The same increase in sea water temperature could be countered by a similar increase in air temperature. If both the sea temperature and the air temperature increase by the same amount, then the efficiency of the hurricane would actually lower, causing it to reduce in power. (This is because hurricanes act like a perfect heat engine, whose efficiency is well understood)
Of course I'm just pulling that scenario out of my ass, but the bottom line is that things like hurricanes are complicated and things like weather are extremely hard to model,
You're assuming that the hurricanes are caused by the greenhouse effect. That's quite a leap of faith, in my opinion. We have recently had quite a few hurricanes, but there have been periods in the past where they have been just as bad. If I recall correctly, the year with the record for hurricanes before 2005 happened before weather sats existed, so there were almost certainly storms that were not counted on that year.
And more on topic, I think the big deal would be the ability to stop hurricanes by stopping the electric circulation within them. I can think of hundreds of people who used to be alive in new orleans that would have been alive today with that technology.
Now recall that there are laws on the books in the US which allow various Federal agencies to access/modify data on the ICANN servers and forbid them from notifying anyone about it.
As far as I can tell, the whole point of the ICANN servers is that everyone can access them, and I am not aware of any information on them which wouldn't already be known to the US government. And I would be extremely suprised if there was a law allowing the government to modify the DNS entries. The only possibility I can think of is some sort of wiretap where you route any traffic to a specific domain to another server first, but that would be both obvious to anyone who looked, and less effective than other means.
And what happens when a country outside of the us doesn't allow you to use any DNS server but their own?
I think the important thing to note is that they did not try to make the ICANN remove their DNS entries. Instead, they used other avenues to try to shut them down. Since these other avenues would not be available to the FBI if they were trying to shut down some server in Russia, they'd have to request it through diplomatic channels and let the Russians decide on their own. Never have they simply said "take the Russian server off the DNS listings." The second they start doing things like that, the trust that the agreement of the internet is based on will begin to crumble. I am much more worried about the UN doing that than the US, because the US hasn't ever done it, even though they supposedly could.
China is in the UN, which is the body demanding control of the DNS. Each part of it has their own reasons. China and Iran want it so they can stop their own citizens from reading some things. The EU wants it mainly because they want the US to not have it.
Except given the UN's history, I wouldn't be suprised if things like "remove all domains with racism in them" went through as part of some larger deal between several countries. Everyone is agreed that up until now, the united states has kept their hands off the ICANN and DNS servers. Do you expect something like the UN to mess with the servers more, or less?
While I don't agree with your "let them go try it and get burned" approach, I agree that it is a bad idea to have a country without a strong right to free speech to have control over root DNS servers. The United States has a stronger free speech than most of Europe (in that we allow racism and nazi speech) and certainly stronger than countries like Iran and China. Honestly I think that the right way to do it is to make the ICANN answerable to no one (not sure how you do that), or maybe Sweeden because I like those guys. The whole internet is based on voluntary agreement as everyone on slashdot already knows. If the ICANN is just some corporation on its own, and not responsible to the US government, why couldn't we just all agree to use its DNS servers, like we already do?
Insightful my ass. You make it sound like they can't make laws which restrict some people from doing certain things. Can a child molester live near a school? Can a blind person drive a car? Can a blogger who is not a member of the press and has never been to a school for journalism call himself a journalist?
Actually the picture's title says that it is an EEG. I don't understand why they use so much surgical tubing, but the same sort of thing is used all over the world to examine brain activity.
When you see games like World of Warcraft reaching 4 million subscribers recently, I doubt you can really say the gaming industry is dying. Assuming 1/2 payed for the boxed game, that's 100 million up front, and at 13$ a month, another 520 million a year. That is almost as much money as Episode III got. There is simply no way Blizzard is spending half a billion dollars a year on the game, or even half that. I'd say that some companies are doing quite well.
Yes we all bemoan the closing of some great software makers. Yes, may of the conglomorates churn out trash. However, there is a market for solid games that is expanding instead of contracting. Companies just need to be both innovative and aware of the current business environments. The days of programmer gurus acting as CEO are over. This indicates a maturing of the industry, not some loss. Marketers have their place. So long as the new heads of the gaming companies still listen to their programmers, and leave the creative development to the creative people, they will succeed. Companies like EA are destined to failure.
And based on my extensive personal experience, anyone who expects a couple decades worth of knowledge that WE ALREADY HAVE in other formats (ground based stations, etc) to prove or disprove something as complicated as global climate change (and very sudden, non-linear global climate change, to boot) is going to be disappointed.
If you are interested in a history going back to at least the 50's, with extremely good resolution, just ask the NOAA for it and they will be happy to furnish you with more information than you will know what to do with.
I know the parent or grandparent are probably trolls, but this deserves a useful response.
There's a large gaming market of people like me - people who want to game ~5-10 hrs/week, which isn't enough time to become expert at a game, and who want to have fun without treating a game like a job. I have a job - that's what I'm escaping with the game. I also don't want to subscribe to a damned game.
World of warcraft has a system that rewards people who don't play for awhile, increasing the amount of benefit from experience. It is targetted specifically at the 5-10 hour players, like you. Sure you won't be the top top, but you won't be hurting either.
Except that gas pipeline information is easily obtainable. Just check the EBB's that FERC requires all interstate companies to use.
And you might also notice the swath of cleared land and meter stations along it, along with compressors and taps. Who gives a crap about a piddling residential line when you could easily find one of the main pipelines that services the northeast? These things carry billions of cubic feet of gas EVERY DAY.
Why stop at dual core?
Once a way to link multiple cores of a CPU is firmly implemented scaling the chip to 4, 8, or even 32768 cores should be relatively easy.
How about because the benefit from adding a 2nd core is not a 2x speed increase. You get diminishing returns as you rapidly run out of scalable instructions. Besides the architectural nightmare of a multiple core setup, there is the economic factor. Will you pay 4, 8, or 32768 times as much for a 10%, 13%, or 15% speed increase over a dual core? The problem isn't the hardware, the problem is that software is often inherently singlethreaded and cannot be changed from that.
the guards took your wallet, clothes, and glasses before they threw you out into the parking lot.
And then you'd be causing a disruption outside the mall, especially if you look like an average slashdot user. Then the police would come (along with some hasmat specialists) and take you away for study. But I think they would give you your clothes back, or at least put you into an E.T. like containment area.
Wow that comment went on for longer than I first thought it would.
Except we are entitled to all of the NSA and CIA's and postal service and FDA and TSA and DoJ secrets. Sometimes they can be witheld for reasons of national security, but eventually they are supposed to be released to the public.
And while the pentagon does think that global warming is a threat to national security, I doubt we can deal with it by keeping facts about it secret.
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The same increase in sea water temperature could be countered by a similar increase in air temperature. If both the sea temperature and the air temperature increase by the same amount, then the efficiency of the hurricane would actually lower, causing it to reduce in power. (This is because hurricanes act like a perfect heat engine, whose efficiency is well understood)
Of course I'm just pulling that scenario out of my ass, but the bottom line is that things like hurricanes are complicated and things like weather are extremely hard to model,
You're assuming that the hurricanes are caused by the greenhouse effect. That's quite a leap of faith, in my opinion. We have recently had quite a few hurricanes, but there have been periods in the past where they have been just as bad. If I recall correctly, the year with the record for hurricanes before 2005 happened before weather sats existed, so there were almost certainly storms that were not counted on that year.
And more on topic, I think the big deal would be the ability to stop hurricanes by stopping the electric circulation within them. I can think of hundreds of people who used to be alive in new orleans that would have been alive today with that technology.
Now recall that there are laws on the books in the US which allow various Federal agencies to access/modify data on the ICANN servers and forbid them from notifying anyone about it.
As far as I can tell, the whole point of the ICANN servers is that everyone can access them, and I am not aware of any information on them which wouldn't already be known to the US government. And I would be extremely suprised if there was a law allowing the government to modify the DNS entries. The only possibility I can think of is some sort of wiretap where you route any traffic to a specific domain to another server first, but that would be both obvious to anyone who looked, and less effective than other means.
And what happens when a country outside of the us doesn't allow you to use any DNS server but their own?
Speech for commercial purposes or that represents an immediate threat to people's lives (shouting fire in a movie theater) are not protected.
I find it confusing that not allowing someone to say nazi hate speech is considered a right. Rights don't limit people.
I think the important thing to note is that they did not try to make the ICANN remove their DNS entries. Instead, they used other avenues to try to shut them down. Since these other avenues would not be available to the FBI if they were trying to shut down some server in Russia, they'd have to request it through diplomatic channels and let the Russians decide on their own. Never have they simply said "take the Russian server off the DNS listings." The second they start doing things like that, the trust that the agreement of the internet is based on will begin to crumble. I am much more worried about the UN doing that than the US, because the US hasn't ever done it, even though they supposedly could.
China is in the UN, which is the body demanding control of the DNS. Each part of it has their own reasons. China and Iran want it so they can stop their own citizens from reading some things. The EU wants it mainly because they want the US to not have it.
Except given the UN's history, I wouldn't be suprised if things like "remove all domains with racism in them" went through as part of some larger deal between several countries. Everyone is agreed that up until now, the united states has kept their hands off the ICANN and DNS servers. Do you expect something like the UN to mess with the servers more, or less?
While I don't agree with your "let them go try it and get burned" approach, I agree that it is a bad idea to have a country without a strong right to free speech to have control over root DNS servers. The United States has a stronger free speech than most of Europe (in that we allow racism and nazi speech) and certainly stronger than countries like Iran and China. Honestly I think that the right way to do it is to make the ICANN answerable to no one (not sure how you do that), or maybe Sweeden because I like those guys. The whole internet is based on voluntary agreement as everyone on slashdot already knows. If the ICANN is just some corporation on its own, and not responsible to the US government, why couldn't we just all agree to use its DNS servers, like we already do?
Insightful my ass. You make it sound like they can't make laws which restrict some people from doing certain things. Can a child molester live near a school? Can a blind person drive a car? Can a blogger who is not a member of the press and has never been to a school for journalism call himself a journalist?
Actually the picture's title says that it is an EEG. I don't understand why they use so much surgical tubing, but the same sort of thing is used all over the world to examine brain activity.
When you see games like World of Warcraft reaching 4 million subscribers recently, I doubt you can really say the gaming industry is dying. Assuming 1/2 payed for the boxed game, that's 100 million up front, and at 13$ a month, another 520 million a year. That is almost as much money as Episode III got. There is simply no way Blizzard is spending half a billion dollars a year on the game, or even half that. I'd say that some companies are doing quite well.
Yes we all bemoan the closing of some great software makers. Yes, may of the conglomorates churn out trash. However, there is a market for solid games that is expanding instead of contracting. Companies just need to be both innovative and aware of the current business environments. The days of programmer gurus acting as CEO are over. This indicates a maturing of the industry, not some loss. Marketers have their place. So long as the new heads of the gaming companies still listen to their programmers, and leave the creative development to the creative people, they will succeed. Companies like EA are destined to failure.
Just for the record, that should be 4 elephants that ride on the back of a turtle, heathen!
And based on my extensive personal experience, anyone who expects a couple decades worth of knowledge that WE ALREADY HAVE in other formats (ground based stations, etc) to prove or disprove something as complicated as global climate change (and very sudden, non-linear global climate change, to boot) is going to be disappointed.
If you are interested in a history going back to at least the 50's, with extremely good resolution, just ask the NOAA for it and they will be happy to furnish you with more information than you will know what to do with.
I know the parent or grandparent are probably trolls, but this deserves a useful response.
There's a large gaming market of people like me - people who want to game ~5-10 hrs/week, which isn't enough time to become expert at a game, and who want to have fun without treating a game like a job. I have a job - that's what I'm escaping with the game. I also don't want to subscribe to a damned game.
World of warcraft has a system that rewards people who don't play for awhile, increasing the amount of benefit from experience. It is targetted specifically at the 5-10 hour players, like you. Sure you won't be the top top, but you won't be hurting either.
Except that gas pipeline information is easily obtainable. Just check the EBB's that FERC requires all interstate companies to use.
And you might also notice the swath of cleared land and meter stations along it, along with compressors and taps. Who gives a crap about a piddling residential line when you could easily find one of the main pipelines that services the northeast? These things carry billions of cubic feet of gas EVERY DAY.
Ditto for userfriendly! The strips seem to be a regular formula:
1: Hi
2: Some guy gets hurt
3: Haha the guy got hurt.
You better hope no one installs any trojans through your back door...
Why stop at dual core?
Once a way to link multiple cores of a CPU is firmly implemented scaling the chip to 4, 8, or even 32768 cores should be relatively easy.
How about because the benefit from adding a 2nd core is not a 2x speed increase. You get diminishing returns as you rapidly run out of scalable instructions. Besides the architectural nightmare of a multiple core setup, there is the economic factor. Will you pay 4, 8, or 32768 times as much for a 10%, 13%, or 15% speed increase over a dual core? The problem isn't the hardware, the problem is that software is often inherently singlethreaded and cannot be changed from that.
the guards took your wallet, clothes, and glasses before they threw you out into the parking lot.
And then you'd be causing a disruption outside the mall, especially if you look like an average slashdot user. Then the police would come (along with some hasmat specialists) and take you away for study. But I think they would give you your clothes back, or at least put you into an E.T. like containment area.
Wow that comment went on for longer than I first thought it would.
I suspect the two activities may be related.
LoL yuo aer a boring guy i cant undarstand y u woodnt want 2 hav sum fun wit wording things different!!!!11111one!one!!111
Except we are entitled to all of the NSA and CIA's and postal service and FDA and TSA and DoJ secrets. Sometimes they can be witheld for reasons of national security, but eventually they are supposed to be released to the public. And while the pentagon does think that global warming is a threat to national security, I doubt we can deal with it by keeping facts about it secret.
He was asking for something intelligent to listen to! :-\
One literal meltdown -- a fire at a datacenter in an undisclosed location -- brought out six fire trucks but didn't crash the system.
/.ing could do this.
Gee.. I wish our
It is my belief that data center fires are caused by slashdot every day!