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Wild warming or sulphur rain? Climate 'party planners' can't decide

silence7 0 points1 point 2 days ago[-]

FWIW, the mentioned geoengineering conference is highly controversial because it is apparently being used to raise funds for a particular commercial entity to actually carry out geoengineering. Ken Caldeira, quoted in the above article, has pulled out because of this.

See this article for more details.

Charter Tried To Con Me And Lied About It

silence7 25 points26 points 3 days ago[-]

Visit the administration interface on your linksys router.

By default, this is at http://192.168.1.1 If you have not configured an administrator password, the default is either a blank username and a password of admin or a username of admin and a password of admin, depending on how old your router is.

Once you've logged in, click "MAC Address Clone"

Then click the button marked "Clone My PC's MAC"

Click "Save Settings"

Then click "Status"

Next click "Release IP Address"

Finally click "Renew IP Address"

Researchers identify codeine and morphine genes : Efficient and more economical production of painkillers on the horizon

silence7 0 points1 point 5 days ago[-]

Realistically, doesn't this meant that somebody is going to figure out how to get corn to produce heroin, and then start dusting corn fields with the necessary gene?

Gallup Shmallup. Oil Industry's own poll shows 83% are concerned about climate change + want government intervention to add more renewables

silence7 1 point2 points 8 days ago[-]

There is one other big difference -- the poll you're citing is an international one, while Gallup only polled United States residents. Attitudes outside the US are very different from those inside the US.

Care and feeding of Happy Spammers (the joys of running a Zero-Spam public blog host in 2010)

silence7 0 points1 point 8 days ago[-]

What the report link does is to send the link to a list of 'reported' links for the moderator of the subreddit in question. Whether anything happens depends entirely on whether the moderators of that subreddit know where to look, and whether they decide to do anything.

Noam Chomsky answers your questions (Ask Me Anything video interview)

silence7 -2 points-1 points 8 days ago[-]

Your videographer seriously needs to pay more attention to lighting. I find the blown highlights on the side of Chomsky's face to be quite distracting. Something as simple as a scrim could have greatly improved matters.

Google releases linear-time, fixed-space, mostly PCRE-compatible regex library

silence7 5 points6 points 8 days ago[-]

Those rare pathological cases really happen. As somebody who maintains software for a large company (not Google) what happens is that you have customers whose configuration assumes that their regular expression engine gets a short non-pathalogical input. They use that configuration for years, and then suddenly they see an unusually problematic input into the regular expression -- usually because somebody at another site made a totally innocent configuration change.

It doesn't happen often, but once it does happen for a customer, it starts happening often for that customer.

Using a regular expression engine which is well-behaved is actually a pretty important thing to do.

How the IPCC sea level projections came to predict substantially less sea level rise than the scientists actually expect

silence7 [S] 0 points1 point 8 days ago[-]

There are two numbers that you see scientists talk about. The first is what happens over the next century -- and that's generally in the realm of 6 or 10 feet. The second is what happens when all the melting is done. 50 feet isn't out of the question for something like that, but currently available evidence is that we won't get there for centuries.

More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll

silence7 3 points4 points 9 days ago[-]

Unfortunately, when you go find the poll it doesn't look very good; basically over the past few years, fewer Americans think warming has actually happened (it demonstrably has) and fewer Americans think that scientists think that it is real (they overwhelmingly do).

This kind of poll tells you a lot about the propaganda environment that Americans live in, and not much about what is physically going on.

More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll

silence7 8 points9 points 9 days ago[-]

Given that the fossil fuels industry is funding a rather substantial propaganda campaign to convince Americans that they shouldn't limit CO2 emissions, this isn't terribly surprising.

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