The ultimate combination

> I throw people out of the theatre all day long for using
> their cell phones... There are places it should be legal
> and my business or home is one of them.

Try covering the walls of the theatre room with aluminum foil or tin foil. It's not exactly a new idea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
> In 1836, Michael Faraday observed that the excess charge on a charged conductor
> resided only on its exterior and had no influence on anything enclosed within it.
> To demonstrate this fact, he built a room coated with metal foil and allowed
> high-voltage discharges from an electrostatic generator to strike the outside of
> the room. He used an electroscope to show that there was no electric charge
> present on the inside of the room's walls.

I'm a fan of pre-Beatles oldies rock music. Every so often, somebody comes up with a "Greatest Hits Of All Time" list, and it usually seems to go back no further than 10 or 15 years before the list was published. Similar for history. Many such lists are better described as "the most influential people of recent times".The most influential people are founders of major movements religions (Jesus, Mohammed, etc) and political ideologies such (Karl Marx, etc)

And then there are leaders of states/empires, who led their empires to triumph/defeat. Too numerous to mention, going back to Biblical times through today

> Point is, if you don't just grab the cheapest item on the shelf, there is a surprising
> amount of domestically-produced goods in Walmart (excluding clothes).

One thing I've noticed about Walmart is that they seem to be almost the only place here (Toronto, Canada) where you can get neutral-coloured T-shirts that you're not ashamed to wear to work. All other stores have "branding" splattered all over their T-shirts, e.g. Nike "checkmark", Tommy Hilfiger, AeroPostale, etc, etc. I do not want to be a walking billboard for a manufacturer. At least not while I'm paying them for their product.

> Total BS. Phones should last 20 years. The old land line ones last 20+ years.
> The only thing in a modern phone that doesn't have a 20+ year life span is the
> battery and that is not through not trying.

I got a Nokia 6015i "Candy Bar" phone in 2006. http://nokiamuseum.info/nokia-... Back then, it could talk to the network (Virgin Mobile Canada) over 3 protocols; analog, 1XRTT, and I forget what else. Now the display only shows 1XRTT active.

I rarely use it, so I don't need anything fancier. I'll keep it until my carrier no longer supports it. They've already sent me an offer of a "low-cost upgrade to a faster phone", but I ignored it. With all the buzz about 3G, 4G, 5G, etc, etc, and VOLTE, I don't think 1XRTT will be around several years from now, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

> How can the state of California guarantee that without price controls, then.

The same way they guaranteed retail electricity prices in 2000/2001 without guaranteeing wholesale prices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... Oh... wait.

Source data is at http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ The graph shows an average rise of 3.2 mm / year. You can download the data in ASCII format, suitable for plotting at http://sealevel.colorado.edu/f...

Note that this includes a fudge-factor called GIS (Glacial Isostatic Adjustment). They give a long-winded explanation. tl;dr they've added a 10% fudge factor. From http://sealevel.colorado.edu/c...

> We apply a correction for GIA because we want our sea level time series
> to reflect purely oceanographic phenomena. In essence, we would like
> our GMSL time series to be a proxy for ocean water volume changes.
> This is what is needed for comparisons to global climate models, for
> example, and other oceanographic datasets.

So they talk out of one side of their mouths about how much sea level is rising. Out of the other side of their mouth, they admit that their numbers aren't really sea level rise.

Another question... what type of effing idiot approves nuclear reactors located such that a sealevel rise of a few inches, let alone a few feet, would cause problems? Anybody ever heard of tsunamis (like at Fukushima)? They're rarer in the Atlantic, but they do happen.

* Receive email from Snapchat's/whoever's servers
* Plug in a USB connecter
* Read contents of your inbox
* Transfer a copy to your PC
* Decode copy at leisure

Unless Snapchat has a client-side app that totally takes over your smartphone/tablet there is no way to protect against this attack.

> Maybe trolling comment, but doesn't anyway suspect something
> going on here? Facef**k buys them out as their being investigated
> by the FTC. And the Facef**k monopoly manages to buy off [buy off,
> maybe a little strong, but the realty is they own or can buy off Federal
> regulators] the FTC to get Snapchat off the hook.

No need to do that. Fecesbook buys Snapchat, and shuts them down. With the shutdown of Snapchat, the 20-year agreement dies along with the corporate shell. Then Fecesbook offers "a new service" which "just happens" to be very similar to Snapchat, but has a much more wide open EULA that protects them aginst FTC investigation.

This isn't just with global warming

It's discrimination against white people...
No wait, it's "reverse discrimination"...
No wait, it's "affirmative action"...
No wait...

> Problem with IP tracking is that on CGNAT systems, it fails spectacularly.

In that case, I can see a great corporate push coming to move to IPV6.

> I block:
> 127.0.0.1 facebook.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.net
> 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.org
> 127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
> 127.0.0.1 static.ak.facebook.com
> 127.0.0.1 s-static.ak.facebook.com
>
> Suggestions?

I block by IP address ranges

31.13.24.0/21 aka 31.13.24.0 - 31.13.31.255
31.13.64.0/18 aka 31.13.64.0 - 31.13.127.255
66.220.144.0/ aka 66.220.144.0 - 66.220.159.255
69.63.176.0/20 aka 69.63.176.0 - 69.63.191.255
69.171.224.0/19 aka 69.171.224.0 - 69.171.255.255
74.119.76.0/22 aka 74.119.76.0 - 74.119.79.255
103.4.96.0/22 aka 103.4.96.0 - 103.4.99.255
173.252.64.0/18 aka 173.252.64.0 - 173.252.127.255
204.15.20.0/22 aka 204.15.20.0 - 204.15.23.255

You can get the raw info from the command...

whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep ^route ...and you still have to clean up that output a lot.

It's not just a matter of using Linux versus Windows. I get the occasional spam with poisoned executable attachments inside zipfiles. I view zipfile headers, and often see stuff like the following 2 examples...

PK^C^D^T^@^@^@^H^@^Y^?|DT^Z^F^[¾`^G^@^@\236^@^U^@^@^@OrderDetails.pdf.scr

PK^C^D^T^@^@^@^H^@^\WzD~\224®ÂM^\^@^@^@J^@^@;^@^@^@~apbnet00~50~44b76b05-3e01-414a-8469-04f234689df3~Email.exe

".scr" is executable in Windows http://filext.com/file-extensi... so I assume that's a trojan-planting attempt. One possible legal defense is that it's impossible to tell whether you're blocking a trojan sent by police or by foreign criminals.

Like the subject says "Volcano" is missing from the title.

The report deals with a tragedy 11 years ago (Feb 2003), and how it could've been handled 11 years ago. Fast forward to February 2014. Let's use today's tech. We've got SpaceX and other commercial entities capable of launching supplies into orbit and rendezvouing with with ISS or a shuttle.

If any similar missions are undertaken in future, pay SpaceX/whomever, to have a launch vehicle with emergency supplies on standby. In a worst case, send up enough oxygen/water/rations/etc to allow the orbiting shuttle crew to survive longer on the orbiting shuttle. This would buy enough extra time to do a proper and safe inspection+launch of the rescue shuttle. In a best case, they might be able to carry out the necessary repairs and safely land the orbiting shuttle.