is an example email about Greenpeace and the IPCC working toward "the globalization agenda" (their words)
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From: "paul horsman"
To: m.kelly@uea.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:45:23 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Subject: climate negotiations/wto etc.
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b)
Status: O
Hi Mick,
It was good to see you again yesterday - if briefly. One particular
thing you said - and we agreed - was about the IPCC reports and
the broader climate negotiations were working to the globalisation
agenda driven by organisations like the WTO. So my first question
is do you have anything written or published, or know of anything
particularly on this subject, which talks about this in more detail?
My second question is that I am invovled in a working group
organising a climate justice summit in the Hague and I wondered if
you had any contacts, ngos or individuals, with whom you have
worked especially from the small island States or similar areas,
who could be invited as a voice either to help on the working group
and/or to invite to speak?
All the best,
Paul
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Paul V. Horsman
Oil Campaigner
Greenpeace International Climate Campaign
Greenpeace,
Canonbury Villas
London N1 2PN
Tel: +44 171 865 8286
Fax: +44 171 865 8201
Mob: +44 7801 212990
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The 2011 FOIA zip contains more damning evidence of fraud, collusion, corruption ...