And based on your completely ignorant and idiotic posts, I assume you have nothing at all to refute any of this, other than your firmly held idiocy and conviction that they must be wrong?
Why don't you go visit the creation museum or something, you might find other people who care about what you say.
If they don't get the results they're looking for they'll "adjust" the data or "calibrate" the instruments until they show what they want NASA to show.
Cite your facts and your science, because otherwise we conclude you're doing nothing more than making an ad hominem attack on science.
Oh, wait, you don't have any facts, right?
Sorry, but if you want to be given any credibility, you need to show some science which refutes it.
Otherwise, it's the same as if I said "Pino Grigio will reject any science which doesn't fit in with his childish worldview, and nothing he says can be taken as more then the rantings of a deluded idiot".
If I had to choose between the integrity of the NASA scientists and the intelligence of your post, I'm going to have to go with NASA on this one.
I don't really understand why you have so much love for the 360, but so much hate for the X1
My XBox 360 hasn't been plugged into a network in several years, and the XBone isn't backwards compatible with my existing library of games.
Microsoft has sent so many mixed messages about this platform that I don't know what to believe about it any more.
I don't care about DLC, I don't care about on-line gaming, I don't care about multi-player, I don't care about pretty much anything they said was a "feature" of this new console. It brings zero value for me.
If CO2 were a leading cause of warming, why would the temperatures not be spiking along with CO2 levels?
You seem to be assuming it's linear and immediate, as opposed to being a complex system with built in lag and other factors -- which would boil down to "if I release X amount of CO2, tomorrow the temperature will go up by Y".
It doesn't work that way, and is much more complex.
Much like if you turn up your thermostat, your house isn't instantly warmer, because, thermodynamics.
when they dont get the results that they want the sat suddenly loses communications.....
More likely scenario
There is a group interested in not seeing the truth here, and it isn't the climate scientists.
And terrorists would want either something REALLY hot for a dirty bomb
Is that true?
Say your goal was purely to scare the crap out of people and cause panic -- the low hanging fruit of terrorism. You don't actually need to do anything with lasting effects. If you suddenly make a high visibility target read with a trivial amount of radioactivity, you'll pretty much accomplish your goals, wouldn't you? One can only assume this kind of this is actively monitored.
By the time people figure out it's not life threatening, you've already achieved your goal. Do it a few more times, and people will be so scared that when the microwave goes bing they'll run screaming.
Sure, you can cause more actual damage with something else, but the psychological damage is going to be vast and widespread.
Do you really think this wouldn't mobilize a lot of people and generally wreak havoc? I'm picturing FEMA and a whole ton of agencies going nuts over this.
Like most people, I know pretty much nothing about dirty bombs. But even if you couldn't do any real damage, you can still create a hell of a response.
Now, of course, it's entirely possible these 'lesser' things can't actually do that. As I said, I know nothing about it. But, it seems like you could cause a lot of panic, and that seems like it's as valuable as doing the real thing.
Stupid is not a finite quantity in the universe, and it's not a zero sum game.
You can have an infinite amount of stupid.
Now, one might argue that telling the spammers how they've fallen for this and what to avoid
it's about making sure people can't just copy downloaded games onto a USB drive and make multiple copies and pirate games that trivially whilst making sure they can use USB storage for games
Right, so it's not a technology issue, and never was.
I'm so tired of technology being crippled in the name of copyright and DRM it's not funny -- the copyright lobby has more or less decided we can't do anything without their permission.
worse, the 360 even had it's own bespoke memory cards originally
I'm aware of that, and again, I've always assumed it was because of corporate greed.
At the end of the day, the Xbone is a very anti-consumer piece of technology, and I simply will not buy one.
I will buy a spare for my beloved 360 before that ever happens.
Microsoft can shove their DRM, copyright protection, and POS system up their collective asses.
Will they care even a little that I'm doing this? Absolutely not. Do I expect others likely are making the same choice? Definitely.
Yeah, no kidding.
I worked on a government contract once. Getting anything done required extensive amounts of fighting the process, and sometimes fighting the people -- they had their process, there was nothing in the world which could streamline it, and everybody was so incredibly territorial about their own stuff it was absurd. To the point that an Oracle DBA went in and removed permissions from an Oracle product -- the Oracle product explicitly said "need these permissions", the departmental policies said "no you can't" -- and then we spent 3 days understanding why something broke until the DBA said "oh, I removed those".
And then as the pilot project was coming on line (and it was purely a pilot project), the government employees started demanding the training course, the manuals, the support callflow, and a dozen other things which didn't exist yet.
It was maddening, the Director (or whatever he was called) would say "this must be done today", and we'd start doing our part
There were some smart people, but everybody had been so beaten down by the bureaucracy that it was impossible to get anything done.
I sure as heck wouldn't want to be doing tech in the government, because getting anything done was nigh on impossible, and there were usually 3-4 layers of CYA going on as everyone tried to ensure that if anything ever went wrong they could say "well, I followed all appropriate processes".
The tie, I could live with since I don't find them to be that bad. I actually like the tie.
The processes and pointless procedures
for streaming media both from attached USB devices, such as flash drives
Are you telling me that Microsoft shipped the XBone without the ability to read USB drives?
That they're announcing support for 10+ year old media and we're supposed to be impressed? Something you can buy next to bubble gum in the express checkout at the Wal Mart? Wow, that's some innovating there.
The XBox 360 had memory cards, and it's not like Microsoft doesn't have access to the technology to do this trivially. As in so blindingly trivial they'd have had to take steps to not support it.
I view this announcement with the same incredulity as if Ford had just announced they were adding a horn to this year's car -- because I find it unbelievable that they didn't build this in right away.
Yeah, I'm sure glad I've got my XBox 360, the XBone continues to look like a turd. I'm really gonna have to buy a spare 360, my wife likes some of the Kinect games, and every single time Microsoft tells me about this thing, I want it less than before.
Way to go Microsoft, you implemented accessing an FAT file system over USB.
Except for the USB part, using Microsoft's own documentation I wrote code to directly read from a FAT filesystem 20 years ago.
Un-frickin-believable. What idiots were in charge of this product again?
Why does somebody always have to trot this out?
Because every time IPV6 comes up, people say "you won't need a firewall", which I've always assumed to be crap, and which is why I put "supposedly".
Because my reaction is always "no way I'm running without a firewall".
I still think the "no NAT" thing is stupid. I don't want devices with a globally unique ID, because the marketing assholes any everybody else don't need to know "this is Bob's fridge".
This ain't about fridges and petty crap
It's not specifically about fridges, but it points to the widespread terrible security practices, and how a single vendor who makes the underlying stuff can basically destroy security for all of it.
As you add more and more stuff with the same vulnerabilities, the scope of the problem just gets magnified.
So, your internet connected CCTV, your smart TV, your notional smart fridge, and from the sounds of it possibly even your router
As long as these companies have a culture of lax security and other terrible practices like this, this problem isn't going to go away.
Once you have IPV6, with no (supposed) need for firewalls, everything connected to the interweb, and widespread terrible security
People will try to have anything, and when the device manufacturers are this slack about security, it will get hacked simply because it's there.
I've always thought the internet connected fridge was a stupid idea, for these exact reasons.
With the laundry list of terrible security in the summary, you pretty much have to assume most things are fairly vulnerable.
What of the folks that purchased these chips for these specific instructions?
Same as happens to all early adopters -- the feature may or may not work, and even if it does, there's no guarantee it will be supported (or the same) in the next version.
This is a pretty big 'errata', which is an awesome marketing speak for "really bad QA".
Engineers Release Really Awful Tech. Awesome!
Chips don't add?
Transactions don't sync?
Don't be sad,
don't be a dink.
Burma Shave!!
What hath Bob wrought?
