You will still be WRONG, by, say, the rest of the known world, but just to make it easy on you, I'll confine the argument to Darfur. The area will NEVER again see a population of less than 2000 individuals.
"Nothing known to science allows temperature measurements with the kind of accuracy you claim for other than the last 200 years."
The post I replied to said this: "if you look through history, the average GLOBAL temperature over a one year period has typically hovered around 0 deg C for most of history"
Therefore, I stand by my statement. We have absolutely no tools that allow us to measure "average GLOBAL temperature" within plus/minus 1 degree, (or even 5 degrees) for any time period OTHER than the last 200 years, during which we had thermometers of passable quality.
You simply can not speculate on pre-historic global temperatures with enough accuracy to assert that "average GLOBAL temperature over a one year period has typically hovered around 0 deg C".
Further, the statement is false upon its face. Even in the Ice Ages, the average global temperature was not 0 C. One can only assume the poster was referring to the deviation from the mean.
> 1) What evidence, 70000 years later, would > decisively display the difference between a flood > and a drought?
Why balk at the idea of precise specification of causation? You've already bought into the idea that genetics can make such a pronouncement in the first place, which seem extremely unlikely to me.
If you've bought the farm why not buy the horse too?
If starvation kills off 50% there is twice as much food left for the remaining 50%. Starvation is a self limiting mechanism. You have a lot more homework to do to get down to 2000 remaining individuals.
As for diseases, there is no earthly disease that kills 100% of its victims, (because such a disease would then itself become extinct).
I think you've been watching too much Science Fiction.
Some of us (per federal regulations) are not allowed the luxury of wireless capability on our work laptops. Then why are you using these work facilities for private un authorized purposes?
Adhere to the promises you made when you signed onto your job. Problem Solved.
As for trusting public/hotel wifi, thats a non issue with a secure encrypted connection on your own machine which (presumably) does not run a key-logger.
Citizens have produced some great scientific discoveries with little (or self) training. They should be treated as peers in the review process. OMG, do you have ANY idea of the number of kooks and conspiracy nut jobs that would appear if these forums were opened to all comers?
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Why is it a Wiki is the answer to everything? Why does a Wiki qualify as "Web 2.0" (what ever the hell that is).
It would seem to me that a researcher using a wiki could easily get lost in the endless back and forth bickering and sniping on the wiki. The research would be constantly diverted off topic, and and results obtained could never really be claimed as one's own.
Patent miners would arrived soon after any idea was discussed and you would have a hard time convincing a patent judge that a wiki which anyone can modify constitutes prior art.
This is true for professional crooks, but most burglary in residential areas are opportunist or kids.
Kids do dumb things, like firing it up and trying to download some porn or search for credit card info.
People with the organizational structure you mention gravitate to store robbery, cars, etc.
However, none of this matters, because even if an absolute idiot fired it up and started using it daily your chances of having any of the proposed recovery methods in this thread work are next to nil.
If you want to buy extra stuff, (like a webcam), why not an embedded gps chip?
At least that way you bypass the need of court orders for tracing requests. If cops could be certain where it was at any given point in time they might take action sooner. And even if the cops won't take action you will know where to send Uncle Guido. (I deny I posted that).
Busy cops in big cities will not take action on property crimes less than x thousand dollars.
Directions to the loot? I think not.
Computrace can not tell you which of the 200 connections in the Public Library is your laptop, nor can they get the street address from Comcast or verision, since comcast will want court orders, and by that time you machine will be sold overseas.
Your stolen machine pops up on a comcast IP, which, after two years of legal efforts you will be told resolved at that time to a coffee shop that has since moved to a different provider.
You are fooling yourself if you think this will help you recover the machine.
Just look into one of the scripts to update a dynamic IP address with a dynamic DNS service, and set it up to be automatic. As soon as the computer connects, it will update the address. So then what? Rush down to the library, no, wait, that a comcast IP, whoops, now he's at some hotel, damn, now he's on Verizon.....
Good luck getting any ISP to tell you where the wireless connection is hosted.
> once you mark the system as stolen you could send > a command to brick the laptop,
This requires a server somewhere, and software on the machine to do the bricking.
After all you can not "send a command" to Starbucks wireless router and expect it to magically find your laptop next to that shady character nervously gulping an americano.
You need a server somewhere that either enables the machine or bricks it when it software running on the machine makes a connection (from INSIDE the wireless firewall/router).
That sounds like an interesting project but the liability insurance would kill you.
Oh, come on, neither of those will do you a bit of good.
Laptops are used via wireless connections 95% of the time.
Wireless routers do not have inward connections enabled by default. Your ssh and vnc are firewalled by the router.
If they steal your laptop, chances are they will steal bandwidth, and all your pings do is locate an innocent if not somewhat clueless neighbor, or the coffee shop the thief is parked near.
Forget recovery. If you had color glossy photos with circles and arrows the cops will STILL not bust into someone's home to recover your laptop.
You can't get them to stop crime in progress, let alone last week's crime.
Denial of use of stolen laptops is the best bet. Not only denial of access to the data, but denial of use of the hardware, or making it very expensive and suspect when trying to get a stolen box running.
This means encrypting drives, biometric readers, or any number of additional features, most of which are expensive, some of which do impose a hurdle for the thief.
Encrypted drives are becoming mainstream and easily affordable, and generally do work to keep your data safe.
But none of this will prevent you from losing the box to a thief. They will steal it anyway, even if they dump it in the trash because they can't make it work.
Sending an email with an IP does nothing. Installing dyndns.org IP updater software would work just a well. It leaves a record in a remote place, but savvy thief would know how to erase that, just as they would know how to prevent your email from going out.
Even if you find the IP of the stolen box, the ISP will need a court order to reveal the location to you. Good luck with that. Cops won't take action. They will tell you to file an insurance claim and move on.
Side note: Thieves are seldom savvy. If they had any brains they would get a less risky job. So chances of them disabling any counter measures are fairly slim.
Yes, we all have our hit list of hated Luddites and money grubbers, but this article is so much standing on on a soap box in a pouring rain screaming to passers by, (most of whom regard the screamer as a kook).
There is no rational plan of action, no believable tragedy for attack, and no suggestion for doing anything but throwing open the windows and screaming into the night.
Until we either change the laws we are pretty much stuck with the current situation of constant turf wars, suits and counter suits until the absurdness of it all starts to sink in.
There are signs that it IS starting to sink in. But not due to whining of the masses, but rather people suing ISPs, counter-suing the RIAA, etc.
Real actions. Pony up for the lawyers and go to court. The soapbox gets you nowhere.
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> There is no mention of the methodology of the
> study, particularly on how the samples were
> chosen, or if there was a control group.
Control group for DNA analysis?
Back to 6th grade biology / sex-ed course for you, funny boy.
Since when does grinding something small constitute nanotechnology?
I'd have to take such characterization with a grain of nano calcium chloride.
How many of these mentioned temperature measurements accurate enough to assert that there was zero temperature change per year?
None? I thought so.....
Now, if you are done being pedantic perhaps we can return to the discussion at hand.
And when was the thermometer invented ???
What ever you say, big guy.
Let me know when Darfur gets down to 2000 people.
You will still be WRONG, by, say, the rest of the known world, but just to make it easy on you, I'll confine the argument to Darfur. The area will NEVER again see a population of less than 2000 individuals.
I reiterate:
"Nothing known to science allows temperature measurements with the kind of accuracy you claim for other than the last 200 years."
The post I replied to said this:
"if you look through history, the average GLOBAL temperature over a one year period has typically hovered around 0 deg C for most of history"
Therefore, I stand by my statement. We have absolutely no tools that allow us to measure "average GLOBAL temperature" within plus/minus 1 degree, (or even 5 degrees) for any time period OTHER than the last 200 years, during which we had thermometers of passable quality.
You simply can not speculate on pre-historic global temperatures with enough accuracy to assert that "average GLOBAL temperature over a one year period has typically hovered around 0 deg C".
Further, the statement is false upon its face. Even in the Ice Ages, the average global temperature was not 0 C. One can only assume the poster was referring to the deviation from the mean.
> 1) What evidence, 70000 years later, would
> decisively display the difference between a flood
> and a drought?
Why balk at the idea of precise specification of causation? You've already bought into the idea that genetics can make such a pronouncement in the first place, which seem extremely unlikely to me.
If you've bought the farm why not buy the horse too?
If starvation kills off 50% there is twice as much food left for the remaining 50%. Starvation is a self limiting mechanism. You have a lot more homework to do to get down to 2000 remaining individuals.
As for diseases, there is no earthly disease that kills 100% of its victims, (because such a disease would then itself become extinct).
I think you've been watching too much Science Fiction.
You are not legend.
> #2 if you look through history,
History constitutes less than 2000 years. Thats the farthest back for which there are any usable records.
Nothing known to science allows temperature measurements with the kind of accuracy you claim for other than the last 200 years.
There is nothing to suggest current global temperatures are optimal.
Adhere to the promises you made when you signed onto your job. Problem Solved.
As for trusting public/hotel wifi, thats a non issue with a secure encrypted connection on your own machine which (presumably) does not run a key-logger.
forums were opened to all comers?
Damn few university research projects yield any benefit to mankind unless and until they are commercialized.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Why is it a Wiki is the answer to everything? Why does a Wiki qualify as "Web 2.0" (what ever the hell that is).
It would seem to me that a researcher using a wiki could easily get lost in the endless back and forth bickering and sniping on the wiki. The research would be constantly diverted off topic, and and results obtained could never really be claimed as one's own.
Patent miners would arrived soon after any idea was discussed and you would have a hard time convincing a patent judge that a wiki which anyone can modify constitutes prior art.
This is true for professional crooks, but most burglary in residential areas are opportunist or kids.
Kids do dumb things, like firing it up and trying to download some porn or search for credit card info.
People with the organizational structure you mention gravitate to store robbery, cars, etc.
However, none of this matters, because even if an absolute idiot fired it up and started using it daily your chances of having any of the proposed recovery methods in this thread work are next to nil.
If you want to buy extra stuff, (like a webcam), why not an embedded gps chip?
At least that way you bypass the need of court orders for tracing requests. If cops could be certain where it was at any given point in time
they might take action sooner. And even if the cops won't take action you will know where to send Uncle Guido. (I deny I posted that).
Busy cops in big cities will not take action on property crimes less than x thousand dollars.
Directions to the loot? I think not.
Computrace can not tell you which of the 200 connections in the Public Library is your laptop, nor can they get the street address from Comcast or verision, since comcast will want court orders, and by that time you machine will be sold overseas.
Best computrace can do is brick it for you.
So what?
Your stolen machine pops up on a comcast IP, which, after two years of legal efforts you will be told resolved at that time to a coffee shop that has since moved to a different provider.
You are fooling yourself if you think this will help you recover the machine.
Good luck getting any ISP to tell you where the wireless connection is hosted.
> once you mark the system as stolen you could send
> a command to brick the laptop,
This requires a server somewhere, and software on the machine to do the bricking.
After all you can not "send a command" to Starbucks wireless router and expect it to magically find your laptop next to that shady character nervously gulping an americano.
You need a server somewhere that either enables the machine or bricks it when it software running on the machine makes a connection (from INSIDE the wireless firewall/router).
That sounds like an interesting project but the liability insurance would kill you.
Oh, come on, neither of those will do you a bit of good.
Laptops are used via wireless connections 95% of the time.
Wireless routers do not have inward connections enabled by default. Your ssh and vnc are firewalled by the router.
If they steal your laptop, chances are they will steal bandwidth, and all your pings do is locate an innocent if not somewhat clueless neighbor, or the coffee shop the thief is parked near.
Forget recovery. If you had color glossy photos with circles and arrows the cops will STILL not bust into someone's home to recover your laptop.
You can't get them to stop crime in progress, let alone last week's crime.
Denial of use of stolen laptops is the best bet. Not only denial of access to the data, but denial of use of the hardware, or making it very expensive and suspect when trying to get a stolen box running.
This means encrypting drives, biometric readers, or any number of additional features, most of which are expensive, some of which do impose a hurdle for the thief.
Encrypted drives are becoming mainstream and easily affordable, and generally do work to keep your data safe.
But none of this will prevent you from losing the box to a thief. They will steal it anyway, even if they dump it in the trash because they can't make it work.
Sending an email with an IP does nothing. Installing dyndns.org IP updater software would work just a well. It leaves a record in a remote place, but savvy thief would know how to erase that, just as they would know how to prevent your email from going out.
Even if you find the IP of the stolen box, the ISP will need a court order to reveal the location to you. Good luck with that. Cops won't take action. They will tell you to file an insurance claim and move on.
Side note: Thieves are seldom savvy. If they had any brains they would get a less risky job. So chances of them disabling any counter measures are fairly slim.
But all it takes to prevent this is fixing the original flash bug of marching on even in the face of a malloc failure.
For pete sake people, get a grip.
Flash people can learn to code defensively, like everybody else in the industry.
Until they do, we can all de-install flash and live in a world were every web page actually does not assault your sensibilities with annoying ads.
The value of flash is highly over-rated, and now it is revealed that the code base is as well.
Flash delivers garbage to my screen.
Not surprisingly, it turns out that its made of garbage code.
Gee, what a revelation.
Yes, we all have our hit list of hated Luddites and money grubbers, but this article is so much standing on on a soap box in a pouring rain screaming to passers by, (most of whom regard the screamer as a kook).
There is no rational plan of action, no believable tragedy for attack, and no suggestion for doing anything but throwing open the windows and screaming into the night.
Until we either change the laws we are pretty much stuck with the current situation of constant turf wars, suits and counter suits until the absurdness of it all starts to sink in.
There are signs that it IS starting to sink in. But not due to whining of the masses, but rather people suing ISPs, counter-suing the RIAA, etc.
Real actions. Pony up for the lawyers and go to court. The soapbox gets you nowhere.
Exactly.
Who wants to call a house? People want to call a person.
The desktop computer is akin to the wired landline.
The laptop may be akin to the car phones or the monster sized cell phones of the past.
I don't want to go to my desk. Not for my phone and not for my computer. But it in my pocket. Bring on the borg.