No, YOUR comprehension of MY comment is lacking. You have failed to notice that I don't disagree with you that AGW is real. Believe it or not it's possible to be right for the wrong reasons:) i suggest you google "paleo-climatology" to discover why many of your statements about what is, or is not, known about the functioning of climatic systems (and the causes of previous cold or warm spells) are mistaken. It fascinating, but mind-blowingly complex, stuff.
You seem to be mixing up what you personally know with what it known by others. Believe it or not, some people know more about this than you do. The "fact of the matter" is that we know perfectly well what is causing the warming; numerous detection and attribution studies have unambiguously and robustly identified the cause of warming to be human emissions of CO2.
I'm really delighted to see this. Fry's been on my list of "ten humans most entitled to space on this planet" for a long, long time (since Professor Donald Trefusis, in fact) but his sad devotion to that ancient religion (Apple) has long niggled at me. Welcome to the fold, Stephen, may your code always be Free!:)
Which "they" - the journalist who wrote the piece, the sub-ed who wrote the headline, or the physicist or cosmologist who wrote the paper they don't understand?
But if you didn't pay taxes to ensure a stable and reasonably equitable society (where 'reasonable' is a rough working consensus across tens of millions of people), you wouldn't have that job in the first place.
All the Gustav-relatednerdiness you could ever wish for over at the Wunderground. Shame the data's not live RSS streaming feeds or somesuch... unless anyone would like to whip up a 'NOLA catastrophe II: this time it's personal" feed? Where's Spider when you need him?
How do we know that radioactive isotopes decay at all if you get them far enough away from a star?
Well, we're going to need a new theory of stellar processes if so, which is going to mean some pretty spectacular changes to astronomy. Also, the Voyager (and Mariner, and other) RTGs are decaying at the rates predicted by the standard model. This fits the definition of an "extraordinary claim" to a t -- anyone with real physics clue on this thread care to comment on the ordinariness or otherwise of the evidence claimed by the pre-print?
Duh. RTGs generate steadily less and less power due to the radioactive decay which provides the energy used by the spacecraft. The Voyagers were NOT "designed to push the boundaries of the solar system and continue into interstellar space". They were designed for a ten-year Grand Tour series of gas-giant fly-bys. The post-Neptune science results have been a happy bonus resulting from the fantastic quality of JPL and contractor engineering.
You are assuming that only legitimate network engineers have control of their routing tables. What if your routers (or rather your backend auth database / PKI / enable password database) are pwned?
That is exactly why most people don't like IT security. The true answer is that their password _can_ be the name of their dog, for 95% of users, because they won't have access to sensitive information by default.
And which are the 5%? And how do you work out which roles those are? Bonus points for describing how to integrate a data access privilege level for every user when they are first hired, when they change role, or every time the information they access changes. Oh look, it's ten thousand times easier and more secure to train everyone to do the right thing in the first place.
What sort of "get something done" are you talking about that they can't do with the standard build apps? Our users have mail, web, IM, office apps, access to a ton of internal web apps for stuff we'd be using fat client apps for a decade ago. And for the very occasional corner-case that pops up, we provide a greased lightning evaluate, approve, document and install process.
Better to educate people and teach them responsible computing.
Apart from the severe kicking you'd get from HR if we caught you doing this, it wouldn't work at my employer, because we have our laptop and desktop USB slots locked.
I can see you've never done helldesk duty clearing up the malware infections and broken configs caused by users installing such work-essential s/w as online poker clients and the inevitable screensavers and browser toolbars. Guess what, we're paid more than most of our users, our time is more valuable, and we don't want it wasted rebuilding their bloody laptops for the 20th time because they went off to donkeyporn.com AGAIN after being specifically told not to the last time they and you lost a day's work whilst you rebuilt their machine....
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The word you're grasping for is "p-a-t-r-o-n-i-s-i-n-g". HAND.
I'm from Florida and am certainly not a creationist of any sort.
Yeah, "from" is the operative word... I bet you're not in Florida now.
Oh FFS, OK here are a couple of actual citations to get you started.
Tim P. Barnett,* David W. Pierce, Reiner Schnur: "Detection of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the World's Oceans" (Science, Vol 292 p270) (2001)
"Climate change: detection and attribution of trends from long-term geologic dataâ by C. Loehle [Ecological Modelling 171 (4) (2004)
No, YOUR comprehension of MY comment is lacking. You have failed to notice that I don't disagree with you that AGW is real. Believe it or not it's possible to be right for the wrong reasons :) i suggest you google "paleo-climatology" to discover why many of your statements about what is, or is not, known about the functioning of climatic systems (and the causes of previous cold or warm spells) are mistaken. It fascinating, but mind-blowingly complex, stuff.
See above - you're confusing what you're aware of (that there's a correlation) with real hard science done to detect and attribute the signal of anthropogenic warming from the background variability caused by Milancovic cycles, solar output variations, volcanic production of sulphate aerosols and all the rest of it. Here's a trivial Google search to start you off on your journey of discovery into the wonderful new panorama of hitherto unsuspected areas of scientific endeavour. Happy reading...
You seem to be mixing up what you personally know with what it known by others. Believe it or not, some people know more about this than you do. The "fact of the matter" is that we know perfectly well what is causing the warming; numerous detection and attribution studies have unambiguously and robustly identified the cause of warming to be human emissions of CO2.
Actually the big news in the actual cryosphere science science community has been the break-up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, which is in the... Antarctic.
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
I'm really delighted to see this. Fry's been on my list of "ten humans most entitled to space on this planet" for a long, long time (since Professor Donald Trefusis, in fact) but his sad devotion to that ancient religion (Apple) has long niggled at me. Welcome to the fold, Stephen, may your code always be Free! :)
You diss my laterals at your peril. Shoreditch isn't bad, but -- Telford Avenue!!!
MUAhahahaha... :>
Which "they" - the journalist who wrote the piece, the sub-ed who wrote the headline, or the physicist or cosmologist who wrote the paper they don't understand?
Oh, why not? I don't see any references to violence in the paragraph you've posted. *confused*
Playing Crockford's Original rules I see. OK, I'll bite. Camden Parkway.
But if you didn't pay taxes to ensure a stable and reasonably equitable society (where 'reasonable' is a rough working consensus across tens of millions of people), you wouldn't have that job in the first place.
All the Gustav-related nerdiness you could ever wish for over at the Wunderground. Shame the data's not live RSS streaming feeds or somesuch... unless anyone would like to whip up a 'NOLA catastrophe II: this time it's personal" feed? Where's Spider when you need him?
How do we know that radioactive isotopes decay at all if you get them far enough away from a star?
Well, we're going to need a new theory of stellar processes if so, which is going to mean some pretty spectacular changes to astronomy. Also, the Voyager (and Mariner, and other) RTGs are decaying at the rates predicted by the standard model. This fits the definition of an "extraordinary claim" to a t -- anyone with real physics clue on this thread care to comment on the ordinariness or otherwise of the evidence claimed by the pre-print?
Duh. RTGs generate steadily less and less power due to the radioactive decay which provides the energy used by the spacecraft. The Voyagers were NOT "designed to push the boundaries of the solar system and continue into interstellar space". They were designed for a ten-year Grand Tour series of gas-giant fly-bys. The post-Neptune science results have been a happy bonus resulting from the fantastic quality of JPL and contractor engineering.
Dan's shot this nonsense down pretty comprehensively on his blog.
No, you are mistaken; djbdns, MaraDNS (and all other conformant DNS servers, including the patched BIND) are vulnerable to the "ten hour attack", ie., the same attack run for ten hours rather than ten seconds. It just takes a bit longer to work because it has to hit the right port number out of the 65K range.
You are assuming that only legitimate network engineers have control of their routing tables. What if your routers (or rather your backend auth database / PKI / enable password database) are pwned?
I think jd meant IS-IS.
That is exactly why most people don't like IT security. The true answer is that their password _can_ be the name of their dog, for 95% of users, because they won't have access to sensitive information by default.
And which are the 5%? And how do you work out which roles those are? Bonus points for describing how to integrate a data access privilege level for every user when they are first hired, when they change role, or every time the information they access changes. Oh look, it's ten thousand times easier and more secure to train everyone to do the right thing in the first place.
I agree 100%, except that I'm with Bruce on the question of writing down passwords.
Better to educate people and teach them responsible computing.
BWAAAAAAhhH!! hahahahahahahahaha. Ever tried it? Obviously not... :D
Apart from the severe kicking you'd get from HR if we caught you doing this, it wouldn't work at my employer, because we have our laptop and desktop USB slots locked.
I can see you've never done helldesk duty clearing up the malware infections and broken configs caused by users installing such work-essential s/w as online poker clients and the inevitable screensavers and browser toolbars. Guess what, we're paid more than most of our users, our time is more valuable, and we don't want it wasted rebuilding their bloody laptops for the 20th time because they went off to donkeyporn.com AGAIN after being specifically told not to the last time they and you lost a day's work whilst you rebuilt their machine....