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8 Ordinary Things That Look Insanely Cool Under a Microscope
A really powerful microscope is the sort of thing nobody would buy for entertainment, yet we can't shake the feeling that if we had one, we'd use it all the time. That's because, as we've proven several times over, the most mundane crap in your house is transformed into surreal, freaky, trippy, and sometimes terrifying works of art when viewed at a microscopic level. It's like seeing into an alternate universe.
Don't know what we mean? Well, check out the mind-blowing close-up views of ...
#8. Chalk
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For decades, chalk was used in classrooms to spread knowledge to large groups of students, and in recess to spread the myth that hopscotch was fun. It turns into powder when you use it, so up close it probably just looks like, what, sand or something? It can't be too exciting ...
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It kinda looks like we should be worshiping it.
Huh. Apparently, chalk is a bunch of tiny little soccer balls ... if soccer balls were made out of dead bodies, that is.
Yes, those yarmulke-looking things are actually the shells of dead microscopic organisms like foraminifera mixed with the corpses of sea algae. So the next time you see a chalk outline of a murder victim, just know that it was created with the help of about a billion teeny-weeny corpses. It's pretty much the ultimate counter to that circle-of-life crap that Disney likes to shove down our throats.
#7. Kosher Salt
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Kosher salt is the slightly chunkier cousin of regular salt, so named due to its ability to soak up the blood of various meats, rendering them kosher. It's pretty much Dracula in salt form.
But Up Close:
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The microscopic ancient Mayans sacrificed many innocents here.
Wait, when did Dracula leave Transylvania and move to an ancient temple? Because that's exactly what a crystal of kosher salt looks like. This isn't food; this is something a tiny little Indiana Jones would invade while searching for long-lost religious artifacts that will melt Nazis' faces off.
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We'll be shocked if that thing isn't filled with wee little Predators and Aliens.
And here's another shot, lest you think the first one was just a lucky angle. Nope: Kosher salt, across the board, is made out of tiny pyramids. So the next time the office racist starts ranting and rambling about some vast Zionist conspiracy, show them these pictures as proof that, if they've ever ingested kosher salt, they now have little Illuminati pyramids floating around inside them. Then take cover, because exploding heads tend to be quite messy and sticky.
#6. Orange Juice
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No false advertising here: This is juice, and it is very much orange. No other juice is that straightforward. If you ever call tomato juice "red juice," for example, you're either a baby, insane, or a straw man we just created for the sake of this joke.
But Up Close:
This is what a screwdriver looks like if you replace the vodka with LSD.
As it turns out, orange juice only contains the slightest hint of orange. In fact, it looks more like Jackson Pollock's busted windshield than something you pour down your gullet whenever you're sick with the flu.
This picture is courtesy of our old friends at Bevshots, who magnify dried droplets of various drinks and then photograph the results. They tend to stick to alcoholic drinks mainly, but occasionally venture into the world of non-booze, as long as you can easily mix it with booze, as is the case here.
So now you know; enjoy a tall glass of yellow-purple-blue-green-red-pink-orange-brown-silver glass shards, liquefied into juice form and then turned solid orange somehow, in the morning. It's part of a complete breakfast.
#5. Snow
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Beautiful, precious, unique specks of icy poetry, perfect to romp around in with childlike joy. Or miserable little tundras that cause mass chaos at the grocery store, back up traffic for miles upon miles, and force you to waste precious hours shoveling out your driveway. Take your pick.
But Up Close:
Science Musings
That big one in the center has acne.
Oh, bullshit; no way that's real. That's one of those construction-paper deals that schoolchildren make when the teacher has a migraine or a hangover, right? Nope, it's very much an actual snowflake in all its microscopic glory.
But here's the kicker: It doesn't even look like a good snowflake. Seriously, you'd think a real snowflake, even up close, would still look the friggin' part. Instead, it looks like something little Johnny crapped out in two minutes so he could get back to eating the clay. We all know nature isn't perfect, but we're shocked that something so beautiful and crystalline would actually garner us a C-minus in art class.
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"Now, Creation, you can do better than that. No recess for you today."


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VIIth Int'l Ballet Festival-Mariinsky
Posted 22 September 2006 - 07:48 AM
April 12 - 22.
No program given yet.
Posted 16 October 2006 - 10:08 AM
IIRC, the Mariinsky Theatre was to close for renovations starting 1 Jan 2007
Posted 16 October 2006 - 10:10 AM
Posted 18 October 2006 - 12:07 AM
Colour me shocked
I think the renovations have been dropped.
Posted 21 February 2007 - 09:14 AM
We await an official schedule from the Mariinsky Theater and, of course, there will be the inevitable cancellations/shufflings even after that press announcement is made.
p.s. Festival-goers who are tired of DonQ can hop over to the Maly-Mussorgsky Theater on April 14 to see the smaller troupe's autumn-2006 reconstruction of the original Petipa/Glazunov Raymonda (assuming that the operaandballet site's schedules of all St Petersburg theaters will stick). Former Kirov prima, Gabriela Komleva, had a hand in this revival, which is said to resurrect some rarely-heard portions of the original Glazunov score, such as Raymonda's 'oriental solo' of Act II (which Nureyev used in a modernistic dance for Abderakhman, in the POB version). Another reason to contemplate a trip to St Petersburg in mid-April.
Posted 02 March 2007 - 09:34 AM
Casting is yet to be announced, although a French web site has unofficially reported that the POB's Matthieu Ganio will be Albrecht in Giselle.
Posted 02 March 2007 - 10:21 AM
And Prodigal dates from before Balanchine ever set foot on US soil.
Also interesting: the night of the Balanchine Triple Bill of Serenade/Prodigal/Diamonds (Ap. 21) is now titled "The Americans," even though all three ballets are composed by Russians, the choreographer is a Russian-born American & no work has an obviously-American theme.
Posted 02 March 2007 - 05:36 PM
To see schedule....
To register (touch "english" first, upper right)....
Posted 03 March 2007 - 06:23 AM
I think the renovations have been dropped.
I only just saw this now! So have they definitely been dropped?
Posted 03 March 2007 - 10:01 AM
Ostrich, my understanding is that the old theater will stay open (restoration will not be started) until the new second theater is completed.
Posted 07 March 2007 - 06:11 AM
On the 20th, instead of Swan Lake will be Don Quixote.
On the 14th, instead of Don Quixote will be Romeo and Juliette.
On the 19th, ballets of W. Forsythe, as originally planned.
Posted 07 March 2007 - 07:19 AM
Let's hope that 'Flora' does 'Awaken' on the 12th and 13th of April. 'Ondine' finally materialized last year after having originally been announced to open the 2003 Festival.
Posted 07 March 2007 - 08:01 AM
There's always the Mussorgsky/Mikhailovsky Raymonda...is it on the 14th?
Posted 07 March 2007 - 08:57 AM
There's always the Mussorgsky/Mikhailovsky Raymonda...is it on the 14th?
Correct. I would skip the 'R&J' on the 14th -- especially if you saw the recent performances of that ballet at the Kennedy Center or in California -- & head for the Maly-Moussorgsky to see their supposedly-glorious 'Raymonda' that night. Komleva & Boyarchikov are said to have recreated a version that is even closer to Petipa than is the current Kirov staging by Konstantin Sergeev.
The website below mistakenly titles the M-M Raymonda as "ballet in two acts"; if you read the synopsis, it's the full three acts.
The above link is for only one of several St Petersburg ticket agencies but at least it gives a good idea of what's on. By the way, my experience with the M-M Theater is that they juggle their schedules less so that the Kirov-Mariinsky. I once bought a ticket for their 'Esmeralda' two months before the show and the schedule for the month in question never changed. Always a risk of switcheroo, though. But at least this is something.
Posted 09 March 2007 - 08:41 AM
I would skip the 'R&J' on the 14th
...Cojocaru and Kobborg announced to dance it...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Fortune teller extraordinaire
Aries: At some point this week, place $4,520 dollars in a gray Adidas gym bag. Head to 42nd & 3rd, and place it under the door stoop with 2 green ferns beside it. Walk one block west, and tell a hobo named "Slappy" that the "pesto is in the pasta." If, and ONLY if you do this, you will have a fantastic and disease-free weekend!
Taurus: You're astrological sign shares its name with a shitty Ford sedan. Expect a shitty week.
Gemini: Don't take public transportation this week. Unless the death of a small Polynesian village doesn't matter to you - you ass.
Cancer: Your astrological sign looks like "69." Something tells me your week will be just fine. Enjoy.
Leo: You're going to have an active yet relaxing week, as you meet up with old friends or entirely new people. At times you'll feel outgoing, but sometimes reserved. You'll strive for new experiences or remain complacent in your comfortably stagnant ways. You'll either get or lose money - and be either happy or sad about that. You see where I'm going with this? Great.
Virgo: A lost love from your past will email you tomorrow, spilling their guts about how they never stopped loving you and will gladly give up their entire life for the chance to be with you once again. Unfortunately, (s)he sent it to the wrong email address. Therefore, your week will carry on uneventfully, with take-out food dinners, shitty TV, and a farting boyfriend/girlfriend with bad breath that you want to stab in the night as they sleep.
Libra: Remember that guy you cut off in traffic yesterday? No? Well oddly enough, he remembers you. And he just found out where you live. Have a relaxing week!
Scorpio: Do you honestly expect to be given a horoscope reading after what you did? Oh I know what you did. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID.
Sagittarius: Near the end of this week is a great time to call your boss a motherfucker. You'll be showered with respect, promotions, money, and prizes. I'm sure of it.
Capricorn: Your horoscope is so special and secretive, that I can't even share it with everyone else - only you.
Aquarius: This week is as good as any to subscribe to Wooden Boat Magazine.
Pisces: Stay away from chicken salad and tuna salad this week. Trust me. Or don't trust me. But you ARE reading a horoscope right now, so that means you don't believe in free will or silly things like 'science,' so I'd just do what I say.
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The tricky thing about Cancer, though, is that while it LOOKS like 69, it's ACTUALLY crabs. Coincidence?ReplyDelete
Capricorn gets Rick and I get a wooden boat? Next exam I want my cover to be in purple with sparkles and stars... gold ones for the exceptional student that I am.ReplyDelete
*runs around house frantically closing and locking doors*ReplyDelete
Sagittarius: Near the end of this week is a great time to call your boss a motherfucker. You'll be showered with respect, promotions, money, and prizes. I'm sure of it.ReplyDelete
I do this a lot, actually. This week, though, I happened to do it in front of another co-worker who isn't used to my foul mouth (because for some reason they think I'm sweet and nice and charming) and the boss threated to fire me. I told him "go ahead! it'd make my life a hell of a lot easier." He just chuckled.
What Nubian said..but my paper still needs to be PINK..and only PINK..with the glitter and stars of course..ReplyDelete
Poor Sunshine..that's what happens when your married to the boss..at least that was my problem. They just laugh at you and tell you to get back to work..
@ Dr Becca: Beautiful insight...ReplyDelete
@ Nubian: Now THAT'S earning extra credit right there! Displaying a clear understanding of activities related to class happening outside of class (Darwin Weeps)! A+ for the week!
@ Elly: How many people did you cut off?!
@ Sunshine: That's what I like to hear - a healthy dose of hatred toward authority :-)
@ hisqueen: Wait, do you deserve extra credit too, or are you just following along with Nubian??
Mine is so accurate! I am having a shitty week!ReplyDelete
"Libra: Remember that guy you cut off in traffic yesterday? No? Well oddly enough, he remembers you. And he just found out where you live. Have a relaxing week!"ReplyDelete
Great. Now I'm scared!
If I get murdered in my sleep tonight by the estranged man who "feels" like I cut him off while I was merging into the empty lane while he switched lanes 10 car lengths back and then gunned it to 95 mph right as I was merging over, well, then that would seem like a totally normal way to go given what the Libra horoscope says.ReplyDelete
As a Scorpio ... uhh this is accurate any day of any week. Unless you've just recently started paying attention to what scorpios do then... umm sorry!?!ReplyDelete
Woo hoo, 69!!!ReplyDelete
They all apply. Now what?ReplyDelete
You are rather good at this. Therefore I declare you the "boss" of me. Thus you are a mofo.ReplyDelete
(I'm a Gemini, the two-faced sign, but my alter-ego is Sagittarius.)
@ Vinny: See? The stars never lie.ReplyDelete
@ meleah: Of course that was never my intention - MUWHAHAHA!
@ Wannabe Housewife: That was some beautiful imagery of road rage.
@ Not the Hero: It's okay, I forgive you :-)
@ Bearman: Wait, is this Bearman or Denny?!
@ Antares: Now it looks like you're going to have a helluva busy week!
@ dbs: I like that equation! You = good, therefore you = boss = mofo.
Ah, yes, the wisdom of telling my boss (who is also myself) she's a motherfucker is that I will be able to capitalize on my Capricorn nature and watch me some puppets. Potter puppets. Making my lameness complete enough that I wil require further astrological guidance. You devious swine, you.ReplyDelete
PS: Hi-to-the-MOTHERFUCKING-larious.
wow. that was scarily accurate. I assume, since half the fortune will go unnoticed by me. but the part about my farting boyfriend? hooboy.ReplyDelete
Oh, how I would love to take this advice this week. My boss is acting like a jerk.ReplyDelete
@ Nicole: By being your own boss, I believe you opened up a wormhole in the time-space continuum or something.ReplyDelete
@ andygirl: lol - "hooboy." Oh how 1 word can say so much.
@ Sarah P: Go for it Sarah - go for it.
Slappy said he was allergic to pine nuts, now what?ReplyDelete
Wooden Boat Magazine? I hate magazines but now you have me feeling anxious. This was not what I was hoping for.ReplyDelete
My week is going to be shitty? Well shit.ReplyDelete
Um. true story I'm a cancer.ReplyDelete
And i rarely have good weeks.
So........... there's a flaw in your logic. But, I do try to represent my sign as often as possible. haha
Quit your day job, Dr. Cyn. You have a gift.ReplyDelete
@ Meg: Now you Judo-chop his sternum and run.ReplyDelete
@ Linda: Don't doubt the power of Wooden Boat Magazine - it has a certain allure that is intoxicating.
@ Chelle: :-( So sorry Chelle.
@ bluntdelivery: Now you're talkin!
@ singlegirlie: With this gift comes great responsibility. I'll use it for good. Unless I'm angry one day - which I suppose is everyday. Hmm... so angry. Am I still talking?!
- Sadie without the S9/16/11, 8:30 AM
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How We Die, How We Live
Richard Goldstein in The Nation complains that Joan Didion's celebrated The Year of Magical Thinking and Philip Roth's latest novel, Everyman tell us "that death is an insular experience that transcends social circumstance. This ultimately conservative message is part of the same process that has put self-obsession front and center in American politics." We middle and upper-middle class Americans have a "hermetic approach to dying." He adds that during the 1980s AIDS crisis in the U.S. "each casualty was situated in a suffering community." As it is in Africa now.
Agreed? And how does this view -- very much from the cultural left -- agree or disagree with Catholic understandings of death?
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John,I am not prepared to subscribe to another magazine just to read Richard Goldstein, but from the excerpts I would say he is rather insular and has a hermetic style which which leaves me puzzled. So much for humility. I have nothing much to say about Philip Roth. I suspect all his books are about Phllip Roth, and this might lead to suspicions of self obsession. But then all of Dickens'books, or almost all, seem to be about Dickens, and he carries it off. Obviously death most affects the deceased. I think we all agree about that. Thereafter it most affects those closest to the deceased. On the whole I think that is natural. I cried recently at the funeral of someone I met once, but I did know his parents. I suspect the reasons why I did that are complex. There was a sense of community, but more than that. In the Iliad the slave women that belong to Achilles lament for his dead friend Patroclus who was kind to them but the poet say they also wept for themselves. I don't think that Joan Didion's reaction to a very bad year can be fairly described as self-obsession. And her making a book out of it all was natural. She is a natural writer with a flair for choosing the right words. The more I think about Richard Goldstein, the less I am inclined like the idea that I would agree with him about anything none trivial.
Didion and Roth (and I'd include Tom Wolfe in the group) are among a class of writers who look at life--and death--with the kind of detached scrutiny that makes you go "ick!" at everything they show you.I'd say these writers reflect an impulse to hermetic living in our culture. Lord knows there are days I'd rather use the ATM, the self-serve gas pump, the auto-checkout, or online shopping instead of having to put on my "public" face and deal with a live person. And if we have a tendency to find other people inconvenient when they're alive and kicking, how much more inconvenient are they when they're losing their mental and physical faculties to death?To what extent do we want to go to Mass on Sunday because we want to do what Jesus said, and love each other? And to what extent do we go in order to separate ourselves from the "impure" world of nonbelievers and update our fire insurance?
I can't help being struck by the contrast between Goldstein's comment that Didion and Roth paint death as an "insular experience" with no greater social purpose, and the insular Amish community that grieved privately and then transcended their grief, and the tragedy of the school girls' deaths, by immediately turning the focus on forgiveness and the well-being of the gunman's widow and family. I can't think of a more powerful recent expression that death is anything but an insular experience lacking in social consequence. Of course, as Christians, we know that Christ's death reaches out to all people and across eternity, as do the deaths of those who died in His name. When death is not the end and merely the portal to everlasting life, there is no need to approach it "hermetically."
Bill,I take your point but while I think there is a contrast between the Amish, of whom I am in awe, and Goldstein's rather jaundiced portrait of Didion, I do not see a Didion as Goldstein does, or seems to. I find his attitude venomous and repellent. I wonder why I feel so strongly.
What is there to understand?We live, and then we die.
I'm glad Jean Raber mentioned Tom Wolfe. I found his "The Painted Word" (along with Evelyn Waugh's "Scoop" and "Decline and Fall") to be one of the funniest books I ever read. Detached and hermetic he may be, but his eye for the absurdities of the various modernist movements was dead on. And Waugh. A devinely gifted man.I love Andre's elegant formulation! He only left out that life is what happens while you're making other plans...
Wolfe is an odd bird. He always seems to be saying, "Lookit me, the iconoclast of the iconoclasts! In my affected white suit!"Wolfe (and Roth and Didion) manage to capture something that looks true but doesn't really get beyond the surface horror. Just finished "I am Charlotte Simmons," and I vividly recognize some of the my former students. The descriptions are on target. And there are moments of truth but the whole just doesn't stand up as a complete picture.Wolfe elected to portray the worst underbelly of student life and make them all look like a generation of swine (thanks to Hunter S. Thompson for that moniker).I see Waugh (and Muriel Spark, who might be Waugh's female counterpart) as something a bit different. I saw them not so much trying to explain life as pointing out the lengths we'll go to deceive ourselves. A discussion of death and literature has to include Waugh's "The Loved One," and it's send-up of the notion that in order to face death, we must see the dead ... and make them look as attractive and un-dead as possible.
Speaking of Waugh and "The Loved One," here's something right from today's news: Themed sports caskets and urns. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_fe_st/baseball_funeralsThe possibilities for your relatives to make a loving memorial to your favorite earthly things are endless.I will certainly go easier to my Reward knowing my final public appearance could function as a free advertisement for, say, Godiva chocolates or The Simpsons.Sorry for hogging this thread.
There is an excellent film of Decline and Fall, but the last time we looked we clould not find a DVD version.
Joseph Gannon:Bless you for letting us know about the film of "Decline and Fall"! I had no idea it existed! If I find a DVD (or even a video) I'll post it here. Thanks again!
There's supposed to be a film version of "Vile Bodies," but with a title different from the book. I tried searching for Waugh on Netflix, but couldn't find it.Anybody know about this?
Apparently, the "Decline and Fall" film was named "Decline and Fall of a Birdwatcher", and Joseph Gannon is correct; there is no DVD out there.By the way, speaking of death, there is the story of the man who used to go about saying that he would rather be dead than live in Philadelphia. After his passing, his tombstone read, "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia". At least that's the way I heard it, but others say its based on a true story. At any rate, as someone trying (not too successfully) to practice the Christian religion, I can definitely relate to the sentiment expressed.
The film of Vile Bodies (anybody besides Mr. Gannon know where that comes from?) is called Bright Young Things, which I believe is a quote from the book, but it's been more than thirty years since I read it.
There was a very well received adaptation of Waugh's Sword of Honour on British TV a few years back. It stars Daniel Craig - the actor who is to be the next James Bond. I'm English and it was repeated here a few weeks back (and I somehow managed to miss it again!). I've just checked and it is available on DVD at American amazon. There are both negative and positive comments about it at the British amazon website which a prospective purchaser/renter might want to check out. Really enjoy this blog and Commonweal more generally. Makes a nice companion to the Tablet.


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Let $R$ and $S$ be non-zero rings with identity. Is it possible to have $R[x] \cong S[[x]]$ ?
Here's a proof that no such commutative rings $R$, $S$ exist. (See the edit for an extension to noncommutative rings.)
Suppose we have an isomorphism $\phi: R[x] \to S[[x]]$; let $a = \phi^{-1}(x)$. First we claim that for all $b \in R[x]$, the element $1 + ab$ is invertible in $R[x]$. Indeed, the element $\phi(1 + ab) = 1 + (\phi(b))x$ has an inverse given by a formal geometric series, so $\phi^{-1}$ applied to this element must also be invertible.
In particular, $1 + ax$ must be invertible in $R[x]$. But it is well-known (in the commutative case) that any invertible polynomial $a_0 + a_1 x + \ldots + a_n x^n$ has $a_0$ invertible and the other $a_i$ nilpotent. It follows quickly that $a$ must be nilpotent. But then $\phi(a) = x$ is nilpotent in $S[[x]]$. We have reached an absurdity.
Edit: Aided by Martin's excellent suggestion in his comment, we may easily extend the argument to noncommutative rings. Indeed, since $x$ is central in $S[[x]]$, we have that $a$ is central in $R[x]$. In particular, $a$ commutes with scalars; writing $a$ as a polynomial, it follows that each coefficient of $a$ is central in $R$. This is true also of the polynomial $1 + ax$, and now the proof that all but the unit coefficient of $1 + ax$ is nilpotent goes through as in the commutative case (see for example the nice argument given here). Thus $a$ is nilpotent.
Thanks to Martin Brandenburg suggestion, if $R[x] \cong S[[x]]$ then their centers are isomorphic too. So without loose of generality we can assume that $R$ and $S$ are commutative. In commutative case we know $J(R[x]) = Nil(R[x])$. This means that elements in the Jacobson radical of $R[x]$ are all nilpotent. On the other hand $x \in J(S[[x]])$ and $x$ is not nilpotent. This shows that $R[x]$ and $S[[x]]$ can not be isomorphic.
Let me write $R[x]=S[[y]]$ to avoid confusion.
I. Note that 1+y is a unit. Therefore (thinking of y as an element of $R[x]$), we have $y\in R$.
II. Now mod out $y$ on both sides: $\overline{R}[x]=S$.
III. This gives $R[x]=\overline{R}[x][[y]]$
IV. The ring on the right contains the element $\sum(xy)^n$. Thus so does the ring on the left (thought of as a subring of the appropriate completion). It follows that $y$ is nilpotent in the ring on the left. But it's clearly not nilpotent in the ring on the right. Contradiction.


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Differential equations of the form $M\,dx+N\,dy=0$ such that $\frac{\partial M}{\partial y}=\frac{\partial N}{\partial x}$ are said to be exact, because the left hand side of our equation is the exact differential of some function f, and the DE has a solution of the form $f(x,y)=c$, where c is a constant. Standard textbooks give us a procedure for solving such equations that essentially amounts to using the identity $f=\int\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\: dx+\int(\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}-\frac{\partial}{\partial y}\int\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\: dx)\: dy$. Specifically, we integrate M (respectively N, &c.) with respect to x to get $f=\int\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\: dx+C(y)$, and then differentiate this with respect to y and do algebra to find C'(y), which we can then integrate to find C(y), which we can substitute back into our expression for f.
It occurred to me that this technique should generalize---that is, when instead of $M\,dx+N\,dy=0$ such that $\frac{\partial M}{\partial y}=\frac{\partial N}{\partial x}$, we have $\sum_{i}M_{i}\,dx_{i}=0$ where the $M_{i}$ satisfy the criteria for being an exact differential, then we can iteratively apply the same procedure to solve the equation. And so I came up with the following---
Theorem (?). A differential equation of the form $\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{i}}=0$ for some function f has an implicit solution of the form $f=\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_{i}=c$ where $a_{0}=0$, $a_{i}=\int\left(\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{i}}-\frac{\partial}{\partial x_{i}}\left(\sum_{j=1}^{i-1}a_{j}\right)\right)\: dx_{i}$ for $i\in\mathbb{N}_{+}$, and c is an arbitrary constant.
Proof (?). By induction on the number of variables n. The theorem is true for n=1 because $f=\int\,(\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}-0)\,dx$ by the fundamental theorem of calculus.
To complete the induction, we need to show that if $f(x_{1},...,x_{n})=\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_{i}=c$ is a solution to $\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{i}}=0$, then $f(x_{1},...,x_{n+1})=\sum_{i=1}^{n+1}a_{i}=c$ is a solution to $\sum_{i=1}^{n+1}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{i}}=0$. Think of $f(x_{1},...,x_{n})$ as being the "special case" of $f(x_{1},...,x_{n+1})$ where $x_{n+1}$ is being "treated like a constant." (My thinking here is not nearly as precise as it should be and I'm overloading the function name f, but hopefully you understand the intuition to which I am appealing.) So we can say that $f(x_{1},...,x_{n+1})=\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_{i}+C(x_{n+1})$.
Then we proceed analogously as in the two-variable case. Differentiating by $x_{n+1}$ and applying algebra yields $C'(x_{n+1})=\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{n+1}}-\frac{\partial}{\partial x_{n+1}}\left(\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_{i}\right)$, and then integrating with respect to $x_{n+1}$ yields $C(x_{n+1})=\int\left(\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{n+1}}-\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{n+1}}\left(\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_{i}\right)\right)\: dx_{n+1}$.
Then substituting into our earlier expression for $f(x_{1},...,x_{n+1})$ we get $f(x_{1},...,x_{n+1})=\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_{i}+\int\left(\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{n+1}}-\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{n+1}}\left(\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_{i}\right)\right)\: dx_{n+1}$, which by virtue of the definition of $a_{i}$ is equivalent to $f(x_{1},...,x_{n+1})=\sum_{i=1}^{n+1}a_{i}$. But by the principle of induction, this is quod erat demonstrandum.
Example. In the n=3 case (and naming our variables x, y, and z), we get $f(x,y,z)=\int\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\: dx+\int(\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}-\frac{\partial}{\partial y}\int\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\: dx)\: dy$ $+\int(\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}-\frac{\partial}{\partial z}(\int\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\: dx+\int(\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}-\frac{\partial}{\partial y}\int\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\: dx)\: dy))\, dz$, which is seen to be an identity by performing the integrations. What's going on is that $a_{1}=\int\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\: dx=f$, and all following terms are zero by design, e.g., $a_{2}=f-f$.
So my question is (and I offer my sincerest apologies if this is not an appropriate question, or if my poor exposition has rendered my intentions virtually unreadable) does this seem basically correct, or am I doing something wrong? And how do I fix my sloppy reasoning in the inductive step ("special case" ... "treated like a constant")? I would be much obliged for any input.


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I recently watched Catch Me If You Can (2002) and my mother told me she have also watched a movie a bit like that, but she doesn't remember the name. Some points that she does remember:
- The convict is a single, very rich woman
- She mostly steals (e.g. diamonds) from museums and high-scale jewelry shops
- She cannot be caught (much like DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can)
- She changes her identity all the time
- Maybe from the 80s or 90s (not sure though)
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The Shura (Consultative) Council held a regular session in Riyadh yesterday under the chairmanship of Dr. Saleh bin Homaid.
The session was attended by Minister of Agriculture Dr. Fahd Balghunaim, who briefed the Council on the Kingdom's agriculture policy, in particular the cultivation of wheat and the privatization of the General Organization of Grain Silos and Flour Mills. The Council also approved draft agreements on vocational training with Italy and Great Britain.
During a regular session today, the Shura Council approved a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on health cooperation with Italy. It was also briefed on a Council delegation's participation in a recent meeting of the International Parliamentary Federation in South Africa.


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Do I have to tell the others how much money I have or may I make this a secret and everybody has to calculate/estimate themselves?
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Officially, Money is hidden.
See the FAQ for Funkenschlag (the game was originally published in German under that name.
As Chris notes, this can slow the game down quite a bit as
So if you are playing in a tournament, expect that everyone's money will be hidden. At home with your friends, if y'all are not overly competitive or wish to avoid analysis paralysis then feel free to keep money public for everyone.
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Daniel Casillo started last night by racing some friends on jet skis near JFK airport. His night ended in custody, having easily broken through the airport's $100 million, state-of-the-art security systems. Strangely, the airport couldn't be happier.
Casillo's girlfriend told the New York Post that he and his friends were wanted to see who had the fastest jet ski, so they shot out into the bay. At around 7:45, Cadillo's jet ski started taking on water and no one came to rescue him, so he swam to the nearest lights: the airport.
He knew he wasn't allowed onto the airport, but he had no choice but to swim the three miles to the runway.
Casillo managed to climb the eight-foot perimeter fence, go undetected by the PIDS security system's motion sensors and closed-circuit cameras, and walk across two runways without anyone spotting him. He even was wearing a bright yellow life jacket.
Only when Casillo entered a terminal and approached a Delta employee were authorities alerted. Instead of helping him, they arrested him for criminal trespassing. He had no identification, since his wallet sank with his jet ski.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, responsible for JFK's security, hasn't been happy with the PIDS system for years now, and their spokesperson, Roger Egbert, claims to be overjoyed that someone proved it needs work.
The Port Authority PBA has been concerned about the failure of the PIDS system for quite some time. We have brought this to the attention of former Executive Director Chris Ward, who failed to act.
Nicholas Casalo, a former director of MTA counterterrorism speaking to ABC News went one step further.
I think he should be given dinner and a bottle of champagne for showing us our faults.
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Dr. Wallach mentions that Chinese doctors have determined the H5N1 flu virus has mutated again. Meaning it could be closer to becoming a strain that transmits from human to human. Dr. Wallach also discusses antioxidants and their role in absorbing "free radicals" in the human body.
Pearls of Wisdom
Dr. Wallach and Doug discuss a recent news article concerning salt. The AMA (American Medical Association) is asking the FDA to put warning labels on processed foods and restaurant foods that contain more than 480 milligrams of salt per portion. The AMA is also asking the FDA to revoke salt's GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status. Doug and Doc discuss the importance of salt in the diet for digestion and the lack of evidence to support the theories that salt contributes to heart disease.
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Cape Town Stadium from the air – Flickr pic of the day
This aerial photograph of the newly completed Cape Town Stadium was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Jazz-Dee.
Jazz-Dee says, "This photo was taken from a small Robertson helicopter.
"My husband suddenly decided we were going to treat ourselves to an aerial view of Cape Town. It was an extremely hot, very bright day and we were just wandering around the V&A Waterfront.
"Fortunately I had my camera with me and I happily shot away.
"I took this pic on December 23, 2009 with a Canon 450D lens, using EFS 18mm-55mm," she adds.
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Please could someone offer a translation of the phrase "Shem Yinone mechoilol maichovim" in the Selicho for Tzom Gedaliah that begins "Oz Terem Nimtochu" (near the beginning of the selichos)?
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The Chabad Selichot translates it as:
It has the Hebrew as "Zohar shem yinon m'cholal meychovim"
According to Lithuanian version of "Seder Selichot Mefureshet - Be'er Ya'akov" by "חיים צבי פנט":
This selicha enumerates the seven items that were created before the world was created (see Pesachim 54A). They are: Torah, repentance, Gan Eden, Gehinnom, the Heavenly Throne, The Holy Temple and the Name of Moshiach. The phrase "Shem Yinone mechoilol maichovim" (in my Selichos "Zohar" instead of "Shem") means the light of Moshiach known as "Yinone" (Psalms 72:17) who we hope will redeem us from our debts (sins).
I don't know the trustworthiness of the Saul Kleiman of Kansas City who published in 1942, but according to him, q.v., zohar shem yinon m'cholal mechovim means something like "the shiny name of mashiach, who's ill from sins/debts" (one of the various things listed as having been created before the world).


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The Frenchman feels that it would benefit the club, players and coach if the Portuguese stayed put, and hopes to be paired with Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.Karim Benzema believes that it would be in the best interest of all parties involved if Jose Mourinho would stay at Real Madrid beyond the 2012-13 campaign.
A number of recent reports have suggested that the Portuguese coach could say farewell to the Blancos at the end of the season, but Benzema hopes that the ex-Chelsea boss will stay put.
"Mourinho has given me a lot ever since he arrived at the club. Personally, I want him to stay at Madrid. That would be the best for everybody involved," Benzema told reporters.
The France international then went on to discuss Madrid's possible opponents in the Champions League round of 16, and made it clear that he would like to take on Paris Saint-Germain.
"Every team that is left in the competition will be a tough opponent and if we want to do anything in the competition then we have to beat whoever we draw," Benzema added. "But I would like PSG because they are a French team."
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I have a computer running OpenSUSE 12.1, 64-bit, default install.
How it works currently:
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The problem is there is a timeout on this prompt, so I have to sit next to computer and pay attention to what is going on.
How can I disable that timer, so I could for example turn the computer on and go away, and then return after 1 hour and still see this prompt?


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As the longest-serving Warren County Circuit Clerk, today Pat goad served her last day.
The county and circuit clerks offices are the only jobs Goad has ever known. When she worked for Warren County Circuit Clerk John Haynes, he made her an offer she couldn't turn down.
"He told me that if I would help him finish out his term, he would support me in running for election to succeed him," said Warren County Circuit Clerk Pat Goad.
He kept his word, and goad was elected Warren County Circuit Clerk in 1981.
Since her defeat in May's primary election... She says she's received support from the community and within her office.
"We wish her the best. She's put in 44 years with the clerks offices," said Deputy Clerk Marjorie Maxwell.
One of goad's deputy clerks will also retire today after 20 years.
"It's been nice. I'm going to miss it," said Deputy Clerk Mary Beane.
Beane and goad now look to the next chapter of their lives.
"I have been told along the way that when one door closes...another opens. I'm still waiting for that other door to open," said Goad.
Goad planned on serving at least one more term, but was defeated by Brandi Duvall in a heated may primary, and she says today is bittersweet.
"I'm sorry to be leaving. It was not my intention, but I guess none of us know what life brings. This is what it is. So I 'm going home," said Goad.
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The standard academic entry requirements for a Masters course will be a minimum of an upper second class UK honours degree, or international equivalent, in an electrical and electronic engineering discipline.
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This course provides an up-to-date view of communication and telecommunication engineering from a systems level through to implementation using Microwave, Optical and Semi-Conductor Devices. Emphasis is placed on mobile communications, networks and wireless technologies.
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I heard a couple of years ago that only certain types of lens caused flare to appear, something related with the material and/or quality of the lens. Is this true? Which material/quality caused flare? Thanks in advance.
Uncontrolled light causes lens flare. This can be light that's reflected from internal lens surfaces, or that's scattered by imperfections in the glass.
If the flare is badly controlled, it will produce the dramatic lens flare artifacts which you've probably seen. More controlled flare will be diffused over the entire image, reducing contrast but not producing other visible artifacts.
Flare can be controlled in several different ways. A simple way is just to prevent non-image light from hitting the front element in the first place. Avoid putting bright lights (the sun, for example) directly in the frame, and prevent out-of-frame light from shining onto the lens. This is what a lens hood does — or, simply shading with your hand, in a pinch.
If there is a bright light source (the sun, for example again) that you want to have in your photograph, that's not going to help. That's a reason wide angle lenses are more susceptible to flare (and for the same reason, a lens hood can't be as useful, as a deep one would block the actual image).
On almost all modern lenses, special optical coatings are applied to the lens to help control the stray light. These are made of various metallic and mineral compounds which alter the way the lens transmits light, and they're specially chosen to reduce the unwanted scattering of light. More expensive lenses use more expensive coatings, and more expensive optical elements which have less of a problem in the first place. Lenses also have internal baffles designed to reduce bouncing light.
Cheap filters often have cheap coatings, and since they're often more exposed than the front element was, they're more prone to catching stray light. That's why adding a UV filter for lens protection can reduce image quality.
So, to answer your question directly: yes, it's true. Flare is caused by stray light, not by lens materials directly, but cheap lens materials can make it worse and high-quality ones can mitigate it. Even with a cheap lens, you can make things much better simply by using a lens hood or standing in the shade, and keeping the sun out of the frame.
Lens flare is caused by a bright light source (such as the sun) shining into the lens (whether in the image or not) that has its light reflected and scattered inside the lens causing a wash out or a flare artifact. All lenses will be subject to this to a greater or lesser degree, but this most commonly manifests with wider angles.
There are mitigation steps taken with the lenses themselves and these include:
In any case, higher quality lenses often have better coatings and more defense against lens flare. Also, it's sometimes desirable and can be used for artistic purposes, so it's not always a bad thing if you do it consciously.
Basically, it's reflections.
Inside a lens, you want the light to travel from the front of the front element, to the back of the rear element, without bouncing off any surfaces.
There are two main surfaces, however, that light may bounce off.
Whether or not your lens' flare is noticeable depends not only on the lens assembly, coatings and filters, but also on the subject material you are shooting. Where you are shooting near bright lights or direct sun, you're more likely to notice the flare. This is particularly true if you point your camera towards light sources or the sun - even if they're not actually in the frame (you can use a hood to help reduce that particular problem). If the lighting around you is more soft and diffused without direct sun, then you're less likely to see any noticeable flare simply because it won't be well defined compared to the rest of the image.


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Arrested: Ashley Moore, 21, 908 1/2 Carnegie St., outstanding warrants for assault and trespassing after police responded to reports of a disturbance in the 1400 block of Ridge Avenue, Wednesday.
Arrested: Shadea Stevenson, 27, 766 Kendall Ave., bench warrant for contempt, Wednesday.
Cited: Aysa Kyler, 24, 329 Thomas St., Wintersville, failure to control.
Harassment: Parents of a Steubenville High School student reported their child was being harassed Wednesday after subjects known to them allegedly posted sensitive information about their son on the RollRedRoll.com website, repeatedly hijacked by an Internet hacker group over the past week, as well as Twitter.
Also, the parents of another Big Red student reported harassing remarks directed toward their daughter via a social website, also alleged to be the result of messages posted by the Anonymous hackers on RollRedRoll.
Vandalism: Rear window of a vehicle parked in the 400 block of South Fifth Street broken, Wednesday.
Theft: An iPod Touch stolen from a Fort Steuben Mall store after a 9-year-old child sat it on the counter while he and his mother were shopping, Wednesday.
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Arrested: Phillip M. Deem, 25, 40A Christopher Ave., Wintersville, domestic, Wednesday.
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To open the door through the local Noisebridge network at 2169 Mission street (not accessible through the internets):
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Hooray! We're so glad you want to visit. Noisebridge is a space open to pretty much anyone! We welcome anybody that likes to tinker and hack on things, and are generally nice. On average we don't appreciate people looking for a half way house to sleep in, steal things, or looking for free beer and people to annoy. Read here for more Visitor_advice on our culture and some suggestions on how to interface with it.
Noisebridge is located on the 3rd floor of 2169 Mission. There is a staircase up and an accessible elevator as well. The elevator can be a little persnickety but it has a bell that rings up into the space for assistance if needed. More Accessibility info available as well. Read on for ways to get into the building.
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If you've never been to the space before, simply press the door bell on the right of the gate labeled "Noisebridge" with tiny text. If there's someone in the space who feels like giving a tour (most of the time, except for late at night and early morning) they will buzz you in.
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To open the door through the local Noisebridge network at 2169 Mission street (not accessible through the internets):
Keycode Access
The Keycode Access system, AKA The Hot Tub system (after Essex) is a proposed new way to buzz open the gate. Your help and input are both appreciated.
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- (first) Get inside Noisebridge.
- Find a functional touch panel.
- Tap the "key" icon.
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- When you want to open the gate, use the bookmark.
- Return to Noisebridge once a week to get the updated key.
Awesome way from the outside the space
phone Apps, only Android right now.
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Run this
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H4x0r way
SSH into our local server, Pony, and run...
curl -X POST http://api.noisebridge.net/gate/open
(see our API)
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Possible Duplicate:
Gay Speed Dating Problem
There are n (even) people at a dance and they dance in pairs. They do not care about gender (it is a very liberal disco). The goal is for each person to dance with every other person exactly once. (And no one is left without a dance partner at any step).
I have solved this for n = 4 and n = 6 by hand. I am imagining that there is some theorem in graph theory on graphs with 2-point subgraphs but I don't know the terminology used to find it. I have also search permutation problems in Math Stack Exchange with no luck (the problems I found used gender to restrict dance partners and did not seem to care about the condition that everyone has a partner at each step). Any suggestions?
A related problem is if the people are in two lines and we want to minimize the total amount of movement required to achieve everyone dancing with everyone else exactly once. A better analogy than a dance here would be a business speed dating event where every one needs to talk with everyone else exactly once. I have played with the lines rotating to the left by one person and the ends rotating to the other line, but could not get that to work quiet right.
(This problem occurred to me at a real life workshop where all the people had to partner with every other person exactly once)
And just in case it helps here is the solution for n = 4 with 3 dance steps:
(1,3) (2,4)
(1,2) (3,4)
(1,4) (2,3)
here (n,m) means person n is partnered with person m


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Can someone tell me which mode out of ECB and CBC is better, and how to decide which mode to use? Are there any other modes which are better?
Edit: This question was asked long back when I was working on a Flex application to enrypt/decrypt files.
Can someone tell me which mode out of ECB and CBC is better, and how to decide which mode to use? Are there any other modes which are better?
Edit: This question was asked long back when I was working on a Flex application to enrypt/decrypt files.
The really simple explanation for the difference between the two is this:
The advantages of CBC over ECB are many – with ECB, assuming many things, you could manage a partial decryption and easily fill in the blanks, for example if extracting data from an encrypted hard disk. With CBC, if you are missing a few blocks in the sequence encryption becomes impossible. However, there is one downside to CBC – ECB naturally supports operation in parallel since each block can be encrypted independently of the next. However, with CBC this is harder, since you have to wait on each block. (You can still parallelize decryption, though.)
CBC itself can also be considered vulnerable in certain situations, specifically the use of predictable IVs and unauthenticated decryption can allow you to guess plaintexts as explained in this answer and in more detail here.
The IV problem is resolved by using unpredictable (cryptographically random) IVs. The authentication problem is traditionally resolved using message authentication codes - however, implementation of these is not perfect. Dedicated modes have been invented which tackle the issue of authentication too, for example EAX and Galois Counter Mode.
Other modes exist to deal with specific scenarios, e.g.:
The key point to take away is that each mode has a number of merits and implementation concerns and these must be weighed up carefully (and correctly implemented). And, where possible, avoid ECB.
Expanded explanation for how resident properties propagate into ciphertext with ECB
When writing this answer, I tried to not post a picture of the typical ECB-encrypted linux penguin, but I've been asked to expand on "resident properties in the plaintext" so what follows will be the same idea, just in text form. If you don't need it, feel free to skip.
Firstly, let's use a format I know something about - the mp3 frame. Like most plaintext this is far from "indistinguishable from random" - indeed for example, the MP3 frame header begins with 11 bits set to 1.
There are two important properties of block ciphers:
These statements apply considering only a single block; however obviously in the real world we want more than that - we want to encrypt multiple blocks.
Suppose we live in an imaginary world where people think block ciphers with a block size of one byte are a good idea. Now let's imagine this is otherwise a totally fine block cipher. Now imagine you have some MP3s of Justin Bieber music and you'd very much like the NSA not to find out about this. So you take your block cipher and you encrypt your MP3.
Now, one of those blocks, making some assumptions about file alignment, is going to be
All of a sudden we're giving away information to our attacker - specifically they can deduce where the frame headers are if they suspect this to be an MP3. Cryptanalysis is sometimes about guessing correctly and a correct guess in this case will give them an idea of exactly how long the audio samples are and allow them to identify the format.
Moreover, every other ciphertext block
This problem is common particularly when you consider much of what we encrypt has a rigid data format. You have to make some assumptions about alignment on the blocks, but the larger the data the more this problem becomes apparent.
This is what I mean by residual plaintext properties becoming evident in the ciphertext. These are the structure inherent to and wanted in the plaintext that inadvertedly become exposed to the attacker.
The original purpose of CBC mode was as a form of identifying corrupt messages and the security of CBC for this purpose is treated in this paper. I can't find the original realization of this idea in terms of papers, but you might be able to find it. Certainly most books on block ciphers that I have read mention it and other issues.
ECB and CBC are only about encryption. Most situations which call for encryption also need, at some point, integrity checks (ignoring the threat of active attackers is a common mistake). There are combined modes which do encryption and integrity simultaneously; see EAX and GCM (see also OCB, but this one has a few lingering patent issues; assuming that software patents apply at all to your situation -- a non-trivial question --, then there are some explicit licenses).
Never use ECB! It is insecure.
I recommend an authenticated encryption mode, like EAX or GCM. If you can't use authenticated encryption, use CBC or CTR mode encryption, and then apply a MAC (e.g., AES-CMAC or SHA1-HMAC) to the resulting ciphertext.
ECB is not secure, it leaks information. CBC is better. But if you need random access to your file Use CTR mode.
For more information about Block cipher modes of operation see the Wikipedia article.
Better is a subjective term. However for the choice between ECB and CBC, the choice should be CBC for almost all situations.
Although ECB and CBC are modes of operation of a block cipher, you could also turn this way of thinking around and see the block cipher as a configuration option for the mode of operation. The mode of operation has a big influence on the security of the resulting cipher.
The problem with ECB is that it is not really a mode of operation. It is basically the same as splitting up the plaintext into blocks and encrypting them completely independent on each other. When the block cipher is considered secure then the resulting ciphertext of a single block is of course also secure - when analyzed independently. However when multiple messages or or messages are encrypted then ECB is not secure; identical plaintext blocks will result in identical ciphertext. This means that an attacker can easily detect repetition.
CBC solves this by introducing a vector, which alters the plaintext before it is encrypted. This ensures that each block is encrypted differently even if the block contains the same information. For CBC the vector is the result of the previous block encrypt, and this result is XOR'ed with the plaintext block before encryption.
Of course there is no ciphertext result before the first block, hence CBC requires an initialization vector. This initialization vector or IV makes sure that the (initial) ciphertext blocks of CBC of messages are different even if the plaintext is identical. To accomplish this CBC must use a unique IV for each separate key.
In addition to uniqueness the IV also needs to be unpredictable for the attacker to disallow some particular attacks on CBC. Usually this is accomplished by creating it using a secure random number generator (RNG or RBG). As both the encryption and decryption needs to be performed using this same, unique IV the IV is usually prefixed to the ciphertext. A random IV does not need to be protected against disclosure.
Is ECB still useful? Essentially it should not be used for message confidentiality. It can however still be used for encrypting fully random data (such as symmetric keys) or as building block for better algorithms and protocols. For that reason alone it is still present in almost all cryptographic API's.
Note that there are many other modes of operation beside ECB and CBC. Neither ECB or CBC provide integrity or authentication. That means that even CBC is not useful for transport protocols without additional protection. Anybody can alter messages and it is likely that confidentiality is also lost if padding oracle attacks are possible.
Nowadays you should default to an authenticated mode of operation such as GCM or EAX. Otherwise you could perform a HMAC over both IV and ciphertext.
For example ECB mode is most recommended in case if you have only one block to encrypt. i.e for example if you have two blocks of data and if you are using a ECB mode chances of sensing the plain text is more. But CBC mode can be used when you have a chain for plain blocks to be encrypted. Where the first blocks encrypted output can be used as a key to encrypt second plain block.
The problem with this question is that the question is incomplete. It's like asking the question "should I use a hammer or a screw driver". Without knowing the underlying application and requirements it is impossible to properly answer this question (in fact, the answer may be "tape measure").
Still, ECB and CBC each have their strengths and weaknesses. If you have lite encryption requirements (for example, something fast and simple) then ECB is useful. If you are looking for stronger strength, then you need to consider CBC. However, if you must deal with data loss, than CBC becomes very difficult (you will not be able to recover the chunk of data after the loss point). If you need to handle data loss, strong encryption, and relatively fast processing, a different technique may be required (and there are lots).
Another strength/weakness comparison is random access/parallel processing. ECB blocks can be encrypted and decrypted in parallel. Each ECB block can be accessed completely randomly, and any amount of loss or corruption in previous blocks has no effect on the current block. In CBC, encryption is completely serial (you can't encrypt block N until you encrypt block N-1, and so on back to block 1). Decryption requires 2 blocks (you need block N-1 to decrypt block N). So, random access in CBC requires twice the data as ECB.
Still, ECB is a very poor choice for message encryption unless the message is either very short (not longer than the block size), or undergoes a whitening process first (using another system to make the underlying bits look random - white noise).
In summary, ECB by itself, does not provide much in the way of security. CBC by itself does not provide great error recovery (some, but not great). ECB is a good building block as part of a larger system (heck, it's used in CBC). CBC is great for systems that have low error rates and no random access encryption needs (for example, when writing a file). Understanding these limitations helps in deciding which to use and when (or if you need something completely different).


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I have a multifunction HP printer/scanner. I've always used it wirelessly with a PC before now, but want to connect it to my Maverick laptop. I have hplip installed and have connected the machine to the computer via USB (wireless is not supported.) The printer works just fine, but when I try to scan, the scanner's console (not the computer, but the window on the scanner itself) tells me there's an error.
I've looked at the hplip documentation for my machine, and it says, "Scan supported means that PC initiated scan using a SANE compatible software application is supported over parallel, USB, or network (depending on I/O connection)."
What is SANE? I'm assuming it's a driver that's already installed, but where do I find a SANE compatible software application?


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An expert's guide on what to wear, where, this spring
You may still be clinging to your winter overcoat, but if the weatherman's right, it will soon be relegated to the hinterlands of your closet. What then?
"Sometimes you don't know how to dress in the spring," says Lucas Ossendrijver, head menswear designer at Lanvin. Fall and winter, he says, are all about coordination; in spring and summer, "people start throwing things on."
Spring fashion is by necessity a layering affair. And the 43-year-old Dutchman should know. His spring collection, while sticking to a minimalist's palette, covers the spectrum of menswear: from poplin dress shirts to mesh sports tanks; from trousers—skinny and pleated—to shorts; from suit jackets to duffle coats, and brogues to sandals.
The goal may be to look nonchalant, but to achieve that requires precision. "I always start with a classic," says Mr. Ossendrijver, who often draws inspiration from flea-market finds, "and then tweak it and twist it."
Here are his tips on how to dress this season, whether in the boardroom, at the bar or on the beach.
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Sooner or later, every man wants to wear white—but later (and hotter) is better, says Mr. Ossendrijver. So don't pull out those white linen pants at the first sign of spring. "White is not the easiest color to wear," he adds. And forget about all-white suits. In his spring collection, the designer dilutes the classic summer look with a paper-thin, black-leather biker jacket.
Skinny ties are the best way to spice up another classic: the pinstriped suit. "By changing the width of your tie," he says, you can make a personal statement—while still fitting into a conservative environment. Remember, though, skinny ties need shirts with skinny stripes.
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When the weather heats up, sport a polo shirt with your suit jacket. Whatever you do, don't wear short-sleeved dress shirts—they are unflattering, no matter your age or body type. Instead, just roll up your long sleeves. "It's sexy to show an arm that way," Mr. Ossendrijver says.
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When taking advantage of the longer days with a cold one at your local bar, dress the part. "You don't want to look like you are paying too much attention to what you are wearing," says Mr. Ossendrijver, "but it's nice to have one item that is well done." Go with a fitted sports jacket or a tailored jacket, with jeans—or even sweatpants—and a T-shirt.
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If you're heading to Salzburg or Bayreuth this summer, use the occasion to wear white. "For me, there is nothing that looks as good as white tie," says Mr. Ossendrijver. If white's not your thing, a cool tie can add "a little more fun" to a warm-weather black-tie event. Or buck convention and go black-tieless, wearing just a silk tee under your smoking jacket.
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Sorry for the vague title but I couldn't find a better one.
I want to compute the sum $S = \frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^N c_i x_i$ where $c_i$s are known positive constants. The problem is that computing the value of each $x_i$ takes a huge amount of time. That's why I want to estimate the sum $S$ by using only a small subset of $x_i$s. How can I do this? I'm not sure if I can apply some sort of importance sampling here.


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I was doing some reading for college and I searched for
- "Main characteristics of games"
- "Main characteristics of video games"
and other similar ones, the result were a bunch of psychological studies and some non totally related links. The bottom line there was no real definition. I can see why, however I m suprised there are no attempts
I m going to think I m looking for the wrong thing, so can you help?
My purpose is to try to understand what is a video game and what isnt. ie: bad games are still games, so fun and immersion are not characteristics of a game ( before I started thinking about this I thought that was the case)


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Is "yay or nay" an acceptable alternative to "yea or nay"? I have seen it several times in recent weeks, enough to make me wonder whether it is an emerging usage or just a common typo.
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The words yea and yay are homophones, meaning they are pronounced the same. Yea is a somewhat specialized word ("yes—used in oral voting") most often used in a spoken context, so I would expect that many people would not realize there are two spellings for two different meanings.
Using the spelling yay for yea is therefore an eggcorn. Here's a discussion of it at the Eggcorn Database forum.
There were no examples of yay being used for yea at the Corpus of Contemporary American English, so it doesn't seem to be an emerging usage that is getting into the kinds of edited texts used to populate that corpus. On the other hand, there are plenty of Google results, including some on major, presumably professionally-edited sites, like ABC News and New York Magazine. Interestingly, a large portion of the top Google results were related to fashion.
How embarrassing for them: anyone who knows that there are two spellings for the two words would instantly identify yay for yea as an error.
Even the normally quite liberal and descriptivist Merriam-Webster dictionary has no entry at all for 'yay'. Only Collins English Dictionary has an entry for yay, and it's only for the exclamatory sense.
So, yes, it does appear that this substitution is an emerging usage, but no authorities at all countenance it just yet, and given that there is an unimpeachable substitute, I don't recommend that anyone use it.
I've never seen that spelling of "yea" in that context. I wouldn't use it personally - it looks too much like the exclamative.
I see this ("yay" instead of "yea") everywhere these days! I think many younger folks have never encountered "yea" and associate the term "yay!" with "hooray!"--so they assume it's the spelling that should be used with an affirmative expression.
It's "yea" both for voting (Yea or Nay) and as an exclamation (Yea!). In both cases, it signifies affirmation. That is, exclaiming "Yea!" is equivalent to exclaiming "Yes!"; it's a word, not simply a noise.
"Yay" means "about so much". As in, "I caught a fish yay big" or "I've know that girl since she was yay high". (In both examples, the word "yay" would be accompanied by a gesture with one or two hands to indicate the dimension being approximated.)
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If I have term -5 and I want to change its sign to opposite can I say that I'm negating its sign?
You could say that, you could also say "to negate the constant term" -- both seem grammatically correct. In your expression, 'negate' changes the object of negation, while in the "to negate the constant term" 'negate' changes the sign in front of the object of negation, but it makes sense both ways.
Negating its sign sounds alright. A more fanciful way of putting it is changing its polarity. Polarity is not to be confused with parity: whether a number is odd or even.
I think it is much more standard to say 'Multiplying equation (..) by -1 gives' than 'negating equation (...)'. As for 'negating the constant term', I'm not even sure of what that would mean, and without some serious context seems a bad idea.


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Tuesday's letters: Sense of duty
Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 19, 2012 at 6:42 p.m.
To the editor: When our expenses exceed our income, it is a red flag demanding action. We can increase our income (perhaps) or reduce our expenses. This is the situation our country is in right now, and immediate action is indicated. The fiscal cliff is not an illusion. But alas, our dysfunctional government is in a gridlock.
Last December, the Democrats and Republicans each selected eight prominent members and gave them 30 days to formulate a financial plan to correct this massive imbalance. Unfortunately for our country, this group was so inflexible (actually unpatriotic) and unable to recommend a change to our deficit spending that it adjourned with no recommendation.
A balanced budget for you and me is not an option. We must or go bankrupt. The same holds true for our government. However, Washington will probably print more money, further increasing our debt to China. We are approaching a crisis situation from which there could be devastating consequences.
Now that the worst, most annoying and most money-laden presidential election in history is over, lets pray that a sense of duty and common sense (how about statesmanship) will return to our elected representatives.
Dick Hunt
The fiscal cliff
To the editor: Oh, there it is, the fiscal cliff. Its that granite outcropping on our mountain of debt just below the tree line. It would be an easy climb up but for that landslide election that left the trail blocked with rubble.
Might we ask the rich to clear the way? I mean its only fair that they share in the toil while were at work building that mountain. Sixteen trillion feet is a lot to summit. Our statesmen and mountaineering posers would be lucky to make it to base camp.
Maybe they should do something easy like immigration reform. Yeah, they could get some Sherpas with astrophysics degrees to carry their load up that galactic road with a can to kick and a flag to plant.
Or if we could just get them up to the cliff, we could promise them the vote if they would all just jump.
Brian Barr
Drawing names
To the editor: Since the economy is sluggish and people are watching their spending habits more closely, I have a suggestion for Christmas shoppers.
When I was a child, we drew names on Thanksgiving Day when most of the family was there. Each person drew one name, and a reasonable price range was set. Our family plans to draw names this year, and we look forward to the fun of focusing on the person we get. Part of the fun is the mystery of not knowing who has your name.
Just a suggestion that works well for large families.
Merry Christmas!
Karol Reed
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