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Comment Re:The switch could make things worst (Score 1) 224

Don't worry, anytime Gmail sees Bank of America it sent straight to the spam bin! But seriously, my wife has never and will never conduct a credit card transaction over the phone or internet, yet her cards have been fraudulently used 3 times. She also has another woman who lives near by with the same first and last name and same middle initial, her driver's licience and Social Security numbers are only one digit different, we found that out while trying to clear a miss-applied tax lien on our property, I suspect we paid a few of her medical bills as well. The grocery store decline our check thinking one of her bounced checks was from us as well.

Comment Re: Not a laywer. (Score 1) 224

Furthermore, I don't know of any current standard for e-mail encryption that is widely supported. No idea on how to create a key - let alone how to securely and easily exchange keys with random recipients (like a client who calls me asking me to send them some information by e-mail).

The beauty of Public Key Encryption is the public key tells the encryption software how to encrypt the measage in a way that only the owner of the public key can decrypt. To decrypt you need the private key which you should keep as a private personal secret. You can publish the public key anywhere, and exchange it any way you see fit. Slashdot either does or did at one time, an area where users can publish their public keys.

Sounds to me like your getting PKE, Public Key Encryption, confused with Kerberos an encrypted authetication protocol.

Comment Re:Most americans don't understand (Score 1) 458

Don't be a tool,

... last year "was not even close to be[ing] the warmest on record" according to data compiled by the two top satellite climate data sets: the Remote Sensing System (RSS) satellite data, which measure the lowest few miles of the earth's atmosphere, and data compiled by the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH).
ast year "was third-warmest, but barely," said UAH climate scientists Roy Spencer and John Christy.

The year 2014 "was warm, but not special. The 0.01 degree Celsius difference between 2014 and 2005, or the 0.02 difference with 2013 are not statistically different from zero," Christy said.

Christy said that between 2002 and 2014, temperatures have warmed at a "statistically insignificant" rate of 0.05 degrees Celsius per decade.
RSS and UAH satellite data show there has been no global warming for more than 18 years. This period, which began in October 1996 and lasted for all of 2014, is referred to as "the Great Pause. Satellite Data: 2014 'Not Even Close' to Warmest Year

If you don't like satellite data,

The HadCRUT4 dataset (compiled by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit) shows last year was 0.56C (±0.1C*) above the long-term (1961-1990) average.

Nominally this ranks 2014 as the joint warmest year in the record, tied with 2010, but the uncertainty ranges mean it's not possible to definitively say which of several recent years was the warmest. 26 January 2015 - Provisional full-year global mean temperature figures show 2014 was one of the warmest years in a record dating back to 1850

and as far as the 18 years without warming,

[T]he rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012) [is] 0.05 [–0.05 to +0.15] C per decade)which is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012) [of] 0.12 [0.08 to 0.14] C per decade.
IPCC AR5 weakens the case for AGW

even the IPCC AR5 agrees.

Comment Re:"Support" != actually sacrifice for (Score 2) 458

What's the sacrifice though? Having cars that either get really excellent fuel economy or run on battery power? Forcing electrical utilities to switch to separate billing for grid-tie and power consumption, so that customers that want to put solar panels on their roofs aren't shafted in order to have overnight electrical service from base-load power? Mandating emissions inspections based on original standards at the time of manufacture on all vehicles newer than 30 years, so that gross-polluting vehicles that are not running right are either fixed or taken off the road?
Most of these things don't have all that much cost, and for some of them, they're a cost that the individual should have borne anyway.

All of the measures you've listed are too insignificant to have any real effect on atmospheric CO2 levels, it's just inconsequential feel-good posturing.

Comment Re:Demand (Score 1) 224

Sorry but it just doesn't scale in an economical manner, who's going to sort it out? Our county recycling center went belly-up and they used jail-inmate labor! There just isn't that much waste in agriculture to make biofuels competative, and convertables in residencial wastes is just too sparse.
Biodiesel is great stuff, good fuel, better parts cleaner/degreaser. Nontoxicity, safe but the supply is unreliable because the feedstock is valuable.

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