WIth iKeelYou, the "Secure Boot Chain" is an ACTUAL chain.

Ouch!

Everyone has been thinking Apple will launch a TV (as if!), but with the release of this guide, my suspicions are confirmed - the next major Apple product is iKeelYou, an enterprise/home defense bot.

The security manual is here to prep us with the understanding that the core of iOS has the strength, security and doggone sticktoitiveness even the most stringent critics would demand from a completely autonomous bot capable of decapitating anyone at any time.

Thanks Apple for helping me and my boss sleep a little more peacefully...

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ABIs were already decided in Connectix v. Sony, I believe, which Google included in a brief in this case.

Assuming this holds, Google will not have to make any changes; the nine lines of RangeCheck have already been replaced long ago, everything else has been found non-infringing.

I know how much IBM is invested in Java as a technology, so no, I wouldn't lose any confidence at all. Indeed, my confidence might well go up.

Which was more flawed, the model saying it will get warmer, or the idiots saying global warming was not happening?

The idiots saying it was warming drastically.

Because with nothing done about what warming we are seeing, there is no harm.

The things that were done. and are being attempted currently, because of lies about how drastically warm it would get, lies about how there's a runaway effect that would bake us all - all efforts derived from those panicky proclamations of doom are stupid and wasting resources that are far better spent on other things.

What historical trend predicted that 11 of the 12 warmest years on record were the last 11 years?

That is irrelevant because the impact form that slight warming is insignificant. If you based temperature estimates for the next tens based on the last 100 you would also not be far off the mark, and far more accurate than any of the doom-sayers have been. NASA claimed the ice-caps would be gone this year, for example...

Basically, what I'm trying to say here, is please STOP FUCKING UP THE EARTH. Because that is what you are doing. REAL pollution is being ignored. Larger issues are at stake than the Earth enjoying a new age of prosperity from slightly elevated temperatures. Your priorities are utterly fucked up, the people you are fighting for the worst kind of scum.

You'll realize that for sure in ten years but if you and others would wake up now it could sure save the world and the environment a lot of grief.

"A rum and Coke? Here ya go... here is your 44oz Coke and thimble of rum. The dump bucket for rum is over there."

-- Terry

I think you are taking the term "margin of error' too literally.

I see what you are saying, but the main point is that from 0.2 to 2.0 is a huge spread as a guess, with dramatically different consequences.

But in the end, even saying the "margin of error" is 90% is still rather awful.

so one mm ? you get that in ONE year.

Yes, and people are panicking over it and claiming it to be some kind of base proof of a 1M rise in 100 years. Even though that's off by an order of magnitude from the observed trend.

Point, hsthompson69.

Lobbyists say it will only rise 15 inches, and it rises 1 meter, what are the consequences then? Billions of dollars in flood damage and destroyed homes and businesses.

Given the rate of rise even in pessimistic scenarios, why on earth would you think that?

Years of the sea rising, even if it ended up being 1M 100 years hence, is far more time than is needed to install dykes and pump systems to protect anything important in low areas. In fact it is BETTER to develop that as much as you can now so that there are enough resources to be worth the cost of a dyke system later.

The Dutch would LAUGH in your face for suggesting you need give up one square inch of land to a sea rising that slowly. In fact they would build new land for a football field offshore and bring you in to laugh at you there.

A storm surge that rises five feet in minutes? THAT is a huge problem (and has to also be planned for). Anything else is easily worked with.

Lastly, simply saying "we'll follow the trend line until there is evidence of deviation otherwise" is NOT HOPE. "Hope" is the people claiming the sea will rise 1M in 100 years, because they have no EVIDENCE to base that prediction on, and all such predictions to date outside the trend line have been utterly wrong. Why is it not more reasonable to follow historical data when all other models are obviously flawed?