So thinking that doubling the carbon dioxide and tripling the methane in an atmosphere will cause more heat to be retained is "wild speculation"? It's not a hard experiment to do, honors science classes do this in high school. In every single case the result has always been that more heat is retained. Always. This has been known for a century and a half, what is "wild speculation" about it? Or is your position that there is something magical about Earth's atmosphere that will make carbon dioxide and methane violate the laws of physics? And why would that be, when those gasses function as would be expected on Venus and Mars?
Take the better models. Apply them with the variables appropriate for Venus. They work. Apply them with the variables appropriate for Mars. They work. Apply them with the variables appropriate for Earth ten million years BCE. They work. Are the models "proven" to be 100% accurate? No, of course not. Are they shown to be accurate with >90% reliability? Yep.
Now take those models and apply them with the variables appropriate to Earth in 100 years with current rates of anthropogenic emissions. The result is something catastrophic for our current model of civilization. Of course the only way to know for sure if the model is 100% accurate is to wait around a century and see if reality deviates noticeably from the model, so I guess we'd best twiddle our thumbs for a few generations.
When they take the current climate models and plug in the variables (solar insolation, atmospheric gas mix, albedo, etc.) appropriate to Venus, Mars and Titan they get results very close to the actual climates. In other words, the models have been tested and shown to be fairly accurate. Carl Sagan was able to do this with some of the first models back in the late 1970s, and the science and the modeling processes have only gotten better over the last four decades.
In reality, climate modeling has likely saved our civilization if not our entire species once already. It was while playing with those models that the 'Nuclear Winter', the result of a nuclear war, was discovered. Ronnie Raygun and his band of lunatics would likely have launched nukes against the Soviets in eastern Europe if it hadn't been conclusively demonstrated to them that there was no way for anyone to come out of it a winner.
Used to know some guys that rented in a big rundown house full of stoners on Frat Row, all chopped up into about a dozen bedrooms, that everyone referred to as 'Entropy House'. It would have been about a block from these dingbats. One year in the late '70s during Rush Week they put up the Greek letters Lambda Sigma Delta on the house and handed out electric beer to all the prospective pledges that weren't bright enough to figure out what the letters spelled. It apparently was an interesting night.
Alexandria? Or Constantinople? Jerusalem was a tourist destination, Silk Road trade passed through Constantinople, spice trade through Alexandria. Of course that's only important if you consider Europe anything more than the backwards barely-civilized backwater that it was at the time. Europe was so unimportant that it didn't even hear about the opening of the Forbidden City for 21 years, while ambassadors were sent from kingdoms all over Africa and Asia bringing gold, jewels, elephants and giraffes as gifts.
I work in physical security (key cards, security cameras, alarm systems, etc.) had have seen plenty of stuff this bad. For six years one of the highest quality megapixel IP security cameras on the market had a single user, "root", with a password of "system" that you could not change. Two others had only root or admin as users and you could only configure a 4 character lower-case alpha password (raised to 6 characters in a later firmware release). The absolute worst I've ever seen was Cisco's abortion of a system.
I was in the training class at Cisco's headquarters, training to do our first (and fortunately only) deployment of this abysmal system. I had recently acquired a new port scanner and was playing with it on a break in the class, so pointed it at the encoder. Oh, Port 23 is open, let's see what I can do. Opened a telnet session, typed 'whoami', and it replied 'root'. I was so shocked I said "Holy crap!" loud enough to attract the instructor's attention. When I explained what I had found he didn't seem to think it was much of an issue, even though he was a Cisco lifer who had been around the company almost since the beginning. His exact quote was, "Well, since you're going to run the application on its own private network there won't be any issues." The entire class informed him what life in the real world was like.
The application server was a Windows Server 2003 box with **NO** updates because Service Pack 1 broke the application. You had to log into it as Administrator to do anything. End users had to be administrators on their PCs to run the client, even though it ran in a web browser. It would run under XP SP1, but one of the later Windows updates broke the client so you couldn't update them either. As bad as all that was, the whole application did not follow any of the standard paradigms for viewing security video, it looked like a bunch of programmers got together and said, "If I wanted to view security video how would I want it to look?"
Now I see that Cisco has it's own access control system as well, I can only imagine what a clusterfuck that thing will be.
You may have missed the The PCA pump stores wireless keys used to connect to the local (medical device) wireless network in plain text on the device. That means anyone with physical access to the Pump (which has an ethernet port) could gain access to the local medical device network and other devices on it.
Once you're on the medical wireless network you now have access to **ALL** the other equally insecure PCA devices connected to it. You see, you don't need to even change any settings on your pump to get access to everyone else's pump. For something like a morphine pump I can see a market opportunity for someone who can adjust one's settings at will. For an insulin pump, well there may be prospective heirs interested in making adjustments as well . . .
Undo? So they're actually providing for that now? When I had mine (in the last century) that was not even a consideration. A reversal was a $20,000 procedure with a 30+ percent failure rate. This should prevent some heartbreak.
I still think the patient was putting one over on his co-workers, though.
Why would they have used staples? A vasectomy requires two or at most three very small stitches on each side. I rather suspect that the patient was pulling his co-workers' leg.
Sounds an awful lot like that other "soft science", Economics. Some researchers are finally getting away from the 'revealed wisdom' of Friedman and company, and hopefully Chicago School Economics will soon end up in the dust bin of history with phrenology and vital humors.
I grew up a few blocks from a large mental institution, and many of my classmates' parents worked there. An awful lot of the people who worked there ended up loonier than their patients.
Your thought process still puzzles me. Erosion is an amazingly powerful force. It may be slow, but once the Appalachians were taller than the Himalayas, and there used to be a tall range of mountains in the middle of Africa where today there is only veld. Soft matter such as rotting roots erodes much faster than rocks, just ask any farmer. At the time scale of continent building the dinosaurs were around the day before yesterday.
Optical sensors on most other smart watches don't have any problem, since they actually did some research and learned from other manufacturers that green LEDs are blocked. Some other colors seem fine, but a different sensor probably would have cost Apple an extra $0.45 per watch so they just ignored that inconvenient fact and assumed that the fanbois would buy it anyway. They're probably right.
It's the color of LED that they use in the sensors. This has been a known issue since the FitBit hit the market with green LEDs a couple of years ago. Other smart watch vendors, like Samsung, learned the lesson and used other colors so have no problem. Apple, being Apple, seems to have decided that they were somehow "pioneers" in this market and didn't bother to do any actual research on what works for existing devices.
Was at a party one time where a skinhead was showing off his new eagle tat on his shaved head. When asked why he chose there he rather smugly said, "When I want to have kids and get a better job I can just grow my hair and no one will know." An acquaintance nearby started laughing hysterically, and when she calmed down enough to talk she said, "You idiot, both your grandfathers are bald and started losing their hair in their thirties. It's hereditary."
You're also too dumb to figure out how to create and log into a SlashDot account, so the rest of us really don't give a flying fuck about your opinion.
Are you sure Louisiana is a place where "anything goes"??? I guess you need to come to Seattle, where you'll meet bankers with neck tattoos and insurance executives with nose rings. Sorry, but New Orleans hasn't been avant guarde for decades.
Melanin is generally transparent to the frequencies used in these devices, so skin color doesn't make a difference. It's essentially the same technology as the little finger clamp they put on you in the hospital to measure pulse and blood oxygenation, and they work fine on people of all colors.
So this was a known issue with the technology that Apple was either ignorant of, or ignored? Guess I'm not surprised, they have a tendency to go into an existing market with the attitude that they are somehow "pioneers", and no one else in the world knows anything.
You're not saying that the average hipster will actually read "that part", or much of anything else besides Twitter, are you? Hope not, at least my observation of them is that a tweet is about the maximum their attention span will handle.
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So thinking that doubling the carbon dioxide and tripling the methane in an atmosphere will cause more heat to be retained is "wild speculation"? It's not a hard experiment to do, honors science classes do this in high school. In every single case the result has always been that more heat is retained. Always. This has been known for a century and a half, what is "wild speculation" about it? Or is your position that there is something magical about Earth's atmosphere that will make carbon dioxide and methane violate the laws of physics? And why would that be, when those gasses function as would be expected on Venus and Mars?
Take the better models. Apply them with the variables appropriate for Venus. They work. Apply them with the variables appropriate for Mars. They work. Apply them with the variables appropriate for Earth ten million years BCE. They work. Are the models "proven" to be 100% accurate? No, of course not. Are they shown to be accurate with >90% reliability? Yep.
Now take those models and apply them with the variables appropriate to Earth in 100 years with current rates of anthropogenic emissions. The result is something catastrophic for our current model of civilization. Of course the only way to know for sure if the model is 100% accurate is to wait around a century and see if reality deviates noticeably from the model, so I guess we'd best twiddle our thumbs for a few generations.
When they take the current climate models and plug in the variables (solar insolation, atmospheric gas mix, albedo, etc.) appropriate to Venus, Mars and Titan they get results very close to the actual climates. In other words, the models have been tested and shown to be fairly accurate. Carl Sagan was able to do this with some of the first models back in the late 1970s, and the science and the modeling processes have only gotten better over the last four decades.
In reality, climate modeling has likely saved our civilization if not our entire species once already. It was while playing with those models that the 'Nuclear Winter', the result of a nuclear war, was discovered. Ronnie Raygun and his band of lunatics would likely have launched nukes against the Soviets in eastern Europe if it hadn't been conclusively demonstrated to them that there was no way for anyone to come out of it a winner.
College age, so 18-26 or so.
You can join the Nebraska woman who filed a lawsuit yesterday against all the homosexuals on the planet, claiming to represent god.
Used to know some guys that rented in a big rundown house full of stoners on Frat Row, all chopped up into about a dozen bedrooms, that everyone referred to as 'Entropy House'. It would have been about a block from these dingbats. One year in the late '70s during Rush Week they put up the Greek letters Lambda Sigma Delta on the house and handed out electric beer to all the prospective pledges that weren't bright enough to figure out what the letters spelled. It apparently was an interesting night.
Alexandria? Or Constantinople? Jerusalem was a tourist destination, Silk Road trade passed through Constantinople, spice trade through Alexandria. Of course that's only important if you consider Europe anything more than the backwards barely-civilized backwater that it was at the time. Europe was so unimportant that it didn't even hear about the opening of the Forbidden City for 21 years, while ambassadors were sent from kingdoms all over Africa and Asia bringing gold, jewels, elephants and giraffes as gifts.
I work in physical security (key cards, security cameras, alarm systems, etc.) had have seen plenty of stuff this bad. For six years one of the highest quality megapixel IP security cameras on the market had a single user, "root", with a password of "system" that you could not change. Two others had only root or admin as users and you could only configure a 4 character lower-case alpha password (raised to 6 characters in a later firmware release). The absolute worst I've ever seen was Cisco's abortion of a system.
I was in the training class at Cisco's headquarters, training to do our first (and fortunately only) deployment of this abysmal system. I had recently acquired a new port scanner and was playing with it on a break in the class, so pointed it at the encoder. Oh, Port 23 is open, let's see what I can do. Opened a telnet session, typed 'whoami', and it replied 'root'. I was so shocked I said "Holy crap!" loud enough to attract the instructor's attention. When I explained what I had found he didn't seem to think it was much of an issue, even though he was a Cisco lifer who had been around the company almost since the beginning. His exact quote was, "Well, since you're going to run the application on its own private network there won't be any issues." The entire class informed him what life in the real world was like.
The application server was a Windows Server 2003 box with **NO** updates because Service Pack 1 broke the application. You had to log into it as Administrator to do anything. End users had to be administrators on their PCs to run the client, even though it ran in a web browser. It would run under XP SP1, but one of the later Windows updates broke the client so you couldn't update them either. As bad as all that was, the whole application did not follow any of the standard paradigms for viewing security video, it looked like a bunch of programmers got together and said, "If I wanted to view security video how would I want it to look?"
Now I see that Cisco has it's own access control system as well, I can only imagine what a clusterfuck that thing will be.
You may have missed the The PCA pump stores wireless keys used to connect to the local (medical device) wireless network in plain text on the device. That means anyone with physical access to the Pump (which has an ethernet port) could gain access to the local medical device network and other devices on it.
Once you're on the medical wireless network you now have access to **ALL** the other equally insecure PCA devices connected to it. You see, you don't need to even change any settings on your pump to get access to everyone else's pump. For something like a morphine pump I can see a market opportunity for someone who can adjust one's settings at will. For an insulin pump, well there may be prospective heirs interested in making adjustments as well . . .
Undo? So they're actually providing for that now? When I had mine (in the last century) that was not even a consideration. A reversal was a $20,000 procedure with a 30+ percent failure rate. This should prevent some heartbreak.
I still think the patient was putting one over on his co-workers, though.
Why would they have used staples? A vasectomy requires two or at most three very small stitches on each side. I rather suspect that the patient was pulling his co-workers' leg.
Sounds an awful lot like that other "soft science", Economics. Some researchers are finally getting away from the 'revealed wisdom' of Friedman and company, and hopefully Chicago School Economics will soon end up in the dust bin of history with phrenology and vital humors.
I grew up a few blocks from a large mental institution, and many of my classmates' parents worked there. An awful lot of the people who worked there ended up loonier than their patients.
Your thought process still puzzles me. Erosion is an amazingly powerful force. It may be slow, but once the Appalachians were taller than the Himalayas, and there used to be a tall range of mountains in the middle of Africa where today there is only veld. Soft matter such as rotting roots erodes much faster than rocks, just ask any farmer. At the time scale of continent building the dinosaurs were around the day before yesterday.
Optical sensors on most other smart watches don't have any problem, since they actually did some research and learned from other manufacturers that green LEDs are blocked. Some other colors seem fine, but a different sensor probably would have cost Apple an extra $0.45 per watch so they just ignored that inconvenient fact and assumed that the fanbois would buy it anyway. They're probably right.
It's the color of LED that they use in the sensors. This has been a known issue since the FitBit hit the market with green LEDs a couple of years ago. Other smart watch vendors, like Samsung, learned the lesson and used other colors so have no problem. Apple, being Apple, seems to have decided that they were somehow "pioneers" in this market and didn't bother to do any actual research on what works for existing devices.
Was at a party one time where a skinhead was showing off his new eagle tat on his shaved head. When asked why he chose there he rather smugly said, "When I want to have kids and get a better job I can just grow my hair and no one will know." An acquaintance nearby started laughing hysterically, and when she calmed down enough to talk she said, "You idiot, both your grandfathers are bald and started losing their hair in their thirties. It's hereditary."
You're also too dumb to figure out how to create and log into a SlashDot account, so the rest of us really don't give a flying fuck about your opinion.
I've been wearing wide-brim fedoras since 1978, I'm not likely to be mistaken for a hipster (a doofus, on the other hand . . .)
Are you sure Louisiana is a place where "anything goes"??? I guess you need to come to Seattle, where you'll meet bankers with neck tattoos and insurance executives with nose rings. Sorry, but New Orleans hasn't been avant guarde for decades.
Melanin is generally transparent to the frequencies used in these devices, so skin color doesn't make a difference. It's essentially the same technology as the little finger clamp they put on you in the hospital to measure pulse and blood oxygenation, and they work fine on people of all colors.
So this was a known issue with the technology that Apple was either ignorant of, or ignored? Guess I'm not surprised, they have a tendency to go into an existing market with the attitude that they are somehow "pioneers", and no one else in the world knows anything.
You obviously don't live in Seattle, Portland, New York or San Francisco. I see bankers here with tattoos.
You're not saying that the average hipster will actually read "that part", or much of anything else besides Twitter, are you? Hope not, at least my observation of them is that a tweet is about the maximum their attention span will handle.
Apple works purely on fucking bullshit marketing
I thought this was obvious by the time the iMac was released, and Jobs' job had become a hundred times more important to the company than Woz's.