"... World Climate Report doctored our paperâ(TM)s main figure when reporting on our study. This manipulated version of our figure was copied widely on other blogs. They deleted the data and legends for the land and ocean estimates of climate sensitivity, and presented only our combined land+ocean curve â¦. Pat Michaels duplicated this doctored version of our figure again in an article at Forbes, and didnâ(TM)t mention at all that it had been altered. (A side note with respect to the Forbes article: Science didnâ(TM)t âoethrow a tantrumâ about posting our manuscript on the web. They never contacted us about that. I took it down myself as a precaution, due to the journalâ(TM)s embargo policy.)
I find this data manipulation problematic. When I created the real version of that figure, it occurred to me that it would be reproduced in articles, presentations, or blog posts. Because I find the difference between our land and ocean estimates to be such an important caveat to our work, I made sure to include all three curves in the figure, so that anyone reproducing it would have to acknowledge these caveats. I didnâ(TM)t anticipate that anyone would simple edit the figure to remove our caveatsâ¦." -------- Full interview at:
"... basing the ruling on just the comma alone (a comma which we doubt the original lawyers really paid attention to at the beginning). However, the story is about to get a lot more interesting. Rogers is appealing, and they claim that they have a second version of the contract written in French that makes it much clearer that the purpose of the original clause is..."
The teaching moment can be taking someone's ambiguous text, that could have been read three or four different ways, each of which would have different consequences if someone signed that agreement -- and breaking out each possible meaning, then asking the writer whether any of those alternatives captures the intended sense.
Good writers will know which one they meant. Those who don't even know, well, it's a new age, man.
Reminds me of a guy laughing about the amount of precision his job required -- he worked under that mountain from which World War III was expected to be fought. Radio interviewer asked him about accuracy of the missiles used.
He said with what they were throwing, hitting anywhere in the time zone would suffice for their purposes.
Problem was our FCC was giving the noisy interfering tech a free pass until the ARRL took them to court and won. Other companies with different approaches were and are acceptable to hams.
> Shuttle external tanks... have to make it to orbit with the Shuttle. > (Otherwise it would run out of fuel!)
Yeah, that's why there are so many of them up there in orbit now, one per successful Shuttle launch. They have to keep sending up more fuel to deorbit the damned things so they don't bump into each other.
Oh, wait, wrong universe. In this one:
"When more than 97 percent of orbital speed is attained, the ET is detached from the Shuttle Orbiter and directed to cross Earth's atmosphere to burn up Skylab-like with remnants falling into a remote section of the Indian Ocean. The ET cannot be returned to Earth for reuse on later launches because it cannot be returned without burning up in Earth's atmosphere, unlike the Boosters which detach themselves early before high speeds are attained. Currently, the ET is just thrown away" (Prado, 1997, p. 1). http://aeromaster.tripod.com/paper1.htm
Ya know the old trick of putting a square of paper on a kite string so it rides up the string to the top? (Also done more elaborately so it drops a parachute toy once it hits a trigger at the top, or carries a candle up at night, and many other variations).
I'd love to see huge "flying wing" kites tethered at 30K feet -- that'd mean tether material strong enough to handle the forces involved (or else when the string breaks it drags across Oregon from Portland to Pocatello tearing up everything in between, before the kite hits the ground somewhere in Wyoming).
Heck, it's a small step toward the space elevator.
Yeah! Besides I've got my hand-carved Bigfoot track-making shoe covers all ready to go. We're gonna _improve_ that site all to hell as soon as we can get to it.
We'll cut out the original bootprint first, though. Watch for it on eBay.
It appears a nearby supernova could affect the climate, by ending it:
Dec 1, 2005... Is there a possibility that a nearby star could go supernova and destroy the earth? Or have other bad effects on us?... imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980521a.html
They said, in part:
If you are talking about the life on Earth, then there is a detailed calculation of the risks due to a nearby supernova on the web:
The author concludes that a supernova has to be within 10 parsecs (30 light years) or so to be dangerous to life on Earth. This is because the atmosphere shields us from most dangerous radiations. Astronauts in orbit may be in danger if a supernova is within 1000 parsecs or so.
No stars currently within 20 parsecs will go supernova within the next few million years....
I'd love it. I've been making little stereo movies for years with Firewire cameras and EvoCam, which lets you put two or more video feeds on one 'canvas' (Mac OS). One short one here; if you can "parallel view" or have a lorgnette type viewer (two cheap magnifying glasses or wedge prisms basically) you can probably get fusion and watch.
Software authors please note, I want the dang software to take care of aiming and matching up the cameras for me; getting the angle and focus right for different distances is a nuisance.
Also, don't let the computer accept the image unless it can see me wiggle my ears the number of times I input as part of the security code...
Under VARA, a work of visual art is defined as âoea painting, drawing, print,... California's resale royalties law was passed to ensure that artists will... a work of âoefine artâ at a profit to give 5% of the resale price to the artist.... www.owe.com/visualartists.htm -
Don't forget, one of the oldest ways to steal is by the fraction of a penny -- "rounding up" and "rounding down" and diverting the fraction to an account where the thief can collect it as it adds up.
This is the same idea behind transaction fees of all kinds -- just collect a tiny amount every time money changes hands (every time, and every transaction).
They are afraid you are stealing their soul with the camera.
Look at what happened with all the primitive tribes after the anthropologists found and photographed them!
The museums are full of photographs.
The tribes have mostly disappeared.
The implications for terrorist use of cameras should be obvious.
Check the pirate trading sites, there's probably a market for photographers to sell these captured souls, particularly of security guards, comparable to that for stolen credit card numbers
I recently heard from someone who manages a mailroom in a large firm that _none_ of her staff knew how to type, so they were really unable to apply to move up to any other job in the organization.
They were locked into the low end job slot.
I got an old laptop, erased Windows from its tiny old hard drive, set it up to boot DOS (FreeDOS, I think) and installed an autoexec file to run an old copy of Typing Tutor III -- which is still probably the best thing going to learn the home row then slowly add keys and build speed and sequences.
You can still find it for sale, look around.
No eye candy, no other programs, no mouse, nothing to fiddle with.
It remembers different people so they all are using it -- and now they're competing with each other to get faster and better.
Typing Tutor was an incredible simple DOS program. Enter your name. It remembers where you left off and what you need next.
And it has a lovely little Letter Invaders game -- falling letters, lower case and upper case, that's tied to your current level of keyboard experience.
Put headphones on the laptop so nobody bothers the student because of the music it plays.
There's _no_garbage_ on this setup. I pulled out the floppy/CD drive modules.
All it does is -- teach people to type.
Show them just the home row ASDF JKL; and tell them where to put their fingers at the start.
That's all you need.
** I know it seems incredible but there are a _lot_ of adults still who never learned to use a keyboard. Poor family. Poor schools with no tech at all. No tools, no teachers.
Help someone out with your old laptops. Set one up so you know it works as needed and then shop it around.
Figure it's a throwaway -- tie it down maybe, but make clear it's a doorstop, tell people they can borrow it, take it home, it's not worth stealing.
This fits the discovery by Brainerd in 2001 that the human (and animal) eye has a receptor for blue light that controls the circadian clock.
The cataract surgeons are debating whether it's safer to put in plastic replacement lenses that block blue (to maybe reduce the risk of eye damage from blue light), or if that's a bad idea. Turns out reducing blue during the daytime makes people sleepier.
There's a lot to this; I wonder if the MIT folks know about the other work in the area of using blue light to stay awake, and low-blue or no-blue light for sleepiness.
Can't quite tell from the bit online if this is the same chemistry or a different reaction.
Quick link to a hugely informative site that collects this sort of info for science reference:
Slashdot Mirror
> a lead shield
Nope, look up "secondary radiation"
It's opt-in if you can opt out.
If it's "you can opt in but you can't opt out" it's not opt-in.
So you say yes once to one opt-in.
How many advertisers get access to you based on that one opt-in?
Can you make them all stop with a single opt-out?
If not, you'll be clicking "opt-out" for a long, long time to stuff that claims it's based on some relationship within which you opted in.
> So, your master plan is to make up
> the profit in volume of sales?
It's HP.
Think inkjet printers.
They're going to be selling you e-ink every couple of weeks, somehow, some way.
Just wait.
Quoting Nathan Urban, author of the paper:
"... World Climate Report doctored our paperâ(TM)s main figure when reporting on our study. This manipulated version of our figure was copied widely on other blogs. They deleted the data and legends for the land and ocean estimates of climate sensitivity, and presented only our combined land+ocean curve â¦. Pat Michaels duplicated this doctored version of our figure again in an article at Forbes, and didnâ(TM)t mention at all that it had been altered. (A side note with respect to the Forbes article: Science didnâ(TM)t âoethrow a tantrumâ about posting our manuscript on the web. They never contacted us about that. I took it down myself as a precaution, due to the journalâ(TM)s embargo policy.)
I find this data manipulation problematic. When I created the real version of that figure, it occurred to me that it would be reproduced in articles, presentations, or blog posts. Because I find the difference between our land and ocean estimates to be such an important caveat to our work, I made sure to include all three curves in the figure, so that anyone reproducing it would have to acknowledge these caveats. I didnâ(TM)t anticipate that anyone would simple edit the figure to remove our caveatsâ¦."
--------
Full interview at:
http://newscience.planet3.org/2011/11/24/interview-with-nathan-urban-on-his-new-paper-climate-sensitivity-estimated-from-temperature-reconstructions-of-the-last-glacial-maximum/
> What do they call ... where the original, ... 3 months
> unfounded claim, appears
> after the internet has declared it dead
> and buried?
Generically --> "rebunking"
I'd call that a feature.
A decent tablet/handheld I can control that doesn't require a tap directly into my bank account and personal information?
Sounds like what Palm OS 5 was promising.
imagine how effective this will be as it begins to coat the insides of the intestines, not to mention the lungs.
> Francis Bacon .... declared that experiments were essential, because they allowed us to 'put nature to the question'
Call that Bacon's Law; but consider what could be called Torquemada's Corollary to Bacon's Law: Torturers will hear exactly what they want to hear.
Studies that don't replicate well probably missed something important.
Bacon in fact makes that point explicitly.
"There are two images used by Bacon to refer to knowledge, torture and light.
The torture refers to the violent twisting of nature's secrets...."
-- http://www.studyworld.com/newsite/reportessay/SocialIssues/Religion%5CFrancis_Bacon_and_the_Society_of_New_Atlantis-32139.htm
Bad drafting can be expensive. Here's a bit of the 'million dollar comma' story from a few years ago:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061026/185156.shtml
"... basing the ruling on just the comma alone (a comma which we doubt the original lawyers really paid attention to at the beginning). However, the story is about to get a lot more interesting. Rogers is appealing, and they claim that they have a second version of the contract written in French that makes it much clearer that the purpose of the original clause is ..."
That appeal in the end succeeded--because the French version of the contract was unambiguous:
http://www.slaw.ca/2007/08/22/rogers-wins-comma-contract-dispute-with-bell-aliant/
The teaching moment can be taking someone's ambiguous text, that could have been read three or four different ways, each of which would have different consequences if someone signed that agreement -- and breaking out each possible meaning, then asking the writer whether any of those alternatives captures the intended sense.
Good writers will know which one they meant. Those who don't even know, well, it's a new age, man.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&cameras=panasonic_dmcfz50%2Cleica_vlux1&show=all
Only $100 difference now.
The verification word for this post is: sensible
Dang AIs are getting smarter every day.
Reminds me of a guy laughing about the amount of precision his job required -- he worked under that mountain from which World War III was expected to be fought. Radio interviewer asked him about accuracy of the missiles used.
He said with what they were throwing, hitting anywhere in the time zone would suffice for their purposes.
Then he laughed and said no, no, only kidding.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ARRL+powerline
Problem was our FCC was giving the noisy interfering tech a free pass until the ARRL took them to court and won.
Other companies with different approaches were and are acceptable to hams.
One boy = one boy
Two boys = 1/2 boy
Three or more boys = no help at all
> Shuttle external tanks ... have to make it to orbit with the Shuttle.
> (Otherwise it would run out of fuel!)
Yeah, that's why there are so many of them up there in orbit now, one per successful Shuttle launch. They have to keep sending up more fuel to deorbit the damned things so they don't bump into each other.
Oh, wait, wrong universe. In this one:
"When more than 97 percent of orbital speed is attained, the ET is detached from the Shuttle Orbiter and directed to cross Earth's atmosphere to burn up Skylab-like with remnants falling into a remote section of the Indian Ocean. The ET cannot be returned to Earth for reuse on later launches because it cannot be returned without burning up in Earth's atmosphere, unlike the Boosters which detach themselves early before high speeds are attained. Currently, the ET is just thrown away" (Prado, 1997, p. 1).
http://aeromaster.tripod.com/paper1.htm
Ya know the old trick of putting a square of paper on a kite string so it rides up the string to the top?
(Also done more elaborately so it drops a parachute toy once it hits a trigger at the top, or carries a candle up at night, and many other variations).
I'd love to see huge "flying wing" kites tethered at 30K feet -- that'd mean tether material strong enough to handle the forces involved (or else when the string breaks it drags across Oregon from Portland to Pocatello tearing up everything in between, before the kite hits the ground somewhere in Wyoming).
Heck, it's a small step toward the space elevator.
Yeah! Besides I've got my hand-carved Bigfoot track-making shoe covers all ready to go.
We're gonna _improve_ that site all to hell as soon as we can get to it.
We'll cut out the original bootprint first, though. Watch for it on eBay.
> Better, or just what people are more used to?
Better. See this good summary; the research has grown quite convincing over the last decade.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40170/title/Darkness,_melatonin_may_stall_breast_and_prostate_cancers_
It appears a nearby supernova could affect the climate, by ending it:
Dec 1, 2005 ... Is there a possibility that a nearby star could go supernova and destroy the earth? Or have other bad effects on us? ...
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980521a.html
They said, in part:
If you are talking about the life on Earth, then there is a detailed calculation of the risks due to a nearby supernova on the web:
http://stupendous.rit.edu/richmond/answers/snrisks.txt
The author concludes that a supernova has to be within 10 parsecs (30 light years) or so to be dangerous to life on Earth. This is because the atmosphere shields us from most dangerous radiations. Astronauts in orbit may be in danger if a supernova is within 1000 parsecs or so.
No stars currently within 20 parsecs will go supernova within the next few million years. ...
I'd love it. I've been making little stereo movies for years with Firewire cameras and EvoCam, which lets you put two or more video feeds on one 'canvas' (Mac OS). One short one here; if you can "parallel view" or have a lorgnette type viewer (two cheap magnifying glasses or wedge prisms basically) you can probably get fusion and watch.
http://www.archive.org/details/HankRobertsStereoMitziyawns
Software authors please note, I want the dang software to take care of aiming and matching up the cameras for me; getting the angle and focus right for different distances is a nuisance.
Also, don't let the computer accept the image unless it can see me wiggle my ears the number of times I input as part of the security code ...
Under VARA, a work of visual art is defined as âoea painting, drawing, print, ... California's resale royalties law was passed to ensure that artists will ... a work of âoefine artâ at a profit to give 5% of the resale price to the artist. ...
www.owe.com/visualartists.htm -
Don't forget, one of the oldest ways to steal is by the fraction of a penny -- "rounding up" and "rounding down" and diverting the fraction to an account where the thief can collect it as it adds up.
This is the same idea behind transaction fees of all kinds -- just collect a tiny amount every time money changes hands (every time, and every transaction).
They are afraid you are stealing their soul with the camera.
Look at what happened with all the primitive tribes after the anthropologists found and photographed them!
The museums are full of photographs.
The tribes have mostly disappeared.
The implications for terrorist use of cameras should be obvious.
Check the pirate trading sites, there's probably a market for photographers to sell these captured souls, particularly of security guards, comparable to that for stolen credit card numbers
I recently heard from someone who manages a mailroom in a large firm that _none_ of her staff knew how to type, so they were really unable to apply to move up to any other job in the organization.
They were locked into the low end job slot.
I got an old laptop, erased Windows from its tiny old hard drive, set it up to boot DOS (FreeDOS, I think) and installed an autoexec file to run an old copy of Typing Tutor III -- which is still probably the best thing going to learn the home row then slowly add keys and build speed and sequences.
You can still find it for sale, look around.
No eye candy, no other programs, no mouse, nothing to fiddle with.
It remembers different people so they all are using it -- and now they're competing with each other to get faster and better.
Typing Tutor was an incredible simple DOS program.
Enter your name. It remembers where you left off and what you need next.
And it has a lovely little Letter Invaders game -- falling letters, lower case and upper case, that's tied to your current level of keyboard experience.
Put headphones on the laptop so nobody bothers the student because of the music it plays.
There's _no_garbage_ on this setup. I pulled out the floppy/CD drive modules.
All it does is -- teach people to type.
Show them just the home row ASDF JKL; and tell them where to put their fingers at the start.
That's all you need.
** I know it seems incredible but there are a _lot_ of adults still who never learned to use a keyboard. Poor family. Poor schools with no tech at all. No tools, no teachers.
Help someone out with your old laptops. Set one up so you know it works as needed and then shop it around.
Figure it's a throwaway -- tie it down maybe, but make clear it's a doorstop, tell people they can borrow it, take it home, it's not worth stealing.
All it can do is teach.
> So in retort I said, âoeDirk, we agreed verbal ...
> communication was okay in these situations. Why
> didnâ(TM)t you return my call
"Well, to return your call, I would have had to use _oral_ communication. Did you want me to do what you _wanted_ or to do what you _tell_ me?"
This fits the discovery by Brainerd in 2001 that the human (and animal) eye has a receptor for blue light that controls the circadian clock.
: www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/gismo/105192.html+%2B IOL+%2B%22blue+light%22+%2Balertness&hl=en&ct=clnk &cd=5&
The cataract surgeons are debating whether it's safer to put in plastic replacement lenses that block blue (to maybe reduce the risk of eye damage from blue light), or if that's a bad idea. Turns out reducing blue during the daytime makes people sleepier.
There's a lot to this; I wonder if the MIT folks know about the other work in the area of using blue light to stay awake, and low-blue or no-blue light for sleepiness.
Can't quite tell from the bit online if this is the same chemistry or a different reaction.
Quick link to a hugely informative site that collects this sort of info for science reference:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:VaVv_OUCa4IJ