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Which chapeau you select for the Run for the Roses actually conveys cues about your personality to others, said Bernie Carducci, professor of psychology and director of the Shyness Research Institute at Indiana University Southeast. "The act of deciding upon a hat and wearing it to the Kentucky Derby essentially turns up the volume on your original personality."
Psychologists call the phenomenon identity intensity. "(Wearing the hat) just intensifies who you are," Carducci explained. "You want to get noticed in the field – you want to be the favorite. It's the idea that when you're in a crowded field, what do you have to do to stand out. You're going to tend to accent and intensify who you are."
To help you figure out what your fellow hat wearer is really trying to articulate, Carducci analyzed what our Derby hats say about us – with a side of humor – but not before offering this advice: "What is more important than the hat on your head is the smile on your face. Your smile should always be bigger and prettier than your hat."
Huge Hat
At first glance, a humongous hat can appear to take over the individual. But, said Carducci, that's not exactly the case. "It's not so much that you're hiding behind the hat, but you want that hat to take over the event. It's all about the hat. The event is secondary. The hat is the event."
Our Take: A ginormous hat makes you feel all Southern Belle and celebrity-like. It's also so perfect for avoiding people, not that we plan on that happening, but you never know.
Female Fedora Wearers
Women who wear fedoras or hats typically worn by men are making "a sort of stylish, chic, gender-bending move," said Carducci. "Act like a woman, think like a man, that's what the fedora says when a woman wears one – and that's really, really sexy."
Our Take: Girls just want to have fun – and wear fedoras. So we do.
Not everyone gets the fascinator, but Carducci does. "It's the sort of subtle overstatement. You're speaking softly but carrying a big stick. It says look at me, but I'm not trying to be too outrageous – but let's talk." The good professor, who is a rather dapper dresser and appreciates good fashion, also thinks "those are darling. When you see people put those things on, the moment they do that, you can see that their face lights up. They feel like a princess."
Our Take: We find the fascinator an item worn most by the fashion-forward (there is nothing demure about having a bunch of feathers or flowers protruding out of your head). It's also worn by the weather savvy. No windstorm can defeat a fascinator affixed to the hair with a comb, bobby pins and a mass of hairspray.
WTH?! Hats
You know the hats that make people stop in their tracks because they're so unbelievably outlandish, huge, unwearable or, well, ugly? "Those are your exhibitionists," said Carducci. Go figure. "Those people are saying, 'I don't take the Derby – or myself – too seriously.' This is really all about fun. These are your comedians. These are the first ones on the dance floor."
Our Take: We're first on the dance floor, too, but we're not into wearing WTH?! hats. But we sure do love those who do … from a distance, please.
Group Hats
When groups of people or couples put on identical hats, they're trying to convey they're a team. "This says we're together," explained Carducci. "This is our collective identity. There's power in numbers. It's valuing your posse, if you will. I think that's particularly endearing when you see couples do this. That says these people are really together. They have a strong relationship."
Our Take: We have matching t-shirts we wear on occasion ourselves, so we get the group hat phenomenon, and we give it two thumbs up.
Men In Hats
Plenty of men wear hats to Derby, and those who do are your tried and true traditionalists, Carducci said. "I always wear a hat. I wear one almost every day. What it does is make me feel more like a traditional man. It makes me feel like a guy. A guy's guy. When you put on a hat, you feel differently."
Our Take: We love a fella in a Derby hat, but we won't hold it against you if you refrain.
People who opt not to wear a hat to Derby are like the guests who show up to a costume party without a costume. We call that being a party pooper, but Carducci said, "It's not a matter of defiance; it's a matter of being a little bit too afraid to step out of yourself."
Only problem is, quite the opposite occurs, he said. "You're actually calling attention to yourself because you don't wear a hat." And perhaps that was the point after all.
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Life was considerably different at the St. Joseph Children's Home back in the day. But one tradition carried on by the orphanage has remained much the same over the course of its 163-year existence.
Established in 1850, a year after the organization was founded, the St. Joseph Orphans' Picnic began as a small gathering, run primarily by a group of Ursuline nuns, raising funds for the children in their care. Now drawing an average crowd of 55-60,000 people, the picnic will return this Saturday, Aug. 11, from 11 a.m. to midnight at 2823 Frankfort Ave., where much of Louisville will reconvene while enjoying delicious food – such as the picnic's famous chicken dinner – games of chance and raffles.
But for those who grew up in the establishment, like Frances Paalz, the Louisville treasure is a chance to reminisce over childhood memories while reuniting with former class- and house-mates. "It's homecoming day for the people that (were) raised there," said Paalz, who lived in the orphanage from 1940-43 and now serves as a member of the picnic committee, Alumni Association and St. Joe's board member. In the 72 years she's been familiar with the picnic, Paalz has missed just one to date.
"It's a day that we never forget," Paalz said. "And we can remember as children being at the picnic and how they would line us up and give each of us a shiny quarter and that was our spending money for the day. And that went quite far back in the day because everything was like a nickel."
A nickel won't get you very far at the picnic – or anywhere for that matter – these days. And you likely won't find any Ursuline Sisters heading the campus, as they did when Paalz was younger, nor a uniform requirement for children living at the home.
Today, St. Joseph's continues, as always, to place emphasis on helping children during times of family crisis and providing a loving environment in which to learn. But the center is now divided into three entities on its 40 acres of land: The Child Development Center, Residential Treatment Program for ages 6 through 14, and the Therapeutic Foster Care and Adoption Program for children newborn to age 21.
The revenue from the annual Orphans' Picnic provides enough money to cover roughly five percent of the organization's annual budget. Thousands of people, including Bob Hillebrand, a 63-year volunteer, come together each year to help make the fundraiser possible and give back to the esteemed organization.
"The volunteers are always friendly … they put a lot of time and effort into their specialties," said Hillebrand. "There's like 3000 volunteer workers, and my booth is all volunteers."
The picnic will include many of the same features as it has in the past, with an average of 63 booths offering everything from games to raffles, food and beverages. Attendees also have the opportunity to enter to win the capital prize, a fine dining raffle or new car. "I think part of the appeal with the picnic is that it's so traditional and rooted in its heritage," said Andrea Pridham, the development director at St. Joseph's. "(People) count on that fish sandwich, they count on the chicken dinner, they count on the booths being there."
One new tradition, however, is Friday Night Live, a music-driven event with adult games held the night before Saturday's picnic on Aug. 10, from 5 to 10 p.m. The Epics and MidLife Crisis will perform at this year's installment. "Friday Night Live sort of evolved out of the need for some folks to have more of a kind of quiet, lower-key environment," Pridham said. "The real appeal is: No. 1, the crowd is so much smaller and more of an intimate low-key environment and (No.2), the live music is becoming a big draw."
Regardless of what day you attend, the event is certain to please. You'll not only feel a heart-felt connection to the community, but also a sense of nostalgia as you mingle with the crowd. And, most importantly, you'll help make a difference in the lives of the children living at the home, who will one day look back on the picnic with the same type of fond memories Paalz now cherishes, 72 years later.
"I think that St. Joe's is special and unique because other church picnics are for various churches in general and our picnic is for the kids," Pridham said. "And I think people bond to that. At the end of the day, (it's about) the fact that it's been around so long and the fact that it's a really great picnic and family-friendly, and proceeds go back to the children who live here."
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What are the ways for both an iMac and an iPad to share the same physical keyboard?
If it's possible to share a regular Apple bluetooth keyboard between both devices without jailbreaking the iPad, I think it would be my favored option.
Logitech made a solar bluetooth keyboard allowing keyboard to pair 3 device .
With your apple bluetooth keyboard,
JUC400 Wormhole switch will do this. Or If you use mac, app "type2phone"is a altinative solution.
I don't think you can. Bluetooth is designed such that pairing is two-way (computer <-> device). You can't pair to a second device without un-pairing from the first device.
Bluetooth only allows pairing with one device at a time.
This might help you, or at least lead you in the right direction.
Theoretically using the computer as a middle man, You could set a hotkey to switch between the two? No program exists to do it though :(
This has worked well for me - especially when I turn off the bluetooth on the current device that has the bluetooth keyboard paired, then turn on the bluetooth on the other.
Sometimes, then pair to the closest device when I power cycle the keyboard.
You have to do the initial pairing on each, but I've not had issues using one Apple Bluetooth keyboard with more than one "computer" - be it a Mac or an iOS device like an iPhone or an iPad.
You of course can't have the one keyboard drive both at the same time - this only works in sequence.
An alternative to the regular Apple bluetooth keyboard is the Kanex Multi-Sync Keyboard.
This keyboard can be paired with four devices, paired through Bluetooth with each of the devices just once, and you can then use the Multi-Sync Keyboard with it with just a tap of a button. Another device can be connected through USB.
This keyboard has a numeric keypad built in for those spreadsheet editing, but also features iOS-specific keys for your favorite iDevice. It operates on two AAA batteries, and can also be used in a USB-wired mode if needed.
It retails in the UK at £69.00.
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When I run the sencha create jsb command, it keeps telling me it can't find variable X. X is a part of my store CRUD calls back to the server. I copied the DirectApi json generated by the server and included it in in my index.html but it's not being recognized.
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This seems to happen every time I go to my local bagel shop. Everyone is waiting in a line, and when the cashier is ready to help the next person, he/she asks, "Can I help who's next?" or "May I help who's next?" This seems wrong to me, shouldn't it be "Can I help whomever is next?" or "May I help whomever is next?"
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This construction is indeed peculiar. Contrary to what one of the other answers seduces us to believe, it actually is not quite analogous to "I know who shot him" and the like. Geoff Pullum over at Language Log explains why:
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So why did this construction survive in some places? And in which? Geoff Pullum initially observed it in Rockport, Massachusetts. He later adds, "Lots of people have now written to me to confirm hearing or using the expression in coffee shops, bookstores [...], up to about fifteen years ago [that is, around 1990], especially in the upper Midwest, which could be the cradle of the phrase." At the same time, M. Lynne Murphy of Separated by a Common Language fame has been hearing it "a lot in shops and cafés in Brighton". She picks the ball up from where Pullum left it and entertains some theories.
I actually would suggest who is correct here regardless of the declining existence of whom. I parse the "who is next" as its own inner clause that is all collectively the object of "Can I help". A similar example might be:
Where the thing that is known is the collective clause "who shot him" rather than just the who/whom. It would be rather odd to say:
There are many formalisms that English speakers do not observe in daily or regular conversation. The usage of who/whom is one of them. In formal writing, one should use who strictly in the subjective sense, while reserving whom for the objective. Here are some examples illustrating this proper usage:
My dictionary (installed on my Macbook dashboard, probably Oxford American) notes that whom has largely disappeared from everyday speech, but strongly suggests that the distinction between who/whom be observed in formal writing. I'll give some common examples where who is widely used instead of whom:
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perfectly illustrates how English is used in real-life situations. For all intents and purposes, that question is correct, given the informal context in which it was asked.
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7 Classic Movies That Almost Had Absurdly Dark Endings
#3. Hancock -- Hancock Tries to Rape Mary, Murders a Bunch of Cops, and Tries to Kill Himself
Columbia Pictures
The Will Smith action comedy Hancock is about an alcoholic superhero who causes considerable property damage every time he fights crime, because flinging yourself headlong through the air at 70 miles an hour like a drunken indestructible torpedo will occasionally break a few fences. Hancock saves the life of a public relations specialist, Ray Embrey, who makes it his mission to improve Hancock's public image. Ray's wife, Mary, is secretly a superbeing, too, and she and Hancock can't be in close proximity to each other or else their powers begin to deteriorate, because if you rewrite a script enough times, it just becomes unintelligible nonsense.
After Ray rescues both Hancock and Mary from a bank robber, who somehow managed to get the drop on them despite possessing the traditional bank robber allotment of zero superhuman abilities, Hancock agrees to live on the opposite side of the country. He then draws a heart on the moon to commemorate his friendship with Ray, a gesture that apparently made it unscathed through enough test screenings to justify its inclusion in the final release.
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"And then Hancock writes their bromance across the sky! That's cool, right? We can end on that?"
The Original Ending
Hancock becomes obsessed with Mary, but there isn't some barely plausible twist where she also turns out to be a superhero. She's just a regular person, and Hancock exploits this weakness by kidnapping her for an evening of terrifying super-rape:
Columbia Pictures
Hancock manages to stop himself before he harms Mary, but he vents his anger by heroically murdering an entire street full of police officers who were coming to her rescue:
Columbia Pictures
After nearly getting Mary killed, Hancock decides to relieve himself of the burden of being an invincible asshole and tries to shoot himself in the head, because apparently he had been paying even less attention to the movie than the rest of us:
Columbia Pictures
The ending leaves it ambiguous about what ultimately happens to Hancock, but since he can't die, we assume he's doomed to spend the rest of eternity wallowing in miserable self-loathing.
Needless to say, this is hardly the way to end a Hollywood blockbuster. Once the script was bought, it spent 12 years bouncing from director to director and going through countless rewrites until it became the instantly forgettable trivia question that is a Will Smith summer movie.
#2. Little Shop of Horrors -- Audrey II Kills the Main Characters and Takes Over the World
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Little Shop of Horrors is a musical version of a 1960 horror film about a plant named Audrey II that came from outer space to eat human flesh. Seymour, a nerdy clerk at a flower shop, feeds disreputable people to the killer plant until it grows out of control and tries to eat his girlfriend, Audrey. Rightly sensing that this is a stroke of ungrateful bullshit, Seymour electrocutes the plant until it explodes, and he and Audrey move to the suburbs and live happily ever after.
Warner Bros.
"If she'd just agreed to the three-way, this all would have worked out fine!"
The Original Ending
In the film's original ending (and in the stage musical on which the film is based), both Seymour and Audrey are killed by the hulking space plant, who then goes on a rampage with an army of his murderous offspring:
Warner Bros.
So Cloverfield got its story from an ending too absurd for a musical comedy starring a man-eating Venus' flytrap?
That sequence alone cost millions of dollars to produce, but was entirely scrapped after two test screenings of the film received the kind of intensely negative reception normally reserved for televised weddings. According to director Frank Oz, the preview screenings were going very well and the audiences were loving the film right up until Audrey and Seymour get eaten, at which point the theaters turned into vacuums of confused rage.
The film's release was immediately delayed, and a new ending was hastily re-shot to allow people to leave showings of the comic rock opera without feeling crushed by bewildering depression.
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Because scenes like this weren't pitiable enough to begin with.
#1. The Butterfly Effect -- Evan's Fetus Intentionally Strangles Itself With Its Own Umbilical Cord
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In The Butterfly Effect, Ashton Kutcher plays a man named Evan who discovers that he has the ability to travel back in time and inhabit the body of his former self, allowing him to make different choices that will alter his destiny. He tries to go back and save himself from several horrific childhood traumas, but everything he changes in the past has disastrous effects on the future. Even when his intentions are good, terrible things happen to both him and the people he cares about as a result.
New Line Cinema
"I saw Demi Moore and Two and a Half Men and wanted to scream into the pitiless abyss of time itself."
Things become so catastrophic that the only way to save the life of his childhood sweetheart, Kayleigh, is for Evan to stay out of her life forever. He travels back to the day he met Kayleigh and prevents them from ever becoming friends. Back in the future, Evan passes Kayleigh on the street and sees that things have turned out well for her, even though he knows nothing about her new life and is seemingly basing this conclusion on the fact that she's wearing a white suit.
New Line Cinema
"That outfit looks expensive. Her life must be full of victory."
The Original Ending
The alternate ending of The Butterfly Effect is easily the most noteworthy thing about an otherwise completely forgettable film, because it is quite possibly the darkest conclusion in motion picture history. Ultimately realizing that the only way to undo all the damage he has caused with his time-traveling tomfoolery is to prevent himself from ever existing, Evan teleports back to the inside of his mother's womb and strangles himself to death with his umbilical cord:
In the words of the filmmakers, an unborn fetus murdering itself in utero "wasn't going to sell popcorn," even though that's the ending they had always wanted. So they decided to shoot another ending for the film's theatrical release, which isn't necessarily a "happy" ending, but in a movie that's already full of molestation and child pornography, it's about as sunny a denouement as the audience has any right to expect. And if they paid money to see an Ashton Kutcher movie, they deserve to leave the theater feeling more than a little depleted.
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Just maybe not "infant suicide" depleted.
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[OPEN-563] 1.0 LabelAlign:top defaults to 30% width
Sencha Touch version tested:
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- custom css (some simple layout css, but this has not changed since upgrading from 1.0RC1 to 1.0)
Platform tested against:
- iOS 4
- Android 2.2
- The Label is falling back to the default of 30% widtch even when it is aligned to the top. This is different behavior than in RC1
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- create a form with fields that have the config labelAlign set to 'top'
The result that was expected:
- the label should be 100% of the width of the form as was the case in RC1
The result that occurs instead:
- the label is 30% of the width of the form
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Debugging already done:
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Possible fix:
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I am just testing Sencha Touch and ran into this bug. It is not nice to see that year old bugs remain unfixed, makes you think about your decision to use this framework.
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Building Ruby 1.9.1 on Solaris SPARC
By MandyWaite on Jun 19, 2009
We've been working on building Ruby 1.9.1 (p129) packages on Solaris Nevada (the platform that OpenSolaris is mostly built from). We hit a couple of problems on the way, one was easy to fix the other not so.
The first issue was Sun Studio borking when it found a function declared with a return type of void but which actually contained a return statement. gcc actually thinks this ok which seems odd to me, maybe it's just our version of gcc though... When gcc hits this it says:
pty.c:425: warning: `return' with a value, in a function returning void
But with Sun Studio cc you get:
pty.c:425: void function cannot return a value cc: acomp failed for pty.c
The file causing the error is ext/pty/pty.c and line 425 has the offending line in function getDevice() (declared as 'static void'):
return Qnil;
If you comment out this line it will build ok. There is a bug for this issue......
The other problem only occured on SPARC initially, we were using one of the public build systems that we have for the SFW consolidation (the part that delivers most of the F/OSS into Solaris Nevada and OpenSolaris) and that was running Solaris Nevada build 114, for x64 we were building on Solaris Nevada build 116 which was the latest version available at time of writing. x64 built fine.
The error seen on SPARC was:
Undefined first referenced symbol in file rb_cFalseClass enc/emacs_mule.o (symbol scope specifies local binding) rb_cTrueClass enc/emacs_mule.o (symbol scope specifies local binding) rb_cFixnum enc/emacs_mule.o (symbol scope specifies local binding) rb_cSymbol enc/emacs_mule.o (symbol scope specifies local binding) rb_cNilClass enc/emacs_mule.o (symbol scope specifies local binding) ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to .ext/sparc-solaris2.11/enc/emacs_mule.so
when linking enc/emacs_mule.so. It's not a well documented error, but the implication was obvious, the required symbols had been found but they had been declared as local and so couldn't be used to build this shared object. Using nm on emac_mule.o and on libruby.so.1 seemed to indicate that the symbols were needed by emacs_mule.o (UNDEF) and were available in libruby.so.1. We asked the compiler experts and they thought that perhaps the symbols were declared as HIDDEN. We tried elfdump on both emacs_mule.o and libruby.so.1 and guess what, when analyzing libruby.so.1, elfdump threw up loads of errors of the type:
"bad symbol entry: <address> lies outside of containing section"
This suggested that the shared library was broken in some way.
We isolated the linker lines from the build for libruby.so.1 and ran them individually (after touching ruby.c). There were two lines, the first was the linker line which actually built the shared library. That ran ok and when we ran elfdump on the resultant library there were no errors. The second line was:
/usr/sfw/bin/gobjcopy -w -I "Init_\*" libruby.so.1
After running this manually we saw the same error when using elfdump on the resultant library.
At the same time as this we were running a build on a SPARC system that we'd had upgraded to Nevada build 116 and that completed OK. A check on the version of gobjcopy on the two systems showed that we had gobjcopy 2.15 on the build 114 system and 2.19 on the build 116 system. Further checking showed that gobjcopy was delivered into Solaris Nevada in SUNWbinutils and that had been updated in Nevada build 116. So the problem wasn't the fact we were building on SPARC but that we were building on different OS revs, the problem also exists on x64.
At the moment we haven't looked into what was going wrong when gobjcopy tried to make the Init_\* symbols local, but it was apparently corrupting the library.
At the moment this makes it tough to build Ruby 1.9 on OpenSolaris which is based on Nevada build 111b and we are looking at how best to get around this. Maybe make the packages available from the /webstack repository. In the meantime we'll file a bug against OpenSolaris and come up with a workaround.


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While reading the Wiki page on RC4 I noticed that the key size must be in the range of 40–2,048 bits.
Why is that? Is there a reason it can't have a lower or higher length?
The minimum of 40 bits is conventional; below 40 bits of key material, RC4 (or practically any cipher without some built-in key stretching) is just too unsafe.
The maximum of 2048 bits is a consequence of RC4's key scheduling. Quoting Wikipedia's page on RC4
We see that 256 passes are made, and each pass manipulates 8 bits of key; above $8\cdot256=$ 2048 bits, extra key material would be ignored.
Anyway, array
In order to strengthen RC4 against weakness in its key scheduling / setup (leading e.g. to break of WEP encryption), it is advisable to stretch the size of the key material (e.g. to the maximum of 2048 bits) using a pseudo-random transformation (alternatively, or in combination, the first 256 or 512 bytes generated can be discarded). And if the original key is low-entropy (e.g. a password), it must be strengthened by a slow key derivation function in order to resist brute-force password cracking. Both can be done using scrypt with dkLen=256, and other parameters set as appropriate for the environment.
To add to what fgrieu said, think of RC4 as a self-modifying rotor. Imagine a wheel with little tiles on it like Scrabble tiles, but labeled 0x00 to 0xff (or 0 to 255). Each time you crank out a value, you flip some tiles on the rotor and ratchet it one place.
You initialize the wheel by spinning it completely once, using your key as values to control how tiles get flipped around. 2048 bits is rotating the wheel a complete revolution and using your own control bits on every click of the wheel.
You could obviously do it with any size control string (key), but it obviously has much less value to do it more than one complete revolution. So just as by convention there's a minimum of 8 bytes (40 bits) of key, there's a max of 256 bytes.
We call RC4's initialization a "key schedule" but it isn't a key schedule the way that a key schedule is done for a block cipher. Typically a block cipher has a number of sub-keys that are mixed in as the cipher runs and the sub-keys are derived from the base key, and that's what we call a key schedule. RC4 has an initialization -- the rotor is initialized and then you just run it like a pseudo-random number generator and XOR those onto the plaintext.
RC4 has a weakness that the initialization is weak. The typical suggestion to strengthen it is to generate N (usually 256 or 512) bytes of the stream and throw them away. That's turning the rotor once or twice, just to mix it up more.
WEP used RC4 in a spectacularly bogus way, but that's a completely different discussion, because one of the things WEP should not have done was to use a stream cipher at all. Stream ciphers follow the model of creating a PRNG and then XORing against plaintext. If you use the same stream on every packet (which WEP did), then if you have known plaintext, you can derive the key stream byte, and then decrypt that byte on every packet that ever follows. You then just make guesses about the rest of the plaintext to get the whole of the stream.
You should never, ever, ever use the same key twice on any stream cipher. Not RC4, not a block cipher with counter mode, nothing. This attack framework (use known plaintext to guess key stream bytes, and then guess more plaintext) works for any stream cipher with any size key.
While I'm at it, RC4 has lots of little holes. It's not so bad that you should rip it out of a place where it is being used (and there are places where the alternatives have their own problems), but in a new project, you should do something like counter mode that has better properties.
Nonetheless, RC4 is in my opinion, perhaps the most beautiful cipher ever made, and I have a fondness for it. I understand liking it because it's so pretty.


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I want to learn whether or no there is a cryptographic primitive,scheme assumption that is based on the following hard problem if it is hard . By hard we mean that we have a polynomial adversary: The attacker obtains a number $\sigma$ . In order to reverse engineer that or to go one step further for the cryptanalysis she needs to break that number in a set of numbers $m_{1}, m_{2}, m_{3}, \ldots, m_{n} : \sum_{i=1}^{n}m_{i}=\sigma$ . How hard is that problem?
From what could gather from the chat yesterday, you are looking into a scheme that implements some kind of locality preserving hashing. Let me first explain how I understood the scheme you are describing:
Given a feature extractor $E : \{0,1\}^* \rightarrow {\{0,1\}^k}^n$ (i.e. given a message $m$ it extracts $n$ features of lenth $k$) and a cryptographic hash function $\mathcal{H} : \{0,1\}^* \rightarrow \{0,1\}^{8l}$ the scheme proceeds as follows:
Now your main question was, how hard is it, given only $F$ (or $T$) to reconstruct the original hash values. And, does this have anything to do with the subset sum problem.
The answer is, it has absolutely nothing to do with the subset sum problem but it is statistically infeasible to reconstruct the original hash values.
In step 4 bitstrings of length $8$ are compressed to single bits. Now this step in not one way (in a cryptographic sense) because it is trivial to find a preimage (if the bit is 1, choose a random positive number). However, if you want the original input, as there are $2^7=128$ possible preimages, you would have to guess, which one the input was. Considering that you've got $l$ such blocks (and assuming that the $T_i$ are uniformly distributed) you have a chance of about $2^{-7l}$ to guess all the $T_i$s.
Now suppose you had the $T_i$. This is where your question about the subset sum problem comes in. The thing is, if you only give the algorithm the $T_i$ and not the set of numbers, there are two possibilities. Either, you have not fixed the set, then the problem is trivial (choose $n-1$ random numbers and compute the last number by subtracting all those from $T_i$), or you do fix the set, but do not tell the algorithm what it is. In this case, the problem is basically "Guess the set of size $n$ I'm thinking about.", which is statistically infeasible, if your cannot trivially be guessed.
So in summary, given $F$ or $T$ it is infeasible to reconstruct the original hash values (and therefore also the original message) given that the entropy of the messages is not ridiculously small. However it might very well be possible to find a message $m'$ for which the resulting hash $F'$ will collide with $F$.
Well, the problem "given a finite set $A$ of integers, is there a subset that sums to a target value $B$" is known as the Subset Sum problem; it is known to be hard. Specifically, the decisional problem (is there such a sum) is NP-complete, and the computational problem (find the subset) is NP-hard.
That means that if you could solve large instances of this problem quickly, you could use that to solve a lot of interesting problems quickly, including just about any problem in crypto (finding AES keys given plaintext/ciphertext, factoring numbers, etc).
Because of this, assuming this is a hard problem would appear to be a fairly safe assumption.
On the other hand, it's not at all clear problem your problem statement that this is the problem you're relying on. You are you "add each index of them and construct a table"; what do you mean $n_1[0]$? If this is bit 0 of message digest $n_0$ and you're adding all the bits 0's from the message digests to form bit 0 of $T$, then you're not relying on subset problem at all; you're relying on the related problem that uses bitwise exclusive or -- that problem is known to be easy.


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I'm trying to add this container in my main view: 'graphnididetailscontainer'. It works fine with Firefox but I have the following issue in IE:
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Anyone would know what's the matter with IE in this case?
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Q: My teenage daughter is definitely an underachiever. She is capable of so much more than she is showing her teachers or us. I was thinking of stopping her classical guitar lessons -- which she truly loves -- until she starts doing her homework and turning it in on time. What's your advice on this?
A: Gifted children who underachieve in school are an enigma to their teachers, parents and, often, themselves. There is no definitive way to explain why some gifted children do not achieve their potential. Likewise, there are no universal solutions.
My first question to you is: How long has your daughter been underachieving, and in how many subjects? If the behavior has been going on for a short time -- under six months -- and only in one or two subjects, you might want to talk to her teachers about changing the curriculum in some way to make it more engaging for her. If the behavior has been going on for a longer time and if she is underachieving in most or all of her subjects, you might want to think about some other possible approaches.
Assuming that difficulties such as substance abuse, learning disabilities, and other educational and medical problems such as ADHD have been ruled out, my first question about any child who is underachieving is what does the behavior mean? Often, children underachieve as a means of solving a problem. They may underachieve for attention, as a means of getting more free time, or because they are trying to fit in with their friends. Sometimes they underachieve to reduce pressure or to gain autonomy. So my advice to you is to look at the whole picture and try to understand what your daughter is getting out of underachieving. If you realize that she is underachieving to get free time to play guitar, the answer might be as simple as rearranging her schedule to find more time to pursue her music.
Another important strategy would be to have her learn more about her learning style. My current favorite book on this topic is Dr. Kathleen Butler's Learning Styles: Personal Exploration and Practical Applications
It also would be important to find opportunities for her to relate school topics to her areas of demonstrated interest, which will allow her to come to school-related projects from a position of strength and enthusiasm. Since you asked about her guitar lessons, I believe that taking them away until she turns in her homework would not be in your daughter's better interests, since that is the one area in which her interest in learning seems to be strong. In fact, I would try to use that interest as a key to stimulate learning in other subjects. For example, if she has an assignment in her American history class to write about an event in Colonial times, perhaps she could research the music from that era or compose a piece that reflects the mood of the country at that time.
Another problem to consider is perfectionism, which is rampant among gifted students. For many students, perfectionism becomes a positive force, a striving for excellence that drives their achievement. They are energized by their goals and challenged by high standards. Others, however, resort to underachievement as a means of dealing with their perfectionism. They feel that if they cannot do something perfectly, they might as well not do it at all.
If you realize that perfectionism is playing a significant role in your daughter's underachievement, you should try to help her figure out the source of the pressure. Perhaps you will need to adjust your expectations or how you communicate them. Maybe she needs to rethink her own goals and expectations. Or you may need to talk to a school counselor. An excellent book that you and your daughter might want to consider reading is Miriam Adderholdt-Elliot's Perfectionism: What's Bad about Being Too Good, which not only discusses the problem but offers possible solutions. Most important, however, is your own attitude toward mistakes -- hers, yours, and others' -- as you are her most valuable role model for this issue. She needs to learn that most mistakes are opportunities to learn new ways of solving problems, not roadblocks to stop trying! Pointing out mistakes that you made over the years and how you lived through and overcame them would be a tremendous help.
One other question to ask is whether or not your daughter is frustrated and upset about her underachievement. Does she want to change her behavior? If not, then it may be a very difficult problem to remedy and you may need to seek professional help. Especially at this age, change can only occur if the child is a willing participant. These are difficult issues, to be sure, but not unsolvable!
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Felice Kaufmann is an independent consultant in gifted child education. Kaufman has been a classroom teacher and counselor of gifted children, grades K-12, and a professor at Auburn University and the Universities of New Orleans and Kentucky, where she created teacher training programs in gifted child education. She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and the Executive Board of the Association of the Gifted.


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Air Products says the new industrial gases venture complements the company's existing presence in Saudi Arabia, noting that it also has nearby offices in Doha, Qatar, and Dubai and works closely with the Middle East region's petrochemical, gasification and refining industries.
Air Products and The Arabian Company for Power and
Water Development (ACWA Holding) on Wednesday signed a
joint venture agreement for the formation of a new company,
ACWA Air Products Arabia, to be located in Al-Khobar city,
Saudi Arabia.
The partnership will focus on the successful pursuit of
large-scale industrial gas opportunities within Saudi Arabia,
the companies said.
"Partnering with Air Products which is one of the world's
largest owners and developers of industrial gases, is a
strategic move for ACWA Holding to broaden its economic
contribution as a major private sector developer for the
Kingdom and GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council)," said Mohammed
A. Abunayyan, ACWA Holding chairman.
"Furthermore, ACWA Holding's track record as a leading regional
owner and developer of facilities in power generation,
water desalination/treatment, sewage water treatment, district
cooling and solar/waste management will enable the new joint
venture to provide effective and competitive quality industrial
gas facilities to serve the region's
hydrocarbon and industrial markets."
Howard Castle-Smith, Air Products' regional tonnage gases
vice president in Europe and Middle East, said the new
venture complements the company's existing presence in Saudi
"It provides a strong platform to further grow our business
there by partnering with prime Saudi industrial investors and
developers, such as ACWA Holding," he said.
"By leveraging our mutual capabilities - Air Products'
knowledge and proven track record in large industrial gas
plants and ACWA Holding's strong infrastructure position - we
will be able to pursue large-scale industrial gas opportunities
within the Kingdom and provide customers with secure quality,
manufacture and distribution," Castle-Smith said.
Air Products notes that it has nearby offices in Doha,
Qatar, and Dubai and works closely with the region's petrochemical, gasification and refining industries.
The company has built, owned and operated air separation
units (ASU) and hydrogen production plants throughout the
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Encounter with the Red Army Waterbury soldier honored by Soviets in '45
James J. McGrath II During World War II, 1st Lieutenant William M. Blair Jr. heard mechanized equipment through some woods after crossing the Elbe River with his platoon. Blair recalls that "it was very unsettling because we had no idea who it was." After coming to a heath in the woods, he saw through his binoculars that the soldiers weren't wearing German uniforms. He realized these soldiers were our Soviet allies.


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On August 2nd, 2010, College Humor posted an original video: a parody of Inception written by Dan Gurewitch and David Young. Two days ago, South Park aired a new episode: a parody of Inception that seemed strangely familiar.
See the comparison below.
College Humor
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The last line seems exceptionally blatant, as it makes no sense in the context of this bit.
Update: South Park admitted to the misunderstanding.
This is from the blog of Dan Gurewitch:
David and I just got off the phone with Matt Stone (coolest sentence I've ever written). He was extremely nice and apologetic. He explained that when they couldn't get a copy of an Inception screener, they used our sketch as source material. They thought that the lines in our sketch were taken directly from Inception (and the joke was that they were arranged in rapid succession), rather than original lines written by us.
All is well, and we're going to meet up with Matt and Trey when they're in New York.
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Update: Sign a petition calling for justice for Lama here.
Cleric sheikh Fayhan Al Ghamdi, a regular on Islamic channels, was absolved and made to pay blood money (only half of what he would have had to pay had he killed a boy) for raping and torturing his five year old daughter Lama last October; he had custody of the child after he divorced from her mother though she begged him for Lama.
The absurdly lenient ruling is based on Saudi law that a father cannot be executed for murdering his children. It is also based on some Hadith sources (sayings and actions of Mohammad).
According to OnIslam:
As for fathers, the matter is different; a father cannot be executed for killing his child. This is because a father is the considered the origin of his child and the child is the branch; and the branch cannot be used to eliminate the origin.
It was narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "No father should be killed (executed) for killing his son." (At-Tirmidhi)
Having said this, it should be also pointed out that Imam Malik has a different opinion: if a father kills his son definitely on purpose without any doubt, he may be executed.
Allah Almighty knows best.
Three Saudi activists, including Manal al-Sharif from the SaudiWomen2Drive campaign, have raised objections to the ruling. They have started a Twitter campaign hashtag "Ana Lama" which is Arabic for "I am Lama". The campaign must be unequivocally supported until there is justice for Lama.
Imprisoned Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari did say "No Saudi women will go to hell, because it's impossible to go there twice", but I do sometimes wonder whether hell isn't better.
Please remember Lama next time someone tells you that matters of marriage, divorce, child custody, and females being worth half of males are 'mundane' family matters that can be relegated to Kangaroo Sharia courts.
I held my son a little closer when I picked him up from school today and wept for Lama and her mother who speaks below about what happened (in Arabic): [Read more…]


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Out Congresspeople, Republicans Pose for No H8 Campaign
Nearly 100 members of the U.S. Congress have now taken a stand for equality by participating in the No H8 campaign by photographer Adam Bouska. No H8's third installment of "No H8 on the Hill," which released photos of 67 members of Congress today, includes several out gay and bisexual congresspeople, the campaign's first senators, and the first Republican to call for LGBT equality.
"The growth of No H8 on the Hill in so short a time — from ten participating members of Congress to 98 members of Congress and two U.S. senators — proves that hearts and minds are changing across the country," said No H8 Cofounders Bouska and Jeff Parshley. "We're on the cusp of marriage equality, and we're proud to have these elected officials sending a strong, clear message of support: No Hate."
New Mexico's Martin Heinrich formally became the first U.S. senator to participate in the campaign, which now also includes Florida representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the first Republican member of Congress to come out in support of marriage equality, also making her the first Republican to pose for the No H8 campaign.
The latest batch of "No H8 on the Hill" photos also features a striking image from Arizona representative Kyrsten Sinema, the first openly bisexual person elected to Congress, as well as California representative Mark Takano, the first openly gay person of color elected to Congress.
Keep reading to see a collection of the latest photos, in addition to each member's statement about why they chose to participate in the campaign.
"Our nation is based on the principle of equality. That is what this is all about," said Florida representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican.
"I am proud to be the first U.S. senator to participate in the No H8 campaign," said New Mexico senator Martin Heinrich. "Gay and lesbian couples who accept the responsibility of marriage should have all the rights that come with that responsibility. The time for marriage equality is now."
"Get over it," said California representative Grace Napolitano. "We are all human beings, entitled to live our lives without fear of discrimination or violence. Times have changed; we need to move forward, and we must replace hatred with love and acceptance. I am proud to support marriage equality and equal rights for all Americans."
"As the only openly gay member of Congress from California, I am proud to support the No H8 campaign," said Rep. Mark Takano. "Proposition 8 is a stain on our nation's character, one I believe will soon be removed. All American families deserve to be treated equally under the law."
"The LGBT community is entitled to the same rights afforded to everyone else," said Illinois representative Tammy Duckworth. "My view on LGBT equality is rooted in love. While I was recovering at Walter Reed after being shot down in Iraq, my husband, Bryan, was at my bedside every day. Not only was he offering love and support during such a difficult time, but he was also making critical decisions for me that improved the quality of my life to this day. Often, those decisions were contrary to what my mother would have decided, but as my life partner, my husband knew me better and made the correct choices for me when I could not. I support the freedom to marry because everyone deserves the same level of access, support, and love."
"I am proud to join my colleagues in supporting and participating in the No H8 on the Hill campaign," said Rep. Donna Edwards. "Maryland took a great step forward by joining a small group of states and the District of Columbia to support the freedom to marry, but we cannot stop there. Marriage equality is a civil rights and social justice issue that must not be limited by state borders. Let's continue the fight for equality and fairness for all Americans."
"Equal protection under the law means exactly that…and that includes the right to marry," said Missouri representative William Lacy Clay. "The discrimination that LGBT citizens face today mirrors the struggles of African-Americans to achieve full civil rights. Intolerance, ignorance, and inequality were wrong then, and they are just as wrong today."
"As civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, 'A right delayed is a right denied,'" said Nevada representative Steven Horsford. "As a nation, we have before us an opportunity to create a precedent for ensuring economic, marital, and social equality for all individuals. There is no place for discrimination of any form in America, and I stand with the No H8 campaign and my brothers and sisters in the LGBT community in their fight for true equality under the law."
"I strongly support the No H8 Campaign and the important work it is doing to fight bigotry and intolerance across our country," said gay Rhode Island representative David Cicilline. "With the Supreme Court set to rule soon on DOMA and Prop. 8, I look forward to continue working with No H8 and other LGBT advocates until all Americans are truly equal in the eyes of the law."
"As a congressman and a proudly married gay man, I stand with the No H8 campaign and will continue to fight for a country that adheres to our fundamental tenets of justice and equality for all," said Wisconsin representative Mark Pocan, who filled the seat vacated by Sen. Tammy Baldwin when she became the first openly gay person elected to the U.S. Senate last November.


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Are there any special rules to be aware of in order to do Tevilath Keilim in a creek or other natural body of water, as compared to a Mikvah?
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The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Chapter 162 (translation here) talks about ritual immersion in a river, and cautions that according to many Rabbis, if the river's water is from rainwater (and not a spring) it is not valid. See there for more details.
There are 2 types of Mikvahs:
As far as special rules for natural bodies of water (mayim chaim), our Rav mentioned that certain of the poskim he consults with have a concern about doing tevila in a natural body after a heavy rain. If your dunking in water which is majority of rain water, then your tevila will be posul.


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When you see user on meta, you sometimes wonder what the corresponding SO account is. Sometimes you can guess and search on the user page, but this is tedious and doesn't always work (or might even show the wrong user.)
This similiar feature request is marked as "completed". It suggests that a link is implemented "below the gravatar". I can't seem to find the link there.
Would it be useful to have a link from meta to main user?


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6 Strength Training Moves You Can Do with a Park Bench
No gym membership, no problem: All you need is a simple park bench to get great arms, abs, and legs -- aka the perfect bikini body for summer -- fast
Step 1: While standing, face the bench with your feet together.
Step 2: One leg at a time, step up on the bench so both feet are up.
Step 3: Step down one leg at a time so both feet are on the ground. Do 10 to 15 reps leading with your right leg, then switch to leading with your left for 10 to 15 more reps.
Challenge yourself: Don't rest between legs to really get your heart rate up.
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I think I'm going to start doing "Step Ups" on my flight of steps I have right here in my house! No equipment needed!
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Definitely plan to try some of these at home!
by Chris213 Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 06:48AM Report as inappropriate
Great article. Good incentive to get up and do something.
by muellsrus Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 04:06PM Report as inappropriate
i like these! they are good ideas that seem like they will actually work!
by voyager24 Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 10:14AM Report as inappropriate
great ideas, it made me want to get up and work out right now!
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for workouts at home you should really check out sparkspeople
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great tips, and plus I can do these at home...kudos
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I tell people this all the time. I even have workouts on my blog that you can do in the park or at home with or without weights.
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I'm trying to learn the flute and I bought a book that is supposed to help me learn. In one of the first chapters it describes something about key signatures and the circle of fifths and I'm completely lost.
What is a key signature? What does is mean when a song is "centered" around a certain note?
What steps do I have to take if I play a song that's in the key of B flat versus a song that's in C? What is the difference between C major and C minor? (Sorry for all the questions, but I'm completely lost.)
I think I have a C flute (I'm not sure what that means or if that makes any difference.)


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President of the Saudi Red Crescent Authority Prince Faisal bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz directed that 432 tons of drinking water be shipped to Palestinians in Gaza.
Prince Faisal met in Riyadh today with the Director of the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (ROEM) at the World Health Organization, Dr. Hussein Al-Jaza'iri.
During the meeting, Prince Faisal stressed that the Kingdom is keen on providing aid to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians. However, he noted that the Saudi aid shipment containing 435 tons of water has yet to reach its destination due to the closure of Gaza's border crossings.
Meanwhile, Dr. Khalid Al-Hibshi, the head of the Saudi Field Relief Team stationed in the Egyptian city of Al-Arish, noted today that fifty tons of children's milk as well as other food supplies, including juices and dairy products, are on their way to Gaza. The food supplies, expected to arrive tomorrow, will be distributed among school children.


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This is a question I've had for a while and really don't know how to go about finding an answer:
Does there exist a pair of binary operations, $\boxplus$ and $\boxtimes$, other than the usual $+$ and $\times$, such that $(\mathbb{Q}, \boxplus, \boxtimes)$ forms a ring?
I realize that there's probably some "axiom of choice" proof that constructs unintelligible binary operations or even a construction using some other countably infinite ring and a bijection to the rationals. So more importantly I ask:
Does there exist such a $\boxplus$ and $\boxtimes$ such that $a \boxplus b$ and $a \boxtimes b$ can be computed from (closed?) formulas that only involve $+$ and $\times$ (or other related properties of $a$ and $b$ such as prime factors, divisors, gcd, partitions, etc.)?
My apologies if there's some sort of easy example out there that I'm missing. (Though in that case I'll push further and ask if it can be generalized to a larger class of examples.)


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Plan a family vacation to the Pacific Northwest. Visit historic sites, national parks, and fun destinations.
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Glacier National Park, Montana
Montana's Glacier National Park sits upon the Continental Divide, and its mountains have all been shaped by the powerful movement of glaciers. Located there are such wonders as St. Mary Lake, the second-largest lake in the world, and Chief Mountain, a solitary peak that rises over 4,500 feet from the plains.
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I have always heard that the Earth, due to its structure, cannot explode. Now, I'm quite fascinated by astronomy physics but I admit I only hold some more than basic knowledge.
In any case, even though I have interiorized this concept, I have no basis to prove it. If you search on the internet, you get both theories (No it won't vs yes it will), so you understand that even if one is the current accepted theory, I'm not sure I know why it is the case.
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The 5 Stupidest Things Ever Done With Borders
#2. India and Pakistan Argue Over a Worthless Border Glacier
India and Pakistan are like the bickering brothers of nation-states -- their sibling rivalry is so ingrained that they wind up arguing about things that don't matter, just for the sake of arguing. A case in point is the bitter dispute over which of them owns the Siachen Glacier -- a piece of land so incredibly useless that any nation in their right mind wouldn't pay to take it. The problem is that when India and Pakistan were first drawing up their borders, nobody bothered to figure out exactly how the border would cut through Siachen Glacier, because the 20,000-foot-high deathtrap is so inhospitable that they couldn't even get to it, let alone send a team of surveyors through there.
"Send a message back to command. Tell them this place can eat every single dick."
So, they just agreed that India ended and Pakistan began at some indeterminate point over the barren wasteland. That was fine, for a while. Then, in 1984, Pakistan began issuing permits for people to climb around in the Siachen Glacier area. Just like a kid who isn't interested in playing with a turd until his sibling picks it up, India immediately claimed that the glacier was theirs, and history's most pointless war has been raging ever since.
India was first to secure around 900 square miles of territory with a 300-troop force. Pakistan showed up to the party late, and secured all the land that was left. They have been playing tug-of-war ever since, and today the Siachen Glacier is the highest battlefield in the world, and one of the most dangerous, but not because of the shooting -- more troops are killed by the elements than are ever killed by enemy gunfire. The Indians even had to design a special helicopter to reach and supply troops up there because the air is so thin.
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"Quick, fire it! I can use the flames from the rocket to warm my hands!"
So what's so important about establishing the border on the Siachen Glacier? Nothing. Nothing at all, besides the fact that if one side backs off, the other will get a symbolic victory, which is something everyone is willing to freeze to death to prevent.
#1. The Town That Got Scrambled
What, you thought that Inception-style enclave-within-an-enclave thing we had earlier was as crazy as they got? Welcome to the town of Baarle-Hertog, an ordinary town in Belgium, except that it's also in the Netherlands, and if you lived there, you might very well not know what country you're in at any one time. Here's a map:
It looks like somebody dropped the town and it shattered.
The city is split between the Netherlands and Belgium in 24 separate divisions of land, some no larger than a Little League baseball field. This madness came about back in the Middle Ages, when feudal lords would gamble with chunks of their land instead of money. Today, having international borders running rampant through the streets like this has led to some quirky situations where the border will run straight through houses or buildings that have been built since. Or, through the dining area of a cafe:
"Hey, you spilled your coffee." "Screw it, it's Belgium's problem now."
Some have even taken advantage of the screwy legal situation this presents. Like when Dutch laws required restaurants to close at a certain time, restaurants on the border would simply move their patrons to the Belgian side.
Then there's one story about a bank that had an ingenious method for money laundering -- Dutch authorities knew they were doing something criminal, but couldn't get to the vault since, even though the entrance was in the Netherlands, the vault was in Belgium. But likewise, Belgian authorities couldn't enter the entrance because it was in the Netherlands. So they both had to sit idly by and watch it happen, until someone had the amazing idea that the two nations should work together to make the bust. Now that's thinking outside the box.
"... and eventually, we all just sort of decided 'Fuck those guys.'"
Thanks to Kier Harris for the Canusa Avenue entry. You can find Xavier Jackson on Facebook or email him at email@example.com.
For more ridiculous disputes, check out The 5 Most Retarded Wars Ever Fought. Or learn about The 7 Most Insane True Stories of Neighbors from Hell.


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Verizon adds an e-commerce platform with the Yahoo deal
Verizon's $4.83 billion purchase price for Yahoo includes the former Yahoo Small Business division, which is now called Aabaco Small Business.
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Verizon's $4.83 billion purchase price for Yahoo includes the former Yahoo Small Business division, which is now called Aabaco Small Business.
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Newspaper Bowl
- Plastic or glass bowl
- Eight single sheets of newspaper
- Large container full of warm water
- Scissors
- Liquid tempera, acrylic, or spray paint
- Shellac or clear acrylic spray
- Turn the bowl upside down on a flat surface.
- Place a sheet of newspaper in a large container of warm water.
- When the newspaper is soaked, remove it from the water and lay it over the bowl. Shape it firmly to the bowl and press it firmly along the rim of the bowl.
- Repeat the procedure described above with the remaining sheets of newspaper, being sure to alternate the direction of the paper for each layer.
- Let the newspaper dry.
- When the newspaper is dry, it will lift off the bowl easily and retain its shape.
- Lift the newspaper bowl and trim its edges with scissors.
- Let your child paint the paper bowl.
- Finish the bowl with a coat of shellac or clear acrylic spray.
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