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Comment Re:4C (Score 1) 79

what is changing is how much we trap.

Why does this magic CO2 block outgoing IR, thus heating the Earth but not incoming IR, cooling the Earth? How does it know which way the radiation is going?

Think just a half-thought further, and question one of your assumptions. THEN you might have a point.

Comment Re: Water is wet (Score 1) 160

Oh but they can spy on you and they do. They record what is shown on the screen, often as periodic snapshots, to determine what you are watching. It does not matter that you use chromecast; as long as it displays on your screen, the TV Can record it.

And they sneak in and swap out a memory card when you're not home?

Comment Opt out of all FOG DATA SCIENCE data sets (Score 5, Insightful) 62

"Opt out of all FOG DATA SCIENCE data sets"

What -- exactly -- does that do, how quickly, and what are some of the side-effects?\

Underneath, it says "You will be removed from all our data sets." And yet I doubt that very much. Surely there will be an entry in a database somewhere saying "Device identifier ________-____-_____-_____-_____ requested removed date-and-time _____ from IP address _____", etc.
And does that only retroactively remove data? Suppose they snarf up another dataset, bought from someone else or collected by themselves. Is that data also removed from their datasets, or does another removal request have to be made?

Comment Re:"Research" = modelling (Score 1) 73

"Science is about a specific process: you make a hypothesis, you set up a test of your hypothesis, you test it, find it true or not and based on that your hypothesis becomes a scientific theory or a rejected hypothesis."

That's the junior-high version of science. The one done poorly on cardboard. It's sad that people still trot out the whole "it's a process" trope.

And yet that one sentence makes more sense than the rest of the post.

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