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I was happily surfing the arXiv, when I was jolted by the following paper:
Inconsistency of the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice and its effects on the computational complexity by M. Kim, Mar. 2012.
Abstract. This paper exposes a contradiction in the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice (ZFC). While Godel's incompleteness theorems state that a consistent system cannot prove its consistency, they do not eliminate proofs using a stronger system or methods that are outside the scope of the system. The paper shows that the cardinalities of infinite sets are uncontrollable and contradictory. The paper then states that Peano arithmetic, or first-order arithmetic, is inconsistent if all of the axioms and axiom schema assumed in the ZFC system are taken as being true, showing that ZFC is inconsistent. The paper then exposes some consequences that are in the scope of the computational complexity theory.
Now this seems to be a very major claim, and I lack the background to be able to judge if the claim is true, or there is some subtle or even obvious defect in the paper's arguments. But picking on this paper itself is not the purpose of my question.
1. The paper, however, got me very curious about how "disastrous" would inconsistency of ZFC really be?
2. A slightly more precise question is: what would be the major consequences of the kind of inconsistency claimed in the abstract cited above?
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Another interesting infinite lattice problem I found while watching a physics documentary.
Imagine an infinite square lattice of point masses, subject to gravity. The masses involved are all $m$ and the length of each square of the lattice is $l$.
Due to the symmetries of the problem the system should be in (unstable) balance.
What happens if a mass is removed to the system? Intuition says that the other masses would be repelled by the hole in a sort of "anti-gravity".
- Is my intuition correct?
- Is it possible to derive analytically a formula for this apparent repulsion force?
- If so, is the "anti-gravity" force expressed by $F=-\frac{Gm^2}{r^2}$, where $r$ is the radial distance of a point mass from the hole?
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Now that we're well into deer mating season, the deer are moving around a lot, which can mean serious hazards for you when you're out driving.
Accidents involving deer can cause a lot of damage and sometimes, they're even fatal. Because deer are more apt to wander around in the low-light perious of dawn and dusk, it's even harder for us to see them.
But law enforcement say a little bit of caution can go a long way in keeping safe while driving during deer season.
* Be extra cautious in the early morning and evening hours. Deer are most active during these low-light periods when humans see worst and reaction time is slow.
* Stay alert when driving through a known deer crossing zone.
* Use high beam headlights whenever possible.
* Upon seeing a deer, immediately slow down. DO NOT SWERVE--this could confuse the deer about where to run. It could also cause you to lose control and hit a tree or another car.
* If you see one deer, look for more. They often travel in herds.
*Don't expect deer to stay where they are. They can dart in front of you at the last moment.
* Deer whistles on cars provide little help and blowing the car horn doesn't always solve the problem. The horn may cause them to move, but not necessarily in the direction you want.
* Always wear your safety belt. Most people injured or killed in deer-auto collisions were not properly restrained.


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I just settled down with my ideal setup, a dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu, but for some reason Ubuntu's running slow for me. I heard that Ubuntu was pretty small and resource light, but should I switch to Lubuntu or Xubuntu? It means a lot because I have all of my shared files on my Linux partition so it would mean moving everything all over again.
Here are my specs from system monitor:
Ubuntu Release 12.10 (quantal) 64-bi5 GNOME 3.6.0
Hardware Memory: 2.9 GiB
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5850 @ 2.16GHz x2
Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS.
The computer itself is from 2008, I'm really trying to squeeze all I can out of it.
I'll be on this page for the next couple of hours so I'll respond to any replies. Thanks in advance!


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does anybody know how to actually fix the problem of Ubuntu Cloud VM instances in OpenStack not being able to import public keys from Nova-api's meta-data server with the following message:
2012-07-18 11:05:45,409 - util.py[WARNING]: 'http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id' failed [113/120s]: url error [[Errno 111] Connection refused]
2012-07-18 11:05:52,419 - DataSourceEc2.py[CRITICAL]: giving up on md after 120 seconds
I've found numerous mentions of the problem (e.g. here or here) and tried turning this iptables rule on/off (using iptables-save and iptables-apply), but it doesn't work. The funny rule seems to be:
$ iptables -t nat -L -v | grep -n3 169.254.169.254
49-Chain nova-network-PREROUTING (1 references)
50- pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
51: 32 1920 DNAT tcp -- any any anywhere 169.254.169.254 tcp dpt:http to:22.214.171.124:8775
52- 0 0 DNAT udp -- any any anywhere sneezy.infosys.tuwien.ac.at udp dpt:1000 to:10.0.0.2:1194
54-Chain nova-network-float-snat (1 references)
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The 5 Creepiest Ways Major Companies Are Watching You
The key to selling a product is knowing your customer. Traditionally this has been a hit-and-miss game for advertisers, who are faced with the near-impossible task of convincing people to buy something they didn't even know existed 10 minutes prior.
However, the information age has been steadily providing technology that is allowing corporations to get to know their customers better than their own families. How creepy you find this tends to depend on how old you are, and in fact we're betting that the next generation won't find anything weird about ...
#5. TVs That Feed You Ads Based on What You're Doing on the Sofa
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Remember when you could watch your TV without feeling like it was staring right back at you like one of those haunted house paintings with the eyes cut out? Well, it looks like those days are numbered, because a handful of companies are introducing new products that monitor you while you watch -- and we don't mean "monitor" as in "keeping track of what you've been watching" -- that would hardly be new. We mean these devices literally watch you while you are watching television.
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Soon everything in your apartment will be disappointed by you.
Verizon has submitted a patent for a new cable box that uses infrared cameras and microphones to keep track of what you're doing while sitting through syndicated blocks of The Big Bang Theory. According to the patent, the box is programmed to watch for specific activities, such as talking, laughing, singing, and playing an instrument, because it was apparently designed to be placed inside Billy Joel's house. It will then show you commercials based on whatever it is you happen to be doing. For example, if you're cuddling up next to your significant other on the couch, Verizon's cable box will take notice and play some commercials for flowers, romantic getaways, Righteous Brothers CDs, and condoms.
We are in no way making this up. The TV is now your wingman.
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"Who are we to argue with Samsung?"
The device can supposedly even track what you're eating and drinking and cater your advertising experience to match -- if you're drinking Pepsi, it'll cue up some Pepsi ads, and if you're drinking Aristocrat straight from the bottle, it will show you a Zoloft commercial.
This isn't even a new idea -- Microsoft filed a patent back in 2010 for a proprietary technology that will scan your emails, text messages, and browsing history, while monitoring your facial expressions and speech via webcam or Kinect (if you have an Xbox) to try and determine your emotional state, delivering ads that they think will appeal to your current mood. For some bizarre reason, the patent specifically outlines a course of advertising suggestions in case the viewer is screaming, which seems to indicate either that Microsoft is trying to tap into the always elusive "murder victim" demographic or that they're anticipating running ads during the Big Bang Theory block we mentioned earlier.
We'll take our chances with the murder.
Just in case you felt like your TV wasn't being invasive enough, Intel is producing a similar device that will provide both targeted advertisements and programming based on the information it collects via cameras that are pointed directly at your Hulu-viewing face. That's right -- the Intel box isn't just going to decide what commercials you're going to watch, but also what shows you're going to see, all based on whatever stupid bullshit you happen to be engaged in within its field of vision. "We've noticed you started masturbating to this lesbian scene in Black Swan! Would you like us to loop that scene, or continue on with the plot?"
#4. Mannequins That Watch You While You Shop
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Yes, you can take comfort in the knowledge that our children will not have to grow up in this primitive era where mannequins are simply inanimate clothing models and not undercover surveillance androids. Already some stores have begun using the EyeSee Mannequin, a person-shaped plastic clothes hanger outfitted with cameras, microphones, and state-of-the-art facial recognition software meant to record and quantify shopper behavior in an effort to improve sales. It's like getting stalked by one of the replicants from Blade Runner while it completes a questionnaire about the faces you are making in the chambray department.
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At which point it has presumably been programmed to eject you from the store.
The mannequins use facial recognition software that can instantly identify a person's age, gender, and race, as well as record how long people spend browsing specific products and even what language they're speaking, so the store knows what types of employees to hire. This software is similar to programs used by law enforcement agencies, particularly in the way that it is unabashedly used to collect racial statistics.
Multiple EyeSee mannequins can be networked together to trace a person's movements throughout a store, literally "following" you around like an aggressive hive-mind furniture salesman, until you feel sufficiently haunted and decide to leave. The information the mannequins record (what items you looked at, what you bought, what you look like, and what you said) is then stored and uploaded to a database, where it will be analyzed to determine the effectiveness of the store's current layout and selection, and then presumably sold to other companies in exchange for a blood oath of fealty to the assistant shift manager. The mannequins are also used to track and apprehend shoplifters, presumably by deploying finger lasers and/or shoulder cannons like traditional humanoid sentry robots.
"If it steals, I can kill it."
Each spy doll costs about $5,000, so it's unlikely that you're going to start seeing them in a Peebles anytime soon. However, facial recognition technology is already being implemented in chain stores like Whole Foods, so it might not be long before you're greeted by some version of the EyeSee synthetic vigilance statues in virtually every place you shop.
#3. Products That Relay Your Location to Advertisers
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Nestle's "We Will Find You" campaign was every bit as ominous as the name implies. Step one was to put GPS tracking devices into random candy wrappers. Then, once the device was found and activated, a team of A-Team chocolate bar ninjas would track down the signal in a helicopter to assault the person who'd discovered it with a briefcase full of 10,000 pounds, sort of like if Willy Wonka had sent a Russian kidnapping squad to ambush every child who found a golden ticket.
"We've got another runner ... can I wing him?"
In an effort to seem like they might have had some notion of what a terrible idea this was, Nestle asked customers to refrain from activating the GPS device if they anticipated being unavailable to be attacked by an airborne terror squad and/or routinely carried a fillet knife they would be likely to reach for in the event of a surprise.
This isn't wholly unexplored territory -- Apple all but forces you into unifying all of your personal information under a single username and password and allowing your various iNonsense to continuously update their servers with your location, but that's Apple, and their products are expensive, high-end gear. Candy bars cost a goddamn dollar. "We Will Find You" was just a one-off promotional campaign, but it really does show you the future: GPS technology is now so cheap to produce that a company like Nestle can stick a tracking chip into a freaking candy wrapper whenever it gets a wild hair up its ass to do so.
Except for Chunkys, which will never leave the store.
So we may be looking at a time when anything and everything you buy is tracked, from a bottle of Vita Coco Water to a pair of jeans and a comic book -- remember, where you were when you purchased a product and where you went with it afterward is extremely valuable information. Companies could use it to determine where to put up posters and billboards, and tracked items could be synched to trigger specific advertisements in nearby televisions and electronic displays to sell you items related to what you have in your pockets. Though we imagine this might negatively impact the sales of both condoms and personal lubricant in equal measure.
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Are there advantages go getting your car's oil changed at the dealership from which you purchased the car versus a "quick change" place like Jiffy Lube or Wal-Mart? I've used all three, and I feel the car is treated better at the dealer. Wal-Mart tends to leave a mess (oil in the seats, carpet, etc.)
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Honestly, I have worked at three different types of places.
My honest opinion is that you find aplace, and get to know the people. The more a mechanic knows your car, the easier it is to "treat" it; look at it like a family doctor. The type of place really is irrelevant, it is the people in it that matter. You can have great service from a quick lube place, and really mediocre service from a world class dealer. In my experience, investigate the people and see if they earned your work again.
Advantage being that if they spot a problem while doing the oil change that they are a LOT more likely to have appropriate parts on hand. A non-dealer shop would have to source the parts, adding more time to the job (and possibly even another trip to the shop).
I used to have the oil changed at a dealer since they would grease the front end while they were at it, but my rides have old-fashioned steering gear.


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In Utah, there is no doubt that immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators play an important role. Immigrant entrepreneurs bring in additional revenue, create jobs, and contribute significantly to the state's economy. Highly skilled immigrants are vital to the state's innovation industries and to the metropolitan areas within the state, helping to boost local economies. Furthermore, local government, business, and non-profit leaders recognize the importance of immigrants in their communities and support immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
Immigrant entrepreneurs contribute significantly to Utah's economy.
- From 2006 to 2010, there were 9,229 new immigrant business owners [1] in Utah and in 2010, 8.5 percent [1] of all business owners in Utah were foreign-born.
- In 2010, new immigrant business owners had a total net business income [1] of $388 million, which is 6.1 percent of all net business income in the state.
- Utah is home to many successful companies with at least one founder who was an immigrant or child of an immigrant. For example, the child of German immigrants founded [2] Smith's Food and Drug Centers, which is headquartered in Salt Lake City.
Highly skilled immigrants are vital to Utah's innovation industries, which in turn helps lead American innovation and creates jobs.
- Immigrants contribute to Utah's economic growth and competitiveness by earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields from the state's research universities. In 2009, around 29 percent [2] of STEM graduates earning masters or PhD degrees from these universities were foreign-born, and more than half of graduates earning PhDs in engineering in Utah were not born in the U.S.
- In 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor certified 1,206 H-1B high-skilled visa labor certification applications [3] in Utah, with an average annual wage of $63,414, which is higher than both Utah's median household income [4] of $57,783 and the per capita income of $23,650.
- An expansion [5] of the high-skilled visa program would create an estimated 2,800 new jobs in Utah by 2020. By 2045, this expansion would add [5] around $1.3 billion to Gross State Product and increase personal income by more than $1.2 billion. The following are example [6]s of metropolitan area demand for high-skilled foreign-born workers:
- The Salt Lake City metropolitan area had 909 H-1B visa requests [7] in 2010-2011, with 71.2 percent of H-1B visa-holders working in STEM occupations. Major employers with a need for H-1B high-skilled workers include the University of Utah, Goldman Sachs & Co., and Overstock.com, Inc.
- The Provo-Orem metropolitan area had 257 H-1B visa requests [7] in 2010-2011, with 65.6 percent of visa-holders working in STEM occupations. A major employer includes IM Flash Technologies LLC.
While the numbers are compelling, they don't tell the whole story.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs not only contribute to large innovative companies, but also to small businesses in local communities. In cities across Utah, immigrant family-owned small businesses contribute to the vitality of their local communities. Although initially aimed at other immigrant customers, many businesses quickly see an expansion of their clientele to include a diverse array of immigrant and native-born customers alike.
- In Salt Lake City, South State Street [8] is home to a variety of immigrant-owned restaurants, markets, specialty shops, services, and other businesses.
- The Limantzakis family, from Greece, owns and operates Greek Market and Deli on South State Street. With many of the shop's products imported from Greece, the business [8] offers a variety of specialty food products to the broader community.
- Carlos Roman, from Peru, owns La Pequenita, a market [8] catering to Utah's Latino community. With products from many Latin American countries, Roman stated that his customers come from near and far: "We have customers that come from Bountiful, Clearfield, Layton, Logan, Idaho, Orem, Provo, and Grand Junction, Colorado."
- Dr. Minghua Zhang, from China, operates Ming's Oriental Health and Wellness Clinic, which offers Chinese herbal medicines [8] and acupuncture procedures. She was originally a cardiologist in China, but decided to start her business in Utah after participating in an exchange program with the University of Utah.
In Utah, localities have begun recognizing and supporting immigration through "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
- Welcoming Utah, an initiative of Communities United [9] and an affiliate of Welcoming America [10], is an initiative [11] to strengthen relationships between Utah's native-born and foreign-born residents.
- Welcoming Utah hosts a variety of activities [11], film screenings, workshops, and community dialogues that encourage Utahans old and new to embrace opportunities to share their stories with one another and discuss immigration.
- Welcoming Utah also promotes [11] awareness and education about the contributions immigrant make to the state and the different ways new residents contribute to the cultural fabric of places and help strengthen communities.
- The Utah Compact, which a variety of state and local leaders and organizations developed in 2010, is a "declaration [12] of five principles to guide Utah's immigration discussion."
- The five principles [12] include: recognizing that immigration is a federal policy issue; encouraging local law enforcement to focus on criminal activity, not civil violations of federal code; opposing policies that erode family unity and championing those that support families and improve health, education, and well-being; acknowledging the economic role immigrants play as workers and taxpayers; and noting that Utah has immigrant neighbors who are integrated into their communities, and Utah should be a place that welcomes people of goodwill.
- The Utah Compact grew as a response to other states that had adopted negative policies towards their immigrant populations, such as Arizona's [13] S.B. 1070 [14] legislation. The New York Times editorial board described [15] the Utah Compact as "a statement of principles meant to address, with moderation and civility, 'the complex challenges associated with a broken national immigration system.'"
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Why is no mention made of the reaction, of Balak's officers who were accompanying Bilaam, to the talking donkey or the revelation of the angel?
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Perhaps they were astounded, but the pasuk does not mention it, because it is not relevant to the narrative.
Alternatively, perhaps because this was all part of a dream sequence? See Ibn Caspi, or see Dr. Yitzchak Levine.
The Daas Z'keinim and Paneiach Raza write that the angel killed the officers who were traveling with Bilaam, which explains why no further mention is made of them. Rabbeinu Bechaye explains that they were traveling in front of Bilaam and therefore didn't observe or hear the commotion and exchange between Bilaam, his donkey, and the angel. Alternatively, even if they were present, they weren't on the same spiritual level as Bilaam, and they were unable to see or hear anything out of the ordinary. Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman suggests that even though they witnessed and heard the exchange, the officers didn't reflect on the miraculous scene that they had witnessed and it made no impression on them to reconsider the propriety of their plans, so no reaction was mentioned on their part.
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R' Schwab in Maayan Beis Hasho'eva uses this question to answer two other questions (My summary looks long, but it's really pretty brief).
He is bothered how Chazal knew from the words כי הולך הוא (Bamidbar 22:22) that Bilaam was going out of a desire to curse Israel:
And his second question is why Hashem got upset with Bilaam for going, put an angel there to stop him, and then told him to go again!
Bamidbar 22:20
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Rabbi Schwab then points out that the escorts were with Bilaam both before and after the encounter with the angel, but seem to be absent at the encounter:
Bamidbar 22:21
Bamidbar 22:35
Rabbi Schwas explains as follows: Bilaam was only permitted to go in the first place for his own honor, and was not permitted to go with the desire to curse the Jews - Rashi to 22:20
But Bilaam ignored this caveat of the instructions to go, and instead went with excitement to curse Israel. He was so excited and personally invested in the mission that he actually sped ahead of the honor guard that was with him! Seeing that כי הולך הוא, that he was going alone, that he was excited to go curse the Jews, Hashem sent an angel to stop him. The angels instructions were not to turn around - the instructions were to go with the escort, meaning to go for the honor that they are according you and not for the sake of the mission itself.
So, the ministers were indeed not there, as Bilaam had sped ahead in his excitement. This itself was the reason that his going was problematic.


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Does Information Security matter?Monday, June 18th, 2012
Based on a recent article in the SC Magazine apparently it does matter to
the head of IT. Whether one is aware of the security posture within the
enterprise or not. As soon as the data security has been compromised and
the news is on the front page, someone in the IT department seems to
always get the axe.
But should the IT department be held responsible for overall
information security? Business requires reliable information
security to ensure company information is well protected. Lack of will or
means to protect company information assets won't make business partners
comfortable. Information security cannot come from the IT department
alone. When was the last time an IT department asked for a new privileged
access management solution and had it denied by the business? This is a
common story from IT managers at conferences.
At a recent event, I was having dinner with a group of seasoned security
professionals. We started to talk about what does IT Security mean for an
organization. Some spoke of security management that focuses on things
like the number of vulnerabilities found and remediated. Others spoke
about how they kept hitting a plateau in terms of the number of
workstations patched with the latest Antivirus. But those remediations and
vulnerabilities wouldn't matter to a business person unless they mattered
to the bottom line. One thing we found in common, businesses still have a
tendency to signoff on acknowledged risk until they are required to be
accountable for the security issue.
It is like driving a school bus with no adequate maintenance and
insurance. A school bus full of children (e.g. customers/employees
unaware of risk) who were assured by the bus operator that they've
done everything possible to ensure the safety and security of riders.
Meanwhile, the operator is rewarded by operating several bus routes
until one day a bus crashed, and many innocent lives are taken. It's
not the bus operator's intention to create any harm. As long as one
can get away making money without incurring cost to beat out the
competition, there will always be someone who is willing to turn a blind
Information security is similar in many ways. If you don't update your
information security, sooner or later there will be an intruder roaming
around the network. It would simply be a matter of
time until your business operation faces the truth that many customer
records have been stolen or the intrusion showed up on the news.
Businesses tend to ignore information security when it doesn't appear
relevant to the core business process. But the reality of the
matter is, many of business critical process today run on information
- Sending email to confirm order with your customer
- Finding delivery route using online map and GPS
- Receiving payment through wire transfer
- Process payrolls to your workers
- Online payment for your vendors
- Social network marketing
- Process and resource planning
- Research for purchasing supplies
- Processing customer order from ePOS
- VOIP or PBX/IP Telephone system for making sales call
Most likely some of your business operation has dependencies on information
technology. How much would it cost your company if your business operation
is disrupted for hours, days, weeks? Does it cost your company money if
you cannot deliver products to your customers on time? How much would it
cost your company if you couldn't file your tax return on time? What would
it mean if your business just lost most of its customer records because of
weak application security?


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Reductionist biology—examining individual brain parts, neural circuits and molecules—has brought us a long way, but it alone cannot explain the workings of the human brain, an information processor within our skull that is perhaps unparalleled anywhere in the universe. We must construct as well as reduce and build as well as dissect. To do that, we need a new paradigm that combines both analysis and synthesis. The father of reductionism, French philosopher René Descartes, wrote about the need to investigate the parts and then reassemble them to re-create the whole.
Putting things together to devise a complete simulation of the human brain is the goal of an undertaking that intends to construct a fantastic new scientific instrument. Nothing quite like it exists yet, but we have begun building it. One way to think of this instrument is as the most powerful flight simulator ever built—only rather than simulating flight through open air, it will simulate a voyage through the brain. This "virtual brain" will run on supercomputers and incorporate all the data that neuroscience has generated to date.


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I am indifferent to it, BUT I GUESS THAT'S A TURD SWALLOWING OFFENSE TOO.
I am indifferent to it, BUT I GUESS THAT'S A TURD SWALLOWING OFFENSE TOO.
Is ir pedophelia or not?
Merry Christmas!
That girl-with-the-backwards-top one is almost creepy.
"Almost done with the Christmas shopping also almost done whit all the raping"
That's a man who's got his priorities straight.
I like the guy with crosses is in his name and how it barely has the context to figure out it's a typo.
"really need to do some raping today! #presents"
There's Justin Bieber raping paper?
Oh lordy, dumb people can be fun to laugh at sometimes.
Grammar is not a matter of laughter!
Grammar is not the issue, spelling is. Different things.
I actually love the 1st one: "my cousins are raping my christmas gifts in the other room, should I go look?"
It makes me think of the moral implications of being a witness against someone from your own family.
"I tore a piece of raping paper and me and my brother just smiled at each other."
This one was my favourite. The knowing implication of brotherly love.
Carried over from the Politics thread (http://forum.destructoid.com/showthr...=1#post1127059);
Sometimes I like to match Thulsa Doom quotes to pictures of our President. It amuses me so much.That is strength, boy! That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste. Contemplate this on the tree of woe.
Mostly finished Christmas cake that I decorated yesterday. I have since added a mini string of Christmas lights (that actually light up!) that Santa is tangled in, and on Christmas morning ill add some icing sugar over it to look like freshly fallen snow ^_^
Yeah, that's pretty impressive.
What's Santa made out of? Is he rolled up marzipan or something?
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Serious music lovers probably fancy digital music servers — a jukebox for digital music files, a hard drive to store the files and software to pump it through an existing stereo system.
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Unanswered: How can I retrieve the same scroller position on grid after refresh or reload event
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I have an infinite-scroller grid, which has new bunch of data after every 10 seconds. If the user is looking at some rows at this grid, it will lost the previous position when new chunk of data will arrive (whether it adds on the top of the grid or on the bottom, mostly it adds on the top, based on the sorting applied on the grid). Now I want to retain the previous position of the grid after the reload, i tried using the scrollByDeltaY() method of grid after refresh event, to take the scroller back to the original position but it did not show me the same rows on that position. I can not also save the row index etc as the rows are not selectable. I only want to achieve it for vertical scroll.
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Harry Glen Nash, 53, of New Boston, passed away Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.
Services will be 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, at the First Christian Church in Keithsburg. Visitation will be 11:00 a.m. until time of the service on Wednesday at the church. Bewley Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Aledo is caring for the arrangements.
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How to Teach a Child to Behave around a New Parrot
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Incorporating a parrot into your family takes some adjustment from everyone, especially children. The tips in the following list can help your child — and anyone who isn't familiar with birds — adjust to the newest, most feathered member of the family:
Use inside voices, but don't whisper.
Talk to your new parrot. Get it used to the sound of your voice.
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Move slowly. Children tend to display sharp, quick movements which can scare parrots.
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Be compassionate and understanding. Teach your child that the bird is not a toy.
Teach your child not to be afraid of the bird. Fear will lead to an ignored and unhappy companion.
Don't stick your fingers in the cage or tease the bird.
If the bird is afraid, it's not personal. He's just being a bird.
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What did the final treasure maps look like?
Had a few people contact me about this. I was forced into being the map maker for the D.W chat brain trust. Here are the maps as they are completed. The white gaps are left so you can see each piece for itself. I also labeled each piece with the item it was found under.
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Forced into labor by the mass incompetence of your peers?
And by peers I mean me.
Seeing how I didn't follow this Woot-off at all, my GF clued me in last night on map #2 - I still laugh at the Ramy Beach piece, although a penguin would've made more sense. Well, as much sense as a typical @ramyb shirt can be at least.
Awesome work again, Bogie. You are a king among men.
My map had two or three pieces missing, I had to quit playing at 11pm Eastern. Congrats to the grabbers of booty.
They used your images on the Woot Facebook page and didn't even credit you...
What treasure maps? Have I missed something?
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I've got a netbook running Ubuntu 11.04, a secondary machine that I'm looking to set up as a personal dashboard, sort of like Geckoboard is for business analytics. I just want to see notifications from email, facebook, twitter, etc. in a clean, simple, consistent, and aesthetically pleasing view.
I've looked into Screenlets, but they mostly look awful, and they're not all consistent with each other. At least, the default screenlets that I've seen aren't.
I'm eventually planning on hooking this up to a wall-mounted monitor. Primary purpose is to be able to keep an eye on things while I'm gaming or watching movies full-screen on my primary machine. (Or, y'know, doing work and not wanting to tab-switch constantly to check on everything.)
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Do you spend your working hours learning new stuff, reading tech blogs, books on programming etc.? What's your opinion on it? Can an employer have benefits allowing developers to spend about 1-1.5 hrs a day on learning. Will it be repaid in future (with better productivity etc.)?
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I am of the mindset that it is essential for a good development environment to allow for an hour or two at most for exploration and learning, barring when it's "crunch time" on an application of course.
An environment which doesn't do this is a red flag in my book because it tells me they don't value improvement.
Worst of all is the place that reprimands it's developers for reading blogs/technical sites instead of "writing code". That, to me, indicates an environment that doesn't care about it's developers beyond what they can squeeze out of them.
I think that almost all employers end up paying people for about 1 - 2 hours of learning at least a few days out of every week. Even if you are just searching documentation, you are still learning something that you didn't know before.
I personally dislike setting up 'slices' of time for others, it feels a little too much like managing someone else's time. If I hired you, I did so because I have a pretty good feeling that you know how to manage your time better than I do. You set productivity goals and the occasional deadline, but other than that, let the employee do what makes the employee most productive.
If you need to spend six hours figuring out how to best approach a problem by studying several different algorithms, that's fine. If you need to spend 20 minutes going through a reference of a language implementation, that's fine.
In short, just encourage people to learn and get better as they see the need and opportunity to do so. Pay for training when it makes sense and don't cheap out on books. That usually ends up in great productivity and keeping great employees.
I spend a few hours each morning focusing on learning something new. This can be either something related to my main technology stack (.NET, WPF, ASP.NET MVC, Linq, etc.) or I will play around with new languages, web frameworks, or even do some calculus and other hard math to keep the mind limber. Of course, I get to work at 6:30 AM and do this until 9:00 when the work day starts. When you have small kids at home like I do, you have to do your work early in the morning away from the house so you can totally concentrate. This also leaves my evenings open to be Dad. So, yes I think its important for an employer to give time to its knowledge workers to attain new knowledge. I always tell my developers to take time to learn new stuff and even encourage them to attend conferences and seminars to always keep their mind limber. Even if they don't write anything in Erlang, it may possibly manifest itself somewhere conceptually later and prove to really useful in another project.
That's why it is called the "Reading Room" :) Set up an RSS reader or whatever you like that can aggregate postings from various places that you find valuable and then print off a few articles per day and take them with you.
But beyond that, if you are doing something that you already know the answers to and are not spending at least part of your day tracking down the answer to something (which is also learning) then you need to change jobs. Complacency is a killer in this profession.
I commonly didn't really get into writing code until after lunch. Commonly my days would go something like this:
9am-10am: Stackoverflow(including interesting blog links, etc), email, maybe review some of the recent changes in source control to get a feel for where the project is headed as of late.
10am-12pm: usually spent doing "light" coding. Refactoring, small bug fixes, and designing how the implementation for whatever will work, with sometimes a bit higher-level designing when needed
1pm-3pm: usually heavy coding. Tedious coding fits in here.
3pm-3:30/4pm: A bit more learning as a "break".
4pm-?: If I was really in the zone, I'd be known to stay an hour late or so. This is oddly probably the most productive time for me. Namely because usually I get left alone after 4pm, and I'm a natural night person so anything before 12pm seems "early" to me.
Now, I say it's unfair for the company to pay you for writing blog posts and such. This includes Stack Overflow answers sometimes.
Learning, eh? I'd say I do that most of the time at work. To me, learning is the core essence of programming, and a natural corollary of the fact that you're always solving new problems (i.e. not doing the same thing twice).
If you are not learning during your working hours, you're either doing it wrong or you should look for a way better work environment.
(That said, for blogs and books I mostly tend to use my free time, except when it's closely related to the work at hand.)
I'm spending around (of working hours):
Reading technical articles on web has been a habit for me for the past 2 years. Everyday, I spend at least one hour or more jumping through articles. In the beginning, I used to hop on every article and try to learn. That was my interest and it seemed unproductive due to the vast amount of articles and topics that one could go through. Probably, "Jack of all trades, but master of none" fits this situation. Over time, I have found many good resources and identified my interests. Post that, I have narrowed down one the topics and started to be selective.
What I gained from all the reading is finding about good resources like stack overflow, Y Combinator, smashing magazine, etc. What I will gain is expertise in the topics that I am reading. So, my point is that one should also be selective about the reading. Reading is always a good habit. Selective reading is a great one.
Also, one other observation is that almost all the people around me that I feel are good programmers, keep reading and pointing me to great stuff. It is like our reading helping others become better - The social part.
From a management point of view, employers generally do want their employees to be constantly learning. This could be formal classroom training or e-learning, catching up on your RSS feeds, reading technical journals, watching videos, having a mentor, mentoring others, etc.
The rub comes when
All of that said, the general expectation is that you need to drive your own learning against the 70-20-10 model
If your company doesn't have the 10% formal training portion, ask for it.
I prefer the learning time in the morning. I start the day by learning new stuffs that have been in my mind and/or read tech news feeds I follow in Google Reader. Sometimes I also spend some time after lunch. If I feel to learn anything new which is not blocking my current task, I put it up for the following morning.
Well, I also avoid writing blog during working hour since it may take more than the estimated time. The best time for writing blog or participate in the community (for me) is after office hour.
one can find the problems around or from the projects he is working on. Just create or device some problems for your karmic endurance. Look deep as much as you can. One will find his way to the glorified paths of autodidactic work-life. When one become more productive, one will find time to learn to become more productive than he is. Evolutionary intellectual nourishment of oneself, i say, is always do good even if you are not a programmer. It just enhances the thinking process. There are different ways to approach the problem. Go for the option to dig more. Never be satisfied with the solution. Even after the committed delivery, one can review the output again. One has to do sharpen his tools. Better place for developing your own flying saucer, is definitely at your own personal dark room!
For me, programming is learning. Every time I write a method I can learn something:
Every time I go on Programmers.SE or Stack Overflow I learn something.
I think that being a programmer is all about learning. And, everything that we learn can be used to make us better programmer and help make the projects that we work on succeed.


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Lord Of The Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy - Fellowship Of The Ring / Two Towers / Return Of The… for $12
Back in stock. Walmart has The Lord of the Rings The Motion Picture Trilogy Theatrical Editions (Blu-ray) for $12 with free in-store pickup or $2 shipping. Does not include the $10 Hobbit admission credit from a couple weeks ago, but still good for a set that's usually twice this much.
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I'm using the jGrowl jQuery status-message plugin to display a sticky message on page load, and it works perfectly on all browsers except Internet Explorer 8. In this browser, there remains a small block, about 2 lines high but with no text, even after closing the sticky message. It does not have a close button, or anything, for that matter. Here is my code, which is placed in the document.onload function for IE:
$.jGrowl("Hi! Welcome to the site!", { sticky: true });
All other jGrowl settings are set to default, which is a floating message at the top right of the page.
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Weird problem:
After upgrading to 11.10 (and I am sure that I worked with it for couple of days).
We had a power failure, and now, when open the computer, what I get is a screen, with a scrollable list of users (administrator is one of them). When I select the administrator user, and login, I get on the top left a terminal window.
That's it !
I don't see my regular ubuntu desktop.
What's wrong?
I have tried some of the issues mentioned here:
- Delete the .Xauthority
- sudo apt-get update
*I had some DNS errors, so had to fic my /etc/resolv.config (works now)
please advise.


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(3BL Media / theCSRfeed) Oakland, CA – January 19, 2012 – The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) today launched its new Ingredients Inside smartphone application and mobile website. Now smartphone users have immediate access to information about Clorox ingredients for their household and commercial disinfecting, cleaning and laundry products in the U.S. and Canada.
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Find out who's guest starring on Odd Mom Out this season and get the scoop on Goodwin's new babe!Go To Pop Culture
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Parents share the challenges and joys, new experiences and triumphs that come with raising kids in an interfaith family. Some of our parent bloggers are Jews whose partners identify with other religions, some have converted to Judaism and others are raising Jewish kids while not Jewish themselves. If you are interested in joining this blogging team, email firstname.lastname@example.com. This blog is also available via RSS feed.
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Is there a tested way of chatting with WLM contacts in-game while playing Forsaken World?
As said earlier, maybe you could give a try to Gamepe, which does provide an overlay for WLM (and IRC) while IG.
This software is currently in beta, so it may not be the most stable solution, but since the only alternative i saw to this was another beta software, which is no longer supported (and was abandoned for several years), this one seems to be the more serious possibility...
You can run in window mode, which will give you the ugly borders. But you can also run in window mode and use this little program I made. Type in your resolution in the lower part and hit the checkbox, select the game window in the upper part and click the left button in the lowest part. Sorry it's not English, but what it does is remove the title bar and make the window be "fullscreen". It also currently does not work on 64 bit Windows because of some int64 pointers, bleh ;)
The only thing i could come up with is http://raptr.com/ Though i dont know if they have an working overlay for your game i know they do support WLM.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - Aaron M. McCright, associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University, will address "Climate Change Denial and Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States" March 6 at 2:30 p.m. in SUNY Geneseo's Newton Hall Room 201. The lecture is free and open to the public.
McCright also holds an appointment in the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State. He is well-known for his work to sociologically explain the political dynamics and public understanding of climate science and policy in the United States. Integrating theoretical insights from scholarship on power, social movement, media norms and public opinion, his main contribution has been exploring how and why the American conservative movement and its allied climate change contrarians have effectively challenged climate science and policy in the United States for the previous two decades.
McCright has a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Northern Iowa and a master's and doctorate in sociology from Washington State University.
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At my current company my programming position has recently changed. In the past it has been a technical/functional position where we choose the project to work on and followed it from blank IDE to teaching the end users how to use it. Now, my position is only programming with projects given to me to work on as they become a priority.
The problem I am running into with this is as priorities change daily I am having to switch between multiple complex projects that require a little more then a post it note to remember where I left off.
What strategies are used to efficiently keep track of project completeness when project priorities get shifted around?


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what should I do if my original message is greater than 64 bits? what is the process of padding in MD5?
As described in Internet Security: Cryptographic Principles, Algorithms and Protocols, page 138, the second step in MD5 is to append the length of the message:
Can someone help me understand exactly what happens when the message length is greater than $2^{64}$ bits?


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This is an elementary question but I do not know the answer to it. During a phase transition such as melting a solid to a liquid the temperature remains constant. At any lower temperature the heat provided went to kinetic energy and intermolecular potential energy. Why is it that at the melting point no energy goes into kinetic (that would increase the temperature)?
Roughly speaking, this additional energy will be at first step kinetic, it will increase molecule bouncing around there equilibrium points, until it will be enough to take them out of that equilibrium, and then this energy spent to make the phase transition.
More precisely your confusion is because of the fact that the statement you mentioned "temperature will not change.." is right in quasi-statistical equilibrium processes, that is it's right when looking on the process from macro point of view and on a long term, but locally on the particle level and for a small period of time situation is seems different because you didn't reached yet the equilibrium state of your system yet.
Imagine a container containing just ice at $-1^\circ C$. When you heat it, the energy goes into kinetic motion of the molecules, and its temperature increases. Similarly, if the container is filled with liquid water at $1^\circ C$ its temperature will increase for the same reason.
But now imagine the container is filled with 90% ice and 10% water at $0^\circ C$. If you heat the water part up, it's temperature will temporarily increase a little. But now the water is hotter than the ice, so heat will be transferred from the water to the ice. When the ice is heated above $0^\circ C$ it melts, and this uses up some energy, cooling the water. This will continue until the ice and the water are the same temperature again, so you'll end up back at $0^\circ C$, but with a higher proportion of liquid water and less ice.
This is why, if you heat a mixture of the two phases slowly enough, all the energy will go into melting the solid rather than increasing the temperature. It continues until all the solid has melted, which is when the temperature starts increasing again. The same thing happens in reverse if you decrease the temperature.


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IPC numbers were used in this Virginian-Pilot article about Maricruz Valenzuela, a Mexican-born immigrant living in Virginia:
Valenzuela is one of an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 illegal immigrants in Virginia who stand to benefit from deferred action, according to studies done by the Immigration Policy Center and the Migration Policy Institute. Nationally, 1.7 million illegal immigrants under 30 could benefit, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
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The Leavenworth Police Department has released the name of the man whose body was recovered last week from the Missouri River. And authorities are treating the case as a homicide investigation, a police spokesman said.
The body has been identified as 38-year-old Jason Davies. He was originally from Colorado, but his last known address was in St. Joseph, Mo., according to Leavenworth Police Chief Pat Kitchens.
"We are coordinating the investigation of how he ended up in the river with the St. Joseph authorities," Kitchens said.
Davies' body was discovered in the river Sept. 19 by people affiliated with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission's Division of Fisheries who were in a boat tracking sturgeon. Using their boat, they took two Leavenworth firefighters to the body's location while the Fire Department's boat was en route to the city's boat ramp, according to Fire Department officials.
Firefighters then launched their boat to recover the body, taking a Leavenworth police officer with them. The body was recovered south of the city's brush site.
The Leavenworth police have not not released details about what caused Davies' death. Police also have not released a photograph of Davies.
Kitchens said he did not know if someone had reported Davies missing.
The chief said Wednesday that no determination had been made regarding which law enforcement agency will oversee the homicide investigation. For now, the police departments in Leavenworth and St. Joseph are conducting a joint investigation.
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(Disclaimer: I'm an engineer)
Hi everybody, I found this "riddle" posted on the internet:
It's meant as a joke, but I do think it deserves an answer :)
A bit of background: the orange and blue ellipses are a citation from the videogame Portal. They are "portals" connected so that everything that goes into one of them comes out of the other, mantaining his momentum (this last part is the foundation for the game). For further info, you can also watch the trailer.
So.. is it a circle, a straight line or what else?
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Speaking big picture, what are the benefits of Lotus Notes over exchange. Is exchange meant for smaller companies who don't want to spend a lot of time maintaining their systems... but not as scalable? Is lotus notes more secure?
Lotus Domino and Exchange are completely different products.
What do you want? Do you only want email/calendaring? If so, I would avoid Domino.
Domino provides a 'database infrastructure' of sorts. Databases can be webpages, email, calendar info, address books, CRM systems, configuration pages, everything. It's a way of life, not an email platform.
Email using the Notes client is simply painful.
If you're simply looking for an email system, go with something else.
Why single out these two products? Do you happen to be looking for simply an email/calendaring solution compatible with BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server)? If so, I'd suggest considering either Zimbra or Exchange.
Domino/Notes is a world of pain, hurt, suffering, weeping, and gnashing of teeth. Period, end of story.
...okay, now that I got that off of my chest, I'll continue :)
Speaking from the experience of maintaining Domino environments at two different mid-sized companies, the only think that Domino has going for it is a superior system for deploying multi-user database apps. Beyond that, it has nothing on exchange in my opinion.
They are Apples and Oranges, really. Lotus Notes handles email and does a whole lot more with collaborative applications for your business. Exchange is simply going to handle email. It is no surprise that Exchange is going to be better if you're only looking for an email solution (email/calendaring/to dos, that is). If you're looking for a very secure application platform for collaborating with distributed teams, and you want that platform to be tightly integrated with email, then Lotus Notes may be your answer.
Sadly long-term cost of ownership is cheaper using the Lotus solution. Yes, it is and yes I didn't believe it either until I completed the research, 18 months ago. However, Exchange and now LINC are better products in my humble opinion.


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The 6 Greatest Things Accomplished by Dead Bodies
At the end of the day, our goal here at Cracked is to inspire you. For instance, below are some people who accomplished more than you ever will, even though they were corpses at the time. That's inspiring, right?
Oh, wait, that probably makes you feel worse about your life. Oh, well, maybe you'll make up for it after you're dead. After all, it's apparently possible to...
#6. Win an Olympic Event
Arrachion was an Olympian who spent his days practicing the fine art of Pankration. Literally, this translates to the spiritual-sounding "all forces," but in practice, it means something closer to "choke the shit out of everybody (while naked.)"
Dude, your dick is touching my thigh. I WILL STRANGLE YOU.
In 564 B.C., Arrachion entered the Olympics hoping to secure the Pankration title for a third consecutive time. And damn it all, he did it: Roundly besting his opponent thoroughly and completely, though he did happen to be dead when he was declared the victor.
Wait, What?
On the verge of defeat and pinned by his opponent in a stranglehold position, Arrachion unleashed a spectacular Kamikaze-style kick attack that had three very important consequences: The first was that it looked just totally fucking sweet; the second was that the impact of the kick dislocated his opponent's ankle; and the third was that the force put into the kick, combined with the arm-around-the-neck stranglehold, resulted in the instant snapping of his own neck.
Presumably drunk on olive wine and boy-meat, the Greek referee didn't notice this happen, so when his opponent conceded defeat, he proclaimed Arrachion the winner. It was only when he held up Arrachion's hand in a victory salute and it fell sharply backwards into his junk that the judge realized he had just pronounced a dead man the winner of an Olympic competition.
Pretty impressive. Still, it's not like he killed his opponent or anything...
#5. Kill a Man
Mael Brigte the Bucktooth was the leader of an ancient Celtic tribe that resided in the far northern reaches of Scotland in the ninth century. He had a somewhat rocky relationship with the Earl of Orkney, and "rocky," in ninth century Scotland meant "absolutely filled to the asshole with broadswords."
The Earl thus led the Viking invasion of what is now Northern Scotland against Brigte who didn't take too kindly to being invaded. Insults, headbutts and almost certainly bodily fluids were exchanged, and the two eventually set up a 40-on-40-man duel.
Throughout history, homo-eroticism has taken many forms.
Mael won the brawl (or at least tied) despite being dead at the time.
Wait, What?
The Earl showed up to the brawl with more than twice the agreed upon men. Furious at this betrayal and, seeing as how the concept of "retreat" has still not been invented in Scotland to this day, Mael did the only thing he could: He charged anyway.
It worked out exactly how everybody figured: Earl reveled in his success by cutting off Brigte's head and attaching it to his horse's saddle as a trophy to mark the victory. This is where Mael's nickname becomes important: During the celebratory ride back to his people, the tooth of his enemy's severed head pierced the skin of the Earl's thigh and, thanks to the questionable dental hygiene of the time coupled with the sheep-ass and bog liquor remnants stuck between Mael's teeth, the wound became infected.
The Earl eventually died from a rather unpleasant bout of septicemia, killed by the severed head of his opponent.
That's the Scots for you: Defiant to, and well beyond, the end.
#4. Get Several Dozen Women Pregnant
Canadian lawyer and investor Charles Vance Millar was renowned for his love of practical jokes, his affable nature, his intelligence and his ruthless business acumen: He set up his own law office and eventually used the profits to purchase the British Columbia Express Company, which provided most of the transport to settlers in the region. He had an uncanny knack for picking the right investment, and over a period of 10 years, his net worth rose from $100,000 to $750,000 (that was a lot back in 1897).
That could buy you many monocles.
In his later years, Millar really made a name for himself when his actions changed the lives of some lucky locals forever: He started a competition with the end-goal of taking people from their dreary normal lives and propelling them into the limelight, kind of like a turn-of-the-century American Idol. Only instead of singing, it was humping, and instead of Simon Cowell, it was presided over by a corpse.
Have fun with that mental image.
Wait, What?
Millar's jester-like outlook on life lasted to the end, literally: On his deathbed, he amended his will to contain some rather unusual bequests. After leaving his holiday home to three men renowned for despising each other, and his shares in a Catholic brewery equally distributed to every Protestant minister in Toronto, the rest of his estate went to the local woman who could give birth to the most children in the 10 years following his death.
The decade-long sex-race became known as the Great Stork Derby, and while we can't say that all the women got pregnant solely to enter the race, we can tell you the numbers and let you judge those harlots for yourselves: The front-running five women had 56 children between them. When time was up, four women, each baring nine legitimate children apiece received a life-changing $125,000 a piece. Two further women who gave birth to 10 not-all-legitimate-babies received $12,500 each.
Just for taking one for the team, we presume.


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Got A Superbug? Bring In The Robots
Drug-resistant bacteria are a growing problem at hospitals across the country. The bacteria, such as Staphylococcus and Clostridium difficile, are difficult to prevent and impossible to treat.
"The problem is expanding, and it's going up and up and up," explains Dr. Trish Perl of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. "We're running out of antibiotics to treat, and so the challenge is can we prevent?"
At Johns Hopkins, doctors have turned to a new technology to prevent the so-called superbugs: robots. The machines spray toxic doses of hydrogen peroxide into sealed hospital rooms, killing any bacteria.
Germ-killing Robots
Before the robots can be switched on, the rooms are made ready by a technician. Michael Duclos showed host Laura Sullivan, host of weekends on All Things Considered, how he prepares a room by closing off air vents and opening up drawers.
"We want to get the hydrogen peroxide on all the surfaces," he said.
The last step in the process is to tape the door to the room shut to keep the toxic hydrogen peroxide mist from getting out. For 30 minutes, the robots spray a colorless, odorless vapor. If a person walked in, he wouldn't be able to breath or open his eyes.
Saving Lives
When the robots are done infecting, the room looks the same, but is clean and safe for patients. Since Johns Hopkins started using the machines, it has seen the number of untreatable infections fall by a stunning 64 percent.
Doctors there say they hope other hospitals will follow suit.
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Dematic intends to acquire HK Systems
August 06, 2010 - LM Editorial
Dematic, a leading global supplier of integrated material handling solutions and services, announces it has signed an agreement in principle to purchase HK Systems, a North American automated material handling and software solutions provider. The transaction is expected to close sometime in the third quarter of 2010.
The combined companies would generate about $1.2 billion, based on the 2009 revenues both companies reported to us for our annual look at the Top 20 Systems Suppliers, published in May. Dematic was the number 3 provider worldwide with $1 billion. The combined companies would still rank below Daifuku, which reported about $1.76 billion.
Roar Isaksen, president and CEO of Dematic Group, sent out an e-mail yesterday announcing the agreement. "We are very excited about this significant development," he wrote. "The opportunity to bring these companies together is extremely positive. Combining two successful companies like Dematic and HK Systems means we will be able to achieve extraordinary business results for our customers and our employees."
Isaksen continued that the merger will leverage the complementary technical strengths of both companies and bring together two players with strong engineering talent, a common vision and a common business strategy of delivering logistics solutions with a strong return on investment.
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Whether it's still the calm before the storm or you're in full-force finals mode, you've probably found yourself in that awful position where you simultaneously have tons of free time and also no free time whatsoever. All the normal responsibilities of your schedule are cleared, replaced by the much more intimidating responsibilities of studying or finishing that final paper. We've put together a soundtrack to get you through it. It's not exactly studying music; it's a soundtrack to reflect the rollercoaster of emotions that finals inevitably bring about.
- Paul Engemann – Scarface (Push It To The Limit) — That moment when you need the power of '80s montages to get you through a long stretch of studying
- Daft Punk – Harder Better Faster Strong — That moment when you're working hard, well, fast, and strong, but need a little bit more of each.
- Coldplay – Don't Panic — That moment when you're in desperate need for the advice in the title of this song.