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2014/1/24-2/5 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54765 Activity:nil |
1/24 "Jimmy Carter's 1977 Unpleasant Energy Talk, No Longer Unpleasant" link:www.csua.org/u/128q (http://www.linkedin.com |
2013/8/2-10/28 [Science/GlobalWarming, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:54723 Activity:nil |
8/2 http://www.csua.org/u/10v0 (news.yahoo.com) "A massive new study finds that aggressive acts like committing violent crimes and waging war become more likely with each added degree." \_ ah crap, I shouldn't have gotten my graduate degree. \_ racist! \_ Just in case, "degree" here refers to degree Fahrenheit. -- OP \_ Not degrees celsius? Phew, we are safe! |
12/25 |
2013/7/22-8/23 [Consumer/CellPhone, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54710 Activity:nil |
7/27 BOINC grid computing on Android phones! http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=318 Are they our of their minds? :-) \_ Doesn't seem that bad, considering (from the article) "By default, the app will only run calculations when the device is plugged in and charging (for example, overnight) and will only transmit data over WiFi (settings are configurable)." -ERic |
2013/1/28-2/19 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54591 Activity:nil |
1/28 "'Charities' Funnel Millions to Climate-Change Denial" http://www.csua.org/u/z2w (news.yahoo.com) And they're getting tax-deduction out of it! \_ Climate denialism should quality for the religious exemption. \_ Koch, yes, Koch and his ilk give "millions" to this kind of thing. How much is spent on the other side of the issue? |
2013/1/21-2/19 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54583 Activity:nil |
1/21 Amount of carbon tax per ton of CO2 required to limit global warming to 2 degree Celcius if we: - start in 2013: $30 - start in 2020: $100 - start in 2030: $infinity http://www.csua.org/u/z0a \_ Why should I care? I will be dead long before this is a real problem. |
2013/1/3-2/13 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54572 Activity:nil |
1/3 "Atoms Reach Record Temperature, Colder than Absolute Zero" http://www.csua.org/u/ysx Can they really call that negative temperature? |
2012/12/7-18 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54550 Activity:nil |
12/7 Even oil exporters like UAE and Saudi Arabia are embracing solar energy: http://www.csua.org/u/ylq We are so behind. |
2012/12/4-18 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54545 Activity:nil |
12/4 "Carbon pollution up to 2 million pounds a second" http://www.csua.org/u/yk6 (news.yahoo.com) Yes, that's *a second*. \_ yawn. \_ (12/14) "AP-GfK Poll: Science doubters say world is warming" \_ (12/14) "20-Year-Old Report Successfully Predicted Warming: Scientists" http://www.csua.org/u/yod "AP-GfK Poll: Science doubters say world is warming" http://www.csua.org/u/yo9 |
2012/10/2-11/7 [Science/GlobalWarming, Science/Physics] UID:54490 Activity:nil |
10/2 Ars takes a tour of SLAC: http://preview.tinyurl.com/9z37spb [ars] |
2012/6/26-7/20 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54422 Activity:nil |
6/26 WW2 brought us antibiotics, syringe, production capacity, excessive petroleum, radar, television, atomic energy, rocketry (HEIL VON BRAUN), synthetic rubber, microwave, computers (GAY TURING), jets. What did the Iraq war bring us? \_ HMMWV -> Hummer H1 the gas guzzler. \_ HMMWV -> Hummer H1 the Gas Guzzler. \_ HMMWV -> Hummer H1 The Gas Guzzler and The Cure For The SPS. \_ Improved drone technology, ready-to-use tourniquets, language translation software, biometric identification, blast-proof trucks, improved prosthetics like smart limbs, new treatments for shock, and ground robotics. What did Vietnam give us? \_ uh, no. Language translation is mastered and refined by Google. Military's language translation device is a toy by comparison. Biometrics-- try Vegastech, they're the ones who really made it usable. If anything, Iraq War gave Democrats some control back. \_ Vietnam gave us ME LUV U LONG TIME! SUCKY SUCKY! \_ You're burying the lede: WW2 gave us the Marshal Plan, a strong economy, and preeminence on the world stage. The IW gave us a terrorist breeding ground, billions unaccounted for, and a dwindling ability to get taken seriously. \_ You're kidding me right? No one remembers a frigging loan/assistance program. We're talking about concrete things. \_ The Marshal Plan was a loan assistance program in much the same way that your mom was just a cunt: that's one part of the whole, but not the real point. \_ http://tinyurl.com/87bbuut http://tinyurl.com/7usfgty MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! |
2012/6/22-7/20 [Politics/Domestic/California, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54420 Activity:nil |
6/22 "Study: The U.S. could be powered by 80% green energy in 2050" http://www.csua.org/u/wtz (news.yahoo.com) \_ How many Republicans does it take to make green energy? -150,000,000! Ding ding ding! \_ Because having control of the White House and both houses of Congress wasn't enough (ie, the do nothing and blame the Republicans period after the 2008 elections) ? That's what it takes for the Democrats to get anything done? A complete absence of any opposition at all? Sure. \_ Never underestimate Dems ability to get nothing done if it requires cooperation, but ignoring repeated threats of filibuster on the part of the GOP and still blaming the Dems for getting nothing done is perverse. -!op \_ Obama spent far too long trying to get the GOP to sign off on some kind of health care reform, I agree. But even with 60 Dems, he could not get anything significant done on climate change because a few Democrats from coal states were not on board. |
2012/5/9-6/4 [Recreation/Food/Alcohol, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54385 Activity:nil |
5/9 "Science Reveals How Not to Spill Your Coffee When Walking" http://www.csua.org/u/wcr No wonder the UC is short in funding. Just put a damn lid on! \_ Before you complain "Now that there are studies for everything, some day we'll hear about studiets on studies", please note that the Pentagon is always one step ahead of you: "This Is Not a Joke: Government Issues Study of a Study About Studies" http://www.csua.org/u/we6 (news.yahoo.com) |
2012/5/4-6/4 [Science/Space, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54381 Activity:nil |
5/4 "9-Month-Olds Show Racial Bias When Looking at Faces" http://www.csua.org/u/wac (news.yahoo.com) \_ RACIST!!! \_ 9-month-old racists, yeah. \_ I tell you, my daughters hated white ladies at that age. (White Dad, asian Mom.) |
2012/3/19-6/4 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54344 Activity:nil |
3/19 "Solar power station in Spain works at night" http://www.csua.org/u/vtm (news.yahoo.com) |
2012/3/8-26 [Science/Space, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54334 Activity:nil |
3/8 "Invisible Mercedes brings James Bond technology to life" http://www.csua.org/u/vpc (autos.yahoo.com) How many years and dollars have our military spent on trying to achieve the same thing and yet still haven't gotten any result!? Now a civilian company has done it, and they did it even merely for publicity. |
2012/2/13-3/26 [Science/Space, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54307 Activity:nil |
2/13 "Peak Everything -- Why Everything Costs More" http://finance.yahoo.com/news/in-demand.html \_ I am kind of disappointed that no conservative/libertarian types took the bait here. |
2012/1/12-3/3 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54287 Activity:nil |
1/12 "The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week" http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-case-for-a-21-hour-work-week.html Yeah, let's beat the Europeans on laziness. If their purpose really is to save the planet, why not re-direct the "excess" consumption towards environmental causes? I don't see how traveling, for example, in the extra free time is not a form of consumption. \_ Screw the planet; if you're not producing an arbitrary number of widgets, staffing a retail or customer service station, or doing some other kind of job that requires a constant presence and regular productivity, what's the point of having you in a physical location for 40 hours per week? And if you do work in one of those jobs, wouldn't it make sense to run studies to show how many hours you can actually work and remain efficient before you start inadvertently flaking? \_ Traveling could be a bicycle tour of the region near where you live, for example, it doesn't have to be luxurious. I basically agree with this, but no one in IT is going to let you work 20 hrs/wk, so what I plan to do is retire 25 years after I graduate. So I keep my living expenses low and save a lot. |
2012/1/1-10 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54278 Activity:nil |
1/1 Happy New Year! Happy End of the World! \_ Why do people still watch the Pasadena Rose Parade? Is it suppose to be interesting? \_ The big float with the surfing dogs was pretty neat. \_ For one, I remember that Year 1993 was also supposed to be the end of the world. of the world. It's amazing that the news media still runs reports on this whenever someone comes up with yet another new date. |
2011/10/31-11/8 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54206 Activity:nil |
10/31 "Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real" http://yhoo.it/w38J5l (m.yahoo.com) \_ Rush Limbaugh told me that global warming is a liberal lie. |
2011/2/13-4/20 [Computer/SW/Languages/JavaScript, Computer/SW/Languages, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54037 Activity:nil |
2/13 Prototype based programming/delegation (not the pattern). anyone use this at all in real world? Does it really solve the problem of OOP brittleness? |
2011/2/9-19 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54033 Activity:nil |
2/9 "WikiLeaks: Saudis running out of oil" http://www.csua.org/u/sit (news.yahoo.com) \_ if you've been watching meat prices, the trend's pretty obvious |
2011/2/1-19 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54022 Activity:nil |
2/1 10 Industries in Which the U.S. Is No Longer No.1" http://www.csua.org/u/sgw (finance.yahoo.com) China betas us in 7 out of 10 categories, including high-tech exports category. \_ So, only 3 more to go until we declare war? \_ Some of those positions are simply determined by by demographics and geography. Why should anyone be surprised that Chinese produce more beer and more cars? I bet they are also number 1 in toothpaste production and other consumer q are also number 1 in toothpaste production and other consumer goods. Likewise, oil and coal production are primarily based on geographic determinants. Don't buy into the republican hype about offshore and alskan oil drilling bans stopping us from supplying all of our oil needs ourselves. Department of Energy thinks that undeveloped domestic oil sources won't conver even 10% of our needs in the coming years. \_ "It's not my biz, why do i care?" \_ Because eventually they will come for you and there will be nobody left to stand with you. \_ Libertarians need no one! We have guns! |
2011/1/13-2/19 [Science/Biology, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54009 Activity:nil |
1/13 34,000-Year-Old Organisms Found Buried Alive! (Still alive.) http://www.csua.org/u/saj (news.yahoo.com) / The cake is a lie. / |
2010/12/1-2011/1/13 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53987 Activity:nil |
12/1 "US: China rise a 'Sputnik moment' for clean energy" http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101130/sc_afp/unclimatewarminguschina |
2010/9/7-30 [Science/GlobalWarming, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:53949 Activity:nil |
9/5 "Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic" - Yahoo! News: http://www.csua.org/u/rji "HAVANA - Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war." What surprises! \_ we don't care. fuck off. \_ Another one: "Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work" http://www.csua.org/u/rjw \_ Better late than never. \_ Cuba to lay off 1/2M government workers: http://www.csua.org/u/rl4 \_ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/22/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-iran-bomber-drone Ahmadinejad said the unmanned aerial vehicle ... had "a main message of peace and friendship" and in the next sentence he describes the long range bomber 'as "an ambassador of death" to Tehran's enemies.' |
2010/8/3-25 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53908 Activity:nil |
8/3 http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599200808100 'Russia's largest circulation newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, ran a headline on July 31 that asked, "Is the Russian heat wave the result of the USA testing its climate weapon?" The daily's answer was "Yes, probably."' Yeah, let us use our climate weapon on the California climate so that we can get more rain! \_ We don't need any more rain and more rain would eliminate much of the appeal of living here. What we need to do is save more of the rain that we do get or construct an aqueduct from someplace which gets more than its fair share, like Oregon. \_ Interstate Water Wars! |
2010/5/17-6/11 [Science/GlobalWarming, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:53828 Activity:nil |
5/18 did somebody say tar ball? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/tar-balls-key-west_n_579660.html anyone else wishing we could just gzip these? |
2010/4/20-5/10 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53792 Activity:nil |
4/20 "Spring comes 10 days earlier in changed U.S. climate" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100420/us_nm/us_climate_spring_usa |
2010/4/8-5/10 [Science/Disaster, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53779 Activity:nil |
4/8 Animals Living Without Oxygen Discovered for First Time - Yahoo!: http://www.csua.org/u/qi3 |
2010/4/7-15 [Science/GlobalWarming, Science/Physics] UID:53773 Activity:nil |
4/7 "CERN creates 10 million mini-Big Bangs in one week" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100407/sc_nm/us_science_cern See? I told you that this experiment won't create any black holes that get out of control and swallow the entire eart&$*(!~#@%& NO CARRIER |
2010/3/24-4/14 [Science/GlobalWarming, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Others] UID:53759 Activity:nil |
3/24 Global warming solves political dispute: http://www.csua.org/u/qcz Can't argue which country owns the island when it no longer exists. \_ Global warming is also responsible for human civilization. It's the gift that keeps on giving. Don't worry though, I'm sure some geo engineering will solve the pesky problem of western civ. |
2010/1/29-2/18 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53674 Activity:nil |
1/29 "Biofuel advance made in Bay Area, researchers say" http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_14288753?source=most_viewed \- hi if you are interested in this you may also be interested in: http://www.lbl.gov/Conferences/cc2 |
2009/12/2-26 [Transportation/Car/RoadHogs, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53560 Activity:nil |
12/2 Freeway of the future, a 1958 Disney-ish film. "Speed, safety, and comfort are the future". Yeah. Wow, people back then were stupid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA&feature=player_embedded \_ "640KB ought to be enough for anybody." \_ totally taken out of context. It's just an informal way of saying "it's enough for most casual PC users for at least a few years." As for the highway shit, that is just totally ridiculous considering the enormous energy requirements that is required for their vision. On the other hand, perhaps they thought black oil was unlimited, fueling such fooling optimism about the future. \_ Reminds me a bit of WALL-E. |
2009/11/26-12/6 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53545 Activity:nil |
11/26 "New climate targets may not change daily life much" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_climate_costs \_ Glenn Beck says that trying to meet these climate targets will lead to a worldwide socialist regime. |
2009/11/23-30 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53539 Activity:high |
11/22 What no chatter about the Climate Hack? MOTD, I'm so diappointed \_ What is impressive about breaking onto an academic server? I broke onto the Astronomy machines when I was a sophmore. \_ Way to miss the point. The hack itself was not impressive. The information that was exposed, however, make the above thread kind of moot. \_ No, it did not. Global warming is becoming more and more obviously a real problem. There are still a few nutters that claim that it isn't happening, but there are people who don't believe in evolution either. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1125/p02s01-usgn.html \_ Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. I'm going to continue eating imported wagyu beef and leaving my PC on 24/7. I'm thinking about buying an SUV next year. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/25/nigel_lawson \_ You don't even have to be a scientist to see the obvious effects of global warming anymore. Just look at the rising sea levels, the shrinking polar ice caps, etc. \_ Except that none of this is new. The poles have been completely free of ice in the past, for instance. I was reading an article about icebergs as far north as New Zealand intended to serve as a data point about global warming, except that the article said that this last happened in the 1920s. Was it global warming then, too? I personally believe humans are affecting the environment in a big way - probably not a way that benefits us, but I am not sure we can make that claim definitively as it's a complicated system (maybe we are preventing the Earth from cooling off too much). However, the Earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years and it's hard to separate the natural effects from those we caused let alone predict the consequences. \_ Global warming is undeniable, and though there are still many of people like you who try to deny still many people like you who try to deny the fact that the earth is warming, the evidence is pretty overwhelming. It seems from your statements above that you are backtracking on your earlier insistence that those who see this for what it is are blind zealots. The exact causes are open for debate, though it seems like human beings have at the very least some impace on the climate. impact on the climate. |
2009/11/11-30 [Science/GlobalWarming, Science/Physics] UID:53518 Activity:low |
11/11 Watch the History Channel today! It's got Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb history. Did you know at one time 10% of the entire electricity in the U.S. was used to refine U235 and weapon grade plutonium? Holy jesus! I wonder how much energy is used to get plutonium fuel that generates today's nuclear powered electric plant \_ it talks about the 2 different methods for getting U235. So I was curious and looked it up: http://www.physlink.com/Education/askexperts/ae576.cfm Basically, refine uranium into U235 (0.7%) and U238. But then it also talks about using U235 to bombarad U238 into U239, plutonium. How does that work? \_ Physics is hard. \_ why the hell did you even bother to answer if your answer doesn't help \_ you're new around here, aren't you? \_ Here then: http://tinyurl.com/yfrepec |
2009/11/5-19 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53507 Activity:nil |
10/4 Home size vs. carbon footprint. Ex-urban homes rule!!! http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/11/05/with_tax_break_a_big_carbon_footprint |
2009/10/22-11/3 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53464 Activity:nil |
10/22 Time to bust out my I Partied With Nick Weaver T-Shirt: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/10/hoisted-from-comments-nicholas-weaver-on-solar-vs-nuclear-myhrvold-dubner-and-levitt.html |
2009/10/22-11/3 [Politics/Domestic/California, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53463 Activity:nil |
10/22 State of Utah saved $4.1M in one year by switching to 4day-10hr work weeks: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ut_four_day_workweek (Not to mention the commute time saved.) Maybe the State of CA (a much bigger body) and our private employers can do the same. \_ We did this at work and maybe they saved money, but they also receive less for the money they spend. Lots of people were working 9 or 10 hours every day anyway. They still do, but now they just don't come in on Friday. Productivity seems way down. In fact, in order to meet a big deadline on a particular project that project's management made everyone on that task switch to a regular work week. What does that say? YMMV. \_ Do you work in a government office? I am guesing that most govt employees are not working 9-10 hours/day. \_ Actually, I do work for the government. However, I will agree this is probably atypical for the government. \_ The article says that the biggest savings for Utah came not from energy saving or janitoral service reduction, but from overtime pay saving. So it won't work for positions that don't pay overtime. \_ It assumes people were working paid overtime to begin with and now they will not because the work day is so long. However, I wouldn't argue that the productivity is the same. The article says: "They're getting what they need to get done in 10 hours and going home" with the implication being that they used to be there more than 40 hours but got no more work done in that time. I doubt it. I think money is being saved, but less work is being done as a result. People are not suddenly using their time more productively unless the whole overtime thing was a fiasco to begin with where people stayed to get time-and-a-half in which case they could have just as easily said: "No more overtime" and stayed on 5/40. This is not a benefit of the short work week per se. |
2009/10/13-11/3 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53450 Activity:nil |
10/13 "Analysis: Russia uses ambiguity to boost its power" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_an/eu_clinton_russia_analysis Damn Russia, a two-headed snake. |
2009/8/10-19 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53257 Activity:moderate |
8/10 James Kunstler is a genius. http://kunstler.com/blog/2009/08/the-fog-of-numbers.html \_ sarcasm? or are you really an easily impressed dolt?? \_ The latter I guess. I had not run across him before, and while I think he is hyperbolic, I think he is telling a very unpopular truth in a funny and attention getting way. \_ This sounds like it was written by a 14 year old. You really aren't being sarcastic? \_ 14 year olds throw out phrases like "the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world"??? I want to meet your kids! \_ Umm.. yeah, 14 year-olds throw around retarded hyperbole all the time. What part of that phrase do you think is beyond a reasonably well indoctrinated 14 year old? \_ Nah, I was a pretty good writer for my age and in 9th grade I was just starting to write three paragraph essays. Go back and read some of your own work from the time, if you still have it. Perhaps the phrase you are searching for here is sophmoric. \_ I'd expect a pretty good writer would know the difference between a word and a phrase, and might even know the spelling of "sophomoric." \_ Touche! \_ We'll "grow" our way out of trillons of dollars in debt, even though soon our energy supply will be shrinking, not growing, as we pass peak oil; and we haven't figured out a way to grow the economy without also growing energy consumption (efficiency improvements have their limits). \_ We have unlimited energy if we want it. Not only with improving technologies like solar but also nuclear. Two things we will never run out out of, despite liberals' fears: energy and water. \_ We'll also never run out of environment, if most liberals would GTFO off cali and travel they'd see that the only reason they think the environment is going away is because thye live in a effen brown desert. duh. \_ I agree with you on this, and I am a green liberal. However, getting from our current fossil fuel dependent society to one that runs on nuclear electricity is going to hurt, especially if we keep putting off the changes we need to make. \_ must be nice to be a trustafarian. \_ trustafarian? What are you talking about? I grew up in a trailer park. |
2009/7/24 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53192 Activity:nil |
7/23 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Whig_Party |
2009/7/21-8/6 [Politics/Domestic/California, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53176 Activity:nil |
7/21 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE Stephenson @google booktour. it's pretty cool they have these recordings. \_ when is http://google.edu coming? \_ isn't that what google knol is? \_ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/11/poor-google-knol-has-gone-from-a-wikipedia-killer-to-a-craigslist-wannabe \_ dead? \_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah9PyZNb4F8 (Salman Rushdie) \_ One thing I see with all these is just how arrogant and out touch the google employees are about life. I guess koresh's flock were out of touch as well as mansen's. |
2009/5/27-6/3 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53048 Activity:low |
5/27 Paint your roofs white. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090526/sc_afp/climatewarmingusbritainchu "Making roads and roofs a paler colour could have the equivalent effect of taking every car in the world off the road for 11 years, Chu said." \_ Did that already. Already noticed the house is much cooler. Have not needed cooling even though highs were 90F. --PeterM \_ I've been telling my wife we should do this, and she thinks I'm crazy. Now that the energy secretary agress with me, maybe I can finally do it. What kind of paint do I need for painting roofs? Is it just the same kind of paints as for exterior walls? -- OP \_ I actually didn't paint it--I changed roofing materials from a dark one to a light one. --PeterM \_ I have a light grey roof and no A/C. With a large shade tree on the south side of my house I never need A/C. However, won't this make my house colder in winter. It gets damn cold and I run the heater constantly. Not sure it's a net win. \_ Actually, I think it might help even in the winter. A light roof means you gain less heat from the sun, but you also radiate less heat away. Even in California, the net heat flow through your roof in winter is probably outward. \_ Check your physics crystal ball again. Color does not effect transmission, only absorbtion. -mrauser \_ Sorry, he's more correct than you are. Color, or more properly material properties, can modify both transmission AND absorbtion. Some, but not all, white materials have low emissivity as well as high reflectivity. Some DO have high emissivity and will radiate heat well. \_ What is "transmission" in thermal radiation? I know absorbtion is "going in" and emission is "going out". -- !PP \_ Why do you think it is called "black body" radiation? Black is the most emittive as well as the most absorptive. \_ Where do you live? Most Bay Area locations don't ever need A/C, and barely need heat. But A/C is more energy expensive than heating AND it probably has more of an effect on hot days than on cold days. \_ Yeah, I was thinking that I need to heat my house, not cool it. But it would still help with global warming to paint my roof white. \- The computation was done on an ultra 80. \_ What? |
2009/5/19-25 [Science/Electric, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53011 Activity:nil |
5/18 Does the new federal vehicle fuel-efficiency requirement specify how efficiencies of plug-in hybrids will be calculated? Some plug-in hybrids claims to have ridiculously high efficiency like 100mpg because they're not counting the energy input from the electric grid. That's not a good indiction of their actual energy efficiency. |
2009/5/9-15 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52977 Activity:nil |
5/9 were any of you at defcon with me the day when the feds dragged away that guy who cracked adobe ebook encryption ? - danh \_ I didn't know you went to defcon. Are you going this year? -ausman \_ I went a few times. I don't care anymore. I only ask because I went to a talk at defcon but the Russian programmer who broke Adobe ebook encryption. During the talk, the moderator stopped him and asked him if he knew where the nuclear vessels are in Alameda, and he responded "I do not understand, I do not know where the nuclear wessels are in Alameda" and the audience broke up laughing. |
2009/5/4-6 [Science/GlobalWarming, Science/Physics] UID:52946 Activity:nil |
5/4 Next-generation stealth technology :-) http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/04/art-student-creates.html |
2009/4/20-23 [Science/GlobalWarming, Science/Physics] UID:52881 Activity:nil |
4/20 Cold Fusion on 60 Minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4955212n |
2009/4/20-28 [Science/GlobalWarming, Science/Physics] UID:52875 Activity:kinda low |
4/20 "Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_hawking Hope he doesn't die until he solves the mystery of the universe(s) for all of us. \_ Update: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30323352 \_ This has all been taken out of context...he went in to get some 26s put on his wheel chair and a couple of other mods and the the Technician said "It's gonna be ILL!" \_ Stephen Hawking is overrated \_ Really? Then who is the forefront guy in the field now? Thx. \_ Hawking isn't really the foremost scientist, but he's one of the best at making the concepts accessible. Filipenko is similar in that way. -tom \- i think that characterization short changes hawking. picking a "market leader" may depends on your thoughts about string theory. \_ Uh, he's been very ill for decades. \_ It's nice we're so willing to spend $$ to support string philosophy, but how about doing some science? \- you can say string theory has affected the job mkt but i dont think this is a reasonable crit ... e.g. LHC is $$$. the waste of $$$ from a science perspective is humans in space. and a lot of public money is spent on medican research, if you consider science beyond fundamental physics. \_ I slam string philosophy because it is producing no testable predictions. Engineering demonstrations such as trips to space have their uses, and so does medical research, but have any testable hypotheses come out of many years of string philosophy? Though perhaps I should use the less perjorative term string mathematics, because that is all that can be said to have come of it. Math is worth pursuing for its own sake, but I think that the physicists need to concentrated on producing some testable hypotheses or look at alternatives. \_ The LHC will test parts of string theory. \_ My PhD physicist friend claims that these tests don't really distinguish string theory from other available theories. \_ wow, you have a PhD physicist friend, you must know what you're talking about! \_ You noticed I said "claims"? Are you too dim to pick up that this means I don't necessarily trust he is right? However, I do grant him some credibility. What credibility do you have, asshole? \_ I have *two* PhD physicist friends! \_ I'd put Filipenko in the same category as Neil DeGrasse: amazingly good at evangelizing science. \- that short changes Filipenko. \_ Being a string theorist is a great scam. Its impossible to prove or disprove any of your data in your thought experiments while sitting at the cafe in downtown Palo Alto. \- while all the B School people are earning their bread for sure. |
2009/4/9-13 [Science/GlobalWarming, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52833 Activity:kinda low |
4/9 Is this a dress rehersal for when Obama shuts down the Internet and assumes dictatorial power? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225746/posts \_ You miscapitalized BLACK HELICOPTERS! \_ "A vandal cuts a line and thousands are without phone service. What would a nuclear device exploded in the atmosphere do?" I love you you pathetic little freepers. |
2009/3/29-4/3 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52768 Activity:high |
3/29 "Leaving computers on overnight = $2.8 billion a year" http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/130078 \_ Not good for hardware to power it up and down all the time. I always leave all my computers on all the time, except for laptops which I allow to sleep (but still be powered). \_ How is this the case for desktops but not laptops? I don't see how turning something off at the end of the day would cause a problem. Seems like less wear and tear. \_ It's more wear and tear to power cycle and lubricants get cold. Your system will fail more quickly if you turn it off every night in my experience. How laptops are different: 1. Their h/w is better designed for low or no power. 2. They are much better about sleep/wakeup than desktops, in part because of 1. 3. If a laptop dies it's not usually a big deal because they are not expected up 100% of the time anyway. \_ Here you go. Welcome to the 21st century. http://tinyurl.com/dcur84 http://tinyurl.com/6egwdu \_ From a link found in one of your links: "[Temperature cycling] is a well-established failure mechanism and a stress on components," McCredie pointed out. "What it really comes down to is all these things -- chips soldered on modules, soldered on boards and connectors -- that expand and contract when they heat and cool.... When they all contract and expand at different rates, they can fail. That's ultimately the bad thing with power cycling," he said. --Brad McCredie, an IBM fellow for the Systems and Technology Group You can say "Cycling power on a sick system is going to bring attention to latent component weaknesses that go unnoticed in operation" which maximizes "server availability", but that's an odd way of looking at it. If you don't power down the system then you won't have the failure and your availability will be greater. I have gone through just a few dozen exercises where equipment in an entire data center was powered down and equipment always fails at a much higher rate when that happens. Whether it's just highlighting a latent sickness is semantics. If you don't power it off, then it won't fail, even if the power off is not the root cause. \_ Well, if you want to cling onto any comment as a way to rationalize your practices, that's fine. \_ why give this guy a pass? Fuck that! this is our planet too. --ecoterr'rst The way I synthesize everything is if you're not power-cycling a lot, you'll very likely be fine for the useful life of the product. It's a tradeoff between perceived higher failure rates, which may go up "negligibly" with occasional power cycling, versus the cost to your pocketbook and the environment of running hardware 24/7 even when it's not being used. There are multiple comments that suggest that turning off your equipment at night (or whenever it won't be used for an extended period of time) is the better tradeoff, but of course you conveniently ignore those points. P.S. A datacenter is a very different use case than a typical home or work desktop. Although powering down parts of a datacenter would still appear to be much more a logistical problem than a hardware failure problem. \_ Different use case, but basically same components. If they fail measurably (not "negligibly") in that case then they will fail at your home, too. Most people probably do not notice because a 1/N failure rate means you will likely be fine, but when the number of machines is 1000N it's a noticeable issue. I always count on a power outage to result in dead hardware. You can make the argument that a 5-10% chance of failure (say) over the lifetime of the system is low, but I'd rather just keep my system up. The key point here is not that I am against powering off equipment, but realize it comes with a non-negligible risk of failure. Given my experiences I just keep my equipment powered on. As far as being environmentally aware, maybe you should talk to the people in the 55 story buildings who leave the lights on all night. Go anywhere in SF, LA, or NYC to see that lots of lights are not on sensors. Those "spectacular city views" are wasting a lot of $$$. \_ well, if you have control of the lights in the skyscrapers, by all means, turn them off when not in use. If you don't, you should make wise choices about the things you do control. -tom \_ I gave up on convincing him. Guy just doesn't want to do it. \_ I like my h/w to not fail. Maybe you don't mind if it does. You can pretend the h/w won't fail, the OS will always boot fine, and the s/w will start up fine every time if you want to but there is evidence to the contrary. It's not a case of comparing my $500 machine to the $8/month bill and saying that I can replace the machine with the savings over the life of the machine. Having my machine fail is *BAD* and causes me grief. If you turn yours off every day then more power to you. My experience has shown that IBM guy (who *you* ignore) is correct and power cycling systems results in failures. You know that server in the corner that no one knows what it does exactly but is VERY IMPORTANT and the guy who built the s/w that runs on it - and only on that very h/w - left 15 years ago? DON'T TURN IT OFF OR REBOOT IT. Now, if you understand why that is a bad idea extend it to your own system because the same physics are at work. Now if a h/w failure is meaningless to you because you have great backups and no need for quick recovery and can buy another machine and so on then go ahead and power down, but that's analyzing risk/reward which is not the same as saying there is no problem with powering your system down. There is. \_ You speak as if hardware won't fail if you don't turn it off. It will; it's just a matter of time. And if your plan for handling the failure of a VERY IMPORTANT system is to not have it fail in the first place by not turning it off, you're just stupid. Although I've seen people have just such "plans", but then, newsflash, there are stupid people out there. \_ It will fail more rapidly if you keep turning it on and off every day, whether that's because the components are stressed or just because latent failures materialize. I know HP said that the h/w won't, but I doubt they tested systems under real world situations like under a desk with a case full of dust bunnies. My own experience has shown that h/w will fail when powered down and I dread it whenever electrical work has to be done because it means something is going to die. Sure, sometimes h/w dies anyway but it's *guaranteed* something will die when everything has been powered off. I have seen this many times over 12 years now. |
2009/2/25-3/3 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52633 Activity:nil |
2/25 If only we had listened to ALGOR: \- must not destroy robot. http://preview.tinyurl.com/d6hgbt [new scientist] |
2009/2/24-3/3 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52628 Activity:nil |
2/24 Antarctic mountain range mapped: http://preview.tinyurl.com/d3u3vc [new scientist] \_ Clearly this proves that Global Warming is not happening. \_ Seriously, was that the best you could come up with? |
2009/2/17-21 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52591 Activity:nil |
2/17 "Nuclear subs didn't know they'd hit each other" http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090217/wl_afp/britainfrancenuclearweapons |
2009/2/16-19 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52581 Activity:nil |
2/16 George F. Will takes on science, loses credibility http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/george-f-will-takes-on-science-loses.html |
2009/2/15-18 [Science/GlobalWarming, Computer/HW/Drives, Science/Electric] UID:52576 Activity:nil |
2/15 How many watts does a typical desktop (not counting monitor) use when it is completely idling (top shows at most 1-2% CPU), assuming normal SATA HD, video card, 2-4G RAM? \_ Google did a published study where they determined that the largest consumer of energy in a computer is the power supply itself. Figure that if you have a 400W power supply you are using at least half that if not more even when idle. \_ that totally blows. Laptop #1!!! \_ Power supply manufacturers need an incentive to make more efficient power supplies. It's probably not hard to do. Google was talking about pushing manufacturers on that issue, but one company is probably not enough. |
2009/2/12-18 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52558 Activity:nil |
2/12 Much better than nuclear waste: http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20090212/NEWS01/90212004 |
2009/2/10-17 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52554 Activity:nil |
2/10 Meat causes global warming: http://preview.tinyurl.com/d6ao4r [new scientist] \_ The IPCC has said this for a while. More greenhouse gasses result from the meat industry than from all of the transportation industry. \_ bullshit (literally). Thats mostly recycling carbon that was on the surface anyway (same argument the biofuels folks can use that they are carbon neutral). The real villain is all the carbon we are digging up from deep underground and releasing. \_ I see your point, but isn't methane a more potent global warming gas, per pound of carbon, than CO^2? \_ By about a factor of 25, yes \_ So you reject the IPCC? |
2009/2/6-12 [Politics/Domestic/California, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52526 Activity:kinda low |
2/6 Chu says global warming will turn CA into a desert. Why can't I see any trend on Tahoe snowfall in the last 100 years? http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pj0h2MODqj3hvJSHq8lYoEA \_ Because you're an idiot. \_ Wait, there IS a trend there? Can you point it out? \_ There does not appear to be a trend in that particular set of data, taken out of context. The fact that you think that is significant is why you are an idiot. \_ The context to me is that there has been warming over the last century, but no trend in the snowpack. Can you explain why that's not significant? -op \_ Your graph is snowfall, not snowpack. It's also picking only one spot, when mountain conditions vary wildly from one place to another. And the effects of global warming are not linear. -tom \_ Ah, thanks for pointing out my mistake of pack vs. fall. Far more useful than simply saying I'm an idiot. -op \_ That's not why you're an idiot. \_ FYI, your an idiot b/c you have dared to doubt \_ FYI, you're an idiot b/c you have dared to doubt the revealed truth of the prophet Gore. How dare you! Who are you to think unapproved thoughts! \_ The one good thing about Global Warming is that it might (might!) dry up some of that froth. |
2009/1/21-26 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52428 Activity:nil |
1/21 Since July, the CPI has dropped 4.4% \_ That's like getting a 4.4% raise! \_ How much of that is pure fuel price? \_ Fuel isn't part of CPI \_ Fuel isn't part of CPI -op \_ I am pretty sure the stat he is quoting includes fuel. In fact, almost all of that slide is in fuel prices. \_ It's not just fuel (though I stand corrected, it does include fuel): "Wholesale prices fall for 5th straight month" http://tinyurl.com/7a8za3 [cnn.com] -op \_ Wholesale prices are not directly related to CPI. http://tinyurl.com/cwss7d "The core CPI, without volatile food and energy prices, was unchanged from the prior month, the government said." \_ Biggest slide since Nov 1932 - Apr 1933 |
2009/1/18-23 [Science/GlobalWarming, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:52410 Activity:nil |
1/17 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/9m_downadup_infections Did this actually do anything or is this Morris Warhol Worm? |
2008/12/20-2009/1/7 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52287 Activity:nil |
12/20 Obama names "scientists" to key posts: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/20/politics/main4679445.shtml \_ That evil science loving freak. \_ Versus "The world was created in seven days" theologians? |
2008/12/18-2009/1/2 [Science/Space, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52272 Activity:nil |
12/18 Using graphics chips to do generic data-crunching: "NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace of Scientific Research" http://www.imim.es/news/view.php?ID=37 \_ Why are you posting marketing press releases here? There's nothing new here... they've done the folding @home thing on GPUs for a long time and on Playstations. Also, YMWTGF: OpenCL \_ What is interesting is the layer of abstraction involved. Folding @home had to write some seriously special case code. \_ The original one did, but they also use Nvidia's CUDA now, but that is Nvidia-specific so it is still special case. In any case the "using graphics chips to do generic data- crunching" aspect is like 8+ years old. It is definitely an interesting research area though. (CSUA should invest in high-end gaming PCs for research...) \_ No need. We already have some. For *cough* research... --t |
2008/12/16-2009/1/2 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52258 Activity:nil |
12/16 So UYG has hit $6 even sooner than I expected. That is a 10% gain in 3 days even if you came late to the party and didn't buy in until after we had a day of debate. It's almost 25% for me and anyone who bought at market open on Friday. Because I was criticized for not being specific last time, I am going to now sell 40% of my position and wait for $7, which will come within a year and probably much sooner, but not before a little seesaw. Truth be told, I am anticipating $8 before February, but I am an optimist. I will add to my positon if it falls below $5 and again if it falls below $4, but will consider selling out completely if it breaks the 52 week low. \_ There are a bunch of traders and I have no idea WHO you are. What is your alias? Can you designate your alias, like superawesomedaytrader or something? -chicken trader \_ that's great. but next time, *please* be more specific on exit points, and give us 24 hours to digest the tip. yeah, I know it's free advice, but you don't get as much credit. \_ The above is the Reader's Digest version. There are other scenarios I would buy/sell in like on a steep pullback (buy) or quick gain (sell). The market moves fast, so 24 hours notice is a little much unless you are wanting to buy-and-hold in which case my advice is to buy almost anything now and hold it for 10 years. Things to consider: 1. Energy will be a great play once energy stocks digest recent (lowered) earnings and energy bulls realize oil is not below $100 for just a few months but for a year or even more. Energy stocks are still trading above 52 week lows even as oil has plummeted. Wait for them to break those lows. 2. All of this money will devalue the dollar and cause inflation. There will be currency plays and inflation plays (like TIPS) and (eventually, not yet) commodities plays. \_ all right, I'll take 8 or 12 hours notice. I'm looking for an entry and exit on any symbol, doesn't have to be UYG -pp \_ You have lost all your gains on UYG. Just pointing that out. \_ No I didn't. 1. I sold 40% of it above 6. (see above) 2. Even today it is trading 10% above where I bought it. I'm doing just fine, thanks. I'm now trying to figure out what to sell (and when) to pay for all these big gains I will have to pay taxes on in April. |
2008/12/11-16 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52225 Activity:nil |
12/11 LBL's Steven Chu chosen to head DOE: http://preview.tinyurl.com/63rj7h [wp] |
2008/12/4-8 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52159 Activity:nil |
12/4 This is pretty cool: (oldest animal) http://tinyurl.com/6q39cf \_ "Despite his old age (176yr), locals say he still has the energy to regularly mate with the three younger females." Hugh Hefner is nothing, man. |
2008/11/28-12/4 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:52126 Activity:nil |
11/28 Open note to Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3 devs: an open world game is much less enjoyable if the end of main quest is suicide. Just because I might want to wander around the whole open world thingy. |
2008/11/4 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:51822 Activity:nil |
11/4 Indiana is the battleground state this year. Dumb ass Ohio finally made up its mind. \_ Obama's gonna win and that's cool. However, I forgot to dump my oil/energy stocks. I should have done it earlier. Oh well. |
2008/11/3-5 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:51803 Activity:nil |
11/3 Hey, did you know that about 50% of electricity in the US comes from coal? \_ "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6016 \_ cap and trade is silly. Just plain-old carbon tax on it would be a lot more effective \_ Currently, most vehicles in the US don't use electricity from external sources. ** ****** **** ** *** ***** ** ** ** * *** * * ** ** * * * ** * ** * *PRES. MCCAIN* * * * * WOULD * * * * * ** * CAUSE THIS***** * * * * ** *** * * * * * * ********** *** * ***** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * ** * * * * * * * ** ** **** *** * * **** ********** ** * ** * ********* Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. \_ Most houses do though. \_ YES. and do you know that the percentage was a lot higher a couple years ago? And you guys blame China for using coal and produce green-house gas. |
2008/11/1-2 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/Japan, Science/Electric, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:51773 Activity:nil |
11/1 Gundam Academy: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5058011.ece |
2008/10/28-31 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:51716 Activity:low |
10/28 I'm reading NO ON PROP 7 web site that says Prop 7 will: increase elec bill by ~$300/year, force consumers to pay 10% more. Actually, I WANT everyone to pay more because electricity is still too cheap and people should cut down. I also love bills that is anti-growth (cheap energy, cheap food, etc). I really believe that anti-growth will leads to higher quality of living. Is there something wrong with me? \_ There are many things wrong with you, but this is not one of them. \_ I'm all for either a pollution tax or a higher gas tax. Same reason. \_ But the radio commercial also says Prop 7 will eliminate small energy generators, which might not be good. \_ Yes, there's something wrong with you: you've bought into the idea that conservation is a model for living, not a stop-gap measure. The true goal must remain attaining infinite, perpetually renewable resources; once we attain this goal, we will no longer need to conserve, and we can make the _choice_ to live ascetically if we so desire. Forcing people to live ascetically in the face of a lack of limits is self-defeating. \_ Except there are no perpetual motion machines, so until we invent one, we will always be faced with limits. \_ Correct, and until then conservation is called for. However, we must not allow the previous non-existence of such to prevent our drive to create such. Conservation is a stop- gap. \_ Conservation is the most cost-effective and easiest 'stop gap'. \_ In the words of Nils Bohr, you and I do not disagree as much you seem to think. |
2008/10/28-29 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:51705 Activity:low |
10/28 Crap. Solar Panel manufacture releases NF3, which is 17,000 times worse a greenhouse gas than CO2. I want my solar panels! http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2229052/solar-panels-linked-powerful \_ Yes it sucks. Yes it needs to be fixed. However 17,000 times doesn't mean very much if the amount is minimal. This is FUD, pure and simple. Manufacturing makes greenhouse gases through a variety of ways. Centralized production is a single point for improvement and regulation. Flat panels have resonable regulation so that those gasses aren't just released. Notice the whole "not more than two per cent of the NF3 used in industry escaped" quote. If that's too much I'm sure than number could fairly cheaply be reduced by a level of magnitude or more. \_ We need to compare the amount of NF3 released during manufacturing vs. the amount of CO2 it reduced by producing clean energy during lifespan of the panel. Personally I don't have any data on either. |
2008/10/9 [Science/GlobalWarming, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Korea] UID:51459 Activity:nil |
10/9 Bush to roll over on North Korea: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_re_eu/eu_nuclear_nkorea_11 |
2008/10/3-9 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:51378 Activity:nil |
10/3 Wind changes, not global warming are cause of Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheet losses (Blog referencing two new articles in Science) http://tinyurl.com/4cs4fq \_ If you actually looked at the articles you'd see they are blaming the wind changes ON GLOBAL WARMING. Look this isn't hard. The environment is a chaotic system that settled into a local minmum. That's rarely stable. All it takes is a little push and things go haywire. Global warming is that push. |
2008/10/3-6 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:51365 Activity:nil |
10/3 "Russia to deploy new nuclear missile" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081002/wl_nm/us_russia_forces \_ This is, paradoxically, the best news I've heard from Russia in a long while. Why did the USSR fail? Because it spent all of its money on military build-up. God, I hope this causes Putin to get ousted. |
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