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'Unprecedented' melt sinks hope for Arctic ice recovery
'Unprecedented' melt sinks hope for Arctic ice recovery
The Canadian Ice Service is warning that the disintegration of Arctic Ocean ice cover may be worse this year than last - which, until now, was the worst on record.
The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center reports :
Arctic sea ice extent on August 10 was 6.54 million square kilometers (2.52 million square miles), a decline of 1 million square kilometers (390,000 square miles) since the beginning of the month. Extent is now within 780,000 square kilometers (300,000 square miles) of last year's value on the same date and is 1.50 million square kilometers (580,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average.
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Just like the 1930s.
How cyclic.
Meanwhile Antarctic ice sets new records.
And this new study is also timely.
GW not causing more storms.
again… hmmmmm
Took less than one second to find.
Actual news paper article from 1922.
Looks familiar doesn't it?
The entire AGW theory is inconclusive.
There is not one shread of evidence or proof that can be regarded as conclusive for any AGW claim.
Basically it comes down to:
My computer simulation that I wrote and based on my assumptions says it will get a little warmer if I fudge the CO2 sensitivity enough.
And since I have a political mandate to prove GW is man made, we will stand by that assumption, Facts be damned.
AGW has NO conclusive anything to support it.
… have been known for ~150 years. They are better known now and conclusively known. Only a fool would claim that there is no reason to believe that increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere shouldn't be expected to enhance the greenhouse effect.
PS. I'm from Alberta, Gary, and still have nearly all my right-leaning tendencies in tact. I'm aware of them. Are you aware of your political biases?
Political bias?
Absolutely. I firmly believe socialism is the worst thing that could hapen to any country.
I am quite centrist in most of my thinking except for AGW.
Seems I am not alone>
Bad new for the greenie agenda.
BTW; your comment about greenhouse effect?
If you have ever read anything I have posted you would know that I agree with that statement.
The problem is (as usual) in the detail.
The effect of CO2 on the Greenhouse effect dimishes exponentially with the concentration. (look it up).
Therefore, its ability to cause warming decreases at the same rate. Add that to all the many other natural factors and you have a maximum remaining forcing worth less that half of one degree at most. probably less.
Not much to get excited about.
But don't take my word for anything (you wouldn't anyway)
Go look it up. It is all easy to find.
First, I read about it on realclimate long before I ever read one of your musings. More importantly, scientists have known this since long before you were born. It doesn't change the facts. Search this:
"The breakthroughs that finally set the field back on the right track came from research during the 1940s. Military officers lavishly funded research on the high layers of the air where their bombers operated, layers traversed by the infrared radiation they might use to detect enemies. Theoretical analysis of absorption leaped forward, with results confirmed by laboratory studies using techniques orders of magnitude better than Ångström could deploy. The resulting developments stimulated new and clearer thinking about atmospheric radiation."
The problem IS in the detail. And the detailed problem here is that you oversimplify, obfuscate, cherry-pick, and repeat ad nauseum what are essentially lies. "AGW has NO conclusive anything to support it." Keep telling yourself that mr centrist-antisocialist, but stop trying to spread the lie to others.
Second, there are feedbacks that you like to ignore (surprise!). Look it up.
Looks like Gary didn't want to learn anything.
Here, read this:
Tiping points are just another AGW scare point. They are extremely unlikely.
I was about to say impossible, in reality nothing is impossible.
You're acting like a ninnie – did you want to learn about CO2 or not? Now comes a silly argument against positive feedbacks (supported by a link to argument for negative feedback by clouds by Roy Spencer). Groan. If you believe in solar and albedo, then you believe in the potential for positive feedbacks. If you believe in forest fires and black carbon, then you believe in the potential for positive feedbacks. If you believe in Spencer's negative feedback effects with respect to clouds then I think you're at odds with the cosmic ray idea.
The accuser is just as biased as the accused. You know that your very biased as well. You'd be a fool to spit in god's face and lie in his presence.
Gary: I would have said that there are three rock solid facts that we can depend on:
1) We are responsible for all the recent rise in CO2.
2) Co2 will absorb and then re-emit longwave radiation
3) An object that receives more longwave radiation will either warm or cool less quickly.
SO taken together it is impossible to argue that there should not be some warming.
Regards, John
Impossible to argue?
The individual points are valid as stated.
Bus as has been pointed out SOOOOOOO many times.
There is one hell of a lot more to it than that.
If it were that simple, there would be no debate, no 50 Bilion in funding to find a proof and after 30 years of trying there would be some certainty.
Impossible to argue?
Dispute these facts:
The world has warmed and cooled in similar cycles for milenia.
Most of the warming of the 20th century happened in the first part of the century.
The earth cooled during the fastest increase in man made CO2.
The earth has not warmed (cooled by many figures) since 2001 while CO2 has continued to increase.
All indisputable. All only slightly relevent.
The real story is Much more complicated.
Look up greate climate shift cycles for one of the issues.
Then factor in bad measurements. Add the warming from cleaner skys post 1960. The factor in solar infleuence.
Then just for fun caculate the effect of the sun warming the oceans more than usual becaus of reduced clouds.
etc. etc. etc. There is NO SIMPLE explaination.
Your level of hysteria rises in sync with your spelling mistakes.
Gary said: "Meanwhile Antarctic ice sets new records".
That is not what is being reported by the scientists working in the field. Ice extent in the Antarctic is equal to last years and also equal to the 1979 to 2000 average.
Nice graph here, Gary, since you have trouble understanding actual words:
Ian Forrester
You guys are not going to keep a streight face and claim you don't know all about the Ice melting of the thirties and the FACT that the Antarctic has been setting records for Ice coverage all year?
Are you really that uninformed? Its been documented pretty much everywhere.
I thought for sure I would not have to provide the increadibly obvious.
Do I really? Are you really going to admit you have no idea?
Every kid knows that when you go out in the morning on your way to school after a cold night, there is a skim of ice over the puddles, in the creek, on the river – wherever – just BEGGING to be stamped on and smashed into a pile of shards. It's thin, it's light, and by noon it will all be gone. It comes & it goes as the season gets established. Thin ice means NOTHING. Oh wtf. I am going to bed & leaving you to your delusions of scientific competence.
BTW Richard, I have been following your posts with interest. Nice to see the voice of reason being sounded out there in the Darkness.
Fern Mackenzie
Fern…. really, that it?
Have you even looked at some of the data on antarctica?
Not only is the area increasing but satilite data shows the thickness is increasing as well.
Go look it up. I would link it but as usual Ian or VJ would simply pronounce my perticular source as invalid because the author drove a car once.
The antarctic is COLD and it ice mass is GROWING.
Look it up and them explain it.
Conditions in context (from NSIDC)
"Ice extent has begun to decline sharply. The decline rate surged to -113,000 square kilometers per day on August 7 and as of August 10 was -103,000 square kilometers per day. This compares to the long-term average decline of -76,000 square kilometers per day for this time of year. Normally, the peak decline rate is in early July.
"Many of the areas now seeing a rapid retreat saw an early melt onset (see July 2, 2008); this helped set the stage for rapid retreat (July 17 and April 7). However, the more fundamental issue is that these regions started the melt season covered with thin first-year ice, which is especially vulnerable to melting out completely. Thin ice is also vulnerable to breakup by winds; the last ten days have seen a windy, stormy pattern that has accelerated the ice loss."
Fern Mackenzie
Based on this rapid ice melt, Professor Wieslaw Maslowski of the Naval Postgraduate School* in California says that the computer models he has been running this year appear almost prophetic…. They indicate that the Arctic could be ice free during the summer months by 2013 - with serious consequences for the planet. Of course, that hasn't happened in all of human history.
From The Guardian:
*A school known for its socialist propaganda and alarmist theories, Gary will argue.
Will the NEVER learn.
so far those models are batting 0.
Nice try.
We will see the actual results soon enough. And it won't be supportive of the leftie agenda.
BTW: I saw an article the other day that typifies the thinking of those guys:
It claimed that Global Warming was causing Thicker Ice in the Arctic.
Anything and everything is caused by Global warming.
Will the insanity ever end?
This is my last message. Read more carefully. Accept that you do not know everything (and neither, btw, do I). There are people out there more intelligent then you or I. They have done the work, and they are not driven by the kind of ideological pathology that you assume at every turn. They know the science, they have done the research. And they are very, very worried.
"And if Einstein's scared, I'M SCARED."*
Fern Mackenzie
* "Talking Atomic Blues"
I agree completley with everything you said.
I would add that there are people out there more intelligent then you or I that have done the work, are not driven ideological, that know the science, have done the research And they are not at all worried.
More than 31000 of them in fact.
Virtually none of the 31,0000 (OISM signatories) of whom you speak are qualified climate scientists. The only qualification necessary to be added to that OISM petition is a BA/BS degree in some field of science.
And a BA in science does not a scientist make.
I am far more than qualified to sign that OISM petition, and I am not a climate-scientist by any stretch of the imagination.
And as for you? You are nothing more than a Dunning-Kruger poster-child.
That's hilarious:
"have done the research… More than 31000 of them in fact."
31000 is becoming a key word, like "ancient astronauts".
Google 31000 and feel the power of myth.
And before you go off on the source being a denier or some other lame BS excuse for not looking:
Just google "antarctic setting ice record"
You will get dozens of links.
Pick one, they all say the same thing.
Fact is the Anticarctic is very cold and the Ice mass is growing. And it is NOT going to melt with any 2 or 3 degree warming.
And since it holds most of the ice mass of the planet, there is no chance that we will ever see Hansen's fabled 23 foot sea level rise.
No surprise to any informed person.
Ten million fools repeating a lie cannot make it true.
That is what I have been saying all along.
Thank you for your support.
Blah, blah, blah, says Gary. Nothing worth reading in any of his posts.
Gary is wrong again. The Antarctic is *losing* ice mass – this has been confirmed by high-resolution GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite measurements.
See http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2006/86.html for details.
Note: My post here is not addressed to Gary. It is addressed instead to lurkers who might otherwise be misled by Gary's continuing stream of misinformation here.
Gary's antics aside, I suspect there is good reason to be skeptical that the Arctic polar ice won't recover. The first point to make is that what's important from a 'tipping point' perspective is how much light gets absorbed by the open ocean instead of reflected by ice back into space. Well, this rather late acceleration of melt is happily happening after the angle and amount of sunlight are changing to less damaging values. The heat budget is more (directly) affected by the amount of open sea at the peak of summer than by the amount at the end of the summer.
Of course, the amount of sea ice at the end of the summer melting is important with respect to the amount of ice (thickness and extent) that will shield the North come next melt season (and therefore how much absorbtion occurs at the height of summer). I think this is where the second point should be made: there are things other than temperature that affect the amount of ice at the end of the summer. If temperature was the only important factor, then any current discussion about 'tipping points' for the Arctic sea ice would be moot (there's still lots of warming in the pipeline). But if you read the articles, the main reason for the current rapid melting is the thin ice left over from last year. The other factor mentioned is stormy weather involving southern winds. It's not clear to me that the latter condition is obliged to occur, and it seems quite likely that the former condition is not going to be as bad at the start of next year as it was at the start of this one. Thus, in the short term, I don't think we can give up on Arctic sea ice recovery.
That's not to say that I think Arctic sea ice is going to make a great come back. I strongly suspect that, in the longer term, global temperature increase will overcome natural negative feedbacks (increased precipitation, etc). But for now, at least, I think a good case can be made for skepticism regarding the immediate demise of Arctic ice.
Some of you may wonder, "Why should I give a crap what this guy thinks?" You shouldn't – I'm just a fish biologist trying to understand the world in which my study organism exists. Please feel free to critique my reasoning.
Don't forget to look up the effects of soot, (black carbon deposits) on the Polar ice over the last years due to the forest fires in Siberia as well as the soot cloud from the california fires.
The look up the unusual winds (NASA papers) that blew the ice farther out to sea than usual.
The 2007 ice melt was completley natural. relax.
Where's Frank Bi when you need him? Gary, did you just say that black carbon is a very important factor and then tell everyone to relax because the 2007 melt was 'completely natural'? Pffft.
Forest fires are completey natural.
It can blow black carbon up to the Arctic from forest fires in California but the wind somehow doesn't blow black carbon from more proximal anthropogenic sources. Right. (Nevermind the problem of whether or not the forest fires have an anthropogenic component to them.)
That the Ice melt in the arctic was not the result of runaway heating from evil globull warming.
Interesting. Making progress Steve. keep going.
When I make fun of perversely illogical statements, I assume the facts as presented are correct. That way, even somebody with distorted views of facts can see that their argument is garbage.
Having said that, this new comment of yours relies on another bit of illogical reasoning, so I'll be as plain as possible:
If you could demonstrate that the wind somehow discriminates against transporting black carbon from anthropogenic sources to the Arctic, while moving black carbon from 'natural' sources in California all the way up there, then I'll consider the possibility that the melt in 2007 was largely caused by black carbon from natural sources. But you can't overcome the "if" at the beginning of this paragraph.
This exchange exemplifies your willingness to latch on to any notion as long as it implies a reduced role for AGW. It also exemplifies your willingness to earwig (confidently pronounce an incorrect conclusion).
Direct quote from above article:
== "Extent is now within 780,000 square kilometers (300,000 square miles) of last year's value on the same date … " ==
This is absurdly alarmist news propaganda. Ice extent is, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, 780,000 square kms higher then last year at this time.
This is bad news how??
Paul, please let's hear how this is propaganda, but Exxon's messages via Heartland weren't expensive enough to qualify as propaganda.
For more information on how the sea ice story fits into the broader picture of Arctic Climaticide-related events and news of the last couple of weeks, check out my latest post at Climaticide Chronicles:
"My True Religion Is Kindness" – The Dalai Lama/—/Do you know why
350ppm is important?
Steve L. The main reason for the current decline in ice extent is, in fact, weather. There have been a number of deep low pressure systems over the Arctic around the beginning of August. These have generated storms that has broken up and dispersed some of the new ice formed from last year (see NDIS site). These storms have brought warm air from southerly winds into the region causing accelerated melt of the thin ice formed from last winter. Sorry fellas, global warming has nothing to do with it. Of course it will take a few years for the ice to recover the resiliency that it had prior to 2007. It doesn't happen overnight.
As for 2007 being the worst on record, that just means from 1979 when the satellites first started measuring the ice extent. Given that the polar regions have been there for a few billion years, saying that 2007 set a record in a 29 year time series should be treated as an interesting diversion and nothing more.
BTW I too am a fish biologist and so climate change is important for me also.
Richard, if the spawning stock of some commercially-important species declined steadily from the time when good techniques were actually applied to estimate abundance, showing a strong negative trend over a 30 year period, would you say, "it's an interesting diversion" ? No, and you wouldn't rule out commercial use of the species as a contributing factor to the decline just because the weather had also changed.
An interesting animation of the Arctic sea ice images:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S6oyTdkOWc http://www.homerdixon.com/download/arctic_flushing.html
Will Desmog Blog agree to discuss the global challenge posed by the human overpopulation of Earth with the kind of concentrated and sustained attention this looming threat to humanity deserves?
The widely shared and consensually-validated belief in the overall decline in absolute global human population numbers in our time, leading to population stabilization worldwide in 2050, is simply and straightforwardly a specious, inadequate product of preternatural thought as well as a colossal misperception. Many too many powerbrokers inside and outside the manmade global political economy have determined to condone the espousal of an unrealistic belief in population stabilization because it has proven to be politically convenient, economically expedient and supportive of their selfish interests.
According to new, unwelcome, unchallenged and apparently unforeseen scientific evidence of the human overpopulation of Earth, we can understand the growth or decline of the population numbers of the human species primarily as a function of global food supply. This means that human population dynamics of the human species is essentially common to, not different from, the population dynamics of other species. From a global or species perspective, more food equals more people; less food equals less people; and, in any case, no food equals no people.
Please consider this request. Could someone at Desmog Blog ask top-rank scientists to carefully and skillfully examine the emerging science of human population dynamics and report their findings?
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population, established 2001
I wish I'd said that! I'm going to print that up and keep it handy for the next time someone accuses me of hating humankind & advocating eugenics etc etc etc.
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- "We'll teach all those with brave deeds to their name."
- —Professor Gryffindor's preference of students.[src]
Professor Godric Gryffindor was a wizard of medieval times and one of the four Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was good friends with Salazar Slytherin but opposed him when he later thought that they should not accept Muggle-born students at Hogwarts. It is unknown when he died. Gryffindor's birthplace became known as Godric's Hollow, in his honour. Godric Gryffindor's portrait still remains at Hogwarts.
Early life
- "Bold Gryffindor, from wild moor..."
- —The Sorting Hat singing about the founders' birthplaces.[src]
Gryffindor hailed from a moor which is now known as Godric's Hollow [1], a small West Country village in England. He was described as being "the best duellist of his time" [2]
Founder of Hogwarts
Said to be one of "the four most brilliant witches and wizards of the time" [3], Godric Gryffindor founded Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in his adulthood, with friends Salazar Slytherin, Helga Hufflepuff, and Rowena Ravenclaw, though he later severed ties with Slytherin.
Preferences for students
- "By Gryffindor, the bravest were
- Prized far beyond the rest."
- —The Sorting Hat on Professor Gryffindor.[src]
Gryffindor is said to have praised courage, determination and strength of heart above all other qualities. Indeed, he selected students for his house based upon their daring and bravery, according to the Sorting Hat. He also was the most in favour of allowing Muggle-borns into the school.
- "Twas Gryffindor who found the way,
- He whipped me off his head
- The founders put some brains in me
- So I could choose instead!''"
- —The Sorting Hat on how Professor Gryffindor decided to use him to Sort.[src]
The founders, however, were unsure of how they would Sort the students when they were dead. To solve this, Gryffindor took off his hat and all four of them enchanted it so that it could Sort the students long after their deaths. It was, from then on, known as the Sorting Hat.
Gryffindor was initially a close friend of Salazar Slytherin, but over time their friendship deteriorated. After a number of years of working peacefully together, Slytherin eventually grew apart from his fellow founders due to his distrust of Muggle-borns, and his belief that they should not be accepted into Hogwarts. When Slytherin failed to convince Gryffindor and the others to accept his ideas, he chose to leave the school. Unbeknownst to Gryffindor, his former friend built a hidden chamber within the castle, in which he hid a basilisk that his heir would later use to try and purge the school of Muggle-borns.
It is unknown how or when Gryffindor died, though he left an enduring legacy.
A portrait of Gryffindor hung at Hogwarts Castle guarded a secret short cut between the seventh-floor landing of the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. The password required to gain access to said shortcut was Starshine. [4] Gryffindor left two known relics: a goblin-made sword, adorned with rubies, and the Sorting Hat. The two items share a particular bond; whenever a "true Gryffindor" needs it, the Sword will let itself be pulled out of the hat. Godric's sword was capable of acquiring powers from those it had slain and thus was imbued with venom from Harry Potter's defeat of the Basilisk, making it suitable as a tool for destroying Voldemort's Horcruxes. Albus Dumbledore used it to destroy Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, Ron Weasley used it to eliminate Salazar Slytherin's Locket, and Neville Longbottom used it to kill Nagini, the final Horcrux.
Magical abilities and skills
- Duelling: Godric Gryffindor was said to be the greatest duellist of his time.
- Transfiguration: He, with the help of the other founders, transfigured the Sorting Hat into a sentient artefact to sort students after his lifetime.
Behind the scenes
- Gryffindor was named the July 2007 "Wizard of the Month" on Rowling's website. "One of the four famous founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Godric Gryffindor was the most accomplished dueller of his time, an enlightened fighter against Muggle-discrimination and the first owner of the celebrated Sorting Hat."
- J.K. Rowling once jokingly stated that if Godric Gryffindor was still alive: he would be the giant squid that lives in Hogwarts lake, that would make him the biggest Animagus (and, quite possibly, the oldest) in the Wizarding world. At the eleventh hour of each night the squid would change back into Gryffindor, who would wander the school grounds before returning to his squid form. It should be noted that Rowling was sarcastically trying to make a point, so obviously this statement is not considered canon.
- Godric Gryffindor is the only founder who is not mentioned to have any descendants, although for a time it was speculated that Harry Potter himself was a descendant of Gryffindor either through James Potter possibly because James hailed from Godric's hometown, or possibly through a line of Squibs to James' wife Lily Evans. However, this theory was later debunked by J. K. Rowling in an interview[5].
- Gryffindor appears in Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey in Universal Studios as a portrait.
- It is possible, due to his personal colours and the appearance of a Lion Rampant on his personal crest, that Gryffindor is related to the Cornish royal family, later rulers of the Duchy of Cornwall, whose crest is remarkably similar (Argent, a lion rampant gules, a border azure equidistant fifteen estoils.)
- On the official website of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Godric mentions that he is proud to have Harry Potter in his house.
- The name Godric is an Anglo-Saxon name in form, and can have several meanings, including, "he who rules with God" or "he who rules well".
- His surname is a reference to the half-lion magical beast, the Griffin, a fierce, legendary beast with the body of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle. The Hogwarts house named after him uses a lion as its symbol. Furthermore, the last part of his surname, "dor", is similar to both the French d'or, "made from gold", "golden", which is one of the colours of his Hogwarts House, or the suffix dore, which means "gift of," in which case the meaning of "Gryffindor" would be "gift of the Gryffin."
- Gryffindor is also a pun on the golden gryffin, which is a lion that only has eagle wings, so it has the head and front paws of a lion, and has golden fur and feathers. Even the French for Griffindor, Griffondor is a French homophone for the actual beast, Griffon d'Or.
See also
- Rowena Ravenclaw
- Helga Hufflepuff
- Salazar Slytherin
- Hogwarts founders
- Sorting Hat
- Godric Gryffindor's Sword
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Mentioned only) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Possible appearance) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7[6]
- Wizard of the Month
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Appears in portrait(s))
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ Wizard of the Month, July 2007, on J.K. Rowling's official website
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - PC version
- ↑ http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-3.htm
- ↑ Gryffindor is available in the Nintendo DS version of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7. For other devices, he is available in the "Downloadable Character Pack" DLC for the game.


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This attack aims to manipulate non-final public variables used in mobile code, by injecting malicious values on it, mostly in Java and C++ applications.
When a public member variable or class used in mobile code isn't declared as final, its values can be maliciously manipulated by any function that has access to it in order to extend the application code or acquire critical information about the application.
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A Java applet from a certain application is acquired and subverted by an attacker. Then, he makes the victim accept and run a Trojan or malicious code that was prepared to manipulate non-final objects' state and behavior. This code is instantiated and executed continuously using default JVM on the victim's machine. When the victim invokes the Java applet from the original application using the same JVM, the malicious process could be mixed with original applet, thus it modifies values of non-final objects and executes under victim's credentials.
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For video playback under Compiz, the general consensus seems to be that the real solution is to have Compiz impose sync-to-vblank during the compositing process (which uses OpenGL so should already have the ability to vsync) but I don't know if anyone is actually working on that yet. I don't know if Compiz syncs to vblank today. There seems to be an option for it but not sure if it actually works.
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I love this flower bag but I have one complaint, the holes are not big enough
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| He helped piece Bella back together only to have her take off at the first sign of Edward. |
| The entire right side of his body was shattered and all he got was the equivalent of a cheek kiss. |
| He devolves into a child's playmate and chews toys in Breaking Dawn. |
| Harry Clearwater dying and Edward calling the Swan house could not have happened at a worse time. |
| Bella admits she loves him after getting engaged. |
| He was always the honest one with Bella but she wasn't honest until it was too late. |
| Finally embraces his right as the Alpha.... right before imprinting on Renesmee and rendering the treaty and the need for the pack moot. |
| Turns out to be a shape-shifter rather than a werewolf. And that's not nearly as cool. |
| Was led on rather explicitly because Bella needed a shoulder to cry on. |
| He got all ready for a massive battle in Breaking Dawn and then ended up standing around with a toddler on his back. |
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| He kept fighting for her when he knew she was not good for him... |
| He cares about people who are in danger. |
| He tries to follow the treaty. |
| He always gets so close to Bella, just to get a last minute "no" from her. |
| Just when Bella needs him most and wants him at most, he turns into the werewolf and can't spend as much time with her. |
| There's always something that interrupts or pushes him back from getting close to Bella. |
| Jacob and Bella's "almost kiss" could have potentially been the kiss to make Bella fall in love with Jacob. But Edward had to ruin everything with that phone call. |
| When Bella finds out that Jacob imprints on Renesmee (even though she knows he couldn't help it), she tries to kill him... and he was in LOVE with this chick! |
| Bella obviously likes hanging out with vampires more than Jacob, and she doesn't care how that makes him feel. |
| He tried everything to keep Bella, but nothing worked. Not even getting her to realize that she's in love with him too. Which makes the rejection all the more painful. |
| He never seems to truly accept his fate as a werewolf, even after imprinting on Renesmee. |
| Poor thing, he got all wet (see the picture) |
| He imprinted, enough said |
| He stayed Bella's best friend EVEN THOUGH she would've forgotten about him in TIME (time but she woulda forgotten about him and moved on) because she has Edward. |
| He has to live with Paul, a douchebag. |
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Gallardo faces Pirates trying to break Brewers' funk
Milwaukee's dominance in Pittsburgh didn't extend to Tuesday
The Brewers are used to having their way with the Pirates.
Yes, Andrew McCutchen's walk-off homer on Tuesday powered Pittsburgh to a 4-3 win in 12 innings, but such happy times for the Bucs are rare in these matchups.
Since 2007, Milwaukee is 72-26 against Pittsburgh. The two teams will play the third game of this week's four-game set on Wednesday with Brewers right-hander Yovani Gallardo scheduled to oppose Pirates southpaw Wandy Rodriguez in a rematch from April 29.
"They have a confidence level that's significant no matter how the game rolls," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "At the end of the day, we all try to conjure up certain recipes or mystiques -- this, that and the other thing -- but they play better. They pitch better, they hit better."
Brewers players might have been happy to look at the schedule and see four games with Pittsburgh slated for this week. The club had been struggling lately, losing nine of 10 before rolling into PNC Park. Since 2008, the Brew Crew is 24-13 in that stadium, including Tuesday's defeat.
"This game is not a lot of fun when you're not winning," Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun said. "Hopefully we will find a way to turn it around here soon. We really haven't done many things well -- offensively, defensively, fundamentally, there's a lot of things we need to do better. We need to play more consistent to win some more games."
Milwaukee is 4-2 against the Pirates this season.
Brewers: Gallardo trying to beat Bucs again
Gallardo is winless in each of his last two outings. He hasn't earned a victory since beating the Pirates at home last month. In that outing, the righty allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits over seven innings. He struck out five and walked two. Oh, and he homered off Rodriguez.
"Glad he went the length that he did," manager Ron Roenicke said. "He struggled with his command early, then he got the rhythm and started throwing strikes, and finished, I thought, outstanding."
This year, Gallardo is 3-2 with a 4.70 ERA. When facing the Pirates, Gallardo is 10-2 with a 2.49 ERA.
Pirates: Rodriguez looking for redemption
Rodriguez's worst start of 2013 came in that Milwaukee outing from two weeks ago. The lefty was tagged for seven runs in just 3 2/3 innings. He gave up six hits, walked four batters and gave up homers to Jean Segura, Norichika Aoki and Gallardo.
"There wasn't a lot of pitching being done off the mound," Hurdle said afterward. "The fastball command wasn't what he wanted. The breaking ball didn't come into play until way too late. And the changeup wasn't a factor. So you're going out there without your three normal weapons."
On the season, Rodriguez is 3-2 with a 3.62 ERA. Pitching at PNC Park, Rodriguez owns a 1.37 ERA and opponents are hitting .138 off him.
Worth noting
• Pittsburgh (22-17, third place) owns a five-game edge over Milwaukee (16-21, fourth place) in the National League Central.
Mark Emery is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Any news on what the problem is with OSS drivers and these new chips?
IIRC, these are not GCN (southern islands) parts, they use Northern Islands GPU cores, and those are really well supported by r600g.
Have AMD guys looked into this? Any tentative ETA?
My motherboard is dying and since it's an AM2 socket thing, I'll need to replace the processor at the same time. I'd love to go for one of these APUs, but I'd rather skip the Llano parts and go with Piledriver. I have to replace one of the graphics card at the same time (multi-seat) so I'd rather have kernel and Mesa support it.
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Is there any official announcement regarding Serious Sam 3 coming to linux via steam? No doubt it will, but I'd like to know the source anyhow.
Phoronix: Serious Sam 3 Will Be On Steam For Linux
As shown last week, Serious Sam 3 is running on Linux. This will be one of the launch titles for the Steam client on Linux...
Is there any official announcement regarding Serious Sam 3 coming to linux via steam? No doubt it will, but I'd like to know the source anyhow.
Michael, where did you find that screenshot?
Hoping they re-release 1&2.
Especially 2, I wasn't really able to get the linux version to work, had to play it using wine instead.
If you want a source:
Looking forward to this. Haven't played a good, fun twitch-FPS since Doom & Quake days. I'll probably check with the Phoronix crowd after release to see how it runs before I purchase though - I've seen some comments regarding a "broken Mac port" in some forums. While I trust that Valve would continue to improve their engine and games on Linux post-release, I'm not so sure if Croteam would just do a 'dump and release' or continue to provide patches for the game afterwards.
Could be 3.2 i think
I remember making a mod for Serious Sam second encounter back in the early 2000's.
This is all very good for Linux but I'd rather see a Call of Duty client instead. Until gaming companies get their heads out of Microsoft's rear end then don't hold your breath for any mainsteam games being developed or ported to Linux.