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Comment Absolutely not, at least as FACT... (Score 1) 229

Because...it is just political and globalist propaganda bs as far as an eye can see. They (polilyingticians and scientistsnot) have been saying it for at least 6 decades and the sea level has remained the same for even longer than that. At first it was global warming and bla bla bla and then when nothing happened it "became" climate change because they found out that the current period is colder than it was 20k years ago so they changed the narrative. Then they started burning forests. Yes, ARSON has been the reason so many forest fires were started and many perpetrators of arson have been caught in the act both in the US and Canada and not climate bs. Fires like that in Maui also never looked like natural disasters especially when it was noted that only particular areas were affected and not certain others where there were perfectly flammable houses and trees. It's all a global scam being parroted by governments under globalist influence. Also a lot of physical ailments have been attributed to climate change like having a heart attack if you "breathe" too much (not kidding, this was an article in newspapers). Finally, there are as many scientists calling climate change as bs as there are claiming that it is real. The problem is that because government and the globalist media wants you to swallow the lie the ones who say climate change is bs are usually censored, ridiculed, defunded etc, just like they did during covid saying the only viable defense against the virus was a deadly experimental mRNA jab. If you still rely on mainstream media to get your news because you think politicians and journalists are honest people and do not lie and work for your good then kindly rethink it and label yourself as either naive, a sheeple or downright stupid. Global media is owned by globalists, who run governments, who own and control everything and who dictate what you see, read or hear. The nearest platform to where you can "find" real news is X although even X is still sometimes prone to censorship (notwithstanding what Musk says) and account suspension if you reveal too much about something or someone because ultimately even globalists operate there and influence who writes what. You need to find and follow the right people (not necessarily news outlets, journalists or politicians) and you will discover that climate change is, in fact, just another psyop weapon to control the population(s).

Comment Meanwhile the town council... (Score 1) 167

Has been digging in the trash for the past 10 years and has finally imaged the outline of what is possibly a 3.5" hard disk buried 25 feet below the surface by using satellite deep penetration radar imagery provided by NASA in the hope if solving at least part of US national debt of almost $35TN and lining the council's pocket when they recover the "7"000 bitcoin.

Comment Producing ammonia to get hydrogen? (Score 1) 111

Does this make sense? So you create ammonia by combining nitrogen and hydrogen.....then this company uses ammonia to split it back to nitrogen and hydrogen and uses the hydrogen to power a fuel cell? Right. So why not just use the damn hydrogen itself before it is used to create ammonia? Something smells fishy here, or ammoniac in the least!

Comment We're lucky they did not have our gizmos.... (Score 1) 110

...otherwise they'd all have perished during test runs and never got to the moon and back because by the time they switched on their rocket their apps would have gotten16 bug fix releases, 12 feature-bloat updates and 3 crashes a day with testing, staging and production deployment done the same day on their disposable navigation systems which were obsolete and unsupported by the time they charged them for the first time. Try getting to the moon with that!

Comment This battery is so..... (Score 2) 175

...good, and fast, and durable and trouble-free and efficient and infinitely rechargeable and it will be on the market in a couple of (zillion) years. If you take all the battery improvement announcements I've read about over the last 20 years you would think battery technology has been so perfected that nowadays batteries would just buy themselves, walk to your car and install themselves once for a lifetime of hassle-free electric driving. I have yet to see 1 single battery like this on the market and I have been following the battery scene for at least 2 decades. I've seen batteries announced that would use liquid gas, urine, air, water, saline solutions, hydrogen, nuclear reactions and all the elements in the periodic table, recharge in a few seconds, are safe and last forever but Tesla still uses pencil batteries to build theirs so where the hell is MY IMPROVED BATTERY?

Comment Re:90% is still a good rule (Score 1) 170

I think an enterprise shop's bean counters would love to be told by their own machines that they don't need to upgrade to that bigger datastore for a few more months because "there's enough space there for another 8 months boss!" A human-powered utilization projection would have so many "safety margins" added in that the new datastore would have to be bought yesterday. The reality is that most of the times it's the 'counters that dictate stuff and they'd lap up this intelligent monitoring in a jiffy if it helps them justify cutting even a minor expense.

Comment Re:We have more but we USE more. (Score 1) 170

True, but I had a made-up scenario in mind where I get an initial 1.9T data purged out into a 2T archival fs leaving just 100GB free. I'd be at my 90% threshold (using the old % method) at start of operations but would only use a couple more GB at a time after each successive monthly purge. I'd still have a year or two of autonomy in the archive area even with 90+% of space already used up but my alerter would know not to alert me immediately after monitoring a few successive minor additions to the archive. Seems my mind jelly wandered off a bit when I thought of this. I was actually supposed to be studying. meh.

Submission + - Better free disk space monitoring?

relliker writes: In the olden days, when monitoring a file system of a few 100 MB, we would be alerted when it topped 90% or more, with 95% a lot of times considered quite critical. Today, however, with a lot of file systems in the Terabyte range, a 90-95% full file system can still have a considerable amount of free space but we still mostly get bugged by the same alerts as in the days of yore when there really isn't a cause for immediate concern. Apart from increasing thresholds and/or starting to monitor actual free space left instead of a percentage, should it be time for monitoring systems to become a bit more intelligent by taking space usage trends and heuristics into account too and only warn about critical usage when projected thresholds are exceeded? I’d like my system to warn me with something like, “Hey!, you’ll be running out of space in a couple of months if you go on like this!” Or is this already the norm and I’m still living in a digital cave?
Privacy

Twitter Hands Over Messages At Heart of Occupy Case 73

another random user sends this excerpt from a BBC report: "Legal pressure has forced Twitter to hand over messages sent by an Occupy Wall Street protester. Twitter spent months resisting the call to release the messages, saying to do so would undermine privacy laws. The Manhattan district attorney's office wanted the tweets to help its case against protester Malcolm Harris. It believes the messages undermine Mr. Harris' claim that New York police led protesters on to the Brooklyn Bridge to make it easier to arrest them. It claims the messages will show Mr. Harris was aware of police orders that he then disregarded."
Earth

Astronomers Fix the Astronomical Unit 182

gbrumfiel writes "The Astronomical Unit (AU) is known to most as the distance between the Earth and the Sun. In fact, the official definition was a much more complex mathematical calculation involving angular measurements, hypothetical bodies, and the Sun's mass. That old definition created problems: due to general relativity, the length of the AU changed depending on an observer's position in the solar system. And the mass of the Sun changes over time, so the AU was changing as well. At the International Astronomical Union's latest meeting, astronomers unanimously voted on a new simplified definition: exactly 149,597,870,700 meters. Nobody need panic, the earth's distance from the sun remains just as it was, regardless of whether it's in AUs, meters, or smoots."

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