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Comment: Re:Global Warming is true, and deadly .. (Score 1) 691

by dotancohen (#43710109) Attached to: "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals

You're saying that you care about the impact the planet has on you, not vice versa. It's time to recognise that 'harm to the Earth' isn't abstract and you (and your grandchildren) are co-dependant upon the Earth for your survival.

No, the GP is saying that humans evolved on the Earth, and changing the Earth on short timescales will affect his offspring who cannot evolve quickly enough. I personally feel the same way.

I really do not care what particular composition of gasses surround whatever rock that my offspring live on, nor the temperature of those gasses. I'm just concerned that the composition of gasses and their temperature are suitable for my offspring to live and grow food in.

Comment: Re: Why not? This proves Warmists are wrong. (Score 1) 463

by dotancohen (#43700191) Attached to: CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record

Do you think science be put through a political lens before it's published or talked about?

Quite the opposite, but I wish (ha, and a pony) that those with a political agenda would not misrepresent science as being in anyone's 'interest' or misquoting scientific papers to show one thing when the full results show something completely different.

Comment: Re: Why not? This proves Warmists are wrong. (Score 1) 463

by dotancohen (#43696207) Attached to: CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record

From that PDF:

This study showed that only about one percent of net primary productivity and 16 percent of eroded carbon contribute to carbon sequestration in eroding watersheds. Combining these results with global estimates from previous studies, the erosion-induced terrestrial carbon sink can potentially offset as much as 10 percent of the global fossil-fuel emissions of carbon dioxide in 2005.

So that PDF which tries to convince us that releasing carbon is a non-issue due to soil erosion cannot account for the other 90% of the carbon in the atmosphere? And it does not even mention the other ill aspects of soil erosion.

No, soil erosion can only 'correct' 10% of the 2005 level of the problem. Hint: world carbon emissions have _increased_ since 2005, and then there is the other 90% of the problem to deal with.

Comment: Re:Apache sometimes legitimately uses shared memor (Score 1) 136

by dotancohen (#43676583) Attached to: Backdoor Targeting Apache Servers Spreads To Nginx, Lighttpd

Just because you see a shared memory segment used by apache doesn't mean that you're infected. Apache sometimes legitimately uses shared memory segments. See, for example: http://blog.nominet.org.uk/tech/2008/03/26/apache-shared-memory/

Thank you. That is an interesting use case, one that I had never encountered. Obviously, if Apache has been configured to share memory across processes then seeing it do so is not clear sign of infection. However, if Apache has not been explicitly configured to do so, then seeing Apache sharing memory with another process is a real red flag.

Your linked blog is great, there are quite a few gems in there. Thanks!

Comment: Re:Why? (Score 3, Interesting) 136

by dotancohen (#43672633) Attached to: Backdoor Targeting Apache Servers Spreads To Nginx, Lighttpd

Why isn't there a list of infected sites? Avoiding them would seem to be a priority.

Here is how to make sure you are not one of the infected sites: Compile and run this:
http://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dump_cdorked_config.c

If you don't want to vet that, you can get a first-aproximation with "ipcs", just look for the Apache PID, which you can get from "ps aux | grep apache2".

Comment: Re:Sound? (Score 1) 85

by dotancohen (#43368509) Attached to: Listening To the Big Bang – In High Fidelity

I'm not buying that one. The materials would be super-dense, super-hot, moving at almost the speed of light, and moving in different directions. I don't think sound would have much meaning here which could be correlated with what we sense as sound.

We correlate the propagation of disturbances in the fluid medium which immerses us as "sound". Do you not think that disturbances propagated in the fluid medium that existed moments after the big bang?

Comment: Re:Another dumb question.... (Score 1) 89

by dotancohen (#43330805) Attached to: Green Meteorite Found In Morocco May Be From Mercury

The tricky part of this scenario is getting the rock enough kinetic energy to boost it from Mercury's orbit out to Earth. I'd guess a slingshot around the sun was probably needed.

How does something slingshot around the sun? I am aware of planetary slingshots, but they depend upon the planet's orbital speed around the sun. I could see how the sun will change the direction of the object, but not how it could impart more kinetic energy to the object.

Comment: Re:I'm not even a fan, but (Score 1) 1174

" If marriage is such an important religious institution"

Excuse me but religion has hijacked marriage as its own, far as I can tell marriage existed way before Christianity.

Excuse me but Christianity has hijacked religion as its own, far as I can tell religion existed way before Christianity.

Gloffing is a state of mine.

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