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1965 Dodge Coronet 500 - Manifold PowerWritten by on January 1, 2005 Contributors: Ron Valera Our Low-Deck Stroker Cranks Out 550 Hp With Cast-Iron Manifolds
Bolting a set of headers onto your musclecar has to be one of the most popular modifications in the history of hot-rodding. Very few modifications add as much power as quickly and easily as a good set of headers. But given that, there are still a lot of people who for one reason or another don't want to put headers on their car. Maybe a guy wants to maintain an appearance of originality, or he doesn't want to deal with the extra heat and noise that a set of headers can cause. Sometimes there just aren't headers available for certain combinations of engine and body style, and, of course, there are the horror stories of poorly designed headers that don't fit until beaten into place with a sledgehammer and a torch. So for whatever reason you might have to stick with manifolds, we have some tips that will show you how to make big power without headers.
The Situation
Our current project is a '65 Dodge Coronet 500 that we're setting up as a Pro Touring car. This car came from the factory as a 426 wedge, four-speed combination, so we could have just dropped the stroker motor into the factory location. But the motor is positioned fairly far forward on these early B-bodies, and that location isn't the best for weight distribution. So when we swapped out the factory four-speed for a Doug Nash five-speed, we went ahead and moved the motor back about 1.5 inches to improve the weight distribution.
The unique motor location in turn required either severe modifications to standard headers, or a set of custom headers. Neither of those options seemed too desirable to us, so the choice was made to go with a set of factory HP exhaust manifolds.
The Short-Block Combination
First off we have to say that this motor is not a drag race motor, but rather it was designed as a street combination with a big, flat (think Viper) torque curve. So it was important to us that we have a nice stable idle at less than 900 rpm and with 12 or more inches of vacuum. We also wanted to see a lot of torque on tap below 3,500 rpm, since that is where you use it in a street car. Banging through the gears at 6,500 rpm is a lot of fun, but it also tends to attract the type of attention that leads to court appearances and big insurance premiums. Now that we're old enough to join the hair club for men, we focus our attention more towards the lower end of the torque curve.
When it comes to street motors with big torque curves, cubic inches are your friend. Therefore, when we built this motor, we used the popular trick of stuffing an offset ground 440 crankshaft into a 400 block. The RB crankshaft we used came from the scrap pile at a local machine shop since it was undersize and had a couple of spun bearings. We salvaged the crank by grinding the mains down to 2.625 and offset grinding the rod journals down to the Chevy size of 2.200. This small investment in machine work turned our scrap yard refuge into a polished stroker crank.
Offset grinding the rod journals on an RB crank down to the Chevy 2.200 size is a quick way to pick up some cubic inches, but it does create a problem with rod side clearance since Chevy rods are slightly narrower than the Mopar ones. We solved the rod side clearance issue by locating a set of Manley 14279 connecting rods. These rods are Mopar length and width, but use the Chevy 2.200 and 0.990 pin sizes Sad to say, Manley recently stopped production on these connecting rods, and there aren't any other known solutions currently on the market. Maybe if enough people request these rods from Manley, they wiill do another production run.
In order to maximize quench and reduce the chance of detonation, we wanted a flat-top piston with zero deck clearance. But since our stroke of 3.875 inches is rather odd, we had to order a set of custom pistons from JE. Our pistons needed to be rather short (for a Mopar) due to the longer stroke and the 440-rod length, but JE didn't have any trouble coming up with a lightweight design once we provided them with our VISA card number!
All engine machine work, as well as the engine dyno tests, was done at Gray's Auto Machine in Tigard, Oregon.
Cylinder Heads, Cam And Intake
While the short-block has a few nice parts in it, what really makes this motor work is the Edelbrock cylinder heads. The set of heads on this motor were some of the very first heads produced by Edelbrock, and they were initially bolted on right out of the box. The nice thing about the Edelbrock heads is they are ready to make good power without any touch-up work or porting required.
We initially installed a Mopar Performance .528 solid cam in this motor just because it seemed like it would be a good match. At the time, we didn't realize how good of a match it was for our motor. After the motor had been in the car for a while, we started to test other camshafts, and we had a hard time finding anything that worked better than that old MP .528 grind.
Of course, given enough time and effort you can always find a camshaft that works better than the first one you start with, but for some reason the MP .528 works great when combined with the Edelbrock heads and cast-iron exhaust manifolds. Apparently, the wide lobe centers and the fairly mild profile of the .528 are a good match for the restricted exhaust, but we're not sure exactly why. If we fully understood why the .528 worked so well, we would be in a better position to design a cam that made even more power.
One thing we did learn in a hurry while testing other camshafts was that if you put too much duration into a motor like this, the torque curve falls right out of bed. In this particular motor we found that duration greater than 245 degrees at .050-inch lift killed the low end of the torque curve. Worse yet, the motor wouldn't make anymore power upstairs with the big cam than it did with the smaller lobe profile. We also found out that this motor doesn't seem to like dual pattern cams. One would think that with the restricted exhaust you should leave the exhaust valve open longer to blow out the spent gases, but that theory didn't work as planned when we tested it, so we're back to square one.
Manifolds And Head Pipes
When building this motor we had several sets of HP manifolds to choose from, but one particular set of castings caught our eye since they didn't have a heat riser. These castings originally came on a 400 HP motor in a '73 B-body car, but there might be other applications these manifolds could be found on. Manifold casting numbers for the set we selected were 3751068 and 3751071.
We didn't test any of our HP manifolds on a flow bench, so we don't actually know how well the various castings work. It is possible that some of the HP manifolds flow better than others, but we haven't yet gotten around to being that scientific about this project.
One thing that we didn't do is extrude hone the manifolds. The extrude hone technology is very interesting and would seem to be effective for this type of work. But the process is rather expensive, and we had heard that it didn't actually increase the power in their combinations. So we bolted our combination together with basically stock manifolds and hoped for the best.
An area that we did spend some attention on were the head pipes. We machined some special adapters out of stainless steel that allowed us to bolt 3-inch head pipes directly to the manifolds. We then built some head pipes out of sections of mandrel-bent 3-inch exhaust tubing. The goal was to get the exhaust gases out of the manifold and into a smoothly flowing big pipe as soon as possible. The last trick was to install bungs in each head pipe for the wide-band O2 sensors. We consider a pair of wide-band O2 sensors absolutely mandatory for tuning, so everything we build gets a set of the bungs welded into place.
Tweaking The Combination
The Edelbrock heads were initially bolted on right out of the box, and they worked great with the motor making 550 hp at 5,700 rpm on the engine dyno. Once the motor was off the dyno and into the car, we started to tweak on it a bit and ended up swapping a number of parts around before hitting on the current combination.
One of the first things we tried once the car was up and running was an Edelbrock Performer RPM manifold. The thinking was since this was a street car, the extra torque from the dual plane design would be beneficial to us. in fact, that was exactly the case, as we noticed a fairly big jump in low-end torque when comparing the Performer RPM to a Victor 383. We're fairly certain the exhaust manifolds influenced this test, since they kept the motor from using all of the flow available with a race intake. Just like with the big cam test, the big intake manifold killed the low-end torque, but didn't make any more power on the top end.
We also spent some time testing a few different carburetors and found the Edelbrock 800-cfm units to be a great choice. We ran both the AVS and the AFB versions on this motor and saw identical power curves. According to our contact at Edelbrock, the AVS version received some internal improvements when the tooling was produced, so the AVS should provide a slight increase in performance. We didn't see a horsepower improvement, but we did find the AVS carb would make the same power as the AFB, while using one size smaller jets. that means the AVS version is a little more efficient of a design.
Test Results: Dyno And Track
It is a little tough to summarize the dyno testing that this combination has seen. In the last year alone, it has racked up more than 40 pulls on the chassis dyno. At one point, we had a standing date at the chassis dyno every Friday morning! The purpose of all of this testing was to sort through the choices on camshafts, intake manifolds, and carbs. Even with all of that testing, we still haven't fully explored rocker arm ratios, spark plug gaps, timing curves, and so on. When it comes to flogging a motor, lets just say that the win light probably goes to the guy who works the hardest.
But we can say the best dyno numbers posted to date were pulled down when running the MP .528 cam with the Performer RPM manifold and the Edelbrock AFB 800 carb. We rolled into the dyno shop one nice crisp morning, and the big 17-inch Goodyears spun the dyno up to 527 lb-ft of torque and 474 hp. Given a 15-percent powertrain loss for a manual transmission, we estimate the power at the flywheel to be in the neighborhood of 560 hp for that set of pulls. The car has spun the dyno up over 460 rwhp dozens of times, but that 474 is the best pull to date.
Taking this car to the dragstrip is a bit of a lesson in how hard it is to hook up a stick shift car on street tires when you have a ton of torque. Our first few passes resulted in huge wheel spin and low 13-second quarter-mile times at 113 mph. Based on the mph, we knew the car had plenty of power, but getting it hooked up has been a challenge. Of course, the car is set up for Pro Touring mode not drag racing, so it has big stiff torsion bars and low profile 17-inch tires. Neither of those really helps the traction situation at the drag strip.
We did compromise the pro-touring setup a bit by bolting on a set of BFG Drag Radials and that gave us enough traction to dip into the low 12s, but the car is still posting slow 60 foot times. No doubt if we bolted on some slicks and tweaked the suspension with some old drag racing tricks, we could see some high 11s at the track. But those suspension mods would ruin the handling of the car, so we'll just have to settle for having a 12-second car that can corner. Maybe at some point in the future, we'll work on the suspension some more and get it to a point where we can have our cake and eat it too.
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Our 466ci low-deck stroker looks rather innocent when dressed up with HP manifolds and a 383 pie tin. You might not be expecting 550 hp from this one.On the engine dyno, we used 3-inch exhaust tubing off the manifolds and no mufflers. During this particular dyno pull, we had a Holley carb on a M1 manifold.Here, we are thrashing our way through a cam swap in search of more power. The Edelbrock heads are clearly visible, as is a lightweight Toyota alternator, a Cloyes double-roller timing chain, and the coated HP manifolds.Our 3-inch head pipes were custom-made from mandrel bends in order to minimize the restriction. Notice the bungs for the O2 sensor and the extra thick flanges.The beehive valvesprings from Competition Cams work well on this motor. With these springs in place, we've spun hydraulic flat tappet cams up past 7,000 rpm with no lifter pump up or valve float. Just make sure to get the proper ones for your application. The stainless steel, 1.60 ratio, rocker arms are from Rocker Arm Specialist in Anderson, California.The Performer RPM manifold and 800-cfm carb are both from Edelbrock. This combination works great with the Mopar Performance .528 solid cam and the HP manifolds.A 2-inch-tall tapered spacer picked up some power on the Performer RPM. If you have the room to try one of these spacers you should.We tried this super tall Victor 383 manifold on the motor with poor results. Sometimes race stuff works on street motors, and sometimes it doesn't. With the HP manifolds, the exiting air restriction was hampering the incoming air's flow. In other words, the exhaust manifolds couldn't expel the air fast enough for the single plane intake to bring more in.
When you're going to get serious about making power, you should always sonic check the block before machining begins to see if the cylinder walls are thick and uniform. Skip this process, and you could end up with a very expensive boat anchor.Our crankshaft started life in a 426 wedge motor. We ground the mains down 0.125 and then offset ground the rod journals to Chevy big-block on a 3.875 stroke. The connecting rods come from Manley, and the pistons are lightweight JE forgings.


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What should be Woot's new slogan?
Well it has been suggested many times that the "One day, one deal" slogan of Woot has gone the way of expired milk that has been pushed to the back of the fridge one too many times. So, in an effort to purge the stink, what should Woot's new slogan be? Should there be one overarching or does each subset of Woot need it's own printable words?
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Don't worry, your item won't sell out like we did!
@coondogg97: Flawless victory!
Error 404, Deal not found.
Vote or Die
"Woot, Amazon's Bitc@"
Woot! We've got so much crap we put it in random bags.
We used to sell bags of crap... Now we just sell crap.
Crap sells, or we wouldn't be here.
100 Deals a Day.
Well sell the crap Amazon can't.
Our most popular item is crap.
Wil Wheaton still thinks we are cool!
Where Monkeys Fly and Deals Don't
If all of you guys hate Woot so much, why do you still have black triangles?
@rayray8822: I don't hate woot. Our relationship has just cooled since it started seeing other corporations. Most of us are just having fun with Woot's own choice to call their most sought-after product a bag of crap.
Woot! The Original 1 deal a day website. NOW with extra deals!
or NOW with more crap!
Woot, We were able to bend time and space to bring you more days in a day to bring more deals!
take a pick:
@rayray8822: Do you have any idea how easy it is to keep a black triangle? Do you know how hard it is to drop from a black triangle?
All told
Woot: The Website You Won't Be Able to Quit
Woot: Are you going to sit around jawing all day or buy something?
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The 6 Greatest Things Accomplished by Dead Bodies
#3. Get Elected Mayor
Carl Geary served a minor post in the local government of Tracy City, Tennessee. The incumbent mayor, Barbara Brock, wasn't exactly popular with the people. So when she found herself up against Geary in the 2010 election, things were looking bleak: He was a popular candidate, beloved by the local people for his integrity, straight-talking nature, and ability to have a penis (this is Tennessee here).
Sure enough, the election wasn't even close: When the votes had been counted up, Geary took office with more than three times the total of his rival.
That's despite the fact that Geary had died nearly a month before.
Wait, What?
Determined to kick Brock from office at any expense, the local population saw an ideal way to humiliate one of them uppity women-folk, and maybe bring up some much needed tourist cash with the world's first Zombie Mayor. So they elected a dead man. Despite his highly publicized death, locals continued to vote for Geary in such numbers that the long dead man polled 268 votes to his living and breathing rival's 85.
One local business owner, just to make it clear this wasn't some kind of bureaucratic mix-up, went on record as saying that, yes, he "knew [Geary] was deceased. I know that sounds stupid, but we wanted someone other than her." Displaying the bitchy kind of wit that perhaps endeared her to the local populace so, Brock laconically responded to the humiliating defeat by stating simply: "I'll live."
#2. Throw a Kick-Ass Party
Bredo Morstoel was passionate about two things: the outdoors and being really, really creepy looking.
Jack Skellington?
The former was a large part of the reason he moved from his native Norway to Nederland, Colorado. So it's no surprise when we tell you of his regular participation in a local outdoor festival. He actually started it! Oh, what a time it was: There numerous stalls selling all manner of produce, live music, games for all the family to enjoy and, of course, the opportunity to share a beer with Grandpa Bredo himself.
Or at least, what's left of him.
Wait, What?
Upon dying, Bredo was put on ice and shipped to the Trans Time Cryonics facility in Oakland, CA. Eventually he was moved to "live" with his grandchildren, who hoped to use the opportunity to kick-start a cryonics center of their own. That didn't really take, but the town, embracing the publicity generated by their frozen dead guy, decided to hold an annual festival in his honor, called, accurately enough, Frozen Dead Guy Days.
If the music and shopping aren't enough to satisfy the festival goers, then visitors can also enjoy Coffin Racing, a parade of hearses or, most importantly, the annual party held in Grandpa Bredo's shed, which includes the opportunity to pack ice onto Grandpa himself, accompanied by some "unique and interesting goodies to eat and drink"...straight from his icy fucking tomb.
#1. Become Queen
During the 1300s, Prince Pedro, heir to the throne of Portugal, fell for one of his maids. This was a problem as he was married at the time (the maid worked for his wife, in fact). Well, it comes as no surprise that their dependence on the not-too-reliable "thou art nearly there, then with haste pull thine member out" method of contraception led to the prince fathering several illegitimate children with the maid, Ines De Castro.
But who could resist that sexy, savage, noble, visa- wait, is that a poodle?
When Pedro's wife died and he inherited the throne, Pedro proclaimed the maid as Queen of Portugal, which in itself is not altogether surprising. Well, not until you learn she had actually died five years earlier anyway.
Wait, What?
Pedro's dad, aka the king, wasn't big on his son banging the maid. He did what any devoted and caring father would do: He ordered the death of the woman his son loved. You can imagine how this didn't sit well with Pedro, so after dad died, he declared that he had secretly married Ines when she was alive and retroactively proclaimed her Queen of Portugal. If you're thinking this is just a sweet posthumous honor for his departed lover, keep reading.
Not content with the mere public acknowledgment of her royal stature, Pedro went so far as to exhume Ines' body and actually sit her corpse on a throne while his courtiers were forced to "go down on one knee" and "kiss her hand" in honor of the new queen.
So by all means, bitch about whatever current ruling party you feel like. But always remember this: No matter how badly you think the Obama administration is fucking things up, at least he didn't make you "go down" on his corpse-wife at the inauguration.
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I have a not-so-old configuration: Celeron 2 GHz, Windows XP, Firefox 3.6, broadband at least 1 Mbit/s. I always liked how the "classic" (Stack Overflow, Super User, etc.) site worked, but the newer Stack Exchange sites are too slow; sometimes my mouse even freezes moving from one element to another. Am I the only one who's seen this?
Update: I can't even type normally at new Stack Exchange sites; my computer pauses every third typed letter (while here at Meta Stack Overflow, the typing experience is almost as natural as in any lightweight editor).
Update: It seems like it's Firefox-related (mine is version 3.6.12), since in Chrome everything seems to be OK. In Firefox, one of the symptoms is mouse semi-freezing when hovering over questions, tags, users and badges. I tried to run "-no-remote" without extensions, but the effect was the same.


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>Crescent City California News, Sports, & Weather | The Triplicate
Regarding the Nov. 10 article, "County may target dispensaries," Del Norte County counsel Gretchen Stuhr and certain officials from many of our communities are being completely disingenuous in their arguments against a well-regulated cannabis industry.
To declare that money can never change hands, that labor is not a business expense or that non-profit and not-for-profit organizations aren't recognized whenever they're comprised of qualified patients, are all theories that are demonstrably incorrect.
In the real world, community gardens, and cooperative or collective efforts all pool their resources, both physically and financially, to achieve their stated goals. In fact, our courts have already ruled (in County of Butte v. The Superior Court of Butte County) that associations of qualified individuals may contribute to and invest in cannabis associations however they are able to, with money or labor or in-kind contributions.
Patients most certainly do not have to physically participate in their cannabis gardens. Imagine the impacts of such a devious assumption ... that patients, including the elderly and handicapped individuals, would be forced into manual farm labor, in order to obtain their medicine.
No county in this state, including Del Norte, is authorized to make decisions about the non-profit or not-for-profit status of an organization. The state of California and our federal government are charged with making those determinations, and it is they who issue organizations their legal status in this regard. Whether or not county officials want to accept the legal business models of cannabis associations operating here is irrelevant. It's simply not within their jurisdiction to determine whether an organization is operating "for profit" or not.
The reason certain bureaucrats "haven't found a single (dispensary that is) within the state law," is simply because they refuse to acknowledge them. Proposition 215 (the Compassionate Use Act) was the simplest law that voters have enacted since the beginning of our state's initiative process ... it was only one page long. Subsequently, our Legislature and governor enacted SB-420 (the Medical Marijuana Program Act), in order to further implement the CUA.
Yet for 15 years, the biggest opponents to a well-regulated cannabis industry have misused vast public resources in order to bring their beloved drug war into the homes of vulnerable patients. They have violated their oaths of office by seeking to undermine the electorate and the constitution of California, under color of law and using the privileges of their office. They are essentially using their offices to engage in political sabotage, in order to undo what they couldn't achieve through our democratic process. They're very sore losers.
The extent to which operating dispensaries is "illegal," and the reason your "sheriff" (in actuality, your district attorney) may not prosecute such cases, is because violating a county ordinance is only punishable as an infraction, and because the proper operation of a "dispensary" can be completely legal under California laws.
The conflict between state laws and local guidelines is a manufactured crisis, is completely avoidable, and is a waste of public resources. It's also a fight the state will ultimately win, as every city and county are merely agents of the state.
Regarding the number of dispensaries, and the farms that serve them, where have all your "free-market" advocates and Tea Party members gone into hiding on this issue? What happens to our sovereignty, when the shoe is on the other foot? Advocates of freedom need to understand what this word really means, if they want to be taken seriously. We should all be on the same side here, as we are all part of the 99 percent. Occupy America includes the cannabis industry. We're the fastest-growing agriculturally based industry in California.
These officials do not respect the rights of patients, as they know very well that's who will suffer the most, when all legal access to cannabis is dismantled by the county. The memberships of "dispensaries" are comprised (100 percent) of cannabis-using patients. While many on all sides of this issue agree that the cannabis industry needs greater regulation, the way forward is to embrace our best job creators and to increase the tax revenues generated by the largest cash crop in California.
It's too late to turn the clock back. If anything, these rogue actions by city and county officials will backfire, and may encourage Californians to just legalize cannabis outright in 2012. They may also be held to account for their blatant violations of the public trust, as their actions seek to harm the very lives of some of their constituents.
Jason Browne works for Full Circle Consulting.


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There is a popular idea that seeing a rainbow is a bad sign, as if the world is deserving of a deluge (c"v) and the only reason Hashem does not do so is because of His promise. Is there any source for this? And if so, how does that square with the fact that rainbows are a natural occurrence caused by the refraction of light (as noted by Ramban in Parshas Noach 9:12)?
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Is a rainbow a bad sign?
What about nature?
Is there nothing good about rainbows?
Rashi on pasuk 14 seems to indicate this idea.
The Ramban there explains that God is saying that from now on it will be a sign that He will not destroy the world:
Perhaps one can explain that God causes the conditions for a rainbow to appear when He wants to send such a message. Though I think Ramban differs with Rashi on interpreting the sign.


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It's not a question I have an answer to, but I am hoping someone can enlighten me.
You see, when I was growing up my bed time was filled with damsels in distress, Grimm's fairy tales and all sort of other stories, which may have been a little horrific, sometimes even gruesome, but there was a moral at the end of the story.
The heroes of the stories always did good, sure they might have made some errors of judgment, but at worst they were bad, never evil.
Now WoW has been to date a relatively "clean" game. Sure you hack things to death, but even the "darkside", the Horde were (generally) moral.
I have always had an issue with the preservers of nature, the Druids, slaughtering x number of innocent creatures for a pocketful of silver, but somehow I was able to turn a blind eye to this. Well except when my animal loving wife is standing behind me expressing her displeasure.
But now I am confronted with a new issue. I have heard people mention the moral dilemmas that WoLK places before them, having to make a choice between two unpleasant paths, but until this week I haven't has to confront this myself.
So what changed?
1st up I was asked by a member of the Kirin Tor to torture a prisoner, because they had made an oath that prevented them doing it themselves.
Next a similar request from the 1st Death Knight I recall encountering in the game.
So now I am suffering from two reoccurring nightmares.
- my encounter with the Death Knight left me shaken and slightly stirred. He also had captured and was "questioning" a prisoner and needed a few little tasks done while he completed his job in isolation.
- the moral transference or suspension of morals in order to accomplish a task.
Why should I be asked to put aside my moral values in order to gain the full experience of a game?
Sure I could skip the quest, but why oh why have Blizzard included quests that require you to become anti-social and quite simply cruel?
Now I appreciate that a certain ex-president had a penchant for off shoring problems and turning a blind eye, hell so did a certain Australian ex-Prime Minister.
I also understand that when confronted by the representation of these unspeakable breaks in morality that the media (and I am including the game industry in that title) point out that they are just reflecting current societal values.
Yes, I know, The old "Is the media a reflection of society, or society a reflection of the media" arguement.
To my mind these things are just simply inexcusable. It reminds me of the old forum threads suggesting the government's fears that WoW was a terrorist training tool.
I begin to wonder if the opposite isn't true. That WoW is a tool of the government designed to shift our moral values to the extent that we can't criticize a government for loose moral and human rights values, because after all, we choose to throw our morals out for the sake of 5g and 10 minutes of eye opening joy.
Gnomer and Out!
PS: on top of all the bad stuff they juxtapose stuff like this:


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Brad Abrams - CLR'ing his way around the PDC
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Orbit86 wrote:why is PDC in September? shouldn't it be in August where alot of people have off or can take off..?
We have a ton of videos coming. Get ready. The next month is gonna see more videos than the past three months.
Orbit86 wrote:yeah lol Nata, especially the IE team where they sleep for 4 hours and work on IE meanwhile everyone wonders why IE has so many leaks..
What software do you use to edit these videos and do you use professional cameras or consumer ones?
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Orbit86 wrote: yeah lol Nata, especially the IE team where they sleep for 4 hours and work on IE meanwhile everyone wonders why IE has so many leaks..
Yeah that would explain it. But what do they do the rest of the time
they code..with just four hours of sleep..do you see the problem???
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Obama administration citing security to censor more public records
Evan Vucci, AP
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration answered more requests from the public to see government records under the Freedom of Information Act last year but more often than ever cited legal exceptions to censor or withhold the material, according to a new analysis by The Associated Press. It frequently cited the need to protect national security and internal deliberations.
The AP's analysis showed the government released all or portions of the information that citizens, journalists, businesses and others sought at about the same rate as the previous three years. It turned over all or parts of the records in about 65 percent of all requests. It fully rejected more than one-third of requests, a slight increase over 2011, including cases when it couldn't find records, a person refused to pay for copies or the request was determined to be improper.
The AP examined more than 5,600 data elements measuring the administration's performance on government transparency since Obama's election.
People submitted more than 590,000 requests for information in fiscal 2012 — an increase of less than 1 percent over the previous year. Including leftover requests from previous years, the government responded to more requests than ever in 2012 — more than 603,000 — a 5 percent increase for the second consecutive year.
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The government's responsiveness under the FOIA is widely viewed as a barometer of the federal offices' transparency. Under the law, citizens and foreigners can compel the government to turn over copies of federal records for zero or little cost. Anyone who seeks information through the law is generally supposed to get it unless disclosure would hurt national security, violate personal privacy or expose business secrets or confidential decision-making in certain areas.
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I get so many emails (mostly as part of email lists) that the way I process them is to simply scan my eyes down the list of messages, looking at sender, subject, and the first few words. I only actually open a small fraction of them.
In my experience this method is unfortunately error-prone. My eyes somehow blow by messages and I only discover them when someone either asks in person why I haven't responded or, worse, some bad consequence develops (i.e. a service is interrupted because the registered credit card expired and I never responded to the warning emails).
This is not a question about how to process email in general, which is a larger issue and has been addressed before, but more narrowly, how to make 100% sure I see the very few super-urgent emails ASAP.


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I have an old analog camera (Yashica) with a bayonet lock and several zoom lenses for it. All of that was very high quality at the time and I would like to re-use it for a digital camera. Are any such digital cameras on the market?
This page seems a good reference to use yashica/contaxt lens on Canon EOS D
But be aware that you will have to use manual mode.
You can probably find a basic CY adapter for any or the major 35mm or smaller mount types.
Fotodiox has a pretty good selection: Contax/Yashica mount adapters
Most adapters will only make the physical connection and leave you in complete manual mode. Some of the nicer ones, like the EOS adapter from fotodiox or those from "HappyPageHK" on ebay, also have focus confirmation chips that allow you to use some of the auto-focus features from newer cameras.


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Don't Create Brittle Software
By MarkHeckler-Oracle on Mar 23, 2014
Every developer is a software user/consumer at various levels, and I'm sure that every one of us has run into a dev tool, library, or component that left us cringing. Why is it so difficult to bend to our will? Why does it seem so broken? WHY DID IT STOP WORKING WITH THE LAST UPDATE???
User-facing software shouldn't break or perform in ways that are "ugly", and if your software is a library/component, neither should your API. Whoever your user is, updates shouldn't break things, and failures (of whatever kind) should be handled gracefully. For example...
If your software doesn't facilitate the user's activity, i.e. make it easier, it is at best sub-optimal and may even be unusable. If your library's API doesn't deprecate and migrate changes clearly and gradually, other developers may find it difficult or impossible to use as well.
User Experience (UX) is about so much more than a User Interface (UI). Whatever you develop should be clean, as intuitive as possible to use, and work in expected ways. Highly self-configurable (to the extent possible) is a huge plus as well. If you are developing a library or custom control, its value can be measured by two things:
- The ease with which it can be applied to and cover "default" applications (simplicity)
- The mechanisms you provide to cover edge cases or "the other 20%" (versatility/extensibility)
These two guidelines apply whether you publish your code as open source or not; after all, the goal of open source software is not to taunt other developers with what could have been and force them to do it themselves.
Keeping these things in mind can help a developer craft better software that is more useful to more people.
Just something that has been on my mind for awhile now...
Have a horror story you'd like to share? Please don't post names - no need for public floggings (!) - but if you have a particularly bad example that you use as a reminder to write better code, please share it in the comments so we can shudder with you. Misery loves company. :)


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A test fails because an actual result was not expected, so...
ideally, the failure is a symptom of a software (AUT) fault
or it may be a symptom of a test fault
or it may represent a fault in both the test and the AUT
which would imply a fault in the specification
which both testers and developers (and tech writers) 'assumed' they understood
or ... least likely but possible, there was a glitch in the test environment.
So the first tasks following failure are to document the observation and to attempt fault isolation. (Attempting to reproduce the symptom is part of fault isolation.) Severity can be assessed immediately.
Defects become part of the backlog, and so are prioritized amid everything else; let us not fall into the trap of drifting from our backlog of work items to focus on defects. Let us capture the Severity of the defect without letting that severity fully determine the priority of the defect. This applies whether you create a triply distinct capture as suggested by Testing Computer Software or follow a business impact-sensitive severity classification later advocated by Kaner and written into IEEE 1044. Especially (but not exclusively) as the product nears delivery, it may make more sense to work minor or even cosmetic severity defects on Must-have functionality than to repair Critical issues in Would-like functions.
Formal definitions of Failure and Fault are at this link, although I no longer agree with writing down great detail of every specification (for software) and believe successful agile methods provide empirical proof of lack of need for such detail. For an excellent formal example of noted ambiguity, look at this definition of Error. There is a formal definition of glitch as a brief unintended voltage on a transmission wire, but I'm using the informal meaning here.
AUT stands for "Application Under Test' which is part of the SUT or "System Under Test." Thanks to HASI/GEADGE testing for teaching, and Ron Damer for reinforcing, the simple, obvious idea that "system" testing is always more than software.


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is it possible to get the friend lists from an user with the APP secret(not with the access token) by using the open graph?
The User has already installed the APP.
Thanks in advance.
If I understand aright ...
-> graph API = only works with the acces token
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In Borderlands 1 I had a great pistol which only had a 2-shot clip but reloaded almost instantly and it also regenerated ammunition over time, fast enough that it basically had infinite ammo. I haven't found a gun in BL2 that has this ability, are there any? I'm playing as Commando and I've noticed Gunzerker class mods that seem to grant this ability, but I was hoping there are weapons that do it too. The need to stop questing and go searching through containers for ammo or find an ammo vending machine is a little annoying.
Weapons that REGENERATE ammo
Note, the following two weapons require a purchase of the Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade pack
Grenade Mods that REGENERATE ammo
The following 4 mods will require purchase of the DLC, Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragonkeep
Weapons that DON'T consume any ammo
As an extra note, you'll need to have at least 1 bullet of pistol ammo, or the Infinity will not fire.
Near as I can tell, no there are no guns with ammo regen.
A quick Google search turns up many similar threads, obviously people are missing it from Borderlands 1. Some alternatives:
The Butcher pearlescent shotgun has an indirect type of ammo regeneration. Special weapon effects from Borderlands wiki (emphasis mine):
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Rolex Yacht-Master II for Snapster, brilliant, dashing CEO
Just $43,550 Perfect retirement gift for any beloved CEO, and founder.
Yacht master, because you steered this ship well sir.
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Just what I was looking for. I think I'll use the Bill Me Later option.
Hopefully I can get a low interest rate on a 30-year fixed for this.
Just $43,550!
why is this on woot? i would think that anyone who is in the market for a rolex would have never heard of woot...
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Silly geese, it isn't for you, it is for @snapster:
The mods changed my tags.
Holy Crap!
That's a bargain!
43,000 for a watch?
When a shiny bauble isn't enough, get an outrageously expensive shiny bauble.
with so many people looking at it, they now put it on sale. only $35,725!
Sweet, now I don't have to by the fake one.
If you were truly stupid enough to want a Rolex of any sort would it be just as easy to have the words, "I"m a dumbass" tattooed onto your forehead? I mean come on every time I see someone wearing a Rolex that's what I think of them... I'm guess other do to, because how smart is it to pay thousands more for a watch that is no better than a Seiko or Timex.
@thomas998: It's viewed by the Rolex types as a status symbol. It's no different than all these women spending hundreds on coach purses. Even the ones who cant afford them either save all their money to waste or buy rip offs. So is our media driven, hollywood idolizing culture of this 21st century. Trust me on this though, it is of a finer quality than Timex and is in fact better.
@thomas998: People buy a Rolex watch because they can. Most people can't. It's a prestige thing. You're not saying "I'm a dumbass", you're saying "I can afford this." Although a Seiko or Timex may be able to track time just as good or better, I'd be hard pressed to find a Seiko or Timex made out of Gold, Platinum, or any other precious metal or stones. This watch is 18K gold, and the price of the raw materials that go into it undoubtedly add to the cost.
@pickypickypicky LOL! Here's what I'm thinkin' - if 35,575 members each donated $1, we could give it to him. AND, if he didn't like it, or already has one, he could donate it to the next BOC offering. Can you imagine opening the crappy package & finding that??
@gmwhit: That would be so funny! But really, who can't use two of these? I RIP'd this, because I couldn't stand to watch people who aren't paying attention ruin the fun. Hope your "snappy" stuff gets a better reception. : )


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I'm having a little trouble understanding Shor's algorithm - namely, why do we throw away the result f(x) that we get after applying the F gate? Isn't that the answer we need?
My notation: $\newcommand{\ket}[1]{\left|#1\right>}$
$F(\ket x \otimes \ket0) = \ket x \otimes \ket{f(x)}$ ,
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Shapiro, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Utah, will discuss the pigeon, our ubiquitous urban neighbor, which was Charles Darwin's favorite example of the power of selection to shape organisms' behavior and appearance. Shapiro, through his studies of pigeon genetics and genomics, will discuss the molecular basis for the unparalleled diversity of these familiar animals.
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The 14 faculty at NYU's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology are integrating vast amounts of genomic data into systems and networks to predictively model the regulatory mechanisms controlling life, at the level of single cells, tissues, and across the six kingdoms of life. These studies, which span the genomes of a range of model organisms from bacteria to animals and plants, have implications for human health and agriculture. Potential applications include the development of new diagnostics for in vitro fertilization, treatment of disease states such as malaria, and alterations of organisms for practical gain, such as biofuels or nitrogen-use efficiency. The research involves the combined skills of genomicists, bioinformaticians, systematists, and evolutionary biologists all working together in signature open plan "loft" laboratories in a new 70,000-square- foot, state-of-the-art Genome Center Science building located at the heart of NYU's Washington Square campus. For more, click here.
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I never heard of this word rsh and also received a check list from Security pro that we have to disable rsh.
Can someone please tell me what is this rsh and how to disable it.
Base OS : RHEL 5.5 and 5.6
rsh is remote shell and it is unencrypted, that's why you should disable it.
I don't know which OS you are talking about, but for RHEL (like sr_ already stated) edit
After that restart
Though I think, rsh should be disabled by default. Instead of rsh use ssh.
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Textures not loading and other issues while using mods
I hope you are able to help me with my "little" issue and you will be able to understand what I try do descibe, since I'm not a native speaker
My problem is the following: After about 15 minutes of playing the textures start to load later and later, sometimes even dont load at all. Coming with that some game mechanics seem to be disabled as soon as the texture issues start to appear: Sometimes the brushes in the carwash aren't there and I can't interact with the carwash. Sometimes there are no drivers in the cars (don't know if there are ppl on the street) or sometimes I can't even interact with cars, which means I can't steal/get into them.
Do you have a possible solution to fix that problem?
To make give you some key data I will post the used mods below:
-VelocityShiftTexturePack (diffent skins for Brucie, Hossan and Pathos)
-colored radio Icons
-different skin for Jacobs "rastabar"
-GRIMs Weapon Pack
-Vegetation Overhaul
-GTAIV - NY Real Car Pack
-Realistic driving and flying (with some "custom" handlings because some vehicles fliped over to easily)
-FtmchNiko_v3 (diffent skin for Niko)
-some edited clothes
-DKT70 HD Roads edited by Fonia5
-GTA IV ENB Blood Textures (without ENB!)
-iCEnhancer 2.1 FINAL with timecyc from "StunningGraphicsIV"-mod *
-Yet another ASI launcher
-ScriptHook (normal + DotNet)
-TrafficFlow script (was included in the NY Real Car Pack)
*edited some minor things in the *.ini, but issues also appear without these changes.
It could also be of use to know, that I'm using 184.108.40.206 of GTA IV (without TLAD or TBoGT). Since I was working on this "compilation" I'm eager to get it work.
My system should be strong enough, but if you want to take a look: look here
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Mildred B. "Millie" Stephens, 91, died Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 at Western Plains Medical Complex, Dodge City. She was born July 6, 1921 at Howard, the daughter of Frank and Sylvia (Highsmith) Worford. The family lived on a farm near Eureka. In 1940 she graduated from Hamilton High School in Hamilton.
She married W.A. Stephens June 6, 1940 at Eureka and they came to Dodge City and have lived here since. On December 18, 1990 he preceded her in death. She was proud to be a homemaker and was a very loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
Stephens was a member of the First Christian Church of Dodge City and V. F. W. auxiliary both of Dodge City. She started the P.T.A. School Fun Nights in Dodge City. She was also involved with many volunteer projects in the area.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Dick (Marcia) King of Larned and Mrs. Duane (Marilyn) Weber of Dodge City; four grandsons; one granddaughter; 11 great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Eileen Worford of Wichita.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and two brothers.
Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012 at Swaim Funeral Home with Rev. Dick Robbins presiding. Burial will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery, Dodge City. Visitation will be from noon to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 at Swaim Funeral Home with the family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials are suggested to the V.F.W. Auxiliary in care of the funeral home.
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Hologic Speeds Launch of Innovative, Life-Saving Technology
By Kerrie Jordan -Oracle on Oct 09, 2014
In light of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we'd like to take a moment to highlight the inspirational success that Hologic has been achieving in its commitment to providing women and their families with extraordinarily powerful care. Hologic, a global medical device company introduced the world's first 3-D Mammography system, which is able to detect early-stage cancers and reduce false-positive diagnoses compared to traditional 2-D mammogram diagnoses. This innovative technology helps patients and their caregivers make better decisions with more accurate information, delivering peace of mind to women and their families and helping to save lives.
Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management solution provided an integral application platform to help Hologic get its life-saving technology to market fast. In this video premiered during Oracle OpenWorld earlier this month, Dave Rudzinsky, SVP and CIO of Hologic, discusses how Hologic's mission is supported by an enterprise Agile PLM platform helping Hologic to launch high quality innovations quickly. Watch the video above, directly on YouTube, or the Oracle Media Network.


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UofL and UK basketball fans awaited Rick Pitino's response to the 69-61 loss that John Calipari's Wildcats put on Pitino's Cardinals Saturday in the NCAA Regional semifinal at New Orleans.
Shortly after the shock wore off and his natural color returned to his face, a metamorphism took place. He was gracious toward the UK coach, John Calipari, a man he supposedly does not like or respect. And Pitino had nice things to say about the Wildcats.
And no doubt to the surprise of fans on both sides, the U of L coach said that he would pull for the Wildcats to bring the national championship back to Kentucky!
Wow! And a double wow! Yes, the hot-tempered Pitino showed class and was far more gracious than anyone could have expected.
A Pitino comeback?
UofL is just two or three top recruits from rejoining the elite of Division 1 college basketball.
Three of the best Cardinals – Peyton Siva, Gorgui Dieng and Chane Behanan—will be back. That's 27 points right there. Both Dieng and Behanan really came on strong near the end of the season. Dieng should be a force both in rebounding and defense. The more he learns and the more he plays, he should be a real all-around force. Russ Smith returns with his 11.5-point average.
No Pitino friend
Mike Lupica, a columnist for The New York Daily News, was Pitino's harshest critic when he coached the New York Knicks.
On Sunday's ESPN Sports Reporters, he had no sympathy for Rick, saying that leaving UK was a "dumb-headed move."
To Pitino's credit, he always has said that leaving UK was the biggest mistake of his life.
Lexington disgrace
How can anyone approve of the unacceptable conduct of some UK fans students after their basketball team beat UofL? Couches set afire. Cars turned over and damaged.
The owner of one car recognized it from seeing it on TV and rushed home. It was heavily damaged. He explained why his car was turned upside down : "It was red." (U of L's colors.)
Broken beer bottles littered lawns and streets. Real class.
Meet Jerry Tipton
If you look in the first press row just behind the TV announcers you will see The Lexington Herald-Leader's indomitableUK basketball beat reporter, Jerry Tipton. If a Wildcat bounces a ball anywhere in the world, Jerry will be there to tell you how many bounces the ball took.
Jerry has covered 1,000 games from the Caribbean to Alaska, from New York City's Madison Square Garden to Hawaii and points in between. And don't forget the Olympic Games no matter on which continent.
No one has ever done it better, no matter which college you pick. He does his job so well that he has been honored with a spot in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
He doesn't forger the Wildcats when they leave UK. His Sunday column, which takes about an entire page in The Herald-Leader, even lists the birthdays of Wildcats.
It's funny but some UK coaches and officials don't appreciate some things that Tipton writes. UK thinks he snoops too much. If a news source tries to hide something from Tipton, that just encourages him.
The New York Times devoted two columns of news space in Sunday's paper to a story and photo of Tipton at work. I hope you got to see it.
Dangerous NCAA
NCAA officials think of everything except the safety of its basketball players. The five feet or so of the NCAA Tournament floors above ground level in the Final Four were dangerous. One who was lucky not to be hurt when he had to jump down off the court was UK's Anthony Davis.
NCAA heads should roll.
Borel on rail
Calvin Borel guided Take Charge Indy to victory in the Florida Derby and you know the route he took. Yes, on the rail.
Good to be the Sheik
The world's richest horse race, the $10,000,000 Dubai World Cup, was won by Monterosso, owned by Dubai's ruler, Sheik Mohammed bin Fashid al-Maktoum.
Earlier, the $1 million Dubai Gold Cup was halted after one of the sheik's horses tumbled to the track and later was euthanized.
The race was rerun and won by Opinion Poll, also from the sheik's Godolphin Stables.
The sheik's horses are prominent in races at both Churchill Downs and Keeneland, and in the Keeneland Sales.


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5 Mind Blowing Things Crowds Do Better Than Experts
There's nothing stupider than a crowd. Take an average, intelligent person and put him in an emergency and he'll likely remain calm and await instructions. Put him in a crowd and he'll start screaming, looting and overturning cars. Right?
Well ... not really. That's why we have crowdsourcing.
"Crowdsourcing" is one of those business buzzwords that actually represents something very simple: letting crowds of strangers do your work for you. But it's not just about convincing a bunch of bored people to do grunt work for free -- when you see what the masses of untrained non-experts are capable of when they put their heads together, it's almost magical.
#5. Learning War Tactics From War Gamers
Obviously, no random StarCraft or Tower Defense-playing teenager is going to know more about military strategy than a trained professional with combat experience. The rules are completely different and, well, those are just games, right?
But what if you created a war game that mimicked the "rules" of actual war -- the units have the same capabilities of actual units, the map is similar to an actual map and all of the real-world complications have to be dealt with. And let's say you let hundreds of players -- untrained people just like you -- play it for weeks and months. Is it possible that, in a big enough pool of players -- some of whom are of above average intelligence and many of whom are a little bit crazy -- that you'd wind up inventing creative strategies that not even veteran military leaders would come up with?
It would be like Ender's Game, but with more homoerotic subtext.
It's not just some war gamer geek's dream -- the military is betting on it. Meet MMOWGLI, aka Massive Multiplayer Online WarGame Leveraging the Internet. MMOWGLI is a game with a purpose: fighting pirates. And not just any pirates -- Somali pirates, the modern scourge of the sea.
Look at them, circumnavigating your DRM and not giving a fuck about copyright.
The U.S. Navy wanted creative tactics to defeat the pirates, as well as ways to anticipate what a notoriously unpredictable enemy would do next. So why not throw the scenario out to the crowd in the form of a video game, effectively getting hundreds of people to run the simulation over and over and over again? You have hundreds of gamers playing through these encounters from different angles, providing far more examples to study than the real world could ever supply.
We understand all of these words, but the sentences are giving us some difficulty.
The way that this game works is you get to play as either the pirates or the anti-pirate task force. And it's realistic down to the finest detail -- if you're on the anti-pirate side, you have to deal with "... the logistics of arming ships, the likelihood of pirate attacks and the financial, jurisdictional and temporal difficulties of military action to support commercial shipping and cruise ships." Pirate players have to come up with detailed attack plans, and anti-pirates have to work through the logistics of hostage rescue if they succeed.
"Shit, it's boobsmcgee900!"
In some ways, it's the super-realistic, micro-managing game that hard core RTS players have been asking for since the 1980s. And you're playing alongside members of the military, there to make sure people aren't just cheating their way to victory ("What? The pirates could have aimbots!").
It's one of those ideas that is so ridiculous that it makes perfect sense. The same weaknesses in security that players notice in the game will be noticed by the pirates in real life. What you lose due to a lack of realism, you make up for with sheer volume. Oh, and the players are all doing it for free.
When you've cleared the oceans and confiscated their parrots, tell them who sent you.
#4. Turning Gamers Into a Human Science Machine
You may have seen a recent headline about how gamers solved a molecular puzzle that had baffled scientists. The program that did it was another example of the sheer power of this massive untapped resource known as "bored video game players." Gamers spend nearly three billion hours a week playing video games, and would spend more if we had more games. That means that no matter how tedious the task, you can throw millions of unpaid man hours at it, at any time ... if you can just turn it into a game.
The most prominent crowdsourced gamer projects right now are Foldit and Phylo, efforts by scientists to solve a couple of daunting problems with understanding DNA. And when we say "daunting," we mean they tend to make supercomputers burst into flame.
They can win at chess and Jeopardy!, but our blood is just too much to handle.
Foldit came about as a way to help scientists figure out how proteins fit together. Basically, imagine you had an impossibly complicated jigsaw puzzle where the pieces, instead of fitting into a two-dimensional picture, had to fit together in three dimensions. That would up the complexity many times over, to the point that even a supercomputer couldn't crunch through all of the possible combinations. Ah, but turn it into a game, where players have to figure it out for themselves? Now you've got something.
Finally, science has harnessed the vast power of bachelors and marijuana.
So, when you play Foldit, they show you a couple of proteins (the building blocks of DNA -- the pieces of the puzzle) and you have to try and make them fit (or "fold") together, using the same "rules" by which the proteins are bonded in real life. Players are eventually going to land on the most intuitive and efficient way to fold the proteins, and that gives science a pretty damned good idea of how nature does it. Then they can program that method into their software and use it to analyze others. The combined strategies employed by the thousands of gamers create the algorithm.
Players have already modeled an enzyme that could help cure AIDS (the final boss).
Phylo, meanwhile, works in a similar way to solve a different problem. To a player, it's a simplistic game that involves moving blocks to create rows of color. What the player may not even know is that each block actually represent bits of genetic code, and that they're helping solve a complex problem that scientists don't have the computing power to work through.
They're all too busy playing Bejeweled, obviously.
When analyzing DNA, finding bits of similar sequences is hugely important -- it tells you a lot about how that particular trait evolved. But since your genetic makeup is coded with up to 25,000 distinct genes made up of three billion base pairs, sifting through all that shit to find similar strings is next to impossible. That is, unless you dump that raw data in front of a bored gamer and say, "It's a new puzzle game! Find the similar strings and you'll get the high score!"
If you beat this level, you win the "Not Dead Yet!" achievement.
Unfortunately, the three billion hours we spend gaming isn't nearly enough -- at a TED lecture, one expert said the time needed to solve these issues is 21 billion hours a week, or seven times our current rate. So get that homework shit done so you can get to work on your games, kids. Science needs you.
#3. When You Use reCAPTCHA, You're Translating Old Documents
If you have signed in to basically anything on the Internet these days, then you're most likely familiar with the whole CAPTCHA program. That's the thing where you have to prove you're not a spambot by typing some nearly unreadable words into a box:
Well, this is awkward.
What you may not know is that by using it, you've most likely contributed to the translation of thousands of old documents.
In 2009, Google and a couple of other companies had a problem. They wanted to digitize years of old newspapers and books, using software that can "read" the print it's scanning and then convert it into actual text. But even the most advanced computers had problems reading some of the poor quality scans, because the text was smudged or crooked, or in a font that has been out of use for years.
google recaptcha
We remember the Smudgy Smear font came packaged with Windows 3.1.
So, they simply placed those unreadable words in between you and your porn, and told you that you'd need to translate them before going any further. Spambots can't read them because reCAPTCHA uses only the words that the computers already said they couldn't read. It's as brilliant as it is simplistic. The program is called reCAPTCHA, and you've probably seen it this week, if not today. It's currently used by Facebook, Ticketmaster, Twitter, 4chan, CNN.com, StumbleUpon, Craigslist, the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration and thousands of other smaller sites.
google recaptcha
"We'll put lines through them, too. Because fuck nearsighted people."
And the project is a huge success, managing to digitize 20 years of The New York Times daily newspaper in just a few months, by letting Web surfers decode the hard bits. It is estimated that websites display 200 million reCAPTCHAs a day.
Over the years, we've managed to get the word "dongs" into the NYT editorial column 17 times!


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With my iPhone 5, I've been finding that I keep having to unlock the SIM code every time I update the iOS from one minor release to the next. While this isn't a problem, as I've memorized the code, it is rather annoying.
Is there any way to change this behavior, so that I don't have to keep worrying about this?


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September 15, 2010
Bernard Kouchner, France's Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, and Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, will discuss "The European Union and the Middle East Peace Process" on Wednesday, September 22, 6 p.m. at New York University's Kimmel Center for University Life, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor (60 Washington Square South [at LaGuardia Place]).
The discussion will be in English and follows Middle East peace talks currently being held in Jerusalem.
The event, co-sponsored by NYU's Center for French Civilization and Culture and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 212.998.8752.
Reporters interested in attending the event must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU's Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or email@example.com.
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions
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I can understand that. And wolves had enough CC to really punish a bad engage. It was still boring.
I can understand that. And wolves had enough CC to really punish a bad engage. It was still boring.
There have been some good games so far. SK and Wolves tho... I just left it on the off-monitor and paid attention whenever the casters started yelling.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Cyphren/simple - Cyphren - Dr00dtank / Treeheals
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Cyphrin/simple - Cyphren - Bear Druid / Cat Druid
Fnatic - GG!
Go go! Looks awesome just from the picks already!
Wow, 3:0 and 4:0 teamfights for GG within 5 minutes or so...
Aaaand another four for nothing 5 minutes later. Fnatic is getting rolled pretty hard.
Aaaaand an ace for zero ANOTHER minute later. Wow.
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A tale of a Croc and a Bear who bravely charged into battle.
Seriously love the Volibear pick though.
Man. This was... See champion, kill champion indeed.
Really loved how Renek + Voli just baited out the entire freaking team and then just blow them up.
Renekton too stronk indeed.
~ "I've got a special deal... a one way ticket to hell!" ~
I didn't see the match (raiding), but I assume GG won then? Was it a landslide?
About to pass out laughing at the woman introducing Evil Geniuses incorrectly. LOLZ so hard.
EU LCS production value is subpar compared to the NA broadcasts which was the best presentation of Esports I have yet seen.
Actually she couldnt introduce Krepo coz of all the cheering, then the camera moved on too early.
Forgot who the shoutcaster on the right is again, but man... is he annoying or what?
Watching without sound - much better. Now I can just see the guy on the left think "Dude, do you ever shut up?"


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20-Minute Healthy Fish Recipes & Seafood Recipes (Slide 8)
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Tuna Melt
In this updated tuna melt recipe, we go light on the mayo and top it with fresh tomato slices and sh…View slide
Crab Roll
This healthier take on a lobster roll uses crab because it's usually easier (and less expensive) t…View slide
Easy Sautéed Fish Fillets
Here's an easy method for quickly cooking fish fillets. We love the simplicity of just using salt …View slide
Smoky Artichoke-Sardine Salad
Smoked paprika and sherry vinegar add Spanish flair to the dressing of this artichoke-and-sardine sa…View slide
Salmon Salad Sandwich
Salmon salad served on tangy pumpernickel bread makes for an easy dinner—a double batch will give …View slide
Five-Spice Tilapia
Chinese five-spice powder, soy sauce and brown sugar make a quick glaze for tilapia. You'll need a…View slide
Greek Salad with Sardines
The fresh, tangy elements of a Greek salad—tomato, cucumber, feta, olives and lemony vinaigrette�…View slide
Salmon with Pepita-Lime Butter
Lime juice, chili powder and pepitas give this salmon Mexican flair. Serve with wild rice and steame…View slide
Smoked Trout Salad
The fast of Yom Kippur is often broken with smoked fish as in this trout salad. This easy dinner, wh…View slide
Spicy Thai Shrimp Salad
Shrimp, bell pepper, cucumber and herbs are tossed with a spicy Thai dressing in this colorful salad…View slide
Shrimp Caesar
While most Caesars drown the greens in a heavy dressing, this lemony version lets the taste of the s…View slide
Black Bean-Salmon Stir-Fry
We use a generous amount of fiber- and vitamin C-rich bean sprouts in this quick stir-fry that combi…View slide
Artichoke & Ripe Olive Tuna…
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Easy poached salmon is sophisticated with a creamy caper-and-lemon sauce. Make it a meal: Serve with…View slide
Tuscan-Style Tuna Salad
This streamlined version of a northern Italian idea is perfect for a summer evening: no-fuss, no-coo…View slide
Mustard-Crusted Salmon
This updated French bistro dish makes a simple dinner any night of the week. You might want to consi…View slide
Crab Cake Burgers
These burgers have a true crab flavor that isn't masked by fillers or strong seasoning. Serve on a b…View slide
Smoky Maple-Mustard Salmon
It doesn't get much easier—or more delicious—than this speedy recipe for roast salmon topped w…View slide
New England Fried Shrimp
Who doesn't love a crunchy fried shrimp? This version takes virtually fat-free shrimp out of the dee…View slide
Seared Salmon with Green Pe…
A simple sauce of piquant green peppercorns, lemon juice and butter top this seared salmon recipe. G…View slide
Zesty Shrimp & Black Bean S…
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I have an application made in python, this application takes input from a separate text file called input.txt, i have to design the application in such a way that application runs automatically with any input to input.txt. Such that i need not go to command prompt and run the program, if i give the input, or change the text present in input.txt, python program should start execute automatically.
Please help me out with this :)
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When comparing the web to other platforms (such as consoles or the iPhone) what are the trade-offs? What does the web excel at most? What are the weaknesses of using the web as a platform?
Pros of using the Web as a platform:
I recommend you to read the Flash Love Letter (Part 1 and Part 2) which I think they're great articles that speak of web game development.


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Second Trimester 1stTrimester 3rd Trimester
149 days to go...
Your baby's fingers and toes are fully developed and their unique prints are beginning to form.
Your baby will be a unique individual and his fingerprints will be proof of this. The ridge patterns in the dermis that will eventually form fingerprints (and "toeprints") are fully developed by this stage of pregnancy. These skin ridges are genetically determined and, as with most developments, are seen about a week earlier in the hands than the feet.
Your baby's sweat glands appeared in his skin in the eighth week, and will continue to increase up to 28 weeks; but they do not function until after birth. The color of your baby's skin is due to melanin, a pigment produced by "melanocytes," specialized skin cells that have now migrated into the skin. Different skin tones are not due to differing numbers of these cells but due to the amount and shade of pigment that each cell produces. Melanin protects the skin from ultraviolet light which damages DNA.
Although unborn babies produce melanin pigment, they do not achieve their final amount of skin pigment until well into childhood. For this reason it follows that all newborn babies are particularly vulnerable to sunburn. Dark-skinned babies are likely to have a light skin tone when they're born.
In acupuncture, certain points on the body associated with energy channels or meridians are stimulated by the insertion of fine needles. The belief is that these conduct vital energy or "qi" around the body. Illness or symptoms are associated with an imbalance of this vital energy.
Acupuncture has been widely and successfully used in pregnancy and regular treatments can help to treat a number of health problems:
- Pain and nausea-a recent study has shown it to be effective in relieving nausea and vomiting or the potentially more dangerous hyperemesis gravidarum (see Fit-not sick).
- Heartburn
- Hemorrhoids
- Stress
- Headaches and backaches
- Carpal tunnel syndrome.
Acupuncture may be effective in "turning" breech babies, and can also be used during labor to boost energy and relieve pain.
Use a registered practitioner with experience treating pregnant women.
As A Matter Of Fact
Eating plenty of foods that are rich in vitamin E could reduce the risk of your baby developing allergies, including asthma.
Researchers believe that low levels of vitamin E during pregnancy could adversely affect your baby's lung development or immune system. To boost your intake, improve your diet rather than taking supplements. If you eat more than you need, vitamin E is stored in the body for future use.
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Excerpted from Pregnancy Day by Day.
Copyright © 2008 Dorling Kindersley Limited.
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When you receive an HTML mail in Mail.app, how can you select a part of the text of an hyperlink in order to copy it to tha pasteboard ?
The only way I found is to display the mail is to diplay the mail in another form (raw source, plain text alternative), search this and copy ? Is there a better way to do this ?


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I have been a daycare provider for 32 years and my income was here today and gone tomorrow! I needed to find something good I could do on the side that was easy and I found Scentsy. I have no sales skills but this sells itself. And I found a reputable company that really cares about it's consultants!Scentsy is the best opportunity out there right now. Why? Because Scentsy just made it easier for us to grow a team and make money off our team's sales. Not only is Scentsy a great product that is safe for you to use in your home and even ...in a daycare because it has no flame and no soot or harmful chemicals...it sells itself! Scentsy just gave us a new product line to sell called Velata. It is fine Belgian chocolate and a warmer that is fun and easy to use. No fuss and no mess. Just like a Scentsy candle warmer this Velata warmer makes a great unique gift. People who love Scentsy will love this as a gift for any occasion! And....this Fall Scentsy will give us another NEW brand to sell and even if we decide that we only want to sell one brand...we can still recruit and build teams with the other brands!!! This is totally new and has never been done before by a company like Scentsy. This gives us 3 times the opportunity and no other company offers this to their Consultants. So if you are thinking about selling something this Fall to make money for the Holidays or if you need to make extra money on the side...or if you want a new fun job and spend more time with your family then consider joining my team. I can help you get your business started. This is fun and easy to do!!! The starter kit is only $99...the cost of a night out...but this $99 could change your life! It changed mine! I love meeting new people and selling them something I love and I use. I love it when people love this as much as I do because it sells itself! When I first started selling Scentsy not very many people knew about it...now I see how excited they are and how much they love it. I have a fresh start now because I can show people our new brand Velata and see them get excited about it and love it as much as they love their Scentsy candles. I can't wait to share the new Fall brand and get into the Holiday buying season with something just as new and exciting! So why not give Scentsy a try...if you don't like selling it you can use the products in your starter kit or gift them. I gave it a try 2 years ago and I am so happy I did!See More
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