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During the 19th century and into the early 20th century, battleships were the Kings of the Sea, and every naval power of note had at least one. When did they lose this title to the aircraft carrier, and was it a particular battle, event, or was it a more gradual series of events that lead to the changeover in naval strategy?
I would date the transition to aircraft carrier domination to the Battle of Midway, in June 1942.
The Japanese fought an old style battle in four ship waves. In the first wave as a carrier task force, plus supporting cruisers and battleships, whose main task was to soften up Midway by air bombardment, and then screen the rest of the Japanese fleet.
In the second wave was a supporting force of four cruisers. In the third wave were the transports, escorted mainly by battleships and cruisers. And the fourth wave contained three of Japan's largest battleships, which was supposed to deliver the coup de grace to the American fleet, after it presumably rushed to save Midway.
After the destruction wrought at Pearl Harbor, the Americans had only one "wave," a carrier task force of three aircraft carriers and supporting cruisers, roughly equivalent in strength to Japan's first wave alone.
The battle degenerated into an air to ship battle, along lines similar to those of Coral Sea, fought a month earlier. With their greater focus, the Americans sank all four Japanese aircraft carriers, while the Japanese, who had been concentrating on Midway at the expense of watching out for American carriers, sank only one. (Two, if you count the temporary destruction of Midway as a "carrier.") The surviving American carriers then stayed out of sea range of the Japanese battleships, but the Japanese didn't dare to invade Midway while the Americans had carrier aircraft within air range.
This battle proved the dominance of carrier based aircraft over ships. Carriers had proven their worth at Coral Sea, but it was considered a "fluke" because no battleships had been involved. At Midway, Japanese battleships were present and had their "chance," but basically chose not to fight.
Sea power is not directly about which ship type can beat up which other ship type; it's a matter of being able to run one's merchant ships in an area and preventing the other side from running merchant ships.
In WWII, it was difficult for surface ships to protect a convoy from air attack, as we can see from the 1942 attempts to relieve the siege of Malta. Moreover, naval powers were hesitant to risk battleships in the face of enemy air power, particularly after the British lost a modern battleship and older battlecruiser to Japanese air attack off Malaya shortly after Pearl Harbor.
The questions, then, were whether aircraft carriers could defend themselves against battleship attack and whether aircraft carriers could protect shipping against battleships.
In WWII, carriers were generally able to not be sunk by battleships or other surface ships, unless badly handled like HMS Glorious off Norway. Their aircraft gave them warning of enemy forces, and their generally high speed enabled them to avoid combat. Therefore, they could stay in an area despite enemy battleship forces. (This was not always the case; in the 1930s, when carrier aircraft had much less range, US battleships "sank" US carriers a few times in the annual Fleet Problems.)
Their ability to defend shipping against battleships was a bit less certain. Normally, heavy air attacks would deter battleships from proceeding. After all, there weren't many battleships around, and they were expensive. If the enemy was determined to force his way through, some surface ships would likely make it through. This was shown by RN cruisers and destroyers around Crete and the Japanese Center Force in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, both of which carried out their missions despite serious losses. No naval power could afford to lose battleships with each mission, unless the enemy missions were extremely critical (the Battle of Leyte Gulf was an attempt to stop the first US landings in the Philippines).
Through the course of World War 2; in September 1939 battleships were still considered more important than aircraft carriers, and by VJ Day carriers were considered utterly decisive at sea. This process took a good few steps, however, and really examining it in detail could take an entire book.
You also need to consider the application of carrier air power to two main problems:
1) the decisive battle
2) the guerre de course, or convoy war.
So, first let's look at decisive battle. At the beginning of WW2, it was by no means taken as read that unsupported aircraft could sink a battleship; so while a carrier could do extremely well at finding a battleship, and keep a safe distance from her, sinking her was another matter. And the carrier could hardly replace the battleship if a carrier couldn't even sink a battleship. As a result, any would-be naval power had to have battleships in order to counter enemy battleships, whereas those who expected their navy to operate in range of land-based air support (Italian, German) did not need aircraft carriers. This assumption had to be overcome by experience, and there were several battles which made that example, and then rubbed it in the noses of the gun-deck admirals.
At Taranto in November 1940, the Royal Navy sank an Italian battleship in harbour and damaged two more, for the loss of two obsolescent torpedo bombers; so battleships were proven to be vulnerable to carriers when unable to manoeuvre freely.
In the chase of the Bismarck, the carrier aircraft did not sink Bismarck - however, they did damage her rudder, enabling her to be caught and destroyed by battleships.
Then we have the fate of Force Z - a surface-force only, consisting of a battleship, a battlecruiser and a few destroyers sunk by Japanese air attack. These were not carrier aircraft - the Japanese carrier force were somewhat busy at Pearl Harbor - but the crucial difference with Force Z, which differentiates it from Taranto and Pearl Harbor, is that Force Z was sunk while under sail, showing that any naval force which went into reach of enemy aircraft without its own air cover would be sunk.
Having already mentioned the parallel, I would be remiss to not cover Pearl Harbor - this is essentially Taranto writ large. It showed that if your enemy has a sufficiently powerful carrier arm, your fleet is not safe in harbour anywhere, not even across an ocean.
Then at Midway the combat between the American and Japanese carriers was decisive, without the Japanese battleships becoming engaged.
So, enough about decisive battle - what about the guerre de course, conducted primarily in WW2 by German U-boats?
Well, protecting a convoy against U-boats was helped hugely by air cover. Spotting the submarines in the first place, guiding in escorts to kill them or killing them directly, routing convoys around them (and providing excuses to use ULTRA intercepts to route convoys around them), forcing submarines to submerge and lose a chance to make an attack...the uses of aircraft in the Battle of the Atlantic were many and varied. However, at the start of the war there was a gap in the mid-Atlantic where land-based aircraft could not reach a convoy to protect it. Some desperate measures were used to help close the gap, including CAM ships (Catapult Aircraft Merchantmen which carried a single Hurricane on a catapult; this could be launched once, and at the end of the flight the pilot had to ditch the plane and bail out), the slightly more capable MACs (Merchant Aircraft Carrier) which carried about 80% of a normal cargo and had three or four aircraft embarked which could be recovered after a flight. These were stop gap solutions - as the war went on, they were gradually replaced with escort carriers, which were generally akin to MACs in that they were based on merchant hulls, with the difference that they were full conversions no longer carrying any cargo and could carry perhaps 20 aircraft - they were still too slow to operate with a fleet.
There were many aspects to the outcome of the Battle of the Atlantic, but unlike decisive battle where the battleship admirals resisted fiercely the supplanting of their beloved big-gun ships, the usefulness of air power to this aspect of naval warfare was little doubted, and the frantic attempts to close the Air Gap in the Atlantic show this quite clearly.
The Japanese sank the Royal Navies greatest and one of their most sophisticated Battle Ships HMS Prince of Wales and its older escort Cruiser HMS Repulse off the coast of Malaysia on 10th December 1941 using land based bombers and torpedo planes. The British ships had no air cover and were sunk relatively easily. These were the first ever capital ships sank purely using aircraft and the Allies realised a handful of torpedo planes sinking the Prince of Wales meant the era of the Battleship was over. Air power was everything and the Carrier was King.
See Z-Force mentioned in the answer above, Z-Force was HMS Prince of Wales and its escorts.


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This is an eye color predictor. You enter the data and it will give you the likelyhood of a certain eye color in your child. It is fun and really neat, the color is calculated based on genotype.
For my older child, it has predicted 7.1% chances of blue eyes, 26.1% green and 66 % brown and her eyes are blue :)

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I have the BCM43225 chip in my Acer Aspire One netbook running 12.04 32-bit. My wireless had been working just fine (with the exception of enterprise networks not being able to connect to the internet...but that is another story) until I updated the Broadcom STA wireless driver a couple days ago.
Ever since, the wireless will randomly disconnect from the network ever half hour or so and take around a minute or two to reconnect. Any ideas what is going on?


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Can you give me some examples of recreational physics?
Can you give me some examples of recreational physics?
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There is nothing such as "recreational physics". The term "recreational mathematics" is a standard umbrella term for mathematical puzzles and mathematical games. The term "recreational physics" may only be used by individuals who want to say that they find physics - whether theory or experiments - amusing. But they realize that no one will exactly know what they mean because "recreational physics" is not a standard term in the dictionary.
For example, this blog
was named "Recreational physics" because its author thought that it is an amusing title that combines physics and attractiveness. But the title doesn't mean anything specific and you won't find anything special on the blog that you wouldn't find on other physics blogs.
For physics to be "recreational" in the same way as recreational mathematics, there would have to be some "game" about them - a large number of possibilities that may always train our brains. But when it is so, it is mathematics. Physics, pretty much by definition, is all about "fully solving" problems. So if one has an amusing physics experiment, it may be viewed as "amusing physics", but if one does it - or understands it - once, there is really no point in doing the same thing again.
That makes a difference. For example, people may solve Sudoku thousands of times because it's always a bit different and they have always some "new fun". But if someone finds out that water may be frozen to ice e.g. in this way
it's not terribly recreational to repeat the same procedure one thousand times because it's always the same hard work. ;-) The part of "physics puzzles" that may get modified deserves to be classified as "maths".


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For instance, everything having to do with rep recalc that was posted more than a couple months ago is now irrelevant and hard to figure out - I needed to go to chat to find out that the whole thing was fixed. i searched on meta, but could not find the post about the changes.
Perhaps in this case we can close all questions tagged rep-recalc from before march of this year - but that may decrease the reputation of the askers unfairly.
Does anyone have any suggestions about how to implement this in a way that is scalable?


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NASCAR Notebook: Gordon, Bowyer tangle at Phoenix
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Jeff Gordon got into Clint Bowyer on the track. Bowyer's crew got into it with Gordon in the pits. Bowyer made a WWE-like dash through the pits and garage to find Gordon. The championship race heated up in the desert Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway and it had nothing to do with the weather.


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Doane Spencer, Joe Nitti, Neal East, Bob McGee—names forever synonymous with the hot rods they built or bought in the '40s and '50s. Their projects have become icons of the genre, and while you might name another couple hundred hero cars that have been storied ad nauseam, the workaday rods by Joe Average radically outnumber those exalted examples. This story is here to honor the anonymous.
Hot rods fueled teenagers' social landscapes in the '50s, and they vexed Main Streets well beyond the borders of the Southern California motherland. Contrary to popular impressions, HOT ROD reached outside those palm-fronded confines in its coverage, especially while visiting grassroots America from 1954 to 1956, when magazine photographer Eric Rickman hit the road with the NHRA Drag Safari. The Safari's mission was to help small-town rodders confab with local officials and to organize structured drag racing—according to Wally Parks' vision—usually on WWII airstrips. During the stops, Rickman would snap a few rolls of film, sometimes as many as 10, and mail them back to the honcho at 5959 Hollywood Blvd., where they'd be developed. Photos of a select few rods would appear in the pages of HOT ROD.
The cars you see here are outtakes captured on Kodak. While a couple of these have been published (decades after they were shot), many have never before been seen. We're thrilled to share them now, as we feel they capture the essence of American hot rodding as it really was, unfiltered by idealism. There are no big-name cars here. But to us, they're just as inspirational.
This photo totally puts us in the moment. It's in Spokane, Washington, at the corner of North Division Street and West Shannon Avenue (the building in the background still stands) during the Drag Safari stop on June 18, 1955. A poster for the races appears in the window of Thrifty Auto Supply. The altered-wheelbase '32 five-window with its whitewall mud tires is in shameless contrast with the far more sano version across the street. We're guessing the beater had a cooling problem, as the guys have removed the radiator, and the slickster at the door is holding what's likely the temp gauge.
The strip known as Paradise Mesa was located on the single-runway Sweetwater Dam airfield near San Diego at the then-desolate, now-populated intersection of Paradise Valley and Briarwood roads. It was home to the famed Bean Bandits. This shot of '32 (background) and '34 three-windows is from the '56 San Diego Championship Drags held at the Mesa.
This channeled Deuce is a mystery, handed in on a roll of film by HOT ROD's Ray Brock, mixed up with '55 Indy 500 pics. Check the rear roll pan and nerf bar and therefore relocated gas tank with the cap on top of the quarter-panel. More interesting, that's an Olds Rocket mill topped by what is likely an Edmunds intake with two of the sidedraft carbs from the earliest Olds 303 V8s.
The compelling thing about this pair from the '59 Nationals in Detroit is the comparison of highboy and lowboy styles, both with unchopped '32 five-windows. The channeled car in the background is Hemi powered, while the car with the body/frame relationship as Henry intended might disappoint him with its small Chevy plant.
We picked this one because it looks so much like many of the caricature rods we see today, awkwardness and all. How 2012 is that channel job and heavy Z in the back? The mill is a Desoto Hemi. The '58 Virginia plate reveals this to be an East Coast car, as does the fact that it was shot by Ed Eaton, who in 1958 became the first NHRA Eastern director. By 1959, he was the national competition director. The location is revealed in the Dec. '58 HRM to be the still-active Petersburg, Virginia, Municipal Airport. A tiny photo of this car is also in the story in that issue.
This October 1956 scene was part of a shoot to promote compliance with the Beverly Hills, California, police department's exhaust noise test. A story in the Jan. '57 issue glorified the process, though this photo was nowhere near it. The rough Deuce Fordor was the recipient of a Buick nailhead V8 courtesy of the crew at Shell Mufflers, a frequent HOT ROD advertiser and engine-swap-story contributor. We believe that's Lewie Shell on the left.
This is the '57 Nats in Oklahoma City, with the Buck & Bohls Olds-powered Model A B/Roadster in the background. Having been shot this day, the car was featured in the Mar. '58 issue. It was formerly a California-based dry-lakes racer under Art Tremaine, hence the body styling that's odd for a drag car. We're not hip to the Top Hat A/Altered Model A coupe out of Longview, Texas.
The nature of this photo tells us it was shot for a feature story, though we didn't find it in print; it may have been published in HOT ROD or Car Craft many months after it was shot at the '57 NHRA Nationals in Oklahoma City. Spot anything odd? It's not a Ford but a '33/'34 Dodge or Plymouth (with what might be a '34 Chevy grille; it doesn't seem rounded enough to be a '32 Ford), and it has an injected Chrysler set way back. A sticker on the windshield reads "Freeway Drag Racing Association Houston-Galveston," indicating an allegiance to the now defunct Houston International Raceway, known to locals as Freeway Drag Strip.
Here's a scene from 1955 and the very first NHRA Nationals, the first part of which was held on a runway in Great Bend, Kansas (before a rainout sent the finals to Arizona). Luther Wheat came all the way from Madera, California, in his Jimmy-powered '33 or '34 Chevy.
When the '58 NHRA Nationals hit Oklahoma City, it was a big deal to the locals. A downtown parade was loaded with rods of all kinds, including some on flatbed trucks decorated as floats, and with teens holding a variety of signs with nicey-nice, safety-supporting messages. The clunky, Desoto-powered roadster, the Phaeton, and the T-bird all wear Connecticut license plates and presumably were not trailered on the 1,500-mile journey from home to Oklahoma.
We'd totally live here. This '33 roadster (with a '32 grille shell) wears rain protection in camp at the '56 NHRA Nationals in Kansas City.


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Something like this that suggests the golden ratio is indeed appeasing to the eye from a user experience perspective?
The golden ratio can be seen as a compelling argument for providing a beautiful interface, but by definition it is also a design constraint.
The golden ratio is great for sizing some elements of content in subtle ways that make little other difference, but as a content layout strategy, it belongs with print media where there is static content. It has no place with modern multi-channel media consumption that feeds desktop, tablet, mobile or TV and needs to be flexible, fluid and responsive to cater for all the different display modes.
Twitter put up a picture in their flickr stream that shows #newtwitter (not #newnewtwitter) being designed around the principle of the golden ratio:
So you may say "What could be better validation of using the golden ratio than Twitter using it?" Well, wait a minute - as they point out, your mileage will vary as soon as you go beyond the narrowest view. So they didn't use it as a constraint, they used it as a starting point only.
And that is the key - by all means use it as a guide - a starting point - but don't make it a constraint.
Don't be a slave to the ratio. Design for your content, design for your users.
I wrote more on this topic for another question and included some quotes from an article by Jason Santa Maria
Golden ratio has been used by mankind for centuries.Its use may have started early as with the Egyptians in the design of the pyramids - or atleast they were the first passing the measurable proof.
It also appears in physical proportions of the human body, movements in the stock market and many other aspects of life, love and the universe.
Its validation can appear in hands/eyes of the user when the Golden ratio is utilized in the design. The validation of order and rhythm is seen in Greek buildings on using the Golden ratio. But I cannot pull out any websites that says due to the use of Golden ratio we had got more users or ROI that has pumped up.
The only way this could be done is to do A/B Testing of two designs with and without Golden proportion and clearly find results when using best of design principles.
The golden ratio isn't specifically about websites, it's a general principle about proportion in design. The best treatment I've seen explaining how it works is in "Design for hackers" () by David Kadavy, where he devotes a chapter to exploring what the golden ratio is, its strengths and limitations, and how it is applied to design in a number of domains.


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8 Amazon Products With Impressively Sarcastic Reviews: Pt. 2
#4. Bic Crystal Ballpoint Pen, Medium Point, Black
Amazon.co.uk brings us some of that trademark dry British "humour" (it is like "humor" but metric) in a whopping 224 reviews of an ordinary Bic ballpoint pen.
Satire is out in full swing as reviewers skewer the digital age with fairly fresh takes on the "this generation doesn't remember how pens work" joke.
As good as some pointed social commentary can be, however, sometimes a person just likes to see a couple of penis jokes.
#3. Elephant Camouflage Kit
Those of you who care about things like "reality" and "truth" probably want to know if this is an actual product because you have lost your sense of childlike wonder. Fine. Proporta is a real company that makes mostly electronic accessories. For "humour" purposes (they are also British), they've listed this fake product on their own website for about $1.5 million, and when they ported their store to Amazon, that product got put up too.
Which is good news for us because that means it's open to Amazon user reviews, from good old straight-up sarcasm:
To some fine elephant dong jokes (that's the censored word there, if you live in a bubble):
#2. Nuclear Duct Tape (Slate Blue)
Official name: 3M 8979N Performance Plus Nuclear Duct Tape, Slate Blue 48mm Wide x 54.8M Long
You're probably wondering what is so "nuclear" about this duct tape, and if it's really that important that it's slate blue. Well, yes. According to the product description: "The slate blue color makes it ideal for use in nuclear tape facilities and it is certified for low leachable halogens and sulfur."
Apparently people who only use it to block low leachable halogens and sulfur are unambitious pussies because Amazon reviewers really seem to be getting 110 percent out of this tape.
#1. English Grammar for Dummies
And finally, did you realize that one ethnic group that it's still totally OK to caricature for humor purposes is Russians? I'm just saying, get 'em in while you still can.
And be sure to check out our sarcastic reviews on everything in the world in our bestselling book.
For more from Christina, check out 6 Ways Cities Are Getting Into the Attention-Whore Game and A History of Pop Culture's Obsession with Human/Cat Hybrids.


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Chewy spice cookies and a wintery night
It's funny how we crave food that makes us feel the opposite of what the weather might suggest.
In this case, we were in the middle of – yes – another snowstorm. Heaps and heaps of fluffy white stuff dumped on us. The streets buried and sparkling under the streetlamps. Deadly silent. Not a soul ventured outside.
And while I was tempted to experiment with a new recipe, another part of me just wanted a snuggly warm blanket, dog curled up at my feet, a mug of frothy hot chocolate, and a couple of my all-time favourite chewy spice cookies. You can guess what happened next
Spice cookies won by a long shot. I had actually been meaning to archive the recipe online anyway, since the original, scrawled on a scrap of paper bearing the marks of plenty of usage, was looking rather shabby.
And so it was that as the snow continued to blanket the city through the night, we curled up at home with the earthy smells of cinnamon and clove perfuming my cosy kitchen.
Try out the recipe here. It's wonderfully versatile!


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adidas Interval Reversible Wristbands - 3"
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The adidas® Interval Reversible Wristband is a comfortable, sweat absorbing, stylish accessory that is ideal for any athlete. This performance-enhancer includes an embroidered adidas® logo, anti-microbial finish to prevent the growth of odor-causing bacteria and climalite® moisture wicking technology made from special fibers to keep the sweat off your skin, letting you focus on dominating the opposition.
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A 2A trio in Merkel signed National Letters of Intent at Merkel High School on Wednesday. Girl's basketball star Allison Szabo signed to play at Lubbock Christian. In football, Pat Bohannan will play receiver at Cisco Junior College and Baylor Mullins will enter college as a slot receiver.
The former QB spoke with KTXS about making the position change.
"They recruited me as a slot receiver. They also sat down and said they would find me the best position for me to play next year whether it be defensive back, wide receiver or maybe quarterback."
Baylor's father and coach Kieth told KTXS that the decision was not an easy one, "Nothing against the other schools, they were all great programs as well but it's just a gut feeling you have to go on."
A gut feeling might have been the best decider, the Mullins' told KTXS that the hardest part of the decision was having to tell recruiters who were sometimes family friends that they decided to decline.
"It was difficult making those phone calls," Coach Mullins explained, "it would have been easy if there was something we didn't like about those programs but they were all top notch."
Whatever the reason, Mullins still has some football decisions to make regarding where he will fit best on his new team. The adjustment will be something that most football fans in the Big Country will keep a close eye on.


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Will any mobs spawn in my barn? nothing has yet but there is lots of light
There is most of the torches and the chicken just came in and the other was spawned by a egg
Here is another view
So there is a lot of torches and light. Will anything spawn?


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If I understand the TSA's 3-1-1 policy in the US correctly, you are allowed to take two 3-ounce containers of a liquid on a plane, but not a single 6-ounce container of the same liquid. Is this really how the policy works? If so, what was the rationale for regulating carry-ons like this?
When you're making rules like this, simplicity and objectivity are vital. You don't want (whether you're a traveller, a supervisor of the security staff, or a person trying to prevent terrorism) a situation where security staff need to make decisions on their feet based on whether the passenger's story is good enough or any other kind of judgement call. Hmm, you have shampoo and conditioner, well yes your hair is quite long, you may pass. Oh my, you are almost completely bald, why would you need conditioner, we're confiscating this, and so on.
Travellers want to be confident their stuff won't be banned. Staff need to be able to do their jobs as quickly and consistently as possible. And the person who made the rules needs to be sure they will always be enforced as imagined. That's why you can't bring 50 ml of stuff in a 600 ml bottle. Reading the label and seeing that it says 600 ml is simple, unambiguous and consistent. It works even if the security staff are not that bright. And there's no need for a complicated appeal process. Someone else reads the label and says yup, 600 ml, this is a no-go. There's no argument about whether you have 80 ml left in the bottle or 120 ml left in the bottle. The rule is just about the bottle.
Your little bottles are each under 100ml and all fit in the baggie of freedom? You're free to go. Nobody stops to say hey, each of these bottles appears to have the very same stuff in it. That would require judgement. The volumes - the 100 ml and the dimensions of the baggie of freedom - have been chosen so that even if you brought 6 or 7 bottles (whatever can fit) of the maximum allowed size all of the same stuff, you wouldn't be able to do much damage. (And really, checking that they are all labelled as different things wouldn't do much - we can all make labels.) Also, if you used larger sub-bottles - say 200 ml - you could get more total volume into the baggie, so using small sub-bottles is another way of constraining the total volume.
Designing a very simple and consistent system makes the checking faster. It lets people bring shampoo, conditioner, lotion, toothpaste, shaving cream etc. And it was set up so that it still constrains the bad guys. Sort of. It's not that hard to circumvent, in reality, since there are exemptions for things that are labelled (eg saline solution, prescription medication) and tremendous trust in labels. But it's all tradeoffs, and this certainly makes people feel protected. It even has some effect. Nothing is 100%, but the liquid-reducing measures do mean that more conspirators would be required for most terror acts, and more conspirators means more chances to catch them before they even get to the airport.
According to the TSA, the limit is such that it would be impossible to use liquid/plastic explosives to take the plane down, while still allowing us to have our minimal amount of soap and shampoo for these 2-day business trips without having to check in any luggage.
Here's more from the TSA.
My assumption is that TSA is concerned about what could be concealed within the liquid.


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Say I've got a fresh install of Ubuntu, what steps should I take to secure it for use as a Rails application server?
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I can't think of any Ubuntu-specific tweaks, but here's a few that apply to all distributions:
Of course this list isn't complete, and you'll never be completely safe, but it covers all the exploits I have seen in real life.
Also, the exploits I have seen were almost always related to unsecure user code, not unsecure configuration. The default configurations in minimal, server distributions tend to be pretty secure.
One quick thing that I do early on is install DenyHosts. It will regularly look through the /var/log/secure, looking for failed logins, and after a couple of failures, block the IP. I set it to block after the first no-such-user, on the second attempt at root, and after a couple of tries for real users (in case you mess up, but you should be using a SSH public key to login).
Ubuntu is based off Debian and I've found the Securing Debian Manual to be very useful in Debian-based distributions in completely walking you through your system and checking every part. It's basically a really, really comprehensive answer to your question.
Install logcheck, but tweak so that you never receive messages from regular events, otherwise you'll get in the habit of ignoring the emails.
Check which processes are listening using netstat, and make sure nothing's running that doesn't need to run. Many daemons can be configured only to listen on the internal IP (or localhost) instead of all interfaces.
I usually install RKHunter, which scans for rootkits and does integrity checks of various important system binaries. It's in the standard repo, and will run daily from cron. It's not perfect, securitywise, but it's a low-effort item to add, and it provides a measure of protection.
Do what Can suggests...
Nmap the host and disable all non-essential services. Use iptables if necessary.
Use separate partitions for various directories like
Some firewall suggestions.
Learn to use a firewall and the concepts of properly locking a box down. Changing default ports is largely a useless thing; proper application and firewall configuration are much more important.
Both are in the Ubuntu repos:
has terrific documentation and very easy to learn syntax. I was able to set up a gateway/firewall in twenty minutes. The only reason I've moved away from this is that it doesn't seem to be maintained (last release 2 yrs ago). Doesn't mean it doesn't work, but...
is another one. More iptables-like syntax, but same concept. More community maintained than FireHOL, but takes longer to pick up.
is what I currently use. Its documentation is extensive, and its configuration format is tabular. It took me about an hour and a half to understand all the files needed (6) to get a working firewall/gateway configuration running. It's quite powerful. TIP: The man pages for the different config files are REALLY helpful!
All of these load firewall configurations from a config file. Very effective, easier to use than iptables straight up, and (in my opinion) easier to use and manage than ufw.
If you're going anywhere near the Internet with the server, install an intrusion detection system like snort.
As well as other suggestions here I'll mention three that are obvious but perhaps worth mentioning for completeness:


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CORYELL COUNTY (January 10, 2013)-- A man snared in June in a sting in Coryell County was sentenced to federal prison Wednesday after he earlier pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to distribute the drug.
U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith, Jr., sentenced Melvin Stephone Grey to serve 30 months on count 1 and 5 years on count 2 on the charge of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute.
Smith also ordered Grey to serve the sentences consecutively, ordered him to serve 3 years on supervised release on each count concurrently, imposed a $1,000 fine and required Grey to pay $200 in special assessment to the court.
A document presented in Waco's federal court during Grey's plea hearing says on June 26, 2012 a deputy who had been assigned to a drug task force had arranged to make a drug buy from two men who were sitting in a pick up truck in a parking lot.
When the deputy approached the truck and spoke to the driver and his passenger through an open window, he was able to see several plastic bags that contained what the deputy believed to be cocaine.
The deputy returned to his car under the guise of getting his money and signaled to other officers to surround the truck.
The driver noticed the presence of law officers and ran from his truck, however he was caught s short time later.
Brandon Christopher Taylor, the passenger, also attempted to run but was taken into custody immediately.
During an inventory of the vehicle officers found a handgun on the passenger side floorboard, recovered baggies of what later would test to be cocaine, and located a small plastic bottle that contained an amount of cocaine base, also known as "crack" cocaine.
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Professor Anu Bradford's desk in Jerome Greene Hall is covered with grim news articles about the economic fate of Europe.
Bradford, an expert in European Union law and international trade law, spends a great deal of time thinking about the gap between what Europe's economic situation calls for and what political institutions can deliver. While some commentators have asserted that Europe is an inherently weak entity that can barely handle its own problems, she cautions against such generalizations. Bradford says those viewpoints, for instance, ignore an important, and enduring, source of the continent's power: the global influence of the EU's stringent regulatory standards.
Companies that want to do business with Europe's 500 million consumers must comply with the EU's regulations regarding issues of health, food safety, privacy, and the environment. And, as Bradford explains in an upcoming law review article, it is often cheaper and more efficient for corporations to adjust their worldwide business practices to the strictest regulations.
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Consider the unit interval $I=[0,1]$. $B[0,1]$ denotes the sigma-algebra of Borel sets in $[0,1]$ and is generated by the countable subclass $C[0,1]$. $\lambda$ is the usual Lebesgue measure.
Are there a sequence of subsets $E_i$ of $[0,1]$ and a countably additive extension $m$ of $\lambda$ on $\sigma(C[0,1] \cup \{E_i; i=1,2, \cdots\})$ such that
(*) For any $i \geq 0$, $E_{i+1}$ is not $m$-measurable with respect to $B_i:=\sigma(C[0,1] \cup \{E_1, \cdots, E_i\})$, i.e., $$(m\upharpoonright_{B_i})^* (E_{i+1}) = \inf\{m\upharpoonright_{B_i}(E): E \supseteq E_{i+1}\} \neq \sup\{m\upharpoonright_{B_i}(E): E \subseteq E_{i+1}\} = (m\upharpoonright_{B_i})_*(E_{i+1}) $$ ?


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I have decided that I'm a terrible multi-tasker, at the end of the day I have a bunch of unfinished emails, terminals and text files.
Mono-tasking is not for me, if I have to wait 5 seconds for something I get distracted. So I'm resolving to work on only a main task plus an optional secondary task at once until completion, with the added restriction that the secondary task has to be either reading or listening. This way I can finish a book or listen to podcasts when I need to wait for something.
The problems I foresee are that I will get interrupted, both by internal thoughts and by external means. Internal I can catch pretty well by writing down things in my inbox, external I'm not so sure how to handle.
Any tips and tricks that would help my endeavor?
UPDATE: After doing this for a few days, I find that I'm less easily distracted. I think it's because focusing on "finish one task, do two tasks at most" helps me get rid of tasks 3, 4, 5 and 6 :-). I'll update again in a while to see how I'm doing.


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Welcome back everyone! We hope you've had a great Christmas, and wish you all a very enjoyable 2010!
Over the festive season we've sampled a number of delicious whiskies - Christmas really is a great time for a good dram with some good company - and we wanted to mention one of favourite winter warmers.
At the time of writing, we're surrounded by several inches of snow, and the thought of a little winter sun is rather appealing… Well, we present to you Glengoyne Glenguin 16 Year Old Shiraz Finish. A Highland single malt finished in Australian Shiraz casks for a touch of Antipodean joie de vivre!
The Shiraz casks come from the Glenguin wine estate in Australia's Hunter Valley and it's no accident that Glenguin and Glengoyne sound alike. It all began with Arthur William Tedder, born in Glenguin, Scotland to a Customs and Excise man at the Glengoyne distillery. Arthur was a pilot in the RAF during the First Wold War, as well as holding high command during the Second. After an eminent war career, Tedder was offered a peerage and became the 1st Baron Tedder of Glenguin. Arthur's grandson, Robin Tedder, is one of Australia's fifteen Masters of Wine and he also founded the Glenguin Wine Estate in 1988, which brings us back to the whisky…
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