Yes, IPPC was censored. All there recommendations were toned down by politicians. IPPC scenario are generally called "best case scenario". They are already being revised up.
And yes, you must be right because you say so. All of IPPC knows nothing about climate. I mean, it is only their damn *JOB* to know.
What are you nutters going to say next? Oh wait! I know,
* year 2002 => "There is no global warming! There is no record more than few years and people can't be trusted with their thermometers."
* year 2007 => "Global warming is from the sun only!! We have direct evidence from Mars and Jupiter and Uranus that they are warming too. We must trust all those "direct" evidence!!" (they couldn't trust local thermometers before and suddenly they embrace temperatures on Mars????? - that's some baseline there!)
* year 2008 => "There is no global warming! There is a global cooling!!! See sun spots!! And if there is warming, see 2007!!"
Side note by anti-reality crackpots: "People who's JOB is to study these things, obviously are stupid and incompetent. And the 99%+ agreement means the http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/distortions.htm
So, who are the people that deny reality? Same people that finished off the passenger pigeon - the once most abundant bird in the world.
They didn't evolve. The selection pressure caused the genetic mutation, that *already existed*, to become prominent in the population.
It shows up in everything. For example, cod is at least 20% smaller than it used to because fishermen caught only larger ones. Well, whatever cod is left. Heck, Cabot in 1600s noted that there was so much cod by Newfoundland, Canada that his ship got stuck and they were pulling the fish with buckets. Now, people hunted the fish to almost extinction there. The fishery collapsed and will probably never recover (not in my lifetime). Species predatory to cod have moved into the gap... Species that people don't eat.
And with regards to imitation, it is to dry up demand. If everyone wants to the imitation gorilla hand for "good luck" there will be some idiots that will go and shoot a gorilla for the real thing. Considering there is about a hundred or so gorillas in the wild, if 1 of 1,000,000 people is that idiot, the gorillas are extinct.
Protecting these species is not important just for the "treehuggers". It is important for everyone. Just recently it was discovered that alligator immune system acts differently than most other animals. This could lead to much, much better antibiotics. But not so long ago, that alligator was critically endangered because people wanted the idiotic wallets and shoes made out of their skins. If it wasn't for conservation efforts, that natural information would have went with the animal.
Most of the developments in medicine is from compounds found in animals and plants that are isolated and then used in us. Who knows which species holds the real cure for cancer? Maybe it is already extinct.
Finally, would be kind of boring with just 10 billion people, some grass, jelly fish and bacteria.
As that nobel prize winner lady put it (the Tree Lady from Africa, as they call her), "We don't know what this biodiversity is for so we shouldn't destroy it. We must protect it. We may discover few hundred years from now that it is sustaining life as we know it."
Animals and plants are going extinct everywhere. 20 years ago, Musk Deer were running in millions in Mongolia. No more, poaching destroyed their population.
Elephants used to occupy most of Africa, now their habitat is fractured,
Parts of Africa that lost their elephants, are unlikely to get them back (elephants will walk back to their own, known areas). And now, South Africa is considering killing off part of its population and *selling* the ivory...
All animal species and birds and plants are under increasing pressure from man. Heck, people look at previous large extinctions and don't even realize we are the cause of another. We are even at a brink of causing shark population to disappear. Shark species for Great White have decreased 50%. Hammerheads 90%+. These are species that did not disappear during the previous extinction events. 300+ million years. And now? Rhinos? Buffalo? Grizzly Bear? Orangutans? Native species of cattle? Gorillas? Cheetah? Bengal Tiger? Siberian Tiger? And thousands of another species: all endangered. Total population not in thousands, but sometimes in hundreds or even dozen...
Passenger Pigeon: now only stuffed. Used to number over a billion.
Want to see the rest of any size animals like that? Stuffed only versions? Continue with trade of animal parts for wild species. We managed to drive all those species to extinction with a fraction of people on the planet.
Ebay should not allow ANY trade in animal parts or even imitation of such parts.
If 1 in 100,000 people buys an elephant tusk, the elephant population may as well be extinct[1]. 1 in 1,000 people wants anything made out of ivory, population of all the species that people kill for ivory will be either extinct or very near to extinction.
[1] - As a side note, there is a genetic condition that resulted in tuskless elephants or elephants with very small tusks. It was very rare. Now, "thanks" to poaching and slaughter, that condition is very visible. Some populations of elephants have 30% rate of that genetic abnormality.
Unless they withdraw the cash by some mule, they will be recorded and/or traced. Maybe if they wire money to some 3rd world country and pay off corruption personnel, I mean police.
Same old, same old FUD tactics we see from GOP since 2001. They *used to* work too! Or is some black op US gov't agency planning a "terrorist" attack to spur people to willingly give up rights? (Sadly, as history and current international events show, this is NOT an unheard of tactic to force masses to comply. Used by various gov't)
Sure, warrants surveillance makes people safer. It's a fact. Just look at Soviet Union with its domestic KGB wing. But then throwing people into Gulags for 20 years because the neighbor doesn't like you and reports you in as a spy - it is not the society that most people would like to live in.
So which will it be? "GITMO USA" or "Land of Opportunity and Hope"? Can't have both. The former gives people almost absolute security (unless the secret police doesn't like you), the latter does not. Let freedom die for sake of security or perhaps die due to lack of security in the name of freedom?
I personally would choose lightweight stainless steel water container. Not only no toxins, but water *tastes* fresh too and 1000x more reusable than the plastic crap.
You can also get lightweight stainless steel bowls. Work much nicer than plastic.
There is at least one superconductor that work even above room temperature. The problem there is, the superconductor is 2D (surface superconductor). This prevents it from conducting significant amount of current which in turn makes it not very useful in practice!
Wrong regarding at least your idea of slowing interstellar craft! NOTHING is free, unless you managed to break the 2nd law of thermodynamics, of course.
The magnetic field will interact with the plasma (solar wind) which will cause an opposite current in your electromagnet. This means you will need to supply power for the slowdown. On the positive note, the news here would indicate that a larger magnetic field can be produced with a smaller device, maybe, but there is always some limit.
GPL doesn't oblige the party that modified the source and and made a modified binary from releasing ANYTHING. But if they do release the binary, they must allow the *recipients* of that binary access to the modified source code under GPL or a license that is compatible with GPL.
GPL v3 adds additional reasurances that the modified GPL code can be modified by the end user and replace their binary with their own! That's THE major difference.
The intention of GPLv3 vs. v2 is to prevent people from
* signed binaries/DRM, so source code access is worthless, or
* devices that can't be patched with modified software
* patents prohibiting you to use modified version of software
Finally, copyright is retained by the creator. GPL does not affect that. So,
1. Bob release software A under GPL
2. someone else adds stuff and releases A' under GPL
3. Bob takes changes from A' and incorporates into A
At #1, Bob may dual license or even close source for new versions of software completely as they own all of copyright. At #3, Bob loses ability to close source future versions of A or even prevents him from releasing under BSD or Apache or whatever.
You DO NOT own the project if you incorporate other's modifications into it. Parts of it cease to be yours and so license modifications are not permitted, unless they are stated in the license text.
For software released under GPLv2 only, you CANNOT release that under GPLv3 without contacting ALL people that contributed and them agreeing to it. That is why GPLv3 is preferred as current project maintainers can change the license to GPLv3 and later, or GPLv4 or later, etc..
Electricians don't work in areas where an explosion just happened and some wires may or may not be live.
Both, electricians and firefighters would shut down the power. Electricians may take their time to understand the situation. Firefighter have no time. So in case of fire and shit, firefighters will demand power is shut down before going in, especially in cases of ELECTRICAL FIRE!!
How stupid can you be? Electricity was what fueled the explosion and/or fire! So you shut it off! All of it. You don't know what is its state, so you shut it down. You know, electricity "flows" from one end of a transformer to another *both* ways. And hell, I would not trust some relay switch with my life after an explosion. Hell, the railing or stairs or support column could be live and who the hell knows what is live and what is not??
You are like some idiot bitching that there their natural gas supplies were cut because there was an underground pipe explosion 2 miles down from your house.
Shouldn't they provide, you know, primary AND secondary DNS? And in that case, wouldn't the primary AND secondary be hosted in *different* data centers?
DNS is *THE* *MOST* critical part of infrastructure. If the HTTP server fail, ok. If mail fails, ok. If data center explodes, you still have DNS so anyone sending email will just be stuck for a few days. But if DNS is offline, then email is offline. You are off the internet.
I've had a server motherboard die and it took a few days to get new one installed and running. But my DNS was running because backups were on different IPs and places.
I have to say, this is a BIG no-no for them not to provide proper DNS services.
Are you sure you are not saturating upstream so downstream gets slower because you can't push packet ACKs fast enough?
This is definitely one of THE major problems with people complaining about throttling. They are killing their own downloads by clogging upload pipes and then they complain "WTF my ISP throttles me!". I'm not saying this is the problem in your case, but a lot of people that do complain are actually "throttling" themselves by filling up upstream queues.
Humans have enough problems controlling motor functions of what we have. If we have more control joints, I highly suspect it would not work out so well without additional pre-processing. But regardless, perfecting the simplest apparatus is probably the first step. Once this is perfected (give or take a decade), we'll see augmentations that will start to supersede all human capabilities. Baby steps at a time though. Science and knowledge is all baby steps.
Most copyright infringement on the Internet is falls under Criminal Infringement. The key word in the definition there is "public" under paragraph 506(a)(1)(C). This protects private distribution on the internet amongst friends (and you better be able to prove that all people with access are friends!), but it slaps public distribution.
The clause was added due to relatively cheap or free ability to infringe on other's work. See 10 years ago with Napster. Clearly, the sharing was *not* between friends!
2. I agree. But in this case no crime was not even committed in the first place. MediaDefender is treading on some very thin ice.
Anyway, this is not about the copyright act. It is about a different law altogether.
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Yes, IPPC was censored. All there recommendations were toned down by politicians. IPPC scenario are generally called "best case scenario". They are already being revised up.
And yes, you must be right because you say so. All of IPPC knows nothing about climate. I mean, it is only their damn *JOB* to know.
What are you nutters going to say next? Oh wait! I know,
* year 2002 => "There is no global warming! There is no record more than few years and people can't be trusted with their thermometers."
* year 2007 => "Global warming is from the sun only!! We have direct evidence from Mars and Jupiter and Uranus that they are warming too. We must trust all those "direct" evidence!!" (they couldn't trust local thermometers before and suddenly they embrace temperatures on Mars????? - that's some baseline there!)
* year 2008 => "There is no global warming! There is a global cooling!!! See sun spots!! And if there is warming, see 2007!!"
Side note by anti-reality crackpots: "People who's JOB is to study these things, obviously are stupid and incompetent. And the 99%+ agreement means the http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/distortions.htm
So, who are the people that deny reality? Same people that finished off the passenger pigeon - the once most abundant bird in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Pigeon
"In 1896, the final flock of 250,000 were killed by American sportsmen knowing that it was the last flock of that size"
But hey, at least these people felt good at a time!
Fight on in spite of reality!
They didn't evolve. The selection pressure caused the genetic mutation, that *already existed*, to become prominent in the population.
It shows up in everything. For example, cod is at least 20% smaller than it used to because fishermen caught only larger ones. Well, whatever cod is left. Heck, Cabot in 1600s noted that there was so much cod by Newfoundland, Canada that his ship got stuck and they were pulling the fish with buckets. Now, people hunted the fish to almost extinction there. The fishery collapsed and will probably never recover (not in my lifetime). Species predatory to cod have moved into the gap... Species that people don't eat.
And with regards to imitation, it is to dry up demand. If everyone wants to the imitation gorilla hand for "good luck" there will be some idiots that will go and shoot a gorilla for the real thing. Considering there is about a hundred or so gorillas in the wild, if 1 of 1,000,000 people is that idiot, the gorillas are extinct.
Protecting these species is not important just for the "treehuggers". It is important for everyone. Just recently it was discovered that alligator immune system acts differently than most other animals. This could lead to much, much better antibiotics. But not so long ago, that alligator was critically endangered because people wanted the idiotic wallets and shoes made out of their skins. If it wasn't for conservation efforts, that natural information would have went with the animal.
Most of the developments in medicine is from compounds found in animals and plants that are isolated and then used in us. Who knows which species holds the real cure for cancer? Maybe it is already extinct.
Finally, would be kind of boring with just 10 billion people, some grass, jelly fish and bacteria.
As that nobel prize winner lady put it (the Tree Lady from Africa, as they call her), "We don't know what this biodiversity is for so we shouldn't destroy it. We must protect it. We may discover few hundred years from now that it is sustaining life as we know it."
I was referring about non-domestic animal material. Not about domestic pig skins, or domestic cow hides or whatever.
The problem is with trade of wild species.
Animals and plants are going extinct everywhere. 20 years ago, Musk Deer were running in millions in Mongolia. No more, poaching destroyed their population.
Elephants used to occupy most of Africa, now their habitat is fractured,
http://www.elephantcountryweb.com/africanellies/africanelerange.jpg
Parts of Africa that lost their elephants, are unlikely to get them back (elephants will walk back to their own, known areas). And now, South Africa is considering killing off part of its population and *selling* the ivory...
All animal species and birds and plants are under increasing pressure from man. Heck, people look at previous large extinctions and don't even realize we are the cause of another. We are even at a brink of causing shark population to disappear. Shark species for Great White have decreased 50%. Hammerheads 90%+. These are species that did not disappear during the previous extinction events. 300+ million years. And now? Rhinos? Buffalo? Grizzly Bear? Orangutans? Native species of cattle? Gorillas? Cheetah? Bengal Tiger? Siberian Tiger? And thousands of another species: all endangered. Total population not in thousands, but sometimes in hundreds or even dozen...
Passenger Pigeon: now only stuffed. Used to number over a billion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopistes
Want to see the rest of any size animals like that? Stuffed only versions? Continue with trade of animal parts for wild species. We managed to drive all those species to extinction with a fraction of people on the planet.
Ebay should not allow ANY trade in animal parts or even imitation of such parts.
If 1 in 100,000 people buys an elephant tusk, the elephant population may as well be extinct[1]. 1 in 1,000 people wants anything made out of ivory, population of all the species that people kill for ivory will be either extinct or very near to extinction.
[1] - As a side note, there is a genetic condition that resulted in tuskless elephants or elephants with very small tusks. It was very rare. Now, "thanks" to poaching and slaughter, that condition is very visible. Some populations of elephants have 30% rate of that genetic abnormality.
Unless they withdraw the cash by some mule, they will be recorded and/or traced. Maybe if they wire money to some 3rd world country and pay off corruption personnel, I mean police.
Same old, same old FUD tactics we see from GOP since 2001. They *used to* work too! Or is some black op US gov't agency planning a "terrorist" attack to spur people to willingly give up rights? (Sadly, as history and current international events show, this is NOT an unheard of tactic to force masses to comply. Used by various gov't)
Sure, warrants surveillance makes people safer. It's a fact. Just look at Soviet Union with its domestic KGB wing. But then throwing people into Gulags for 20 years because the neighbor doesn't like you and reports you in as a spy - it is not the society that most people would like to live in.
So which will it be? "GITMO USA" or "Land of Opportunity and Hope"? Can't have both. The former gives people almost absolute security (unless the secret police doesn't like you), the latter does not. Let freedom die for sake of security or perhaps die due to lack of security in the name of freedom?
You chose. November 2008.
The 5% number cames straight out of goatse.cx's ass
I personally would choose lightweight stainless steel water container. Not only no toxins, but water *tastes* fresh too and 1000x more reusable than the plastic crap.
You can also get lightweight stainless steel bowls. Work much nicer than plastic.
After throwing old bags from potato chips into a lake,
"When I throw something in the lake, and come back later, it's gone. You know, nature takes it away and recycles it"
- Ricky, Trailer Park Boys
The quote may not be quite correct, but I would not be surprised if many people's idea of recycling is not far from Ricky's.
Please open your critical .doc document someone's created with MS Word 3. Thanks!
There is at least one superconductor that work even above room temperature. The problem there is, the superconductor is 2D (surface superconductor). This prevents it from conducting significant amount of current which in turn makes it not very useful in practice!
Wrong regarding at least your idea of slowing interstellar craft! NOTHING is free, unless you managed to break the 2nd law of thermodynamics, of course.
The magnetic field will interact with the plasma (solar wind) which will cause an opposite current in your electromagnet. This means you will need to supply power for the slowdown. On the positive note, the news here would indicate that a larger magnetic field can be produced with a smaller device, maybe, but there is always some limit.
Wrong w.r.t. GPL
GPL doesn't oblige the party that modified the source and and made a modified binary from releasing ANYTHING. But if they do release the binary, they must allow the *recipients* of that binary access to the modified source code under GPL or a license that is compatible with GPL.
GPL v3 adds additional reasurances that the modified GPL code can be modified by the end user and replace their binary with their own! That's THE major difference.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TwoPartyTivoization
The intention of GPLv3 vs. v2 is to prevent people from
* signed binaries/DRM, so source code access is worthless, or
* devices that can't be patched with modified software
* patents prohibiting you to use modified version of software
Finally, copyright is retained by the creator. GPL does not affect that. So,
1. Bob release software A under GPL
2. someone else adds stuff and releases A' under GPL
3. Bob takes changes from A' and incorporates into A
At #1, Bob may dual license or even close source for new versions of software completely as they own all of copyright. At #3, Bob loses ability to close source future versions of A or even prevents him from releasing under BSD or Apache or whatever.
You DO NOT own the project if you incorporate other's modifications into it. Parts of it cease to be yours and so license modifications are not permitted, unless they are stated in the license text.
For software released under GPLv2 only, you CANNOT release that under GPLv3 without contacting ALL people that contributed and them agreeing to it. That is why GPLv3 is preferred as current project maintainers can change the license to GPLv3 and later, or GPLv4 or later, etc..
firefighter != electrician
Electricians don't work in areas where an explosion just happened and some wires may or may not be live.
Both, electricians and firefighters would shut down the power. Electricians may take their time to understand the situation. Firefighter have no time. So in case of fire and shit, firefighters will demand power is shut down before going in, especially in cases of ELECTRICAL FIRE!!
How stupid can you be? Electricity was what fueled the explosion and/or fire! So you shut it off! All of it. You don't know what is its state, so you shut it down. You know, electricity "flows" from one end of a transformer to another *both* ways. And hell, I would not trust some relay switch with my life after an explosion. Hell, the railing or stairs or support column could be live and who the hell knows what is live and what is not??
You are like some idiot bitching that there their natural gas supplies were cut because there was an underground pipe explosion 2 miles down from your house.
Shouldn't they provide, you know, primary AND secondary DNS? And in that case, wouldn't the primary AND secondary be hosted in *different* data centers?
DNS is *THE* *MOST* critical part of infrastructure. If the HTTP server fail, ok. If mail fails, ok. If data center explodes, you still have DNS so anyone sending email will just be stuck for a few days. But if DNS is offline, then email is offline. You are off the internet.
I've had a server motherboard die and it took a few days to get new one installed and running. But my DNS was running because backups were on different IPs and places.
I have to say, this is a BIG no-no for them not to provide proper DNS services.
How about catching on fire and burning down??
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/11/msg01926.html
Sir, what are you doing?!? Perl is NOT meant to be readable. It the code MUST be all on one line!
use strict; use warnings; use Net::DNS; my %hosts; sub lookup { my $res = Net::DNS::Resolver->new;my $query = $res->search( shift );if ($query) {foreach my $rr ($query->answer) {next unless( $rr->type eq "A" );return( $rr->address );}}else {warn "query failed: ", $res->errorstring, "\n";}}while( my $l = ) {if( $l =~ m!(http://.+?)\s! ) {print( "$1\n" );if( $1 =~ m!http://(.*?)/! ) {my $ip = lookup( $1 );$hosts{$1} = $ip;}}}foreach $host ( sort keys( %hosts ) ) {print( $host, "\t", $hosts{$host}, "\n" );}
There, fixed it for ya!
Are you sure you are not saturating upstream so downstream gets slower because you can't push packet ACKs fast enough?
This is definitely one of THE major problems with people complaining about throttling. They are killing their own downloads by clogging upload pipes and then they complain "WTF my ISP throttles me!". I'm not saying this is the problem in your case, but a lot of people that do complain are actually "throttling" themselves by filling up upstream queues.
HTTP is bulk traffic.
Humans have enough problems controlling motor functions of what we have. If we have more control joints, I highly suspect it would not work out so well without additional pre-processing. But regardless, perfecting the simplest apparatus is probably the first step. Once this is perfected (give or take a decade), we'll see augmentations that will start to supersede all human capabilities. Baby steps at a time though. Science and knowledge is all baby steps.
Just pick your nose and put the snot on the camera. Problem fixed.
Or where does it say that the virgins are female, for that matter?
#1 - yes it is. It is covered in the copyright act.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#506
AKA - Criminal Infringement
Most copyright infringement on the Internet is falls under Criminal Infringement. The key word in the definition there is "public" under paragraph 506(a)(1)(C). This protects private distribution on the internet amongst friends (and you better be able to prove that all people with access are friends!), but it slaps public distribution.
The clause was added due to relatively cheap or free ability to infringe on other's work. See 10 years ago with Napster. Clearly, the sharing was *not* between friends!
2. I agree. But in this case no crime was not even committed in the first place. MediaDefender is treading on some very thin ice.
Anyway, this is not about the copyright act. It is about a different law altogether.
So, short sell Apple because they will not perform up-to expectations? Or will Jobs pull one of his a** and somehow sell another 9 million units?
The AC is right and the GP is a retarded troll modded "Interesting". Now that's an upside-down world already!