Daily Archives: April 12, 2008

Microsoft: Vista security feature “to annoy users”

I haven’t written about Vista for awhile, so I’m overdue. From Slashdot: “At the 2008 RSA security conference, Microsoft’s David Cross was quoted as saying, ‘The reason we put UAC into the platform was ‘to annoy users. I’m serious.’ The … Continue reading

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March 2008 HadCRUT Global Temperature Anomaly

HadCRUT global numbers are out, and is at 0.43°C, still lower than the GISS number of 0.67°C. Click for a larger image Once again Jim Hansen’s NASA GISS is the highest global anomaly: RSS (satellite) 2008 1 -0.070 2008 2 -0.002 … Continue reading

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Possible Cycle 24 spot emerging

As I’ve been noting regularly, Solar cycle 24 is late, and has produced only one spot this year, on January 4th. Since then, nothing, except a small parade of near equatorial oriented cycle 23 spots. Now we see the faint … Continue reading

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