Comment Re:Russian Ark (Score 1) 295
An entire movie in one take. Loved it!
Comment RAH comments (Score 1) 390
“I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” — John Lyle in "Revolt in 2100" by Robert Heinlein
Wine 1.2 Released 427
David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."
Comment Re:Politicized science (Score 1) 875
And you rely on a failed politician and a bunch of coercively financed "scientists"?
Comment Politicized science (Score 2, Interesting) 875
Climate science has abandoned evidence and data and gone straight to propaganda.
Check out the data and evidence for yourself, don't listen to the anti-technological propaganda from the politicized climate scientists.
http://joannenova.com.au/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Sun Pushes Emergency Java Patch 90
Trailrunner7 writes "In a sudden about-face, Sun has rushed out a Java update to fix a drive-by download vulnerability that exposed Windows users to in-the-wild malware attacks. The patch comes less than a week after Sun told a Google researcher it did not consider the issue serious enough to warrant an out-of-cycle patch and less than a day after researchers spotted live exploits on a booby-trapped Web site. The flaw, which was also discovered independently by Ruben Santamarta, occurs because the Java-Plugin Browser is running 'javaws.exe' without validating command-line parameters. Despite the absence of documentation, a researcher was about to figure out that Sun removed the code to run javaws.exe from the Java plugin. The about-face by Sun is another sign that some big vendors still struggle to understand the importance of working closely with white hat researchers to understand the implications of certain vulnerabilities. In this case, Google's Tavis Ormandy was forced to use the full-disclosure weapon to force the vendor into a proper response."
The Fruit Fly Drosophila Gets a New Name 136
G3ckoG33k writes "The name of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster will change to Sophophora melangaster. The reason is that scientists have by now discovered some 2,000 species of the genus and it is becoming unmanageably large. Unfortunately, the 'type species' (the reference point of the genus), Drosophila funebris, is rather unrelated to the D. melanogaster, and ends up in a distant part of the relationship tree. However, geneticists have, according to Google Scholar, more than 300,000 scientific articles describing innumerable aspects of the species, and will have to learn the new name as well as remember the old. As expected, the name change has created an emotional (and practical) stir all over media. While name changes are frequent in science, as they describe new knowledge about relationships between species, these changes rarely hit economically relevant species, and when they do, people get upset."
Comment The Final Solution (Score 1) 888
All airline passengers will be put in straightjackets for the duration of the flight. Catheters and diapers will be provided.
Comment Overweight, or too much CO2? (Score 1) 1093
'This man is too heavy,' said the doctor who had been called in to see a patient in the Land of Fools, 'and his ailment will undoubtedly become worse unless something is done about it.'
He went home, leaving his knowledge and expected some action to be taken.
When he returned to see the patient, he was met by sorrowing relatives.
'Doctor,' they said, 'the man was sicker than we knew. Even after his weight had been reduced, he died.'
'Perhaps he did not get his weight down fast enough.'
'No, it couldn't have been that. We decided that the best way to take off weight was to cut his head off. We had that done in five minutes.'
—Idries Shah, "Reflections"
He went home, leaving his knowledge and expected some action to be taken.
When he returned to see the patient, he was met by sorrowing relatives.
'Doctor,' they said, 'the man was sicker than we knew. Even after his weight had been reduced, he died.'
'Perhaps he did not get his weight down fast enough.'
'No, it couldn't have been that. We decided that the best way to take off weight was to cut his head off. We had that done in five minutes.'
—Idries Shah, "Reflections"
Comment Warming or..... Cooling? (Score 1) 1093
Humanity is adapted to the climate as it exists today.
Exactly. And what if the current lack of sunspot activity is precursor to a climate that is changing to colder weather rather than warmer?
Doesn't it make more sense to prepare for cold, which actually kills far more people than warmth?
Comment Re:Enter the closed loop you cannot enter. (Score 1) 1093
One of the authors doesn't even believe that CFCs affect the ozone layer.
What peer reviewed evidence do you have that unqualifiedly points to CFCs as having major, driving effect on the ozone layer. I'm interested.
Comment Weather = Climate in the long run (Score 1) 1093
Hmmm.... If climate isn't weather, then clearly hurricanes and tornadoes and sea level rises and cold weather in Copenhagen can't be attributed to climate. They are merely weather, and cannot be climate in any real sense.
Unless, well, weather really is climate in the long run? If so, perhaps the last decade of declining temperatures have finally left the realm of weather and entered the realm of climate. And perhaps the frigid weather in Copenhagen really reflects the current climate of colder weather.
Unless, well, weather really is climate in the long run? If so, perhaps the last decade of declining temperatures have finally left the realm of weather and entered the realm of climate. And perhaps the frigid weather in Copenhagen really reflects the current climate of colder weather.
Submission + - Crucial climate change data hacked by Russian
DuBois writes: A Russian hacker has obtained FOI data from the Hadley Center in the UK that appears to give credence to the recent reports of misused data in some climate change papers. The data may be obtained from http://ftp.tomcity.ru/incoming/free/ and the single zip file there (downloaded at 0100 UTC 20091120) has the md5 hash of:
MD5 (FOI2009.zip) = da2e1d6c453e0643e05e90c681eb1df4
If this is a forgery, it's a very clever one. Be sure to run Linux or you might catch viri.
MD5 (FOI2009.zip) = da2e1d6c453e0643e05e90c681eb1df4
If this is a forgery, it's a very clever one. Be sure to run Linux or you might catch viri.
Comment "I'll support you if you get a Mac." (Score 1) 932
Those who have Macs call me about once a year for a 20 minute Q&A, which takes care of things for another year.
Those who don't have Macs know not to call me, and they don't.
Those who don't have Macs know not to call me, and they don't.
Comment Re:Explained by a Simple Formula (Score 2, Insightful) 944
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
— Marx (Groucho)
