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  1. Re:GH Theory Outdated & Incomplete on Ancient Climate Change Triggered Warming That Lasted Thousands of Years (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    From https://www.wnd.com/2017/07/st...

    Eventually, their true identities were discovered, and so, the journal, Advances in Space Research, retracted the paper, though the editors acknowledged that the retraction was “not related to the scientific merit of the study.”

    Nikolov told WND that the main reason for using fake names was federal policy under the Obama administration.

    “I was told by my superiors that I could not publish anything on climate as a government employee,” he said, adding that he works for the U.S. Forest Service but that the research “was done in my private time, has nothing to do with my work, and does not represent the position of my employer.”

  2. Re:Seems people don't grasp ... on Some Nevada Governments Are Using Blockchain For Public Records (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the blockchain is a chain of blocks, and some blocks can hold an immutable record like e.g. a birth or marriage certificate or land ownership etc.

  3. This is true.

  4. Re:Seems people don't grasp ... on Some Nevada Governments Are Using Blockchain For Public Records (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You get born only once ... one block, no chain.

    It's one block with a record immutably recorded in a blockchain.

  5. End of this year Ethereum switches to 'Proof of Stake' consensus which reduces the power consumption by 99% points. A protocol update next week starts the transition.

  6. Ethereum is the major blockchain just successfully hit by 51% attacks.

    This is not true.

  7. Re:GANs for data augmentation? on Nvidia Researchers Generate Synthetic Brain MRI Images For AI Research (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    but these images won't be excluded due to the lack of counterexamples in the training set.

    They will be excluded because the discriminator network of the GAN will learn to distinguish between them and real images.

  8. We have mountains of data on China Criticizes US For Making Weapon Plans Steal-able, Alleges Attacks From US · · Score: 1

    The obviously count every single automatic attack on the sshd port, made from millions hacked zombie computers from all over the world, as 'data'. Not serious.

  9. digital is objectively more accurate.

    but music isn't

  10. Re:So, Was Aaron Swartz RIght, After All? on White House Tells Agencies To Increase Access to Fed-Funded Research · · Score: 1
  11. Re:HIV risk still isn't Zero on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 1

    Yes you're right there is never a zero risk. Only the remaining risks are imho more or less equal for all couples, homosexual or not.

  12. Re:Why homosexualism but not incest? on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 1

    If somehow both parties just stick to their partner the risks are much lower..

    The risks are zero actually.

  13. Re:Somewhat disappointing.. on Google Employees Are Receiving Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade · · Score: 2

    CM9 for the Nexus S is still alpha so you can't complain or compare until a stable release is available for either CM or Google.

  14. Re:ha on China Calls US Culprit In Global 'Internet War' · · Score: 2

    The real flip side would be that there are hundreds of US right activists political persecuted in the US, emigrated to China and now targeted by the US government or army by phishing attacks. Did you ever heard from at least one of these mysterious activists?

  15. Re:The meaning of random on Greenland Ice Sheet Melts At Record Rate In 2010 · · Score: 1

    You have forgotten the order of the record years

    http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/01/21/60287-melt-index.jpg

    This is very unlikely random

    And btw. random numbers means EXACTLY 'evenly' (uniform) distributed numbers.

  16. Re:Are the slashdot editors getting desperate? on MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization · · Score: 1

    So wine emulates Windows stupid behaviour? I see nothing new here.

    Linux/Unix binaries are still not executable by default and this is still correct.

    Btw. what does a wine emulated virus on a Linux/Unix system?

  17. Re:Are the slashdot editors getting desperate? on MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization · · Score: 1

    1) So what, every version of Windows since 95 has been like this, and in Linux, anything can be an executable. You can have any extension or no extension and run it.

    No you can't. Nothing is executable on Linux/Unix as long the execution bit is not set. Further, any binary attached to an email or downloaded by ftp, http or whatever has the exectution bit off. So to run a binary on Linux/Unix you have to manually set it by hand. So a hotgirl.jpg.exe attached to an email or downloaded does nothing on Linux/Unix if you click on it even it's machine code for your OS.

  18. Re:What did we expect? on Office 2007SP2 ODF Interoperability Very Bad · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the article:

    The irony here is that the formula language used by OpenOffice (and by other vendors) is based on that used by Excel, which itself was not fully documented when OpenOffice implemented it. So an argument, by Microsoft, not to support that language because it is not documented is rather hypocritical. Excel supports 1-2-3 files and formulas and legacy Excel versions (back to Excel 4.0) neither of which have standardized formula languages. Why are these supported? Also, the fact that the Microsoft/CleverAge add-in correctly reads and writes the legacy ODF formula syntax shows not only that it can be done, but that Microsoft already has the code to do it. The inexplicably thing is why that code never made it into Excel 2007 SP2.

  19. Reminds of CryoSat in 2005 on NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails · · Score: 1

    CryoSat was an ESA satellite that was destroyed on launch October 8, 2005 when the second stage engine of a modified Russian SS-19 ICBM did not cut-off as planned. CryoSat was proposed in 1998 by Duncan Wingham of University College London. The satellite's planned three year mission was to survey natural and human driven changes in the cryosphere on Earth. It was designed to provide much more accurate data on the rate of change of the surface elevation of the polar ice sheets and sea ice thickness. It was the first ESA Earth Sciences satellite selected through open, scientific competition.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryoSat

  20. Re:Hmmm... on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 1

    Mostly the shortest path is the best solution! ;)

  21. Re:Hmmm... on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 5, Informative

    cat > hello.pl
    printf("hello world\n");
    ^D
    perl hello.pl
    hello world

  22. Re:Best of intentions on BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft has patents on Compound TCP. The above patch is only for use in research.

    from

    http://netlab.caltech.edu/lachlan/ctcp/

  23. Re:Been there, done that on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > making Linux happy means not passing WHQL

    This is the filthy and perfidious solution for Bill Gates' problem that he couldn't patent ACPI

    anyone can read it here

    http://digg.com/linux_unix/Newly_leaked_Antitrust_Memo_Bill_Gates_on_Making_ACPI_Not_Work_with_Linux

    So BG couldn't patent ACPI for legal reasons so they invent this sneaky trick by implement ACPI in a non standard closed way. Additionally hardware vendors have to explicitly corrupt the DSDT tables to get the WHQL logo. Any OS which depends on standard ACPI is locked out.

    This is one of the dirtiest tricks* of Microsoft and it's illegal in my opinion.

    *i fear there are some more disgusting ones we don't know yet.

  24. Hello World in ODF on Opera CTO Hits Back at Microsoft's Standards Push · · Score: 1

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <office:document-content xmlns:office="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmln s:office:1.0"
    xmlns:style="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmln s:style:1.0"
    xmlns:text="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns :text:1.0"
    xmlns:table="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmln s:table:1.0"
    xmlns:draw="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns :drawing:1.0"
    xmlns:fo="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:x sl-fo-compatible:1.0"
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:meta="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns :meta:1.0"
    xmlns:number="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xml ns:datastyle:1.0"
    xmlns:svg="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns: svg-compatible:1.0"
    xmlns:chart="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmln s:chart:1.0"
    xmlns:dr3d="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns :dr3d:1.0"
    xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
    xmlns:form="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns :form:1.0"
    xmlns:script="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xml ns:script:1.0"
    xmlns:ooo="http://openoffice.org/2004/office"
    xmlns:ooow="http://openoffice.org/2004/writer"
    xmlns:oooc="http://openoffice.org/2004/calc"
    xmlns:dom="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
    xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-insta nce"
    office:version="1.0">
    <office:scripts/>
    <office:font-face-decls>
    <style:font-face style:name="Times New Roman"

  25. Re:Hard to defend on Microsoft Copies Idea, Admits It, Then Patents It · · Score: 1

    So where can i 'free' download Visual Studio Express for Linux? I can't. BlueJ runs on Solaris, Mac and Linux and any OS with a recent JVM. That's free.