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Any website that has content containing "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" should be forewarned that prosecution is possible. Additionally, Federal sentencing guidelines state that any obscenity- related punishment should be "enhanced for sadomasochistic material."
Forty people and businesses have been convicted of obscenity since 2001, and 20 additional indictments are pending according to Andrew Oosterbaan, chief of the Justice Department's child exploitation and obscenity section. There were only four obscenity prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration.
Though adult content is, in theory, protected by the First Amendment, only a jury can determine if a work is obscene or not under the subjective set of standards that vary from one community to the next established in the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, Miller v. California.
Text is not inherently more protected than images when it comes to obscenity charges. The erotic fiction website Red Rose Stories is facing obscenity charges after federal agents raided the owner's home on October 3rd, taking computer equipment and diskettes that contained all of their files and site information.
The Department of Justice is clearly hoping that websites will self-censor or remove their content entirely. Midori, a fetish model and SM educator who teaches classes on bondage, has removed her website, BeautyBound.com, citing fear of obscenity prosecution. The owner of three SM websites, known as GrandPa DeSade, removed his websites from the Internet. SuicideGirls.com also announced they are self-censoring their materials over concerns about a possible obscenity crackdown.
Recent prosecutions of obscenity on websites include: A former police officer in Lakeland, Florida, was arrested on October 7th on over 300 obscenity-related charges for the sexual content posted on his website. The same day, webmaster Chris Wilson, owner of amateur website NowThatsFuckedUp.com, was raided on charges of obscenity by a local Sheriff's office.
"I think it's crucial for us to stand up for consensual sadomasochism and other alternative sexual practices," says Barbara Nitke, fetish photographer. "This is a battle worth fighting, and I hope everyone who can will just censor out the most provocative material from their websites, but keep them up. I also appeal to the lawyers in our community to help us find ways to keep people's websites up."
Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) have proactively challenged federal obscenity laws as applied to the Internet, arguing that obscenity laws based on "local community standards" are too vague and their existence burdens protected speech, resulting in self-censorship due to the fear of prosecution. A district court three-judge panel in New York ruled that while Nitke and the NCSF members were at risk, more proof was needed that obscenity laws cause otherwise protected speech to be restrained through acts of self-censorship. The case is currently on appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
"The effect of silencing alternative lifestyle speech was exactly why we brought the lawsuit," says attorney John Wirenius, lead counsel for NCSF. "The self- censorship we are seeing underscores the importance of supporting our ongoing obscenity challenge."
To contribute to the appeal of the CDA lawsuit, go to: www.ncsfreedom.org/donations.htm
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Can anyone suggest a good (CS)PRNG algorithm that takes advantage of having a very large (ideally arbitrarily large) seed? I'd like to use several kilobytes, perhaps several hundred kilobytes, of random data to generate up to a few dozen megabytes of PRNG output. The PRNG algorithms I'm aware of only take relatively small seeds: I'd like to make the most of the random input data I have.
What you are doing sounds a lot like what the /dev/random and /dev/urandom or the PRNGD on many systems already do: those systems take an arbitrary large sequence of numbers (from a true hardware random number generator if available, or else from environmental noise such as keystroke timing) and feed it into a CSPRNG; the output is made available via /dev/random and /dev/urandom .
Perhaps you could somehow extract the source code implementation of any one of those systems, and make a user-level variant that, rather than getting input from environmental sources, only gets input from your large seed.
The PRNG proposed by Barak and Halevi should be able to meet your needs and provide sufficient security.
Their PRNG has an API of next and refresh. refresh takes an arbitrarily long string and uses it to update the internal state of the PRNG. next returns some number of random bytes (if more is needed, one can simply call next in succession).
They prove some very nice properties of their PRNG (which together define robustness of a PRNG), and give a concrete implementation.
The entire paper is definitely worth a read.
Don't bother. Take any cryptographically secure CSPRNG. Feed it a random key (make sure the key length is at least 128 bits). You're done. Once the key length is 128 bits or so, any additional length is pointless overkill.
If you have a thousand-bit seed, just hash it first to get it down to be the right size of the key of your CSPRNG -- but make sure you have at least that much entropy in the seed. Or, better yet, simply generate your key using a secure pseudorandom number generator, like
This is probably obvious now (more obvious, at least, than before Keccak won the SHA-3 competition) but what is being asked for here sounds an awful lot like a sponge function. Or a sponge function in duplex mode, if the finite state is such a serious concern.


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The decision means the EPA will have to be more cautious in setting future requirements for buying advanced renewable fuels, including a mandate for this year that is still pending. In previous years, developers relied on the EPA's mandate to show investors there will be a market for their product.
By RYAN TRACY
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court Friday granted the oil
industry a partial victory in a lawsuit challenging the US
renewable-fuel mandate, throwing out part of an Environmental Protection Agency rule
that would have fined refiners for not buying advanced forms of
motor fuel even though the fuel wasn't available on the
The decision means the EPA will
have to be more cautious in setting future requirements for
buying advanced renewable fuels, including a mandate for this
year that is still pending.
In previous years, developers of advanced fuels have relied on
the EPA's mandate to show investors there will be a market for
their product.
The unanimous ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit said the EPA overstepped its
authority when it set optimistic targets for the amount of
advanced renewable fuel the US would produce in 2012.
Under a 2007 law designed to boost the US alternative-fuel
industry, the EPA sets requirements each year for buying
renewable fuel, which can be made from corn and soybeans as
well as other materials.
For 2012, the agency estimated six companies would produce
about 8.65 million gallons of advanced "cellulosic" fuel made
from inedible parts of plants, such as corn stalks and wood
chips. It required US refiners, fuel importers, and blenders to
purchase that amount of cellulosic fuel in 2012, or pay a
But the agency's projections turned out to be too
high -- about 20,000 gallons were produced in the US last year,
according to EPA data. As a result, the oil industry said it
was facing more than $8 million in fines.
In June, the American Petroleum Institute, an oil-industry
trade group, filed a lawsuit saying the EPA was
"systematically" overestimating the amount of advanced fuel
that would be produced, citing 2010 and 2011 projections that also turned out to
be unrealistic.
The court agreed Friday in an opinion authored by Judge
Stephen F. Williams, who wrote the law doesn't allow the EPA
"to let its aspirations for a self-fulfilling prophecy divert
it from a neutral methodology."
The court vacated the 2012 requirement for fuel made from
inedible parts of plants, and said the agency should make
future decisions consistent with Friday's ruling.
Stephen Brown, vice president of federal government affairs
for the refiner and fuel marketer Tesoro, said the decision
meant EPA's annual renewable-fuel targets "need to have a basis
in reality and cannot be founded on a desired political
agenda." He said it showed Congress needed to step in and make
changes to the renewable fuels policy.
Renewable-fuel backers disagreed with the court's decision
to throw out part of the 2012 rule, but also claimed a partial
victory because the court left the rest of the rule intact.
"Today's decision once again rejects broad-brushed attempts
to effectively roll back the federal Renewable Fuel Standard,"
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The Innovation Matrix is a log that began in 2009 to document the technology innovations taking place at the City of Monterey. As technology grows it changes the way government operates, engages citizens, and conducts business. Just as "Web 2.0" has changed our daily lives, "Gov 2.0" has changed how governments manage operations: finding better ways to manage the citizen experience, making it easier for citizens to find what they need, expanding online services for 24/7 access, combining resources to facilitate cost savings, taking opportunities to interact and educate through social media. We continue to add to the Innovation Matrix as new transformations are set in place.
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Web-based search engine for all City Boards & Commissions agendas, minutes, reports
Increases government transparency by making City documents easily accessible to the public. Automates a largely paper process.
Saves staff time preparing documentation for Council and other B & C meetings; saves paper, copying and mailing costs. Reduces staff time researching public and employee requests for information.
Electronic Content Management (ECM)
Automates a largely paper process.
Reduces staff time researching public and employee requests for information.
Fire Consolidation
Completed consolidation of Monterey, Pacific Grove, and Carmel-by-the-Sea fire departments. (Additional fire & emergency services contracts with Sand City, Presidio of Monterey, Naval Postgraduate School, La Mesa Village, and Carmel Ambulance.)
Reduced management overhead for all jurisdictions while maintaining fire & emergency response service levels.
Reduces Fire management and administrative overhead costs. MFD general fund budget is offset by over 25% through shared fire headquarters costs, reimbursed by contracted fire service fees.
Program Budgeting
Priority-based budgeting was the first step in the this effort to build future budgets based on what the City can afford.
Moves away from the line-item budgeting to budgeting based on program costs.
Will show true cost of programs and determine if fees cover costs.
Online Payments
Accelerated adoption of web-based payment systems across the organization.
Signature requirements lifted increasing use of Recreation's web-based class registration and payments.
4/09 - 3/10 Revenue: $35,428 Number of Households using: 1,339 4/10-3/11 Revenue:$212,103 Number of Households using: 6,301
Online Payments
Business License Tax
Allows businesses to pay the Business License Tax via the web
Online Payments
Parking Permit Renewals
Allows citizens to renew parking permit through the web.
More convenient for citizens and reduces staff time.
Online Payments
Library fines & donations
Allows Library patrons to pay fines and make donations via the web.
$8893 fines collected; $1735 donations collected. Saves staff time for processing payments.
Monterey Peninsula Special Response Unit (SRU)
Regional team specially trained to respond to critical incidents such as an active shooter, barricaded suspect, hostage situation, or other high risk event involving armed individuals.
This team pools and shares local public resources
Regionalizes the delivery of services
Evidence On Q
A barcode system that tracks items housed in MPD's evidence depository.
Increases efficiency and accuracy
Mobile Audio Video Recording System (MAVRS)
Video & audio recordings of police activity e.g. traffic stops, pedestrian contacts, pursuits, interviews, etc.
Enhance officer safety, significant evidentiary value, and improve department training.
Valuable risk management tool and a quality control measure.
VTI and CalCards
Online timecards and City credit cards
Replaces manual system; POs for purchases under $3,000
Reduces internal processing time and paperwork
Online job applications (NEOGOV)
Web-based job application system
Streamlines HR's recruitment process
Easier for applicants, saves times for HR staff who now don't have to enter applicant information.
PCI compliant credit card gateway
Secure online credit card processing
Recreation / MSC
Reduced gateway costs by approximately $2000 a year, even with increasing number of credit card transactions.
Other credit cards
Parking pay stations on the Waterfront and Cannery Row
Replaces parking meters with pay stations that allow credit card payments for parking.
Increased parking revenue by 12% on the Waterfront and 20% Cannery Row; increased customer satisfaction; reduced maintenance.
Web-based EOC Management, E-SPONDER
Software program that helps management of emergency operations
Transition from a manual to a web-based EOC system
Makes all information, forms, etc. for an incident available online; tracks costs for reimbursements.
Social Media
The City and several departments create and maintain FaceBook pages.
Allows the City to communicate with younger people in the way they prefer to receive information.
FaceBook and YouTube cost $0 and reach people beyond Monterey's borders; great visitor and program marketing tools.
Social Media
City videos on YouTube
Allows the City to visually showcase its assets beyond its borders.
Monterey videos get tens of thousands of viewers who are potential visitors.
Online publications
Newsletters, brochures, etc are now web-based and delivered through a email marketing program.
Costly printed materials are now designed, produced and delivered through the web and email.
Reduces printing costs by $10s of thousands per publication and saves staff time.
Constant Contact and Survey Monkey
Email distribution of newsletters and surveys
Citizens sign up for information they want to receive.
Saves $10s of thousands in printing, postage – and staff time.
New Web site using CMS
The City launched a new website in early June 2011
The new site replaces the current site that is built on outdated software the vendor no longer supports.
Replaces specialized and unsupported software installed on individual desktops with a web-based program that is less expensive and easier for staff to update. Benefits to public include easily accessible, up to date site with more capability. The site also more closely meets disability guidelines.
Two-tiered Retirement
Firefighters and fire management approved 2 @ 50 for new employees.
Current retirement of 3 @ 50 will be lowered over time.
Reduces future PERS liability
Increased PERS contributions
Firefighters and fire management approved increase in the amount of salary they contribute to PERS retirement.
Firefighters and fire management will contribute 12% to their retirement, up from 9%.
Reduces the City's cost for PERS and its liability.
Planning One-stop Shop
Applicants submit projects and pay fees in one place
Consolidates processes from various offices
More convenient for citizens; saves staff time
Permits Plus upgrade
Electronic reports for current planning efforts
Allows employees in Planning, Permits and Code Enforcement to share information
Reduces clerical time tracking the status of applications
Planning Software Training
Staff trained in GIS, Sketchup and AutoCad
Enables creation of maps, electronic models and data collection.
Saves money on consultants; enhances staff skills.
Plans on the Web
All major planning documents are online
Increases transparency; reduces hard copy requests
New Cell Phone Policy
Gives qualified City employees cell phone reimbursement
Moves responsibility for ownership and maintenance of City cell phones to employees.
Cost reductions; reduces IT staff time managing cell phones
Mobile Device Server
Gives mobile employees access to email, calendar and contacts
Improves productivity and responsiveness
Mobile Data Terminals
Installed in Parks, Building Maintenance, Permits and Fire vehicles
Allows mobile employees to connect with City software applications from their vehicles
Increases information sharing and improves productivity
Hansen upgrade
Improves web-based citizen service requests and tracking.
Easier for citizens to request service and track progress.
Technology Training
Gives users guidance to effectively use many city technologies.
Helps new employees and employees in new positions become more productive more quickly.
Microsoft Active Directory
Single user ID and password
Streamlines security maintenance
Network Reliability
Relocated data systems and I-Net to more secure and reliable Corp Yard facility. Extended the City network into the DLI Incident Operations Center.
More reliable back-up power generators to keep networks up and running in an emergency. Enables communications between IOC and EOC.
Employee Directory
Shared directory listings
Eliminates maintenance of redundant directories in HR, IT and Finance.
Saves staff time updating directories in each department by sharing information.
Online Printer Supplies
Allows staff to order printer cartridges and fax toner directly from the vendor.
Removes IT staff from the ordering process.
Saves IT staff time
Power Saving Software
Reduces energy consumption on all city computers
IT Remote Access
Allows IT staff to assist employees with computer issues remotely. Software can be deployed remotely.
IT staff can access employee computers remotely and fix problems.
Saves staff time citywide with faster fixes, upgrades and less work disruption.
Data Transformation / SQL Server
Extracts data from one type of database and imports it into another.
Technology Asset Management
Manages all city technology from a single database.
Provides real-time budgeting and inventory reports. Bar coding
Video Conferencing
Several conference rooms outfitted with computers, monitors and TV cameras.
Reduces employee travel costs
Virtual Server Infrastructure
Key business applications moved to virtual systems positioned with backup generators.
Minimizes downtime during power outages, software and hardware upgrades and system failures.
Reduces power consumption and maintenance. Saves IT travel time and overtime. Reduces power consumption, carbon footprint, maintenance and more cost effective than traditional servers.
Team Collaboration Tools
Enhanced team communications, project planning, management and file sharing.
TrackIt Work Order System
Extended use of existing software to other departments to manage their work requests.
Allows tracking and status of requests to the Finance and the Communications Depts.
Utility Manager upgrade
Moved program from highly restrictive to SQL database.
Program now retains historic utility use info for analysis.
Analysis could lead to cost savings on energy use.
Web-based map applications for Fire, Planning, Cemetery
Provides easy access to maps with data needed by various departments.
Saves staff time. Allows public access to property and plot plans.
Scheduling software for the fire department.
Paper forms, cumbersome Excel spreadsheets, and complex daily phone calls by staff are replaced by automated scheduling software that backfills vacancies via recorded choices sent by auto-dialed phone messages to available off-duty employees based on hierarchy of qualifications and rotation lists, then exports data to VTI timesheets for payroll processing.
Improves efficiencies and accuracy of scheduling and payroll processing. Saves station crew and administrative staff's time scheduling staffing and processing payroll information.
Virtual Private Network
Connects Monterey and PG Fire stations and the Museum Vault
EOC improvements
6 monitor station for planning and 4 large monitors for EOC
Allows simultaneous display of critical information in the EOC.
Marina SQL system
Converts stand-alone system to integrated one
Provides interface with gate/camera system at the marina. More employee access to the system. Compliant now for processing credit card payments.
Library Laptops
New public checkout of laptop computers and bookmobile outfitted with laptops
Improved customer service
Library public computer upgrades
Allow wireless printing, web reservations. Time management software
Improved customer service
Library Mobile App
Website for mobile devices
Catalog search, requests, account access
Library Incident Database
Replaces manual process
Keyword searchable
Saves staff time
Updated Regulatory Documents
Updates regulations and streamlines reviews
Streamlines processes in Planning
Saves staff time and makes it easier for the public
Specific & Master Plan updates
Staff is preparing plans due to in house expertise
Saves $500,000-750,000 in consulting fees
Zoning & General Plan Map Update
To achieve consistency. Required by state law.
Reduces legal liability
Parking Pay Stations
Replaces meters with credit card option pay stations.
Revenue increases: 20% Cannery Row; 12% Waterfront. Fewer service calls.
Auto VU Parking Scooter
Mobile license plate recognition system
Automates tire chaulking and ticket citation process
Officers patrol larger areas in less time
Activities Guide
Extract brochure info from RecTrac directly; reduction in the number of printed copies
Replaces manual system; market the online version
Saves 120 hours of staff time per year; Saves $13,000 in printing costs per year
Recreation Donation
Public donations via credit card are accepted online
Easier to process donations and receipts are automatically generated.
Biometric Sensors
Finger vein reading ID system for guests at the Sports Center.
Replaces plastic ID cards
Potential saving of thousands of dollars in ID printing and maintenance costs.


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1968 Chevrolet Chevelle Brake Upgrade - Whoa, Chevy!Written by Johnny Hunkins on October 24, 2008 Contributors: Lester Scoggins Project Street Sweeper finally gets some "whoa" to handle all that "go." Introducing CPP's 13-inch dual-piston front brakes for '64-72 Chevelles.
There's something disconcerting about pulling the trigger on a 600-plus-hp big-block, then stomping the stop pedal and getting no reaction. Our '68 Chevelle is the car in question, and with a curb weight approaching 3,700 pounds, there really isn't any excuse for having stock brakes. For the longest time we retained the stock brakes so we could use the 15-inch pizza-cutters up front. This helped us with our quarter-mile e.t., but was a thorn in the side around town.
We finally said, "enough is enough!" The crappy stock brakes have to go, the dragstrip be damned. Since Classic Performance Products (CPP) supplied most of our suspension components, we gave them a call. It turns out they had exactly the budget-oriented front disc brake system we envisioned. CPP makes a very affordable ($799) system for '64-72 Chevelles that consists of 13-inch vented, cross-drilled, slotted, and zinc-washed rotors. These are paired with dual 52mm PBR pin-guided calipers. These are the same calipers that equip all '99-06 GM trucks and SUVs with six-lug wheels. That type of OE vehicle typically weighs up to 9,000 pounds, and has a towing capacity of 8,000 pounds, so you know those calipers are rated for severe duty.
The PBR calipers in the CPP kit take the same pads as all '99-06 GM six-lug SUV/trucks, so you can buy replacements at any AutoZone. The kit also includes caliper mounting brackets, brake lines, hoses, hubs, and all hardware. We also needed CPP's new master cylinder, due to the fact that our Chevelle was originally a manual drum brake car. The previous owner had made the conversion to stock manual disc brakes, but kept the smaller drum brake master cylinder. That's a no-no, especially since we were getting ready to increase our caliper bore diameter even more. That CPP master cylinder story will run at a later date.
Brakes for Chevelles are pretty straightforward. All Chevelles used the same disc brake spindle, so one system fits all. What we didn't know is that Chevelles shared OEM brake components with Novas. Novas, being narrower and having more confined wheelwells, had to have a special narrow hub when equipped with the Chevelle's disc brakes from the factory. This means that a Nova disc brake hub can be used on a Chevelle in cases where wide wheel fitment calls for extra clearance. That was indeed the case with our 17x8-inch Vintage Wheel Works V40 wheels. Our brake kit included the "Nova" hubs, and carries the part number 6267WBK-P1 ($799).
Rarely do magazines test brake systems all-out; usually the tire is what limits the stopping power and the results. In our case, we already had a set of nitto nt01 r-compound tires, so the limiting factor in our "before" and "after" testing would truly be the brakes, not the rubber. We made a dozen 60-0-mph stops with the stock brakes, with the results ranging from 160 feet to a low of 137 feet. After the swap to the larger 13-inch rotors and larger calipers, we made a dozen more stops (after adjusting the built-in brake bias of our new cpp master cylinder). Results ranged from a high of 126 feet to a new best of 120 feet. Our best stop went from 137 to 120 feet, shaving 17 feet off the distance. Also, the big spread (over 20 feet) before the swap shows the negative effect of fade (heat) on small brakes, while the narrow spread (6 feet) after the swap shows how effectively the larger cpp brakes eliminate heat. And keep in mind, we were still running the late-model ford drum brakes in the back!
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Pack the wheels bearings with high-quality high-temp disc brake bearing grease. The new bearings are included in the CPP kit.After packing the wheel bearing, put the bearing in the new CPP aluminum hub, and install the inner bearing seal (included) using a dead-blow hammer and a piece of flat stock. No need to go crazy, just keep it level going in.The aluminum hub expands at twice the rate as steel, so wheel bearing clearance with the new aluminum hub is critical. You want to tighten the spindle nut hard to make sure the bearings are seated, then back it off till it's full loose.Snug the spindle nut by hand, then install the cotter pin. When the hub expands from the heat, the necessary clearance will be there to prevent premature failure from binding.Install the outer seal with a dead-blow hammer and a piece of pipe. This will keep the seal square with the hub. Don't cave in the dome of the outer seal with the hammer.Slide the new 13-inch rotor over the wheel studs, and hold the rotor in place with a few lug nuts. This will properly position the rotor for the installation of the brake caliper. Note that the rotors are marked "L" and "R" for left and right. Double-check that you're putting the right rotor on the right wheel.The PBR dual-piston caliper attaches to the caliper mounting bracket with two 14mm bolts that need to be tightened to 100-120 lb-ft.The Chevelle CPP brake kit comes with new rubber brake hoses standard, but Teflon-lined stainless braided lines are available as a $50 upgrade. Regardless, the banjo bolts (hollow bolts that pass brake fluid) need to be installed with new copper crush washers (included). These washers are dead soft, and are designed to conform to the surface for a perfect seal. We recommend that they not be reused if for any reason you need to take the hoses off.Copper crush washers are not used at the chassis connection, as flared compression fittings are used. After attaching and tightening the hose at the chassis, add fresh fluid and bleed the brakes, checking for leaks around the copper crush washers. If any leakage appears, tighten the banjo bolt incrementally until the leakage stops.
This powerful yet inexpensive front brake upgrade for Chevelles will give us years of worry-free service. These parts are designed to handle weight multiples several times the mass of our Chevelle, which make it safe for any hardcore road course work we decide to tackle. If we desire a pad upgrade, any number of specialty brake pad manufacturers make various pads for track use. We did not see any appreciable fade with the standard CPP pads after 12 consecutive stops from 60 mph.


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6 Supervillain Devices You Can Make At Home
Becoming a supervillain is easier than you think: All you need is proper motivation and a trip to Home Depot, apparently. That's how these guys did it, anyway:
#6. Shoot Fire From Your Hands (and MIND)
Nothing says "supervillain" like being able to shoot fire from your hands. Sure, there are a few good guys with that power, but generally speaking, launching blasts of fire tends to be more useful when your goal is to, you know, burn stuff.
"I'm going to use this to fight crime" doesn't seem like a logical conclusion here.
That's why it's slightly unsettling that so many crazy people on YouTube have managed to achieve the exact same ability through the use of homemade gadgets.
To illustrate the type of people we're dealing with here, this guy calls his flamethrower "the Prometheus Device," and he explicitly says that he created it to "emulate the power of the X-Men character Pyro."
Gosh, if only there was some way to make that invention more disturbing. Maybe have the flames shoot from his eyeballs? Or his crotch? Oh, wait, we know! How about a flamethrower that's controlled with telepathy? That's why the PK4A was invented.
We're dying to read the OSHA regulations for this one.
PK4A is a 20-foot flamethrower controlled by a wireless EEG headset. EEG as in brain scanning. As in, this thing fires on mental commands. The entire project was built from the ground up to be a real-life method of achieving pyrokinesis, only with science instead of mutant powers and/or wizardry. The results look something like this:
"You're right -- the middle of the woods seems like the perfect place to test this project."
Keep in mind that this is all just a demonstration of the potential for a system like this. The creators have made it a point to make it completely customizable. In the video, it has a dead man's switch and fires straight up in the air, but those were just safety precautions. It's only a matter of time before someone takes this technology, modifies it into a shoulder-mounted device and uses it to take over a small city.
#5. Retractable Steel Claws
But fire isn't for everyone. Some aspiring supervillains prefer a more subtle approach -- namely, having metal claws erupt from their hands.
Pictured: Subtlety
That's what this guy did:
These are real-life, functioning Wolverine claws: They're spring-loaded, and the guy can actually make them pop out by flexing his bicep. According to the assembly video, he made them in two days using copper tubing for the arm brace and 1/8-inch x 1/2-inch steel for the track and blades. We honestly hope he wasn't still wearing the claws when his mom gave him shit about messing up the rug.
"GRAAAAHH!!! Oh, sh-"
And apparently, YouTube is full of these people: This other guy spent a lot more money on the video-editing software, if not on the claws themselves.
The claw-ejection method in this case seems to be "violently push your arms forward and hope they don't come flying off and stab someone in the penis." Sure, none of these guys look like they could make very convincing criminals, but the first put the instructions online and the second says you can buy a custom made pair for $375. Please ... please don't.
Everyone at the hospital will laugh at you.
#4. An Anime-Style Personal Battle Tank
Most of you are probably under the impression that it is impossible to build a tank by yourself. Once again, Japan takes your preconceptions about life and shatters them in the most devastating way possible: Yake Hitoshi Takahashi who built a 15-foot battle tank in his garage -- and it only took him 11 years.
Also, he shaped it like a rhinoceros beetle, just because.
Those letters are actually projected in the air wherever it goes, as a theme song plays.
No, that's not a CGI simulation of what it would look like -- that's the actual thing. We feel the word "tank" doesn't do it justice: "Horrific abomination" comes closer. It even has a port on top for the pilot to poke his head out and laugh maniacally, spacious cargo room to hold children as hostages, and the ability to emit smoke, as if a method of intimidation was even necessary.
Here's a video where Takahashi talks about making it, but it's all in Japanese, so we'll assume that the interviewer is asking "Why would you do this?" over and over, and maybe "What are its demands?" a few times, as well.
If Satan was reincarnated as a robot.
Most insane of all is the fact that, as demonstrated in this video, the thing actually works. It may not be the fastest vehicle in history, but it would still be pants-shittingly scary to see it slowly drag itself up the street toward you. Crushing everything you love in its path.
Also, it shoots smoke out of its ass.
What's perhaps even scarier is that, although Takahashi is the only one who knows how to pilot it, he also designed it to be remote-controlled -- so he can send the thing after you and your family from the comfort of his volcano headquarters.


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Exhibition of important postwar Spanish artist inaugurates series of exchanges between Dia and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Apr 09, 2009
New York, NY—Dia Art Foundation presents a special exhibition of work by Antoni Tàpies, one of Spain's most important and prolific postwar artists, on view at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries from May 16 through October 19, 2009. Antoni Tàpies: The Resources of Rhetoric represents a rare opportunity for viewers to see a significant show of the artist's early work at a museum in the United States.
The exhibition has been curated by Tàpies scholar Manuel Borja-Villel, director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reína Sofía in Madrid (Museo Reína Sofía) and former director of the Fundacio Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. It initiates a series of institutional exchanges between Dia and the Museo Reina Sofía, Spain's national museum of modern and contemporary art.
Comprising approximately twenty major large-scale works, Antoni Tàpies: The Resources of Rhetoric draws from the Reina Sofía's exceptional collection, as well as the collections of the Foundacio Tàpies and the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. It provides a focused view of this venerable artist's work during the crucial decades of the 1950s and 1960s, which is contextualized by key paintings from other periods. In those decades, Tàpies developed the language and signature iconography - informed by the political upheavals of his native Spain - that would continue to shape his practice. During the same period, he began to use unconventional materials and media, mixing traditional paints with such purposefully commonplace materials as sand, ash, marble powder, paper, cloth, and string. Typically called "matter paintings," these pieces are notable for their vocabulary of gestural form and their thickly worked, scraped, torn, and incised surfaces. Together, the works shed light on Tàpies's growing commitment to addressing contemporary political and social issues, especially in relation to his Catalan heritage.
In addition, by placing these innovative paintings in the galleries of Dia:Beacon, Antoni Tàpies: The Resources of Rhetoric enables visitors to reconsider Tàpies's work in relation to Dia's collection of American and German art dating from the 1960s to the present. For instance, in their use of symbolic motifs and iconic symbols, notable parallels can be traced with works by Joseph Beuys. Using materials such as felt, rubber, and copper, Beuys's installations, including those on view at Dia:Beacon, evidence a similar belief in the transformative potential of particular materials.
Antoni Tàpies: The Resources of Rhetoric will further reveal the artist's sustained exploration of pictorial surfaces. On occasion, he approaches the canvas as a palimpsest, to be inscribed with text. Elsewhere, he treats it like a body, the marks functioning as abrasions on skin. Such approaches to the surface of the canvas and mark-making recall the work of the American artist Cy Twombly, whose paintings are on long-term view at the Cy Twombly Gallery at the Menil Collection, Houston, a collaboration among the artist, Dia, and the Menil.
Antoni Tàpies: The Resources of Rhetoric will be accompanied by a series of public programs (announcement to follow).
Antoni Tàpies: The Resources of Rhetoric is made possible in part through the generosity of the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX) and the Spanish Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Culture, and PaceWildenstein.
Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1923 into a family of booksellers and Catalan nationalist politicians. During protracted periods of illness in his adolescence, he began drawing and developing a serious interest in literature. In 1944, after abandoning law studies at Barcelona University, he began to work as an artist. Tàpies first exhibited his work in the late 1940s, in Barcelona. He had his first solo exhibition in 1950 at Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona, and his first New York solo exhibition in 1953 at Martha Jackson Gallery. He first traveled abroad, to Paris, in 1951, where he met Picasso, and in 1953 he visited New York, where he met Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Hans Hofmann. In 1984, he established the Fundacio Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona.
Retrospective surveys of his work have been presented at venues including the Kestner-Geselschaft, Hannover, Germany (1962); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1962); the Kunsthaus Zurich (1962); the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna (1968); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1973); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (1977); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1980); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf (1989); and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2000). In 1993, Tàpies and Cristina Iglesias represented Spain at the 45th Venice Biennale. Tàpies lives and works in Barcelona.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, an autonomous organization dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Culture, was founded in May 1988 by Royal Decree. Originally created to enable temporary exhibitions, the Museo Reina Sofía's permanent collection was established in 1992 around the centerpiece of Picasso's Guernica (1937). The museum's mission is to conserve, expand, and exhibit its collections; to promote public knowledge of and access to contemporary art in its various manifestations; to hold exhibitions at the international level; and to offer training and educational activities related to its holdings. In addition to key pieces by Antoni Tàpies, Juan Gris, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, and Julio González, the permanent collection showcases numerous works produced between the end of the nineteenth century and the present day in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, prints and drawing, photography, video, installation, and decorative art and architecture.
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
Dia Art Foundation celebrates the sixth anniversary of Dia:Beacon in May 2009. The museum, which has welcomed nearly 500,000 visitors since its opening, presents Dia's distinguished collection of art from the 1960s to the present. Situated on the banks of the Hudson River, in Beacon, New York, the museum occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility that was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architect OpenOffice.
Dia:Beacon's expansive galleries, which comprise 240,000 square feet of exhibition space illuminated by natural light, house works by a focused group of some of the most significant artists of the last half-century. These include Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner.
The museum also presents temporary exhibitions, as well as public programs designed to complement the collection and exhibitions. These include monthly gallery talks, Merce Cunningham Dance Company Events, music performances by St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Community Free Days for neighboring counties, and an education program that serves area students at all levels.
Dia:Beacon is easily reachable via Metro-North Railroad. Trains depart hourly from Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and the Hudson Line station in Beacon is within walking distance of the museum. For schedule and fare information, visit the MTA's website at www.mta.info. The museum is also reachable by major roadways. Driving directions are available on Dia's website at www.diaart.org. Admission is $10 general, $7 for students and seniors, and free for Dia members and children under 12. Summer hours (through October 19, 2009) are Thursday through Monday, 11am to 6pm.
Dia Art Foundation
A nonprofit institution founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is internationally renowned for initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving art projects. Dia presents public programs and its permanent collection of works from the 1960s through the present at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries. In the fall of 2007 Dia initiated a partnership with The Hispanic Society of America through which Dia presents commissions and projects by contemporary artists within the Society's galleries while seeking a permanent home for these initiatives in New York City. Additionally, Dia Art Foundation maintains long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States, New York City, and Bridgehampton, Long Island. For additional public information, visit www.diaart.org.
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Pianist John Cobb set to play at Asheville Art Museum
Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 1:22 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 1:22 p.m.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – The Asheville Art Museum at 2 N. Pack Square will host pianist John Cobb for a special concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the museum's east wing.
This season's pianoforte concert features composer Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder (Lovesong) Waltzes, Opus 52 and 65. These popular waltzes are scored for four voices and four hands. Pianoforte concert guests will hear a vocal quartet consisting of Gwenn Roberts, soprano/ alto; Lois Henrickson, alto/ soprano; Vance Reese, tenor; and Timothy Wilds, baritone. Cobb also will be accompanied by pianist Deborah Belcher.
Brahms began composing Opus 52 in 1868, and it premiered in late 1869. The waltzes were so popular with the general public that Brahms responded with the Opus 65 sequel, the "New Liebeslieder Waltzes," five years later. Their popularity has held fast ever since, and both sets have been performed by some of the world's outstanding singers and pianists.
Tickets are $6 for museum members and $8 plus regular museum admission for nonmembers. Advance reservations are recommended, as seating is limited. For tickets, call 828-253-3227 or visit www.ashevilleart.org.
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STEUBENVILLE - The new owners of Fabian Formals of Hollywood are expanding their inventory, adding special occasion dresses and wedding gowns to their inventory of formal gowns and mother-of-the-bride ensembles.
Owners Diana Birch and Maria Wanchic celebrated the grand opening Thursday of the 9,000-square-foot shop, located in a newly renovated storefront in Hollywood Center. The mother-daughter duo say the upscale surroundings provide ample room to display rack after rack of gowns for proms, bridesmaids, mothers-of-the-bride and other special occasions, as well as tuxedo rentals, shoes, jewelry and other accessories.
She said the new special occasion dress lines are coming in now, and next month their new wedding collection will arrive.
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GRAND OPENING — Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce President Sue Hershey, Steubenville Mayor Domenick Mucci Jr. and Teramana Enterprises President Dominic Teramana Jr. were among the well-wishers joining the new owners of Fabian Formals of Hollywood, Diana Birch and Maria Wanchik, at their grand opening Thursday. Birch and her daughter purchased the business in January and relocated it into the bigger, upscale storefront in the plaza previously occupied by Fashion Bug.
"It's a relaxed atmosphere," Birch said. "We want everyone to feel pampered and pretty. That's the idea behind the large, tri-fold mirrors and pedestals we chose. All girls want to get up and feel special."
Birch and her daughter purchased the business on Jan. 1.
"It was my daughter's idea," Birch said. "This is what she's always wanted to do. She loves fashion, she's always loved fashion, so when this opportunity came up, it was perfect for us."
Wanchic is hoping to see the shop grow.
"I'd like this to be the place to go to for Steubenville and the valley," she said. "I want people to come here we have everything they could want. We have everything they need - they don't have to travel very far, because it's all right here."
The shop is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.


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WELLSBURG - Despite 156 yards in penalties, a missed opportunity to score on a first and goal from the two, and the loss of starting tailback Raliegh Mason to injury on the third play from scrimmage, Brooke still had hopes of grasping a victory over Parkersburg at home Friday.
"We've been talking all season that the thing we needed to work on was taking advantage of missed opportunities," said Brooke head coach Sean Blumette. "We had too many to count. Against a team like Parkersburg, that is traditionally a very solid team, we knew we were going to be in for a battle."
Unfortunately when an extra point sailed wide left after a score with 1:36 left in the game, the Bruins found themselves on the short end of a 35-34 decision to the Big Reds.
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IN THE AIR — Brooke freshman Thomas Cole goes in the air to grab one of his two touchdown catches during Friday's 35-34 loss to Parkersburg in Wellsburg.
"Unbelievable win for us when we had so much adversity coming into this," said Parkersburg head coach Don Reeves. "We had so many kids get hurt, and some more did tonight. We're playing guys that weren't even in our one, two, or three lineup a week ago.
"At times we had five sophomores on the field."
With the game tied at 28-all Parkersburg took over its own 28 yard line with 5:16 left. After a pair of 10 yard runs by Adam Lindamood and Chandler Hamilton set the Big Reds up at the 48 lightning struck the Bruins. Hamilton took a handoff and scooted up the middle for a 52 yard touchdown run. Codey Roney punched through the extra point and Parkersburg led 35-28 with 4:30 left.
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Parkersburg 35, Brooke 34
Parkersburg 0 13 15 7 - 35
Brooke 0 21 7 6 - 34
B: Cole 8 pass from Buchmelter (kick failed)
P: Lindamood 11 run (Roney kick)
P: Lindamood 1 run (kick blocked)
B: Cole 14 pass from Buchmelter (Schwertfeger kick)
B: Wallace 18 pass from Buchmelter (Loughrie run)
P: Lindamood 16 run (run failed)
P: Safety, Lindamood sacked Buchmelter in end zone
P: Hoyler 9 pass from Roberts (Roney kick)
B: Buchmelter 1 run (Schwertfeger kick)
P: Hamilton 52 run (Roney kick)
B: Hildreth 11 pass from Buchmelter (kick failed)
RUSHING: Parkersburg 30-195-4 (Lindamood 19-121-3, Hamilton 5-90-1, Roberts 5-(-9), Fox 1-(-7)); Brooke 37-166-1 (Buchmelter 17-104-1, Smith 12-40, Loughrie 5-(-1), Mason 2-15, Hildreth 1-8).
PASSING: Parkersburg 9-12-109-1-0 (All by Roberts); Brooke 18-34-316-4-2 (All by Buchmelter).
RECEIVING: Parkersburg (Fox 2-25, Terrell 2-24, Thomas 1-15, Burdette 1-14, McCoy 1-12, Lindawood 1-10, Hoyler 1-9-1); Brooke (Hildreth 7-103-1, Loughrie 3-63, Wallace 3-35-1, Cole 3-26-2, Tate 1-42, Morris 1-30, Staffileno 1-17).
FIRST DOWNS: Parkersburg 18; Brooke 22.
PENALTIES-YARDS: Parkersburg 10-52; Brooke 21-156.
FUMBLES-LOST Parkersburg 4-2; Brooke 1-1.
Bruins' signal caller Alec Buchmelter was up to the task on the ensuing possession though, driving his squad 61 yards on nine plays. Buchmelter had a 20-yard run to go with four completions for 38 yards, including an 11-yard score to Heath Hildreth that made the score 35-34. That's when kicker Jake Schwertfeger's point after sailed wide left.
Brooke had one more chance, getting the ball back with 19 seconds, but Buchmelter's desperation heave with five second left was picked off by Parkersburg's Skyler Terrell to preserve the win.
In a game of momentum shifts one of the biggest came at the start of the second half with Brooke leading 21-13.
A failed onside kick attempt by the Bruins left the Big Reds with great field position at their own 48. On the third play of the drive, Lindamood scored from 16 yards out, dragging a host of Bruin defenders with him for the final few yards. The 2-point conversion pass to tie the game failed and the score was 21-19 Brooke.
Lindamood tied the game four plays later on defense when he sacked Buchmelter in the end zone for a nine yard loss and a safety that made the score 21-21.
Parkersburg was again set up nicely after the free kick, taking over at the Brooke 36-yard line. It took three plays to score from there as Aaron Roberts hit Lantz Hoyler for a 9-yard scoring strike and Roney punched through the extra point for the 28-21 Big Reds lead.
The remainder of the game's scoring came in the second quarter.
Brooke got things going with Buchmelter threw the ball up for grabs to 6-foot-5 freshman Thomas Cole who outjumped and outmuscled the defensive back for the 8-yard touchdown. The extra point went off the upright and the score was 6-0 Brooke.
Parkersburg picked up the next two scores on Lindamood runs. The first, an 11-yard scamper, was paired with a Roney point after for a 7-6 lead.
The second came from 1-yard out and when the extra point was blocked by Brooke's Ryan Browning the score read 13-7 Big Reds.
The Bruins' second score came on another Buchmelter to Cole hook up. This time Cole went up over a pair of Parkersburg defenders for the 14-yard touchdown. Schwertfeger put the P.A.T. through for the 13-all tie.
The next score came with 40 seconds left in the first half when Buchmelter hit Hunter Wallace for an 18-yard score. Justin Loughrie ran the two-point conversion in for the 21-13 Brooke halftime lead.
Buchmelter was fantastic for the Bruins, going 18-for-34 through the air for 316 yards and four touchdowns to go with 104 rushing yards on 17 carries and another score. His top target was Hildreth who caught 7 passes for 103 yards and his fourth quarter score.
"Two years ago we came up here and as a sophomore he proved to me he was one of the better quarterbacks in the state two years ago," said Reeves of Buchmelter. "I think he's just progressed since then. I think he's one of the best. I was intimidated by him because he can run and throw."
Added Blumette of his signal caller's performance, "After Raliegh came out, he and Buck talked, and one of the things Raliegh said and that they talked about was that it was Buck's game now.
"Buck was going to have to carry it, and he said 'give me that chance'."
Parkersburg was paced by Lindamood's 121 yards and three scores on 19 touches with Hamilton adding five carries for 90 with a score. Roberts was 9-of-12 for 109 yards and a touchdown.
"We knew we had to depend on our running game because our quarterback has played only one junior varsity game in his lifetime," said Reeves. "We have two experienced guys in the backfield. Our first and second split ends are injured and we're playing sophomores, and guys that didn't play much on varsity last year so with our inexperience we had to depend on our guys in the backfield."
Brooke (0-1) hosts St. Clairsville Friday.
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Speed/Security? Why should we choose to use 64 bit instead of 32 bit?
Main advantages amd64 over i386
for more details look at wiki page.
What about performance?
Actually performance will grow up to 20-30% in general case. Its mainly due to intelligent compilers that can optimize even non-optimized code for new architecture (mainly due to SSE/SSE2 usage instead of FPU).
Additional features
In many tools now you can use arithmetic operations while it was too expensive in 32bit system. For example your
Possible troubles
The main problem is proprietary software. In case software developer spread their product only in binary for 32bit you may have a lot of problems. Sometimes it is possible to find workaround. And hopefully in the GNU/Linux world most of widely used software is open source.
The main benefit to 64-bit systems is the increased memory address space which is limited to 4GB with 32-bit systems.
This question on the Superuser SE might be helpful: 32-bit vs. 64-bit systems.
Also, here's an informal exploration of 32-vs-64 bit OSes on LifeHacker (though it focuses on Windows, much of it applies I think)
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I often come across screws that just won't budge with a manual screwdriver or even a driver bit in a drill. They are of different screw types and heads in a variety of different materials. What are some techniques I can use to try and remove them?
Twist in the proper direction
Are you turning the right way? Remember, "Righty tighty, Lefty loosy" (which never made sense to me). Most screws are right-handed threads, so you'll turn them anti(counter)-clockwise to remove them. In some situations left-hand thread screws are used (usually to prevent screws from loosening due to rotational forces), so you'll actually have to turn the screw clock-wise to loosen it.
Sometimes tightening the screw very, very slightly, can loosen it up enough that it can be removed.
The first thing to try, is simply to apply more inward force while turning.
If you are using a screwdriver with a hexagonal or square shaft, you can grip the shaft of the screwdriver with an adjustable spanner (wrench) or vise grips. This will allow you to exert more torque, and may put you in a better position to push the screwdriver harder into the screw head.
Sometimes screws seize up due to rust, or other debris. Soaking the area with penetrating oil, may free up the screw enough for you to remove it.
Rapping, Tapping, and Banging
If both methods above have not worked, giving the area a sharp tap with a hammer might break the screw free.
Remember, you're not trying to knock the screw into next week, you just want to loosen it up (though there are situations where you'll have to give the piece a healthy whack).
Impact Driver
For really stuck screws, you can use a manual impact driver.
This may not always be the best tool when working with sensitive electronics or delicate equipment, but it's very useful for removing stuck screws.
If you still cannot remove the screw, as a last resort you can drill the screw out.
This is a last-ditch effort, and will destroy the screw (and possibly the threads in the hole, if not done correctly). Use this technique only as your last resort.
Remove the screw, and everything else in a 20ft. radius.
It's a good idea to film the explosion using a high-speed camera, so you can watch it over and over again in super slow-mo.
Abrasive paste as sold in car repair shops to use when grinding in valves in cylinder heads is great for screw heads that are 'worn'. Place a small dab on the screwdriver head before trying to unscrew the item. The friction from the abrasive in the paste will help the screwdriver 'grab' the worn screw slot..
If its metal on metal you can try heating the area or cooling it with ice. Metal expands and contracts with temperature change (works great on spark plugs too!).
For screw heads starting to strip, a piece of bicycle inner tube or rubberband between the head and driver bit helps it from stripping further.
For screws that held the original hinge in an old wood door, and would not budge, even with the advice above, I aimed a hair dryer at the screw for a few minutes (thinking that perhaps the wood was damp and that was holding the screw in; could also have been something about heat since I often run hot water over stuck screw tops). Anyway, it worked, with only 2-3 minutes per screw of heat.
You could try the Screw Removal Pliers GT (Neji-Saurus), by Engineer Inc.. I'd like to buy a set myself.
I have just finished renovating an outdoor furniture set. This involved removing and replacing about 180 wood screws. The things I found that worked best are:
As an absolute last resort, get a hole saw just larger than the screw head and bore down over the screw, then lever out the screw with a chisel or screw driver. Once out, glue in a plug and bore for another screw.
My suggestion:
I have had to pull up the decking above my living room ceiling to chase a few leaks over the past couple years. The screw head are 4 points. slowing being replaced by 6 points, because the 4 points have been stripping. When they do strip, and if they did come partially out, I just slip the drill chuck over them, tighten it down, and unscrew them like that. Works very well. If the screw stripped before the screw started coming out, I drill straight down on the head with a bit slightly larger than the head to remove the head, oull the board up over it, and then use the drill chuck to remove it.
I finally removed the wood screws with hot vinegar and dawn and WD40 brushed it on then heated it over and over. Tapped the screw driver with a hammer lightly. Then they finally came loose.
Sometimes cutting a new slot for a larger screwdriver in the screw head is all that's needed to get a stuck screw out. A hacksaw, file, or moto-tool with a cutting bit, can all be made to work in some circumstances. Cutting too deeply, or trying this on too small a screw can leave you with half a screw-head when you apply torque.
I used a generous amount of WD-40 and a pair of flat-nose vice grip pliers. Mission accomplished.
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3 yrs break does not mean you have 3 years of experience but you should be having the career with total relevant experience. By relevant I mean the technology the employer is looking for.
Thank you shabbir. But when i met consultants they are not considering my CV.. Even i my previous co. where i was working doesn't consider me..
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There's probably nothing you can do to impress a time traveler from the year 1950 more than showing him your cell phone. They're so ubiquitous that we take the little technological marvels for granted.
And, we bet if you could travel into the future just five or 10 years, it would be the evolution of the cell phone that would blow your mind the most. Some of the stuff that's in the works right now:
#6. Holographic Displays
Let's be honest: Despite all the advances in phone technology and the slew of cool applications currently available, we're all still waiting for the day when our Blackberry Storms can play holographic 3D messages for us like R2D2.
"This is Sue from Blockbuster calling to remind you that The Mummy Returns is now 27 days overdue."
Well, cell phone manufactures apparently feel the same way. Already we have phones capable of 3D displays in Japan (to at least give the illusion of a holographic image reaching out from the screen) though so far it's mostly just a gimmick, because there aren't a lot of applications that take advantage of it and it's not practical for anything that involves a lot of text.
Regardless, companies seem to be taking the idea seriously, because prototypes continue to be developed that emphasize the 3D display instead of just using it as a novelty. The real problem is finding an application for it that would make money. Uh, have you considered a little thing called porn? Hello?
So what about our full-on Princess Leia hologram? Well, companies like Samsung and Infosys have already filed patents on the related technology, so they're working on it. India-based Infosys says their device would display the images using "...a projector with a laser source and micro holographic optical elements lenses." Though they also claimed it version would be available by 2010, so they better get busy.
Meanwhile Samsung's patent would work sort of like a tiny version of the rear-projection TV's that were popular before plasma came along. In their words, "...source images emitted by the optical unit are three-dimensionally displayed on a plane spaced from the hologram screen by a predetermined distance."
Hurry up with that shit, Samsung! We have a series of practical jokes we want to play that involve convincing Grandpa his house is haunted by tiny ghosts.
#5. Augmented Reality
One of the several thousand ways real life isn't as good as video games is the lack of a Heads-Up Display. In games you have a data overlay that shows you a map, your life bar, your money and how much gas is left in your giant arm-mounted drill. Wouldn't it be cool if in your everyday life you had an overlay that, at any moment, told you exactly where you were, how much money you had in your pocket (or bank) and which nearby convenience store had the cheapest gas?
They're working on it. That technology is called augmented reality, and you'll have it on your phone within a few years.
The first steps will be software like Layar, which utilizes the camera that's become pretty much standard in every cell phone and can interface with GPS and Internet connections to tell you where you are and give you information about the locations around you, if for some reason you are completely unaware of either thing.
It's still pretty basic, but if you point your phone at your surroundings it can bring you little tidbits such as whether that apartment is for rent or if that store is having a sale. Which already is less trouble than asking Guy Fieri which Waffle House will give you the least painful diarrhea.
"The one on 40th and Grand. Tell 'em Guy sent you!"
So what's between us and an application that will let you snap a photo of somebody in a bar, and immediately bring up their Facebook, Twitter and OK Cupid profile? And, possibly more helpful, scanning for them in the Sex Offender registry? Just waiting for somebody to write the software.
"Hey, all these people just Tweeted about some creepy weirdo on an escalator..."
Then you can point toward the shelf at Best Buy and immediately find out if somebody else has that TV for less, and get the customer reviews. Then, at some inevitable point in the future, somebody else will come up with a reliable voice analysis that will work as a real-time lie detector. And society will quickly collapse.
#4. Universal Translator
A lot of science fiction movies feature different species from across the galaxy easily overcoming the language barrier (that is, they all speak perfectly understandable English). The shows that bother to plug this plot hole usually credit a universal translator device.
"Just talk into the barrel."
We're guessing approximately every single person reading this has had at least one occasion in their life where they would have killed for such a device. Though it was less likely a sexy alien than an angry Mexican police officer.
Well, already a company from Massachusetts has developed software that will let your phone translate foreign text into audible speech. They have a prototype that can read text from seven different languages and translate it into English, and they estimate a commercial version will be available within two to three years.
From there, speech to speech translation is the next logical step and numerous designs are already in the works. The last real hurdle in the way of them reaching the market is that cell phones just aren't powerful enough to handle them yet.
But they will be, and sooner rather than later. So be prepared to turn your Nokia into your own personal Babel Fish sometime in the near future, opening up a world of travel, multicultural togetherness and annoying tourists at Disneyland harassing you to take their picture because you're no longer be able to pretend you can't understand them.


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6 Eerily Specific World Events Predicted by Comics
A lot of shit happens in comic books, and a lot of shit happens in real life, so every once in a while they're bound to coincide, right?
That still doesn't explain some of the freaky stuff comics have gotten right. Like...
#6. The Top-Secret Creation of the Atomic Bomb
A Superman comic from 1945 showed Lex Luthor creating an outlandish new device to instigate chaos in the city of Metropolis.
"I could probably sell it to the military for a TON of money, but $100 says I do something CRAZY with it!"
That's the plot of like half the comics Lex Luthor appears in -- the difference this time was that Luthor's crazy invention, an "atomic bomb," was actually in the works in the real world.
Set to run in late 1944, almost exactly a year before the world found out what an atomic bomb was in a big way.
While the comic was being written, scientists were secretly working on the first A-bomb. To maintain the secrecy of the project, the Defense Department ordered DC Comics to pull the story. Yes, apparently, the Pentagon feared the Japanese might see the comic, go, "Holy shit what if that's a real thing?!" and then build anti-nuclear domes around all their cities. Or something.
This was, more or less, their line of thinking.
Now the government, being the government, didn't tell the folks at DC why specifically they wanted the comic pulled. For all DC knew, the comic was pulled because J. Robert Oppenheimer was secretly working on a Superman. They wouldn't even learn for another year that a real atomic bomb was being developed, and even then, the similarities between the real A-bomb and Luthor's weren't exactly obvious.
This was probably never a rough draft of the A-bomb.
It Gets Creepier:
We mentioned that DC Comics had no idea what it had done wrong ... and that's exactly why, a few months later, they did it again. An ongoing storyline in the Superman newspaper strip showed a skeptical physics professor blasting Superman with a cyclotron (a type of particle accelerator) to find out if he's really as invulnerable as he says.
"Man, we just used school funds to blast an alien full of our most powerful lasers; I'll give you the whole fucking university if you keep quiet about this."
This was in April 1945, only four months before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the Manhattan Project had reached such a critical stage that anything related to atomic energy was being censored by the government. But because of the daily nature of the comic strip, by the time the secret service contacted DC Comics, the first few chapters had already been sent to several newspapers across the country. It was too late to stop them from printing the strips, and that is why today we live in a world ruled by the Nazis.
Actually, no, somehow the Japanese weren't tipped off by the mention of atomic energy in a Superman strip, presumably because they were too distracted preparing defense mechanisms against Popeye and those sleeper agents in Family Circus. Still, the Secret Service forced DC to abort the ongoing cyclotron story line. So, instead of, you know, going anywhere with the whole pre-existing atomic energy story line, the comic ended when Superman abruptly decided to play a game of baseball with himself.
So, within a period of a few months, two different writers working on the same character got in trouble with the government for accidentally trying to spoil the same super-secret government project -- and one of them actually did it. The War Department asked DC to monitor its own comics from then on, ignoring the fact that at that point, DC would've needed Level 1 access to the Pentagon to know what it was they couldn't have Superman do.
#5. The Challenger Disaster
In 1986, Canadian comic book artist John Byrne wrote and drew a miniseries called The Man of Steel, drastically updating the Superman mythos for the 80's generation.
He now wears sneakers!!!
In the first issue, Superman was supposed to make his public debut by saving a NASA space shuttle from crashing in the middle of Metropolis.
And this is where it gets weird: We said Superman was "supposed" to save the NASA shuttle because, while Byrne was finishing drawing the issue, this happened:
On January 28, 1986, NASA's space shuttle Challenger malfunctioned and fell apart shortly after launching, killing everyone in its crew. It would've been slightly cruel (and grossly inaccurate) to show Superman effortlessly preventing a real-life tragedy so shortly after it happened, so Byrne quickly redrew the pages depicting the shuttle, replacing it with an "experimental space-plane."
So... a shuttle?
Of course, since the pages were redrawn before anyone else could see them, Byrne has no way of proving he really did have a space shuttle in there. But think about it ... why the hell would anyone draw this thing in the first place?
That seriously looks like something any editor would've sent back with a note saying "C'mon -- draw a proper-looking spaceship this time, dammit," if the comic had been published in any other year.
It Gets Creepier:
The reason Superman was going to save the shuttle in the first place was because -- you guessed it -- Lois Lane was on board. She was the only non-astronaut on board; a regular journalist covering the story of this amazing, experimental space-plane, and she would've died, had Superman not intervened.
For those too young to remember, the reason we were all glued to our TVs when the Challenger went down was because the crew included Christa McAuliffe, who a) wasn't an astronaut and b) was on every major talk and late-night show before the craft took off. She was a teacher and was the first to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space program.
That's right: the only thing the comic got wrong was the exact profession of the female non-astronaut guest who was on board during the accident.
#4. The 1977 New York Blackout
Marvel likes to brag that its comics about superpowered men in tights are way more realistic than DC's comics about superpowered men in tights, starting with the fact that Marvel's are based in real cities, mostly New York. But, readers who picked up this 1977 issue of Spider-Man might have thought it was a little too realistic.
It's not because of the little woman with bug wings, we'll tell you that right now.
In the comic, Spider-Man and The Wasp battle Equinox, a villain capable of shooting fire from his arms. As the villain rampages through New York, starting random fires and roughing up police officers, one of his stray blasts hits a building, short-circuiting the power transformer inside and causing a massive blackout in the city.
"I know, that was a joke. That's my thing, I joke in dangerous situations. Try to keep up."
If that doesn't seem especially realistic to you, consider this: the issue came out in July 1977, on the same week as the 1977 New York blackout.
There hadn't been a blackout in NYC since 1965 and there wouldn't be another one until 2003, so this was a huge coincidence. If you look at the cover, it says "August," because comics are usually released a month or two ahead of the cover date. And even if the comic had come out in August, it still would have needed to be finished several months earlier, meaning they couldn't have possibly known about the blackout when they wrote it.
Unlike the other two blackouts, the one from 1977 resulted in city-wide looting, arson and more than 500 injured police officers. Unfortunately, NY citizens picking up this comic for a little light-hearted escapism saw the exact same thing thing that was taking place all around them -- the comic predicted the city wide black out would cover the streets in flames, with police officers fighting for their lives.
The only upside is that, since the lights were out, most people probably couldn't read shit.
It Gets Creepier:
Another important point is that the artist who drew this issue wasn't even from New York. In fact, at the time he lived in Canada. His name is John Byrne ... the same guy who would go on to write and draw the Superman comic with the NASA shuttle.
I'm your fortune teller or, alternately, an IT guy.
But we're not sure if that really counts as a coincidence -- we wouldn't be surprised if his precognitive abilities are what landed him the job on Superman in the first place.


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