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  1. Re:What a joke on Comcast Takes 2014 Prize For Worst Company In America · · Score: 1

    Of course the firmware mods include a proxy server...

  2. Re:second editor fail in less than 24 hours on Slashdot Asks: Will You Need the Windows XP Black Market? · · Score: 1

    You don't pay for a subscription to reward the editors. You do it because occasionally someone will say something so insightful you want to review everything else he's ever written here.

  3. Little did they know on It's Time To Plug the Loopholes In Pipeline Regulation · · Score: 1

    Those toxic polluters in government actually made their STREETS themselves out of extra-thick oil.

  4. Spent fuel on Under Revised Quake Estimates, Dozens of Nuclear Reactors Face Problems · · Score: 1

    100% of US nuclear reactors have a spent fuel problem: there is nowhere to dispose of it.

  5. Re:Must question the "revised" estimates on Under Revised Quake Estimates, Dozens of Nuclear Reactors Face Problems · · Score: 1

    Do you know what a postulate is?

  6. Re:They all use WIndows 7 anyway on Bugs In SCADA Software Leave 7,600 Factories Vulnerable · · Score: 2

    It is thinking like this that fuels my insomnia.

  7. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    It is the photographer who owns the copyright, not the subject.

  8. Re:Short story: See to what Linus responds on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 2

    It seems to me that there is no possible way that systemd causing the system to hang on the use of the standard kernel debug parameter can be seen as useful for the purpose of systemd. This then would be Kay trying to force Linus to adopt his kernel namespace idea, breaking stuff in Linux that goes back many, many years.

  9. Re:Ah... on .NET Native Compilation Preview Released · · Score: 1

    When your app is going to be used by a billion people, potentially dozens of times a day, every extra millisecond it takes to load costs a man year. Every extra K it consumes costs a terabyte. You should pretend your work will be so popular if you want it to be so popular.

  10. Moderation on Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will · · Score: 2

    Do you find your views on blended/mixed license models evolving over time? Is it time to lay down the pitchforks some of the time?

  11. Re:Dual interface ? on Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 · · Score: 1

    There should be a high speed IO board that supports another Ethernet port come out for it. That is a pretty common desire for a board like this.

  12. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    If we are going to use the heat transfer capacity of the oceans for a global climate thermal transfer model - and I think we should - then surface air temperatures fade to irrelevance. The oceans and ice have such an immense energy sink capacity that the MOC probably has not fully adjusted to Holocene epoch temperatures yet. I agree there is much to learn about this.

    In the meantime if the IPCC doesn't want people pointing out that their reports are internally inconsistent, they might consider updating their report so that the model information presented is visually consistent with the historical data observed in the same report. Perhaps this could be achieved by widening the error bars on the model to include variances of the scale of ENSCO, if that was in fact not included in the model. It is such a tiny disagreement that it is probably not significant, but if the present moment is an outlier explaining why deserves nothing less than a footnote at least. Otherwise it reads "These models, which we show not to be correct, ..."

  13. Re:Crashplan appliance? on Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lots of nifty things to do with a board like this. I have a 16 channel servo controller that would go great with it.

  14. Re:Can you run Windows on this? on Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 · · Score: 1

    Since it has SATA ports that should not be a problem. Firmware compatibility problems are more likely.

  15. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    No, I read the whole report having got word before it showed up here. When I got to the graphs this struck me as odd. 1)The models for climate are the basis for all the risks and dangers in the report. 2)The models include points of time that overlap with observed, measured historical data in the report. 3)The most recent observed data in the report is not predicted by either of the models in the same report. I certainly did not expect to open up an IPCC report and see this. I am not using motivated reasoning: I am pointing out that the report warns of risks based upon models that disagree with the observed data in the report itself. It goes on at great length about analysis of outcomes based on models that it shows to be incorrect. It just doesn't get much plainer than that.

  16. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    I will guess "less energy than required to melt the 30 million cubic kilometers of ice that melted between 15k and 7k years ago, raising sea levels 120 meters at a rate of 3m/century."

  17. Re:Where are the farmers? on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    Admins have unlimited mod points, and there is a dedicated advocate for one side of this issue among them. In these threads she uses the privilege relentlessly.

  18. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 0

    If the projection doesn't even account for fairly well understood phenomena like La Niña then it is not very good, is it? You would think a decent model would include that.

  19. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    This is part of the strategy to discourage argument.

  20. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    I like to think that since the likelihood of a historical observation is almost 100%, those values belong between the error bars. But maybe that's just me.

  21. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    In a report primarily about predicting outcomes, the fact that the report itself shows that observed reality disagrees with the predictions presented is pretty fundamental.

  22. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 2

    Or maybe you could read pages 38 and 39 of the executive summary of this report from the IPCC, which would be the second link in the summary.

  23. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well if I am not to believe the BS from the IPCC because it doesn't reflect reality we don't need TFA, do we?

  24. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1, Informative

    Pages 38 and 39 of the second link in the fine summary.

  25. Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The observed temperatures are currently below the error bars of the most optimistic projection. What does this mean?