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Stephen Toulouse - Tour around Microsoft's Security Response Center
- Posted: Jan 07, 2005 at 5:15PM
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Half-Life 2. Nifty.
nektar wrote:Any news on the recent and still unpatch Windows holes? I heard that two out of the 3 also affect XP SP2.
dnrfan wrote:
Microsoft are extremely slow to release fixes/patches after being alerted to serious flaws. Why is this?
Just send me your name and address via email at
email@example.com and I'll get two out. Thanks!
Hardware team is coming up soon!
KosherCoder wrote:Extremely slow compared to what?
I saw one vulnerability on that eeye site that was several months "overdue", and they listed only one other outstanding.
KosherCoder wrote:Where do they get off claiming that 30 days is a standard time to expect a fix? They have no idea how long a fix could take.
We do not "get off" on claiming that 30 days is a standard time to expect a fix. We actually think that 60 days is the timeframe for producing a fix. That is why on our upcoming advisories page we only start listing vulnerability patches as being overdue
after the 60 day mark, not 30 as you incorrectly state.
If you want to get specific about it though Microsoft is actually apart of an industry group whom wrote a specificion on vulnerability reporting and vendor handling of reported vulnerabilities. Within that standard Microsoft and other companies in the industry agree that:
"The appropriate timeframe will vary from case to case, but it is important to set a target. By convention, thirty (30) calendar days (measured from the date the Vendors acknowledges receipt of the VSR to deliver of the fix) has been established as a good
starting point for the discussions, as it often provides an appropriate balance between timeliness and thoroughness." [1]
So as you can see the 60 day window that eEye uses is actually *longer* than the general industry guidelines as set by Microsoft and other security companies.
Reasonable amount of time? Should take them a year to fix vulnerabilities? If you believe that then the secretly encoded brainwashing images within channel 9 productions is finally starting to pay off.
Marc Maiffret
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http://eEye.com/Retina - Network Security Scanner
http://eEye.com/Iris - Network Traffic Analyzer
http://eEye.com/SecureIIS - Stop known and unknown IIS vulnerabilities
[1] - http://www.oisafety.org/
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I know the idiom have the final say, but I wonder if we could use the same idiom without the word final in it? For example:
He is the boss, he is the one who has the say on it.
Could the above sentence pass muster with native speakers? Trawling through some google pages revealed a number of results, where the above expression was used with somewhat the same meaning.
Up to now, the government has the say on management issues and the general lines of the commercial strategy are negotiated in four year contractual plans.--Corporate Reorganisation in the European Transport and Logistic Sector


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19 Jan 2013 8:17 AM #1
Inline style
I am working on a Extjs application and some inline styles are getting generated which creating some issues for a panel. There is an inline style in the html when viewed through firebug but when I try to find in code I found nothing. Can I modify this inline style - how and where.
19 Jan 2013 12:10 PM #2
I think we're going to need a bit more information than this!
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I live in the Netherlands and recently I have been seeing an orange glow in the sky at night, in the northwestern direction. What is the cause of this? And why is it in the northwestern direction (I have seen it a couple of times recently, all in the same general direction).
What kind of Orange and how much of the sky did it fill?
Low pressure sodium lights are common in lighting cities and highways. Is there a big city/freeway northwest of you? I suppose under the right conditions you could see sky glow from a large city a long way away.
If you are at a very dark clear site (unlikley in the Netherlands) it could be zodiacal light - sunlight reflecting off the dust that fills the solar system. Although I don't know you could see it with the naked eye at a regular site


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High school football: Top Utah prep athletes sign to play college football (updated +video)
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SALT LAKE CITY — It's national signing day and never has signing a contract held so much allure.
Across the country top high school student-athletes are making their college choices official by signing their names on national letters of intent. It is a moment years in the making, and for most, it's the realization of a lifelong dream — to play college sports.
This day is also highly anticipated by college football fans as they watch the names of hotly recruited athletes appear on official college websites starting at 6 a.m.
Many local high schools choose to mark the moment with small celebrations as some of their best athletes announce where they'll extend their football careers and earn educations with their skills.
"This is really what we want for you," said East head coach Brandon Matich as eight of his players signed scholarship paperwork at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. "We want to win state titles and all of that, but what we really want is to see you go on to college. This is what's important."
East sent two receivers to Utah State — Zach Swenson and John Fakahafua.
"I'm just a country boy at heart," said Swenson, who was decked out in Aggie blue. Both he and Fakahafua said the change of head coach from Gary Andersen to Matt Wells didn't bother them at all.
"I'm excited about it," Swenson said.
Fakahafua won't appear on the college website because he has to make up a math class that didn't meet the NCAA's clearinghouse requirement. It's a class from his freshman year, which he'll take online in the next few months before enrolling at Utah State.
Fakahafua said it was visiting USU that persuaded him to become an Aggie.
"It was a really great visit," he said. "It's a great program, and it's only going to go up." He said one of the highlights was chatting with USU quarterback Chuckie Keaton.
"He gave me some pointers," Fakahafua said with a grin.
BYU landed two East High Leopards: linebacker Patrick Palau, who will serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before enrolling at BYU, and Merrill "Meti" Taliauli, who graduated early so he can enroll at the Y. and participate in spring ball.
"I was planning to go on a mission first, but coach (Bronco) Mendenhall called and asked me to play a year," said Taliauli. "He said it would help them and benefit me, as well. So I'll head out on my mission next January." The nose guard said he's more worried about taking college classes than battling BYU's defensive line.
"I'm nervous," he said laughing. "I heard it's hard."
It's his lifelong dream to be a Cougar, and now it's a reality.
"I thought I'd have a couple of years to kick back and relax," he said. "But it's coming up fast now."
Linebacker Palau said he was "very excited" to finally make his commitment to BYU official.
"I'm still adapting to the reality," he said. "It's kind of unreal. ... I'm still getting used to the mojo of it being a reality."
Meanwhile, left tackle B.J. Tapa signed with William Penn.
"I'm really nervous," he said as his parents looked on Wednesday.
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WEIRTON - The Brooke Bruins built an 18-point lead after one quarter and cruised to a 92-42 win over Weir High Friday night at the Carl R. Hamill Fieldhouse.
The Bruins enjoyed a balanced scoring attack with five players in double figures, but veteran coach Dave Reitter felt it was his defense and his bench that got the job done.
"We've been working since the first practice on pressure defense and getting out and running because we're not very big," Reitter explained after his Bruins won its second game of the young season. "We're fortunate in that we have some depth where we can substitute some kids and still get done what we're trying to do out there.
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DEFENSE — From left, Brooke's Austin Schmbach, Russell Schwertfeger and Hunter Wallace surround Weir's Dylan Cassiadoro as teammate Josh Groves looks to help during Friday's 92-42 win by the Bruins at the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse.
"I thought our pressure was real good today and the kids were unselfish. I keep telling the kids that you have to play the game every day.
"It doesn't matter who the opponent is you've got to play the game our way and not let the other team dictate to us."
The Brooke pressure forced Weir High into mistakes and poor shooting. For the second straight game, the Red Riders committed more than 20 turnovers (they had 21). The Riders made 14 of 56 shots for 26 percent.
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BROOKE: Schwertfeger 5 1-3 13, Wallace 3 3-3 10, Gambellin 4 2-2 11, Johnson 3 1-1 8, Shambauch 8 1-1 19, Cole 3 0-0 6, Buchmelter 2 1-2 5, Fritz 0 0-2 0, Heaton 5 0-0 10, DeStefano 1 0-0 2, Sole 1 0-0 2, Dameron 3 0-0 6. Totals: 38 9-14 92. Three-pointers: Schwertfeger (2), Shambach (2), Wallace, Gambellin, Johnson; Rebounds: 32 (Wallace, 10); Turnovers: 9.
WEIR HIGH: Masters 1 0-0 2, Knight 0 0-2 0, Viakley 1 0-0 2, Wood 1 0-0 2, Davis 1 1-1 3, Cassiadoro 1 1-2 3, Groves 0 4-7 4, Smith 1 0-0 3, Sims 3 2-7 8, Curtis 4 0-0 10, Kirk 1 2-2 5. Totals: 14 10-21 42. Three-pointers: Curtis (2), Smith, Kirk; Rebounds: 21 (Sims, Viakley, 5 each); Turnovers 21.
Weir High was losing its third game of the season all in similar fashion. The opposition pressured the inexperienced Red Riders.
Red Rider coach, Mike Granato, agreed with Reitter that it was Brooke's pressure that was the biggest factor in the game.
"I was impressed with Brooke's pressure," he said. "I thought they did a great job of forcing us out of any rhythm. They have an excellent ball club. It was the type of game where we got a lot of young kids in and I think when we look back at these games late in the season it will make us better when we get into our double-A play.
"That's how we're going to approach it. With our schedule, it is one triple-A team after another. We have John Marshall, Indian Creek and Harrison Central next week."
Brooke junior, Russell Schwertfeger, zipped a long three-pointer to open the scoring, one of seven goals from bonus land for the Bruins.
Weir High senior Dylan Cassiadoro hit his only field goal of the game and sophomore Michael Curtis followed with a short jumper to give Weir High its only lead of the game at 4-3, but the young Red Riders could hang with Brooke for only about the first three minutes of the game.
From there, the Bruins went on a 22-3 run and basically removed any doubt about the outcome. It was 50-19 at the half.
Brooke senior, Austin Shambach, a 5-9 dynamo, seemed to be everywhere. He scored a game-high 19 points, many on transition layups and had a couple of steals.
"Austin has been playing like that," said Reitter. "Last year he lettered for us. This year he had to step up and take over the one guard for us. We keep emphasizing that he needs to keep hustling back and he might get a couple of steals like he did today. He did a nice job today and, you know, I thought every one of our kids did a nice job."
Schwertfeger canned 13 points, senior Jesse Gambellin got 11 and Hunter Wallace and Ryan Heaton each scored 10 points. Wallace, a senior, checked in with a double-double pulling down 10 caroms to lead all rebounders.
Wallace led Brooke to a significant advantage in rebounding with a 32-21 edge off the boards. The Bruins made 38 of 78 shots for a red hot 48.7 shooting percentage.
Curtis was the only Red Rider in double figures including two from three-point land. The sophomore scored 10 points in his third varsity game. Junior Andre Sims backed him up with eight points.
Brooke's next outing will be a trip to Morgantown next Wednesday while the Red Riders also hit the road for its next game at John Marshall on Tuesday.


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Let $$R_3= \{(a,b)\mid a,b \in \mathbb{Z}\text{ and there exists }k \in \mathbb{Z} \text{ such that }a-b=3k\}.$$
I know there is an equivalence relation but I'm not 100% on what it means to be an equivalence class for this problem. In class we got 3: $\{0,3,6,9,\ldots\}$ and $\{1,4,7,10,-2,-5,\ldots\}$ and $\{2, 5, 8, 11, -1, -4,\ldots\}$.
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I have heard that a m'zuza must be checked twice every seven years by a qualified sofer. I have also heard that, assuming it's known to have been kosher at one point, it need only be checked for faded or cracked letters thereafter, and that that check can be done even by a layman who knows what the letters look like (provided he take any questionable m'zuza to a sofer for expert checking). Which is correct? Sources please.
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I am a certified sofer. I will tell you my opinion. First I would like to ask you to take a look at my website, particularly at my blog, Diary of a Sofer. I have digital pictures of many shailos that come up. Most days I see shailos, either in mezuzos, tefillin, or where mezuzos are put. Many of the shailos are in mezuzos that have been checked. Sometimes people have missed some pretty incredible things, as you will see if you follow my blog. If you have high quality mezuzos, and those mezuzos have been computer scanned, and they have been checked by a certified sofer, and you don't have any special problems with the writing, it is possible that you may do a fine job. There are two problems however, that I see. One, you may not know keses hasofer, and mishna berura on these inyonim. There are some central halachos that you need to know before you work with mezuzos, or you can end up posseling something, and never knowing it. If you are never planing on touching a knife or a pen, you certainly have less chance of messing up, but I couldn't recommend it unless you were familiar with the main halachos of stam. I don't mean you have to take a test on the halachos of how to make dio, but you should know what chok tochoks, sho ksidran, kiddush Hashem, mukaf gvil, and leshma are. I just can't believe that without knowing the basics of those halachos that mistakes won't be made. My website is mezuzadepot.com and you will see many shailos there.


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ZiP (Zine-in-Progress) is a zine arising from and devoted to Noisebridge, started by fervent Bridge acolyte Tony Longshanks (aka The Wonderful Wizard of ZiP, or WonWiz) in December, 2011. The inaugural issue, ZiP No. 1, will be finished and available - barring an unforeseen calamity - at 5 Minutes of Fame on Thursday, Jan. 19. It's going to be fun night, so sign up to give a 5MoF talk now and we'll see you there for the unveiling.
The full text of each issue will also be available online (CMS site currently under construction). Limited print runs of each completed issue will be available on a monthly or quarterly (4 x per year) basis, with more copies always available to print on demand. Cost may be a factor but we'll cross that bridge later.
If you wish to submit material for the inaugural issue, please do so by Sunday, Jan. 15th - sooner if possible! Email submissions to anthonyletigre (at) gmail.com; other modes of submission are detailed below.
ZiP Issue One: January 2012
At present, ZiP is edited by Tony and largely consists of his material, but submissions by other Noisebridgers are encouraged, and have been and will continue to be included. Be sure to include your name – or a name, at any rate – if you wish to be credited! The original ZiP concept was not a solo zine but a collaborative effort by all interested users of this unique creative incubator that would represent an official or semi-official Noisebridge publication. That ambition may have been a bit lofty at the outset, but we're not ditching it yet. It may have to simmer for a while but we're confident it will come to a beautiful rolling boil in time, and all sorts of great things are bound to bubble up in its wake.
One such side project is an anthology of peoples' recollections of the first time they came to Noisebridge. Read more about the anthology here.
The Imagination Box (Flights of fantasy, unclassifiable, trampolinear thinking)
But Seriously (a safe space for sincerity & honesty, iron-free zone, geeks and depression, etc)
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I was thinking to make comparative drawings on a paper and stick the paper on the wall.
Do you have other ideas?
I have studied math, but used for many years cm/m/km, and now I need to learn the new measurement system.
I was thinking to make comparative drawings on a paper and stick the paper on the wall.
I think your best bet will just be to learn the numbers. If you think about it you really are only memorizing three different numbers. the centimeters in an inch (2.54). the kilometers in a mile (~1.61), and the feet in a meter (3.28). Looking at an American ruler should help you with the centimeters in inches. Looking at a measuring stick with metric and standard measurements should help with feet in a meter. and the last one if you can remember that a kg weighs more than a lb, just remember that the relationship is opposite for length. That's how I remember miles/km anyway because I usually forget which one is bigger.
9 digits to memorize each with a decimal after the first digit. shouldn't be as hard as you think. Anything worth while takes practice.
These things work by association. We learn from kids what a six-footer or a 1,80cm tall person means by associating mental images--we don't have to think about it. For someone not that familiar with the specific measure system he just won't have a good picture of the number in his head. For miles, you need to associate specific distances. When you think '100km' you usually get a grip of it's meaning by associating some familiar car trip that takes that much. You need to find yourself those for miles as well. And inches is the same, but for small measures of everyday things.
So my suggestion is not to just memorize the straight conversion (1 inch is 2,54cm), but the multiples--12 inches is a foot which is about 30cm. And 3 inches, and 5 inches, etc. Tie to each a real-world object for your brain to associate with. And I'd make each of these a flashcard, to get down to actual memorization--hit google for 'SuperMemo'-style software. Here on productivity SE there should also be some questions regarding SuperMemo.
So each flashcard could follow this format:
And then you could have another set of cards swapping the answer for the question (i.e. say the real world thing that has measure X).
try to stick with conversion that are nearly round:
and then have a bit of mental arithmetic.


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A 2-player strategy game played on a 4x4 board with 16 unique pieces. Each piece is either dark/light, short/tall, round/square, and flat/hole-on-top. Players place pieces until a row of four is created where all pieces in the row share at least one characteristic. (20-minute playtime)
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Are there guaranteed winning strategies for Quarto?
As we all know in standard tic-tac-toe the game can't be won if both players play optimally. So: Is Quarto a game that will end in a draw if both players play optimally? If yes, what are the most ...
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Looking for a specific variant of Tic-Tac-Toe
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I've heard that if one is a professional photographer that it's bad to perform work on a "work for hire" contract. Why is this situation unfavorable to the photographer?
I am assuming that this is in reference to United States Law.
Under US law, a copyright is assigned at creation to the employer or person for whom the work is created if it is done as a "work for hire".
This means that you, as the photographer, are not the owner of the copyright.
If you instead use a contract that gives you the copyright, you are then able to license the work, and you then have control of the work. If you don't own the copyright to your works then you can run into situations where you would be required to obtain a license in order to make use of an image that you created.
I do 'work for hire' assignments all the time as part of my business.
I think the real 'danger' is not getting paid an appropriate amount in order to relinquish the copyright to my work. If you've set your payments appropriately, then work for hire can be extremely... and I mean extremely... lucrative for a photographer.


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Does an Outsider gain the Native subtype while on its home plane, and if so, what does that mean, exactly?
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The confusion comes from the word "Native", which is a bit misleading. The description is:
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So "Native" means "Native of the material plane" rather than "Native from the current plane". As the Material plane works differently than outside planes, Native Outsiders are somehow "less Outsiders" than "real Outsiders".
An Outsider not from the Material Plane would then not get the Native subtype while on its home plane.


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Our company wishes to keep an updated SharePoint List of our current customers for use in a InfoPath form.
Our ERP system is capable of exporting this on a timer job to a certain location (i.e. a disk drive) in the form of a .csv file.
My question is in regards on how to set up our SharePoint list, to automatically update itslef from this .csv file.
We would want something like a daily or weekly update during non-business hours.


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Proposed Rule Change Irks NFL Hall-of-Famer
A proposed NFL rule change involving hits to the head is still days away from being voted on but it's already causing controversy.
In a conference call on Thursday, the league's competition committee unveiled a list of proposals that included a rule in which a runner or tackler will no longer be able to initiate contact with the crown of his helmet. That would effectively end the oft-used move of lowering your head and nailing an opposing defender, a tactic as old as the game itself.
Rick McKay, president of the Atlanta Falcons and competition committee head, said that incidental contact won't be a penalty under the new rule. "We are trying to protect the runner or the tackler from himself in that instance," McKay said. St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher said he doesn't think the game will change with the new rule since "It's an obvious thing that I don't feel—nor did [Bengals coach][ Marvin [Lewis] and some others that we've talked to—we don't feel like it is going to be difficult to explain it and to coach it. We've been teaching the young players and the youth football organizations to see what you hit for years."
That hasn't sat well with everyone, however. Appearing on a Dallas radio show on Thursday, former Cowboys star running back Emmitt Smith said a penalty would be "almost impossible" to avoid. "If I'm a running back and I'm running into a linebacker, you're telling me I have to keep my head up so he can take my chin off?'' Smith told the radio station.
All 32 NFL owners will vote on the rule next week in Arizona. Other proposals include elimination of the so-called "tuck rule" which came into playing during the 2002 AFC divisional playoffs between New England and Oakland. Under the proposed change, a quarterback who loses the ball while trying to bring the ball back to his body will be charged with a fumble. The owners will also vote on offensive players being allowed to block low when moving toward their own goal line in the tackle box. One rule, passed last year, will be implemented this year as all players must wear thigh and knee pads.
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This week at the Big Ten tournament, for the first time in college basketball, the SportVU player-tracking cameras used by 15 NBA teams are capturing the exact location of every player and the basketball 25 times per second.
The early data shows something remarkable: Indiana forward Victor Oladipo might be even better than everyone thought. Oladipo scored 12 points on Friday, below his season average, but his hyper-advanced statistics told a different story. Oladipo led the Hoosiers in touches (60) and distance (2.42 miles), despite playing fewer minutes than some teammates. The sample size is small but he grabbed 11 of the 14 rebound opportunities within 3.5 feet of him for an efficiency rate that would lead the NBA. Also pretty good: Oladipo's doozy of a 360-degree dunk that iced Indiana's 80-64 win over Illinois.
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Assuming I rotate a disk, I want to know how long it takes to completely stop, and the number of revolutions it made since I removed my fingers off the disk.
Lets say a DVD I rotate with my fingers. I only know the radians per second (velocity) of the last moment I touched the disc.
Can you guys tell me where to start?
Im trying to implement this on an iPhone app. So it would be nice if you mention equations. It should not be exact.


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An upright squatting position is good for pushing and can be adopted if you have firm support from your partner. He can support you under the arms while you put your hands around the back of his neck.
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On August 17, G.I. Jobs magazine named Columbia College as one of its top schools for educating military learners. The magazine ranked the college in the top 15 percent of all schools nationwide based on the college's military-friendly policies including credit for military experience, stop-and-go flexibility and availability of online courses.
Servicemembers attending Columbia College can take classes anywhere in the world, from a war zone to a living room, with good Internet connectivity.
The Yellow Ribbon Program, a matching servicemembers' tuition program of the new GI Bill, went into effect August 1, 2009, just in time for fall enrollment. Servicemembers with at least 90 aggregate days of service who were on active duty after Sept. 11, 2001 are eligible for the expanded GI Bill, which essentially pays complete tuition. Eligible servicemembers also are eligible for a housing stipend and a $1,000 book stipend.
The Montgomery GI Bill reimbursed veterans for only a portion of tuition costs at private schools. Under the Yellow Ribbon Program of the new bill, tuition at private schools such as Columbia College is covered to a threshold of 50 percent of the highest public in-state tuition. For the state of Missouri, tuition rates are based on those of the University of Missouri. Columbia College has partnered with the VA to split the remaining tuition costs.
Tery Donelson, assistant vice president for enrollment management at Columbia College, called the program the most comprehensive education benefit offered to servicemembers since World War II. "Historically, when a new GI Bill goes into effect, the number of veterans enrolling in college increases," Donelson said, adding that he expects to see an enrollment spike. �The bottom line is, a qualifying veteran is not going to have to pay any tuition or fees to go to Columbia College,� Donelson said.
Columbia College has more than 1,300 veterans enrolled throughout its nationwide system of campuses, which includes facilities on 18 military bases including one in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. First add/Columbia College named top military-friendly school The college gives servicemembers academic credit for military training and education, meaning servicemembers enter Columbia College with a jump start on their degree.
Columbia College, a private, nonprofit institution founded in 1851 in Columbia, Mo., educates 25,000 students each year and has more than 61,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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I have a client and a server. The client makes a request containing userId, cardId, position (on the card)
A hacker could just do the same http request with the next position. So I think about creating a hash for the data. Using plain MD5 won't be enough.
Would it be secure enough to have some salt added? Like
md5(userId + cardId + position + "a very long random string")?


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The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines robbery as the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.
Expanded offense data are the details of the various offenses that the UCR Program collects beyond the count of how many crimes law enforcement agencies report. These details may include the type of weapon used in a crime, type or value of items stolen, and so forth. In addition, expanded data include trends (for example, 2-year comparisons) and rates per 100,000 inhabitants.
Expanded information regarding robbery is available in the following tables:
Trends (2-year): Tables 12, 13, 14, and 15
Rates (per 100,000 inhabitants): Tables 16, 17, 18, and 19
Weapons: Tables 15, 19, and 21
Location Type, average value of items stolen by location per robbery: Table 23
Robbery Table 1, "Robbery, Location, Percent Distribution by Region, 2009"
Robbery Table 2, "Robbery, Location, Percent Distribution by Population Group, 2009"
Robbery Table 3, "Robbery, Types of Weapons Used, Percent Distribution by Region, 2009"


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I have contacts from my GMail, Facebook and Twitter account. In my GMail accounts, I've saved my contacts with their first names or nicknames, so I end up having to manually link most of my Facebook & Twitter contacts with my GMail contacts. If I do a factory reset I have to repeat this process all over again. Is there a way I can backup/maintain the link between my contacts so that, after a factory reset, I can simply restore the links between contacts?
I believe backing up the data for the Contacts Storage and restoring it should restore linked-up contacts. You can do this with an app such as Titanium Backup (requires root).
Yes it should work.
If you look at your contacts in GMail you'll see an extra piece of data that stores the link information. At least mine have that for my HTC Desire.
This is what I see.
This means the sync data isn't stored on your phone at all, just as part of the contact info in Google.
Haven't tried, but this seems to be the solution:


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Originally Posted by SaswatPadhiWell, I too use smileys very often.
So nimesh, why do you (kinda) like the magenta faced smiley ?!
BTW, Look at these two smileys :
Smiley name : ##HANG#####HANGED
Smiley Image: ########
The man was initially plump while they hung him ... stayed there for long ... got dehydrated (or something) ... and shrunk !!!
well, here's saswat's favourite smiley
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What process do you use to select a typeface? How do you determine which types are best for long passages of text, which are best for headlines, etc.?
Readability aside, different typefaces invoke different feelings.
Before you think about what typefaces and other graphical elements to use, you have to ask yourself what the site is about and what mood you want to establish.
For example, Serifs typically are used for more traditional publications, while Sans-serif are more playful. (I'm over generalizing here).
HFJ has a great article on how to mix typefaces. In it, he categorizes each font with a feeling. I highly recommend reading it.
Well thats a tough question to answer... You are basically saying "tell me everything there is to know about typography".
Here's a short guide. First of all you have to consider on which media your text will be read. Will it be read of a computer screen or from a piece of paper? For body text "sans" fonts (Verdana, Arial etc.) are best for on-screen reading while serifs (Georgia, Times New Roman etc.) are better on paper.
When it comes to size its virtually impossible/extemely hard to choose A perfect font size for all your users. With all the different resolutions and dpi settings it will be extremely difficult to predict how big your font will end up looking. Typically if you want to journey on the safe side you will have a font size larger than 10 pts but smaller than 14 pts. The best way to go is to make your font scalable by the user so they can decide how big they want the font to be.
Other than that you probably don't need to worry too much.


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Today in Tweet Beat, Kathy Griffin's dog got into her trash, Steve Martin shows off his brain, and Hugh Hefner is thinking about how old he is.
COME ON YALL. gotta stop bullying these kids.. they're our future!!! u should have the right to be an individual...REALLY GOTTA STOP!
They moved SVU to new studios in Manhattan and I just saw a mouse in my dressing room.. I'm not scared of mice but....... Come on son!
Fun fact- 15 years ago today 'NSYNC began! First song? Star Spangled Banner. 15 years?! That's half my life!
I'm watching episode 1!!! Oh lawwwd....
Sitting with Quincy Jones getting knowledge.."Music and water is the last thing that will leave this planet"Quincy Jones
With the deaths of some very dear friends in the recent past, it makes one appreciate how wonderful it is to be alive.
Did you know it's possible to Tweet a concise, grammatical, correctly punctuated sentence that is exactly one hundred forty characters long?
LOVE how serious people take Twitter.
The other night I made a joke about a blow job.


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Getting values from server
I am using viewport.In west tree,In center dynamic grids on clicking the nodes of tree.
I am having one senario
when i click on the row of a grid an id is sent to the server then
the records which matches the id should be brought into another grid in the center region of the grid.
Code:Ext.Ajax.request( { url :'getCountries.json', params : { id :value}, success : function(form, action) { Ext.getCmp('content-panel').layout.setActiveItem('accordion-panel'); }});
Then i am calling the other grid which need to be displayed .
My problem is how should i configure my second grid's jsonStore so that it should know which is the id
Here i am sending the data as Ajax submit so do not respond with new page.
I want normal submit in agrid so that i can get new page as respond.
and my problem will be solved.
can any help me out how to submit the values to server so that i can get new page in response.
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If you want a new page, why not use window.open()?MJ
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I've been trying to teach my partner some set theory, and I got thrown for a loop while trying to give her a precise definition of some basic terminology. So we've heard of a set being described as "closed under" an operation, as well as an operation being "closed over" a set.
First, correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that these things mean the same thing.
Second, does this terminology have a precise definition? For instance we'd normally say that set $A$ is closed under $f:X\rightarrow Y$ if $A\subseteq X$ and for any $x\in A$, $f(x)\in A$. But it's also common to extend the definition such that $X$ isn't a superset of $A$ but of $A^n$ for some $n$. For instance, we'd say $A$ is closed under addition if the addition operator maps elements of $A^2$ to $A$. Does this extend to anything bigger than $n$-tuples? Infinite sequences, for instance?
Third, what's the motivation for this terminology and is it in any way related to the normal topological definition of closedness? There's a way that closed sets are related to sets that are closed under a particular operation in certain topological spaces (if you allow the usage that includes infinite sequences as above), but I haven't come up with a general relation between the two concepts. What's the motivation for saying an operation is closed over a set though, or is that just a corruption of the former? Does anyone know the historical reasoning behind any of this terminology?


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King Abdullah chairs Cabinet session (7/25/11)
July 25, 2011
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet session held at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah with a briefing on his talks last week with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and a message he received from Moroccan King Mohammed VI.
The Cabinet reviewed a number of reports on the latest regional developments and expressed, once again, grief over the continuation of incidents in some Arab countries that have resulted in civilian casualties. It called for all parties to resort to wisdom, dialogue and reform in order to protect the rights and dignity of the Arab people.
The Cabinet also expressed the Kingdom's sorrow over the terrible security and living conditions suffered by the people of Somalia. Noting that thousands of Somalis have died and thousands more have been displaced recently, the ministers urged the international community to rapidly intervene to end the humanitarian crisis. They also urged all Somalis to discard their differences and immediately cease combat operations in order to open roads for humanitarian assistance. The Cabinet praised the order issued by King Abdullah allocating $50 million to buy food for Somali refugees through the World Food Program (WFP); allocating $10 million to provide drugs and vaccines, in a joint effort between the Saudi Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO); and providing dates for Somali refugees.
The Cabinet denounced the takeover by Israeli forces of the French ship Dignite-Al-Karama, which was carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. It also denounced the Israeli government's decision to build 336 additional housing units in West Bank settlements, stressing that such practices, which coincide with the escalation of Israeli military aggression against Gaza, require the international community to stand firmly against Israel's violations of international law.
The Cabinet also expressed strong condemnation of the terrorist attacks that took place last Friday in Norway, resulting in the death and injury of scores of people. It renewed the Kingdom's strong condemnation of all forms of terrorism and offered condolences to the government and people of Norway, as well as to the families of the victims.
Turning to domestic issues, the Cabinet welcomed an order issued by King Abdullah increasing the subsidy for fodders and their components by 50% and ordering the tightening of controls on markets and prices through the imposition of tough penalties on violators. Then, the Cabinet was briefed on the preparations being made by various bodies in Makkah and Madinah to serve visitors to the Two Holy Mosques, as well as Umrah performers, during the holy month of Ramadan. Finally, the Cabinet hailed the opening of a conference entitled "The Muslim World: Issues and Solutions," organized by the Muslim World League (MWL).
Addressing its remaining agenda items, the Cabinet approved an amended agreement for Arab cooperation in the field of organizing and facilitating relief operations; approved the establishment of diplomatic relations with Guyana at the Non-Resident Ambassador level; approved a memorandum of cooperation between the Saudi Institute of Public Administration and the French National School of Management; approved a cooperation agreement in the field of research and peaceful uses of outer space with the Ukraine; and approved the final accounts of the Human Resources Development Fund for fiscal year 1430/1431 H.
The Cabinet approved the appointments of Dr. Ahmed Al-Rodan as Director General of Operations at the Ministry of Interior (15th rank); Abdulmajeed Al-Shumaisy as Assistant Undersecretary at the Ministry of Interior (14th rank); Mohammed Al-Harbi as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Fawaz Al-Fawaz as Director General of the Riyadh Branch of the Ministry of Civil Service at the Ministry of Civil Service (14th rank).
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Where may I find quality game music for reasonable fees? I'm willing to pay for the music, but I hope it is well done.
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http://www.jamendo.com/ is a decent place, no idea on prices though.
EDIT: Looks like an online game is $36.
That's a list of the paid sources from where can I find music/sound effects?, which see the link for more, including free sources.
Braid licensed tracks from MagnaTune. They have very easy licensing schemes, and you can choose to listen to the entire song on the website before you decide to commit to anything.
It can get expensive though. Quoted rates for a full song for 1 platform at 50k units without being the theme song or used in advertising is $3000.
There are Jamendo, or you can hunt people on LinkedIn...
Also some people are just plain awesome, I recommend:
Virt: http://www.biglionmusic.com/ (several musicians envy this guy)
Emmet Cooke (not a god of music, but his price is cheap for what he do...) http://soundtrack.ie/
Alexander Brandon (from Deus Ex and JJ2 fame): http://www.alexanderbrandon.net/
Jeremy Soule (from Total Annihilation, Secret of Evermore): http://www.artistryentertainment.com/index.html <<< note here, Jeremy seemly joined some group, LOTS of artists here, if they all are of the level of Jeremy, you will only find good music!
Skyrunner (friend of mine, make excellent music, and needs some music job :P) http://www.braincontrol.org/music.php
Finally, this site is geared toward games, and is excellent on his own: http://gamecues.com/
If I remember more, I add later... (I make music too! But I will not sell you, or give... My music is bad enough on my own game :P But I DO know lots of musicians, I only not remember properly now)
Haha, I thought this question was funny because I know the musicians are asking where all the game developers are.
Aside from plugging myself, if you're looking for an upstart wanting to specialize in game music, I'd suggest contacting the heads of the music departments of your local universities. Ask them if they've got any students who are focusing on game or film scoring; whenever I've had a gig and needed a player, the music heads have always been more than happy to get their students some professional experience.
PS use fancy musician lingo like "gig" to let them know you're serious.
As a matter of fact there are plenty of music options for an indie game developer on a tight budget.
1) Free (Creative Commons, Public Domain) music
Check out the directory below for plenty of links to both 1) and 2).
http://www.safemusiclist.com - directory of safe and legal music resources for filmmakers, video producers, and game developers.
Please hire game composer Joshua Morse. I've worked with him on two projects:
And he's incredible. I can't recommend him highly enough.
My name is Matt Poirier. I wrote the music and sound for Octix. If you need music then I could do it for cheap. Here is some of my music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpm97YjcDWY
Check out our website, App Tracks. We can do bespoke music, and there's also a library of some affordably priced loops too.
There is a bunch of free music at OpenGameArt, and by free I mean completely free.
However the best option might be to get a actual musician into your team, having music tailored towards your game is a big plus to the feel of the game. And unless you ask a experienced professional it shouldn't be more costly than "buying" existing music.
This guy makes quality trance style music that's great for loops in games. You can request new tracks/loops to be made for fairly decent prices.
You can shortish, but very cheap looping background music on Melody Loops. The browsing interface is very user-friendly.
I like the selection at Soundrangers.
http://www.shockwave-sound.com/ is worth a look, it seems quite affordable for indies, if you can find tracks which suit your game.
They offer two tiers of pricing - a basic license for up to 5000 copies distributed, and a 'mass-market' license for more than that.
Based on my recent (and first) experience with this, I would say do not hire a musician to make tunes for you if you are a small studio.
Typical cost is $100/minute of music, which is:
1) way too much to pay
2) You still have to do the back and forth of "Oh, make these changes" until he gets it right.
Both these things are serious drawbacks, and in the end, you might not even get what you want, and instead have to settle with something "OK".
It is much better, as a small developer, to browse existing selections and license from there.
* Will add more when I find more
I would just post on a few game developers forums. Here are some:
Most have a jobs section or a portfolio section. Write what you are looking for, perhaps examples of the style you want, and give some hint of your price range.
I am a composer and I have been posting my portfolio everywhere trying to find developers who are in need of original music. Many composers will be willing to do it for free to expand their portfolio and in hopes of meeting new people.
Get your own music written for you! And help some writers grow in the process :)
And for shameless self promotion, you should check out my music ;)
I really like Audio Network. I've never purchased music from them, but:


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5 Popular Safety Measures That Don't Make You Any Safer
It's so hard to think logically about safety. We figure that any time our health or the safety of our children is at stake, it's better safe than sorry. Our safety is too important for logic, damn it!
Unfortunately, this leads to a whole lot of well-publicized and expensive safety measures that are often worthless, or downright dangerous. Like...
#5. Airport Security Measures
After 9/11, we knew that stopping terrorism would take a bold, creative strategy, one flexible enough to adapt quickly to changes in tactics. How about this: let's find every person who's shown even the slightest criminal tendency and bar them from ever getting on a plane!
And America was saved forever.
Thus the no fly list was established. It is estimated to have around 1 million names but nobody knows for sure. Keeping the list secret is a matter of national security, so the only way to find out if you're on it is to be detained in the airport. Or in the air. For instance, in 2005 a 747 flight from Amsterdam to Mexico was turned back before it could reach its destination. The reason? Two of the plane's passengers were on the no fly list and the flight crossed over US airspace. Well, better safe than sorry, right?
But while those two anonymous passengers were terrifying enough to ban from flying over America, they weren't enough of a threat to be worth arresting. There's a reason security expert Bruce Schneier described the No-Fly list as "a list of people so dangerous they cannot be allowed to fly under any circumstance, yet so innocent we can't arrest them even under the Patriot Act."
Is it weird that we're more afraid of this man's beard than of terrorists?
And that wasn't an isolated incident. Seven international flights have been diverted, at a cost of roughly $6.25 million, and countless flights and passengers have been delayed. Homeland Security Affairs estimates the total cost of the list to our government at $100 million a year. But hey, fighting terror isn't cheap. At least no terrorists are getting on planes!
Well, unless you count those 11 terrorists in England with the sophisticated plot to blow up planes with liquid explosives. You know, the ones who are the reason you can't take a child-sized bottle of shampoo onto the plane any more. None of them managed to stumble onto the no fly list ... even though they'd been under surveillance for more than a year.
This article is dedicated to every person who has been strip-searched
by the TSA for trying to smuggle in the wrong-size bottle of contact lens solution.
It turns out it's even possible to beat the no fly list even if the authorities aren't terribly incompetent. All a potential terrorist would need to do is use a false name and get a fake ID. Security experts have also created boarding pass generators on the Internet to prove how worthless the whole system is. CBS was able to purchase tickets on three airlines and bypass security in five airports using a $150 fake license.
"$150? That's half our monthly weed budget!"
Not that most terror-inclined individuals would even need a fake ID. The no fly list is filled with tons of dead people and foreign politicians along with small children and Marine veterans but is surprisingly light on real terrorists. Christmas Day underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab bought a one-way flight from Lagos to Detroit by way of Amsterdam and paid in cash. Umar's own father called US officials several times in the months before the flight, warning them that his son had terrorist-y plans. Umar, who didn't get the plane to crash because the bomb in his pants wouldn't go off, never made it onto the no fly list.
But that's OK, since said underwear bomber has prompted governments around the world to install full-body scanners in their airports. You know, the ones that let the operator see your genitals. In late 2009 the TSA ordered $165 million worth of full body scanners, and countries like Canada have followed suit. But it's worth it, to stop terrorists like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab! Only, they wouldn't have stopped him. Let's quote Rafi Sela, former chief security officer for the Israel Airport Authority:
"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747,"
Presumably, Mr. Sela has now been added to the no fly list.
These scanners would also have done nothing to detect the failed 2006 liquid bomb plot or the 2005 London train bombing. They can't even detect objects stuffed inside the body. For a visual example, check out this video of a rotund German man besting a full-body scanner. The machine caught his pocket knife, cell phone and microphone...
...but it didn't notice the armload of chemical bomb components he was carrying.
#4. Anti-Lock Brakes and Bike Helmets
Safety equipment on vehicles creates a kind of weird Catch-22. On one hand, you can show in the laboratory that anti-lock brakes do make cars stop faster. Bicycle helmets do protect a skull when it hits the pavement. But then you factor in the element of human behavior -- namely, the fact that most of us are insane -- and much of that goes out the window.
It starts with something called the Peltzman effect which Almighty Wikipedia defines as "the hypothesized tendency of people to react to a safety regulation by increasing other risky behavior, offsetting some or all of the benefit of the regulation."
"I'm wearing a bright vest and eye protection. What's the harm in dropping a few grams of mescaline?"
This fits in with what the Highway Loss Data Institute learned about anti-lock brakes. A 10 year study showed no reduction in the frequency or severity of crashes due to anti-lock brakes. A person in an ABS vehicle actually has a 45 percent greater chance of dying in a single-vehicle crash than someone without ABS. Science's explanation? Unskilled drivers driving more aggressively thanks to their false sense of security.
Likewise, there are multiple studies showing that bicycle helmets, in the long run, don't actually reduce the number of injuries. In 2006 a researcher in Bath, England posted up the results of a study showing that when bicyclists wear safety equipment like helmets, people in cars are more likely to hit them. A scientist/test subject found that motorists came an average of 3.35 inches closer to his bike when he rode protected. The sight of the safety gear turned off the common sense part of their brain.
Still, you'd think that in the long run, there'd have to be health benefits to head protection. After all, some countries, like Australia, have made helmets mandatory for all cyclists. A bunch of states in the U.S. have bike helmet laws, and the fight for helmet laws in other states rages on. Some people think it's weird that the government can tell you what kind of hat to wear during a certain activity, but at least bike fatalities have gone down. They have gone down, right?
Not according to science. Recent studies from Australia suggest that mandatory helmet laws have the opposite effect. Between 1982 and 1989 -- prior to the helmet laws -- the country saw its number of cyclists double (bicycles actually give pedestrians a decent chance of outrunning the crocodiles and flying jellyfish). You'd expect bike-related injuries and fatalities to have shot up during the same period.
Instead, they dropped -- deaths plummeted by 48 percent, while injuries fell 33 percent. This seems a little counter-intuitive until you account for human behavior. More people riding bikes leads to motorists who get used to sharing the road with them. But then, in 1992, they passed the laws making bike helmets mandatory. It was a disaster. 1995 and 1996 saw higher numbers of cyclist head injuries than any year prior to the law's passage.
How is that possible? Well, the fashion consequences of mandatory helmets caused the women of Australia to stop cycling. Apparently they valued the hair on their head more than the brain inside it. Since there weren't any girls to impress, the boys stopped cycling too.
Possibly because of the shorts.
Cyclists are rarer, motorists are less likely to be on the lookout for them, so there are more accidents. And -- to make it even worse -- you lose the health benefits you were getting from cycling. In total, Macquarie University found that Australia's helmet laws cause as much as half a billion dollars in health-related costs every year. It doesn't matter what kind of data you get from a helmeted crash test dummy; a real human just doesn't want to look like a dork.
Toe tags, on the other hand, are fucking stylin'.
#3. Sunscreen
Quack snake oil peddlers may have gotten away with some ridiculous things when our grandparents were in diapers, but people today are much more discerning. At least until someone in a lab coat says the word "cancer."
Good for 30 IQ points and eight years of college.
Don't get us wrong; last year 8,650 people in the United States died of melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer. Summertime PSAs and middle school health teachers lead us to believe that we could avoid the same grisly fate by slathering on enough high SPF sunscreen to make us look like we fell into the mayonnaise vat they keep behind every Burger King.
Well, while it's true that tanning is about as retarded as drinking radium, the idea that sunscreen will protect you from skin cancer is wishful thinking. A study released in May 2010 showed that 92 percent of sunscreen lotions on the market are completely ineffective.
Worse, one common sunscreen additive, retinyl palmitate, has been found by the FDA to speed up skin lesions and act as a photocarcinogenic. Oxybenzone, a chemical you'll find in Coppertone and a ton of other big-name sunblocks, has been linked to contact eczema and breast cancer. But hey, at least you'll be safe from melanoma!
And the dreaded specter of ass cancer.
Unless you aren't. If you listened in health class, you know to look for a sunscreen with an SPF above 30. Unfortunately, SPF only measures the sunscreen's ability to block UVB radiation, not UVA radiation. This is a problem because it's actually UVA radiation that causes skin cancer. This is where the confusion sets in over whether you're using sunscreen to prevent cancer, or sunburn. Most people are worried about the latter, even though all the warnings we hear are about the former.
Mr. Sun is just six kinds of Asshole, isn't he?
It gets worse. The FDA has yet to create any regulations for how sunscreens are allowed to indicate their UVA protection. As a result, tons of sunscreen manufacturers have started marketing their products as having "broadspectrum" protection. This would seem to indicate that the sunscreen protects you against both types of ray, but it is actually a completely meaningless marketing term.
Maybe we should apologize to the spray-on tan crowd after all.
Maybe not.


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Edit: it fixed itself, but I have no idea how...
I have a new laptop running Ubuntu 11.04. If I have certain USB devices (a wireless mouse, or my camera, but not a USB flash drive) plugged in to any of the computer's USB ports, Ubuntu won't boot. (They work fine as long as I plug them in once I can see an Ubuntu splash screen.) It gets to GRUB, and if I run in recovery mode, it starts booting, then freezes at about 2 seconds, and goes to a black screen. (Without recovery mode, it just does the black screen.)
Ctrl+Alt+F1 does nothing; I also can't ssh into it at this point. Removing kernel options
quiet splash from GRUB did nothing except give a "Loading, please wait..." message with the USB not plugged in; the same for replacing them with
noapic. My BIOS has no "legacy USB" option that I can find.
Nothing I can find in /var/log is updated when this happens, so I have no logs.
Any ideas?


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The Rules of Gentility (Paperback)
Regency heiress Philomena Wellesley-Clegg has rather strong opinions about men and clothing. As to the former, so far two lords, a viscount, and a mad poet have fallen far short of her expectations. But she is about to meet Inigo Linsley, an unshaven, wickedly handsome man with a scandalous secret. He's nothing she ever dreamed she'd want—why then can she not stop thinking about how he looks in his breeches?
A delightful marriage of Pride and Prejudice with Bridget Jones's Diary, Janet Mullany's The Rules of Gentility transports us to the days before designer shoes, apple martinis, and speed dating—when great bonnets, punch at Almack's, and the marriage mart were in fashion—and captivates us with a winsome heroine who learns that some rules in society are made to be broken.
About the Author
The author of Jane and the Damned, Janet Mullany was reared in England on a diet of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer and now lives near Washington, D.C. She has worked as an archaeologist, waitress, draftsperson, radio announcer, performing arts administrator, proof-reader, and bookseller.


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Step 1: Begin your search.
Step 2: Browse the results until you find an article that meets your research needs and see if Full Text is available to you.
Example article WITH Full Text available:
Notice the link to PDF Full Text?
That means that you can simply download the article by clicking that link.
Example article WITHOUT Full Text available:
Notice the Find It link?
This means that this database does not provide Full Text access to the article but it does provide you with the opportunity to search other KSC resources.
Step 3: Click the Find It link.
..and you see a screen similar to this:
Step 4: See if there are other ways to obtain the journal.
If there are, then you must use them rather than requesting an article via ILL. Notice the text that states, "Sorry, no holdings were found for this journal." in the image above? This means that the particular article is unavailable to KSC via any of our resources except Interlibrary Loan. If there were other resources, they'd be listed with links to them instead.
Step 5: Request article through Interlibrary Loan.
Simply do this by clicking the link (in step 3) that reads "Request an article through Interlibrary Loan" and you will then be presented with either a log-in request or the ILL request form.
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5 Optical Illusions That Prove You Can't Trust Your Own Mind
You've been seeing optical illusions probably since kindergarten. They're fun little party tricks that you look at on the Internet and go "Eh, that's weird" before immediately forgetting about them. And that's too bad, because these images are actually exposing glaring gaps in our brain's fragile sense of reality.
For example ...
#5. Your Brain Changes What Your Eyes See to Force It to Make Sense
This illusion is so bizarre that you'll probably call bullshit on it even after you see it explained. Take a look at squares A and B in the above picture. The squares are the exact same shade of gray. Not the letters -- the squares themselves.
We know you don't believe us. Take it into Photoshop -- cut out the "B" square and move it up:
Adrian Pingstone / Edward Adelson via Wikipedia
Now scroll back up and look at the original again. Bullshit, right?
What the Hell?
Every human should have this tattooed onto their arm, just so they don't forget it:
You see with your brain, not your eyes.
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Of course, your brain could just alter what's written on your arm.
When you observe the world, your eyes aren't just lenses that coldly record whatever is in front of you. Instead, your brain adjusts the image for context from moment to moment. And in this case, it's filtering what you see based on a built-in knowledge of what shadows are.
Your brain understands that the floor is a checkerboard pattern of dark and light squares. It sees that there is an object casting a shadow over it. It knows that square B is still one of the "light" squares, even though it's the same color in the shadow as the dark squares are in the light, so in order to avoid confusion, it automatically adjusts the lightness of square B for you before that shit reaches your consciousness. It's like you've got an entire Hollywood VFX crew living in your skull, fixing the world in post-production before you actually get to see it. Keep that in mind the next time you hear some eyewitness testimony.
We could give you endless examples of this trickery. Take these two yellow lines, which are exactly the same length:
Don't believe us? Go try it on an actual railroad track!
Most people see the top line as being bigger, obviously because it thinks that one is farther away due to the "tracks." And even beyond the visual, you're unconsciously adjusting the world for context all the time. For example, if you hold a large and small box of equal weight, you will perceive the large box as lighter. Or, if you drink soda after eating cake, it will taste less sweet.
What's amazing is that you cannot unsee or unfeel these illusions despite all of the information to the contrary.
#4. Your Brain Predicts the Future So You Can Live in the Present
These two lines are actually perfectly straight and parallel, but they look like they're bulging outward in the middle. Stare at it for a while -- is that a touch of motion sickness you feel, or did you just eat a bad taco?
What the Hell?
The blue lines are tricking your brain into believing that you're moving toward the image, in much the same way you use lines in a doodle to show which way something is moving. Your brain interprets lines as motion, like in Star Wars, where we knew they were going fast because the stars turned into a vortex of white lines in their windshield:
Lucasfilm/20th Century Fox
"Sir, the vertical lines aren't actu-"
"Shut him up or shut him down!"
So why are the red lines bulging? Here's where it gets really weird -- that's the way your brain expects them to look in the future.
As we've already mentioned, there's a fair bit of calculation going on in your head from the time the light hits your eyes to the time you actually perceive something. This calculation is super quick, but it still takes time -- about one-tenth of a second. That means that you're actually living one-tenth of a second in the past at any one time. It's like a really shitty superpower.
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Somewhere between being able to detach your own limbs and the ability to grow nipple hair at will.
So why are we still able to dodge fast-moving objects and not getting brained by flying baseballs? Because your brain has that shit covered. It actually predicts the future and adjusts the world accordingly. The world you're seeing is actually your brain's prediction about what the world will look like one-tenth of a second after you actually perceive it. That is to say, it brings you back to the present.
Because of perspective, two parallel poles will appear to bulge out a tiny bit as you pass between them. Your brain knows this, so it automatically puts that bulge in when it thinks you're hurtling toward the red lines. That's right: Precognition is real, but it only allows you to see into the present.
#3. You Interpret What You See Piece by Piece
Here's a picture of President Obama upside-down. You recognize him right away and nothing looks off about him, other than the fact that the image is flipped. Turn him over, though, and you realize you've been lied to. It's actually a terrifying alien parody of a human being.
It's the Manchurian Candidate from the Uncanny Valley!
What the Hell?
Your brain processes visual stimuli in pieces before it makes a whole image. When you look at a face, you see a face. But what your brain sees are pieces of a face -- eyes, nose, and mouth. Each piece of the puzzle is recognized separately, so even if we flip Obama's head over, we don't see anything weird about him as long as his eyes and mouth are the right way up. It doesn't work the other way -- your brain sees an upside-down face on a right-side-up head and just throws its arms up in confusion. Its brain-arms.
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"Fucked if I know."
This is due to a flaw in what's called vestibular correction -- it's your eyesight trying to adjust for anything that's weird about how your head is oriented (in this case, seeing it as if you were upside-down). Think of it this way: Why are movies like Cloverfield, with their shaky camera, so headache-inducing? Aren't our eyes whipping around just as much as that camera when we're running, or even just looking quickly around the room? Yes, but under normal circumstances, your brain steadies all of that shaky, unsteady input and gives you one smooth, coherent picture.
And your innate sense of balance tells your subconscious which way is up, so even if you tilt your head to the side, you still see a diamond as a diamond and a square as a square. Try it:
Put down the monitor, please. Just tilt your head.
That team of graphic designers living in your head picks out every individual object in your visual field and adjusts them separately so that what you're looking at makes sense, and it does all of this in a fraction of a fraction of a second. But it does it without a ton of attention to detail, which is why a horrible monstrosity can pose as the president just by standing on his head.