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+ - SOPA sneaking back, contact Judiciary Committee->

Submitted by bricko
bricko writes "SOPA may be returning in a much sneakier, worse fashion.

Basically, entities that entered into these voluntary agreements will begin to enforce SOPA-like reprimands without waiting for a law that grants them the power to do so.

SOPA as we knew it isn’t officially returning, but copyright lobbyists are still fighting to implement nearly identical principles and reprimands. For now, your Net Art website is safe, but if copyright lobbyists can pull the right strings, they aren’t going to need a law to delete your wacky website from the face of the internet forever.

Contact the judiciary committee members here....lets call them out like last time.

http://judiciary.house.gov/ind..."
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+ - SOPA making secret dangerous comeback....get em->

Submitted by bricko
bricko writes "On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee met to discuss copyright reform, but rather than redesign SOPA, it is instead taking the more sinister route of voluntary commitments from individual entities to comply with a ruleset similarly sinister to SOPA. While a “voluntary commitment” may sound less severe than an actual law, this isn’t the case. If advertisers, ISPs, and whoever else volunteer to behave the way copyright holders want them to, then there isn’t the backing of a legal framework to keep it all in check — not that the legal framework of SOPA was fair and balanced to begin with.

Basically, entities that entered into these voluntary agreements will begin to enforce SOPA-like reprimands without waiting for a law that grants them the power to do so.

We need to sickem again...."
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+ - Hackers got into Target via Heat and Air system updates->

Submitted by bricko
bricko writes "Target Hackers Broke in Via HVAC Company

Last week, Target told reporters at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters that the initial intrusion into its systems was traced back to network credentials that were stolen from a third party vendor. Sources now tell KrebsOnSecurity that the vendor in question was a refrigeration, heating and air conditioning subcontractor that has worked at a number of locations at Target and other top retailers.

Sources close to the investigation said the attackers first broke into the retailer’s network on Nov. 15, 2013 using network credentials stolen from Fazio Mechanical Services, a Sharpsburg, Penn.-based provider of refrigeration and HVAC systems."
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+ - fix your website

Submitted by bricko
bricko writes "Why did you mess up your site.....when reading a story and click on link to original article.....then hit back button it does NOT go back to your article on your site....it alwyays goes back to TOP or your site....not the little article within your site.

Then I have to scroll down and refind where I was. It used to go back to where I left when clicked on original link"

Comment: Still available here - as Rough Service lights (Score 0) 767

by bricko (#45958543) Attached to: Incandescent Bulbs Get a Reprieve
There was always a loophole in the law to start with....if the filament has a little cage around it an called Rough Service...all wattages are available here. http://www.newcandescent.com/store/customer/ And the reason the law was put it was due to standard crony capitalist again. GE et al didnt think they were making enough pennies with the old version and had to much competition ....so they were the ones pushing the new lights so they could make more margin on each buls either CFL or LED.

+ - Ice Tourist ship stuck in ice Stopped real scientist delivery of equipment->

Submitted by bricko
bricko writes "Stupid tourist ship stuck in ice hampers real science by stopping delivery of equipment to go fetch the idiots stuck on a NON icebreaker ship that shouldn’t have even been there since it was not ice worthy.

Real Scientists not happy.

The Australian ice breaker Aurora Australis was here at Casey in the process of unloading the coming year’s supplies for the station, as well as a number of researchers and their science gear for this summer’s activities, when the emergency response request was issued. The Australians shut down the unloading very quickly and left within a few hours after the request arrived but only about a third of the resupply was completed and a lot of that science gear was still on board. Before they left they at least were able to get the passengers including six Aurora Basin researchers off the ship. Otherwise I’d still be at Aurora Basin and would have had to stay to the end of January since my field replacement was in that group.

The short- and long-term impacts on the Australian science program are pronounced as you can imagine and I understand it is the same for both the Chinese and French programs since their icebreakers were diverted, too. I’ll be sitting down to New Year’s Eve dinner in a few minutes with a number of Australian researchers including the director of the Australian Antarctic Division Tony Fleming– many of these guys can’t complete the research they’ve been planning for years because some or all of their science gear still is on the Aurora."
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+ - Severe Limitations of IPCC Understanding And Explanation Of Monsoons ->

Submitted by bricko
bricko writes "Severe Limitations of IPCC Understanding And Explanation Of Monsoons As Mechanisms Of Massive Energy Transfer.

In order to make their hypothesis that human CO2 is causing global warming work, a small group at or associated with the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) used the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to ignore or rewrite data, create false mechanisms, misuse science and the scientific method. One sign of malfeasance is if the claim is made from computer model output. A second sign is a design to overthrow an existing explanation without adequate proof it is inadequate. An almost guaranteed sign is a combination of both. They are aided and abetted by people acting for a variety of reasons but rarely with understanding of climatology. Usually they study one part of the complex, dynamic, open system that is global climate out of context."
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+ - 2013 – a year with minimal extreme weather events in the US->

Submitted by bricko
bricko writes "2013 – a year with minimal extreme weather events in the US

http://thesiweather.com/2013/10/18/1100-am-2013-a-year-with-minimal-extreme-weather-events-in-the-us/

There have been many forecasts in the news in recent years predicting more and more extreme weather-related events in the US, but for 2013 that prediction has been way off the mark. Whether you’re talking about tornadoes, wildfires, extreme heat or hurricanes, the good news is that weather-related disasters in the US are all way down this year compared to recent years and, in some cases, down to historically low levels.

Tornadoes
To begin with, the number of tornadoes in the US this year is on pace to be the lowest total since 2000 and it may turn out to be the lowest total in several decades. The table below lists the number of tornadoes in the US for this year (through 10/17) and also for each year going back to 2000.

Source: NOAA, http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/newm.html

Year # of Tornadoes
2013 771
2012 1119
2011 1894
2010 1543
2009 1305
2008 1685
2007 1102
2006 1117
2005 1262
2004 1820
2003 1374
2002 938
2001 1219
2000 1072

Wildfires
Second, the number of wildfires across the US so far this year is on pace to be the lowest it has been in the past ten years and the acreage involved is at the second lowest level in that same time period (table below).
(Source: National Interagency Fire Center; http://www.nifc.gov/)

2013 Fires: 40,306 Acres: 4,152,390
2012 Fires: 67,774 Acres: 9,326,238
2011 Fires: 74,126 Acres: 8,711,367
2010 Fires: 62,471 Acres: 3,233,461
2009 Fires: 78,792 Acres: 5,921,786
2008 Fires: 80,094 Acres: 5,254,109
2007 Fires: 85,822 Acres: 9,321,326
2006 Fires: 96,358 Acres: 9,871,939
2005 Fires: 66,552 Acres: 8,686,753
2004 Fires: 63,608 Acres: 8,097,880
*2013 data through 10/16

Extreme Heat
In addition to wildfires, extreme heat is also way down across the US this year. In fact, the number of 100 degree days across the country during 2013 is not only down for this year, but it is perhaps going to turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records (chart below)."
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Comment: Re:Mission accomplished (Score 0, Flamebait) 209

by bricko (#45791667) Attached to: Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice
How did this get past the Slashdot censors. They have been censoring any discussion of GW for some time. Must be run by the Reddit asshats now. Especially since the IPCC is now trying to figure out the lack of warming for the last 15 yrs. Or.....we could look at all the predictor models.....vs REALITY http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/04/global-warming-slowdown-the-view-from-space/

+ - Almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong for global warming-> 1

Submitted by bricko
bricko writes "2013 marks the 17th year of no warming on the planet. It marks the first time that James Hansen, Al Gore’s guru and the one whose predictions set off the global warming scare, admitted that warming had stopped. It marks the first time that major media enforcers of the orthodoxy — the Economist, Reuters and the London Telegraph – admitted that the science was not settled on global warming, the Economist even mocking the scientists’ models by putting them on “negative watch.” Scientific predictions of global cooling – until recently mostly shunned in the academic press for fear of being labeled crackpot – were published and publicized by no less than the BBC, a broadcaster previously unmatched in the anthropogenic apocalyptic media.

http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/12/19/lawrence-solomon-for-global-warming-believers-2013-was-the-year-from-hell/"
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