I don't pretend to know all the in and out of medicine but I have learned one very important thing: chiropractors make you feel better for a day but a physical therapist will help you fix that which is causing you pain. A physical therapist may have you do a certain exercise every morning or some jazz but it prevents you have having painful issues later that would send you crying to a chiropractor.
Hey, remember those assholes that would said this shit was impossible? Remember how when they landed a rocket that those same assholes said it wouldn't be reusable? Remember after they relaunched it the first time those assholes downplayed the amount of money saved and the significance of it? YOU WERE WRONG, ASSHOLES. SCIENCE WINS.
The bad technology is vital to modern civilization right now.
Actually, it's not vital at all but rather just what we are currently using. It's used for one simple reason: it's cheaper. However, the only reason it's cheaper is because they don't have to pay to clean up their mess. If we begin to tax them the amount that it costs to clean up the mess then we can stop the rise of CO2 because we'll be removing CO2 from the atmosphere using the money they earn to put it in the atmosphere. It's a direct feedback loop, how can you not see how this works?
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, only part of the US government wants this. The part that makes the laws only wants to change this if they are getting an incentive to do so. If it doesn't promote their ability for reelection or directly impact them then congress really isn't interested. That's the harsh reality of the current state of our legislature.
If we've got the power, we can better use it by not burning coal in the first place.
True but people won't do this willingly, so taxing CO2 emitting system is the first step.
If we get a surplus of power not from fossil fuels, we might consider some sort of carbon-liberating mechanism like you suggest, but we're a long ways away from that.
We really aren't. All that is needed is a few well placed feedback loop taxes and we'll be free of the bad technology that caused this problem and on to reversing the damage done.
What is the best way to isolate a network from the internet and prevent intrusion of malware, while allowing carefully examined data transfer from internet-facing computers?
Print it out and type it back into the computer you want to transfer it to.
Windows computers on the isolated network...
If you are using Windows then you are forfeiting a major advantage: absolute control of your system. Windows cannot even be trusted to respect it's own system settings let alone be worthy of being trusted. You should be suspicious of software written by corporations because their motive is profit, not security or even user satisfaction.
Don't you see what's going on here people? Elon is making check knockoffs of people and enslaving the originals and eventually eating their brains! We need to save Chris from the evil clutches of the alien menace that is Elon Musk. WHO'S WITH ME?!;)
Compare the human-generated amount of CO2 being produced to a single volcano eruption.
Massive volcanic eruptions like you describe block out sunlight and cause ice ages. Snow is highly reflective which re-radiates the sunlight while plants absorb the CO2. It's a complex but balanced process. Human-generated has none of these feedback mechanism and simply causes more heat from sunlight to be absorbed. Human-generated CO2 makes the planet increasingly hotter.
Also, last time I checked, plants needed CO2 to survive.
What really needs to happen is that countries need to begin extracting carbon from the atmosphere and not just with trees but rather chemical machinery that actually generates piles of soot. Mandate that they be maintained and expanded year-after-year until atmospheric CO2 begins to decline. It's then a matter of funding which will come from taxes. To make it palatable to the greatest contributors of CO2, the tax will be distributed evenly among taxpayers. Later the evergrowing tax burden can be shifted to industries that are putting out CO2 or make/sell/import things that do. When the tax burden has caused these industries to based on unsustainable CO2 emission to implode, the tax burden will then be reapplied to the taxpayers. However, by the time it gets back to the taxpayers that it will be far less expensive than before and levels should actually be decreasing.
1. Someone (e.g. on the mailing list or on the Hydrogenaudio forum) points out a music sample where Opus performs worse than other codecs or just worse than it usually does. 2. We investigate to find out what's causing the artefacts and (especially) why this particular sample is affected. 3. We come up with a possible fix that improves the quality of that sample, without making other samples worse. 4. We look for other samples with the same characteristics found in 2. If the fix also improves them, then we go to 5, otherwise we go back to 3 (or sometimes to 2). In case of infinite loop, do some throttling (i.e. drop the issue and go back to it later). 5. When we're happy that we have an improvement, we clean it up, make it as general as possible, test it, and merge it.
They improved the codec by listening to user feedback. THAT'S CHEATING! Everyone knows that you need be a corporation that develops something decent and then you ignore all comments that aren't about how great it is and then ban the unhappy riff-raff! Do you think we would have ended up with smartphones so thin that they bend and/or explode corporations had listened to all the people screaming for a higher battery capacity?! Do you think we would have been graced with Thunderbolt ports with the same connectors as USB-C if they gave a damn about what people thought?! Do you think we would have overpriced and under-performing wireless earbuds and no headphone jack if they listened to even a single user?! OF COURSE NOT!
Where do you jackasses get off developing things that people want and like? And if you do, you aren't even going to demand they fork over their life savings for it?! OPEN SOURCE IS RUINING EVERYTHING!;)
If you give money to a sleazy company then don't be surprised when they are sleazy. We've learned how terrible they are and yet people keep giving them money. If you use Uber then you deserve all the sleaze you get from them.
Given the high heat required for the process, no one is going to be home printing machine parts in their basement any time soon.
You say that... but there are people that already smelt steel at home. It's only a matter of time before a DIY DMLS machine is made. Most likely not long after someone figures out how to make laser diodes cheaply.
One of the things that fuels "deniers" is the failure of the climate models to make specific, verifiable predictions that actually occur when predicted.
"The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will be higher than this year year," is a prediction that has been going strong.;)
I find it strange that some people call this alarmism when the truth is that extreme weather conditions were predicted to occur decades ago. It's been going on for a while and we're now getting a taste of its brutal heat. The point is that this brutality is going to spread to much of the planet. In the developed world we have electricity to help cool us and sufficient water to keep our crops alive. However, in the underdeveloped world people will try to survive just like they always have but it won't be enough. Either they will migrate to a cooler climate and/or they will die from the heat. If you don't want mass immigration to devastate your nation, you need to be working on a way to reverse the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Considering how lightly most countries are taking this threat, million of people are going to die and millions more will migrate and it will reshape our societies. You can call it alarmism but it's really happening and it's happening right now.
I don't understand why Apple is resisting the Vulkan API but it's going to cost them many game titles that could otherwise be available for Apple's platforms. Even if Metal 2 is superior on a design level, they are still cutting off their nose to spite their face. Frankly, I don't understand why Apple shareholders stand for it.
Equipment already in space would be extremely difficult to modify. What they really mean is that the design of space proven satellites could easily be modified.
The difference between these things is hundreds of millions of dollars, so this isn't just pedantry.
Sex offenders are perhaps the most reviled people in the US. Any law which causes them difficulty is an easy pass with overwhelming public support.
Actually, politicians are the most reviled people in the US and it's damn near impossible to get any law to limit them in spite of overwhelming public support.:)
This means what ever filter has prevented someone else from already colonizing our galaxy, being something we have already avoided, is a little less likely.
Oh God, does this mean our galaxy is viewed with the Clarendon filter?!
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I don't pretend to know all the in and out of medicine but I have learned one very important thing: chiropractors make you feel better for a day but a physical therapist will help you fix that which is causing you pain. A physical therapist may have you do a certain exercise every morning or some jazz but it prevents you have having painful issues later that would send you crying to a chiropractor.
Never create a weapon that you wouldn't want to fall into the hands of your worst enemy... because it will.
Hey, remember those assholes that would said this shit was impossible? Remember how when they landed a rocket that those same assholes said it wouldn't be reusable? Remember after they relaunched it the first time those assholes downplayed the amount of money saved and the significance of it? YOU WERE WRONG, ASSHOLES. SCIENCE WINS.
How many of you can say you have anything that is your lifes' work, and not just a job?
Sure... but I think serial killers and global-recession-causing-bankers fit that description too. ;)
The bad technology is vital to modern civilization right now.
Actually, it's not vital at all but rather just what we are currently using. It's used for one simple reason: it's cheaper. However, the only reason it's cheaper is because they don't have to pay to clean up their mess. If we begin to tax them the amount that it costs to clean up the mess then we can stop the rise of CO2 because we'll be removing CO2 from the atmosphere using the money they earn to put it in the atmosphere. It's a direct feedback loop, how can you not see how this works?
Better question: Why are such records stored on servers sufficiently accessible that Google can index them in the first place?
Because there are no penalties for shitty security.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, only part of the US government wants this. The part that makes the laws only wants to change this if they are getting an incentive to do so. If it doesn't promote their ability for reelection or directly impact them then congress really isn't interested. That's the harsh reality of the current state of our legislature.
If we've got the power, we can better use it by not burning coal in the first place.
True but people won't do this willingly, so taxing CO2 emitting system is the first step.
If we get a surplus of power not from fossil fuels, we might consider some sort of carbon-liberating mechanism like you suggest, but we're a long ways away from that.
We really aren't. All that is needed is a few well placed feedback loop taxes and we'll be free of the bad technology that caused this problem and on to reversing the damage done.
Can you buy it? AMD arguably made "ok" CPUs (talking within past 2-3 years), and even some mildly interesting ones. But could you buy them anywhere?
Yes you can.
What is the best way to isolate a network from the internet and prevent intrusion of malware, while allowing carefully examined data transfer from internet-facing computers?
Print it out and type it back into the computer you want to transfer it to.
Windows computers on the isolated network...
If you are using Windows then you are forfeiting a major advantage: absolute control of your system. Windows cannot even be trusted to respect it's own system settings let alone be worthy of being trusted. You should be suspicious of software written by corporations because their motive is profit, not security or even user satisfaction.
Why didn't they just employ thousands of people that just work for a few minutes a day? Oh yeah, reality kicked in. -_-
Don't go to soot, compress that down to artificial diamonds
The soot would be pure carbon, so you can process it however you like afterward, dummy.
Don't you see what's going on here people? Elon is making check knockoffs of people and enslaving the originals and eventually eating their brains! We need to save Chris from the evil clutches of the alien menace that is Elon Musk. WHO'S WITH ME?! ;)
Either way, I wonder what his blue-collar supporters think about that ....
At this point, I think they will support him even if he started bulldozing entire towns of his supporters while claiming it was fake news.
Compare the human-generated amount of CO2 being produced to a single volcano eruption.
Massive volcanic eruptions like you describe block out sunlight and cause ice ages. Snow is highly reflective which re-radiates the sunlight while plants absorb the CO2. It's a complex but balanced process. Human-generated has none of these feedback mechanism and simply causes more heat from sunlight to be absorbed. Human-generated CO2 makes the planet increasingly hotter.
Also, last time I checked, plants needed CO2 to survive.
I'm not suggesting we remove every last bit of CO2, just remove the amount that we added.
Do you hate plants?
Plants ate my entire family! On that day I swore to avenge their deaths by eat as many plants as I could! ;)
What really needs to happen is that countries need to begin extracting carbon from the atmosphere and not just with trees but rather chemical machinery that actually generates piles of soot. Mandate that they be maintained and expanded year-after-year until atmospheric CO2 begins to decline. It's then a matter of funding which will come from taxes. To make it palatable to the greatest contributors of CO2, the tax will be distributed evenly among taxpayers. Later the evergrowing tax burden can be shifted to industries that are putting out CO2 or make/sell/import things that do. When the tax burden has caused these industries to based on unsustainable CO2 emission to implode, the tax burden will then be reapplied to the taxpayers. However, by the time it gets back to the taxpayers that it will be far less expensive than before and levels should actually be decreasing.
1. Someone (e.g. on the mailing list or on the Hydrogenaudio forum) points out a music sample where Opus performs worse than other codecs or just worse than it usually does.
2. We investigate to find out what's causing the artefacts and (especially) why this particular sample is affected.
3. We come up with a possible fix that improves the quality of that sample, without making other samples worse.
4. We look for other samples with the same characteristics found in 2. If the fix also improves them, then we go to 5, otherwise we go back to 3 (or sometimes to 2). In case of infinite loop, do some throttling (i.e. drop the issue and go back to it later).
5. When we're happy that we have an improvement, we clean it up, make it as general as possible, test it, and merge it.
They improved the codec by listening to user feedback. THAT'S CHEATING! Everyone knows that you need be a corporation that develops something decent and then you ignore all comments that aren't about how great it is and then ban the unhappy riff-raff! Do you think we would have ended up with smartphones so thin that they bend and/or explode corporations had listened to all the people screaming for a higher battery capacity?! Do you think we would have been graced with Thunderbolt ports with the same connectors as USB-C if they gave a damn about what people thought?! Do you think we would have overpriced and under-performing wireless earbuds and no headphone jack if they listened to even a single user?! OF COURSE NOT!
Where do you jackasses get off developing things that people want and like? And if you do, you aren't even going to demand they fork over their life savings for it?! OPEN SOURCE IS RUINING EVERYTHING! ;)
If you give money to a sleazy company then don't be surprised when they are sleazy. We've learned how terrible they are and yet people keep giving them money. If you use Uber then you deserve all the sleaze you get from them.
Given the high heat required for the process, no one is going to be home printing machine parts in their basement any time soon.
You say that... but there are people that already smelt steel at home. It's only a matter of time before a DIY DMLS machine is made. Most likely not long after someone figures out how to make laser diodes cheaply.
One of the things that fuels "deniers" is the failure of the climate models to make specific, verifiable predictions that actually occur when predicted.
"The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will be higher than this year year," is a prediction that has been going strong. ;)
I find it strange that some people call this alarmism when the truth is that extreme weather conditions were predicted to occur decades ago. It's been going on for a while and we're now getting a taste of its brutal heat. The point is that this brutality is going to spread to much of the planet. In the developed world we have electricity to help cool us and sufficient water to keep our crops alive. However, in the underdeveloped world people will try to survive just like they always have but it won't be enough. Either they will migrate to a cooler climate and/or they will die from the heat. If you don't want mass immigration to devastate your nation, you need to be working on a way to reverse the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Considering how lightly most countries are taking this threat, million of people are going to die and millions more will migrate and it will reshape our societies. You can call it alarmism but it's really happening and it's happening right now.
I don't understand why Apple is resisting the Vulkan API but it's going to cost them many game titles that could otherwise be available for Apple's platforms. Even if Metal 2 is superior on a design level, they are still cutting off their nose to spite their face. Frankly, I don't understand why Apple shareholders stand for it.
Equipment already in space would be extremely difficult to modify. What they really mean is that the design of space proven satellites could easily be modified.
The difference between these things is hundreds of millions of dollars, so this isn't just pedantry.
Sex offenders are perhaps the most reviled people in the US. Any law which causes them difficulty is an easy pass with overwhelming public support.
Actually, politicians are the most reviled people in the US and it's damn near impossible to get any law to limit them in spite of overwhelming public support. :)
This means what ever filter has prevented someone else from already colonizing our galaxy, being something we have already avoided, is a little less likely.
Oh God, does this mean our galaxy is viewed with the Clarendon filter?!