1):: Posted 1 day ago by Post: Yep, that's a me too. So what does he (she) hope to gain? And all done by manual persistence?

Or by some web script? We have a very curious world. Keep searchin'! Martin 2):: Posted 2 days ago by Post: The number of any signal type is really determined by the observation target. And more significantly by whether the telescope is steadily sweeping the sky rather than tracking a fixed point amongst the stars. A Gaussian profile as seen as the telescope view steadily sweeps across a signal source. Or if instead a RFI source steadily flies across the telescope view.

Keep searchin'! Martin RFI: Radio Frequency Interference, especially stray radar reflections scattering off an aircraft flying nearby! 3):: Posted 2 days ago by Post: (Or is all that irrelevant for the sake of your free personalized pre-install of;-) To be believed?!!) Just for the sake of a fun giggle. Is this really the shape of the 'New IT Support'?

Hi Lisa I am Wilfredo an Independent advisor And I'm here to help you!! How you doing today? Check this link how. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it I hope it helps you, have a nice day!!!

Hope I never sound like that on the phone!!!:-O IT is very much what we allow it to be. Martin 4):: Posted 2 days ago by Post: One gotcha to watch out for those new to Microsoft's new-style 'crowdsourced' 'Q&A department'? While getting a release of a wobble-free Windows 10 is proving an impossible mission for Microsoft, the Windows Insider team are at pains to warn its army of unpaid testers that older preview builds will soon self-destruct. There is 'free' as in to enjoy 'freedoms'. There is 'free' as in 'of no monetary cost'. And then there is 'free' as in ' and suffering a '.

Which might it be for recent and ongoing Microsoft updates? And who is it that then bears the consequent extra costs? (Or is all that irrelevant for the sake of your free personalized pre-install of;-) To be believed?!!) IT is very much what we allow it to be. Martin 5):: Posted 2 days ago by Post: Linux has never needed patches?

Well I never. Linux is indeed continuously patched and developed further. However, a big difference for Linux is that updates do not require a reboot or a multiple-hours long 'update everything in big blobs'. There also isn't the disruption of an update being forced upon you to yank your machine away into uselessness just as you're trying to give a business presentation. However, we've known about the Windows updates overhead and suffered that for too long as is. My incredulousness is for how Microsoft's latest updates and cloud operations now appear to have descended into ridiculousness.

The whole idea of, and the Marketing pushing, the world of Cloud services is that the cloud is better and more reliable than anything that can be done onsite. The cloud now critically services many businesses and users. Any hiccup is a huge cost of disruption and costs for the users.

The cloud infrastructure and associated client operating system(s) should be almost completely reliable due to that critical dependence and high costs of disruption. We've now had multiple weeks of unbelievable failures that have 'switched off' large parts of the Microsoft world for multiple hours at a time. Also, we've had buggy updates that have done damage to user data which should be a complete ' never do that!' We've had updates that have disabled user devices. For providing IT services, that level of failure should be unheard of. Would it be any way to run a country where you could randomly lose your mains electricity supply for hours at a time, to be reduced to pen and paper and candlelight, because some operator has 'gone to lunch'?

Indeed unbelievable. What is happening and why? And why can Microsoft survive such customer impacting outages and farce, repeatedly, and with such glib non-excuses? Unfortunately, this brings down the whole world of IT into disrepute.

So much so that users are reluctant to believe anything and 'IT Support' cannot be trusted, regardless of the true source of the farce. Would you believe it!?

IT is what we make it. (And all that.) Martin 6):: Posted 2 days ago by Post: Possibly a silly guess. Are the security certificates updated in your boinc client?

Or does your install of boinc use the system certificates? Or is the https being blocked by a firewall? Happy cool crunchin', Martin 7):: Posted 3 days ago by Post: I jumped into AMD GPUs about a year ago after the Linus scorching that set the present amdgpu work in motion. NVidia meanwhile are still doing things 'their way'. Not looked at nVidia since, but the usual game to check is kernel version compatibility, CUDA toolkit in place, and whatever other 'quirks'. You also have the new joker of whatever it is that systemd expects/requires to be in place to play. Hopefully some pointers there to search on.

Take a look at what the ppa does and where? Happy super fast crunchin'! Martin PS: Also check your user/boinc has write access to the /dev/nvidia. 8):: Posted 3 days ago by Post: The driver loads just fine if you install it from the PPA, install the one(S) from nVidia and they refuse to run. Pick one, 390, 396, 410, or 415, they all refuse to run if installed by the Official nVidia installer. Check the README file(s)?

Or look at what the ppa does differently? Good luck, Martin 9):: Posted 3 days ago by Post: Note that nVidia are notorious for locking down their GPUs. I gave up with their silliness and have gone all AMD. Much easier and I can compile my own custom kernels without any compatibility problems with the GPU driver. Happy crunchin', Martin 10):: Posted 3 days ago by Post: Is the nVidia driver compatible with your kernel version? Happy fast crunchin'!

Martin 11):: Posted 3 days ago by Post: Well, would you believe it! Can you believe it?? Is this believable???

Microsoft MFA Locks Customers Out. Office 365 and Azure Active Directory customers were locked out of the services for 14 hours. The issue was caused by a recent update. Microsoft Customers Locked Out a Second Time. Engineers are restarting the authentication infrastructure. The company seems to have reduced its Q&A focus for Windows 10. The situation only seems to be getting worse.

Security company Avecto released a study earlier this year showing that Windows 10, which is supposed to be Microsoft's most secure operating system, has had a drastic increase in critical vulnerabilities. That Microsoft has a wide variety of images to illustrate failure will be of little comfort to users that depend on the cloud storage system. Microsoft's OneDrive support orifice spent the early part of the outage in denial, asking users to clear their browser cache and cookies. 4 hours later into the Friday working day It looks like OneDrive is slowly coming back to life, with some users reporting success in accessing their files.

Microsoft reckons that a 'networking issue' is to blame. Administrators really hate this one weird bug in Windows Server 2016, but MS plays nice with iCloud again. Tucked innocuously among a swathe of fixes ranging from dealing with Russian time zone changes to fixing wobbly Hyper-V servers is the text: 'Addresses an issue in File Explorer that sometimes deletes the permissions of a shared parent folder when you delete the shared child folder.' Just think about that for a moment. Permission changes heading up!!! rather than down the folder structure. The problem was reported back in February.

Alas, the original poster in the TechNet forum, Rolf Berger, has reported that his issue 'is still not solved', so your mileage may vary. We've contacted Microsoft for more information.

Patch once, patch often. Two notable fixes in the release deal with the failure to reconnect mapped drives on login and the bug that stopped users setting Win32 app defaults. Well, well, well, fancy that! Good luck all!! IT is what we allow it to be. Martin 12):: Posted 3 days ago by Post: Good work there, looks interesting.

Can this sort of benchmarking also be used to test for host system bottlenecks such as CPU resource units contention, CPU cache exhaustion/poisoning, memory bandwidth limits, whatever other bottlenecks? Happy cool crunchin', Martin 13):: Posted 3 days ago by Post: 'Tis easy to run a 'LiveCD' Linux distro from whatever USB media. You can also run a no-disk-drive remote system remotely provided you have the option to boot via pxe (or have 'remote hands' to plug in a USB stick and reboot, or if you have a remote KVM/IPMI to those systems to attach remote media). Happy cool crunchin', Martin 14):: Posted 4 days ago by Post: If'n they come out with an Android OS for PCs, I may just give it a try.

I have tried Linux, many times, but have not successfully gotten it to run Windows software or games like World of Warcraft. Maybe some day, then I can ditch Micro$oft and their crappy OS for good.:) on Linux is surprisingly capable. There's also Steam (and others) for playing the big games on Linux.

Worth a look to see what is recently supported? And for Android on a PC, there are various emulators and VMs. There is also this that natively boots into Android on your PC. I could live with Ubuntu or Wine if there was content I currently use, particularly Quicken which I find heads, shoulders and navel above any personal financial software on any flavor of Linux. I already use Open Office and find it very good software, if someone does something similar that handles Quicken created files and backups I would probably dump M$ immediately. Various versions of Quicken run on WINE: There is also the Codeweavers version: and Good luck! IT is what we make it:-) Martin 15):: Posted 6 days ago by Post: I tried to connect to NASA TV via EDGE, and it did not work.

I downloaded Firefox and it works on the new nVidia driver. Tullio Good Firefox worked ok. Hope you connected in time: The NASA landed fine with full telemetry! - a bit dusty looking until the dustcap is removed from the lens. Spectacular for such swift returns! Keep searchin'!

Martin (Linux + Firefox received a flawless live video stream;-) ) 16):: Posted 10 days ago by Post: Well, well, well. Has Windows finally fallen into the mire of unmaintainability? (Too many side-effects and too much conflicting shoddiness such that fixing one part then breaks many other parts?) Is this a timely reminder of that unmaintainable fragility? Stop us if you've heard this one, but Microsoft has pulled a couple of buggy patches in Office. It also left a crash-worthy Outlook security fix in place. The two non-security patches were part of this month's Patch Tuesday, both for Office 2010.

The patches in question were supposed to support Japan's upcoming epoch turnover. Rather than withdraw the patch, Redmond said it's researching the problem – a hint, perhaps, at the seriousness of the vulnerability. Is this a sign that the Microsoft fix for that old 'Y2K' hiccup was a quick-fix patch that is all too easily unraveled? Or even more seriously, does this highlight a fatally flawed system design that simple just cannot cope with the real world? IT is what we make it. Martin 17):: Posted 10 days ago by Post.

All are listed as 'critical' risks. How many 'bug' fixes are needed?! Who would believe it?!

Six weeks after first release of build 1809, and Redmond still can't get it right. Well, well, well. Has Windows finally fallen into the mire of unmaintainability? (Too many side-effects and too much conflicting shoddiness such that fixing one part then breaks many other parts?) And yet another unwanted 'side effect' or few.

After issues with deleting data, now it seems the update also broke iCloud. After how many weeks? Can you believe it!? Just a little 'something else' that. (ahhh.) experience: What's that? You've installed 1809? No, sorry, can't hear you The Windows 10 October 2018 Update woes continued for Microsoft last night with the announcement that Redmond had slammed the brakes for users of certain Intel display drivers.

Confused Groundhog Day with Thanksgiving. What new 'reality' is this?! Has this now become corporate suicide and a fast-track to a self-destruct? Or is there some fiendish Marketing at play?

Can you believe it??!!! IT is what we make it. Martin 18):: Posted 10 days ago by Post: Zoom, Good going for getting everything organized with the racking. And congrats for your new home!! Happy cool crunchin', Martin 19):: Posted 10 days ago by Post. All are listed as 'critical' risks.

How many 'bug' fixes are needed?! Who would believe it?! Six weeks after first release of build 1809, and Redmond still can't get it right.

Buried among the release notes for the re-released build is this little advisory, in which it admits. We can imagine that being a little annoying for people working in work environments. Microsoft says it'll sort out the issues 'in the 2019 timeframe.' That stunning Redmond Q&A at work again, we guess. All in all, try it out before you deploy it on any system you rely on. Well, well, well. Has Windows finally fallen into the mire of unmaintainability?

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(Too many side-effects and too much conflicting shoddiness such that fixing one part then breaks many other parts?) And yet another unwanted 'side effect' or few. After issues with deleting data, now it seems the update also broke iCloud. But this is just the latest example of something with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update going wrong. At this point it seems wiser not to install the update just yet. After how many weeks? Can you believe it!?

IT is what we make it. Martin 20):: Posted 16 days ago by Post. All are listed as 'critical' risks. Well, well, well. Has Windows finally fallen into the mire of unmaintainability? (Too many side-effects and too much conflicting shoddiness such that fixing one part then breaks many other parts?) Might this explain at least one part of the present Windows story? Comment Windows isn't working – and Microsoft urgently needs to change how it develops the platform, and jettison three filthy practices it has acquired in recent years.

Would you believe it! IT is what we make it. Martin 21):: Posted 16 days ago by Post. All are listed as 'critical' risks. How many 'bug' fixes are needed?!

Who would believe it?! Six weeks after first release of build 1809, and Redmond still can't get it right. Buried among the release notes for the re-released build is this little advisory, in which it admits. We can imagine that being a little annoying for people working in work environments.

Microsoft says it'll sort out the issues 'in the 2019 timeframe.' That stunning Redmond Q&A at work again, we guess. All in all, try it out before you deploy it on any system you rely on. Well, well, well. Has Windows finally fallen into the mire of unmaintainability?

(Too many side-effects and too much conflicting shoddiness such that fixing one part then breaks many other parts?) IT is what we make it. Martin 22):: Posted 17 days ago by Post: One long term annoyance that can be fixed easily. Especially so for 'touch' devices. Note that there is zero spacing between the 'Next' and 'Post to thread' areas at the bottom of a thread. It is far too easy to inadvertently hit 'Post' rather than the intended next/last page for a long thread.

Insert some spacing before the Post button?! Thanks, Martin 23):: Posted 19 days ago by Post: Here we go again, M$S is resuming the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update starting today. Are we all in a feverish dream where the latest version, build 1809, is stable and fit for purpose, and Patch Tuesday was totally uneventful? It's almost as if the broken 1809 build never existed. You're expected to forget the past, and start over with the new and improved 1809.

'We recommend IT administrators begin to validate that apps, devices and infrastructure used by their organization work well with the new release before broadly deploying,' the Windows server team noted in the potential understatement of 2018. And the game of 'whack-an-exploit' continues unresolved. All are listed as 'critical' risks.

How many 'bug' fixes are needed?! IT is what we make it.

Martin 24):: Posted 20 days ago by Post: IT is what we allow it to be.IT or I.T.?:pYes.:P Exactly so:-P To enumerate just three of a multitude of possibilities:. If you're taking a view, then IT is whatever 'it' already is: 'What is, is.' (or in a more down to Earth context: Marketing is your god to victimize you for life);. Accepting as it is, then you accept your slavery to all that is (good and bad) in your enslavement to Proprietary lock-in and The Religion of Marketing;.

Or, the IT is a something that you can choose to take an interest in to change for your own good (and hopefully for the good of others). Are you going to explore your power of choice today? (To misquote some old Marketing-speak;-) ) IT is also what we make it, Martin 25):: Posted 21 days ago by Post: Arctic MX-4 isn't NEW. It's been around for years. There's a (in)famous test somewhere on the web whereby the various 'super-expensive' 'thermal' pastes were tested and found to be no better than using home made jam. The only advantage was that the inorganic pastes would perhaps rot more slowly than the organic jam which is food for lots of things;-) In brief: Best results are gained by 'lapping' (using fine grinding paste) your CPU heat spreader to the heatsink base.

Carefully maintaining constant but flexible pressure using a spring loading system (things move with changing temperature!) ensures consistent reliable results. Keep things clean. Use whatever material ensures greatest physical contact for minimum thickness. Even without 'lapping', just ensuring the flat surfaces are clean is good enough.

Nothing 'special' needed. Just nicely polished flat surfaces, silicon grease, and no air bubbles. 'Copper-slip' works very well also! Happy cool crunchin', Martin 26):: Posted 21 days ago by Post: This is quite a follow-on 'Ouch!' Really, is anyone still using the Windows Phone since the demise of Nokia? Microsoft has thrown gasoline on its quality-assurance dumpster fire by disabling the Mail and Calendar apps on some. 'Microsoft issued an automatic app upgrade for the email client on Windows Phone 10 overnight on 7th/8th November,' the reader said.

'We all woke up yesterday morning to find that email is no longer working. IT is what we allow it to be. Martin (Yes, really, you can do something different;-) ) 27):: Posted 23 days ago by Post: Hey. We can search for life on these forums and out beyond our earthbound boundaries.:-) Just a question of what you search for;-) Keep searchin', Martin 28):: Posted 24 days ago by Post: Instead. Welcome to the World of Science and for this small part of Science, a great search. Sorry, there's still us pesky humans on the other side of some typing device. But hey, I doubt there's any of those (or any other) politicos on these forums.

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(Then again, I wouldn't recommend the Politics or Cafe forums.;-);-) ) Regardless, Welcome to a great search. Try taking a look at the results from the Kepler and Kepler K2 missions. There is also TESS to follow up and a world of excitement for what is newly being done with more earth-bound telescopes. There's lots yet!

And welcome to the forums:-) Keep searchin', Martin 29):: Posted 24 days ago by Post: More of the 'Who would believe it!' 'features' for Microsoft Windows systems: Microsoft's activation servers appear to be on the blink this morning – some Windows 10 users woke up to find their Pro systems have, er, gone to Home. While there remains no official statement from Microsoft on the problem, users have reported that the hardworking support operatives of the Windows giant have warned that there is indeed a 'temporary issue' with its activation servers related to the Pro edition.

Affected customers are advised to sit tight and wait for a fix. Except when an Office 365 upgrade is being deployed. Right about now would be perfect. I wasn't looking at that LIVE TRAIN SIGNALLING INFORMATION. Do you allow your Windows system to phone home to Microsoft to up/down-grade you? Derailed or all along the usual lines? Unbelievable, except this is all for real!!

IT is what we allow it to be. Martin 30):: Posted 24 days ago by Post: That's here then:-) But please note that the output from a single work unit says nothing of whether the signals found are significant or not. We are searching at the noise floor at the limit of sensitivity. Given enough random noise, you are guaranteed to find something.

The clever bit is to aggregate many results into something meaningful. Still interesting to keep track and to see if there are any patterns:-) See the Nebula threads for ongoing search developments. Keep searchin, Martin 31):: Posted 25 days ago by Post: I very much like the chiplets idea. Excellent for improved yield and for great flexibility.

Here's hoping AMD can further leap ahead without any spoilers and vandalism from any anticompetitive stupidity from others. Happy fast cool crunchin'! Martin 32):: Posted 26 Oct 2018 by Post: A blower is a fan that exhaust hot air outside the case at the back though the bracket (does not exhaust hot air back inside the case) Isn't that a sucker?

As in it sucks the hot air out of the hot innards? Or just another ducted cooling fan?:-P (Joke alert that was:-) ) Happy cool crunchin', Martin 33):: Posted 26 Oct 2018 by Post: OMG! When did this all turn around?? There is only.one.

Microsoft system in the And that one is way down. The new World Domination is Linux?! And freedom!;-) Happy fast cool crunchin'!:-) Martin 34):: Posted 25 Oct 2018 by Post: Yet more 'hiccups' to look out for lest they break your Windows: You don't want fixes. You really want a shiny new Windows Search. Of course you do. Microsoft has confirmed that, yes, that whole zip-file thing is indeed a bug and, er, no. It won’t be fixing it until November.

But hey, how about a new Windows Search? Open zip file, cut, paste and argh! The advice is simple: “We recommend you fully extract the zip folder before you copy files to a new destination folder to avoid this issue.” It does, however, stop short of suggesting that a third party archive manager would be able to do the job or, heck, just uninstall the OS and have done with. Slightly more worryingly, Microsoft also warns that users should “not attempt to Cut and Paste items from a compressed (.zip) folder” because “this may result in unintentionally deleting items that may not be recoverable.”. Zero-day crash'n'pwn exploit for Microsoft's latest OS disclosed, no official patch available (yet). The researcher has provided a proof-of-concept on GitHub and tweeted out a link earlier this week – see below.

WARNING: it will crash your Windows 10 PC into recovery mode, and require you to revert your filesystem back to a previous good backup. Arcos has produced an unofficial micropatch for Windows 10 to close the security hole. (Bad joke alert!) That's a fun pair of user data afflicting bugs to redefine going pear-shaped?:-P More serious: WHAT?! Microsoft patches now have 'micro-patches'?!! Is that another MS registered trademark thingies?

New Marketing?? Or just a little something less than a 1GByte lump so as not to blow your internet allocation for the month? IT is what we choose our IT to be. Martin 35):: Posted 21 Oct 2018 by Post: SpaceX has launched a Falcon9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Station on the West Coast carrying an Argentine Telecommunication Satellite. The first stage has landed on the launch site. Tullio Tullio, Thanks for the note.

And that is spectacular stuff from SpaceX. Also, a spectacular positive example compared to the (corrupt?) politically quagmired 'pork' seen from 'ULA' and the various NASA 'contracts'.

Here's hoping so for the SpaceX BFR.:-) Keep searchin', Martin 36):: Posted 20 Oct 2018 by Post: Is this a little 'teaser' from Microsoft to fool the users into 'feeling' they have control over what is put onto their machines? For many, the worst part about setting up Windows 10 is dealing with all the default apps. There are obvious irritants, like Microsoft's insistence on pre-installing. IT should be what we want it to be. Martin 37):: Posted 20 Oct 2018 by Post: Unfortunately all my browsers, Firefox and Chromium, are unable to see the videos. What media apps do you have?

I'm playing various of those web medias at the moment using: Firefox 60.2.2 ESR October 2, 2018 on a Gentoo Linux system. Not checked which codec is being used. I have ffmpeg installed which seems to include just about everything in existence! Do you have anything like 'noscript' enabled that is blocking the '.edu' site 'cleverness'? Keep searchin', Martin 38):: Posted 7 Aug 2018 by Post: But based on comments alluded by Stephen and what I remember, our Windows app developer Raistmer said it would be almost impossible to use the exiting CUDA9 Linux app code source for any Windows app simply because the mechanisms the Linux app uses isn't available in the Windows environment.I'm skating on thin ice here, but I think Raistmer only really knows the OpenCL environment.

Anything possible in CUDA for Linux should be possible in CUDA for Windows. We really need a replacement CUDA developer for Jason G. He appears to have left the project entirely (his computers haven't connected to the servers since December last year), although I think he's OK - I see him on the mailing lists occasionally (most recently last month). I think he's just busy with paying work. Oooer for Jason G being busy elsewhere. His input is missed. However, I can very much sympathize on the 'busy' bit!

Hopefully we can gain some new enthusiasm for new developments with the new hardware for Parkes coming online. Or even for newly available crunching hardware such as the Tensor compute bits. Aside: I've moved over to AMD for their GPUs with their slightly better 'open source' approach and for the greater flexibility with OpenCL. Lot's to explore yet! Keep searchin', Martin 39):: Posted 7 Aug 2018 by Post: I have to wonder if the OS isn't capable of either handling the MoBo or the number of GPUs. Sometimes certain hardware combinations don't work well with the installer.

I've found Ubuntu to be similar to OSX in that you can move the installed system to another machine without any trouble. It might be better to install the system while the SSD is in a different, less complex machine, move it to the target machine and then run update-grub before installing the first updates.

When you run update-grub the bootloader will detect Windows and add it to the OS list. It's worth a shot considering your previous troubles. Using separate physical drives is a good idea to more easily work around the Windows (and Windows installation) 'foibles' problems. Windows is long known for trashing the disk boot area to then only work with the one Windows.

Another problem to hit sometimes is if the motherboard 'BIOS' is UEFI that has been locked down. In which case, look up the instructions to turn off the UEFI restrictions or for how to make the Linux boot loader entry look like the Windows UEFI entry.

A good test is to see if you can run a 'Live DVD/USB' version of a Linux distro. The system will run very slow until you do a real install but that is still useful to see what things look like.

And if stuck, rather than lose hours, jump onto whichever forums and ask!:-) (And always do a full backup first!) Good luck! Happy cool crunchin', Martin (Gentoo Linux - there are easier distros:-P:-) ) Take a look at for details: 40):: Posted 7 Aug 2018 by Post: Here's the latest from Toms Hardware for the big splash for AMD's latest release: AMD announced today that its new second-gen Threadripper lineup, also known as Threadripper 2 or Threadripper 2000-Series, is open for preorders.

The brawny 32-core, 64-thread Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX serves as the $1,799 halo product of the company's new 2000-series lineup. And if you're not after that many cores (or ready to take that big of a hit on your bank account), the flagship chip comes accompanied by several new Threadripper processors that include 12, 16, and 24-core options. With the help of liquid nitrogen, the flagship Threadripper 2990WX smashed past the Cinebench score Intel displayed during its now-notorious Computex presentation with an overclocked (and unreleased) 28-core processor. We'll circle back to that shortly. Intel quickly. Dropped prices from $172 per core for its flagship Core i7-6950X to $99 per core for the follow-up Core i9-7900X. Even after Intel's radical pricing adjustments, Team Blue still lags behind AMD's competitive per-core pricing.

But AMD isn't finished. The company has retooled its Ryzen lineup with the new Zen+ optimizations. AMD upped the ante with the help of several pots of LN2. The company overclocked the Threadripper 2990WX to 5.1GHz on all cores to leap ahead of Intel's best. Very good to have some fair competition.

But will Intel play fair? Happy fast crunchin'! Martin 41):: Posted 31 May 2018 by Post: Here is a rather apt quote from for a login just now: The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to heal than to kill. Surak of Vulcan, 'The Savage Curtain', stardate 5906.5 Rather than the same old politics of wars, can we have a healing New Politics for the benefit of all?

All in our only one world, Martin 42):: Posted 23 May 2018 by Post. Palestinians is considered terrorists. Teargas is considered a weapon. One infant died by Israeli teargas. Those people shown there are very much more lethal than 'just children throwing stones'. Those sling-shots are lethal weapons. Roman armies (and others) used them to kill and to help them conquer the then known world.

Time is now long overdue to move onward, and to let whatever assumed histories stay as history. All in our only one world, Martin 43):: Posted 23 May 2018 by Post: Here's a very creative way that has trumped the Trump censorship (of funding) for anything that might avert the USA industrial pollution: Because ride-sharing is caring, SpaceX will send the next batch of Iridium NEXT satellites into orbit along with a pair of NASA gravity monitoring orbiters, GRACE-FO. The SpaceX second-stage booster will fire until 11 minutes and 33 seconds into the flight, when NASA’s GRACE-FO spacecraft will be jettisoned deployed.

(The second stage rocket will then shut down and coast until a little under an hour after liftoff, when the engine will be restarted for a quick burn prior to the five NEXT communications satellites being ejected, as Iridium continues upgrading its constellation.). Scientists are keen to keep collecting this data even after the original 15 years of GRACE. While sea-level rises have been tracked very accurately over the years, the additional data allows the boffins to separate rises due to melting ice flowing into the ocean from land versus expansion of seawater as it warms. How crazy is that?!

Martin 44):: Posted 16 May 2018 by Post: So, what can be positively done in those areas for the people to then live in peace and cooperation? (For example: As in what will avoid all the continued shooting and bombing and worse?) All in our only one world? Martin 45):: Posted 15 May 2018 by Post: Tomorrow is the day when the Palestinians pay attention to the Nakba, disaster in Arabic. Well, tomorrow is another day.

That is something like a half century and many generations ago! What is it that keeps those people wallowing in an assumed sorrow and a forever 'war' of bitter vengeance for an imagined past nirvana? Indeed tomorrow is another day. The art of progress is to make tomorrow better than today.

All in our only one world, Martin 46):: Posted 11 May 2018 by Post: At long long last, this is good to see some good positivity from the still all-too-often misogynistic media: The director of Black Panther has welcomed the idea of a sequel built around its strong female characters. Ryan Coogler's hit superhero film drew praise for its depiction of highly capable African women who act as warriors, spies and gadget makers. Coogler said his film's female stars could 'easily carry their own movie' and that he would happily watch it. 'If an opportunity like that came up, that would be amazing,' he told an audience at the Cannes Film Festival. We've still a long way to go yet to improve our culture! All in our only one world, Martin 47):: Posted 26 Apr 2018 by Post: Just two big solutions that are underway: Auto executives from across the globe are plugging their plans for an electric car future in China at the Beijing auto show, but they will find their Chinese counterparts are already motoring ahead.

China hopes to reduce its dependence on imported oil and cut pollution, both strategic priorities for Beijing, and it has announced plans to phase out fossil fuel vehicles. Unencumbered by history and the billions sunk into refining gasoline engines, electric presents a clean competitive slate for homegrown automakers.

'The entry hurdle is lower with an electric drive train than it has been with a combustion engine. Zetsche welcomed the Chinese newcomers: 'The moment you don't have competition you get lazy.' Batteries remain a critical piece of every electric car and Beijing's protective embrace of the technology may ensure China becomes the world's battery lab. Nuclear power plants typically run either at full capacity or not at all.

Yet the plants have the technical ability to adjust to the changing demand for power and thus better accommodate sources of renewable energy such as wind or solar power. 'Flexible nuclear power operations are a 'win-win-win,' lowering power system operating costs, increasing revenues for nuclear plant owners and significantly reducing curtailment of renewable energy,'. The study helps to dispel long-held views that nuclear power plants must operate in 'baseload' mode, producing power at maximum rated capacity whenever they are online. Nuclear plants can even respond dynamically to hourly electricity market prices and second-to-second frequency regulation needs, the team found. Power systems that include renewable energy must be more flexible to balance supply and demand at all times. Nuclear operators in France, Germany and other countries are familiar with this approach, but less so in the United States. And aside: The UK enjoyed about 50% renewable power generation today.

There has been ZERO coal-fired power output. And there is more wind power and solar power yet to be added to the power grid. Martin 48):: Posted 26 Apr 2018 by Post: How much 'in-yer-face' heavy impact can the fossils and fossils followers continue to corruptly deny? Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would be most pronounced in the Arctic. This has many reasons, but climate feedbacks are key. As the Arctic warms, snow and ice melt, and the surface absorbs more of the sun's energy instead of reflecting it back into space.

This makes it even warmer, which causes more melting, and so on. This expectation has become a reality that I describe in my new book 'Brave New Arctic.' It's a visually compelling story: The effects of warming are evident in shrinking ice caps and glaciers and in Alaskan roads buckling as permafrost beneath them thaws. But for many people the Arctic seems like a faraway place, and stories of what is happening there seem irrelevant to their lives. It can also be hard to accept that the globe is warming up while you are shoveling out from the latest snowstorm. Since I have spent more than 35 years studying snow, ice and cold places.

When I first started working in the Arctic, scientists understood it as a region defined by its snow and ice, with a varying but generally constant climate. In the 1990s, we realized that it was changing, but it took us years to figure out why. Now scientists are trying to understand what the Arctic's ongoing transformation means for the rest of the planet, and whether the Arctic of old will ever be seen again.

For those of us who study the Arctic, it is clear that a radical transformation is underway. My two ice caps are just a small part of that story.

Indeed, the question is no longer whether the Arctic is warming, but how drastically it will change – and what those changes mean for the planet. Explained a scientific dictum that states glacier change should happen slowly in the Arctic because temperatures are low, the ice is very cold and it melts more slowly than ice elsewhere. 'We are finding out that the ice is changing more rapidly than we previously thought,' said Zheng. 'The temperature is changing in the Arctic faster than anywhere else in the world.' And yet the dirty old fossils are now more expensive and as polluting as ever! How do we push harder, faster, for Power Change instead of Human Forced Climate Change?!! Martin 49):: Posted 23 Apr 2018 by Post: Our breezy days are becoming ever more powerful: Every two and a half hours, a new wind turbine rises in the U.S.

In 2016, wind provided 5.6 percent of all electricity produced, more than double the amount generated by wind in 2010, but still a far cry from its potential. A team of researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) has developed a new way to control wind turbines to extract more power from the wind. Indicate potential increases of up to six to seven percent power generated for existing turbines. The wind industry is growing quickly around the world, especially in China and the U.S., where the total amount of electricity generated by wind turbines nearly doubled between 2011 and 2017.

All told, about 25 percent of global electricity now comes from renewable sources like hydropower, wind and solar energy. Wind power generated 43.4 percent of electricity consumed in Denmark last year, a new record for the Nordic nation which aims to rely on renewables for half of its energy needs by 2030, authorities said Thursday.

Meanwhile, the polluting dirty old fossils continue their procrastinated decline. All just a question of whether we have enough time. Martin 50):: Posted 13 Apr 2018 by Post. Which all adds up to the USA being awash with readily available guns.

What could possibly go wrong with that? Only in Amerika? Martin 51):: Posted 11 Apr 2018 by Post: Add Little Britain:) Hey! We abandoned caning in schools many years ago. Baseball bats are more the sort of nuklear option that are only shown as a laugh on cartoons or as where not to go in dystopian films.:-( What next? Where's the good sense?

Only in the Kafkaesque Amerika? Martin 52):: Posted 11 Apr 2018 by Post: WHAT sort of schooling does America have? And now added with: For REAL!?

What sort of an education is that? What does that teach?

Only in Amerika! And all in our only one world, Martin 53):: Posted 5 Mar 2018 by Post: For a brief update on the Net Neutrality 'vote' in the true style of USA 'politics', we have, all to no surprise, everyone runs to 'make great monetary benefit The Lawyers': Montana has become the first US state to lay down its own net neutrality protections. Governor Steve Bullock signed off Monday on an executive order declaring that, as of July 1, all ISPs that want to do businesses with state agencies must adhere to basic net neutrality tenets including bans on paid prioritization and throttling of lawful traffic. Telcos that don't comply can still operate in Montana, but will be ineligible to receive any service contracts with government agencies. F U FCC say lawmakers as bill passes to Assembly.

US lawmakers have weighed in on the FCC's controversial vote to scrap America's net neutrality rules, demanding information on the millions of fake comments submitted to the watchdog's public consultation on the decision – and asking pointed questions about how the federal regulator handled them. Vermont has become the fifth US state to adopt net neutrality regulations, joining Montana, New Jersey, Hawaii, and New York. US tech hotbed steps up with strictest traffic protections yet. More than 75 mayors and city officials across America this week signed a letter asking that the nation's net neutrality safeguards remain in place. The open letter is addressed to the four main Congressional leaders, and calls the controversial decision by the FCC to dismantle is own rules covering access to online content a 'stark and unwarranted attack on our communities and residents.'

The local leaders represent 43 million constituents. Ajit Pai, the boss of America's communications watchdog, the FCC, says he won't be picking the collectable rifle awarded to him by the NRA as a prize for killing net neutrality. All in the land of the 'freedoms'? Only in the USA, Martin 54):: Posted 3 Mar 2018 by Post: Phew! Are all Americans so totally religiously uptight and angst-ridden about their guns? This thread reads more like a schoolyard fist-fight rather than anything of any thoughtfulness. Trying to add some real-world reality to bring the USA back into the real world, just two real world links.

Compared to similarly wealthy nations with strict gun control laws, such as Japan, the United Kingdom, or South Korea, the United States has an overall rate of firearms death per capita, which is 50–100 times greater than many of its peers. Despite having the highest number of police officers, is sometimes thought to be attributable to its extreme rate of gun ownership, as it is the only nation in which guns exceed people.

Nearly all studies have found a positive association between gun ownership and gun-related homicide and suicide rates. The best tool to fight crime may be a lawnmower. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which shows that sprucing up vacant lots by doing as little as picking up trash and cutting the grass curbed gun violence in poor neighborhoods in a major U.S. Metropolis by nearly 30%.

Or is the USA a world of desperadoes all the way to their own-made apocalypse? Or can we have some good human sense added to this thread at least? Only in the USA?

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All in our only one world, Martin (And thanks mods for great patience for keeping this thread from being too badly degenerately shot up:-( ) 55):: Posted 24 Feb 2018 by Post: So. Yet more USA massacres due to the misuse of guns. And yet there is STILL talk and Marketing to add yet more guns into the fire of stupidity!

There is a far better way to go. Remove the availability of guns. Is that not the OBVIOUS solution? Only in Amerika?