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We are developing the automation software for Windows which communicates with the certain devices via our own private connection protocol. That software package consists of several server (including HTTP) and client applications and usually runs in a private corporate environment. What most important here is the fact that usually our server components won't have the domain names (just having IP address is enough). Now we have a request to create web applications which will then communicate with our server components securely from the internet. The most obvious way to do so is HTTPS/SSL. We can do this. They question is: do the consumers of our package will need to buy SSL-certificates from a trusted CA (having a self-signed certificate is not enough)? Can the trusted CA issue a certificate just on the basis of IP address but without domain name?
I think there are two options here:
Your problem is on the client side. In a SSL connection, the client must use the server's public key, and therefore must make sure that it knows the correct key; the goal of an attacker would be to induce the client into using a fake public key. SSL defines that the server sends his public key as part of a chain of certificates, which the client then validates (the complex process of verifying signatures, dates, revocation status and a lot of extensions). But a valid certificate does not teach much to the client as itself; the client must make sure that it knows the server's certificate. Therefore, the client must look for the "expected server identity" in the (valid) certificate.
So you have two important facets to the subject:
In the usual Web context, the client is a Web browser, and the browser vendor (or OS vendor) has already provided it with a huge set of "default root CA". The identity matching is described in RFC 2818: since the client tries to connect to an URL which includes a host name, the client will look for the same host name in a couple of places in the certificate (the CN part of the subject name, and in the Subject Alt Name extension). This is where "domain names" have an impact: the name which the client looks for in the certificate is also the name which the client uses against the DNS to know where to actually connect.
If you control both client and server code then you can choose whatever mechanism you wish. The client could "know" the server's public key a priori (hardcoded in the code, or through a local configuration file), and totally ignore the server's certificate. The client can validate the certificate with regards to any set of CA that you see fit, not necessarily the same CA than the ones which are included in Web browsers. You could maintain your own: if that's just for your servers, that CA will issue a couple certificates per year at most, so it can use rather crude technology (you will want to keep it in a safe, but it can use cheap software and manual procedures; see for instance EJBCA or even OpenSSL). And, last but not least, you need not look for the server's identity in the same places than what RFC 2818 mandates. Thus, there is no hard requirement for messing with domain names.
If you do not control the client code (e.g. the client is a Web browser, or some existing library code which insists on using the same rules than Web browsers, i.e. RFC 2818), then you need, by definition, to comply with the Web usages: link with domain names, certificates from a "recognized" CA (one which is trusted by the client system).
An SSL certificate provides authenticity of a common name, which in the world of HTTPS is the domain name. Essentially, the browser verifies a certificate based on validation of the certificate and comparison of the common name to the current domain. So, for
However, in a custom client implementation, you can enforce the common name in any way you see fit. It might be a person's real name, a GUID, an IP address, etc. In fact, the data stored within the common name field is not important, but the enforcement of that data against a real identity is. The reason a domain name is used is because a domain may represent a variety of IP addresses. The DNS records for a particular host might have an
What I don't understand is why you would not have your servers associated with a domain name. Manually issuing SSL certificates to IP addresses will be painful, and it'll be much more difficult to get a notable CA to sign them for you. I'll also require you to push product updates if your server IPs ever change, instead of just altering the DNS record yourself. If your clients need to get to your server from a new device, they'll have to write down your IP and send it over, rather than just memorising an easy domain name. Besides, you can pick up domains for next to nothing - as little as $10/yr in some cases.


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Sometimes i need to use a public pc to access my gmail account, is there a safe way to login and keep my password safe in case there was a keylogger or a trojan on that pc? are there tools that could help in that case?
Enable two factor authentication. Consider the remembered password compromised to any user of the public computer.
EDIT: My answer dealt with how to prevent your password from being keylogged. With two-factor authentication your password is now the combination of a randomly generated one-time use code (obtained via cell phone or pre-obtained list) as well as the remembered password; hence a keylogger doesn't give an attacker the ability to log in as you for a future attack.
However, I definitely agree with TomLeek and Nic that in a real-time attack (not a keylogger looked at after the fact) that captures your random session token (that indicates to gmail you are signed in before you do any action), an attacker can fully use your gmail account (send emails as you; search through emails sent to you; delete your emails; etc). Granted, once you logout your session token will become invalidated and will kick them out of your account. Granted a clever attacker could write a browser plugin to collect your session tokens, send it to them, and then redirect the logout page to not actually invalidate your token. Though you could always login to gmail again, view the link for "Last account activity [Details]" and sign everyone else out.
I access my gmail from my phone, but occasionally need to get to an email from a public computer. An example would be printing tickets from a hotel business center.
I keep a separate gmail "dropbox" account for this purpose... I just forward the relevant email using my phone to my "dropbox" email account and then access that account from a public computer.
I don't fret about exposing the password for my dropbox email account since its almost always empty.
... But I still use google's 2-factor authentication for my main account.
Stricto sensu, the only way to keep your private data private while accessing it on a potentially compromised public PC is to pray. If the PC is indeed compromised, then the villain who controls it now knows everything you typed and saw and downloaded and uploaded through that PC, and that includes, of course, your password. You will be safe only if the attacker, through laziness or incompetence, elects not to bother with your account. Gmail's two-step verification, which dr jimbob mentions, will somehow contain the damage in that the stolen password will not be sufficient to easily connect again on Gmail; but for the duration of your session, your Gmail account was nonetheless a free-for-all fair.
Also, if you can use Gmail's two-step verification, then you have a phone -- make that a smartphone and you will be able to access your emails from the phone alone, totally bypassing the PC of dubious cleanliness.
Logging into email (or any other service) from a public PC is risky. Of course you need to use strong authentication. But also, you need to consider whether the host is a trustworthy actor. When you authenticate yourself, you are effectively delegating access to the host you're using. Consider these attacks made possible on an untrusted host.
So what can you do about a public PC that can't be trusted? You need to decide which parts of the system you can trust. You can probably trust the CPU and memory in a public PC as much as you can trust your own personal computer. But the operating system and browser are much easier to attack, so you trust them less. Here are some ways to mitigate the common risks.
And for bonus points, here are some things that developers can do to improve application security.
There are some inherent risks to consider, even if you can use a one-time password. Google Accounts is big and important, so there's a risk that Google may be targeted specifically.
I expect that a compromised system could change your GMail settings to forward a copy of every mail you receive from then on. (As well as reading all your old email while you're logged in there). It would then be able to gain access to other accounts e.g. facebook (I think), or a blog account. By using the "forgot my password" feature to request the other account to send a new password to the registered email address. Which the attacker could then read.
I expect they could even change your GMail settings to define a filter, which deletes the "here is your new password" emails after they've been forwarded, so you wouldn't notice those emails. (You would only notice when you tried to log in to the other account, your original password didn't work, and you're not able to use the "forgot my password" feature because the "here is your new password" emails are still being filtered).
The "forgot my password" attack is probably not a huge issue. It's probably going to be spamming, like the facebook/yahoo account hacks that happen, and the pain is more from having to clean up the mess, rather than any significant harm.
Google might mitigate this as well. E.g. for the more stealthy variant: If a user changes their forwarding settings while logged in from a new computer/browser (or perhaps even an old one), then the next login on each other computer/browser(s) could tell the user about the forwarding changes.
If you turn on the 2-step authentication you can use a backup code, which is basically a one time use password.
If you are using public wifi you may consider VPN like Anonymizer. Refer to this link for more information: http://arstechnica.com/security/2011/01/stay-safe-at-a-public-wi-fi-hotspot/
My solution to this problem at university where the computers were constantly becoming infected with flash driver viruses and trojans. Was not to use the installed system. When you have put hundreds of hours into your projects you can't take a chance the the computer you are connecting to is just going to corrupt and destroy all that work.
I would carry a boot able live cd / or usb drive of one of the thousands of Linux operating systems. I would boot into a working Linux operating system and do what ever I need to do with out mounting / using the infected / compromised internal hard drive. This limited my exposure to the malware that could potential be found on the internal disks.
You may need to ask for permission to do this at a internet cafe, or library. It should not be that difficult to do. Most live disks give you a web browser, Libra of Open office for reading an writing most office documents. On bootable usb drives you can install software and have it there the next time you boot up.
One of the only post configuration issues I had at university was setting up the network connectivity so I could browse the internet. The university had set up a proxy server that all the computers used to access the internet. You will need to find which of these settings apply to the public computer systems you are trying to access. It would probably be helpful if you use the same public computers systems over and over to save these types of settings in text file on a flash drive that you carry with you. Bootable flash drives give you some control over which settings you want to save to your disk. I currently use the ubuntu 12.04 lts bootable usb drive.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu


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I'm trying to make a bootable USB drive for Ubuntu 12.04.1.
The USB drive created by unetbootin doesn't boot; it results in a
Disk I/O error message.
In trying to create a bootable USB drive, PenDriveLinux installer reports a syntax error in syslinux and then says that the drive will not be bootable. And it isn't. It produces the same "Disk I/O error" message.
Is there some way around this or a fix for it?
Thank all of you for your help. The error I kept getting was this:
An error (1) occurred while executing syslinux. Your USB drive won't be bootable...
After googling around to find out what error (1) was, I moved from my crufty old XP machine to a newer, cleaner Windows 7 machine, and guess what? PendriveLinux created a bootable USB drive on the first try.
I am happy now. :-)


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Just what the title states; there's a good deal of noise made about transport, and storage of spent nuclear fuel. Why all the hullabaloo when the fuel is all spent?
For a vanilla nuclear reactor (no MOX, breeder, etc.) the fuel (U-235) is only about 4% of the fuel rod itself. The problem with this, however, is that a "spent" fuel rod still has U-235 (more than the natural occurring level of 0.71%) as well as U-238, Po-239, etc. Being "spent" just means that there isnt enough U-235 around to keep the chain reaction going.
All these materials in the fuel rods (as mentioned above) have thousands to 10000's years half life, so until they are "safe" to handle there will be nobody around to take care of it.
The material that is enchasing these rods also becomes radioactive by the all the neutrons floating around and hitting the material.
Mart's answer gets to some of the problem (e.g. ensuring that storage remains stable for the period of decay) but I believe the other answers here are a bit off base.
Nuclear fuel is determined to be "spent" when the nuclear engineers determine it is no longer economically warranted to continue using it. On a physical sense, the fuel could certainly be used for much longer. Besides, it depends on what kind of reactor you are talking about as to how long the fuel is used and what the composition of the spent fuel is. The plutonium that is such a dangerous part of most used fuel is actually a major contributor to the energy output of a CANDU (Canadian heavy water) reactor toward the end of the useful fuel life.
As for composition of waste, the majority is composed of rather inert U238 (~91%) that did not transmute through neutron capture or fission. This material is part of the original fuel composition and is not harmful. A small percentage (~1%) consists of the remaining U235 that did not transmute or fission. About the same amount is plutonium that results from neutron capture by U238 and subsequent decay. Depending on reactor operation, about 4% is daughter products and the rest is actinides and activation products.
The half-lives of these isotopes varies significantly but it is a convenient fact that the more radioactive a material is, the shorter its halflife and consequently the shorter time before it is "safe." There are many graphs (e.g. see second graph) out there of decay times for spent fuel, but as I said above, the exact time for decay depends on a lot of things like the original composition of the fuel, what kind of reactor was used, and the final processing of the used fuel.
Several options for processing spent fuel exist including recycling it to retrieve the useable uranium and plutonium. Doing so reduces the waste volume considerably but also necessitates the development of separations technologies and the handling of concentrated waste. It is also possible to place the waste in special reactors that are dedicated to "burning" the waste with high neutron flux; even still, there will always be some waste. Waste that is slated for disposal is often vitrified, that is, it is mixed with borated glass. These glass logs are put into steel containers and then stored in concrete.
Whatever is done with the waste, we must be confident in the stability of the storage for at least several hundred years (though thousands of years in some cases). A great deal of research continues on this subject. That being said, the absolute amount of waste is quite small. I've read various numbers, but for order of magnitude we are talking about one football field 20 feet deep of waste for all of the nuclear reactors in the United States for the last 60 years. That is a lot of bad stuff, but in comparison, it seems quite manageable. If we recycled the fuel, that would reduce to about 6 inches of waste spread over one foodball field. Coal plants, in general produce on the order of 10,000 times more waste by volume which contains more radioactive material in absolute terms than nuclear plant waste.
Here are the common engineering safety concerns regarding spent fuel:
Well its not really all spent in the chemical fuel sense. The leftovers from nuclear fission are themselves still radioactive, not usefully radioactive for energy generation.
These products will continue to be dangerously radioactive for 1000's of years and so the problem is to store dangerous materials for longer than modern civilisation has been on the planet.
As mentioned in the other answers, there's still radioactive material in the spent fuel. Any containment will have to deal with the heat from said radioactive material.
Also, radioactivity can change the quality of container-materials - metals can become brittle, glass might crack (see here: http://jol.liljenzin.se/KAPITEL/CH07NY3.PDF )
So you need a containment that stands up to radiation in addition to all other environmental stresses over a geological timeframe, while still beeing able to dissipate the rest heat.


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Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of property and land use law.
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If ever you doubted the power of right-wing radio, then these videos should put all doubt to rest. These people did not come to these positions out of thin air. They have been prepped.The videos reminded me of the video of those who gathered outside Central High School in Little Rock, and even of the video from MLK's march in the Cicero neighborhood of Chicago.
I must object to the spreading of such videos, especially the first one. I don't think it is adding to the civility of this campaign, nor to our seeing our fellow citizens as fallible human beings like ourselves. Nor is it Christian.
I couldn't agree more, JC. It's absolutely uncivil and un-Christian to say the things these people are saying on the video.
I'm not trying to defend anything anyone says in the videos. Of course, they are wrong. Please tell me why you want to share this with us? Why do some Obama people go to McCain rallies and yell at McCain supporters? How does this advance civil society? Are they not there to provoke them into saying things like this, so that they can spread these videos? Do you think they had meaningful dialog with people they disagreed with that day?
I'm sorry, JC, but the only people I hear screaming are the McCain supporters. Maybe this whole thing was staged, maybe the Obama supporters were doing something absolutely horrible to these people prior to turning on their cameras. I sort of doubt it, but if a video showing such a thing surfaces, I'll be sure to post it. I only post this to note the state of our political discourse at the moment. But, from where I stand, the responsibility for that sorry state seems to lie disproportionately with the McCain campaign and its supporters.
JC: A central problem is that this doesn't come from nowhere. Here is Sullivan's link to the latest McCain ad:http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/all-they-go... campaign is fomenting a vicious cycle--it is a snake eating its tail. Rather than stopping this sort of thing, McCain/Palin are giving people license to act and say this way. I also wish religious leaders (esp in our church) would speak up. Instead we get this, at an especially ugly McCain rally:"O God, we are in a battle that is raging for the soul of this nation," the preacher said. "You, O God, have raised up Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin for such a time as this." The preacher went on: "Help them, O God, to strengthen our economy, to keep our taxes and spending low . . . and grant them the privilege of being elected the next president and vice president."Read the WaPo story here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR200810...
I invite you consider the election of 1800. The newspapers are especially revolting.To me, this video has little to do with our political discourse, but rather shows that human nature is flawed and mobs bring out a side of people that makes me think that Calvin was right.As for people who share these videos, I don't know, but I suspect they like feeling superior to other people.
I will admit that Obama has until very recently run one of the cleanest, most upright campaigns in a long time.
I just read the WaPo thing, and that is disturbing, especially all the Hussein stuff. I guess they are getting desperate because they are going to lose. You know, when I lived in Seattle, I really didn't like liberals. Now I live in the midwest, and I don't like Republicans. Groupthink makes people stupid. I'm think videos like this will make liberals think that all Republicans are like this.
JCI "get" you and agree.
Ironically, I think this submission reflects more poorly on Mr. Pealver than on those in the videos.
How does the Bob Dylan song go?But it ain't him to blameHe's only a pawn in their game.The blame goes to those who try to bring out the worst and not the best in any of us.
McCain is taking a calculated risk that if he can incite (and there is no other word for it) the farthest right of the GOP they will come out strong for him AND make up for the moderates that used to make up his base until a few months ago. But it seems that the more he panders to these people the more he loses from the center.It will be interesting to see what repercussions this has after he loses the election. Will the far right get stronger or weaker? What will happen to the conservative movement?We have been watching this uneasy alliance between a sophisticated pro-business right and an unsophisticated nationalist right since Reagan. It is now falling apart. I wonder if the truly principled conservatives will now be able to make a comeback?
When I opened this morning's paper the political cartoon showed a huge sign saying,"FORGET ABOUT THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE. YOU'RE STUPID. YOU BELEIVE SARAH PALIN'S GARBAGE ABOUT OBAMA." Next to the sign is a little guy, identified as VOTER, who says, "John McCain approved THAT message?"I guess we don't beieve in "uniter, not divider" among those Christian conservatives any more.
Andrew Sullivan is concerned that McCain and Palin are creating a climate where violence might occur. I'm not sure he is wrong.http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-dangero...
I'm sorry, but I can't see how "naming and shaming" such behavior "reflects poorly" on Eduardo Penalver. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and if we had only been more insistent, more diligent, more outspoken in pushing for disclosures we may not have had scandals from the church's own sexual abuse crisis to the last eight years of corruption, human rights violations, malfeasance, unjust war, and now a financial meltdown, to name just a few. It is vanity when we look in a mirror; it is salutary when others hold up the mirror and catch us at angles we may not like.
Sunlight is the best disinfectantBut the sun, like the rain, falls on the just and unjust alike. There are all manner of attitudes and human foibles and rational thought seems to preclude many people when the hysteria of a political election cycle rolls around. I have even heard (but haven't seen much evidence of that here lately) that this applies even to some Democrats. That is part of the subtext of the point but it is deeper than just a tit for tat thing. It is an issue of understanding and fair play for a public opinion journal, particularly one that operates out of a faith stance.We all say...let's just talk about issues.....In Canada, Kim Campbell (former Tory Prime Minister) said that it was impossible to have a rational discussion about health care in an election. Too higly emotionally charged and very easy to demagogue. At the time, in my idealistic full transparency of issues for the public is a good thing phase, I was offended at this broadside against my ideals. Now I am not so certain. Basically, her view was that leaders just need to have this discussion privately, enact the necessary reforms and spin it however they wish to the unwashed masses. I noticed at the last town hall debate neither McCain nor Obama discussed concrete proposals to address entitlements such as social security and medicaid. Yet, this is a fairly simple issue and the solutions are pretty obvious. It requres political will. However, no politician risks it because the other side can demagogue it. So what do we talk about. THEM creating a climate of fear and violence. THEM being this or that.
I meant social security is a fairly easy solution....
George D writes:"I noticed at the last town hall debate neither McCain nor Obama discussed concrete proposals to address entitlements such as social security and medicaid. Yet, this is a fairly simple issue and the solutions are pretty obvious".They are simple? and the solutions are obvious?
David Gibson said: "Im sorry, but I cant see how naming and shaming such behavior..."Did you mean "behavior" or speech?
Gabriel:On making social security solvent - yes the solutions are simple and obviousl All that it would require is some surrendering of orthodoxy on both camps and a compromise position could be struck. The issue is not the solution, the issue is the political will to do what is necessary.There have been lots of proposals that foundered on ideological not pragmatic grounds.
Health care is a different matter but costs can be managed there. For example, more RPN's instead of GP's for routine examinations. No need for specialized medicine referrals for routine birth deliveries. Most children do not require a pediatrician. Hospitals are too expensive - invest in home care and community health clinics. On many of these points the neo-cons are correct. The problem is that they do not fund the necessary investments due to the strong influnence of professional medical bodies and hospitals which continue to draw the lions share of the funds.I think something like 75% of all health care dollars are spent at the beginning of life (neo-natal) and end of life.
Where it gets complicated is where these issues intersect with deeply held human, spiritual and religious values.... and they invariably do......there's the rub....and there is the complexity!!!!
Another view, from Michael Barone:Once upon a time, liberals prided themselves, with considerable reason, as the staunchest defenders of free speech. Union organizers in the 1930s and 1940s made the case that they should have access to employees to speak freely to them, and union leaders like George Meany and Walter Reuther were ardent defenders of the First Amendment. Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to pride themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society. Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don't like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead. Hillary supporters aren't letting go, either:If you havent been a regular here at HillBuzz, you might not know about Gigi Gastons documentary We Will Not Be Silenced on the caucus fraud deliberately orchestrated by the Obama campaign during the primaries. Voter intimidation, registration fraud, vandalism, threats of violence, you name it, Obamas supporters did it. For veterans of the McGovern 72 campaign who remembered thugs and hooligans engaged in similar tactics in service of their own far left candidate, the actions of Obamas followers were so bad that even people whove lived through the last 36 years of ups and downs in America testified that this is the worst thing theyve ever seen happen to our democracy.Gastons documentary continues to gather testimonials from people across the country and we have word now that the people behind these efforts to document what Obama did during the primaries are also cooperating with law enforcement in an investigation into the Obama campaigns efforts to undermine the true will of the people in the general election.
"As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit. It is difficult if not impossible for any nationalist to conceal his allegiance. The smallest slur upon his own unit, or any implied praise of a rival organization, fills him with uneasiness which he can relieve only by making some sharp retort," - George Orwell.
What makes these videos so horrifying -- and instructive -- for me is that, for the most part, the people saying these awful things look like people from my neighborhood, parish, family. I keep expecting to see someone I know. I think it's valuable to be reminded that ignorance, fear and hate aren't so foreign and easy to spot as I'd like to think they are. I don't dispute their right to say what they want. But I wish it weren't so easy to get them to say such reprehensible things. I wouldn't be there provoking them. But I wish they weren't so easily provoked.
I regularly peruse left and right blogs, religious and 'secular'.Here is one apposite entry that illustrates a broader point that political culture is completely unable to accomodate difference and 'otherness'. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp


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4 Port Skull USB Hub With Stationary Holder for $12.95
Alas, poor Yorick, destined to forever adorn your desk, stripped of both brains and beauty, yet he remains both functional and visually striking. Why ask "to USB or not to USB?" when this stylish skull-shaped USB hub is near? He can connect four of your USB devices to your computer (Mac or PC) at the same time, and look good doing it. You can even use his empty cranium as a catch-all for your odd assortment of office paraphernalia (or a particularly macabre candy dish).
Not just a pretty face, Yorick boasts four high-speed USB 2.0 ports – one each for your mp3 player, scanner, wireless mouse, and Desk Fan.
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Plus $4.99 shipping.
7th Grader: Where did you get that skull?
Me: Former student.
Whatever happened to the name jizbee? Did they have people whining?
If only this were a bong as well as a USB hub...maybe a USB bong? Why not?
Torn on this one. LOVE the skull, hate that it's unpowered, not that I really have the absolute need for powered. Gotta think for a bit...
propellerhead ignition key... +1
$2 deal from the next best price I've seen. Actually been watching this item on Amazon for a while, now: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZELTOO.
@superninja: It still says "Jizbee.com" on the Paypal page.
@superninja: It was a somewhat unsettling name. I bet the business owners sat around a table going through every letter of the alphabet - quite amusing to imagine. Dizbee isn't great though, in fact I think I miss the subtle innuendo by comparison. Why not bizbee? The more variations I think of, the more they all just sound like "frisbee".
@teevee: Thankfully they decided against spoogehornet.
That said...I kinda want this.
"..Alas poor Yorick, I remembered him even better now"
@teevee: They went from a funny name, to a name that is meaningless.
That's not an improvement.


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Univariate, bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyseswere performed on all study patients. Clinical factors, such as age atdiagnosis and at menopause, menopausal status, family history ofunilateral, bilateral breast cancer, number of relatives, palpabilityof primary tumor and axillary lymph nodes, were evaluated. Thepathological factors included tumor grade, histological classification,size of primary tumor, estrogen receptor status, margin status,presence or absence of lymph vascular space involvement (LVI) orperi-neural invasion.
Multivariate logistic regression analysis was utilized to constructa model predicting nodal involvement in the entire sample. Initially,a six category model was utilized and is depicted in the Table 3. The"B" value represents difference between the risk of nodal involvement for that category and the average for all categories of that variable (a negative B means a lower than average risk of ALN metastases). The model, the authors contend, correctly predicted the ALN status in 76.63% of thecases. They felt that the model was too cumbersome to be of clinicalsignificance, since there are too many possible combinations for which to account. Thus, they developed a 3 category model utilizingpalpability of primary tumor and ALN=92s, tumor size and presence orabsence of LVI. They found this to be of comparable predictionaccuracy in ALN status (76.56%). Table 5 displays the data and therisk of ALN metastases based on their model. Based on this, theydivided the patients into 4 risk groups for ALN involvement: Very Low[< 10% risk], Low [10-14% risk], Intermediate [15-50% risk] and High[> 50%]. In table 5, very low risk patients hadnonpalpable disease of 5 mm or less without LVI [dashed line outline]. Low risk patients were those that had palpable disease of 6-10 mmor were nonpalpable without LVI [single line outline]. High riskpatients had clinically palpable ALN's or LVI in palpable tumors 2 cmor greater or nonpalpable tumors 3 cm or greater [double line outline]. Intermediate risk patients cover everyone in between.
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In DnD 3.5, the dancing weapon enchantment says it 'fights for four rounds using the base attack bonus of the one who loosed it'. Does that mean if my base attack bonus is +6/+1, the weapon will also get two attacks from my high BAB?
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Iterative attacks are part of the Base Attack Bonus rules and description; as such, anything that uses your BAB uses your iterative attacks unless it specifies otherwise, or is using a natural weapon (which have their own built-in exception). Since Dancing weapons do neither, they get the full benefit of your iteratives.
well, i think they dont, coz it uses you Base Attack Bonus (not Bonuses) the +6/+1 are Two (diferent) attack bonuses, so you have 2 attacks instead of just 1
by the way check the glossary
+6/+1 idicate you have a max of 2 attacks in a full round action, so if you have moved more than 5 feet you can just do a single attack with you first BAB (+6)
so, the "dancing weapon" has no level, no class, just the BAB of the one who lost it
any link fo iterative attack rules?


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March 09, 2011 - MMH Editorial
Just how strong is the current economic recovery? Judging by the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association's (CEMA) 78th Annual Meeting in Palm Springs California last week, pretty good.
"While we can't get too excited by the numbers we are seeing now, all indications are that we've turned the corner," said CEMA president, Bill Pugh.
On hand to confirm that impression was Alan Beaulieu, president of ITR, an economic forecasting firm. As he has done at past meetings, Beaulieu presented a broad overview of global trends in manufacturing and distribution.
"If we see an increase in private sector hiring, the chance of a double-dip recession fades considerably," he said. "But that means U.S. companies will have to generate 200,000 jobs per anum for the next 10 years.
And Beaulieu thinks that will happen for two reasons: banks are prepared to lend again, and interest rates are still low.
"More money is coming into the economy because the government is printing and borrowing more," he said.
This observation mirrors that made by Modern Materials Handling research analysts who contend that equipment manufacturers are finally making long-term capital investments in new system upgrades again.
Noteworthy highlights from suvey results included the fact that the median amount of money spent by firms on conveyors and/or conveyor parts and accessories during the last 12 months was estimated to be $55,000. Eighteen percent reported spending $500,000 or more.
At the same time, system reliability remains far and away the most important factor in purchase considerations. However, the reputation of the equipment supplier and design flexibility are becoming increasingly relevant to buyers.
Beaulieu told the CEMA gathering (the largest in recent years) that investment in human capital was also key to a rebuilding strategy.
"It's time to hire now if there's any skill gaps in your operation," he said. "And while you should be ruthless when it comes to efficiency, you should concentrate on retaining the best workers. Indeed, if you care about the people who work for you – give them raises. Productivity is at stake."
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When I do a farm backup either using Central Admin or Powershell, what are the stuffs that does not get included in the backup and that I have to manually back them up. A comprenshive list would be much appreciated and one that takes into account as many scenarios as possible.
The regular SharePoint backups will grab content, and configuration (when doing the farm backup).
This does not backup any changes made to the SharePoint files on the server(s) such as images, templates, etc. Any customizations or third party tools that were deployed; note all should be deployed via a WSP. Some manual web.config changes may not be saved back to the content database and may get out of sync.
If you were going to back those up, I would recommend:
Technet has a pretty good overview on Disaster Recover:
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WOLCOTT -- One Joe Lynch, one Mike Nicol and one long memory beats a Joan Toribio. Barely. But even on a night when Toribio was a first-class warrior, three was just too much for one.
Friday night was nothing short of wild and wacky with a touch of mayhem at Joe Monroe Field as Wolcott staged one of the great comebacks anywhere and anytime, erasing a three-touchdown deficit to rally for a 39-34 victory over Torrington in the final two minutes.
The winning score came on Lynch's 19-yard explosion around the right end and into the end zone for the fourth time of the night with 1:19 left to provide the margin of victory. But let's back up a minute.
Start with Toribio, who toted the ball 35 times for 260 yards. He almost held off the Eagles himself with nine straight carries for 33 yards in the first part of the fourth quarter as Torrington sought to finally shed the Eagles for good, only to be stopped at the Wolcott 34.
But for all of Toribio's grit, there were Nicol and Lynch on the other side of the ball. Nicol rushed for 161 yards on 17 carries while passing for 86 yards. Meanwhile, Lynch (12 carries, 114 yards) headed into the end zone on runs of 13, 8, 19 and 8 yards. It was a potent package that left Torrington devastated at the end.
Then there is that memory thing. You don't forget getting drubbed, 66-28, like Wolcott was in Torrington last year. You don't forget the brilliant
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Brendan Lytton rushing for an absurd 427 yards and six touchdowns. You don't forget a team rolling up 674 yards of offense on you.
"We don't live in the past, but we had that in the back of our minds," said Wolcott coach Jason Pace.
"We had some anger," admitted Lynch, a transfer from Holy Cross who was cleared to play by the CIAC the day before. "All week, Coach Pace kept saying '66, 66, 66.'"
For the first half, it looked like Torrington was going to put up another 66 on the Eagles. With the aid of three turnovers, the Raiders looked primed to forget the opening 66-26 loss to Ansonia and Arkeel Newsome.
Desmond Langs leaped over a defender to grab a 32-yard scoring pass from Phil Bresson to put Torrington on the board, and Edgar Gonzalez chipped in with a 21-yard scamper for a score along with a 1-yard run from Toribio for a 20-0 lead just over two minutes into the second quarter.
The lead hit, 27-6, before Nicol capped off a 65-yard drive with a 3-yard run to make it 26-14 by the half. The final 24 minutes belonged to the Eagles.
A blocked Torrington punt on its first series of the second half led to a Lynch 13-yard scoring run to make it 26-21. Toribio temporarily stemmed the tide when he ripped off a 65-yard jaunt down the sideline for a score. But three plays later, Nicol went up the middle and suddenly it was, 34-27.
The Eagles closed to within one when Lynch scored on an 8-yard run, but a holding call forced a 32-yard attempt for an extra point and the kick was wide as Torrington clung to a 34-33 lead.
After stopping Torrington and Toribio on a fourth-down play at its own 34, Wolcott took over one last time. Lynch ripped off a 62-yard TD run, only to have it called back on a blocking-in-the-back call.
The Eagles shrugged it off, however, and on third-and-22 Nicol connected with Tyler Prescott for 24 yards and a first down. Five plays later, Lynch went in for the score.
"We had a lot of momentum," said Lynch. "If I had the ball in my hands, I just knew that I had to keep moving, to keep my legs going."
Torrington had one last shot on a fourth down from the Wolcott 40. Bresson's pass into the end zone was knocked down.
"(Torrington) thought it had the game won," said Nicol. "We kept going. Me and Lynch played our butts off. We knew we had to push."
Torrington coach Dan Dunaj saw the same thing.
"When you have someone on the ropes, you have to knock them out," said Dunaj. "Our problem is not how to handle failure but how to handle success. We got away from what we were doing early. We reverted to doing our own things instead of what we had to do."
All Wolcott coach Jason Pace knew was that it was the best comeback he has been part of and, boy, did it feel good.
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Sometimes while I am running through the "Suggested Edits" review queue, I often find myself scrutinizing the quality of the content along with the actual edits that were suggested. Sometimes I find posts that are just awful and I open them up in a new tab, check for myself and then take appropriate action if needed. Then I will go back to looking through the suggested edit and take whatever appropriate action is needed there also.
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I partially understand based on the background and context, but I've never seen it used this way before.
Can someone provide the full meaning of carpeted in this context and also tell me if it is a new usage or something old and obscure.
From the news article: Joe Hockey carpets Liberal leaders
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How to disclose a security vulnerability in an ethical way? I've heard there are various schools of thought on this topic. I'd like to know the pros/cons of each.
You should let the developer(s) know privately so that they have a chance to fix it. After that, if and when you go public with the vulnerability, you should allow the developer enough time to fix the problem and whoever is exposed to it enough time to upgrade their systems. Personally, I would allow the developer to make the announcement in a security bulletin in most cases rather than announcing it myself. At the very least, I would wait for confirmation that the vulnerability has been fixed. If you have time and have access to the source code, you could also provide a patch.
Personally I think Responsible disclosure seems to be the best way to go from an ethical point and worked well for Dan Kaminsky revealing the details of the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability. But it all depends greatly on the company or group you are dealing with and also the user base that it will affect.
@VirtuosiMedia does a great job of outlining "Responsible Disclosure".
I would add two points:
Generally, it depends on the response of vendor. Good practice is when security researcher informs vendor about vulnerability, then during conversation you talk about terms of publication of poc/exploit of this vulnerability. Actually, researcher choose what to do with this vulnerability - publish later or not. Then vendor releases patch or new product version. Maybe. But, how experience shows - not all vendors are so nice. Some of them fix bugs silently, without informing end users and researchers, some prefer to ignore researcher. Others even try to sue. That's why sometimes anonymity is preferable way of initial communication with unknown vendor.
Also I would like to admit that there are bug bounty reward programs - those are offered by Google, Mozilla. Besides, others buy vulnerabilities - ZDI, iDefense, SNOsoft, coming "exploit hub", and etc. So, there are at least three ways how to inform vendor - directly, by publishing vulnerability information on some list or via third-party companies.
This is one heck of a complex topic. I was involved in the disclosure of the TLS renegotiation bug a couple of years ago, and believe me, we tried very hard to be "responsible", but in the end, we succeeded mainly in pissing off everyone around us and (perhaps) delaying the actual release of the fix. Not to say that vendor notification is necessarily bad, only that it's really easy to get whipsawed and wind up causing as much harm as good, or worse.
In our case, it took an action of the IETF (RFC 5746) to solve the problem, and even though we had an internet draft ready on the day it leaked, the actual work of debating and deciding on the solution took about three more months, and didn't really get started in earnest until the disclosure took place.
Anyway, this isn't an answer to your question, but it's one of the more interesting disclosure stories I'm aware of. More on that story in the 2010 ShmooCon keynote I did with Marsh Ray, who discovered the problem.
If they have a public issue tracker, see if you can file a bug with a "private" or "security" label.
Regardless of whether they have an issue tracker, email
If they don't respond fairly promptly (see "Window of Disclosure" in Schneier article below) then you need to think about disclosing it more widely. Look for mailing lists that security academics/professionals lurk on and ask them how they report issues to the vendor in question. They may be able to make introductions to the right place in the organization.
If all that fails, read the Schneier bit and think about whether full disclosure would be being part of the problem or part of the solution.
Bruce Schneier gives an argument for full disclosure in certain circumstances based on a "be part of the solution, not part of the problem" standard. It's definitely worth a read.


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The ingredients of this winter salad include golden delicious apples, celery, red grapes, almonds, and raisins.
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- 3 cups diced unpeeled golden Delicious apples (about 4 medium)
- 1 cup sliced celery
- 1 cup seedless red grapes, halved
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Being one of the most popular NoSQL solutions MongoDB has most of the advantages of this approach. But one issue I'm still struggling with is how reflect object relations in NoSQL data store, specifically - MongoDB.
For example, let's consider a simple data model: User, Post and Comment. It is clear to me that comments have no value on their own and thus become embedded objects for Posts. But when it comes to users - that becomes tricky because User is an entity on its own, not coupled with Post. Now in case I need to list posts with user full names and links to profiles on a web page, I would need to have a list of posts and information about posts authors (name and id at least).
I see 2 possible solutions here:
- De-normalize the data in a way that each post entry contains its author's ID and full name (and any other user attributes I might need when listing posts). This way I would make querying for the data really simple but wheneve user updates his/her profile I would need to update all the posts by the user as well. But then I need to also store user attributes in the comments objects which means that updating user profile essentially requires me to update all the posts that have at least one comment by the user unless I want to store comments in a separate collections.
- Only store user ID in the post object and run 2 queries: one to get a list of posts and another one to get list of users where user id is in the list of post authors. This requires 2 queries and extra processing in my application code to map users to the posts.
I'm sure I'm not the first one facing this issue but unfortunately I have not found any best practices on this topic so far. Opinions?


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I read that both 活 and 住 both refer to the verb "to live". Is there a difference between the two?
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Yes. The two words are actually applied differently.
活 is applied in a more abstract sense. Such as to live in fear (活在恐惧之中), to live in this world (活在这世上). This has more to do with survival or staying alive.
住 is applied in a physical sense. Such as to live in this house (住在这屋里), to live in this place (住在这地方). "Stay" would be a good alternative to "live" for better clarity of the meaning. This has more to do with accomodation.
活 means "live" in the sense of being alive, while 住 means "live" in the sense of "to reside."


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(COLUMBIA, Mo.) -- Columbia College's men's and women's basketball teams both advanced to the NAIA Division 1 National Basketball Tournament, according to the official bracket released by the NAIA national office.
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As for taking prayer out of school, the God of we who are born again knows our hearts and minds. He knows what we are thinking without saying a word out loud.
So, human law fails. We pray in silence. You may take it out of school, but you cannot take it out of our hearts. So pray, children of God, even for our enemies. We are taught to love all people, even those who hate us. The Holy Bible has endured for thousands of years. It has been burned and torn apart, but never destroyed, and will not be destroyed.
God's church will remain until he comes for it. John Wesley said, "Though will he find faith, when he comes. Faith comes by hearing the word. Read for yourselves. Trust him (Jesus Christ) in the good times and the bad for he will never leave you. Whatever church has Jesus Christ as the cornerstone and builds (preaches and obeys) his word is a friend of mine, and together we proclaim truth and promote peace."
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Only use IE but it's fine for me.
Only use IE but it's fine for me.
Must be a firefox problem then.
I've cleaned up the main page a bit. Click the edit button and you'll see it's a good bit cleaner than before. Same look as before though.
I use Firefox and never have any problems with it?
Might be your internet settings for Firefox.
EDIT: All Arsenal players with pages have FM info on their page. I'm going to try and get as many Arsenal players done as I can before I go back to work.
That seems alright Alan
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Edit: It is Alan
Agreed with stig. Nothing wrong with that at all
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With the announcement on FM10 coming in August, do you think we should run some kind of feature tracker? Looking at the amount of info we got into the page on one screenshot, I can see the FM10 page become really crowded soon enough. How about we open a new category going into detail on new FM10 features, and then have a normal list in the general FM10 page, without going into much detail. Just an idea, no idea if it'd actually work out. All I know is that if SI are going to be drip feeding features to random sites like last year it's going to be hard to find them all. Would be nice to have a list of them all on fm wiki imo.
The stuff that Miles posted needs to be drastically cut down, just pick out the core bits from that and don't quote him
out of interest, why does Marc Vivien Foe have a player profile? Seems a bit silly since he was never even on a Football Manager game. Don't know if you've got loads of players in there that haven't, but just noticed him and thought it was strange.
Maybe have a FM10 page (like the one that's already there) and then have a new FM10 features page.
Or we could move the Twittergate part onto it's own page and then just have the FM10 page for new features?
To be honest I'm not keen on the idea of a new page for each feature. The amount you could say about each feature would be minimal, for example how much would we have been able to say about Transfer Rumours on 09? Personally I think it would be best to have a FM10 Features page, to have the big features with their own section and then have a last section for smaller features. I'll do an example for FM09.
Page Name - New Features on FM09
=3D Match Views=
(talk about 3D)
=Press Conferences=
(talk about PC's)
(talk about x [x=other big feature that I can't remember])
=Small additions=
(talk about small features added in)
I can't remember what was new for FM09 so the above is very rough, but I feel that would be best. I don't think it would be too long either.
IMO if we were to do it that way we might as well have it all in the one page. It'd be easier to have all info in the one page. Thinking about it, there's not a whole lot to be said about new features.
Regarding the wikipedia copied articles;
My mum works in a financial advisors, so of course she has a lot of solicitors and legal boffs in her work place. I've spoken to her about the articles copied from wikipedia and she said that, tomorrow at work, she will ask one of the directors and get their advice on what we should do.
I'll let you know what they say when my mum tells me, should be mid day tomorrow sort of thing (about 1:00 - 2:00 GMT [Neil, I want your job]).
If they say it should be alright I still think we should cut them down a bit, maybe make them one paragraph.
Sounds good to me Alan
....oh wait
I'll get my coat... :o
Just spent the last hour doing what I asked you to do, lazy bugger ;D
All player profiles that are 100% original content are in their own category called 'Completed Player Profiles'.
The player profiles that are not done are in the normal Player Profile category. We should to try and rewrite as many as we can.
Personally I think the best way to do this is to write one or two lines of history, basically introducing the player, saying their name, club and nationality.
Then put ==Football Manager Information== and under that write a few lines about a player in Football Manager. I did quite a few for Arsenal yesterday, for example Vito Mannone.
There are huge amounts of players who are in the normal player profile category, so I'm sure everyone could do at least a few players. The players we can't get FM info for I think we should delete, so we don't have non-FM info on them.
You may notice that I have deleted a few player profiles. These are the ones that had absolutely nothing on them except the player profile tag and a screenshot that wasn't working properly. There may be some more of these left in there, I only checked about 75% of all players, if there is just let me or Alan know and one of us will delete that.
Right, I'm boring myself. That'll be all then
HERE IS THE COMPLETED PLAYER PROFILE CATEGORY - if a player you know reasonable amounts about isn't in there then you can make/develop a page on them
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Just so you know, something in that wikis is wrong: that a player must have a PA over 170 to be a Wonderkid. I have had 3 players with a PA under 170 become a Wonderkid.
Not sure who wrote that page, I'll leave it in until someone can confirm that that is the case, as I'd always thought it was correct.
Very good place; not many stuff yet, though.
I spent a few hours today and yesterday doing a massive cleanup of the site. You'd be surprised how much crap builds up after a few months, there was loads of stuff I found that we don't even use.
I've made a list of a few badges we need for club pages. If anyone could give me a hand that'd be great, if not I'll just go ahead and do it myself as usual.
No idea about the wonderkids thing tbh.
Yeah we have a decent amount of space now.Code:ac milan ajax aalborg (AB) ascoli athletic bilbao barnsley birmingham blackpool bolton brighton burnley carlisle Castilla cheltenham town chester city coventry crystal palace crystal palace baltimore derby barca b fluminense hemel hempstead town histon fc inter ipswich joinville fc la galaxy leeds leicester luton mk dons norwich notts county oldham psv port vale portsmouth preston scunthorpe sheffield united torquay walsall wrexham
Blimey, that's quite a lot! I'll do from Hemel Hempstead Town down and you can do from the top to Fluminense?
Yeah, sounds good to me.
What size are they now? 100px? If so, I think we should make them a bit bigger. Looks less boring if it has a bigger image imo, maybe 150px?
EDIT: I've changed it on the Arsenal page, looks a lot better imo.
EDIT: Mine are all done now
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I much prefer the current size tbh.
We got attacked by advertisers. Banned them and their IPs for a week.
That's our spammer Peter. If you don't mind I'll make it a permaban and re-name the user.
Why is advertisers funny
Dunno, just the way you said we were "attacked by advertisers" made me giggle
# (User rename log); 13:10 . . Ahmufcwafc (Talk | contribs | block) renamed User:21 buy acai to "Bannerd user 26" (1 edit. Reason: )
# (User rename log); 13:10 . . Ahmufcwafc (Talk | contribs | block) renamed User:370 buy elimite to "Bannerd user 25" (1 edit. Reason: )
# (User rename log); 13:10 . . Ahmufcwafc (Talk | contribs | block) renamed User:181 buy proventil to "Bannerd user 24" (1 edit. Reason: )
For me it clearly reads "Banned user", obviously edited to make me look bad. You so crazy.
I think/hope i've just banned someone, renamed them and edited the content from their page.
Alan, could you see if theres anything else that I was meant to do? First time
That's all right afaik.
Buy study habits? Looks like someone is running out of ideas
Guess who's back?
Welcome back mate. Don't think you've missed all that much, apart from a small cleanup of the site.
Yeah, good to see you back Rob
Don't know if anyone remembers the post from about a week ago about me asking my mum about the Wikipedia articles.
As she was off work Monday to Wednesday, and forgot to ask on Thursday, friday was the first day that she could ask them.
They said that, whilst the chances that Wikipedia would take legal action is unlikely, to protect ourselves we should either
- Put 'This has been taken directly from Wikipedia' tags on every page that is copied from wiki. However this does still not rule out people taking action as we still have not got permission.
- Take small pieces of information where absolutely nessecary, but for as many pages as possible we should not use Wikipedia content. For those pages that ONLY contain Wikipedia content, and we can not develop to have more than that, we should delete, as the text we do not have permission for will be easy to see.
So basically, it would be best to remove as much of the information as possible. Having a small piece here and there shouldn't matter, but personally I feel it is better to have as little real life information as possible and focus on developing the FM side.
For those pages we can't get FM information for I think we should delete, as it is not worth the risk of anything happening for us taking the content.
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I think that if we all pull together and decide what areas we should and shouldn't keep, we can get it sorted
Maybe we set a deadline for us to re-do the pages once we've decided fully on what we're going to do - the end of August, maybe? Just ideas now, I don't know much about the profiles but I'll be willing to help if you tell me what I'm to do.
By the way stig, do you want to make a page on OTF radio? Someone linked me to it earlier today and it reminded me that you were going to make a page on it a few months back.
I'll sort out content with Gen-Next before starting it. May be on by the end of the week depending on work and other commitments.
Yeah that's fine, I don't mind when you put it up.
Does anyone know a lot about FMRTE? Started a page on it myself but there isn't all that much I could think of to put on it...
Never used it FMRTE, so I can't help.
I will do add some FM information into the player profiles over the next few days.
As well as uploading some stadium articles I did, around 2 months ago
Yeah I was thinking you were taking your time with those stadiums Robert
I am
I have only been on the forums extremely causally for the last month or so, because they died down a little IMO, but I think it is time to make my comeback. I followed threads such as this one, and a few of the sign-ups and challenges but I didn't post as much.
I agree on the Wikipedia issue though, little or no information from them at all, as TBF, if we had them all copied from Wikipedia, they would be crap.
I can't ban people, at least I don't think I can , so ban please:
Our advertisers are back
Thanks mate, I'll ban him now.
EDIT: Done - some people really need to get a life
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Check the best eleven with no signings bit mate - is that how you want it to look like?
Did you change it?
I edited it, to be completely different to that and like the with recommended signings one. :confused:
EDIT: Just checked. You did change it
No, I prefer it more spaced out with links to the players so, when all the players are finished, people can just click on the players off that screen and, check how to play them.
Ah okay, you can change it back them.
Edit: Which you have done
Next, the player profiles. What do you all feel should be done with them. Some have said that a line or two of real life info should be all we have, with more detail on FM related info. We have some new player profiles from Jammy and all the guys from GPTG and I must say they look really good.
Really don't mean to be an ass but if we're not able to come to decision in this thread soon enough, I'll probably just have to do a massive clearout on the site, which I really don't want to do. Better safe than sorry though, the last thing I want is wikipedia on our case.
Thanks a lot guys
Guys, I've edited the Why Have We Set This Up part of the main page a little, this is not permanent. I'm hoping that it may make a difference to the amount of spamming accounts we have registered, although I doubt it will.
With regards to what Alan said above me, I think we should set a limit on how long we should give it before the pages with Wikipedia info on them are deleted. For the non-player profiles I think we could delete anytime, however for the player profile pages (as some may be edited to have FM information on them) I think we should give it a few days (perhaps until the 4th or 5th of August?) before deleting.
If no one minds then either Alan or I will delete the non player profiles today.
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Check the OP now guys, any problems with it just let me know.
Thanks a lot mate, one thing however, would you be able to put
[size=5][url=www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk]Welcome to Football Manager Wiki![/url ][/size ]
at the very top of the page, even above the logo please? Cheers (Obviously remove the spaces between the code and the ]'s.
Like so ?
Thanks HoPeY
Judging by the little amount of work that has been done recently towards the player profiles, personally I wouldn't say that much more is going to be done other than what is done in the next few days - like the last time we started editing them. Maybe the 4th or 5th is too early - although I wouldn't say any later than the middle of August to be honest.
10th of August sounds reasonable to me, as we can then extend it if work is still being done on them.
And, if it isn't, they won't be on there for long
It's around 600 pages we're talking about here fwiw.
Alan, when shall we delete the non player profiles?
Also, hi to Frog19021996
Rob, do you want to write something up on your 1000 appearance challenge? Up to you ofc.
And Hamilton, almost forgot about you! Route to the top would be welcome as well
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Slight problem there Alan. The file's are corrupted, so i've emailed them to a mate who's a computer freak to see if he can sort them out. If he can, then i'll start updating again. But there's a high chance that that won't happen I'm getting the results emailed to me at 12 today, so i'll know by then.
I might start another sign-up that's similar to it in a while though.
Thanks anyway
You can get people to fix save files? Never knew that.
THIS is why you should always use rolling autosaves
Well, he said he'd have a go using some tricks that he knows. Doubts if it'll work though as he's never worked with an .fm file type before. He's going to take a look at the coding to see if he can spot anything that doesn't look right compared to one of my other .fm files
I did use rolling autosave, but all 3 corrupted damn it!!! I tried defragmenting my disk, but it didn't work
Tom, do you run an Anti-virus program?
And, if so, does it check your FM folders?
Anti-virus isn't the problem, my mate's already checked over that.
90 done at the moment, so 150 seems achievable.
I've moved the player profile categories around, so that the completed player profiles are the main category and the old player profiles are the sub category - seems better to have the completed ones easier to see.
If anyone thinks that it was better how it was before, feel free to change it around again by undo'ing my edits that I just did.
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Any suggestions for what we should have as our featured article this month? The featured articles page could use a change too...
What is the Live Chat Room used for?
I tried to sign in but kept getting errors and it would log me out immediately.
Just started my 1000 appearence article and I will finish it later.
JJay put the chat room feature in when we last upgraded software. Don't know if anyone uses it tbh, I was only ever online there the first day or two. There was very little activity
Might be an idea to use it more often, but I can't see it catching on much tbh.
Yeah, I get error messages half the time I try to connect as well.
Alan - May i suggest my Wycombe Wanderers article to be the featured article?
All pages that only contain screenshots are being deleted now - if there are any pages in particular that people want restored so Football Manager related information can be added to them either Alan or myself will sort it
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We will be doing something with them when JJay re-uploads them to photobucket though
I think the site is down?
JJay's just changing the registration system Jammy. No idea when it'll be back up fully. Shouldn't be long I'd imagine.
Should all be back to normal, and Alan you have what you wanted
Yep, its back up and the registration thing works well - cheers JJay
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Alan, what is the Community Portal to be used for?
And, say, I wanted to use it, what would I put etc.?
The Community Portal has been locked unfortunately, so only admins can edit it. The same applies to the Main Page, Rulebook (new) and Current Events page (also new). EDIT: Ignore this, I'm an idiot
The main point of the Communit Portal is so we can update those who may not be regulars in this thread as to what is happening regarding the Wiki, as well as giving a more lengthy introduction to how the site came about. It's basically a way for us to interact with the readers of the site, to make ourselves a more of a community site.
The current events page is to write about our plans for the short term future of the website, saying what our plans are to develop the site. This will be updated regularly (every couple of weeks sort of thing) for two reasons, firstly so we can make sure we get everything planned done but also so people know what they can expect in the future from the site.
If you have read that you will notice that we have set the deadline for player profiles as this Thursday, as they don't have much work being done. Although we came to this decision yesterday, there has been some more work done today so if it continues like this then it is likely we will extend the deadline furthur.
(Although sorry, I'm not Alan )
Although would you be able to do me a favour please? Try and write something on the Discussion page of the main page, to see if that's been locked too. If it has I'll unlock the Main Page, as hopefully that will become useful for questions about the site. Cheers
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The community portal hasn't been locked, regular users should be able to update just as well as anyone so there's not much point locking it. Not sure what exactly we should use it for so you write whatever you want in it for now
When was the player profile deadline taken forward!?
As long as people are making edits on the profiles you should keep them up imo. The end of this month should be the absolute latest time we have this sorted by though.
Rob - what were you thinking of using the portal for? By all means go for it.
Rob, are you going to be putting the link to the CA/PA page in all player profles? If not, its best not to have it in there imo, to keep them as consistant as possible. However if you are planning on adding them into them all then it's great
A little template here for those who are going to be editing Player Profile pages, it may save you a couple of minutes.
Best to edit out all of the real life information that's already there - it only takes a second to write a sentence about the player
[Player Name] is a [nationality] footballer who plays as a [position] for [name of club].
==Football Manager Information==
[Player Name] has a CA of [value] and a PA of [value].
[Information about player - best position, price to buy and sell, player tactical instructions etc]
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Alan and myself agreed on the 6th last night as there hadn't been any edits to them so it seemed pointless keeping them there when no work was being done. But so long as the work being done tonight continues, the 10th is fine too.
Ok, seems fair.
It is just us 3 doing them, mostly I think, so I guess whenever we get bored of doing them, we delete the Wikipedia ones


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If I have tremorsense or blindsight, do I have line of sight if I'm otherwise blind?
In particular, would this allow me to teleport out of a
Blindsight notes that:
And teleportation, of course, explicitly requires line of sight.
The significant problem is that "line of sight" is never formally defined. I believe that line of sight is determined through these determining cover rules:
Thus, line of sight is any unbroken line running from a corner of the attacker's square to a corner of the defender's square. Stinking cloud blocks that, but both blindsight and tremorsense allow the penetration of "obscured" (through environmental effects like darkness).
The question to pose to the DM: does the stinking cloud magically jam vision modes or is the blocking of line of sight a function of the production of the Heavily obscured effect:
Answer: probably, but ask your DM based on the nature of obscurement that stinking cloud provides.
Yes, but quirkily, by RAW you can't teleport there.
The compendium entry for BlindDDI says
A blind creature relies on special senses, such as blindsight or tremorsense, to see within a specified range
Neither it, nor the blindsight and tremorsense entires mention line of sight specifically, but I think being able to "see" should grant line of sight.
However, both blindsight and tremorsense allow you to see "creatures or objects within a specified range" which doesn't seem to me to give you a valid teleport target, as to teleport you need line of sight to a square, and so you can't use blindsight or tremorsense to see a destination to teleport to.


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