While he can keep the same hand, it’s possible that he’ll have to reprogram some specific settings on his new device, said a spokesman for the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where Eberle is a patient.

I don't see why that would be needed. The iPod should be backed up to something. Even if the setting are not backed up to a computer or icloud, it would seem for that amount of money the firm supplying the app would provide a cloud based service to make the service device independent. What if the iPod no longer had charged and you wanted to use your phone?

It still seems kind of fishy.

Honestly the only complaints my friends had who worked third shift was that bars were not open. Talk about sharia law.

The other complaint was that they were too often scheduled for third shift one day, then second shift the next day. I know that with scheduling software that ignores human needs and only factors in minimizing labor costs this has become more of an issue.

I completely agree that an 24 hour economy can be more efficient than one that is not. OTOH, we are seeing that places like McDonald's are externalizing a lot of costs to the taxpayer to make such a thing happen.

In my case if I put in an all nighter at work or worked extra shifts it was by choice. Most places I worked did not encourage such things because it was unhealthy. But when on it young and energetic, some things are more acceptable.

Someone making death threats is a fucking deranged idiotic imbecile. You have to be a fucking deranged idiotic imbecile to do that. You also have to be a fucking deranged idiotic imbecile to kill someone. So how is someone being threatened, or a police officer trying to help, distinguish between the one fucking deranged idiotic imbecile and the other? You can't.

Every death threat is credible.

Dumbass.
The most terrifying moment in history was Nagasaki, because they already knew what happened in Hiroshima.

You are implying that my stance on AGW is because of politics? Hahahaha! That's a hoot.

And re: Latour, your argument is just asinine. Especially from someone who claims to be a physicist. First, your bathtub analogy is completely irrelevant to the situation at hand. A plate near the heat source is NOT even remotely the same as closing the drain on a bathtub, because the total power out of the system (it's a closed system with heat being removed, remember?) remains constant, as you have so conveniently observed. The plate has no influence whatever on the state of the whole system. You are neglecting the (physically) largest part of it, which is the outside wall.

You are neglecting other things as well. For example, you're conflating electrical power with "emissive power" or irradiance, which are different things, in different units. Sheesh. You'd at least expect a "physicist" to get that much right.

So I gave that much away. And you still didn't deserve it. Further, you are still denying the S-B law, though you continue to deny that you're denying it.

And there is more. I haven't given away anything that you should not have been able to easily figure out yourself. One has to wonder why you didn't.

But here's the kicker: it is abundantly obvious that the things you have done were NOT done for purposes of saving "civilization". Because if they were, you'd have taken them to the doorstep of the people who are actually responsible for dessiminating them to the public, rather than someone in a completely different field on Slashdot. Gotcha. Your intention has merely been to smear me, by whatever cheating means you have managed to come up with. The evidence is all over Slashdot. Look in a mirror, man.

Now I have given you your bone, doggie. GO AWAY.

And if you really are dying, I will leave you with this parting gift:

Despite your obsession, and the extent of your research, I still know things you don't. Why do you think I've felt free to be so glib? I've been watching you make a fool of yourself, ever since you revealed what a despicable human being you are (again, just my opinion of course, but I've had some confirmation).

My advice to go do something more worthwhile was sincere. Because if you don't, after you are gone, I will quite happily reveal those things and your "legacy" won't be quite what you thought it was.

That's not a threat in any way, it's just a description of the truth. I haven't been attacking YOU, it has all been coming FROM you. And this topic on Slashdot is just one more example that anybody can see. I have defended myself where I felt it to be necessary, but NOBODY else on this Earth has made it necessary. Just you. I haven't tracked you down and harassed you. You have done that to me. I haven't made a habit of jumping in to other conversations, just to try to humiliate YOU. But you have done so to me. Etc., etc ad nauseum.

So get stuffed. I am far beyond tired of your incessant BULLSHIT. If you want to contemplate something before you die, I would suggest starting with meditating on why you have been such an incorrigibly rude, insufferable human being who makes a habit out of maliciously harassing others. Was it your own upbringing?

I see. It was I who misunderstood what you were saying.

Example of this "dogma" you claim?

I made a mistake and admitted it. Are you trying to claim that you don't make mistakes? You won't even dare to have your analysis of Spencer's thought experiment be seen by someone who actually has a degree in chemistry or physics, and some familiarity with the issue.

Re-hashing old shit which has been explained to you before. I made a mistake and admitted it. Yes, I argued at first, but I found out I was wrong and explicitly said so. YOU don't think my admission was good enough for your taste. Too damned bad. I still admitted it.

Nope. You are conflating 2 different arguments here, which has been one of the hallmarks of your own arguments. Not my problem.

Hahaha. First, I don't believe you, and second, you'd have to do a lot better than this. And if I were you I'd pick something more worthy to spend my final time on, than personally attacking someone who has done nothing to you but be a victim of your vicious character attacks for years. I have already brought this to the attention of an attorney, who referred me to another because it's not his specialty. Further action is pending.

I experience shame just fine, when I have something genuine to be ashamed about. You haven't shown me any. Do you honestly expect me to feel shame over arguments with YOU? Jesus, you have an amazing ego. Narcissus would be proud.

And digging up 3 mentions of the same story on Twitter, some from 5 years ago, and some 2 years apart? Man, that must have taken some digging. Yes, I did check them out, which took quite a while by the way, so I know. You obviously have a serious (and possibly dangerous) obsession to be poring over someone else's records this way. I repeat: if you really believe we are the same people, then why doesn't the word "stalking" occur to you? Internet stalking is a crime in California. And you can bet that, as I have said before, I am keeping records. You may not like me but at least I am not a social criminal like some people I could name.

But I am curious: why have you collected those 3 mentions of one story, which was obviously intended to be humorous? Of course you left the humor part out, didn't link to that, which was just as obviously intentional on your part, and again one of your consistent habits: taking things out of context, and pasting them together to give a false impression.

I also wonder why you have a habit of linking to archives, or indirect links to other links, rather than the originals. I suspect that it is to prevent others from following the information stream, and seeing what the conversation was really about.

I'm not in the slightest confused. Or ambiguous, for that matter. I think your feigned concern for a "problem" that is purely in your own mind is rather disgusting behavior, and is again intended to do nothing but further smear my character by implication.

Except of course that you still have yet to share with us what this "civilization-paralyzing misinformation" is. It isn't in the links you provided above. And you're still wrong about Spencer and Latour.

No. I don't understand their behaviour. I know why they are acting that way. But that doesn't mean I understand them. I think they are exactly the type of person she complains about rightfully.

The ocean is always warming. Somewhere. And cooling elsewhere. There are known natural cycles. So yes, the ocean may be warming in some areas, but let's go back to context: OP was about deep warming that stores away supposed anthropogenic warming. The author of the article I linked to says it isn't so.

So... nice attempt to move the goalposts, but it didn't work. AGW theory refuted. Again.

It bothers me a lot when I see people shouting "abandon all hope". It's not that bad.

Still, I would like to see Firefox getting more of its revenue from sources other than Google. Maybe the Firefox Phone will go a long way to realizing that.

On the other hand, I found tiles on the new page useful, if only marginally. I would prefer to be able to turn off the ads and still use the tiles. But if I must turn them all off to do away with the ads, I will.

I almost forgot: Chromium is hardly a major player in the browser market.

Firefox is important, and we should support it. But I don't think supporting it via ads is the best way to go.

One doesn't have to see the value in stuff that isn't immediately applicable R&D(and I'm not here to debate the point, do as you will); but if you are OK with the concept of such research this actually seems like a pretty good idea:

The question of how and why ideas, 'culture', religions, new scientific hypotheses, etc. are transmitted and compete with one another is really a very long standing one. A lot of the historical study emphasizes 'elite' culture and theory(mostly because everything else was oral record only, and that doesn't keep well; but written works sometimes survive) or religious(high frequency of literacy, and proselytizing is a technology of considerable interest to contemporary religions); but there is also study of popular culture, folk mythologies, what the middle and lower classes were reading and watching(once that became common), and so on.

Cultural transmission is a very solid social science topic, and internet memes have the dual virtues of both potentially being novel(they might actually follow some traditional propagation pattern, might be something new, either way would be interesting to know) and being amenable to large-scale analysis because the internet is just so conveniently searchable and heavily cached in various places. You don't have to like the entire field; but this research project seems like a perfectly reasonable exercise.

I have a DSL line on twisted copper with 30 MBit/sec. I've seen demonstration installs with 230 Mbit/sec on twisted copper. NSN has demonstrated 825 Mbit/sec on DSL via twisted copper in 2010. So where does your 20 M come from?

Hm. So you were saying, that you don't have the choice of fast food chains, because Domino's only serves pizza, while McDonald's only serves burgers?

You wouldn't even need to be having production issues. As with most vendors, Nvidia has a bunch of options for sale and the nicer ones cost more. Even if you have the capability to stuff boards with the nicer chips just as easily as the cheap ones, a bit of fraud will do wonders for your BoM costs.