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How to i change background Color of the desktop icon Font?
The Font is white and Font Background is darkgray. I want to set the background Color to transparent.
I am assuming the DE is Xfce because Xubuntu is a tag.
One way to do so is to create an empty
(If you already have an existing
By the way, I have a plain black desktop and those colors suit me.
Depending on your set-up, you may need to just switch to another theme and back to see the change take effect or you may need to log out and back in again.
(This works for me in Xfce 4.10; it should work with 4.8 (which is what vanilla Xubuntu 12.04 has).)
Try with CompizConfig Settings Manager, it's a good application.


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WELLSBURG - It's been a busy year for the Brooke High School Madrigal Choir, which performed at the Vatican City in June and now is preparing for its annual Madrigal Feast while continuing to raise funds to pay off a loan for the trip.
The group is known for the Medieval-style costumes its members wear while performing music from various periods without musical accompaniment. Its vocal reputation earned it an invitation to perform at an afternoon Mass at St Peter's Basilica, a high Mass in Assisi and public concerts in Rome and Florence in June.
The feast combines musical performances and a humorous skit by the group with a Medieval-inspired dinner prepared by chef Rocco Basil with help from students in the ProStart food management class taught by Eva Ujcich at the school.
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SPECIAL GUESTS — The Brooke High School Madrigal Choir performed for an afternoon Mass at St. Peter's Basilica as well as other appearances in Italy this summer. The group now is preparing for its annual madrigal feast, an event that mixes music, comedy and food. - Contributed
SUPPORTING THE CHOIR — Matt Allietta, left, owner of Alietta Ford of Wellsburg, presented a $6,000 donation to Nicolas Taylor, Brooke High School choir director, to assist with costs for the madrigal choir's trip to Italy this year, the upcoming madrigal feast and the school's spring musical. The money was raised through the Ford Motor Co's Drive 4UR School Initiative. - Warren Scott
This year's menu will include roast pork loin, stuffed chicken breast, several side entrees, a cheese tray and wassail.
Tickets are $20 each for the event, which will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 6-8 at the school. Reservations should be made by calling (304) 527-1410, extension 3715.
This year a woodwind ensemble assembled by band director Erin Steffy will join the festivities.
"Including the preparations, there's usually about 50 to 60 students involved in the event," said Taylor.
He said guests expecting an entirely high-brow affair often are surprised by the humor of the skit and the food.
"One parent told me he was dreading coming but he had such a good time," Taylor recalled.
The feast is part of a busy holiday season for the choir, which performs at churches and for civic groups in December.
"They spend more time with me in December than they do with their families," Taylor joked.
This year the group will join choirs from West Liberty University and Tyler Consolidated High School for a Dec. 9 concert at Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling.
"It will be a couple hundred singers and an orchestra - pretty spectacular," said Taylor, who added his former WLU instructor, Al deJaager, approached him about participating.
The group also is continuing to raise funds for the trip to Italy. While the students and their parents raised about $70,000 for the trip, it fell short by about $45,759 in May, when it had already made a commitment to participate.
The Brooke County Board of Education lent the group the needed funds, and Taylor pledged the choir would repay it. He said about $12,000 is still owed.
He expressed appreciation to the board and others who helped to make the trip possible, adding the 10 adults who served as chaperones paid their own expenses.
"Local businesses and even individuals gave pretty significant donations ... ," he said.
Among the many businesses that lent a hand to the group's fundraising efforts was Allietta Ford of Wellsburg, which generated $6,000 through an endeavor in which the Ford Motor Co. donated $25 for each person who test-drove a vehicle from the dealership.
The fundraiser was part of Ford's Drive 4UR School Initiative, which has raised more than $12 million for schools since it was begun in 2007, said Allietta.
Alietta has offered to hold another event for the school in the future.
Taylor said the funds will be divided among costs for the trip, the madrigal feast and the school's spring musical.
He said the trip was a rare opportunity and an educational experience for the 23 students, which included members of the school art club advised by Sara Lanigan.
"I think they were impressed that Rome was an actual city and not just ruins," he said.
"You can be overwhelmed by all of the things to see and do," Taylor said.
The students said the experience is one they will remember for a long time.
"It was by far the most amazing experience in my life. I'm actually doing a paper on it for my Advanced Placement English class," said Gabby Bennett, a senior from Follansbee who is a member of the madrigal choir and art club.
Kassidy Reitter, a senior from Wellsburg said, "It was really incredible to see the work they (Romans and others) had done in the past. It's one thing to be told about the Colosseum and another to see it."
Bennett said performing at the Vatican City was quite moving for her.
"The concerts just made me cry. It was just so beautiful there," she said.
Brent Kimball, a senior from Follansbee, said he had a very unusual spiritual experience while there.
"Before the trip I had a slight case of Bell's palsy (a nerve disorder that causes partial paralysis to the face) and the only song I was able to sing was 'How Great Thou Art'. I prayed to God and left it in his hands. After the trip to Italy, I was completely healed."
Taylor said with the help of Ede Ashwork, Brooke's Latin teacher and a past visitor to Italy, the students learned some basic phrases in Italian.
Taylor noted the people of Italy are very friendly.
"As soon as you sit and talk to the Italians, you feel at home right away because they are so nice," he said.


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The question is in the title, and I do not really have anything to add. Nevertheless I had to write something here in order to be able to ask the question. Thanks.
Of course. Take a quadratic nonresidue $1\leq n\leq p-1$, then some prime divisor $\ell$ of $n$ will be a quadratic nonresidue.
See this MO question for what is known about number fields.
It is actually quite easy to prove that if $p>3$, then there are at least $2$ primes less than $p$ which are quadratic non-residues. Indeed, assume there were only one, say $q$. Then every $n$ between $1$ and $p-1$ which is not multiple of $q$ is a quadratic residue. Since you have at most $(p-1)/q$ multiples of $q$, and exactly $(p-1)/2$ quadratic residues, this implies $q=2$ and moreover $p=3$ (since otherwise you would get too many quadratic residues: every odd number between $1$ and $p-1$, together with $4$).
Slightly different in emphasis, the smallest quadratic nonresidue is in fact prime, as the product of residues is another residue.
Erdos conjectured that for any sufficiently large prime $p$ there is a primitive root $q<p$ for $p$ which is prime.
I think the answer is obvious. Since $$\sum_{1\leq n\leq p-1}\left(\frac{n}{p}\right)=0$$, there must exist a positive integer $n\leq p-1$, such that $(\frac{n}{p})=-1$, or else the summation above must be equal to $p-1$. Of course, maybe $n$ is not a prime, however there always be a prime factor $\ell$ of $n$ such that $(\frac{\ell}{p})=-1$.


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What does it mean by N-Tiered and N-Layered architecture/design?
Is there any difference between N-Tiered and N-Layered architecture/design?
If yes, what is the difference?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
What does it mean by N-Tiered and N-Layered architecture/design?
Is there any difference between N-Tiered and N-Layered architecture/design?
If yes, what is the difference?
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People often use the two terms interchangably in that they can describe an architecture as being both multi-layered and multi-tiered. My take on it is that generally a tier refers to some physical separation while a layer is more of a logical separation.
For example, a typical web application I would say has a front end - what's displayed in the browser - and the actual application logic running on the application server, and a database. This could be referred to as 3 tiered, since there is a database server, an application server and the client machine. Just as easily, however, one may refer to the database layer, the logic layer and the presentation (or UI) layer.
N-tiered refers to the "distributed" layers of a system (i.e. server and client), whereas n-layered refers to the layers in a self-contained program; although the two are often used interchangeably, some suggest that there is a significant difference (like the one I mentioned above), as seen on the first paragraphs on Multitier architecture and Multilayered architecture on Wikipedia explains the difference.
This SCEA Study Notes explains the JEE differences between tiered and layered architecture
Tiers of a Java EE System
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Maker Faire 2013/Afterparty
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2013 MakerFaire Afterparty
May 18th we want to throw a great old time for anyone and everyone!
More than an Afterparty
Mitch and James want to throw a party for the Makers, and everyone else, that will be in town for the weekend
Get Involved
- Help us plot and plan! (add your ideas below)
- The Maker Maker - a photo frame with Idea lightbulb over head. could be as simple as a cardboard box
- Add a link to the Maker Faire for info
- Send Noisebridge Agents to the MakerFaire with "invite cards" to get the word out (would they hand them out to anybody? Or would we want them to target makers/hackers/people with booths?)
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Does the "magic" of the JVM hinder the influence a programmer has over micro-optimisations in Java? I recently read in C++ sometimes the ordering of the data members can provide optimizations (granted, in the microsecond environment) and I presumed a programmer's hands are tied when it comes to squeezing performance from Java?
I appreciate a decent algorithm provides greater speed-gains, but once you have the correct algorithm is Java harder to tweak due to the JVM control?
If not, could people give examples of what tricks you can use in Java (besides simple compiler flags).


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I have a file containing my personal details (.txt). How can I via the terminal copy only a few lines in the file and bring it to a new .txt file?
ok, for eg, this is my details.
name : farah age : 23 phone number : 0123 education : degree
How can i copy only age and phone number and bring those to a new.txt?


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Man suspected of impersonating photojournalist is arrested, charged
For more than 40 years, Gary Medrow has wielded a telephone the way a check forger wields a pen.
Except instead of faking signatures for financial gain, Medrow has used the phone as a disguise to impersonate people in officialdom - from police officers to accident investigators - to indulge his favorite fetish: persuading complete strangers to carry each other around.
The latest persona adopted by the 68-year-old serial impostor, according to a criminal complaint, is that of a Journal Sentinel photojournalist, calling two female high school athletes to set up photo shoots in which they would hold each other upon their shoulders.
Medrow, of Greenfield, was arrested Friday and charged in Ozaukee County Circuit Court with two counts each of telephone harassment and disorderly conduct in connection with the incident involving two Cedarburg High School girls.
Authorities in Franklin, Verona, Hartland and Mequon are investigating similar incidents, which involve female athletes who have had their pictures in the newspaper, Cedarburg police Officer Joe Biliskov said.» Read Full Article
Greenfield police officer resigns after sexting suspect in jewelry theft
A Greenfield police office has resigned for sexting a woman who was a suspect in a jewelry theft, police said.
According to Greenfield police, a tip was received in August from a third party that an officer may have engaged in inappropriate behavior.
Chief Bradley Wentlandt ordered an investigation into the matter.
Investigators said that the woman was initially unwilling to cooperate, but that she was convinced that potential misconduct was "a very serious matter" and agreed to cooperate.
The text messages were consensual, but the messages from the officer included several that were sexually explicit in nature, police said.» Read Full Article


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Online Course Evaluation
Online Course Evaluation Administration
There are several steps involved in the online evaluation process. Each course section's evaluation must be set up by an Online Evaluation Admin every semester... no courses have "automatic" online evaluations without some sort of setup. The Admin is usually a department's administrative assistant, course scheduler or chair. Access to Online Evaluation Administration must be requested or approved via email by a department's chair; the chair may simply send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the name and UserID of the person who should have Admin access, and all course prefixes (e.g., ACC, MAT, SW, SOC) for which the person should have administrative control.
The basic process is as follows (select a link to open that subject's tutorial or site in a new window):
- The department decides what kind of information it needs to gather.
- A new evaluation is created, or an existing evaluation is edited.
- That evaluation is mapped to a specific course section.
- The evaluation's Open, Close and Release Dates are set.
- If necessary, the evaluation's mapping is changed.
- Students complete the evaluation.
- Instructors access evaluation reports.
- Departments access evaluation summary reports.


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To the Winners, More Spoils at Wimbledon
Wimbledon's All England Club announced Tuesday that it would make the prize money it hands out the largest in the game. The purse for 2013 will come to $34.4 million, about a 40% increase from 2012.
A large chunk of that will be allocated to the men's (pictured, 2012 champ Roger Federer) and women's singles champions, who will each pick up an extra $685,000, bringing their winnings to about $2.4 million each.
Wimbledon also announced that it would build a retractable roof on No. 1 Court in time for the 2019 tournament.
—Joshua Robinson
College Football Says Goodbye to the BCS
Major-college football's postseason has a new name: College Football Playoff.
The straightforward new moniker will replace the name Bowl Championship Series.
The news came amid meetings of major-college football leaders that are being held in Pasadena, Calif., where the Rose Bowl will host the last-ever BCS title game on Jan. 6, 2014.
The following season, the College Football Playoff will launch the first-ever four-team playoff for the sport's top division, which is made up of 10 conferences and four independent teams, the most prominent of them Notre Dame.
The BCS was launched after the 1998 season as a way to match the two top-rated teams in a championship game.
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I am going to be doing a tour of Europe, visiting like 20 countries in 49 days and staying in hostels and cheap hotels. Given all this travelling, I think it is possible that my towel may not always have enough time to properly dry. One of the items Kathmandu is selling is microfibre towels. The salesman claimed that they dry twice as fast and be able to absorb as much water as a towel of normal thickness. How accurate are these claims?
I use Lifeventure Hydrofibre Trek towel and must say that it is amazing. That's a subjective description and now for the objective one:
The company offers other models as well, check them out here.
onebag.com has an opinion about that: The recommendation is viscose towels, in particular MSR PackTowl Original. Synthetic microfibres are said to be inferior than viscose.
I have one: it is great!


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I am trying to learn to play on keyboard and am a fan of 70s-80s art-rock like melodies (Yes, Genesis, etc.).
I'm looking for music tutors or books on this area.
Also applicable: simple midi/notes for learning or musician sites/forums which focus on this rock genre.
Do there exist databases with music fragments (midi/notes), sorted by genre?
Some hints take "Rock Keyboard" book from the "Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series". But there are only a few examples (notes and .mp3).


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I need to perform an upgrade of MySQL on my web server. There could be many users connected to the server at any time, performing queries or updates on the database, or uploading files to the server. Besides putting up an advanced notification that the system will undergo maintenance during a certain period of time, what should I do to avoid the scenario of stopping MySQL service or the server while some user operations are still being carried out, which may lead to a corruption of the file system or the database?
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If you stop the MySQL Server process gracefully, the filesystem and databases won't be corrupted.
Here are a couple of things I typically do:
Verify that
According to the documentation, this is only needed when doing a major version upgrade, but I maintain that it's still a good idea -- this step increases your shutdown time but leaves your instance in a more stable state for the restart.
Next, you can lock all of the tables to prevent clients from doing anything. This step, also, isn't technically necessary, but I like it because it gives me a sense of knowing what's going on -- and what isn't -- and when -- and it shortens the next part of the shutdown, since there won't be any client activity to wait for.
Note that on a busy server, that statement won't return so quickly. It won't return until the server has successfully closed all open tables and acquired a lock on every table in the entire database -- so, if you have queries executing when you issue this statement, they will be allowed to finish, then the locks acquired, and then is when you'll get your prompt back.
Important: leave this connection open. Just let it sit there and move to a new window, because the connection being open is what holds the global read lock. If you close or otherwise lose this connection, the read lock is released.
If you want to look at any variables, the processlist, etc., you can still use this connection if you want to. Just don't disconnect from the server.
At this point (since you got your prompt back), your tables are locked from further changes and your application tier may start to behave badly because a backlog might be growing. That's to be expected, since any queries against the server will just wait indefinitely for that read lock. The number of client connections may be increasing, but they won't be able to do anything.
In another window, tail your MySQL error log.
In yet another window, shutdown MySQL Server:
You will most likely need to add --username --password and possibly other options to this command. You won't see much from this window, so go back and watch your error log:
The server says, "we're going to do a graceful shutdown." (Not in so many words, but that's what this next log entry means...)
The server shuts down any system threads. In this case, I left the event scheduler and even replication running to illustrate that a graceful shutdown is indeed graceful. (Yes, my server started right back up, including replication, right after I captured this output.) In practice, it might be better to stop replication manually with
InnoDB does its cleanup (including the "slow shutdown")...
The server shuts down...
The mysqld_safe wrapper notices that the server has stopped running. This process is charge of trying to restart the server if it crashes, but if the server has removed its own pid file, no restart is attempted, because the shutdown is assumed to be graceful.
You're now gracefully shut down.
This is all pretty, but a little on the paranoid side. Depending on what kind of server you're running, you can use ionice to make sure the machine is not doing anything heavy, the rest is taken care of by mysql itself. Let's say some of my mysql server's scripts suffer from memory leakage, I'll find out the time of day the server is at lowest usage, then do a graceful restart of mysqld when CPU is idle, so I use crontab and do this:


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Dr. Schellhase received his medical degree with honors from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas in 1983. He completed his residency training in Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Hospital in 1986 and his fellowship training in Pediatric Pulmonology at the University of Colorado for Health Sciences Center in 1989. He was on the Texas A&M College of Medicine faculty from 1989 until 1993. He initially joined the UAMS full-time faculty in 1993. From 2009-2011, he served as a general pediatrician at the SIM-Galmi Hospital in Niger, West Africa. He returned to the UAMS full-time faculty in 2012.
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I live in Paris. I'd like to buy the NN3 package. But I did not fnd any reseller in France .
I work with a D200 and nikkor 10.5mm. I'm a newbie her in panography and did a couple of Spherical panos "in the full manual style" (bare hands and no tripod nor pano head!! and a few dozen others that did not stitch 100%!! I work with PTGUI and recently bought online the new autodesk "stitcher unlimited".
did anyone experience the same trick with both softs: I managed to make a 100% correct sphericla pano with ptgui and tried the same with stitcher and found many distortions and "blurred" spots on the final image (both panos made from the same source files!!!)
thanks for your answers and tips!!
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Funeral services for Ronald W. Burgin, 82, of Carmi, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 25, 2012 at Cook Funeral Chapel in Carmi. Mike Fields and Gary Feldman officiated.
The pianist was Barbara Karger. The congregation sang, "Great is Thy Faithfulness," and recorded music of "How Great Thou Art" and "Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee" was played.
Casketbearers were Gary Burriss, Eric Burriss, Nicholas Burriss and Natalie Burriss. Burial was held in Stokes Chapel Cemetery in Crossville. Military rites were performed by the American Legion and the VFW Color Guard and the Illinois National Guard Military Funeral Honors Team.
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Suppose I'm on a non rotating planet. I have two identical, perfect watches. I synchronize them. Then I throw one of them into the air and catch it. Does the one I throw into the air gain or lose time with respect to the one I was holding?
Lawrence has the details, but this question can actually be determined exactly without assuming anything about mass distribution, etc. A geodesic (which is what the watch in free-fall follows) in GR has maximal proper time along it. The "stationary" watch, which is actually accelerated, is following some other path and so must experience a shorter proper time.
What astounds me is there is considerable quibbling over the nature of the question, but nobody answers it! This is comparatively simple to address. Let us consider the Schwarzschild metric in a weak gravity field $$ ds^2~=~-(1~-~2\phi/c^2)dt^2~+~dr^2~+~r^2d\Omega^2 $$ for $\phi~=~GM/r$ the Newtonian gravity potential. The unit velocity is then $$ 1~=~-(1~-~2\phi/c^2)u_t^2~+~u_r^2~-~\dots $$ where we can consider the motion in the radial direction for simplicity. The derivative of this with respect to the proper time $s$ is then $$ 0~=~-(1~-~2\phi/c^2)u_ta_t~+~u_ra_r. $$ If the gravity potential is zero the solutions are $t~=~g^{-1}sinh(gs)$ $r~=~g^{-1}cosh(gs)$, for $g$ the acceleration parameter. Here $g$ counters the gravitation of the Earth. If the gravity potential is turned on we can the write the time solution solution as $t~=~g^{-1}sinh(gs~+~\gamma)$, which we input into the third equation $$ 0~=~-(1~-~2\phi/c^2)g~cosh(gs)sinh(gs)~+~g~cosh(gs~+~\gamma) sinh(gs~+~\gamma) $$ $$ =~(1~-~2\phi/c^2)\frac{g}{2}sinh(2gs~+~2\gamma) ~+~sinh(2gs) $$ If we consider weak fields, small accelerations and small proper time $s$ we have $$ 0~\simeq~-(1~-~2\phi/c^2)(g^2s~+~g\gamma)~+~g^2s, $$ where $\gamma~\simeq~-2\phi gs/c^2$.
The coordinate time is reduced with the turning on of the acceleration. This implies that the watch on the accelerated frame will mark off a shorter interval of time than the watch which is placed on a geodesic motion in the local gravity field with acceleration $g$. This is a gravitational version of the twin paradox. The twin which travels outwards and back is on an accelerated frame, which is a path in spacetime that is non-extremal, or maximal. As a result the proper time marked off is shorter.


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How can I decrypt a message that was encrypted with a one-time pad? Would I need to get that pad, and then reverse the process? I'm confused here.
One-Time Pad is unbreakable, assuming the pad is perfectly random, kept secret, used only once, and no plaintext is known. This is due to the properties of the exclusive-or (xor) operation.
Here's its truth table:
Note that it introduces no bit-skew - the number of 0s and 1s in the inputs are equal to the number of 0s and 1s in the output, i.e. two of each. Furthermore, if you know only one element from a row, you cannot predict the values of the other two, since they are equally probable.
For example, let's say we know that X is 0. There's an equal probability that A = 0 and B = 0, or A = 1 and B = 1. Now let's say we know that X is 1. There's an equal probability that A = 0 and B = 1, or A = 1 and B = 0. It's impossible to predict. So, if you only know one element, you cannot possibly determine any information about A or B.
The next interesting property is that it is reversible, i.e.
So, if we take any value and xor it with itself, the result is cancelled out and it always results in 0. This means that, if we xor a value A with a value B, then later xor that result with either A or B, we get B or A respectively. The operation is reversible.
This lends well to cryptography, because:
As such, the following is perfectly secure:
but only if message is the same length as key, key is perfectly random, key is only used once, and only one element is known to an attacker. If they know the ciphertext, but not the key or message, it's useless to them. They cannot possibly break it. In order to decrypt the message, you must know the entire key and the ciphertext.
Keep in mind that the key must be completely random, i.e. every bit must have an equal probability of being 1 or 0, and be completely independent of all other bits in the key.
This actually turns out to be rather impractical, for a few reasons:
The weak link here is your random number generator. The security of the one time pad is entirely limited by the security of your generator. Since a perfect generator is almost impossible, a perfect one-time pad is almost impossible too.
The final problem is that the key can only be used once. If you use it for two different messages, and the attacker knows both ciphertexts, he can xor them together to get the xor of the two plaintexts. This leaks all sorts of information (e.g. which bits are equal) and completely breaks the cipher.
So, in conclusion, in a perfect one-time pad you need to know the ciphertext and key in order to decrypt it, but perfect one-time pads are almost impossible.
One-time pads are extremely hard to break, in fact they are still used in some situations as if they are done correctly then they are essentially unbreakable. In a one-time pad system every character is changed by a stream of random data which is shared by both sides, without a copy of the pad you will not be able to break the code.
One of the few weaknesses in the system is the random data source. In WWII British one-time pads were being broken and they traced it to a worker whose job it was to pull random numbered balls out of a drum. The way it was supposed to work was that the worker would spin the drum, pull out a ball at random without looking at it, spin again, pick again, etc, etc. The worker started taking shortcuts by pulling out more than one ball after each spin and looking at the numbers, picking out favorites. It introduced patterns which enabled the opposition to break the pads, and lives were lost as a result.
The same is true today with pseudo-random number sources. Encryption protocols that should take millennia to break will really only last for years or decades without a true random data source.
Assuming the encryption was competently done, the only way to decrypt is to get the pad.
While one-time-pad encryption is provably impossible to break, note that it is also extraordinarily rare.
Part of the definition of OTP is that the pad must contain truly random data, and truly random data can be hard to come by for computers. Instead, often the pad is composed of pseudo-random data, which is generally what you get when you ask a computer for a random number.
In this case, you no longer have unbreakable encryption. Instead, you have a message XORed with the output of a deterministic and often reversible algorithm, which can be attacked by reproducing the same pseudo-random string. This attack is particularly devastating if you know what algorithm is used and even more so if you know how the seed is generated. In such a case, the code can be cracked in a matter of seconds. But even without knowing the PRNG seed, often the pattern can be derived from the message itself.
Also, OTP encryption is particularly unwieldy because the key is as long as the encrypted message, and must somehow be transmitted to the recipient without being intercepted. Any software that claims to use OTP encryption that does not require you to exchange a key block as large as your message (or larger) is not using truly random data, and is therefore not using OTP encryption.
Also, one of the key features of OTP is that you cannot reuse old pads. If you reuse an old one even once, that can be enough to allow the code to be broken.
The question was, how can you decrypt a message that was created from one time pad, pretty sure that hasn't been answered yet.
Originally the one time pad was used with just characters, and is very basic. Let's say you have a message 'killtheking' (taken from one response), and you want to encrypt it so you need a key. For the key you need at least the same number of characters as the message, so you roll a dice which has 26 sides (one for each letter) 11 times, because there are 11 characters in the message.
Assume the result is aqheivlekrw
now we subtract the position in the alphabet of the letter in they key, from the position in the alphabet of the letter in the message, and the resulting number is the position in the alphabet of the cypher text. Wrap any letters that create a minus result as below (like if the result is 30, then use 26 - 30 = 4 or 'd'.
'j' is the 10th letter in the alphabet so we use that.
for the rest of the message we get:
so in the end
pass the cypher text to whomever you want to recieve it and they do the opposite of what you have done to encrypt it, they have to add the key to the cypher text:
and so on.
Computers use XOR because it does the same thing and is a lot quicker and easier to implement, but to understand how it works, I found that it is good to see the 'human' usable example. So on a computer you can encrypt the message by doing:
Cypher = Message XOR Key
and decrypt it again by using:
Message = Cypher XOR Key
It is as simple as that.
If you don't have the key ...
Brute force the ciphertext (permute it) and analyze the output for potential cleartext in the expected language.
Statistical analysis can assist in the detection of potential human-generated language in the output (maybe chi-squared?)
one time pad could de easily cracked if you know the output format. Such as audio headers, gifs images, etc. By reverse engineering the stream back. It could be good for some sort of characters but not for some other fields where the output format could be easily identify by other means. Nothing is 100% secure nowadays.


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I know a part of biking endurance and speed come from having a perfect pedal stroke. What should I do to improve my pedal stroke?
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Pushing and pulling and rhythm:
You'll certainly need clipless pedals - you won't develop a decent stroke if you're only pushing down on the pedal. You need to be pulling as well.
I would advocate spending some time riding a fixie, too. If you have to keep you legs moving, you will start to feel more connected to your bike and its speed.
Get yourself a cadence monitor and try to maintain an even cadence when in different gears. When you're not on your fixed, concentrate on spinning your legs. Perhaps try a gear or two higher than you might, purely to spin up a higher cadence. Also maybe trying a stationary spinning bike.
Pushing down on the pedals is a natural thing. So to improve the "roundness" of your pedal stroke, completely ignore the down-stroke, instead focus on the following:
Focusing on the non-instinctive 3/4 of the pedal stroke has really helped me improve form. Using a fixed gear (or staying in a low-ish gear), find someplace where you can spin out your cadence (a slight down-hill but not too steep).
Focusing on the 3/4 of the stroke that isn't pushing straight down, pedal as fast as you can until you find yourself starting to bounce. Keep doing this, and as you get better at the non-down-stroke, you'll find that the pedaling cadence at which you start bouncing will get higher and higher, as your pedal stroke gets more round.
One of the best reasons for having a round pedal stroke is efficiency. If you pedal stroke is smooth and efficient, you will get more power to the wheels with less effort. Some exercises for improving your pedal stroke; the winter is a great time for such low intensity exercises.
Also note that it is not actually possible to get a perfect pedal stroke. I learned the above exercises from one of Massimo Testa's apprentices who was coaching the UC Davis cycling team. My pedal stroke was smoother than many professionals who had been through the lab, but as you can see (below) my dead spot (going over the top) was only 1/6 as powerful as my down stroke (at 90 degrees). This test was done with pressure sensors on each pedal, and the blue line shows my right foot and the left my right foot, at a constant power of 120W and about 90 rpm.
First, make sure that you're properly fitted to the bike. Very hard to get it right without the basics being in place.
If you ride on a trainer some of the time, consider getting a set of rollers. They force you to ride smoothly at a high cadence so you don't bounce up and down, and I've seen them dramatically improve my girlfriend's pedalling technique. They're much better for your technique than a turbo trainer.


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MARLIN (November 9, 2012)—Faced with what city officials described Friday as "an unprecedented loss of capability to provide water service," Marlin officials implemented the most severe restrictions outlined by the city's drought contingency plan.
A problem that started Tuesday evening when a man delivering liquid chemicals to the water treatment plant turned a wrong switch, causing the treatment plant to stop pumping water for 16 hours, has escalated despite pleas for voluntary conservation.
Under the restrictions implemented Friday, virtually all outside water use is banned including landscape irrigation, washing down sidewalks, driveways and buildings, and filling outside pools, operating fountains.
The restrictions also limit residential and commercial water use.
For example, for a single family home in which 3 to 4 people live, the limit is 7,000 gallons a month or about 230 gallons a day.
Commercial customers are limited to 75 percent of a monthly water usage baseline.
Violations are punishable by fines of as much as $500 and repeat violators could be disconnected from the city's water system.
Officials originally estimated that the problem would be repaired by Thursday, but then said Thursday repairs would take several more days.


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MyPhone Phones Price ListMay 18, 2012 | Adam Parnala | 9 Comments
This is the MyPhone phones price list in the Philippines for 2012. I just thought that many Filipinos continue to patronize the mobile products of our local companies in the Philippines despite some of the bad reports about their not so good after sales service but nevertheless I came up with this list. Well, at least I didn't had that experience so I will not comment on that. I gathered the data from MyPhone's official website, Facebook fan page, and other resources. Check the prices below.


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That's a fantastic price on a 3TB USB3 drive. Also, the drive comes with a 2 year warranty, and Newegg is giving free 1-year extended warranties with it, essentially making it a 3-year warranty. Granted, you would have to deal with an outside company for the 3rd year of coverage, but it's given to you for free, so who cares.
In for 2. For media storage, it's cheaper than an equivalent internal drive, with a better warranty to boot.
@kikuichimoji: you could also sell both 1 bay enclosures and buy a 2 bay nas enclosure with the same amount of money. RAID those 3TB HDDS.
Super deal, especially for a seagate... Ordered at 3pm, got a shipping confirmation a little after 5pm. :D
OfficeMax has the same price, not to mention I'm sure you could find a coupon code for their site to make it less than 129.99... Not a good deal anyways. All 3TB drives are around this price all of a sudden, I anticipate something is up with the generation of drives.
Every Seagate drive I have ever owned has crapped out... Wouldn't use this if they gave it to me, if nothing but to save me the eventual inconvenience of dealing with their customer service dept.


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I'm interested in using the wind-like sound heard during the first few seconds of "Seven Devil" by Florence + The Machine, but I have no idea how it's produced. How can I reproduce this sound?
There are two distinctive sonorities on the beginning of "Seven Devil" by Florence + The Machine as found on this music video:
On the right and center fields is a very good imitation or possibly the real Aboriginal Musical Instrument, known as a "Bullroarer".
"The instrument itself consists of a simple wooden slat, 30 to 40cm in length and 5 to 7cm wide that is whirled around in a circle on the end of a length of cord."
quoted from this source: http://www.didjshop.com/austrAboriginalMusicInstruments.htm This site has broken down the acoustics pretty well.
On the left and center fields is some white noise shaped (filtered) like the breathy way Ian Anderson plays flute in the rock band Jethro Tull, very pan pipe like. Think about the music from the Andes pan flute or zampoña as a start. This element is later blended with a cymbal being played with repetitive mallets.
How can you produce this sound?
1) Acoustic means: you could easily try to make your own "bullroarer" and you could ask a flute playing friend and a percussionist to help with the other sounds.
2) Electronic means: Do you have synth? Try locating a patch that has the velocity set to trigger the overtone series, the faster you strike the note the higher the harmonics. Something like a one pipe, pipe organ with a Leslie effect. Maybe your synth has a 'bullroarer' patch, also look for a bottle or pan flute patch. I know Yamaha has those two last ones.
The key ingredients of the "bullroarer" is that it is an edge tone sound (like a flute) but since it is spinning it has natural doppler shifts in pitch as it turns. In practice the musician will spin it faster and slower to get some real colorful harmonics. This is why I recommend the "Leslie" effect. Think of the "bullroarer" as the Aboriginal version of a B3 with a Leslie speaker cabinet.
It doesn't sound like a "real" instrument, more like a synthetizer (flute sound ?) with some effects (reverb, echo, ...), maybe a sample...
Something like :
In this live version, we see that some of it is played by violin.
Other parts of it is on the synth, where you can get any sound you like by tweaking.


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The 15 Most Baffling Boasts in the History of Rap
#7. Kool Moe Dee - "Death Blow"
The Lyric:
"I'm a rock them L's! Low life loser, life like luna, lacksadaisical, listless luna, Tic liver lifeless, living likeness, lusting longing lyrics like this, little league, lard larsonist liar, label ledger, left the leper lia, bull, lull, lateral learning, laps language latent lurking, language, language, local logo, light laboring, limited local"
Why We're Baffled:
With rhymes like these, it's a wonder that battle with LL Cool J didn't go better. This reads less like a battle rap and more like a Sesame Street segment. We're not even sure if those are the right lyrics, as no lyrics search engine can seem to agree.
We gave it a listen ourselves and couldn't make heads or tails of it either, as if it matters. Would it be any less ridiculous if we managed to figure out what phrase really goes in place of "listless luna"? Ever the innovator, Moe Dee was the first and last emcee on record to try and take out an opponent simply by showing how many words he knows that start with the same letter.
#6. Run-DMC - "King of Rock"
The Lyric:
"There's three of us but we're not The Beatles."
Why We're Baffled:
Welcome to "Cracked.com Presents: You Make the Call!" Is what's going on here a glaring example of the kind of mistakes that happen when you fail to do research (we're looking at you, Lil' Wayne) or is this one of the most bitingly clever lyrics ever?
Sure, there were four Beatles, so on the surface it just looks stupid. But then again, the song was released a few short years after John Lennon died. So maybe it's just a joke made in bad taste, like if we were to say, "There's two of us but we're not..." Aw fuck it, we don't have the heart.
#5. Jay-Z - "It's Hot"
The Lyric:
"Thirty-eight revolve like the sun around the earth."
Why We're Baffled:
Finally that ongoing beef between Hova and Galileo makes sense. We're all for keeping it old school, but this is pushing it just a little bit.
"I like 99 rappers but Jay-Z ain't one. What, bitch?! I discovered fucking telescopes, you ain't shit."
But in terms of showing off a failed science education, it's still not quite as bad as...
#4. Lil' Fame - "Half and Half"
The Lyric:
"First family will gradually lift that ass up like gravity."
Why We're Baffled:
Man, this reminds us of that old story we used to hear in grade school about how Sir Isaac Newton came up with the law of gravity. He's just sitting there, all chill like underneath an apple tree, right? All of the sudden, an apple falls from the tree, hits him on top of the head and bounces down to the ground. And then, thanks to the "what goes down must come up" principle of gravity, the apple shot right back into the air and struck Newton dead in the chin.
#4. Ol' Dirty Bastard - "Rollin Wit You"
The Lyric:
"Hippa to the hoppa and you just don't stoppa, I control Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' no matter what"
Why We're Baffled:
Honestly, this was the least baffling ODB lyric we could find and we still have no idea what's going on here.
You control Michael Jackson's "Thriller"? Like, on DVD or something? You have the remote and you decide if and when everyone else in the room stops watching it? We're hoping it's just something simple like that, because if "Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'" is meant to be some kind of euphemism, we absolutely do not want to know what it's a euphemism for.
#3. Vanilla Ice - "Freestyle (Eminem Diss)"
The Lyric:
"My shit is taboo like my sister's ass crack."
Why We're Baffled:
It's baffling enough that Vanilla Ice would bother dissing Eminem, but why, in the midst of of a song directed at someone you hope to insult, would you whip out a line like this? Taboo like your sister's ass crack? Of all the taboos in the world, that's the one you go with?
Why not, "My shit is taboo like the game, Taboo"? That's fun for everybody.
And what is it that's so taboo about your sister's ass crack? Is it just taboo for you or for everybody? Are we at least allowed to admire your sister's ass crack? Are there pictures? Can it rap better than you?
#2. Flavor Flav - "Flavor Man"
The Lyric:
"Joey Fatone, is in my bones, Jackie Hamilton, dollar bill, sittin' real high on Capitol Hill"
Why We're Baffled:
Who could be baffled at a time like this? The man has Joey Fatone in his bones. This is no time for confusion, this is an emergency. But we suppose it could be worse, he could have Lance Bass's bone in him. Good luck sitting on Capitol Hill with that kind of situation unfolding.
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#1. Redman - "5 Boroughs"
The Lyric:
"My paragraph alone is worth five mics, a twelve song LP, that's thirty-six mics"
Why We're Baffled:
We stand corrected, math skills do not get shittier than this. We like Redman, so we tried our damndest to make some sense of this. If one paragraph is worthy of the heralded Source Magazine 5-mic rating, and there are maybe three paragraphs per song, then either each LP is good for 180 mics, or each paragraph is only good for one mic. We have no idea which is correct. What we do know is this... our public education system has clearly failed us.
Makes you wonder how Red even got in to Harvard.
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Is there another way of doing this besides doing a manual find "section"/ replace all with "chapter" (and the same for subsections, subsubsections etc.) ?
Here is a unix script that gives you the option to shift things outward (i.e. for article to report) or inward (report to article, or beamer).
The timing of actions is crucial if all levels must be promoted: we have to start from the lowest level up and use
However this can work only for very elementary documents without cross references. A complete solution should redefine also the counters and their representation.
I might be a bit overkill, but I would use
Besides replacing/redefining the sectioning commands as noted in the other answers, one thing to remember is also updating the reference descriptions when using
after conversion to a report it should become
If you consistently use the
The command infers the type of the reference from the label and places a textual description in front of the actual section/chapter number. I really see no reason not to use this package.


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- SUNY Geneseo President Christopher C. Dahl joined Livingston County CARES recently for the group's 16th trip to the Biloxi, Miss., area to repair homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It was the president's first work trip with the organization, a non-profit group of Geneseo students and community members dedicated to local and global humanitarian projects. For President Dahl, it also was a homecoming.
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"When I was sophomore at Harvard in the 60s, a group of classmates and I went to the same part of Mississippi during spring break and worked with the Back Bay Mission to repair homes in low-income areas," said Dahl. "It was very interesting to be back there again with students. I returned to Back Bay and saw that the organization is still working hard on issues of social justice and poverty reduction."
After Hurricane Katrina, the Livingston County Board of Supervisors established a relationship with its counterpart in Harrison County, Mississippi, to assist with relief and recovery efforts. SUNY Geneseo organized Livingston County CARES through its Center for Community, which emphasizes the vital link between service and leadership.
"It's very important for students to recognize and understand that active volunteerism and service are vital components for students to become effective leaders," said Tom Matthews, director of leadership education, development and training at SUNY Geneseo. "Students who go on these work trips quickly realize they are making a positive impact on people's lives."
President Dahl spent several days working on damaged houses and praised the group's commitment.
"It was impressive seeing students working beside community members," said President Dahl. "Everyone realized they were there to do the serious work of helping people recover and that attitude was highly gratifying. They realize their work is not just a one-time, in-and-out effort. This group is dedicated to returning to this area until the work is done," he said.
Livingston County CARES has planned additional works trips to Mississippi in February, March and May and also is expanding its local volunteer efforts. For opportunities with the organization, call 585-245-5857.
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15 Grossly Misleading Movie Posters
Movies are both an art form and a business, so while it's the artist's vision that dictates the direction, it is sadly entirely up to clean shaven men with business degrees to decide how to sell it. And while we understand it's their job to twist the truth to maximize a movie's appeal, sometimes they go completely insane and just start making shit up. Occasionally, they hit on a better idea than the movie ever did...
...but mostly it's just this kind of crap:
#15. District 9 - Thailand
District 9 was a mockumentary about aliens living in a shanty-town in South Africa, all but stripped of their precious technology. It was a parable for racism, and yes, a single 10- to 12-foot robot suit figures in the plot.
So why is that giant robot smashing an entire city beneath his boot-heel and swatting the tiny helicopters out of the air? Hell, if you have to make blatantly false giant robot claims to sell tickets in Thailand, why not just fill the poster with a whole army of...
#14. Lord of the Rings - Spain
Europe loves depressing, hopelessly bleak tragedies about people dying slowly, or perhaps in a concentration camp. So when the movie promoted is roughly 270 minutes of dragons and elves screaming while running with swords, you're pretty well screwed.
Your only option is to promise the audience a black and white movie about a grandfather who hugs little boys and hope the Spanish don't have a word for "refund." This isn't an action movie, guys; it's an Oscar winning flick about hugs, sad goodbyes and eccentric old men with funny hats. Who probably dies of cancer in a concentration camp.
#13. Cujo - Ghana
In this poster, we see Cujo the Luck Dragon crying red tears of sadness, because his best friend is a little boy who's had his genitals replaced with a bag of hot dog buns and is fucking furious about it. Also, his mother is Christopher Walken's mentally challenged twin sister.
Of course, Cujo isn't a baffling prequel to The Neverending Story, but the story of a rabid dog who viciously kills half a dozen people. Of all the cynical deception taking place on this list, this one has to be the most mean-spirited. Yes, let's give African children something else to cry about.
#12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - U.S.
If you're having trouble remembering the part in the final Harry Potter book when Voldemort turns London into a giant rave, that's because it didn't happen. What did happen is that the kids who grew up reading about Harry have moved on to Twilight, so the studio apparently decided they could cash in by portraying a confused or possibly constipated teenage girl wandering helplessly without the guidance of her big, strong, man with supernatural powers.
#11. Raiders of the Lost Ark and Romancing the Stone- Poland
Polish movie posters are famous for making absolutely no goddamned sense, so it should come as no surprise that in Poland the adventures of Dr. Jones are represented as a millipede-whip literally skull-fucking Cthulhu's cranium. After all, what better way to market a lighthearted, action-adventure movie than showing some grotesque Metalhead tattoo, surrounded by walls of melting bone?
Now you might be tempted to think that this was an honest mistake. Raiders has some slightly creepy moments. Maybe they were taking two of the world's longest pees during everything except the snake scene. You'd realize your mistake when you saw the Polish poster for cheesy, romantic adventure Romancing the Stone ...
... at which point you'd realize that there was only one graphic designer in all of Poland during the 80s, and he was raped by ghosts as a child.
#10. Saw VI - Hong Kong
While the hot nurse that never appears in Saw VI is pretty deceptive, what really shows a dedication to misdirection is the change in tagline: This one reads "struggle in a world filled with crazy, demonic love," and "Enter the door that will save you," respectively.
So you head in to the movie expecting to see some sort of hell-based romantic comedy, which we're just going to go ahead and assume is a booming genre in China, and instead you get two straight hours of good ol' fashioned American Torture Porn. The Chinese can be forgiven for nurturing a deep mistrust and fear of Americans now, believing that we think makin' a dude chop his dong off is just "crazy love."
#9. Ice Age 3 - South Korea
South Koreans love tiny mechanical things. Sometimes too much. It's like they have a disease that causes them to see robots where there are none. This was a cartoon about mammals in the Ice Age, wasn't it? Did they do another cut for the Korean market where the cast of lovable lil' animals were replaced with mech warriors out to save the Life-Nut from Shira: The 12th Planet-Mistress?
If you've never seen nor heard of Sex and the City before, then A) tell us where you live, and how flexible the Visa laws are there, and B) you could be forgiven for thinking it sounds pretty awesome. The title makes it sound like it's a non-stop Festival of Ass and the poster only reinforces that notion, depicting both the lead and supporting actresses as giant disembodied tits.
How many Polish males went to see this thing only to find out that it's mostly "sex" as a topic of conversation for middle-aged women to make terrible puns about?


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Orlando is my home, but I always enjoy my trips to the Bay Area. For the past two weeks, I have been non-stop in San Francisco with our board meeting, partner and customer meetings, multiple conferences and meetings with our growing west coast team. With so much going on, I wanted to share with you quick recap.
Home base for the trip was the Pentaho office located in the Financial District near the Ferry Building. It was great being able to spend time with our rapidly growing sales team led by the SVP of WW Sales, Lars Nordwall. They mixed the trip with a lot of business with back-to-back customer and partner meetings and a little pleasure with a happy hour one of the nights. Below are some photos with a few members of the team:
Last week Pentaho had a presence at three conferences. The first was the MySQL Conference where were a sponsor. I presented on the topic, Agile BI – Collapsing BI from Months to Minutes . Our booth was very busy with quality conversations and people who were excited about our Agile BI initiative. Next was the SugarCon Conference on Wednesday where I presented, 'The Information Rain Dance: Business Information in the Cloud.' We also had a presence at the Gartner BI Summit in Las Vegas.
Listening the community over the past two weeks, I wanted to highlight some of the chatter.
Here are my favorite Tweets (April 11-16):
There is also a great discussion in the works on the Open Source BI Group on LinkedIn about Pentaho vs. Jaspersoft. We encourage you to speak up!
To join the conversation, make sure to follow us on Twitter at @Pentaho. We also have our own LinkedIn Group and active fan page on Facebook.
I look forward to a busy week back home in Orlando.


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By Therese Shechter A few months ago at a dinner party, the topic of hymens came up (don't all your dinner parties go like this?) and how on rare occasions the membrane is completely sealed and has to be surgically opened. One of the men there wondered how the condition could go unnoticed, seeing as it would block the … [Read more...]
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I thought the first movie was Home Alone, THEN The Mummy Returns.
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I am looking for a show about a man who was seeing a psychiatrist, and explaining to this psychiatrist that he could cause disasters. The psychiatrist tells him that it is not true. Near the end the man causes a plane to start to crash to convince the psychiatrist, and I think the psychiatrist kills him to save the plane. Maybe in the 60s or 70s?
Would that be "The Medusa Touch" (1978) with Richard Burton? See a clip here.
The Night Visions episode Patterns, (2002), was similar, though the character wasn't causing disasters, he was preventing them with his obsessive-compulsive rituals. From Yahoo Answers:
The episode is on Youtube. This link will take you to the scene near the end involving the plane.


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My utopia lacks a Noisbridge board. To that end, I fully support adapting our by-laws to remove the board. Until that lofty goal is reached, the board should avoid even the appearance of interference in Noisebridge's affairs.
If elected to the board, I pledge:
- to resist the dark-side's tempting urge to use my mighty and awesome board-powers;
- to cease working on matters of Noisebridge management, including the Policy Wonks (for the duration of my time on the board);
- to relinquish my ability to block consensus (for the duration of my time on the board);
- neither to moderate, nor to scribe for a Noisebridge meeting (for the duration of my time on the board);
- never again to accept nomination for, nor to serve on Noisebride's board;
- nor to hold any officer position at Noisebridge (for the duration of my time on the board); and
- to execute the consensus of Noisebridge without let or hindrance as a board member.
I hope that any candidate for election to the board takes a similar pledge.
Let me be clear: I do not want to be elected to the board. I would much rather work on improving Noisebridge by Doing Things. However, I think that the board should not Do Things, because danger Will Robinson.
I solemnly swear that I am not now nor have I ever been a machine intelligence.