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  1. Re:I dont see the need for this feature... on Facebook Introduces Payment System · · Score: 1

    You need a TD account and to use a TD ATM (if available).
    Also have either a large amount sitting in your checking account or be paying a monthly fee for free ATM transactions.

    Someway, somehow, you are paying. Even if its just in loss of interest from parking it in checking :)

  2. I dont see the need for this feature... on Facebook Introduces Payment System · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also 2 day delay will instantly kill this feature.

    I dont know if this is available in the USA.

    However here in Canada, from any bank I can do an Interact e-mail transfer.

    Recipient receives the e-mail in 20-30 mins, followings instructions and cash is transferred bank to bank instantly.
    Cost is $1.50. which is less than ATMs charge to withdraw your cash.

    I pay my rent this way (as there is an electronic log), and transfer money to the ex for child related things, again because of electronic log.

  3. Re:!@#$ Slashdot. on Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science · · Score: 1

    Did you forget your medication this morning?

    NASA can launch all the satellites they want. Have the proper agencies monitor them, gather and compile the data.

    NASA need not be involved in that last portion.

  4. Re:It's Not Political Bullshit on Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science · · Score: 1

    You've just explained the negative feedback. Water vapour, moisture, means more water in the air, means more cloud formations.
    More cloud cover means more reflection of incoming rays before they even reach the lower atmosphere to warm it.

  5. Re: Here's how I would implement it on The Internet of Things Just Found Your Lost Wallet · · Score: 1

    I'm not thinking of anything. I know exactly what I am talking about because I sell, design and install security systems all day long.

    NFC is a set of technologies for smartphones, that uses standard RFID frequencies.They can typicaly read 13.56Mhz RFID which is smartcard technology (Mifare, desFire, etc...) found in newer access cards and bank cards.

    RFID is a generic term. Specific technologies and frequencies are whats important.

    Regardless of any of this, read your link carefully, it doesn't say that you can read a tiny passive tag at 1-3m.

    - To read at more than a few inches you need something in a high frequency range. 433mhz to 2.4ghz.
    - Your tag needs to be relatively big (2-4 inches, like these stickers https://www.awid.com/index.php...)
    - It has to be positioned just right, wont be reading it sideways
    - The reader needs some good power and a good size (https://www.awid.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=537:lr-2000&catid=979:readers-lr-avi&Itemid=205)

    This can be increased if the RFID tag has a battery, then however it is no longer Passive, it is active. And thats a hole other ball game.

    Only reason RFID tags put on clothing in stores can read from several feet is because the readers (those large SENSORMATIC devices at the exits) have copper rings that are 2-5 feet high) which increases the read range of the tiny RFID chips with tiny cooper rings.

    Also, you wont be doing inventory with RFID chips that read up to 20-30 feet. That would be crazy expensive RFID chips on your cheap merchandise and also, you wouldnt be able to figure out where your inventory is, as you can read it from across the room. Doesn't make much sense.

    So... basically, my point was just, you cant have a tiny key chain as an RFID reader, read tiny chips, on tiny objects around you. Just wont work.... with currently technology.

    Unless you use tiny batteries :)

  6. Re:Here's how I would implement it on The Internet of Things Just Found Your Lost Wallet · · Score: 1

    Passive RFID doesnt have a range much bigger than a few inches.

    Also range is dependent on the size of the cooper ring (antenna) or the passive device and/or the active device (reader)

    Unless your keychain is 4 feet long... you aint going to be reading any passive devices around you. Also, orientation is important, so you might, with your 4 foot long key chain, find devices directly ahead, however, if they are a few inches to the left... they might as well not exist.

  7. Re:Has anyone studied? on US Wind Power Is Expected To Double In the Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Faster than they are being produced?

    I think you need to explain that one to the market. Because we are producing so much oil right now, we dont know where to store it.
    Hence the rock bottom price of oil.

  8. Re:Attack the messenger... on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    Unusual, no.

    The fact that you do not like the answer has nothing to do with the price of tea in China.

    But of course, there is no way for me to stop you trying to spin this into something is not and try as hard as you can to discredit him because you do not like his research.

    And to warp up, what makes money from the fossil fuel industry so dirty when its tied to papers that disagree with AGW but clean as white snow when its given to the AGW camp side? Because I'm sure you know that there is just as much, if not more money given by big energy to the AGW camp, from Shell, to Exxon, Koch and others.

    Its a double standard and it has no bearing on the actual research.

  9. Re:your little corner of the northeast... on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    However, there is no such thing as a global temperature.

    Averaging of all local temperatures is a completely meaningless tool for evaluating if climates are being affected by rising CO2.

    Climates are regional, they are NOT global.

    Besides, 0.02C +/- 0.09C does not make a year the WARMEST on record. It makes it pretty much flat with the rest of the last 18 years.

  10. Re:Attack the messenger... on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    He worked, as did his co-authors, on this paper on his own time.

    As was disclosed.

  11. Re:Attack the messenger... on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    There was no funding source on Dr. Soon's latest paper.

  12. Re:Right... what could go wrong? on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    Wooooosh!

  13. Re:And... the evidence? on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like those pesky scientists who dared do research and publish on the fact that cholesterol is not the evil boogey man we have been looking for.
    The science was settled, those idiots should have let it lie...

  14. Re:Is scientific research free? on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 1

    The last time? Are you serious?
    The pharmaceutical is one of the biggest industries in the world with thousands and thousands of scientists, papers are being published every single day.

    Where do you think vaccines come from?
    Medicine?

    Your post is so idiotic... I don't even know why I'm replying to it, except to just make sure some other morons with only 2 brain cells don't read the crap you posted and think it makes sense.

  15. Re:disclosure on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 0

    Its not as simple as that, now is it.

    Most of those who work on the IPCC reports are also paid by their universities, their respective governments or from grants to do their individual research when they are not working on an assessment report.

    I hope you are not trying to make us believe that only 5-6 million dollars a year is spent on climate research. It isn't even 5-6 billion. And you know that.

  16. Re:Is scientific research free? on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nice try. You saying so, does not make it true, in this age of climate scaremongering.
    Try getting a government grant, if your research subject is, "The limits of CO2's radiative forcing."

    Also, by the way. 120 000$ is the average salary of a tenured university professor.
    What makes them less "bad" than someone making the same amount from another sources?

    Should we ignore all papers from scientists who work for the pharmaceutical industries?

  17. Is scientific research free? on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So 1.2 million over the last decade comes to about $120 000 a year.
    With whatever it costs, per year, to do research, then whatever is left cant really be considered "getting rich from the fossil industry".

    Seriously. If you are a scientist and your research is contrary to the establishments priorities, where will you get your funding if grants are only given to those who who will publish the "right" findings.

  18. Re:Climate models on NASA: Increasing Carbon Emissions Risk Megadroughts · · Score: 2

    Hold all climate forecasts to higher standards than financial reports.

    You climate catastrophists are good at inventing analogies that make no sense, but sound smart. What if we did hold them up to the same standards... what if we didint... what does it have to do with anything at all? I will hold it up to high enough standard, because those predictions are being used to completely disrupt our economy and to siphon money from every consumer to give to the UN, the IMF and ultimately, the bankers.

    Equate all predictions as equal to the one with the worst case scenario.

    We don't have to do that. The media goes all worst case scenario all the time... and the head scientists, Schmidt, Hansen, Mann, Cook and the other nutters, don't reel them in.

    Interpret all forecast as paranoia that the world is ending.

    Again... we don't have to do that. The media, the greenies, environmental groups and a few of the scientists are screaming that the planet will melt down. We are saying its all hogwash.

    Never offer explanations as to why releasing significant amounts of known greenhouse gasses won't disrupt the climate society is adapted to.

    Thats not how it works. You dont prove a negative. Its like a creationist asking me to PROVE god doesnt exists. Your side has not proven that the CO2 heats the planet to death theory holds water. If they did, there wouldnt be a debate. Simple as that. Calling sceptical scientists deniers, shutting them out of debates. Refusing to debate, is a sure fire sign that you actually DONT have the truth on your side.
    Do your own research, you obviously havent.

    Note that the earth has been much hotter...at a time that was not conducive to human society
    Note that the earth has been much colder...at a time that was not conducive to human society

    I guess humans didint live through the MWP or the LIA... WTF is wrong with you idiots. You think you can just make up any statement and people are too stupid to point out its a lie? You know that is the definition of propaganda. Say the same lie so many times it becomes thruth... And then you same greeny idiots call for the death and murder of climate sceptics...

    Claim humans can adapt to anything but ignore the fact that when they need to do it within a few generations, most of them will die.

    Again, inventing things. Humans are seriously resilient. Humans with resources are even more so. So lets stop siphoning money away from the middle class, lets get our economies fire-started and stop this BULLSHIT about climate change and wasting 100s of billions a year into it. Eventually in due time, better energy sources will be viable and we'll automatically switch over to them. Also, society as a whole will be MUCH richer. Just as most of the west now is SO MUCH richer than it was only 100 years ago.

    With resources comes the ability to adapt more easily, if necessary. The bullshit about the cost being IMPOSSIBLE if we don't mitigate NOW... is hogwash of the highest order.

  19. Re:Climate models on NASA: Increasing Carbon Emissions Risk Megadroughts · · Score: 4, Funny

    I learned this from the global warming alarmists:

    1. If its warm its global warming, lets have a press release and call for the end of the world.
    2. If its cold its climate change, lets have a press release and call for the end of the world.
    3. If it rains its climate change, lets have a press release and call for the end of the world.
    4. If it doesn't rain its climate change, lets have a press release and call for the end of the world.
    5. If its humid its climate change, lets have a press release and call for the end of the world.
    6. If its dry its climate change, lets have a press release and call for the end of the world.
    7. If we get a breeze its climate change, lets have a press release and call for the end of the world.

  20. Re:Later on Canadian Climate Scientist Wins Defamation Suit Against National Post · · Score: 1

    Ad Hominem attack topped by an association fallacy.

    I stated that I have no problem with vaccines. But you persist in trying to associate me with that.

    Your "Righteousness" is clearly showing.

    Because I believe the state of mainstream climate science is suffering from strong confirmation bias and also from bad science, which has been demonstrated over and over, as well as a peer review process that has been hijacked, you seek to discredit me by associating me with a group that based their information on 1 bad paper.

    The differences are numeros, namely there are allot more than 1 scientists who are skeptical on maintream alarmist climate science and their theories (except for a few more vocal crack pots) are sound.

    It is easy to pigeon whole all dissenting voices and paint us all like ignorant hicks, however it only shows how worried the alarmists are of engaging in debates. Much easier to smear than it is to actually win with arguments.

    Enjoy the air up there on your high horse.

  21. Your cute.

  22. Nice smear campaign.

    You see, about the truth (from your other post), when you have it, its all you need.
    However it seems slandering others and hiding from public debates is the biggest arguments on the side that wants us all to think its the end of the world, unless we hand over our money.

  23. Re:This is a Canadian story, but on Canadian Climate Scientist Wins Defamation Suit Against National Post · · Score: 1

    "This has nothing to do with the scientific method. This is about protecting debate in the public sphere and I do think it protects it. Consider if you were a climate scientist with a completely impeccable record. How willing would you be to make some high profile statements on your research, knowing that powerful media interests would immediately start dragging your name through the mud and trying to turn you into a pariah and a magnet for crazies?"

    Indeed. Now do you understand how its so hard for those who are skeptical of mainstream climate science to come out of the closet?

    Even when it isn't true, they are called shills for the oil industry, slandered, dragged through the mud and marginalized.

    If you had a career and a family, would you take that risk?

    Climate science isn't being politicized, it has been from the early 1980's.

  24. Indeed. Either that, or they are furiously researching on green public relations sites like DeSmogBlog for ways to attack what I said... or attack me.

  25. Are you talking about alarmists, when they slander scientists that try to publish papers that they dont agree with?
    When they call them shills, liars and deniers?