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I'm looking for a website like systemrequirementslab.com where you can input the specifications of a machine you're planning on buying and compare it to the requirements for a certain game. On the previously mentioned website, it does a little scan of the computer you're running and doesn't let you (at least from what I can tell) manually input the specs for a theoretical machine, or a machine you're planning on buying/making. Anyone know if this exists?
Is there such thing as a manual system requirement input website?
That sounds like what you are looking for.
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@Slay3r1583: That's so good! It's just that the game in question isn't an EA game... but I guess I can use this one as a gauge
It's Guild Wars 2 btw
I don't know if it has Guild Wars 2 but click on the publisher icons and you can choose other games.
just like systemrequirementslab , that site just compares the text on the back of the box with the components you input.
so all it does is tell you if your components are better than the required or recommended components set by the developer/publisher.
But then comes the question, what the f... does that even mean? barely playable at lowest? 30 fps @1280x720? 60 fps @1920x1080?
that's something that is never listed on the back of the box, unfortunately. therefore, system requirements are pretty useless, since no one knows what to expect if you pass them ( or dont ).
The minimum requirements have some use, since what they should be telling you is weather you can boot the game or not, but if your computer is that far behind that you even have to consider that being an option, what are you even doing?
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Just would like to get feedback on a good electronic auto powder dispenser. I reload pistol and rifle rounds. I mostly would use this with rifle rounds being I load them on a single stage press. Any input as to what would be my better choice as why would be great. Thanks guys!
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I have the Hornady model. It works well for rifle charges. Smallest I do with it is .30 Carbine.
For pistol loads, especialy small volume cases like .45 auto, 9mm Luger, .40 S&W and such the standard powder measure, with a good metering powder will be worlds faster.
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I just got a new RCBS Chargemaster 1500 combo. Really do like it , very accurate and saves lots of time, very nice unit.
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had a RCBS Chargemaster a little over a month now, love it
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I also love my Chargemaster 1500. I use it for everything. I have a Lee turret with the powder through dies, the riser and the Lee funnel. Works great!
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A +1 for the RCBS Chargemaster 1500- I have one and it is fantastic.
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Hornady here too. Works fine.
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I have used a Chargemaster 1500 to load over 15,000 rifle rounds and would buy one again. Fortunately, it just keeps on dispensing accurately so I won't need to.
If you keep it level and wait for it to finish its dispensing cycle, you can get great repeatability. I know one person who was a bit impatient and wouldn't let the dispensing and settling cycle finish completely. He had OK results with that practice but the accuracy of his groups improved when he learned to let the cycle finish. I would bet all the electronic dispensers have the same characteristic. In looking at the adds for the Hornady and Lyman units and comparing them to the Chargemaster 1500, it looks like all three might have a common source for the internals with only minor adjustments to the positioning of the controls in the units packaging for each of the three models. It would be interesting to have all three in hand to really compare them up close. |
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Lyman DPS 1200 here. Love it.
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Chargemaster 1500. Never had a problem, and it works great for both pistol and rifle.
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Not trying to derail the OP's thread... but....
For those of you with the 1500 ChargeMaster....Did you know you can easily speed it up ? Here is the link along with some other helpful "Hints". http://www.accurateshooter.com/gear-...-chargemaster/ |
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RCBS Chargemaster here. Love it.
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What is the speed to dispense, say, 45 grains of powder?
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just did ten loads of 45 grains and timed them low was 15 seconds high was 30, most were in the mid 20's. I just let the Chargemaster do it's thing while I seat the bullet and check for to make sure it is concentric. By the time I do that the powder is sitting there waiting
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I do the charge, and seat method when loading rifle as well. Makes things go quickly that way. No need to wait a long time. By the time I have a bullet seated the next charge is ready.
I use a Hornady Auto Charge it works well. Mine was gifted. If I were going to spend my money I would probably go with the Lyman. I admit I am a cheap skate from the old school. I would never have spent my money on one. Now that I have one if it stopped working I would buy another.
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I've been using the PACT scale/dispenser combo for a few years and have found it to be as good a system as I could want. It is my understanding the PACT pioneered the concept of an electronic scale providing feedback to a trickler type dispenser which fed back to the scale and so on. Other brands using this system were actually manufactured by PACT and the competitor's label applied until recently. Even so, if your Lyman RCBS Hornady scale or dispenser goes south on you and you have to send it back to the "manufacturer" it will end up being fixed by who? PACT!
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i have the hornady one and out of the box it works flawless with pistol powder. It didn't work so well with rifle powder as it was always overcharging by .5 to 1 grain over, but hornady gave me a more detailed instrution manual which lets you change the speed of the funnel and when the trickle starts and stops which fixed the overcharging. So far i love it and would recommend it to anyone. Any overcharging issues can be easily solved and suited to your needs by changing the settings
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I have the older RCBS Powder Pro, not the fastest but it's very accurate. It's the same system made by Pact.
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I have a hornady auto charge, for $169, it can't be beat. I love it.
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From reading these posts seems like just about every manufacturer is putting out a quality product. If my RCBS ever dies out of warranty I will just look to see which one I can get the best deal on.
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Best practice recommendations for writing Dynamic SQL
14June 12, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
Note this is not "Best Practices when USING Dynamic SQL". These are just good habits I've come up with over the years to make sure that when writing my dynamic SQL it breaks less often. Note I don't say "doesn't break ever", dynamic SQL is tricky stuff. The best you are likely to get is "less often". Some people may manage 100%, I'm not one of them, but I'll bet that if they are out there then they use every one of these recommendations.
Generally the problem with dynamic SQL revolves around the fact that, you guessed it, it's dynamic. It changes based on the data. This means that in order to keep from having problems the statements you create need to be as robust as possible. Every single one of these recommendations are things that you can and probably should use in regular SQL, but most people frequently don't.
Always use []s around object names.
EXEC sp_msforeachdb 'USE [?];'
I can hear someone in the back saying "I can ignore this one, all of my names work without the brackets." Maybe true, maybe not, but I'll almost guarantee that at some point one of your database names, object names etc will end up starting with a number, have a space or dash in it, a symbol, etc and your dynamic SQL is going to break.
Always put EXEC in front of stored procedure calls
SELECT 'EXEC sp_spaceused ['+TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME+'];' FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
I wrote about this one time here. This one is a good habit anyway, but particularly with dynamic SQL. SQL Server only runs a stored procedure without EXEC if it's the first thing in the batch. If you are writing dynamic SQL to say generate a group of commands that run a given stored procedure for every table in the database it would be nice if you could run the whole thing at once, not one line at a time.
Always include the Schema where appropriate
First of all I say "where appropriate" because databases, logins etc don't have schemas to use. Now in response to that same heckler in the back is now saying "All of my objects are in the dbo schema, I don't need to include it." Really? Are you sure? Someone didn't create an object while you weren't looking? The vendor software you just bought only uses dbo? You would be amazed how often systems that "only use the dbo schema" don't really.
End statements with semicolons;
sp_msforeachdb 'USE [?]; PRINT ''?'';'
Again something that is a good habit regardless. But since in dynamic SQL you may not have the normal line feeds/carriage returns that let SQL know that this is the end of a statement it's a good idea include these as a habit. You probably won't need them, but if you always put them in then on the odd occasion when you do, they will already be there.
Double, Triple and Quadruple check your quotes
SET @stringvar = 'It''s'
This one is hard enough I wrote an article "Single Quotation Marks in SQL" to try to help people with it. Getting the quotes right is possibly the hardest part of dynamic SQL. Double the quotes when you write dynamic SQL, but then you have dynamic SQL creating dynamic SQL, now it's quadruple the quotes. Add another layer and it's 8 times the quotes. It can get ugly really really quickly.
Format your code so that the output is formatted the way you want to read it
DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(max) DECLARE @ProductID int DECLARE @MaxQuantity int DECLARE @MinQuantity int SET @ProductID = 4 SET @MinQuantity = 1 SET @MaxQuantity = 100 SET @SQL = 'SELECT Product.Name, Product.ProductNumber, ' + CHAR(13) + ' ProductInventory.LocationID, ' + CHAR(13) + ' ProductInventory.Quantity ' + CHAR(13) + 'FROM [Production].[Product] ' + CHAR(13) + 'JOIN [Production].[ProductInventory] ' + CHAR(13) + ' ON Product.ProductID = ProductInventory.ProductID ' + CHAR(13) + 'WHERE 1=1 ' + CHAR(13) + ISNULL(' AND Product.ProductID = '+CAST(@ProductID AS varchar) + CHAR(13), '') + ISNULL(' AND ProductInventory.Quantity >= '+CAST(@MinQuantity AS varchar) + CHAR(13), '') + ISNULL(' AND ProductInventory.Quantity <= '+CAST(@MaxQuantity AS varchar) + CHAR(13), '') PRINT @SQL
SQL could care less about formatting, and its dynamic code that no one is going to read, so why format it? Because at some point someone may read it. Maybe to debug a problem, maybe just to try to figure out what you are doing. But somewhere along the line someone is going to want to read it and they will very much appreciate you having formatted it ahead of time. And to be fair I'm a fanatic about formatting my code. Everyone has to have their quirks right?
Well, that's it. Those are my suggestions. Stick to them and hopefully you will run into fewer issues with your Dynamic SQL. I should note that I play with Dynamic SQL because I find it interesting and a bit of a challenge at times. As a general case dynamic SQL should be one of your last resorts. Unless you have a good reason to use dynamic SQL or don't have another method that will work, then you should probably skip it and use another method.
NOTE: Some of you may notice I didn't include using sp_executesql as one of my recommendations even though it's a good idea and a very important way to avoid SQL injection. I will be talking about it later, I just didn't feel it fit in with the rest of the these ideas.
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I find it interesting that you use only to format you dynamic SQL. I have had problems with that practice, when I want to display the code and then copy and paste to execute, so I got into the practice of always using the CR+LF combination and never had problems after that.
All excellent points for writing dynamic SQL. I would just add that for production support of dynamic SQL nothing beats logging the actual statements being run to a file or table. The only thing that's worse than debugging dynamic sql errors when you aren't seeing what it's actually running is debugging bitwise coding. Great stuff!
Wonderful article.
I have taken to putting brackets around all identifiers. I upper case SQL reserved words that are not used as identifiers (we have tables [Order] and [User]).
The SELECT is on a line by itself and each column is on its own line
FROM is in the left column. Each join is on a line by itself and indented a couple of spaces.
Same thing for WHERE, GROUP, HAVING and ORDER.These practices make changes easier.
These are great recommendations, thank you for sharing!
Although you will probably never need it, for the most robust code, consider using the QUOTENAME() function instead of hard coding brackets. For example:
— Instead of:
SELECT 'EXEC sp_spaceused ['+TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME+'];'
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES— Consider:
SELECT 'EXEC sp_spaceused '+QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME)+';'
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLESThis will handle the very rare cases when a table name has a square bracket in it.
When I write a stored procedure that uses complex dynamic SQL, I usually include a "@debug" bit parameter that, when set to 1, prints dynamic SQL before executing it. This has made debugging easier for me. For example:
SET @sql = '…'
IF @debug = 1 print @sql
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DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(max) = "
DECLARE @CrLf char(1) = CHAR(13)SET @SQL = @SQL + 'SELECT Product.Name, Product.ProductNumber, ' + @CrLf
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I have written some pretty intense dynamic T-SQL. It doesn't break often.
I use all of the practices that you recommend, especially the formatting. It is a great aid in debugging since you can just capture the dynamically generated SQL to debug it; and it actually makes sense.
I also wrap everything with sp_executesql. It's just safer.
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Utah January 17th, 7:30PM TV - (Local) TV 20, NBALP The Utah Jazz come to town playing their second game of a four game east coast swing. They suffered a heartbreaking loss in DC Monday afternoon as "Agent Zero" sank a 3 pointer at the buzzer. Despite the early success of the Jazz they are a .500 team on the road. Chris Webber may be in uniform for this one. Let`s hope he is and that he provides a lift. Detroit could certainly use one!!
i will be there @ webber's first game as a piston! gonna bring the camera this time and actually remember the batteries heh.
I see an embarrassing blowout tonight...most new guys dont have 'memorable first games'. Im sure there someone out there that can pull up the first games in a piston uni for these guys: RASHEED MCDYESS DELK ARROYO BILLUPS RIP ...ETC
The Jazz certainly haven't played as well on the road as they have at home. Hopefully they will not come out strong after the disappointing loss to the Wizards. CWebb hasn't played in a NBA basketball game in three weeks or so...I imagine he will be trying to work off some rust in addition to trying to fit in with the second unit.
With both Chauncey and Sheed less than 100% healthy, I can envision the Pistons struggling to defend Stockton and Malone tonight.
I can see us playing the jazz close. Sheed had a great game in our first game against them, and we only lost to them by 2 points with a less developed bench and when the Jazz were "the" team in the league. Or the most hot at time. If CBillups comes back and Webber can provide some scoring for our bench and in the high post we should be set for an excellent game tonight. If not...we got Flip jr. jacking up 3s and Sheed playing lazy again.
Tonights game can only bring us good news (barring some new injuries or Flip Saunders announcing in his post game conference that he received a contract extension). Here is my logic (or lack thereof): Pistons WIN CB not 100% and Webber new to the team. Team not playing well lately. Yet the Stones win irregardless against a quality Jazz team. This is an indicator of really good things to come once Webber becomes acclimated to the team and "Mr. big (fill in the blank as you see fit)" gets healthy. Pistons LOSE Well, what did you expect? Flip is still the coach and it's just gonna be a while before he reads this forum and figures out what to do to win with Webber. Also, we've got excuses (see above injuries, etc.). Bottom line: [sign]Sit back, try to relax and enjoy the game.[/sign]
I heard through the grapevine that Chauncey probably won't play tonight. Take it for what it is worth.
Was bored enough to look em up, but remembered Sheeds debut quite clearly so got into the rest too. And a couple more I thought I'd throw in: DARKO DNP-CD TAY Same debut game as Rip/CB, scored 2 points in 7 minutes. Let's see if C-Webb can buck the trend.
I read it in the news that although CB is participating in practice again, he can't run yet. Chances of him playing are zero.
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But, as Westword points out, the meeting's agenda also called for the swearing in of three new board members, "leaving incoming representatives...to either endorse their predecessors' actions or try to alter some or all of them."
Although the outgoing members had hoped to leave a legacy by voting on the controversial items before the new members were seated, incoming board member Andrea Merida refused to let that happen, resulting in a meeting that was a "bit heated," writes 9News. Having being sworn in before the meeting started, Merida (left) took her seat, which came as a shock to her predecessor, Michelle Moss, who disagreed with Merida on some of the reform issues at stake.
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Green Suppliers Network Bristol-Myers Squibb, in conjunction with other major pharmaceutical companies, became a charter member of the Green Suppliers Network (GSN), a collaborative venture between industry and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in 2004. With GSN support, suppliers can continuously improve their products and processes, increase energy efficiency, identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize resources and technologies with the aim of eliminating waste.
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Luke McAlister is going to learn to really hate the French.
It was his winged-duck, drop-goal attempt in Cardiff that best summed up a night of All Black futility two years ago and his welcome back to test rugby was rather spoiled when he handed the ball on to France fullback Maxime Medard who ran 70 glorious metres for the decisive try.
The man who was fast-tracked back into black following a stint at Sale might find this hard to brush off with a simple c'est la vie.
If there's an enduring image of this test other than Medard's weaving solo run, it was of four bedraggled All Blacks struggling off the turf after William Servat barrelled over them for France's second try. It was telling; France were pumped up, the All Blacks deflated.
This was a watershed test for the All Blacks - a glimpse at life post-Carter and McCaw. Throw in the absence of stalwarts Rodney So'oialo and Ali Williams, plus the emerging talent of Richard Kahui, and you had mitigating factors.
Adding to the intrigue was the return to the old rules and the rustiness associated with the first test of the winter. Perhaps we should not have been surprised the All Blacks were primed to be painted a shade of Les Bleus, or Blancs as the case was.
New Zealand does not have a bottomless pool of world-class talent. It has talent, aplenty, for sure, but with rare exceptions that only turns world-class once it has been forged in the fires of test rugby.
Assistant coach Steve Hansen said any country would struggle to replace the number of players New Zealand had lost offshore.
"This is the best team we could have picked. It's a young group and when you have a young group, you have to go through a bit of pain," said Hansen.
"In the first half, we didn't cope with their driving maul and we didn't cope with their physicality. We got ourselves back into the game and could easily have won. The guys deserve a bit of credit for that.
A fast start might have eased the nerves but it was the visitors, playing a test at Carisbrook for the first time, who hit the ground running.
Fulgence Ouedraogo showed nice athleticism in the lineout and when Andrew Hore pulled down a rolling maul, Julien Dupuy put the first points on the board.
The All Blacks started to assert themselves but nothing was easy. A Mils Muliaina-inspired breakout from deep came to nought after the French scrambled effectively.
Stephen Donald tied the scores from a soft penalty after he was hit late but then the wheels started to fall off a little.
Ma'a Nonu dropped it cold on his 22 and from the resultant scrum Francois Trinh-Duc, probably the first man of Vietnamese heritage to have played test rugby, benefited from first Keiran Read and Jimmy Cowan, then Liam Messam and Mils Muliaina, getting in each other's way.
But it wasn't so much the lead that would hurt Graham Henry and his mates, but the way the side were being bossed at the breakdown. France were more aggressive when they hit rucks and mauls and it flowed through to their backs who defended aggressively and attacked with purpose.
Massive Toulouse hooker Servat barrelled over to give France a 14-point lead and they had earned every one of them.
For the first half an hour, at least, they looked the better team: more cohesive, more battle-hardened, more likely to win.
Then, in a bounce of ball, it changed. After Donald landed his second penalty the All Blacks secured possession from the restart as the halftime siren sounded.
A clever Cowan kick looked odds-on to find French hands but that saying about an oval ball doing funny things came true and instead Cory Jane hared downfield with two defenders trying to cover three black-shirted men. Jane, only on the wing because Rudi Wulf was injured, measured the situation perfectly and put Messam into the corner.
It would have been sweet redemption for Messam who had chipped ahead but missed the tackle on Louis Picamoles and a few phases later Servat scored his try.
After the break, with the message to kick shallower and chase better, the All Blacks drew level through the boot of Donald.
France struggled to hang in there but they did. On a slippery field the All Blacks struggled to get any fluid back play and whenever play broke down France would counter-attack. On one of those rare forays Dupuy nudged France ahead again, setting up a grand finale.
A rousing All Black denouement? Non, this was France's night. Medard's run saw to that and not even a late Nonu try could ruin it.
New Zealand (L. Messam, M. Nonu tries; S. Donald 4 pens) France (F. Trinh-Duc, W. Servat, M. Medard tries; J. Dupuy 2 pens 2 cons). Ht: 11-17.


text: 10 devious new ways that computer hackers can control your machines (or fix them)Annalee Newitz1/13/11 3:47pmFiled to: HackingComputersTechnology27c3ScienceTopGizmodoLifehacker721EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink In late December I attended Berlin's Chaos Communication Congress, an annual hacker conference where speakers reveal the latest in high-tech deviousness. Straight from CCC, here are ten ways hackers will subvert your computer, phone, bank card, and life in 2011. Advertisement Photo by v2pxI've broken these hacks down into two sections. The first focuses on breaking your tech, and the second on fixing things using tech. Of course, there is a lot of overlap between the two. This is hacking after all - breaking things makes us stronger. Remember, as the slogan for CCC says: We come in peace. Advertisement Also, these are just a handful of the awesome talks at CCC. I recommend that you look through the CCC site and check out others - all are on video, and in most cases slides and notes are available too.A final warning: Most of these talks are fairly technical, so don't expect polished soundbites in the videos. Do expect lines of code. These are hackers, not PR types, so they keep it real.BREAKING THINGS Sponsored Are you reading my PDF? Then I control your computer. Julia Wolf entertained and boggled the audience with her vicious takedown of the PDF file format - you know, the format you use pretty much every day to read documents? She revealed that the PDF format is so insecure that evil hackers could embed a program inside one that you would never see - and which would send its tentacles into your computer and reveal all its secrets to anyone who wanted them. And that's just the beginning. The widely-used PDF format is over a decade old and its spec is nearly 1,000 pages long - by the end of Wolf's talk, we were all ready to see it retired for the sake of everybody's security and privacy.The Baseband Apocalypse The baseband is the part of your phone that sends and receives broadcast signals. And it turns out that if your phone is on the GSM network, it's pretty damn easy to manipulate the baseband with all kinds of terrible tricks, from setting up fake base stations that will snoop on your conversations or text messages, to secretly sending nasty programs to your phone that could do everything from steal your data to turn your phone into a bug. When you make a call on the GSM network, who is really listening? Possibly everyone but the person you're hoping to talk to.Your bank card is mine now Cambridge University security researcher Steven Murdoch gleefully revealed how easy it is to break the security on the UK's smart credit card and ATM card system. Though British banks claim the security on these cards is unbreakable, in fact it's been compromised repeatedly and many customers have lost money. Murdoch is an engaging speaker, and it's worth watching the video because he walks you through three ways that fraudsters can steal your money using the "chip and pin" system in smartcards. Murdoch's analysis was so devastating that UK banks tried to get him to take down his paper on the subject and censor his research. Luckily, they didn't succeed in silencing him.I am listening to your phone conversations with my computer In case the baseband apocalypse didn't freak you out enough, another researcher revealed more ways that GSM phones can be snooped on. Researchers have already shown that the encryption used to shield your private conversations on these smart phones can easily be defeated with consumer-grade hardware. But phone companies claimed that didn't matter, because GSM communication flips between multiple channels. A hacker might be able to grab a tiny chunk of a call, but when it flips to another channel their spy game would be over. However, this talk showcases research that reveals how easy it is to follow data across a broad spectrum of channels, easily defeating this "secure" aspect of GSM, using nothing but cheap mobile phones. Are you convinced yet that your GSM phone is a tool of mass mischief? Advertisement Click to viewYour infrastructure will kill you Eleanor Saitta works doing "threat modeling," predicting ways that systems can fail - from computer networks, to national infrastructure. Here she walks you through all the ways that our supposedly dependable infrastructures, including energy grids, can be destroyed by malicious enemies or simple neglect. What can we do about it?FIXING THINGSPS3 Jailbreak! Your PS3 console is great for playing games, but what if you want to use it like the computer it is? Why shouldn't you be able to install another operating system on it, and play homebrew games that aren't officially authorized by Sony? An international team of researchers called fail0verflow revealed just how easy it is to retrieve the codes required to unlock the PS3 and make it do your bidding. The long strings of numbers used to unlock the device and make it programmable are actually hidden on the consoles themselves, if you know where to look. After the talk went public, Sony sued members of fail0verflow along with dozens of other people, allegedly for distributing tools that would allow piracy.27C3 - Console Hacking 2010 from Yifan Lu on Vimeo. Advertisement The greatest DOS attack of all time, and how to stop it forever Among hackers, University of Chicago computer scientist and crypto expert Dan Bernstein (often known by his handle DJB) is a legend. He's written some of the most secure code known to humanity (just try to fuck with qmail - you can't), and has lobbied ceaselessly - and snarkily - for the eradication of broken security systems online. He gave a mad genius presentation where he revealed that the oft-touted network security system DNSSEC is actually so badly-designed that it would make the perfect denial-of-service attack tool. And then he proposed a mindblowing, futuristic system of sending data over the Web that would make it nearly impossible to launch a DOS attack - and would prevent bad guys from sending your secure data to mobsters instead of your bank. The cool part about DJB's new system, based on encryption tools he calls DNSCurve and CurveCP, is that it could be implemented now, on top of the Web as we know it. And the best part? It's lightning fast. Listening to DJB's talk gave me hope for the future of the Web - and his devastating takedown of DNSSEC was the best example of smartypants trolling you'll hear this year.Note - to watch the video, just skip past the first several minutes, where the organizers were setting up the talk and getting everybody seated.27C3 Talk by Dan Bernstein: High-speed high-security cryptography: encrypting and authenticating the whole Internet. from nig nog on Vimeo.Hacking the ocean There are a number of open mapping projects out there, including Open Street Map, where hackers and ordinary people have added data to make it easier for you to navigate terrain all over the world. But what about navigating on the oceans? Often sea maps are very expensive, or are simply not available at all. A group called Open Sea Chart is aiming to change all that. They've already started work on one of the biggest world-improving projects you can imagine: Creating a free, open map that you can use to navigate the world's oceans. In this intriguing presentation, one of the Open Sea Maps developers talks about the difficulty of presenting data whose accuracy could mean the difference between life and death for people on ships. In addition, you'll learn a lot about just how weird it is to map the surface of a planet that is bumpy and uneven.OpenLeaks Former Wikileaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who is writing a tell-all book about his time at Wikileaks, presented a new project aimed at fixing some of the problems he encountered working at Wikileaks. OpenLeaks will be a "distributed" project that doesn't suffer from some of the top-down management problems of Wikileaks. 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What are the technical benefits of building a business on the cloud? If that cloud is open, are the benefits fewer or are they more plentiful? In this CTO Power Panel at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan discussed these and a host of other questions with Alistair Farquharson, CTO at SOA Software; Dan Graves, Cloud CTO at Symantec; Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist at Red Hat; Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Parasoft; Alok Rishi, Chief Technologist at Coraid; and Dr. John Bates, EVP and CTO at Progress Software
A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10-13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in New York City, New York, June 10-13, 2013.
The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!
Cloud Expo New York will attract more than 10,000 delegates from 48 countries and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors!
All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented at the 12th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.
"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term 'cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with 'computing' and 'software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2013, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo."
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Seat Belt Slot ideas I have installed 5 pt harness in one of my vehicles. I am using the stock seats. (high back buckets). Initially I stripped the frames down, modified the metal framework to allow the seatbelt/shoulder harness to come through in the middle vs hung around the sides. For the cover (stock so far), there happened to be a seam I opened up ~4" wide, and sewed some "lockstitches" on each end after I split the seam to keep it from opening up more. It works good but the seam itself sometimes looks a bit unfinished, especially when I have the 5 pt harnesses removed (don't use them all the time, still have stock belts also). Any ideas on how to sew up a "slot". Aftermarket seats almost all have big plastic inserts in them which I don't really want. Not my seats but gives you some idea of whats going on. |


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"And Then There Was Shawn" is the first Boy Meets World episode I ever saw. As sweet as the show was, because it aired on ABC's TGIF lineup, my parents were convinced that it was as raunchy as Friends, and so I had to sneakily watch episodes at my friends' houses. This classic horror parody aired in 1998, which made me about nine years old when I first caught it. All it took was these 22 minutes of brilliant parody for me to fall in love with this show and become a dedicated viewer until it ended in 2000.
Fourteen years after it first aired, "And Then There Was Shawn" is still most people's favorite Boy Meets World episode. Even though the show didn't air within the window of programs that usually get the GIF treatment, this one has its very own Tumblr tag regardless and has been immortalized through people constantly resharing the same sharp quotes.
In short, the episode follows the formula of Scream (which had come out just two years prior): Pretty high-schoolers are stalked by a masked killer, with one of them — Shawn — acting as the pop-culture-literate guide predicting who will die next. But the Boy Meets World writers also pulled from plenty of other entertainment at the time, including South Park:
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Not to mention Eric yelling out "Hidey ho!" just like Mr. Hanky. I was definitely terrified by this episode, since I was a little young for the show's audience. Hollywood.com had the wonderful idea of doing a sitdown with the Boy Meets World cast and crew to commemorate this episode. The whole oral history is certainly worth a read, but certain parts stuck out to me. For one, Rider Strong mentions how kids under 10 wouldn't grasp the irony of the episode and were just scared. I had grown up watching all of Mel Brooks' movies, so I was already well-versed in parody. I remember thinking, Wait, there are TV shows that make fun of pop culture? Awesome!
You know how else this episode pushed the envelope? With the sex jokes.
Plus the cameo from Jennifer Love Hewitt, who had starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer the year before. Of course, we all knew her as Jennifer Love Fefferman, or the girl that Eric starts making out with upon meeting. Even I know who she was back then, and the makeout session was another jab at the kids' sex lives that got discussed only a handful of times on the show. (As opposed to something like One Tree Hill or Gossip Girl today.)
RIP Feffie.
But back to the terrifying parts! I was genuinely scared on the parts where the cloaked killer would dart by. In the oral history, the Boy Meets World writers discussed how they couldn't have any gore even though they were offing half the cast. But death by pencil or scissors was just so much funnier, anyway!
Rider Strong has the best anecdotes about the episode, like how none of the cast could keep a straight face:
"We actors could not stop laughing. I mean, it was a problem. We usually would break character to laugh once or twice an episode, but when we were filming the Scream episode, we were falling apart on every single line. That's not an exaggeration.You know how when you were a kid and you'd get the giggles and not be able to stop for a few minutes? That's what it was like shooting the Scream episode, except it lasted for hours."
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At the time, I remember being confused: Why was Shawn killing everyone so that it would just be him, Cory, and Topanga? But as we learned, this dream sequence was Shawn's way of working through how upset he was over his two friends breaking up. And here, Shawn stood in for the fans, but in a way where he could actually impact the plot. Creator Michael Jacobs marveled at how they got to that point: "How do you write an episode where one of the characters says, 'It is not okay with me, that the love you aspire to someday, isn't working anymore. And for that I will burn down the world.' And then you get that episode from that idea."
"And Then There Was Shawn" could be the best Halloween TV episode because it skewered the pop culture of the time; it got to make slightly adult jokes that viewers could get on one level as kids and on a whole other level as adults; it still lives on in quotes and GIFs; and it actually advanced the plot. It's a classic, and I'm so glad it was my introduction to Boy Meets World.
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Ya, the Shinto concepts seem to be quite ancient for me. @_@ I was watching it and went like "huh" quite a bit. I only know the basic concept of "Wood, Water, Fire, Gold and Earth". Sigh. Anyway, I did try to do a basic summary of the first episode.
I feel kinda meh that I do not know some of the spells, since it seems to be based on some authentic history of Shinto. |
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Adaptation of the light novel series by Jin Shibumura, and done by the popular CG Artist Houden Eizou (A.k.a. NeonVision). Light Novel series is up to volume 7 in Japan, and volume 6 in Traditional chinese. Japan side is released by Dengeki Bunko, and Chinese side is released by Kadokawa Taiwan. The novel is popular for its art, and its character. The novel received Gold Prize for Dengeki Novel Series for its first volume.
It also have a manga series adaptation. Anime series began airing on April 6, 2008. The story is about a fox spirit living with the Takagami family who has had a deep relation with the fox spirit for a long time. The mother side of the Takagami siblings is responsible for this deep relationship. I'll post up picture later, or someone can do it for me :x Officialy Japanese Title: 「我が家のお稲荷さま」 |
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This novel is series is very good... The art is done by a very popular CG artist Houden Eizou. Who also has art works featured in Murata's ROBOT illustration books. In my personal opinion, I like Houden Eizou much more than Ito Noizi (Suzumiya Haruhi, Demonbane etc.)
For those who can read Chinese, Kadokawa Taiwan has licensed this series and has published up to Volume 6 or 7. |
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Totally have 4 novel on my read list >.<" ...
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Well, I'm contemplating whether or not to pick up this series as well, but I have little to no idea what the anime is about.
As of now, all I know is that at least two characters had ears and tails. What genre would you classify this as? And for those who might know a bit more about the series and where it will go, are there any other anime series you would liken this one to? Thanks in advance! |
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I'm not sure who else was the first candidate to run. The confident fox spirit? Family Guardian who had fought before? Demon...I mean grandmother who had seen her fair share of troubles? That other guy.....Maybe the little brother, but thought he was more of the type to just get locked into place rather than voice up running for it. It's only the first episode anyways, if the older brother keeps it up I won't cut him any slack.
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As far as I can see, the story is about: Noboru, the plainest plain in this plain world of plain protagonists, goes to his loud, annoying, high-tensioned grandmother, with his younger brother. Due to a certain circumstance (see episode 1), they have to awaken a fox spirit that has no set gender, Kugen. They go back home with Kugen, the energetically boring fox spirit, and Kou, who you will have plenty of fun playing staring games at, and their new life begins. <--not being negative or sarcastic, just observation; opinions might change in the future Future episodes seem episodic. Genre... Let's see, Supernatural/Fantasy, is how I see it. There will be school life and comedy too, though. Though it seems the last chance for a hostile encounter will be ep2, since ep3-4 seems to focus on other stuff. (Just my guess though, never read the novels.)
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Kou is moe. especially lol @ train scene
But apart from that, first episode bored me. I fast forwarded through almost the entire episode. Maybe it's the Shinto mythology that goes past my head, Probably only going to see this for Kuu's relationship with Miyako (probably romantic), and see if Kou and Noboru gets closer (Noboru was practically drooling at their first meeting lol). Hopefully I won't get bored before that happens (if it even happens at all ^^; ).
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As excellent as Yukana's performance is in this show (as usual), I fear I will not be watching any more of this. It's boring and terribly uninteresting, poorly animated, awfully musicalized, and overall of subpar quality.
If only people hired Yukana for a leading role in better series... oh well.
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As you've written earlier, I think the value of affirmative action is that it co-opts dissent by including the most intelligent from every ethnic group. This reinforces the ability of the elite to continue discriminating ruthlessly on intelligence for the jobs "that matter" in law, finance etc. As such, it is unlikely that AA would be banned outright. Even a restriction would just push it "into the shadows" – eg, it will still happen, just in another way or form.
Because I think the above is true, it seems like the only way affirmative action would end is if it is taken to its ridiculous logical conclusion, whereby admissions test are made easy and applicants are chosen randomly. A better strategy for folks opposed to AA would probably be to try and achieve these ends – to push on elite institutions with disparate impact (universities and corporations).
The downside case to this strategy, is that there is a social benefit to have a cluster of very smart people in one place, so they can feed off one another and do more interesting things together than they might do alone.
With places that focus on engineering (Stanford etc) this results in tangible and incredible technologies. The ivy league seems to be the font of financial engineering, so clusters can also produce products that more focused on the clever taking advantage of the clueless. (Yes, the economy benefitted from the additional leverage that was available from these innovations, but it has now left us with major structural problems).
The upside case from this strategy, for the folks who are disadvantaged by the practice, is that it would undermine the value placed on "elite" credentials, making the individual's performance more important. This is a form of equalizing outcomes by lowering the standard. Not pretty, but it would have a big effect.
For society - if smart folks were more evenly spread throughout various industries and fields, rather than concentrated into a few value transference sectors, we might see a very different country 25 years from now.
An alternate way to achieve this last outcome would be to mandate reverse quotas – no single university can have no more than x% of their students from the top y% of scores. This would force the spread of our smart fraction and ensure we have smart people working in more fields. Safer for society since the "next big thing" is always unpredictable.
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And so the troop of raisin-faced thespians convene again for another production of judicialpiece theater. Watch as they furrow brows, cock heads, stroke chins, and issue sententious inquiries like syncopated Epcot animatronics.
And like the changing guard, it is all mere pageantry. For once in chambers, all chaffing pretense to constitutional fidelity will be dropped in favor of the court's true purpose: producing an expedient. And here the battle rarely varies. The Three Jewges will reflexively adopt the anti-white position and whistle for the lumpish latina to come bounding for her biscuit. Across the field the court's phalanx of conservative popery will level its lances in likely service to another acerbic dissent. In the middle, Freddie Mercury Roberts and Sandra Day O'Kennedy will gambol like two children chasing butterflies…both being urged to join one of the warring factions.
"This way Freddie!"
"No join our team!"
Of course the most persuasive constitutional argument will be the one that most pleasantly strokes the ego of these two queens. And so their suitors should have the sense to eschew stare decisis in favor of stare in the mirror. "This opinion would look veeery good on you Freddie." - 10/11/12, 12:13 AM
there is a social benefit to have a cluster of very smart people in one place, so they can feed off one another and do more interesting things together than they might do alone.
Like come up with new and exciting ways to give our country away to wall street. A social benefit indeed! - 10/11/12, 1:12 AM
forming a critical mass would be a desirable end, but that won't happen with talent spread to the far corners of the academic system. What could be called critical masses generally only formed under segregation.
Asymmetric warfare. The Ivy league are concentrated in Wall Street and the political system.
BYU. Religion seems like the answer, it's the one area that trumps race. You want to talk to Mel Gibson, not T Boone.
why not nationalize the Ivy leagues?
- Al said...
"As far as I can tell, Stanford has fulfilled my exorbitant expectations of 37 years ago, but has it even moved up in the rankings since then? Not particularly. And that's mostly because Wall Street has sucked up more and more of the wealth, making the Ivy League colleges with the best pipelines to Wall Street ever more desirable, which in turn encourages Tigermothermania and so forth."
Is this actually true? I'm pretty sure that Google has a higher starting salary than Goldman Sachs. Silicon Valley and Wall Street salaries are comparable. - 10/11/12, 2:46 AM
NFL draft?
"As far as I can tell, Stanford has fulfilled my exorbitant expectations of 37 years ago, but has it even moved up in the rankings since then? Not particularly."
What rankings are you looking at, Steve?
According to the Times Higher Education Survey Stanford is now No. 2 in the world (it was #4 2 years ago). Cal Tech is #1, and Cal Berkely is # 9. MIT is #5. Harvard and Princeton are the only Ivy League schools in the top 10, Yale is down at #11.
Obviously international students may not care as much about the Wall Street pipeline as Americans do. The Times/Reuters survey clearly puts more value on strong STEM schools.
As usual, diversity and equality for thee, but not for me.
Hasn't all this been tried before in the Soviet Union?
According to the Times Higher Education Survey Stanford is now No. 2 in the world (it was #4 2 years ago). Cal Tech is #1, and Cal Berkely is # 9. MIT is #5. Harvard and Princeton are the only Ivy League schools in the top 10, Yale is down at #11.
Could this be the beginning of a slide in Ivy League standing by their turn from scholastics/academics to PC totalitarian fascism and slavish devotion to "diversity" and groupthink and generalized cronyism?
One can only hope. It is inevitable, ultimately. - 10/11/12, 3:54 AM
One reason Wall Street recruits at Ivy League schools is that directly screening for high SAT scores would lead to disparate impact lawsuits. Congress should make it harder to sue for disparate impact. I know this would be a dogfight.
How far is Stanford supposed to move up from 2 or 3?
Could this be the beginning of a slide in Ivy League standing by their turn from scholastics/academics to PC totalitarian fascism and slavish devotion to "diversity" and groupthink and generalized cronyism?
Arguably that is the positive aspect of American schools working so hard to attract Chinese, Indian, Korean, Russians, etc. Most international students don't want to pay a lot of money to study wymyn's issues with affirmative action babies. Or at least the people who sponsor those students don't want that. They want transfer of real skills and real tools they can use to beat our brains in later. So American schools who want the Chinese elites are going to have to tighten up their standards. - 10/11/12, 6:12 AM
Given that universities allow applicants to self-identify by race, if people think affirmative action is an unjust law, why not just self-identify as African-American or Mexican? Call it civil disobedience. Problem solved.
- The Aquatic Gardener said...
"As you've written earlier, I think the value of affirmative action is that it co-opts dissent by including the most intelligent from every ethnic group."
Will someone elaborate/explain? - 10/11/12, 8:52 AM
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@Peter A:
The only rankings that "matter": USN&WR's. 6 Ivies in the Top 10 (Cornell, Brown didn't make it.).
HPY top 3.
Like anyone gives a flying fig about the Times of London's rankings. - 10/11/12, 11:38 AM
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"Congress should make it harder to sue for disparate impact. I know this would be a dogfight."
Whatever its unfortunate side effects, using disparate impact evidence was itself the consequence of racist state and local governments violating the Constitution by gaming the system. Just remember that almost everything the civil rights movement protested for in the 1950s and 1960s was already guaranteed by law by the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and the civil rights laws passed by the Reconstruction Congress between 1866 and 1875.
Alas from the 1880s to the 1950s, legislators in Southern states found all sorts o ways to comply with the letter of the law while still operating a system of apartheid, The most famous was, of course, grandfathering (you can vote if your grandfather was eligible to vote. Race neutral on its face, not so much in its disparate impact). So yeah, disparate impact isn't going anywhere.
On another note, the Service Academies have an interesting system of affirmative action. The congressional appointment system ensures that cadets and midshipmen come from all corners of the country on a roughly per capita basis. - 10/11/12, 11:59 AM
What they really need to do is set some quotas for hiring short people. That could serve as a proxi for certain needy Latin Americans, counter certain aspects of body privilege that might affect less fortunate men, neutralize people with Napoleon Complex by keeping them occupied, and help out people like Maya.
Short people offer a different perspective, literally. - 10/11/12, 1:16 PM
The Aquatic Gardener said...
"As you've written earlier, I think the value of affirmative action is that it co-opts dissent by including the most intelligent from every ethnic group."
Will someone elaborate/explain?
Suppose you are an imperial power faced with a hostile (sub-)population which you wish to govern (it's important that they are hostile). What do?
One possibility, let's call it the Israeli strategy, is to stomp on the head of the population all day long, every day. This strategy causes the population to really, really hate you. Furthermore, to get ahead in life, the native elite of the population has to play on that hate and to demonstrate that they are doing something to the hated overlords. So, you get unified resistance led by the native elite. Think about how Mahmoud Abbas (who seems pretty smart and psychologically normal) is considered by so many Palestinians to be soft on Israel even though he has a PhD in Holocaust Denial and regularly talks about how he wants to destroy Israel.
Another possibility, let's call it the Nixon strategy, is to pay off the native elite of the subject population and pretty much ignore the rest. But you do the payoff on the installment plan, $X per year. Now, the hoi polloi among the subject population still hate you, though not as much as under the Israeli strategy. However, the subject population is unable to organize effectively against you because their natural elite is too busy taking conference calls on Martha's Vineyard, blowing their payoff on cocaine and white hookers, or whatever. If the native elite rebels against you, they lose the installment-plan payoffs, so they don't. The only members of the subject population's natural elite trying to organize the masses are ones with personality disorders, like, say, Al Sharpton. And they are more funny than scary.
Because affirmative action is only applicable to blacks who both 1) graduate high school and 2) do at least sort-of well on the SAT, it distributes payoffs (on the installment plan over a whole career) to the blacks who are smart and hard-working, i.e. the natural elite among them.
I'm not saying one of these stragegies is always better than the other. It depends on lots of stuff. But, the US does the Nixon thing. - 10/11/12, 2:32 PM
On message boards frequented by Tiger moms and cubs, the common phrase to use is "HYPSMC," short for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, and Caltech.
These are the most impressive undergraduate schools you can go to, and the only ones where people will think it was your first choice.
Also, if you want to be current, the best job out of college isn't at Goldman Sachs, but at certain top hedge funds. DE Shaw is sometimes mentioned as a top target, but really any of the big hedge funds are better/higher paying/more selective than Goldman.
shanghai ranking, which takes into account only measurable things (papers published by department, papers cited by department, academic prizes won by the faculty, number of undergrad, master, and doctor degrees awarded per year by the university, yearly budget of each department, endowment spending of the university), puts stanford at number 2 in the world, behind only harvard.
princeton is 7, columbia 8, yale 11, cornell 13, penn 14. brown is correctly ranked way low, down at 65, and dartmouth drops off the map, below 100.
prestige is irrelevant to the rankings, so several prestigious universities in the US, which would be attractive to have on your resume, can drop very far on the list under these criteria.
they also rank each university by subject and field, so it's more specific than just the aggregated, combined hybrid ranking system published by US news & world report. - 10/11/12, 7:12 PM
Margaret Thatcher tried this strategy; worked out swimmingly I believe.
I don't remember there being so many "ties" in the Mort Zuckerman rankings list back when I was sending out $70 applications. Well I'm sure those bright magazine people & their admissions office contacts know what they're doing!
Penn's in a great, vibrant neighborhood too