Posts by Thought About IT 413 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Feb 2008
"Boffins" can predict all they like, but no evidence will change the mind of those who are convinced AGW is a conspiracy. Some "boffins" even calculated that, given the number of scientists involved, such a conspiracy would fall apart after 3.5 years at most, but conspiracy theorists are immune to evidence.
According to an article in the Guardian, TalkTalk offered its 4 million customers a free mobile sim worth £5 a month to say sorry, and then charged for it!
Only TalkTalk could charge for saying ‘sorry’.
Having said that, my Internet connection is with TalkTalk Business, and I have no complaints about them.
"You should try taking your rose-colored glasses off. No one can say that climate science isn't really now climate politics."
Are you really ignorant of the deliberate plan to politicise climate science by propagandists funded by the fossil fuel industries? They reasoned that all they needed to do to maintain their profitability was to delay action to cut greenhouse gas emissions by making it politically impossible. As is all too evident, they've been very successful.
That assumes politicians even seek out expert evidence. Owen Paterson, for example, reputedly refused to read any document from his advisers containing the words "climate change" or "global warming", when he was Environment Secretary. Cameron is perhaps the exception on that subject, in that he listened to advice on what he needed to say to get elected, resulting in the ironic slogans "vote blue, go green" and the "greenest government ever"! Mind you, his idea of an expert adviser is a spin doctor.
Getting rid of Page was something El Reg had to do, if it was to retain any credibility. He was using it to push his ideological agenda about climate change, which was ludicrously anti-science and completely undermined every other science or technology based article which was published here.
As part of your New Year's resolution, I hope you give that issue a wide berth.
I much prefer the user interface on my Lumia 925 with 8.1 to the Androids and iPhones which preceded it. Sure, there aren't many apps for it, but the ones I need are there. However, I'll be just as pleased if MS never get around to forcing Windows 10 on it, as that messes up the UI.
"If our choice is things warming up and some low-level land getting flooded" - Valerion
It isn't. Our choice is drastically cutting CO2 emissions, which the fossil fuel industries are strenuously lobbying to prevent, or changing the climate from the relatively benign one during which human society has evolved, to one of extremes of weather and sea level rises which we won't be able to control control.
"Also need to say that "deniers" and "believers" are not scientific words, so I don't know why they get used in scientific debate."
A denier is someone who denies something despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It doesn't have to be scientific evidence, but clearly is in the case of AGW deniers such as yourself.
An easier solution is to accept what the science says about the effect of our greenhouse gas emissions, and curtail them as quickly as we can. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground is going to be much cheaper than any technological solution to clean up the mess afterwards.
There's nothing to preclude fossil fuel companies from using ISDS to challenge a government’s ability to ban or limit energy extraction as a way of addressing climate change and other ecological risks, although there is a special opt out for countries that don't want to be sued by tobacco companies - which led the way in developing the propaganda techniques used by the fossil fuel companies. The fact that the TPP authors think that the default option of a country allowing itself to be sued by a tobacco company is OK reveals much about what they've been up to.
The provisions allowing drug makers to avoid competition from generic drugs, even after the original patent expires, can only make medicines more expensive.
Ludicrously, it contains a separate agreement with Vietnam that would create a right to unionize and go on strike in the country for the first time, and the U.S. could withhold trade privileges if the accord is not implemented after five years. That from a country which effectively destroyed its own right to unionize!
There's sure to be more nasties hidden in that woodwork to be revealed, now that it's been made public.
"transfers to third countries where the powers of state authorities to access information go beyond what is necessary in a democratic society will not be considered as safe destinations for transfers."
So, that will affect any business wanting to store its data in the UK where GCHQ is a subcontractor of the NSA.
"Look at Lewis' previous rants diatribes tirades articles on the subject and it may become a little clearer..."
Judging by the downvotes, even that simple statement of fact is contentious in this context. Those who downvoted should ask themselves if any evidence would convince them that humans are changing the climate due to their greenhouse gas emissions.
I just finished watching the first season of Breaking Bad at the weekend and wanted to check what it said about ricin. Then I thought, what if the spooks think I'm planning to murder someone? The insidious process of self-censorship has started. Anyway, I tried sticking https in Wikipedia's URL and it worked, so I carried on and looked up ricin and even followed the link to lily of the valley. Nothing to hide? Sure, but nothing to fear ...
When you look at the new government's priorities for the first 100 days, a pattern emerges:
Reintroduce the Snooper's charter & suppress free speech.
Repeal the European Court of Human Rights act.
Reduce trade unions' right to strike.
Threaten the BBC to toe the line or lose the license fee.
Gerrymander constituency boundaries - worth 20 seats - to make sure they win the next election.
One party state, anyone?
Before even thinking about this, Mozilla ought to fix Firefox so that it can communicate through a non-standard port with a secure server (ie. not supporting SSLv3), rather than giving up with "Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). (Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap)"! As it is, I have to resort to using IE to configure WHM/cPanel.
"Of course US are good guys compared to Russia. You really do not see the difference between democracy and a post-communist mafia-style country?"
The US is a corporatocracy where corporations buy politicians to represent their interests. Not that different from fascism.
"many readers regard the whole "no smoke without fire" style of rumour-mongering a dirty trick"
For evidence to the contrary, you just have to look back at comments on articles here about climate change. Clear proof that spreading FUD about science has been very effective.
This insidious tactic against Kapersky Labs will quickly undermine them.
At least greatfile.org know why it's happening. My server just hosts my software for free download and subsequent sale, but last year Chinese sites were downloading the same files all day, every day, until I throttled them. During the past couple of weeks, it's been subjected to a pirate bay attack, at a low enough level to be manageable with firewall tweaks. There have always been occasional attempts to break in from different countries, but this prolonged attack from China is quite disconcerting, as there's no obvious reason for it.
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