"There's no moral requirement to put yourself at much greater risk (entering enemy territory, dealing with people who hide amongst civilians, and dealing with people who you thought were civilians but morph into terrorists when your back is turned) for the sake of saving a few people. "
Ditto for HAMAS. There's no requirement to minimize civilian casualties for them. It works both ways.
"Okay fair enough, but think about this -- in this instance they are using exactly the techniques you want."
Nope. Not even close. If they kidnapped him, then sued him and then hanged him, I'd be just fine with it. But they use EXACTLY THE SAME tactics as terrorists.
Imagine that tomorrow terrorists will start killing soldiers who are off-duty. Say, with armed drones shooting ricin pellets. Would that be OK?
Definitely no. Yet when Israel does this, it's all OK.
"They have similar outcomes (death of civilians) and that is what you are building your case on, but you are ignoring all morality in what produces those outcomes."
What if you use a flamethrower for self-defense, kill 1 gangster and 10 innocent bystanders? Especially, if you had (say) a taser and could have used it without harm for bystanders but with greater personal risk.
And recent assassination is just barbaric (they slowly strangled a helpless man). It's terrorism, pure and simple.
HAMAS says that since everyone in Israel must serve in military, killing children is OK - it's just premature military action.
As horrible as it sounds, I've heard the exact same statements from Israels. And actions of Israel military seem to follow exactly this statement.
By now I don't see the difference between Palestine and Israel. Frankly, I think there'll be peace in Middle East only when Arabs kill all Jews or Jews kill all Arabs. I'm a pessimist.
Nope. You only need to release specs and code at the same time. That way you can release the next version by the time OpenSource developers implement your specs.
That can work both ways. Palestinians think: "Why not kill Israels if they cheer killing you indiscriminately if you happen to be at the wrong place & wrong time?"
Israel does state-sponsored terrorism, it's pure and simple.
"Master mode" means that your computer works as a central access point, other computers use it to relay the data.
"Ad-hoc" is a special mode for masterless networks, but it allows to connect only two computers (in essence, wireless channel becomes an analog of good old Ethernet cable).
"Mesh mode" is 'ad hoc' on steroids, it allows any number of computers to connect and uses dynamic routing.
Master mode requires certain additional functionality from your card (managing connections, transmitting SSID information, resolving collisions, etc.) which some drivers were lacking. Fortunately, it's being fixed with the introduction of the new mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel it'll become better.
Why not add the clause to the warranty that it's voided if a phone is used in the oxygen-containing atmosphere? You know, oxygen causes rust, damages liquid crystal displays, and so on. So it's fair!
You just need to keep your iPhone in a nice neutral N2 atmosphere.
"A crank who has yet to release his code that gives results that supposedly shows that everybody else's code is wrong. Gee, don't you wish this were a two-way street?"
All code used in analysis was released several years ago and is public.
"And as I noted, the most common way is to not be a party required by law to comply with the FOIA. Moving on, just because something is legal to do, which incidentally doesn't appear to be the case with the CRU FOIA requests"
"doesn't mean you should do it. Hiding important data and computer models is unscientific as noted by the original poster."
Certainly. However, models were available to other researchers and most of data is (and was) free.
"Ok, I looked. Not sure what your point was supposed to be. As I understand it, there are three prime aggregators of paleoclimate data, the CRU, a NASA unit headed by James Hansen, and something similar in the NOAA (the last being the only one that isn't running some obvious unscientific agenda). If there are other aggregators, then maybe you could just mention them by name rather than throwing links at me?"
Which data exactly do you need? I personally worked with CSIRO HADISST dataset for ice coverage. There is GHCN-Monthly for temperatures. And GPCC from Germans which are also the part of the conspiracy.
"Is the prior poster subject to FOIA laws? Do they do work that affects the global economy and billions of people like climatology and global warming does? No? Then it is a failed analogy."
FOIA in UK laws do not give you permissions to request any data at any time. There are valid and lawful ways to deny them.
"As far as I know, all climate models have been calibrated on this aggregation of data. It also formed the basis of IPCC announcements and decisions which is the internationally recognized organization for addressing global warming concerns."
CRU surely is important, but there are other independent aggregated datasetes: http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ - just look here.
Most important data from CRU is in HadCRUT3 dataset, and I don't think its validity was questioned. CRU's analysis of this data (the famous 'hockey stick') was called into a question, but not the data itself.
I demand to post all your work, including all your post-it notes, personal notebooks, and written per-hour documentation on all your movements. Trillions might depend on it!
1) Do you seriously think that the whole climate science depends on one scientist's data?
2) CRU was trolled by FOIA requests. They are nuisance to deal with, as far as I was told.
3) Scientists are people, people have emotions. That's why peer review is used.
Win CE is a completely different OS from WinNT, it has nothing similar. And it's horribly restrictive and kludgy.
Compare it with Linux - I can run _the_ _same_ kernel on my phone and on a big supercomputer. Of course, it'll be tuned differently but it'll still be the same kernel..NET Micro is bloated as well. Java card fits on systems with 1Kb of RAM. In any case, both environments are specialized niche applications. They have almost nothing to do with 'complete' Java and.NET.
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Russian, Polish and Ukrainian translations are laughable as well.
Even UkrainianRussian translation is mediocre, even though it's pretty trivial (other translators have almost 100% perfect translations).
So, good job but still lots to do.
Seriously, I'm encountering more and more 'deleted' articles when I search Wikipedia.
Can someone stop deleters? Or at least offer an option to view deleted articles (Deletionpedia works only for English language).
"There's no moral requirement to put yourself at much greater risk (entering enemy territory, dealing with people who hide amongst civilians, and dealing with people who you thought were civilians but morph into terrorists when your back is turned) for the sake of saving a few people. "
Ditto for HAMAS. There's no requirement to minimize civilian casualties for them. It works both ways.
"Okay fair enough, but think about this -- in this instance they are using exactly the techniques you want."
Nope. Not even close. If they kidnapped him, then sued him and then hanged him, I'd be just fine with it. But they use EXACTLY THE SAME tactics as terrorists.
Imagine that tomorrow terrorists will start killing soldiers who are off-duty. Say, with armed drones shooting ricin pellets. Would that be OK?
Definitely no. Yet when Israel does this, it's all OK.
"They have similar outcomes (death of civilians) and that is what you are building your case on, but you are ignoring all morality in what produces those outcomes."
What if you use a flamethrower for self-defense, kill 1 gangster and 10 innocent bystanders? Especially, if you had (say) a taser and could have used it without harm for bystanders but with greater personal risk.
And recent assassination is just barbaric (they slowly strangled a helpless man). It's terrorism, pure and simple.
At -80C properly stored cord blood can survive for years without any problems.
Blood and plasma for transfusions is not preserved at -80C.
HAMAS says that since everyone in Israel must serve in military, killing children is OK - it's just premature military action.
As horrible as it sounds, I've heard the exact same statements from Israels. And actions of Israel military seem to follow exactly this statement.
By now I don't see the difference between Palestine and Israel. Frankly, I think there'll be peace in Middle East only when Arabs kill all Jews or Jews kill all Arabs. I'm a pessimist.
And Israels build cities near military bases. So?
"How can you draw a comparison between that and Israel's "terrorism"?"
Look 'terrorism' definition in Wikipedia. You can argue that Israel and HAMAS do it to different degrees. But really...
Nope. You only need to release specs and code at the same time. That way you can release the next version by the time OpenSource developers implement your specs.
That can work both ways. Palestinians think: "Why not kill Israels if they cheer killing you indiscriminately if you happen to be at the wrong place & wrong time?"
Israel does state-sponsored terrorism, it's pure and simple.
Unless you use a clever filesystem which doesn't force file size to be a multiple of sector size.
"Master mode" means that your computer works as a central access point, other computers use it to relay the data.
"Ad-hoc" is a special mode for masterless networks, but it allows to connect only two computers (in essence, wireless channel becomes an analog of good old Ethernet cable).
"Mesh mode" is 'ad hoc' on steroids, it allows any number of computers to connect and uses dynamic routing.
Master mode requires certain additional functionality from your card (managing connections, transmitting SSID information, resolving collisions, etc.) which some drivers were lacking. Fortunately, it's being fixed with the introduction of the new mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel it'll become better.
I have a better idea!
Why not add the clause to the warranty that it's voided if a phone is used in the oxygen-containing atmosphere? You know, oxygen causes rust, damages liquid crystal displays, and so on. So it's fair!
You just need to keep your iPhone in a nice neutral N2 atmosphere.
Do you know that MRI scanners use SQUIDs?
Seriously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID
"A crank who has yet to release his code that gives results that supposedly shows that everybody else's code is wrong. Gee, don't you wish this were a two-way street?"
All code used in analysis was released several years ago and is public.
Also, it's documented here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/
"And as I noted, the most common way is to not be a party required by law to comply with the FOIA. Moving on, just because something is legal to do, which incidentally doesn't appear to be the case with the CRU FOIA requests"
Mann was cleared of most of accusations: http://www.research.psu.edu/orp/Findings_Mann_Inquiry.pdf
"doesn't mean you should do it. Hiding important data and computer models is unscientific as noted by the original poster."
Certainly. However, models were available to other researchers and most of data is (and was) free.
"Ok, I looked. Not sure what your point was supposed to be. As I understand it, there are three prime aggregators of paleoclimate data, the CRU, a NASA unit headed by James Hansen, and something similar in the NOAA (the last being the only one that isn't running some obvious unscientific agenda). If there are other aggregators, then maybe you could just mention them by name rather than throwing links at me?"
Which data exactly do you need? I personally worked with CSIRO HADISST dataset for ice coverage. There is GHCN-Monthly for temperatures. And GPCC from Germans which are also the part of the conspiracy.
A colleague here tells me that CISL also provides aggregated datasets: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/dss/
And anything (and I really mean _anything_) Steve McIntyre says is probably false and/or misleading.
"Is the prior poster subject to FOIA laws? Do they do work that affects the global economy and billions of people like climatology and global warming does? No? Then it is a failed analogy."
FOIA in UK laws do not give you permissions to request any data at any time. There are valid and lawful ways to deny them.
"As far as I know, all climate models have been calibrated on this aggregation of data. It also formed the basis of IPCC announcements and decisions which is the internationally recognized organization for addressing global warming concerns."
CRU surely is important, but there are other independent aggregated datasetes: http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ - just look here.
Most important data from CRU is in HadCRUT3 dataset, and I don't think its validity was questioned. CRU's analysis of this data (the famous 'hockey stick') was called into a question, but not the data itself.
1) Not even remotely close. CRU is an important institution, but we also have about 30 of other institutions of varying levels of importance.
2) Ha. Hahahhahaha. Haha. You have some very strange ideas about the size of grants.
I demand to post all your work, including all your post-it notes, personal notebooks, and written per-hour documentation on all your movements. Trillions might depend on it!
1) Do you seriously think that the whole climate science depends on one scientist's data?
2) CRU was trolled by FOIA requests. They are nuisance to deal with, as far as I was told.
3) Scientists are people, people have emotions. That's why peer review is used.
His colleague was _sued_ (by a crank) based on released FOIA data. It might explain a certain reluctance to disclose data to known trolls.
Transformers? That's sooooo 1900-s.
We're using IGBTs now - they are much lighter and reliable.
BetterPlace (seriously, that's a company name) plans to do exactly this: http://www.betterplace.com/solution/charging/
They're planning to install battery swapping stations in Israel first.
Almost all Linux kernels have the same core: process management, scheduler, probably block IO, probably most of the network stack.
So yes, it's still the same kernel.
About 20Mb for the very minimal install.
Win CE is a completely different OS from WinNT, it has nothing similar. And it's horribly restrictive and kludgy.
Compare it with Linux - I can run _the_ _same_ kernel on my phone and on a big supercomputer. Of course, it'll be tuned differently but it'll still be the same kernel. .NET Micro is bloated as well. Java card fits on systems with 1Kb of RAM. In any case, both environments are specialized niche applications. They have almost nothing to do with 'complete' Java and .NET.
Do you know that it's a drought in Australia right now?
http://www.redbubble.com/people/ausphotoall/calendars/1699709-8-australian-photographers-alliance-2010-drought-relief-calendar