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Drought effect on rainforests is negligible

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Alien

I am neutral but

Speaking as one of the first climate change deniers I ever heard of this one got me:

"Samanta, Ganguly and their colleagues also consider that their results debunk another controversial paper published in 2007, which said that the 2005 drought was actually good for the rainforests, causing them to "green up" due to more sunlight from cloudless skies.

These results are "not reproducible", according to the new analysis, which indicates that in fact nothing much changed down on the Amazon during the 2005 dry spell."

If it's the report I think it is, I picked it up and ran with it. For which I blame Earth Observatory.

As far as I know this is a first from my perspective. Perhaps you can tell me what I have missed?

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Pint

Paper to the mills

Coals to Newcastle and rainforest to ashes. All nothing to do with the article. It was about the reaction to dry weather/wet weather.

In the 1960's decimation on a huge scale began in the South American jungles to make paper. The project went tits up but left a niche for farming on a large scale.

This is a widespread and well known problem. You only have to compare Haiti with it's neighbours to see that.

I have just watched the tail end of a programme on the fall of the city of Detroit. It is much the same problem of market forces and the foresight of Investment Wankers.

Basically if you have to pay anyone you pay the top echelon. Anything lower down makes do with the fall out.

But that has nothing to do with the papers concerned or the article.

I remember posting to a newsgroup, that when I was a boy the CO2 levels were estimated at about 1/2 % of the atmosphere (IIRC) because the gas is water soluble. And the nastiness I got from that statement put me on alert.

People don't like to be disabused/unbrainwashed.

They just... don't like it up em.

Lib Dem candidate admits to unnatural vice

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Welcome

Quite right

To be suspicious of a political motivation is the mark of an honest man.

What do you make of Winston Churchill's political career? If ever there was a man with a poor track record...

Whilst "Arch-Tory blogger Iain Dale is cock-a-hoop about this supposedly embarrassing discovery – as well as pouring gentle scorn on the very idea that someone who has worked in the adult film industry can have anything to offer the electorate." might have a point, one might ask if her services have been used by members members.

US comp-boffins claim fix for multicore 'concurrency bugs'

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Joke

this title contains letters and 1234s

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life

Set a man on fire and you can have all the fish he caught and someone to cook them for you.

Password reset questions dead easy to guess

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Boffin

Ýùö Ćâŋ Ƌő ĩŤ Ļīķĕ Ţħıš

or you can mung it like this:

Ý;ù_ö#Ć~â)ŋ@ƋőppppĩŤ%55Ļ£ī$ķ22ĕ^Ţ*ħ-ı+š

The permutations are endless and if you use the same permutation each time you won't forget it. Exemplar gratis:

MÝyùmöo tĆhâeŋr sƋnőa mĩeŤi sĻīķĕ Ţħıš

What's the big deal? Most simple cryptography relies on word spacing and "most common letters".

Anyone out to target you is going to get you.

So if you are in a job such as a senior government official in I'llaskher or somewhere out the back of back-wad, you need professional assistance, a secure server and a tad more sense than a lip stuck, porcine brained, sock mother.

Speaking of Chimpanzees. How are things progressing with Rumsfeldgate over the loss of emails in the aweful Orifice of the Wit House?

TSA worker tried to sabotage terror database, feds say

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Pint

Rite or wrong

You haveto hand it to the rebels of the dark ages to go up against a Satanic system ruled by gangsters of the worst sort. Inept and cruel.

This story is about just such a one. Whether he was also a baddie or not I don't care. He raged against the machine and I wish him the very best.

BBC might pay for Tory broadband promises

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Paris Hilton

4. Blame Thatcher for it, cause everything is her fault apparently

Well it IS isn't it? She even pioneered the silly grin.

Nigel Lawson got three positions as an advisor all with investment banks. What was that if not a precedent? If he had known what he was doing he'd have said something about today's fiascos instead of sounding off at the CRU.

'Phantom Eye' hydrogen strato-spy drone starts building

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FAIL

Small because of size

Aircraft engines are large enough to propel aircraft. At 65,000 feet the better engine for large framed craft is a jet. Unfortunately they are not very economical. All stuff that became obvious in the 1930's, hence total absence of any suitable reference and/or explanation in the article.

Virgin signals start of telegraph pole broadband test

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Boffin

It's obvious

The BBC.

Why couldn't you see it?

UK pol touts canine chip implants

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Boffin

What's the problem?

It has nothing to do with controlling dangerous dogs. Anyone out with a dog set to go off like a gun and who is into drug dealing and various other social crimes, is not going to have anything like a radio location device near him.

So the government isn't hoping they will buy the chips.

Which means that all the dangerous dogs with chips are owned by citizens and all the ones not chipped are owned by crooks. And making themselves obvious by default.

Either that or the government is being silly once more. Hardly likely is it. I mean to say, who'd join an army run by such fools?

Tories ask: Why BBC3, BBC4?

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Happy

Czjd de fouqup

The best thing about the BBC at the moment is that BBC 1 and BBC 2 are so crappy that having a copy of the Radio Times is proof of not needing a TV licence.

Mystic Met Office abandons long range forecasts

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FAIL

24 hour clock.

That statement is in the manner of a stopped clock being better than a clock that runs fast or slow. All three of them tell the right time in some part of the world. Which is the sort of thinking that the MetOffice demands of its TV presenters. They don't know enough to come in out of the rain and can't afford umbrellas.

This magazine has had frequent reports on the bias and other problems of the hugely expensive MetO computer. But before all that the national weather organisation, whatever it is, is being cut to ribbons by closures and redundancies and automation. It has been for the last decade.

On top of that; until recently most model runs were intercepted for correction by expert hands. These days the whole shebang goes through untouched. Check out uk.sci.weather. The old posts that is. Most of the present stuff has died the dearth.

Argos buries unencrypted credit card data in email receipts

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Pint

Lost in translation.

"Argos takes the security of its customers’ data extremely seriously, is fully aware of the requirements of the Data Protection Act and has taken remedial action in relation to this matter.

We are in contact with the Information Commissioner’s Office. We have made them aware of our approach to customer communications and will continue to work closely with them to ensure we are taking all appropriate actions."

= Argos was called into the ICO and is currently bent over their bureaux waiting for pain.

US weather-watching sat blasts off

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Boffin

The problem with temperature sensors

Water will absorb light or solar heat to a depth of hundreds of feet on a fine day. On a cloudy day the temperature of the sea's surface is controlled by the stuff that clouds have converted the frequencies of.

OK, they are only looking for gradients in the region of naughtpoinsix degrees Centigrade.

Until they can come up with a multimillion dollar box of tricks that can register air pressures at all levels, they'd be better off picking up the fall-out from the weapons of mass destruction they have scattered all over Falluja.

Mars Express skims past Phobos

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Headmaster

That's a mystery.

But one thing we do know for sure is that when Mars has a 8.6M marsquake the satellite will be able to breathe safely in its orbit.

Intel preps new Xeons for March 16 launch

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Coat

How about

Running that Windows ap what was it called advisa awf...

Vista.. gottit.

I should be able to right?

Swedish pothead reports LSD-laced hash

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Paris Hilton

Minds no body

Why do you think it is called, dope?

Climategate hits Westminster: MPs spring a surprise

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Alien

OOPS!

Sounds like we could use a few more of this kind:

"It is the university which has produced 4 graduates with degrees that were so incompetent that they could not build an incendiary device even when using instructions from the Internet."

There is some information I'd rather not have shared. Maybe they chose the professors at that University "with a certain mental inclination" for a reason?

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Pirate

Me too neither

Yesterday's article was spot on too. Is the BBC a quango BTW? Not sure.

Upon this blasted heath you stop our way

With such prophetic greeting?—Speak, I charge you

What do you say?—CRU jimmie:

"I'm afraid he's at a meeting."

More.

Suits 2.0 will survive BBC's 'purge'

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Broken coward

I presume by:

"managed to ensure that UK didn't become the 51st, ..." you mean the 51st state of the USA?

What makes you think Tory B Liar didn't do that a long time ago?

As for the BBC most of the non UK news items are USA items. The BBC treats US news events as practically the same as home produced crap.

Men at Work appeal Down Under plagiarism ruling

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Without the musician in the tree, no way!

Listening to a dried-out combo on you tube, dreadful drongo

There is a strange lady, she made them nervous She took took them on with her attorneys

And she said, "I wrote your tune down under you boys gonna give me plunder

Can't you hear, can't you hear the kookaburra? You better run, you better take cover."

Gonna 'peal to the man in Brussels? EMI is rich and full of muscle

I said, "Do you speak-a my language?" EMI has got a knuckle sandwich

And he said, "I come from a land down under Where beer does flow and men chunder

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover."

(Yeahhh!)

We put a flautist in a tree -don't ask why it's mystery, and he'd nothin' much to play

I said to the man, "And the rest is history

Because I come from the land of plenty"

And he said, "Oh, you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah) Where women glow and men plunder?

Without that clip there'd be no thunder (ooohh) Without that clip nothing to recover."

Mad Aus gov accuses Sydney hacks of hacking

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Idiot

How many trains do you think there are in Horsetrailer?

You have to be kidding right? Anyone leaving a CD on a train there can just phone up the end of the line about three days later when the train arrives and ask them to find it for them.

Long way to fall asleep for though.

BBC iPlayer rejects open source plugins, takes Flash-only path

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Terrorable icon wanted

Liked it.

Ever since the Blair Which project took over the BBC we have not learned of the weapons of mass destruction now killing the inhabitants of Iraq. And there is a lot more where that isn't coming from.

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Define low quality

I think the best proof of innocence if charged with illegally having a TV capable machine is the Radio Times.

One look at the contents available and the judge would throw it out as said TV would not be watched.

Antitrust incoming? Google hit by EU complaint, FCC filing

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Unhappy

Who would use a Microsoft search engine?

I can't even imagine newbies sticking with them long.

But the way the world turns is rather incredible. You hope for the best then find out the banks have been screwing everybody in the kitchen sink.

I remember the disbelief the amateur Microsoft helpsites in ASAP being dumbfounded when the US government got into bed with one of the countries worst offenders turned gamekeeper.

So there is no knowing what political military and security whatnots are going to come out of the woods over this. Or worm deeper into it.

Payment card skimmer secretly planted in gas station pump

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Paris Hilton

Grabbing back not

If the banks were not in total control of several large governments, the various scams on ATMs would have been a subject of judicial action a long time ago. Banks just make the customers pay for the various frauds rather than end the ludicrous Dieboldnik franchises.

Chinese schools deny Google cyber-attack links

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Person or persons unknown

Speaking with China's official Xinhua news agency, a representative of Shanghai Jiaotong University indicated that even if the attacks appeared to be linked to an IP address at the school, that does not mean its students were involved. "We were shocked and indignant to hear these baseless allegations which may harm the university's reputation," said the >>unnamed spokesman.<<

It's reassuring that the people's spokespeople can speak out to Google unafraid.

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Never mind

"Anyone who has delusions that the Chinese somehow will be taught to think and act differently and fit our moral standards is a deluded idiot and should answer his village calling him to have his brain checked."

Anyone who has delusions that we have moral standards is a deluded idiot and should answer his ...

errrmmm whatever delusional idiots answer to.

Ex-Army man cracks popular security chip

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Alien

Sterp over and help us

I am working on some earth science cuting edge stuff and would welcome any input. It doesn't cost anything once you have an internet connection.

Take a look at the storm reports page of the USA's NWS and compare the days for tornado activity with the North Atlantic sea level pressure charts from the previous day.

Ditto for days when there were severe earthquakes.

Some people can get it and some can't. If you think you are a scientist a real one that is not a paid professor of doublespeak, get out of your bed and follow me.

Anyone know anything about Euler geometry?

<Nerd Wanted icon wanted>

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Boffin

Market farces

"I'd be pretty sure Infineon knew what they were doing and knew exactly how the chip could be broken but just figured no hacker would go to the trouble of doing it. (The equipment is very very expensive)"

Equiptment like desk top computers and mobile phones were very expensive at one time. I don't think anyone would be interested in a microscope that can only focus on a silicon chip but the possibility exist of making an imager that will do the job just that job and someone could in theory churn them out wholesale.

As for rights to analyse equiptment, this has always been the case. Guilds have been formed to protect marketable systems since the year dot and hacks are as old as cave drawings.

What will be has been and ever shall.

Recession exacerbated Jobcentre computer woes

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Happy

,/IN sert Tit le her e>

But you would have to sign off if you worked for more than 16 hours per week on it.

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Paris Hilton

U kid I not

I went in with my name and number writted out for them to let me past the bouncers. Said home made docket in lieu of the official booklet, in smart transparent plastic, long lost.

Sweet boy goes over to a viable computer and writes same info on an official temporary piece of paper in lieu of home made version for me to pass on to the receptionist at the next level.

It's a good job they have got computers, regardless of whether they work or not. In fact if they are not working properly it makes the staff look even more like they are working properly.

Oh yes and I had to wait a while before they sent me <s>y<s>our money. One has to laugh.

Castleford locals storm Tickle Cock bridge

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Boffin

pluralsi

Shouldn't that be Banks...

Ermmm.. Bank?

Twitter 'airport bomb hoax twit' charged

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Multiculture

You can't expect world pieces until we are all aligned in the same mind-set. And the sooner we have all got the George Bush China Syndrome the better.

Small firms say UK taxes are strangling growth

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Happy

Exponential tax on oh my

You are paying 7 quid on every quid and I suppose the same is true of the small firm who sold me 5 pieces of wood yesterday at 89p apiece for £5.22 was also on that rate?

Someone is as rich as a pig in shit somewhere. Investment banker or someone? Northern Rockette?

Linux guru: interface innovation is the challenge

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FAIL

Funny

"What Linux needs is to "just work" like Windows does."

WTF? icon here.

Recently bought a new netbook with Vista on it. Scrubbed Vista, installed XP.

Bad Joke Alert icon here.

This is the bit that earned the fail icon.:

"Everything worked 'cept for WiFi. Quick search, download one .exe file and double click. One re-boot later and WiFi works. Everywhere."

With Intentional Explorer? -Which in this public library has a tick on the [save my short and curlies for the next holder] box, please? And this thing gets wiped at night I think (anyhow it doesn't have WiFi which at least shows someone in the nexus has had his thumbs hammered at least a trillion times.)

Microsoft FATtens up patent portfolio

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What's the catch?

Is the target unaware of what potentially useful patentable stuff they have or w00t?

MPs launch probe of massive net snooping project

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Paris Hilton

[ Edit your details ]

What the hell is this?

"Posted by “I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects 1” [ Edit your details ]. If you are not I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects 1, you can login here. "

Have I been mandated by some trumped up warrantless charge so that I have to wear this unwanted new sig?

You will have me sewing mailbags soon. Do they sew e-mail bags now inside?

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Linux

Floating Luddites.

"I think it's designed to monitor the whole Luddite population (like me) who don't attempt to cover their tracks."

It couldn't have anything to do with learning what is going on in order to tailor doublespeak for the future marsupial baby-kissers and American donkey-lickers to get themselves re-elected to the trough of all our discontent.

Could it?

SCO inks last-second life-saving Unix pact

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Boffin

Business like SCO business.

What would anyone want to buy or back a failed Unixware company for? It isn't viable even if the code is updated. Who would update the code and what for?

It's hard enough for a Linux business to make money. And almost all Linux companies have credence. I'd have thought that a speculator with any real idea of going into the business would start his own Linux company or invest in one looking for a fund-raiser.

Good grief even Novell seems not to want Unix code. And I get the idea they are only sparring with SCO for the publicity it gives them.

Opera to 'reinvent the web' in four days

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Happy

Innovation is not learned

One either has inspiration or one does not. You can't learn to invent good ideas.

So I say look at what Opera is using to market itself. They are now giving away a lot more than their browser in order to occupy a niche in non desktops.

And that is what I guess they will be looking at with this new new thing. I have to say that I prefer Firefox at the moment because of the spelling help it gives. Otherwise they are close matches.

Which I suppose means that once they explore another good idea the open sorcerers will be copying that too.

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