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Posts by david 63
365 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009
In-flight movies via BYOD? Just what I always wan... argh no we’re all going to die!
Raspberry Pi, meet face: You're probably NOT Blighty's biggest PC maker!
Wednesday 18th February 2015 14:48 GMT
Re: windows
I think putting windows on it kinda misses the point.
The pi is their to encourage geekiness not swell the number of people who can use a WIMP to launch applications.
Which does lead me to wonder how many of the 5m are sitting on shelf somewhere because it's too much effort to make it 'do something'
Turbocharged quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed, global geekgasm likely
'Look into my eyes: You are feeling very worried about the climate ... so worried'
Friday 30th January 2015 14:22 GMT
It is very important to ask the people what they are thinking. This will steer the politicians to enact policies which are democratic. That is, reflect the will of the people. There are a lot of people out there who would love to subvert this, I'm not one of them.
Unfortunately the scientists have lost credibility. That's why no one is listening any more.
I'm sure there are people doing good work in this area but unfortunately they are drowned out by the vocal few who keep telling us it is the end of the world. Well we've been listening to that for 30 years and it is getting a bit stale.
Global temperature is not behaving as predicted
Global sea ice is not doing too badly
We haven't seen mass extinctions (a snail that miraculously did a regeneration from nothing as I recall)
The climate refugees seem to be staying put
The planet is actually getting greener
Crop yields are looking good, they'd look better if we weren't turning food into biofuel
Gav and his mates would have got away with the '2014 hottest year ever' guff 50 years ago. It is largely the work of public opinion that brought to the fore the admission that there is a 72% uncertainty to the claim and that difference was well within the error bars.
So aiden, given these failures who do you think should make the decisions for you and yours? I think it should be you. Not a scientist with tenure to protect on the other side of the world.
Of course policy makers should listen, but listen critically. Which is in their heart of hearts is what they do. Sure they will turn up to climate conferences and make promises they have no intention of keeping but that's part of the job description.
Ultimately if you want to sit in the dark, waiting for the wind to blow, that's your choice, but not one you should force on me and mine.
Switch it off and on again: How peers failed to sneak Snoopers' Charter into terror bill
Scientific consensus that 2014 was record hottest year? No
Thursday 22nd January 2015 09:59 GMT
Re: Satellites say no.
The term medium certainty was discussed in the climategate emails and it was decided the lower threshold should be 34%.
I have offered anyone who accepts this a little wager. If you are medium certain that a dice will come up 1 or 2 we can play a game:
Every roll that comes up 1 or 2 I will give you £1.30 (because 34% is more than 33% I'm giving you odds)
Every roll that comes up 3,4,5 or 6 you give me £1.00
After we have done 20 rolls you can decide to stop or continue. I'm happy to play until your money runs out.
Tuesday 20th January 2015 15:30 GMT
Satellites say no.
The elephant in the room is that neither UAH or RSS is claiming hottest year ever.
I wonder why we put them up there if their data is less reliable than the ground stations.
And it now turns out that there is a 38% certainty on the hottest year ever based on adjusted land station claims...that should have at least been used to caveat the press release rather than having prised out a 2 weeks later.
Met Office: 2014 was fifteenth warmest on record
Premier League wants to PURGE ALL FOOTIE GIFs from social media
Windows Registry-infecting malware has no files, survives reboots
Monday 4th August 2014 08:43 GMT
Re: "a tool Microsoft uses to hide its source code from being copied"
"Are you seriously suggesting all databases can be replaced with text files?"
No one said that.
But I'm suggesting the registry could. It's a list of parameters. Show me anything that needs relational integrity or any other database type feature.
It's always been a buttpain. It doesn't get cleaned up properly unless you use 3rd party tools so it bloats.
And the fact that running code from it is even allowed is a serious enough flaw that it should be deprecated, locked from further use and left to die.
Just TWO climate committee MPs contradict IPCC: The two with SCIENCE degrees
Saturday 2nd August 2014 09:48 GMT
Re: No Surprise
@Marxhalltown
I think you may have fudged some numbers...
6,000ppm is no where near as lethal as you have suggested.
You need to get to 20,000ppm before the effects are apparent.
80,000 to 150,000ppm before there is a danger of death.
From http://www.ivhhn.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84:
(1% is 10,000ppm)
Exposure limits
(% in air)
Health Effects
2-3 Unnoticed at rest, but on exertion there may be marked shortness of breath
3 Breathing becomes noticeably deeper and more frequent at rest
3-5 Breathing rhythm accelerates. Repeated exposure provokes headaches
5 Breathing becomes extremely laboured, headaches, sweating and bounding pulse
7.5 Rapid breathing, increased heart rate, headaches, sweating, dizziness, shortness of breath, muscular weakness, loss of mental abilities, drowsiness, and ringing in the ears
8-15 Headache, vertigo, vomiting, loss of consciousness and possibly death if the patient is not immediately given oxygen
10 Respiratory distress develops rapidly with loss of consciousness in 10-15 minutes
15 Lethal concentration, exposure to levels above this are intolerable
25+ Convulsions occur and rapid loss of consciousness ensues after a few breaths. Death will occur if level is maintained.
Thursday 31st July 2014 16:05 GMT
Re: No Surprise
I'm glad you proper scientists know the heat is in the oceans.
The Met Office in its paper Implications for Predictions says:
"whilst the second report suggests that the recent pause in surface warming may, in part, be due to internal variability in the oceans and how heat is taken up below the ocean surface."
I guess the "may" and "in part" were put in there to instil some confidence?
Nokia launches Euro ANDROID invasion, quips: 'Microsoft knew what they were buying'
Climate change will 'cause huge increase in murder, robbery and rape'
Monday 24th February 2014 14:41 GMT
We'd better start spending the money on adapting...
...instead of more modelling exercises.
40 years of action on global warming and the only effect has been raised taxation, more expensive fuel and a few people getting rich in the carbon credits market. CO2 continues to rise.
Renewables and energy storage still hasn't advanced in efficiency and looks to me like a busted flush.
Radical I know but if the science is settled and you must be mad to deny the catastrophe, and the absence of any way to mitigate world hydrocarbon use, further research into causes and effects is futile. 97%* of people who know about it are 95%** certain so let's take their funding and start building sea walls, irrigation/drainage schemes, desalination plants, nuclear power stations before it is too late.
Footnote: I have a couple of surefire investment opportunities. A citrus farm in Sussex and a vineyard in Lapland. DM me for my paypal details if you want to chip in...
*I know
**I know about this too
Antarctic glacier 'melted just as fast Long before human carbon emissions'
French youth faces court for illegal drone flight
Bosses to be banned from forcing new hires to pull personal records
Candy Crush dev stuffs EU 'candy' trademark down gob
Britain's costliest mistake? Lord Stern defends his climate maths
Monday 30th December 2013 11:59 GMT
Here's a suggestion...
...solve today's problems today. Today's energy problems are fuel poverty and the real risk that the lights will start going out because we have an impending energy gap.
Whatever fiddling around with spreadsheets you want to do the uncertainties are too great. It's open to both halves of the debate to change a number here or there to make the answer support their arguments. And why they are all arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin the opportunity to address some real problems are passing us by.
Our descendants will have a better chance of dealing with there problems if they inherit a strong infrastructure and economy. If all the effort that was going into fiddling around with mitigations for a disaster that might not happen had gone into research into, for instance, new ways of using the limited hydrocarbon resources we have we would be in a better position in 100 years.
It is depressing that this is not going to happen. It seems everyone but Eastern Bloc and China are prepared to sacrifice their futures to the opportunity to keep the populace in fear and dependency.
BTW, the first person who says 'consensus' loses the argument, K?
Britain’s forgotten first home computer pioneer: John Miller-Kirkpatrick
PEAK APP: After 2013, you'll NEVER again install as many – Gartner
It's official: The iPhone 5S bling-mobe IS chavvy. OR, Burberry isn't
Ha ha, Osborne, these Gov 2.0 web wranglers have wiped out UK debt
WAR ON PORN: UK flicks switch on 'I am a pervert' web filters
UK discovers Huawei UK staff auditing Huawei kit: Govt orders probe
Quid-a-day nosh challenge hack forms foraging party
Wednesday 1st May 2013 16:32 GMT
I lead a foraging day for the local food festival...
...at the end the general consensus is:
* that leaves taste like leaves
* that you need an awful lot of leaves to satisfy you
* vegetable protein is almost impossible to find for most of the year
There is a reason that non agrarian civilisations were all meat eaters.
Climate-cooling effect 'stronger than volcanoes' is looking solid
Game designer spills beans on chubby-fancying chap with his stolen Mac
AMAZEBALLS: Buy a doomed Apple TV, get a replacement free
Cutting CO2 too difficult? Try these 4 simple tricks instead
Parking ticket firm 'exposed private info' - ICO making enquiries
Climate change set to bumpify transatlantic flights, say researchers
Furious Stephen Fry blasts 'evil' Reg and 'TW*T' Orlowski
Dongle smut Twitstorm claims second scalp
That Osbo bloke - he's on your Twitters. 'What a c**k'
Microsoft cuts to core on BizTalk Server price hike
Global warming fingered as Superstorm Sandy supersizer
Saturday 16th March 2013 10:48 GMT
Whatever the cause...
... it looks like an accident waiting to happen
http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/hazards/storms_hurricanehistory.shtml
The 1938 hurricane would have had a bigger impact had it hit the Boroughs. And there are a lot more waterfront properties than there were then.
One thing is for sure sides of the argument will seize on this as using selective quotes to prove that is was/was not CO2 that caused it.
Note that I did not say climate change. The climate changes and it is definitely affected by people. The question in my mind is how the changes can be attributed to CO2 and the cost of the precautionary principle.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
