"Corals are dying worldwide. Ask the great barrier reef."

I asked the Great Barrier Reef and it said everything was fine, in the King's English no less. More than that, the Great Barrier Reef was annoyed at the assumption that it would know about other reefs worldwide. The Great Barrier Reef told me to tell you to F off.

"Why are we wasting time, money and research into something we know already?
Once again time wasted , money spent and no action taken."

"We" aren't, it's just a troll. Scientists study things all the time, environmentalists troll on the health of coral reefs all the time. Besides, what could be done for corals?

Jaques Cousteau used to dynamite coral reefs to make it more convenient for his boat. The world's most famous environmentalists did not give a shit, rules for thee.

As long as the fundamental principle driving world economies is greed, the world is doomed.

Coral doesn't migrate, it spawns. Spawning covers significant distances of the currents enable it.

And while the time period of the current threat is short in geological time, it is irrelevant compared to annual variations in temperature corals are already adapted to.

It is amazing just how wrong the thinking is on this subject, the corals under threat are the corals that live at the boundary of livability. Relatively little coral is in this range. Coral reefs extend down to significant depths, and a single spawn could cause reefs to grow deeper. Of course, ignorance is a trademark of /. posts.

Only a small part of coral systems are sufficiently close to thermal limits to need to "adapt". A rise of a few degrees is enormous, but not lethal for corals that live in cooler waters. Some conspicuous examples may not survive, but that doesn't define a threat to the world.

"Just because the entire reef isnt currently 'living' does not mean it isn't habitat for things that are."

Dead coral isn't under threat from climate change.

They don't need to reach "current sizes".

It's all bullshit anyway. Corals live in a broad range of temps and a great range of depths. Corals will be hurt in some areas yet thrive in others. It's not an excuse to ignore dire climate problems, but bogus coral threats have been claimed for decades now. Coral reefs are enormous and grow down to significant depths. The Florida keys may be in for hard times, but not all reefs will be.

It used to be 26 episodes per season, with each episode airing twice during the year. It was a nice, simple way of filling the broadcast schedule. That shifted to 24 episodes at some point. There was a bigger shift, I think in the early 2000s, where they started having separate shows for the summer, and seasons started getting much shorter, sometimes more like 13 episodes. Now streaming services will put out 6-7 episode seasons; only a quarter of what a season used to be.

The good part of this is that you no longer get filler episodes. I remember watching shows like Stargate SG-1, and there were inevitably a few junk episodes, like a clip show that has some excuse to edit together a bunch of clips of previous episodes, or some episode that really didn't do much because they clearly spent all their budget already. I don't miss those. But with only 6 episodes, it's down to the same run-time as a miniseries, and things sometimes feel rushed.

For shows that are telling a story over the course of a season, the shorter episodes sometimes work well, but for more episodic shows (like Doctor Who), it just feels like you're getting shorted (because you are).

For many shows, the driving force is the quality of the writing and acting. Would the studios do better to spend less on the production and get more episodes for the same money? Good stories outweigh good effects.

>The issue is TPM 2.0

Yes, Big Brother wants to take full control, you can't be trusted to take responsibility for your own security. Of course, they can't be either - they're happy to turn your personal info into profit.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

In practice we add randomness because it makes for better utility overall. Look up model temperature

>Isn't it more like the spy glasses from the first Mission Impossible?

More like the Cone of Silence from Get Smart.

>We need to ask our legislators to get stronger exceptions for libraries added to the law.

Nah. We just need to revert to original copyright terms. 14 years, with one 14 year renewal. No one is creating content expecting it to take more than 28 years to make it worth their while. US copyright is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times..." Extending those Times doesn't promote, instead it works against Progress.

I can point to a lot of copyrighted material which isn't "useful", except to make a profit.

The 1st year graduate cares, you'll figure it out when your job is terminated

>USB-C is very resource demanding. Lots of 4-pin USB 2.0 ports don't burn the resources.

You have no idea what you're talking about. First, there is no "USB-C". You can replace a USB 2.0 "A" receptacle with a Type-C one, no changes needed other than the connector. A "USB 2.0 Type-C receptacle for USB 2.0 platforms and devices." is what the spec calls it.

>More ports is what he's looking for.

Then they should say that, not "It's premature for brands to phase out USB-A [sic]." Because, the Type-C spec defines a "USB Type-C to USB 3.1 Standard-A Receptacle Adapter Assembly" (yes, it's backwards compatible earlier USB specs). So complaining about "A" ports being removed simply demonstrates ignorance. You can use any device you want which needs a "A" connection with a Type-C port, just get an adapter cable.

"... they announced the addition of this feature in 2009..."
Yeah, a year later.

Other "highly requested" features added after the iPhone was introduced? MMS LOL

Steve Jobs instructed internal development to not support text messaging, since everyone uses email. Fortunately, he was saved from that particular humiliation. It's really a miracle that Apple succeeded at anything considering Jobs's incompetence and sociopathy.