Also gives some urgency to actually looking hard at the permafrost before it melts.
No telling what else is frozen in there that we might find handy or decorative to revive (besides mammoths, of course).

So what can targeted ads do that good search indexing and online catalogs and reviews can't do?
They're for pushing stuff to people -- so they'll see stuff that they didn't decide to go look for or a search engine didn't show them from its own search results.
How much value is there -- and who gets that value -- from doing targeted ads -- more than the value of providing on request good opt-in advertising?
Tell us what it's worth?

> a lead shield
Nope, look up "secondary radiation"

It's opt-in if you can opt out.

If it's "you can opt in but you can't opt out" it's not opt-in.

So you say yes once to one opt-in.
How many advertisers get access to you based on that one opt-in?
Can you make them all stop with a single opt-out?

If not, you'll be clicking "opt-out" for a long, long time to stuff that claims it's based on some relationship within which you opted in.

> So, your master plan is to make up
> the profit in volume of sales?

It's HP.

Think inkjet printers.

They're going to be selling you e-ink every couple of weeks, somehow, some way.

Just wait.

Quoting Nathan Urban, author of the paper:

"... World Climate Report doctored our paperâ(TM)s main figure when reporting on our study. This manipulated version of our figure was copied widely on other blogs. They deleted the data and legends for the land and ocean estimates of climate sensitivity, and presented only our combined land+ocean curve â¦. Pat Michaels duplicated this doctored version of our figure again in an article at Forbes, and didnâ(TM)t mention at all that it had been altered. (A side note with respect to the Forbes article: Science didnâ(TM)t âoethrow a tantrumâ about posting our manuscript on the web. They never contacted us about that. I took it down myself as a precaution, due to the journalâ(TM)s embargo policy.)

I find this data manipulation problematic. When I created the real version of that figure, it occurred to me that it would be reproduced in articles, presentations, or blog posts. Because I find the difference between our land and ocean estimates to be such an important caveat to our work, I made sure to include all three curves in the figure, so that anyone reproducing it would have to acknowledge these caveats. I didnâ(TM)t anticipate that anyone would simple edit the figure to remove our caveatsâ¦."
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Full interview at:

http://newscience.planet3.org/2011/11/24/interview-with-nathan-urban-on-his-new-paper-climate-sensitivity-estimated-from-temperature-reconstructions-of-the-last-glacial-maximum/

> What do they call ... where the original,
> unfounded claim, appears ... 3 months
> after the internet has declared it dead
> and buried?

Generically --> "rebunking"

I'd call that a feature.

A decent tablet/handheld I can control that doesn't require a tap directly into my bank account and personal information?

Sounds like what Palm OS 5 was promising.

imagine how effective this will be as it begins to coat the insides of the intestines, not to mention the lungs.

> Francis Bacon .... declared that experiments were essential, because they allowed us to 'put nature to the question'

Call that Bacon's Law; but consider what could be called Torquemada's Corollary to Bacon's Law: Torturers will hear exactly what they want to hear.

Studies that don't replicate well probably missed something important.

Bacon in fact makes that point explicitly.

"There are two images used by Bacon to refer to knowledge, torture and light.
The torture refers to the violent twisting of nature's secrets...."

-- http://www.studyworld.com/newsite/reportessay/SocialIssues/Religion%5CFrancis_Bacon_and_the_Society_of_New_Atlantis-32139.htm