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"Each 22.7-times larger Efimov state is also 22.7-squared times weaker, requiring the optical trap to be cooled even further to allow the new state to form. Grimmâ(TM)s group perfected its techniques and detected the state at the very edge of experimental limits."
"Meanwhile, the two other groups managed to observe three consecutive Efimov states by taking advantage of a footnote in the theory: When a trimer is built from a mixture of different particles rather than an identical set, the scaling factor
I found the summary confusing but the article made more sense.
The theory was that there exist configurations of three particles that is stable in a strange sort of way. The strange part is that if a certain configuration was stable then putting the particles in the same configuration but the distances blown up by a certain factor (22.7 if the three particles were the same) gives another stable configuration. So you can keep blowing up the distances in multiples of 22.7 and would get an infinite sequence of stable configurations. These configurations are necessarily quantum and not classical since the distances involved would be much larger than the range of the forces between the particles. (Although even the initial distances are large too, if i understood correctly, you would agree that they _will_ get pretty large at some point).
Now some independent groups have shown the existence of such states with the required blowup. Since similar-particle setup required cooling things down to the limit of present day technology, only _one_ configuration was observed initially. Someone used a system of different particles resulting in a blowup factor less than 22.7 allowing them to observe _three_ of these configurations, essentially validating the theory.
Hope that made sense (IANAP).
Soooooo, this might explain stability of atoms in certain structures and certain distances?
Or how certain subatomic particles make stable structures and become atoms?
Am I reading into this right?
I don't think so.
Stability of ordinary matter is well explained by other more traditional theories (strong/weak forces for nucleus, electromagnetic for atoms and molecules, gravity for even larger structures). This theory described stable states that initially no one believed existed.
Morever, these configurations are stable but quite fragile.
What I gathered is that the configuration is like mirrors facing each other. The observer of the particle configuration is somewhere in the middle of the reflections, which go from an infinitesimal small scale to the infinitely large, in a sort of continuum. The distance of one mirrored reflection from another is successively 22.7 times more (or less) than the distance from the previous reflection, depending which direction is observed.
The number 22.7 is not necessarily a constant, and it depends on the pro
Why is this relevant?
What does it teach us that a normal person could understand?
Please explain to us why someone should care about this.
"22.7 — a.k.a., the rule of three — now appears to be as significant as pi."
22/7 approximates pi.
It is pretty interesting!
I always use 355/113 as my "super quickie fractional representation" of pi. It is accurate out to 6 decimal places, which makes it useful enough for most purposes. 22/7 only gets us to 2 decimal places, unfortunately.
yay! i'm going to memorize as many digits as i can of the Rule of Three!
is a good approximation for pi.
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Tris Prior's birds and Four's faction tattoos are on display in two new character posters for the upcoming big-screen adaptation of "Divergent," the popular young adult novel by Veronica Roth.
The film, due out March 21, is set in a dystopian future in which teenagers are sorted into five factions based on their virtues. Tris, portrayed by Shailene Woodley, is born into Abnegation, which esteems selflessness above all other characteristics, but when tested she discovers she is "divergent" and possesses characteristics from more than one faction. Warned that her divergence is dangerous, Tris keeps her test results secret and chooses to join Dauntless, a daring group that values boldness and courage, where she meets Four (Theo James), a leader of that faction.
Like many Dauntless initiates, Tris gets tattoos soon after joining her new faction. In the books, Tris chooses three birds to represent the family members she left behind. Later in the story, Tris discovers that Four's tattoos feature the symbols of all five factions — Abnegation, Dauntless, Candor, Amity and Erudite.
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The posters, released Tuesday, feature both characters' tattoos, and a new video featurette titled "Taking a Stand" offers a glimpse of the story's heroes in action, bringing many scenes from the books to life, including the choosing ceremony, train-jumping and, of course, Tris' dramatic first entrance into Dauntless headquarters.
"In the 'Divergent' world, you don't question the rules," Woodley says in the video. "You don't question the system. Tris does question the system, and that's an incredibly scary place to be in."
The threat is emphasized by Kate Winslet's cruel Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews.
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The film, directed by Neil Burger, also stars Ashley Judd, Zoe Kravitz, Maggie Q, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson and Miles Teller, among others.
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Sunnyside Community Hospital will pay the Sunnyside School District $1 per year as per a lease agreement approved by the Sunnyside School Board last night.
That lease agreement is for use of the newly constructed John Hughes Student Health Center.
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Rick Cole said the agreement is in keeping with the partnership between the school district and the hospital.
"The school district will act as the landlord and the hospital will manage services (at the student health center)," he said.
Sunnyside Community Hospital CEO John Gallagher said the hospital is "...excited to partner with the district to provide primary care to students."
He anticipates health care at the student center will be administered by a physician's assistant or nurse practitioner, as well as nursing staff.
The primary care will be centered on health concerns such as sports physicals, preventative care, weight loss or diet and other health care concerns, Gallagher said.
Cole said the Sunnyside School District will not be managing the services because the district is not a health care provider. The district doesn't have the ability to bill for services.
"The hospital has the ability to manage services at the clinic," he said.
Gallagher, after the Sunnyside School Board meeting, told the Daily Sun News that it is not yet specifically known how the health center will be staffed.
He said staffing levels have not yet been determined. "We are still in the development phase."
Gallagher said the hospital is working with the school district to determine which services will be provided.
The lease agreement approved by a 5-0 vote by the school board last night gives the hospital the right of first refusal in the event that the district is seeking to sell the center. The term of the lease is for 10 years and will automatically renew for additional 10-year terms unless either the hospital or the school district provides written notification of termination 90 days prior to the expiration of a lease term.
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Gold Glove Award winner gets one-year, $2.75 million contract
By Joe Frisaro / 12/20/12 5:55 PM ET
MIAMI -- Scratch third base off the Marlins' winter shopping list.
On Thursday afternoon, Miami announced the signing of free agent Placido Polanco, a two-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove Award winner.
After passing his physical, the 37-year-old signed a one-year, $2.75 million contract.
A 15-year veteran, Polanco spent the past three seasons with the Phillies.
Since trading Yunel Escobar during the Winter Meetings for prospect Derek Dietrich, the Marlins have been aggressively seeking a third baseman with a track record.
The Marlins have liked Polanco for a while. The question was his health.
In 2012, Polanco was bothered by back injuries, and he appeared in 90 games, batting .257 with two home runs and 19 RBIs.
Lower back problems also plagued him in 2011, a season during which he also dealt with a sports hernia injury.
When healthy, Polanco has been highly productive.
He's a proven winner, being part of five postseason teams. While with the Tigers in 2006, he was named the American League Championship Series MVP.
But avoiding the disabled list has been an issue.
Since playing in 153 games for the Tigers in 2009, Polanco has played in 132 games in 2010, 122 in '11 and 90 a year ago.
Polanco is the second member of the 2012 Phillies to sign with Miami as a free agent. Previously, the Marlins signed left fielder Juan Pierre.
After trading Escobar, the Marlins made it clear they were reinvesting his projected $5 million back into the payroll.
The remainder of the $5 million may be spent to address other areas of the ballclub, like a relief pitcher.
Before locking up Polanco, the Marlins also considered signing Miguel Tejada, the 38-year-old former All-Star and American League MVP.
Tejada last played in the big leagues in 2011.
The Marlins recently scouted Tejada, who is playing winter ball for Aguilas Cibaenas in the Dominican Republic.
Tejada spent 15 years in the big leagues, breaking in with the A's in 1997 while also playing for the Orioles, Astros, Padres and Giants. It's unclear if the Marlins would consider offering Tejada a Minor League contract with an invitation to Spring Training.
At the Winter Meetings, the Marlins made offers to several free agents, including Jeff Keppinger and Mark Reynolds. But both signed elsewhere.
Signing Polanco allows the Marlins to use Greg Dobbs in the role he is best suited -- a left-handed bat off the bench.
Dobbs was a possible choice to see regular action at third base if a more established veteran wasn't added.
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Just ask any of the longtime Pats fans who troll this board. If they suffered through the 70's and 80's hopelessly rooting for the Pats, I would imagine they have a certain degree of disdain for the "new" fans the Pats added after starting their run of SB appearances. Point in fact, these idiots boo'd the Pats at home in a close game against a division rival.


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To capture bees, skunks scratch at the hive entrance and guard bees that come out to investigate the disturbance. A successful skunk will repeat the process several times and may feed at the hive entrance for an hour or more to rapidly depleting the bee population. Colonies visited by skunks may become defensive since skunks usually return night after night. Skunk predation can be detected by the front of the hive being scratched and muddy and the vegetation in front of the hive packed down or torn up.


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Even after all his success, Nick remains a team player, and his coaches appreciate that
Nick is certainly a standout in the classroom as well. Nick maintains a 4.572 grade point average and is seventh out of 274 students in his class.. He participates in the Spanish Club, the Den-Teens and the U.S. Club. He has also earned a spot in the student council and National Honor Society.
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El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa decided Tuesday not to accept an award he effectively gave to himself and instead, one of the deputies originally nominated will receive it, Sheriff's Office sources said.
Ed Kafel, a longtime training deputy who has repeatedly been recognized as a Sheriff's Office employee of the month, will be given the One Hundred Club award, according to deputies at the Sheriff's Office who did not want to be named because they feared retaliation. The award recognizes excellence in first responders. Kafel will be recognized at a Broadmoor hotel gala Tuesday, along with winners from the Colorado Springs police and fire departments.
Maketa, a three-term sheriff who is term-limited, is expected to be succeeded in January by Fountain Deputy Police Chief Bill Elder. Maketa did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday. Sources say he is in Alaska. The Sheriff's Office on Wednesday would say only that Maketa was "away from his office on personal business."
The Gazette published a story Saturday detailing how the Sheriff Office's chain of command had nominated a few outstanding deputies for the award and was ready to vote on a winner at a staff meeting when Undersheriff Paula Presley nominated Maketa. Some unnamed commanders said they felt pressured to vote for Maketa or face retaliation, and he was selected unanimously. Maketa forwarded the office's nomination to the One Hundred Club, thereby choosing himself for the award, which includes a gold watch.
Commanders told The Gazette anonymously that they believed Maketa was an inappropriate choice for an award meant to recognize those in the ranks. In the award's 20-year history in El Paso County, no sitting police chief, fire chief or sheriff has been given the recognition.
The Sheriff's Office, in its response to the story, defended Maketa's nomination and lambasted the commanders for talking to The Gazette, saying, "The sheriff plans to remove these two commanders from his command staff as they are too cowardly and dishonest to remain in positions of leadership. They are a cancer and detrimental to our organizational success."
Monday, three commanders were put on administrative leave. It is not clear whether Maketa knew who spoke to The Gazette.
On Tuesday, according to sources in the office, the undersheriff told Kafel he will receive the One Hundred Club award.
Typically, the award is presented to the winning deputy by the sheriff. Sources say Presley told Kafel the sheriff would not present him the award, and neither would she.
The three commanders who were placed on leave filed a complaint Monday against Maketa with the county commissioners, saying Maketa was violating employment laws. El Paso County spokesman Dave Rose would not give details of the complaint "because this could be a matter for possible future litigation, and because it involves potential personnel matters."


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Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) Iraqi Strain AD2141 Induces DNA Damage and FasL in Cancer Cell Lines
The oncolytic viruses are promising form of cancer therapy which is based on the selectively killing of the cancer cells. This study was aimed to investigate the role of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) Iraqi strain AD2141 in apoptosis. Firstly, the virulence of AD2141 was detected in embryonated chicken eggs after 48hrs of infection. It was observed a hemorrhage in the skin of infected embryos that led to death. Then, the ability of this strain for regression cancer cell lines was examined. By using cytotoxicity test, it was found 128 HAU/ml of AD2141 had a potent inhibition against growth of RD and AMN3 after 72hrs of exposure time; the inhibition rate was 86.8% and 86.98% respectively. Moreover, the apoptotic activity of AD2141 was examined by comet assay. A significant induction of DNA damage in cancer cells was determined after 48hrs of exposure time; the average DNA tail length in RD, AMN3, and AMGM was 55.46, 79.1, and 84.4 respectively, and the percentage of apoptosis in treated RD, AMN-3, and AMGM was 78%, 92%, and 94% respectively. Furthermore, the concentration of FasL in treated and untreated cells was measured by immunofluoresent technique. FasL was elevated particularly in treated human cancer cell lines, RD and AMGM; it was 62.5pg/ml and 31.25pg/ml respectively. From these results, it can be concluded that NDV Iraqi strain AD2141 is a velogenic type; it caused death in infected chicken embryos. In addition it is an oncolytic virus due to induced apoptosis by damaging DNA and elevating FasL concentration in human cancer cells.
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Zulu is the language of the Zulu people, the majority of them living in South Africa.
Pronunciation guide
Note that Zulu is a tonal language, so the meaning of some words depends on whether you use a high or low pitch. For instance, "Unjani?" with a high tone on the 'u' means "How are you?" whereas a low thone on the 'u' means "How are they?"
Zulu vowels are very similar to those found in English.
Zulu has three click consonants, represented by "c," "q," and "x" in written Zulu.
c: Click your tongue off the back of your teeth, like a disapproving "tsk tsk."
x: This sounds like the click made to summon a horse. Click the side of your tongue off your molars, on either or both sides of your mouth.
q: This is the hardest click. It should sound somewhat like a cork being popped from a bottle. Put your tongue on the edge of your hard palate, and pull it of sharply. This will take some practice.
Here are the other consonants that can be difficult:
t like the "t" in "tea"
k somewhere between English "k" and English "g"
kh this is a digraph; it is pronounced like a hard k in Eglish, like k in "kick".
hh A digraph, this is a voiced "h", like "ch" in the Scottish "loch" but softer.
y Like the English "y"
b Like the English "b"
Phrase list
Numbers in Zulu are quite complex, with all of them acting as adjectives that alter the subsequent word. The numbers listed below are the traditional Zulu numbers, but virtually all Zulu speakers use the English counting system for convenience.
Clock time
Writing time and date
[English word] - [Zulu word] ([plural Zulu word])
car - imoto (amamoto)
bus - ibhasi (amabhasi)
ship -umkhumbhi (imikhumbhi)
plane - indiza, ibhanoyi (izindiza, amabhanoyi)
motorcycle - ithukathuka (amathukathuka)
train - isitimela (izitimela)
Bus and train
(ibhasi) (isitimela)
Taxi (itexsi)
Lodging (ihhotela)
Money (iMali)
Zulu traffic is a big thing in the Zulu they say thaat there traffic goes by very fast by day and day it goes by faster and faster everyday when they when it is going by faster they is goes they it goes to fast by day and a dy when it goes by they say the Zulu people even drive fast in the night they go a little faster at night then they do in the daylight they do not travel only when they immeaditlly have to.


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The Broward Palm Beach New Times has come up with a list of their top 10 pet-friendly restaurants in South Florida. Here it is.
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Top 200 Places: Park Bench Cafe in Orange County one of the Original Dog-Friendly Dining SpotsTuesday, November 8th, 2011
The Park Bench Cafe
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Huntington Beach,
This is one of the most dog-friendly restaurants that we have found in our travels. Your dog will absolutely feel welcome here. They even have a separate Doggie Dining Area. And if these tables are full as they often are, the nice folks will try to accommodate you and your pooch at the perimeter tables of the other seating area which is next to the dog dining area. Dogs also have their own special menu. It's actually on the people's menu, but includes items like Hot Diggity Dog (hot dog a la carte), Bow Wow Chow (skinless chicken), Annabelle's Treat (chopped bacon bits) and Doggie Kibble (dog kibble for dogs that don't eat table food). For those especially pampered pups, order the Chili Paws (single scoop of Vanilla ice cream) for dessert. This restaurant can arrange special events like Poochie Parties for your dog and a minimum of six of his or her best friends. The party menu has a mouth-watering array of foods for dogs. They do ask that your dog stay off the tables and chairs. But with all the other canine amenities, pooches don't get upset about that rule. The people food here is quite tasty too. They serve a full breakfast ranging from omelets to pancakes and belgium waffles. Lunch includes a variety of hamburgers and sandwiches. This cafe is located in Huntington Central Park at 17732 Golden West Drive between Slater Dr and Talbert Ave. Hours are Tuesday through Friday from 8am-2pm, Saturday and Sunday from 8am-3pm, and closed on Mondays. Come and enjoy the food and atmosphere.
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Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would "open the gates of hell".
The onslaught shattered hopes that a truce mediated on Tuesday by Egypt could pull the two sides back from the brink of war after five days of escalating Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli strikes at militant targets.
Operation "Pillar of Defense" began with a surgical strike on a car carrying the commander of the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement which controls Gaza and dominates a score of smaller armed groups.
Within minutes of the death of Ahmed Al-Jaabari, big explosions were rocking Gaza, as the Israeli air force struck at selected targets just before sundown, blasting plumes of smoke and debris high above the crowded city.


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They will be enforced beginning Aug. 1.
Top college recruits might want to think about investing in an unlimited talk-and-text phone plan before then.
Maybe a smart phone, too, with unlimited bandwidth.
The NCAA changes will allow coaches to reach out whenever they want, via whatever method they choose.
That means Twitter, Facebook and Skype are no longer off limits.
Neither is Instagram, if that's your thing.
The caveat: The messages have to be private.
The rule was one of five related to recruiting passed by the NCAA's Board of Directors at the 2013 NCAA Convention.
The others are:
• Football programs are allowed to hire a recruiting coordinator and support staff separate from the on-field coaches. These additional staff members can do everything a coach does in terms of recruiting except recruit off-campus.
• All assistant coaches can be on the road recruiting at the same time.
• Football programs will no longer be required to provide certain material to recruits, such as the banned-drug list and Academic Progress Rate data.
• Football programs can send as much printed material to a recruit as they'd like.
Some college coaches think the changes will open another can of worms for them.
"We're going to be like a bunch of teenage schoolchildren texting all the time," Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez told Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel. "I'm going to have to learn to text faster than I do now."
Some college coaches think it will make their lives easier in terms of competing with the rule-breakers.
"You don't want the guys that are breaking the rules to have an advantage and if you've got limited phone calls and some guys are getting an unregistered phone and calling year round and the kids are mad at you because they say you're not working as hard because you're not calling that's a disadvantage for the ones going by the rules," Texas coach Mack Brown said during an interview on ESPN.
"I applaud the NCAA for trying to take out the rules they can't follow anyway. They can't figure out who's cheating, who's not, they can't jurisdict and they're trying to get more balance across the board."
Locally, the reaction is mixed.
Chris Conboy, the Manatee High assistant coach who acts as the liaison between colleges and the Hurricanes football players they are recruiting, said that texting would streamline the recruiting process.
Conboy said that colleges can ask the recruit the questions instead of his high school coach.
"They can contact them directly, instead of texts and phone calls (to me asking), 'Where is this guy at? What is he thinking?'" Conboy said.
For the high-profile recruit like Cord Sandberg, the Manatee High quarterback who has verbally committed to Mississippi State, texting would have enabled him to more efficiently monitor his recruitment correspondence, while doing homework, for example.
"You can kind of 'multi-task' a little bit," Sandberg said. "You can do a math problem and text your coach back. When you're talking on the phone, that's the only thing you can do."
Besides, Sandberg said, most of the correspondence from the coach is just small talk anyway.
"That's all it is. They're just checking, seeing how you're doing," Sandberg said. "If they're texting, 'Hey, what's up?' 'Hey, coach, everything is going well. Practice went well today. The ankle is feeling better,' or whatever you're going to say."
Southeast football coach Paul Maechtle thinks texting will become a headache for the five-star recruits.
"The highly recruited athlete is going to be bombarded even more," said Maechtle, who has produced dozens of Division I college players in his 30-plus years guiding the Seminoles.
"I guarantee that there were times where athletes would get numerous phone calls where voice messages were left . . . and those messages were left unresponded to. I'm sure eventually the same thing will happen with texting."
For the athletes on the lower end of the spectrum, the ability to receive texts from schools enhances the integrity of the process say some.
"That would solve a lot of problems," said Southeast wide receiver Jacob Sannon, who has verbally committed to the University of Idaho.
"You would know which coaches are more interested in you."
However, Sannon, who accepted the only Division I offer he received, also said that a bombardment of texts could become a turnoff.
"If you're not interested in the school and the coach keeps texting you, that might get on someone's nerves, just because they know they won't be going to that school," Sannon said. "But at that point, someone would probably let them know you're not interested, or something like that."
With every athlete having his own cell phone, this adoption is only natural says Maechtle.
"The college coach has much more access to the player than before," Maechtle said.
"He doesn't have to go through the home phone, through mom and dad picking up the phone. As in all things in our world, it's become much more instant."
Here are the NCAA's new recruiting rules, effective Aug. 1:
Proposal 11-2: Allows football programs to hire a recruiting coordinator and support staff separate from the on-field coaches. These additional staff members can do everything a coach does in terms of recruiting except recruit off-campus.
Proposal 11-4: All assistants can be on the road recruiting at the same time.
Proposal 13-3: Allows coaches to communicate to prospects whenever they want and with whatever method they want as long as the message is private: texting, calling, tweeting, Facebooking, Skypeing, etc.
Proposal 13-4: Eliminates the requirement that institutions provide materials such as the banned-drug list and Academic Progress Rate data to recruits
Proposal 13-5-A: Eliminates restrictions on sending printed materials to recruits


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Syncing the iPhone can be inconvenient. You have to plug in the phone etc etc etc to make sure your contacts and calendars are backed up. If you're like me you get caught with new contacts and calendars on your iPhone, forget to sync to the computer, and then lose them all on a restore (presumably after you ****** up with some sort of modding).
To date probably the simplest way around this problem is the mac solution of MobileMe which syncs your contacts and calendars over-the-air to your account and then to your computer. The problem? MobileMe costs some $$$.
Enter the Google. Something super simple, uses the iPhone's built in functionality (no extra app needed), and best of all Free.
- Synchronize your contacts. Get your Google contacts quickly and easily to your iPhone. With Sync, you can have access to your address book at anytime and place that you need it.
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- Always in sync. Your calendar and contacts stay synchronized whether you access them from your iPhone or from your computer. Add or edit contacts or calendar entries right on your device or on your Google account on the web.
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HRMG6550 - Finance/Acct For Non Finan Mgr
Spring 2014
This course provides a foundation in financial management to allow people to understand and use financial information. The intent of the course is not to make the student an accountant. Rather, its goal is to provide enough of the language and tools of financial management to make the student conversant in the field. The primary goal is to provide the skills necessary to use financial information rather than the more technical skills needed to generate that information. However, one must have some sense of where numbers are coming from to be able to beneficially interpret and use those numbers.
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Submission + - US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy (torrentfreak.com)
Andorin writes: Suddenlink, a United States ISP that serves nineteen states, has implemented a three-strikes policy. Subscribers who receive three DMCA takedown notices are disconnected without compensation for a period of six months. According to TorrentFreak, the takedown notices do not have to be substantiated in court, which effectively means that subscribers can be disconnected based on mere accusations. In justifying the policy, Suddenlink turns to an obscure provision of their Terms of Service, but also claims that they are required by the DMCA to disconnect repeat offenders.


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Third in a series of posts analyzing Raiders' position groups with players scheduled to report to Napa in six days.
Projected starter: Zach Miller. Backups: Brandon Myers, Darrell Strong, John Paul Foschi, Tony Stewart.
No mysteries here. Miller had sports hernia surgery in the offseason and appears to have recovered nicely and should be full-go. With 56 receptions for 778 yards and a respectable 13.9 yards per catch average, Miller became the first Raiders tight end since Ethan Horton in 1991 to catch 50 or more passes in a season.
Coach Tom Cable believes Miller's stats can be better with the right tight end to "marry up" (Cable's words, not mine) with him. Hence the selection of Brandon Myers out of Iowa, who in theory can be the block-and-release player in two tight-end sets while Miller does what he does best _ find open areas in the middle of the field.
It could also help Miller be more of a threat in the red zone, where the one receiver JaMarcus Russell truly trusts drops off in terms of production. Of Miller's 100 receptions in two years, only four have been four touchdowns _ just one last season.
Strong's strong training camp showing won him a spot on the practice squad and a late promotion to the 53-man roster. Foschi can play either fullback or tight end but will be hardpressed to make the final 53.
The key battle: Myers vs. Stewart. Myers is already under contract, according to his agent (no confirmation from the Raiders, of course), and when contact drills begin will be able to show off the blocking skills which make him a good match for Miller in two tight-end sets. Stewart is a steady veteran, the team's player rep, and in Miller's absence showed a good pair of hands during the mandatory minicamp and OTAs. The Raiders would love to see Myers assert himself as the second tight end, but Stewart won't be moved easily.
What I think: With the wide receiver position sorting itself out, Miller will remain Russell's most reliable receiver as well as a strong secondary option. When Miller signed his contract, the Raiders were a running joke among agents and front-office types because they paid him about a million more than they needed to, considering what players were paid in front of him and behind him in the draft order. Maybe they did, but turns out it was money well spent.
What could go wrong: Injuries, of course. There isn't a tight end on the roster with Miller's knack for getting open over the middle or with his potential to be a big part of the offense.
The Robbins interview
Caught Barret Robbins' interview with Andrea Kremer on Real Sports Tuesday night, and it was very similar to the interview Kremer landed for ESPN the last time the former center was in recovery.
Robbins has stood up and taken responsibility before, only to slip right back into the cycle of manic depression and substance abuse that nearly killed him. You pull for him because when of right mind he seems to have a good heart. But the only proof will be when days and years pass, with Robbins staying the course and regaining a relationship with his family.


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Traffic to and from resort towns kept trolleys busy during the summer tourist season.
In an interview with Seashore Trolley Museum, Elcye Parker (b. 1914) said, "I remember the open rides up from Old Orchard Beach – the last trolley at midnight – and oh, the motorman was anxious to get home, so he drove like the devil. We'd go real fast forward, we also swayed out. Sometimes I wondered if the trolley wouldn't go off the tracks."


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Active Seti points out a story about upgrades for the Very Large Array radio telescope. The improvements will increase the VLA's capabilities 10-fold, allowing it to "pick up a cell phone signal on Jupiter." Work on the 28-antenna array is already underway, and it is expected to finish by 2012. From Scientific American: "Data gathered by all 28 of the 82-foot- (25-meter-) diameter dish antennas are brought to a correlator--a central, special-purpose computer--which merges the input into a form that allows scientists to produce detailed, high-quality images of the astronomical objects under investigation. A new fiber-optic system replaces the older waveguide system for taking data collected by the receivers to the central control building and increases the amount of data that can be delivered from the antenna to the new $17-million correlator being built by Canadian scientists and engineers to handle the increased data flow."


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Stephen 'Steve' Michael Cofer, 62, of Hurst, Texas, completed his passage through this world Jan. 10, 2014.Funeral service is at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, at Moore Funeral Home Chapel in Arlington, Texas. Visitation with the family will be 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, at Moore Funeral Home.In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Harwood Terrace Baptist Church at 3420 Brown Trail, Bedford, Texas 76021 for the Back Pack Ministry providing school supplies and food for under-privileged children.He was born in Big Spring, Texas on June 19, 1951 to Oliver Cofer and Bonnie Burleson Cofer.Steve graduated from Big Spring High School in 1969, received associate degree from Howard County Junior College in 1971 and went on to attend University of Texas at Arlington.After various jobs through school and college, Steve began working as an auto mechanic, but soon found his niche in sales. He was a successful salesman in many industries including Morgan Spas and most recently Easy Care Pool Products. Over the years Steve's success was recognized by numerous awards. As recently as December he received three top Easy Care sales awards for high sales of various products.Steve married Dana Lockhart Feb. 14, 2006. Together they enjoyed time at Dana's cabin on Lake Texoma.Steve was an avid golfer and had a lifelong passion for fishing instilled by his grandfathers.Survivors include his wife, Dana Lockhart; mother, Bonnie Cofer; sister, Vicki Trostle and husband, Wade; nephew, David Trostle; and niece, Katherine Lack and husband, Matt.Paid Obituary


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Euro 2012: The verdict from our Experts' Network – Croatia to Holland | Marcus Christenson
Our experts deliver their verdicts on best and worst players, best and worst moments and rate the ir teams' overall performance
Our best player The real star of this team was the manager, Slaven Bilic. He made the players better, prepared them in the best possible way – both physically and psychologically – and made a series of clever tactical calls to extract the maximum from a good, but not great team.
Most disappointing player Eduardo – but only because he didn't get enough chances to play, which obviously wasn't his fault. I thought he really could have made an impact at this tournament, which would have been thoroughly deserved considering he missed the last Euros, when he had been at the top of his game, because of a terrible injury.
Our best moment Luka Modric's breakout run and fantastic outside-of-the-foot cross for Ivan Rakitic's chance against Spain. It was the moment when, as Arsène Wenger observed, Croatia made Spain look human again.
Worst moment A few minutes from time in the match against Spain, when we were not awarded a penalty despite a blatant foul on Vedran Corluka in the box.
Overall rating and a look ahead: 8/10. Croatia performed really well and left a good impression. Unfortunately, they were unable to get the result they wanted. The only below-par performance was in the first half against Italy, when the team looked really bad, but then Slaven Bilic unexpectedly changed the formation and turned the game around.
People mocked Bilic when he said he wanted to win the Euros. But after seeing Italy and Spain reach the final, that no longer seems to have been entirely crazy: Croatia handled both teams very well and could have won both of those games.
Croatia should build on the atmosphere within the team, which has been really good, for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers . All of the guys who played at this tournament should be available and that's a great advantage, but the new manager, Igor Stimac, should also look to introduce a few youngsters – especially at the defensive end, where Croatia has very few options.
Stimac is a completely different character to Bilic. He has very little coaching experience and it is hard to say how he will fare at this level. But what really worries me is the overall situation in Croatian football: problems with corruption and heavily neglected at grassroots level for years. That is no environment for talent to come through so I really dread the long-term future of Croatian football.
Player of the tournament Andrea Pirlo
Words by Aleksandar Holiga, tportal.hr
Czech Republic
Our best player Petr Jiracek. Th e energetic midfielder showed that he has truly recovered after the first six difficult months at Wolfsburg with an early goal against Greece and did not look back after that. He adapted well to a new position on the right side of midfield and scored another crucial goal against Poland.
Most disappointing player Our 12th player: the fans. The comparison might be harsh but when the Irish fans were supporting their team despite the heavy defeat against Spain, the Czech players must have felt bitter. Their own fans turned against them right after the defeat against Russia and whistled at Michal Bilek and Milan Baros even before the second game against Greece. Their support improved after that but it was still a poor show.
Our best moment The afternoon before the last group game against co-hosts Poland. People in Wroclaw really warmed to the Czechs and I've never experienced such a friendly atmosphere before such a cruc ial game. The Wroclaw marketplace was full of Czech and Polish fans, singing together, hugging each other and wishing one another well. It was a footballing Woodstock.
Worst moment The moment in the first half of the game against Greece when someone kicked Tomas Rosicky's achilles. He did not play in the tournament again – a huge blow to the team's chances.
Overall performance and a look ahead: 6/10. Despite the heavy defeat in their first game against Russia, the Czechs got what they came for: a place in the quarter-finals. Their game lacked invention and was not very easy on the eye at times (partly because of Rosicky's injury), but the team showed great determination and fighting spirit to overcome Greece and Poland to finish top of the group.
Several of the younger players made an impact – Jiracek, Vaclav Pilar, Theodor Gebre Selassie or David Limbersky – which gives the team hope goin g into the World Cup qualifying campaign. On the other hand, the quarter-final against Portugal showed that the Czechs still lack the experience and the skill to compete with the best. They will certainly gain the former, but the prevailing feeling is that the pool of players lack the quality to provide the latter.
The main task for Bilek, who has had his contract extended until 2014, is to unveil find a goalscorer, especially now that Milan Baros has retired from international football. The coach believed in the striker despite the fact that he was just a shadow of the attacking beast he was in 2004. Those who deputised for him at the Euros are not up to the task yet and with Tomas Necid's knee problems, there is a shortage of strikers with international experience.
On the other side, Tomas Hubschman, a player whose international career was seemingly nearing its end, proved that he is still the best holding midfielder. When he was selected against Greece he gave the midfield a sense of security and was constantly showing that, at 30, his passing and overall game are still improving.
So the outlook must not be as bleak as the first paragraph of this section might have suggested. The team have made constant progress since last year and if the Czechs keep that up they might be the dark horses of a World Cup qualifying group that includes Italy and Denmark.
Player of the tournament Andrea Pirlo
Words by Michal Petrak, Denik Sport
Our best player Daniel Agger showed the experience you can expect from a regular in Liverpool's line-up. A real warrior.
Most disappointing player Big clubs have been sniffing around Christian Eriksen for quite some time now but if they followed him at Euro 2012 he may end up somewhere like, er, Rangers.
Our best moment Michael Krohn-Dehli's goal that virtually sent Holland home. They way Krohn-Dehli split the Dutch defence and coolly slotted the ball between Maarten Stekelenburg's legs was truly exquisite.
Worst moment When Simon Busk Poulsen should have made himself big as an oak tree against Portugal he seemed to turn into a bamboo stick, letting Silvestre Varela score the deciding goal. If only …
Overall performance and a look ahead: 7/10. For a small country such as Denmark, finishing third in the group of death is perfectly acceptable. We even came close to pipping Portugal to second place, something no one would have expected before the tournament.
The future looks bright for the World Cup qualifiers. Most of the Danish players are young and more and more of them are playing at reasonably big clubs in Europe. If Eriksen begins to fulfil the expectations and Nicklas Bendtner continues his positive form it does not look all too bad. A group of Italy, The Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Malta and Armenia sounds hard but us Danes have done OK in hard groups before…
Player of the tournament Andrea Pirlo
Words by Thomas Lund Hansen, Jyllands-Posten
Our best player Steven Gerrard will never hit his Liverpool heights in an England shirt, but he was disciplined in every game, eschewing his natural Hollywood tendencies for the good of the team. And he was a genuine and decent captain. He didn't start any mutinies against the manager, for a start.
Most disappointing player Wayne Rooney always takes a while to get back up to speed a fter returning to any team, and nothing changed here. Allowing him to bugger off to Vegas before the tournament may not have been Roy's finest decision.
Our best moment Danny Welbeck's adroit flick against Sweden pips Andy Carroll's powerful header. A nod to Theo Walcott in the same match, too, if only because the developing pattern suggests he won't be doing that again for another three years.
Worst moment Andrea Pirlo's penalty, the most humiliating slap-down in the history of penalty shootouts.
Overall performance and a look ahead: 5/10 England, a couple of lax moments against Sweden apart, looked fairly solid at the back. On the whole. Still, it's not much of a philosophy to take forward. England were outclassed and embarrassed against Italy, and Hodgson will need to inject some creative verve into the team – or the criticisms and expectations that saw him succumb at Liverpool will soon engulf hi m here too.
Player of the tournament Mario Balotelli
Words by Scott Murray
Our best player I guess that Yohan Cabaye and Hugo Lloris were the best players of the French national team at the Euros. They were the most consistent and maybe the only ones that played at their highest level during the whole tournament. Jérémy Ménez was good against Ukraine, Laurent Koscielny was good against Spain, but only Cabaye and Lloris were good in all their games.
Most disappointing player Maybe Samir Nasri. He played well against England but had a personal vendetta against the French journalists and that made him completely lose his focus. He was not able to deal with the pressure and there were a lot of people who were just waiting for him to make a mistake. Nasri can clearly be a difficult character but he does not deserve such a hate from the French people a nd media.
Our best moment The victory against Ukraine. I have no choice …
Worst moment The defeat against Swedeneven if I love Zlatan Ibrahimovic more than any of the players of the French national team …
Overall performance and a look ahead: 5/10. France got out of the group but were then beaten by Spain in a very tactical encounter. It was not as terrible as the 2010 World Cup but it was only marginally better. Laurent Blanc has stepped down and, despite there being a lot of expectation ahead of Euro 2012, we start from scratch again for the World Cup qualifiers. There are several young French players around, but the new manager will need to make them play as a team. And we've only got Spain in our World Cup qualifying group.
Player of the tournament Andrea Pirlo
Words by Franck Annese, So Foot
Our best player Sami Khedira was the fulcrum of this Germany side. While Bastian Schweinsteiger was searching for his best form, the babyfaced Khedira played powerfully and without compromises. He was hard to beat in defence and drove his team forward in attack. His goal against Greece was a symbol for his appearances at this tournament: strong, elegant and unpredictable.
Most disappointing player Thomas Müller. After the 2010 World Cup 201o everyone believed that he would become the future leader of the national team. After this Bundesliga-season and the Euros, however, everyone knows that there are several alternatives for his position: for example Marco Reus, André Schürrle, Mario Götze.
Our best moment The win against Greece, with Marco Reus and André Schürrle coming in to take the 2004 champions apart. The goals were superb as well.
Worst moment Unquestionably the defeat against Italy when so much hope had been built up.
Overall performance and a look ahead: 7/10. After the 2010 World Cup 2010 everyone knew how strong the German team was. We wanted the title but in the end Jogi Löw and the boys just made it through to the semifinal. They did, however, play some exciting football. I grew up in the 70s and 80s so it is still a luxurious position for me.
So please excuse me but I find it hard to criticise the team. There are enough good players in the squad and the coach has a big enough squad to rotate his first XI. Löw showed he had the courage to make changes: That was modern; it was surprising; and it was good to see.
But on the other hand we did not reach the final. That is disappointing, because our expectations were bigger than reaching just the semis. I'm looking forward to the World Cup qualifiers because we had the youngest team at the Euros and I am sure it still has a golden future.
Player of the tournament Mario Balotelli
Words by Tim Jürgens, 11Freunde
Our best player Kyriakos Papadopoulos, without a shadow of a doubt. He was only supposed to get a few minutes of play in the tournament but with Avraam Papadopoulos injured and Sokratis Papastathopoulos getting sent off, Papadopoulos came in and ensured that the foundations of the Greek defence remained solid. He is only 20 years old but he looks set to feature for years to come. A possible future captain.
Most disappointing player Kostas Chalkias. The 36-year-old goalkeeper was supposed to offer the calmness and stability because of his experience but instead became a liability for the Greek defence . Twenty-five minutes into the second game against the Czechs, with Greece 2-0 down, Chalkias asked to be a substituted because of a minor injury, at least having the clear mind to not burden his team further. He narrowly beat Jose Holebas to the biggest disappointment of the Greek team.
Best moment Russia are outplaying Greece but then Giorgos Karagounis picks up the ball outside the box, powers through their defence and applies a brutal finish to put Greece ahead and into the quarter-finals.
Worst moment Sami Khedira scoring for Germany six minutes after the George Samaras had equalised for Greece.
Overall performance and a look ahead In terms of football style: 5/10. In terms of success: 8/10. It is Greece's second most successful campaign, after the win at Euro 2004. Overall, though, Euro 2012 was a success. The team is currently going through a tra nsition with the veterans of 2004 retiring and the younger players getting more and more responsibilities on and off the pitch.
What the team needs moving forward is to keep Fernando Santos as coach (already done – he signed his new contract a day before the Quarter-final) and giving key roles to younger players such as Vassilis Torosidis, Sotiris Ninis, Avraam Papadopoulos, Giannis Maniatis, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Giorgos Tzavellas, Costas Mitroglou, Ioannis Fetfatzidis and Michalis Sifakis in order for them to mature and guide Greece to Brazil.
Player of the tournament Andrea Pirlo
Words by Stavros Drakoularakos, sport24.gr
Our best player Wesley Sneijder. He was the only "big name" who delivered, on the pitch and off the pitch. Talking to the media, he did not come up with any excuses for Holland's failure, was tough in his criticism of the team and said sorry to all the Dutch fans.
Most disappointing player John Heitinga. Holland started the tournament with problems in defence – and it did not get better as the tournament went on. We lack a world-class central defender with the strength and pace like Jaap Stam in his best days, but Heitinga was Everton's player of the year.
Our best moment The goal from Rafael van der Vaart against Portugal was a beautifully placed, curling shot into the top corner. An act that contrasted with everything else Holland did.
Worst moment Denmark, Germany and Portugal all scored their first goals against Holland in the second quarter of the game (between minutes 15 and 30) and in all three matches it was "game over" immediately.
Overall performance and a look ahead: 3/10 Bert van Marwijk and his players started Euro 2012 as World Cup finalists, but they never came close to making it to the final again. The problems were everywhere. It started before the tournament, with an awful game against Bulgaria, in which Robin van Persie played at right wing and did not link up well with Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who played up front. That game drove the rivalry between the two strikers to the maximum. Later that week Van Marwijk told Huntelaar that Van Persie would be his first choice up front for the tournament, and after that decision Huntelaar did nothing in favour of the team anymore. Maybe it had been better if he had been sent home before the first game.
In all three games Holland started well but after the first goal of the opponents, the team broke into two parts. Up front creative players such as Wesley Sneijder, Van Persie and Arjen Robben wanted to press but in midfield and at the back players such as Mark van Bommel, Nigel de Jong and John Heitinga wanted to sit back and control the game. Where teams such as Spain attack and defend with only 35 meters distance between the deepest striker and the last defender, Holland played most of the time with 50 or 60 meters between attack and defence.
The result was a lot of frustrations between the players. In 2010 in South Africa, Holland were a "team" for six weeks in total. Now they were a collection of individuals. Van Marwijk should perhaps have done more to avoid this, but he trusted his big players, thinking that they would solve problems themselves, knowing that this was the last opportunity for a very skilful generation of world-class players to win a big tournament.
Ten days after Holland went home with their worst result in history (three defeats and no points), Van Marwijk decided to quit after four years. His successor should be someone who makes harsh decisions. For Example: Hunte laar or Van Persie in the team. Not both. And maybe decide to end the international careers of players such as Van der Vaart, who will be 31 by the time of the next World Cup. During the last two tournaments Van der Vaart (99 caps in total) has only been a substitute.
Holland have a friendly against Belgium on 15 August. The World Cup qualifiers start in September with Holland playing their three biggest rivals (Turkey, Romania and Hungary) in the first four matches.
Player of the tournament Sergio Ramos
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Melissa Wolowicz is up with the chickens every morning, working to make Memphis a better place.
The new vice president of development for BRIDGES has been raising chickens in her backyard since she, husband Shawn and son Grayson moved into Midtown and a house shaded by a canopy of trees.
Before the chickens and BRIDGES, however, Wolowicz was vice president of grants and initiatives for The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis.
The Frayser native and White Station High School graduate attended the University of Memphis for a bachelor's degree in social work and the University of Tennessee College of Social Work for her master's degree. As part of her master's curriculum, she became an intern for The Community Foundation.
"I knew I wanted to help people," said Wolowicz, who originally began in the psychology program at the U of M. "I quickly figured out that working one-on-one with people was too heavy for me."
Jenny Koltnow, executive director of the Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation, has worked with Wolowicz over the years and attests to her commitment to the city and the nonprofit community, saying she is "persistent, professional and widely admired."
Wolowicz's foray into social work came with an internship for Traveler's Aid, an organization that assists individuals and families who are in transition, or crisis, and disconnected from their support systems.
"I just wanted to have a bigger impact, and I had a hard time not bringing that home with me," she said of her work there. "Instead of helping one homeless person at a time, I'd much rather look at policy issues around how to end homelessness."
This need led her to The Community Foundation where she stayed for 13 years. The Foundation develops and manages charitable funds and endowments, as well as encouraging philanthropy. It has awarded nearly $500 million in grants since its founding in 1969.
"We were first on the scene with a lot of interesting initiatives," Wolowicz said, pointing to the Earned Benefits Program, an online system that is a resource where people can visit one place to realize what benefits they're eligible for. It's the necessary sort of back-office infrastructure that needs to be in place for area philanthropies and foundations to more efficiently do their jobs. "The Foundation was one of the first in Memphis to fund that."
A project begun by Wolowicz that continues to resonate throughout the community, and one which she will continue to play a role in, is the GiVE 365 campaign, allowing members to donate only a dollar a day and have a say in where that money goes by voting on causes. The low point of entry is meant to spur the next generation of philanthropists.
–Melissa Wolowicz Vice president of development, BRIDGES
"Melissa is an incredibly talented, dedicated philanthropist who sees the big picture while managing the details," Koltnow said. "She has been critical to the growth of the Memphis Grantmakers Forum and the development of GiVE 365, among many other initiatives, cultivating participation among hundreds of individuals and organizations in the interest of strengthening our community."
It is the sum of her experiences in the nonprofit world, and her personal passion for helping people, that Wolowicz has brought to her new position at BRIDGES.
The organization brings young people from throughout the city together to mentor and mold them into community leaders. It's a mission Wolowicz says she has always admired, and one that strikes close to home as the mother of a 15-year-old son.
"I see how important an organization like this is, especially in Memphis," she said.
Her role with BRIDGES is reversed from what it was at The Community Foundation. Working in development means raising money, whereas her background has been in giving it away. It's a challenge she relishes, however, and looks eagerly to an expansion within BRIDGES as it moves to serve rising seventh through 12th graders, instead of only 11th and 12th, as has been the case.
"We're still trying to get the word out that younger students can apply to be part of the program," Wolowicz said.
The experience with BRIDGES broadens a young person's outlook and worldview, and connects them with a diversity of people from throughout the community. The workshops and team building instill a confidence Wolowicz said she gained from playing sports such as basketball, volleyball and softball throughout school.
Teamwork has been a large component of her work over the years and, while the notion came with those early extracurricular activities, she says, "I only wish I had known about BRIDGES then because I would have been very interested in it."
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I have only Sumatra PDF on my Windows 7 machine. I don't have a copy of Adobe's viewer on the machine at all.
Sumatra PDF is dumb, but reasonably secure. It can't do cut and paste, it doesn't do forms, and it doesn't have Javascript.
If a PDF doesn't work the same in two (or more) places, someone is doing something wrong...
... that said, just how many (and how recently) have you tried? I've -never- once, in the 10 years since I stopped touching Adobe, seen a misrendered PDF.
Lucky you.
I've had a small handful of pdfs (created w/ different methods, including OS X's print function, and another through PHP's pdf library) not display properly. Some worked well in Preview.app (but not in Reader on Windows; others were the other way around. Sometimes it was text that would show (or not), but typically it was a background image that didn't consistently render. The most recent incident was two+ years, a different job, and several OS versions ago (Tiger), so I can't say whether the iss
You must be the same guy for whom upon installation of Linux has always had device drivers for your hardware perfectly autodetect, too.
That's good that you have an alternative that works for you on your home computer, but you're never going to get my whole department to trade some of those features for security, even the ones who -could- install it themselves. Them using an insecure PDF viewer is problematic for me because I have to use the same network. Thus it's a good thing.
> Sorry, but the vast majority of [Windows] users have Adobe Reader installed to view PDF files
Mac users hardly ever have Adobe Reader because the built-in PDF tools are better. Smartphone and iPad users definitely don't have Adobe Reader, but they can all view PDF. This is not 1995. PDF is Portable Document Format. It is not brain surgery to create a PDF you can share with any arbitrary user. If you choose to make Adobe Reader documents instead of standard PDF, then you can't complain that everyone else
I have only Sumatra PDF on my Windows 7 machine.
Adobe Reader/Professional has grown into a sort of "Enterprise" software, since the PDF format is hard to edit properly (even in Adobe Professional). As Enterprise software, it's bloated, has way too many features that most users don't even know about (Javascript Debugger, wtf?), and is a security nightmare... yet those businesses who need it will never give it up (the legal domain is pretty much all about PDFs and TIFFs).
What would be needed to make an drast
Does it support annotations, those little post-it note things that colleagues add comments with?
That piece of bloatware should be put on a harsh diet before that.
It was put [arsgeek.com] on a diet back in 2007. Has anyone tried this recently?
It appears Adobe finally realized that a document reader shouldn't have access to my entire sysetm.
It really amazes me that anyone could successfully get acrobat to install malware. I can barely get it to view PDFs. perhaps acrobat should hire some of these malware writers to get acrobat to stop crashing on every windows and linux box I've ever used for the past 10 years.
Why does a PDF viewer need to give the document the ability to write at all?
Would ripping some of the crazy features out of the PDF spec solve this more completely and reasonably?
What do we use PDFs for which involves writes?
What do we use PDFs for which involves writes?
Malware installation.
Probably editing and note taking. I draw on PDFs all the time, and I'm glad I'm able to save the edits.
It doesn't.
Things that a document format is not in any way appropriate for.
Why does a PDF viewer need to give the document the ability to write at all?
Because after unlink() you might want to create some new stuff?
Signing documents, adding notes, adding addendum, filling out forms, etc. There is more to PDF's then text.
It's called Acrobat READER and it is supposed to be for READING PDF files. It is completely inappropriate for it to be able to WRITE anything. Adding extra crap is the reason that it has so many security flaws.
Signing documents, adding notes, adding addendum, filling out forms, etc. There is more to PDF's then text.
It's called Acrobat READER and it is supposed to be for READING PDF files. It is completely inappropriate for it to be able to WRITE anything. Adding extra crap is the reason that it has so many security flaws.
Indeed... the write capabilities should be completely disabled until they are turned on by the user. Even better would be a "Reader Light" with no write capability at all for the 99% of users who will never use Acrobat to complete a form.
Even better would be a "Reader Light" with no write capability at all for the 99% of users who will never use Acrobat to complete a form.
A note on PDF form signing with the free Reader: the Reader does not allow electronic signing unless the document itself is signed with a producer key that is issued by Adobe. In other words, you get to sign for free if your users are using the full Adobe suite. If they only have the Reader, you need to pay something like $20000 to Adobe to get a producer key which allow
My bank was happy to accept an excel spreadsheet as an email attachment, email contents saying that I agreed with the stuff, a md5 of the file, and the whole email w/ attachment signed with GPG. This was 10 years ago. Of course at closing, I had to ink sign and initial everything, but I would've needed to do that anyway so the e-"signature" was fine for getting the process started.
Why can't that data be stored in a little SQLite database (or some such) in the PDF file? Why does it need to be able to write other files on my filesystem? Why does it need to be able to write to My Documents?
Signing documents, adding notes, adding addendum, filling out forms, etc. There is more to PDF's then text.
Uhm, if this was the functionality discussed here, Notepad and vi would be just as vulnerable.
You are clearly confusing:
1. A program which saves changes to the loaded file when the user requests it.
2. A program which writes to other files in the file system, when the document requests it.
The problem with Adobe Reader is #2, not #1. So, to repeat the GP's question:
Why does a PDF viewer need to give the document the ability to write at all?
What spec? All that scripting support is Adobe only.
With Acrobat, Adobe has fallen into a particular bloat trap usually reserved for Microsoft and AV vendors. It goes like this:
You release a product, and it does one specific thing well. Lots of people buy it, and you have a success on your hands. You come up with a bunch of fixes and new features, and release version 2. Again, lots of people buy it. Same thing again with Version 3, maybe version 4... and so on. This is the normal ideal for-profit software development model.
However, at some point you start developing what will become... let's say version 5. You start working on it, and you can't think of any good features to add in. Version 4 already does everything you want that software to do, but you can't just stop there-- you wouldn't be able to sell any upgrade anymore. At the same time, you can't just release bug-fixes and improve performance, since you wouldn't be able to justify charging people for a new version that consisted only in bug fixes. You don't want to head in an entirely new direction because it might alienate current users. You don't want to invest in creating a new product instead, because new products are risky. You just want to find a way to continue milking your cash cow.
Eventually you come up with a bunch of flashy-sounding features that you can advertise even if almost no one uses them. You invest in marketing to make people feel like this new version will allow them to do lots of things that they'll probably never actually do. You reorganize the interface, shifting controls around for no reason other than to make things look "new". You discontinue support for older versions. You modify your file formats so that they'll be slightly incompatible with older versions, or at least you make sure your older versions throw up some kind of warning that says, "This document was made with a newer version. Upgrade now!"
You do a whole bunch of that stuff, and sure enough, people buy it. You set out to make version 6, and you find yourself in approximately the same bind. Some people are still happily using version 4 of your software, and you haven't been able to convince them to upgrade. So then you start throwing even more powerful-sounding but useless features at your customers. "This version has SecureBit technology, which will make all of your bits secure. Make sure you upgrade, or all your information will be eaten by hackers!" and "This version has the latest support for the latest AwesomeX technology. Make sure you upgrade, or you'll find out your friends can do cool things that you can't!" Little by little, you push customers to the latest version. This is now your business model.
With each version, you throw in more and more stuff. Maybe some of it's useful. Maybe there are even 2% of your customers that actually make good use of AwesomeX technology. Mostly, though, your software gets more and more bloated with stupid things so that you have an excuse to keep charging money.
Ultimatley PDF have been fine for making print documents for a long time. Acrobat and Acrobat Reader have improved in some ways, but even old versions were adequate for producing static PDFs. Adobe's only hope for continued growth is to push PDF to be used for more and more things that it is not well suited to handle. Adobe has made it so each PDF file can be kind of like its own stand-alone application by using javascript and Flash.
Should it be an operating system feature to force all user applications to run in a sandbox by default?
The problem is that most OSs out there (including Windows, Mac and Linux) are user-centric, rather than application centric (at least, by default). When you run Acrobat, it has the same permissions that you have (which, in many cases, allows the application to do many things). Adobe's solution is to make Acrobat limit itself in what it can do.
If you really want an operating system based solution, you could make a separate "acrobat" user (which doesn't have any read/write permissions), run Acrobat as this se
If you really want an operating system based solution, you could make a separate "acrobat" user (which doesn't have any read/write permissions), run Acrobat as this separate user and do a "sudo" whenever you want to allow acrobat to read/write to a file on the filesystem.
Giving Acrobat root permission whenever it wants to write to the disk would be rather brave.
In the real world you'd create an Apparmor or SELinux profile which only allowed it to write to a few places and that would be it. Unless you're on an antiquated OS like Windows, anyway.
Uh, no one mentioned giving Acrobat root permissions. Where did you get that idea?
Uh, which part of "do a "sudo" whenever you want to allow acrobat to read/write to a file on the filesystem" did you miss?
Unless you're on an antiquated OS like Windows, anyway.
And you can't do it on Windows because...?
Oh wait, you can. If you couldn't, then this story would probably not exist, as Adobe wouldn't be able to do it either. Idiot.
This is only news because Adobe is finally admitting their product is crap. Now if they only took steps to improve the quality of all their other products... but I guess you can't have everything.
And you can't do it on Windows because...?
Again, where's Windows' equivalent of Apparmor or SELinux?
Perhaps there is one that I'm not aware of, but if it exists I'm rather surprised that no-one's ever used it to block the huge security holes in Windows.
Again, where's Windows' equivalent of Apparmor or SELinux?
Well, since I've never worked with those products, you don't seem to be interested at all in explaining what the holy fuck they do, and since I'm not telepathic, I can't answer that question.
Perhaps there is one that I'm not aware of,
Not aware of? It was posted IN THIS THREAD LIKE 3 POSTS UP! Seriously, WTF is wrong with you. IIRC, you yourself picked it apart based on a fucking typo (sudo instead of su).
You're being purposefully dense to make some point about your fucking pet software you won't bother to explain. Stop it. It's pissing me off.
Integrity Levels, while not configurable in the sense of AppArmor profiles, serve much the same purpose (low-integrity apps, like IE, can't write files outside of low-integrity locations like the Temporary Internet Files directory, can't directly invoke apps with higher integrity levels, and can't use various forms of IPC to higher-integrity processes; this is what Protected Mode is all about). It would be nice if there were more control over things like ILs, but that's largely why Windows has a bunch of us
If you really want an operating system based solution, you could make a separate "acrobat" user (which doesn't have any read/write permissions), run Acrobat as this separate user and do a "sudo" whenever you want to allow acrobat to read/write to a file on the filesystem.
Or you could add operating system support which would allow a program's manifest to declare that it is internet-facing and should run with lower privileges than the user launching the program, i.e. stripping the user's writing permissions and limiting reading rights.
To avoid the program (if taken over by an attacker) misusing the permissions for e.g. unsolicited downloads to an otherwise allowed download location we could restrict the process so severely that it would need another process to marshal files i
This is what SELinux is for.
Windows 7 and Vista offer protected mode [wikipedia.org] to any developer who wants to use it. Acrobat doesn't currently use it but other applications do and it seems they'd rather roll their own sandbox, which is fine, but the mode is available as an OS feature. This is separate from running as a limited user or enabling the UAC, both of which can be done on top of it.
Honestly, give up on Adobe Reader. There are other options. FoxIt has about the same feature set, and CAN do all the dangerous boneheaded stuff like embedded javascript and external execution, but by default it's off, and the vast majority of people never need that stuff.
On the skinny end there's Sumatra (too skinny for me, no browser plugin). At the other end is Nitro PDF, which has a TON of features even in the free version.
Honestly, just take Adobe reader right off your machine. Do it now.
I'm on OS X, so I use Preview (built in), and it's amazing. It looks great, and it's fast as heck. Because of this I was able to go a long time without having to use Adobe Reader.
Then I ran into a PDF at work (Windows boxes) and suddenly remember the word of pain and slowness that Reader caused. I now use FoxIt on Windows. It's not perfect (the experience of using Preview is much smoother), but it doesn't act like it owns my computer.
I recently discovered that not only do PDFs on Snow Leopard have icons that look like their first pages, but when you mouse over them two little buttons pop up and you can turn pages on the icon so you can easily see if a small PDF contains a specific chart without having to open preview or quicklook.
Some Mac blogger wrote a little while ago that if it wasn't for Preview, Mac users would have abandoned PDFs years ago as slow and bloated (the impression Reader leaves on both Mac and PC). Between Preview and the built in Print to PDF support, you forget how obnoxious PDFs can be on other platforms. MS should make a PDF reader and embed it into 7 SP2. It has to be better than Reader, and 95%+ of users don't use the fancy form-filling auto calculation Javascript magic stuff.
Adobe threatened to sue when Microsoft planned on integrating a PDF export option into Office. Due to their monopoly, Microsoft has to be careful that they do not use their monopoly to control any other markets. I guess creating a standalone PDF viewer/exporter would be OK, but they would have to charge for the exporter just like Adobe does. The other option would be for them to create an alternative format to PDF - a stunt they attempted and everyone ignored.
So including PDF with Windows would resul
Adobe threatened to sue when Microsoft planned on integrating a PDF export option into Office.
Isn't PDF a standard now? Wasn't it submitted to the xopen group or something like that? Can Adobe still exert control over the use of the standard?
Unfortunately, Adobe has so totally borked the PDF spec and PDF creation tools that I still come across PDFs that Preview can't render. A couple years ago (right after 10.5 came out) I had a strange PDF--just a basic one page, 12-month calendar, but somehow all I got were the outlines of the months. There was no text anywhere except for the year at the top and the company name at the bottom. I don't know who made it or how but I had to be able to see it which is why I've always got Acrobat around. (Thought
foxit is terrible these days.. it can't embed correctly to save its life, its slow, getting bloated and the installer likes to install toolbars and crap. I loved it 2 years ago.. not so much now.
Foxit is nice, but they just don't *get* security. At all. I mean, a fairly basic dumb fuzzer (change a random byte here and there in a template file) will reveal it to be Swiss cheese in a couple hours. This is not to say that I like Acrobat Reader or think its security is good, but its security is, in fact, a hell of a lot better than Foxit's. As with MS software, Adobe is the big target that everybody goes for, so they can be 10 times as secure and still have far more actual exploits.
Why not sandbox it entirely? If the JS engine in Acrobat can run arbitrary commands I don't want it reading files from my local filesystem either. I suppose it wouldn't directly be able to transmit those files if its not able to write to a network socket, but that doesn't mean it should be allowed to read random things either.
Adobe obviously wants to keep a very tight grip on the PDF ecosystem, why not limit Reader and only allow it to perform scripting actions on signed and verified PDFs? This benefits Ado
Now if only there were a way for the OS vendor to provide a common sandboxing technology to all software publishers...
goodbye, PDF->payload
hello PDF->chroot breaker code->payload
My cat's sandbox is the right place for Adobe's products.
Too heavy, too slow, too buggy, too dangerous, etc.
IANAMCSE but.....(I am not an MCSE
Is there just no possible way to develop software that is NOT exploitable?
Is there just no possible way to develop software that is NOT exploitable?
Depends on what your software is doing. If your software has to change any of the bits on the hard drive - Exploitable. If your software interacts with a database - exploitable. If your software contacts the internet - exploitable.
One can always hope that with half of Windows 7 installations being 64 bit [slashdot.org], malicious software readily bypassing the protection will force Microsoft to finally implement a sufficient API [sandboxie.com] for sandboxing.
It seems that Microsoft already went through this 15 years ago with Word macros. It's kind of scary that these companies that are producing software for looking at / creating documents would enable this sort of functionality in their file formats. I realize that there are a handful of applications where it's beneficial to have a document be able to write to the filesystem, but for 99.99% of documents, what business do they have reading or writing anything?
It would be like if you bought a book, sat it down on your desk, and when you pick it up later, you find that the book was doodling on your desk the whole time.
Sure there are free pdf readers that work on Linux and 64 bit, but I find that none of them are as flexible with regards to printing options as Acrobat is.
And the last time I installed multi-libraries on my system supporting both 32 and 64 bit, primarily just so I could use Acrobat, I started having some stability issues that I would just as soon not repeat.
Just sayin'...
Sandbox A will be put inside Sandbox B, and Sandbox B will be put inside Sandbox A. Problem solved!
Why yes, because when I think of what it would take to quickly open and view PDFs, I immediately conclude that the only solution is a program big enough and complex enough to require a sandbox, to make sure that it can't be exploited.
For years, Adobe has been creating extremely bloated software. And it has been years, not coincidentally, since I've wanted to install any of their stuff.
Why did PDF have to have all this crap added to it? The answer is, it didn't; Adobe just wanted to keep extending their re
They should make PDFs open in a sandboxed Virtual Machine, now that will be secure!!
Who sandboxes the sandboxers?
Sandboxing Adobe PDF? How about just burying this bloated, slow, insecure garbage in the sand so it never shows again. Then in 200 years it's discovered in an archaeological dig, and people marvel at how badly written software was ever unleashed to market.
This is like giving people guns, then throwing them in jail. Why give them guns to begin with?
1.) About fucking time, morons
2.) Okay, i feel a bit safer
3.) Who cares? I've not used Acrobat in several years.
Sumatra, PDF X-change or Foxit works as well or better.
Instead of sandboxing the software, couldn't they fix the software so it's not vulnerablerable to so many attack vectors?
and then sandbox it...
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