Simply calling a group "fringe" does not make it so.
Well, of course. I call it fringe science because it is fringe science, not the other way around.
Talk to some atmospheric scientists-- real atmostpheric scientists, people who actually do measurements, and computer models, and physics. Not to the people who say "we don't believe the measurements, and making more measurements won't help, we won't believe them no matter how many there are. We don't believe the computer models, and making better computer models won't help, we don't believe any computer models, no matter how good. We don't believe the physics, either, because we're just skeptical, period."
I was wondering how long it would take the anti-global-warming fringe to latch onto this one and say "Look! This shows scientists don't actually know everything, and therefore it proves that they don't know anything!"
IANAL, but I have worked on a number of projects which had to comply. Based on what is said here, this seems in flagrant violation. Somebody call the cops.
Nope.
"The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and Rule apply to individually identifiable information about a child"
As long as they're only data mining the information on what the kids are interested in, and not saving which child was interested in what, they're apparently not violating the COPPA law.
Which is not to say that what they're doing is right, of course.
... can now have it restored, apparently with annotations intact.
Wait a second-- where are these annotations coming from? When they erased the text of the books from Kindles, they didn't erase the annotations, but apparently archived them somewhere?
Does this imply that Amazon can remotely access (and read?) any private notes anybody makes using their Kindle?
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Perhaps you mean cracker
Cracker is a derogatory slang term for people originating in rural areas of the southern part of the US.
If you want to hire a cracker, just look for the baseball cap and check for a pickup truck with a gun rack-- or a John Deere tractor-- parked outside.
If he'd illustrated his problem by describing when and how Firefox crashes, he'd have a valid argument, but he didn't
Huh. I hadn't realized that Firefox was an application that had a reputation for never ever crashing. Apparently an undeserved reputation; it crashed on me yesterday. If I'd known that you were going to ask for them, I would have saved the crash logs, but you didn't tell me that you wanted them, so I didn't.
and I've never had trouble with this. So, in my opinion, he's whining about a problem that doesn't exist, and yeah, I'd call his post a troll.
OK, what you just said is that Firefox hasn't crashed on you, so therefore it never crashes.
Having NASA handle all launch needs was putting all our eggs in a single basket
NASA does not handle "all" US launch needs. In fact, NASA buys most of its launches from commercial providers. And the defense and commercial sectors-- both of which, I should remind you, has more funding than NASA-- buy all of their launches from commercial providers.
We seem to be talking about different things. I am saying that "green" concepts are in fact high tech, while you are talking about the people who embrace green energy. I have little interest, actually, in your views about environmentalists, since I see no reason to think that you've ever actually talked to one in the current decade, or, at least, no reason to believe that you actually listened to what they might have said.
So let me repeat what I said. Green energy is inherently high technology, despite stereotypes, and family-farms and kerosene lanterns won't cut it in the 21st century.
"Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years", challenges BusinessWeek. The obvious answer is Greentech...
Actually, that's moderately insightful. There's a persistent stereotype that "green" meaning a step backward in technology, but, realistically, it's exactly the opposite-- true green means high technology. Family-farms and kerosene lanterns won't cut it in the 21st century. There's a lot of technology improvements needed-- both in power production, and in improving efficiency, and materials science improvements needed to implement recyclability-- and this represents real market value.
NASA used to have research labs, too-- Ames and Lewis and Langley-- but years of cuts to the research budget and redirection has pretty much eliminated most of the work that doesn't have a near-term engineering payoff for a funded project.
There's just no real constituancy to funding research.
...
The last 5 years have seen a cooling trend none of which was predicted in models
Yes, take a look at the actual data that's being discussed. The "cooling trend" can be seen-- it's the data at the far right of the curve. "Cooling," by the way, doesn't mean that it's actually cooler.
We need to be clear here about the difference between long term trends and short-term fluctuations.
You would be rather surprised and intrigued by what you'll read.
Well, surprised, anyway. Indeed. That Velikovsky was right about crashing planets, AIDS is caused by drug use, cold fusion works, the big bang never happened and cosmology is a fraud, Einstein was also a fraud, modern science doesn't work, evolution is a hoax, and perpetual motion would be possible, except for conspiracies of scientists.
It's fun to compare the U.S. national debt to the personal debt that many people blithely take on; it isn't uncommon for people to have debts amounting to 5 or 6 years of their entire income, whereas the national debt in the U.S. is still less than a single years GDP...
Not quite a fair comparison; to make that comparison valid, the government debt should be compared to the government income, not the GDP.
Since demographic and economic growth rates are exponential functions of the difference between variables that are very close in magnitude, projections like this are insanely sensitive to assumptions. Historically, if you look at projections done using the simple first-derivative methods you suggest, they have been wildly inaccurate.
Memorabilia from 16 years ago is going to be completely banal to a 17 year old. Think about memorabilia from 1992 being "opened" in a time capsule by a 17 year old today. Gosh, a VHS tape of "Unforgiven," and a tape of "November Rain" by Guns 'N Roses. This is not exciting.
Better might be to put in stuff that's 18 years old now. (That is, when she's seventeen, it will be from as long before when she is born as she is old). That might have at least a little bit of nostalgia value in 16 years.
File formats will be gone, of course, but in 16 years lots of people will still have 2009-vintage technology around, so she'll still be able to access it.
Should such anonymity-busting court rulings include a provision for penalties if the plaintiff does not follow through with legal action after outing their target?
The answer to that question is, not no, but hell no.
It would be very destructive to make laws that require people to not drop a suit.
(The tag "what could possibly go wrong?" applies here.)
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Simply calling a group "fringe" does not make it so.
Well, of course. I call it fringe science because it is fringe science, not the other way around.
Talk to some atmospheric scientists-- real atmostpheric scientists, people who actually do measurements, and computer models, and physics. Not to the people who say "we don't believe the measurements, and making more measurements won't help, we won't believe them no matter how many there are. We don't believe the computer models, and making better computer models won't help, we don't believe any computer models, no matter how good. We don't believe the physics, either, because we're just skeptical, period."
I was wondering how long it would take the anti-global-warming fringe to latch onto this one and say "Look! This shows scientists don't actually know everything, and therefore it proves that they don't know anything!"
OK, that fits.
ten and twelve do not end in "teen"
To the contrary, the tens through twelves do end in the teens.
In the US, children have special privacy protections afforded by law. It involves things like "opt-in" and parental consent.
http://www.coppa.org/comply.htm
IANAL, but I have worked on a number of projects which had to comply. Based on what is said here, this seems in flagrant violation. Somebody call the cops.
Nope.
"The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and Rule apply to individually identifiable information about a child"
As long as they're only data mining the information on what the kids are interested in, and not saving which child was interested in what, they're apparently not violating the COPPA law.
Which is not to say that what they're doing is right, of course.
... can now have it restored, apparently with annotations intact.
Wait a second-- where are these annotations coming from? When they erased the text of the books from Kindles, they didn't erase the annotations, but apparently archived them somewhere?
Does this imply that Amazon can remotely access (and read?) any private notes anybody makes using their Kindle?
Perhaps you mean cracker
Cracker is a derogatory slang term for people originating in rural areas of the southern part of the US.
If you want to hire a cracker, just look for the baseball cap and check for a pickup truck with a gun rack-- or a John Deere tractor-- parked outside.
If he'd illustrated his problem by describing when and how Firefox crashes, he'd have a valid argument, but he didn't
Huh. I hadn't realized that Firefox was an application that had a reputation for never ever crashing. Apparently an undeserved reputation; it crashed on me yesterday. If I'd known that you were going to ask for them, I would have saved the crash logs, but you didn't tell me that you wanted them, so I didn't.
and I've never had trouble with this. So, in my opinion, he's whining about a problem that doesn't exist, and yeah, I'd call his post a troll.
OK, what you just said is that Firefox hasn't crashed on you, so therefore it never crashes.
Wow. Can I have your computer?
Make it not crash, and I don't care what it looks like.
While I agree with your main issue here-- pointing out that the company was informed, and chose to do allow the activity to continue--
I can't see how that DMCA defense applies to trademark, ... The DMCA is applicable to "intellectual property" as nearly as I can tell.
Trademark is a form of intellectual property
Having NASA handle all launch needs was putting all our eggs in a single basket
NASA does not handle "all" US launch needs. In fact, NASA buys most of its launches from commercial providers. And the defense and commercial sectors-- both of which, I should remind you, has more funding than NASA-- buy all of their launches from commercial providers.
OK, fair enough.
We seem to be talking about different things. I am saying that "green" concepts are in fact high tech, while you are talking about the people who embrace green energy. I have little interest, actually, in your views about environmentalists, since I see no reason to think that you've ever actually talked to one in the current decade, or, at least, no reason to believe that you actually listened to what they might have said.
So let me repeat what I said. Green energy is inherently high technology, despite stereotypes, and family-farms and kerosene lanterns won't cut it in the 21st century.
Most assessments of microgeneration I've seen show that it's inefficient...
Wind energy scales well to large sizes, which means it's a poor choice at small sizes-- in fact, this link was on slashdot a few months ago.
"Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years", challenges BusinessWeek. The obvious answer is Greentech...
Actually, that's moderately insightful. There's a persistent stereotype that "green" meaning a step backward in technology, but, realistically, it's exactly the opposite-- true green means high technology. Family-farms and kerosene lanterns won't cut it in the 21st century. There's a lot of technology improvements needed-- both in power production, and in improving efficiency, and materials science improvements needed to implement recyclability-- and this represents real market value.
NASA used to have research labs, too-- Ames and Lewis and Langley-- but years of cuts to the research budget and redirection has pretty much eliminated most of the work that doesn't have a near-term engineering payoff for a funded project. There's just no real constituancy to funding research.
Ship your "good" machine in and out of the USA and use a disposable to watch movies in flight.
What should we think that they don't hold and search a laptop just because it's shipped instead of carried on board?
... The last 5 years have seen a cooling trend none of which was predicted in models
Yes, take a look at the actual data that's being discussed. The "cooling trend" can be seen-- it's the data at the far right of the curve. "Cooling," by the way, doesn't mean that it's actually cooler.
We need to be clear here about the difference between long term trends and short-term fluctuations.
I'd suggest reading a bit of:
Kicking the Sacred Cow by James P Hogan.
You would be rather surprised and intrigued by what you'll read.
Well, surprised, anyway. Indeed. That Velikovsky was right about crashing planets, AIDS is caused by drug use, cold fusion works, the big bang never happened and cosmology is a fraud, Einstein was also a fraud, modern science doesn't work, evolution is a hoax, and perpetual motion would be possible, except for conspiracies of scientists.
It's fun to compare the U.S. national debt to the personal debt that many people blithely take on; it isn't uncommon for people to have debts amounting to 5 or 6 years of their entire income, whereas the national debt in the U.S. is still less than a single years GDP ...
Not quite a fair comparison; to make that comparison valid, the government debt should be compared to the government income, not the GDP.
Since demographic and economic growth rates are exponential functions of the difference between variables that are very close in magnitude, projections like this are insanely sensitive to assumptions. Historically, if you look at projections done using the simple first-derivative methods you suggest, they have been wildly inaccurate.
This article has no credibility.
It's not even vaporware.
Memorabilia from 16 years ago is going to be completely banal to a 17 year old. Think about memorabilia from 1992 being "opened" in a time capsule by a 17 year old today. Gosh, a VHS tape of "Unforgiven," and a tape of "November Rain" by Guns 'N Roses. This is not exciting.
Better might be to put in stuff that's 18 years old now. (That is, when she's seventeen, it will be from as long before when she is born as she is old). That might have at least a little bit of nostalgia value in 16 years.
File formats will be gone, of course, but in 16 years lots of people will still have 2009-vintage technology around, so she'll still be able to access it.
Should such anonymity-busting court rulings include a provision for penalties if the plaintiff does not follow through with legal action after outing their target?
The answer to that question is, not no, but hell no.
It would be very destructive to make laws that require people to not drop a suit.
(The tag "what could possibly go wrong?" applies here.)
The correct word is "whet." To whet your appetite is to sharpen it....
But what if there's a trailer is intended to dampen fans' appetites?