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4.4: Slope and Rate of Change
Learning Objectives
- Find positive and negative slopes.
- Recognize and find slopes for horizontal and vertical lines.
- Understand rates of change.
- Interpret graphs and compare rates of change.
Wheelchair ramps at building entrances must have a slope between \begin{align*}\frac{1}{16}\end{align*} and \begin{align*}\frac{1}{20}\end{align*}. If the entrance to a new office building is 28 inches off the ground, how long does the wheelchair ramp need to be?
We come across many examples of slope in everyday life. For example, a slope is in the pitch of a roof, the grade or incline of a road, or the slant of a ladder leaning on a wall. In math, we use the word slope to define steepness in a particular way.
\begin{align*}\text{Slope} = \frac{\text{distance moved vertically}}{\text{distance moved horizontally}}\end{align*}
To make it easier to remember, we often word it like this:
\begin{align*}\text{Slope} = \frac{\text{rise}}{\text{run}}\end{align*}
In the picture above, the slope would be the ratio of the height of the hill to the horizontal length of the hill. In other words, it would be \begin{align*}\frac{3}{4}\end{align*}, or 0.75.
If the car were driving to the right it would climb the hill - we say this is a positive slope. Any time you see the graph of a line that goes up as you move to the right, the slope is positive.
If the car kept driving after it reached the top of the hill, it might go down the other side. If the car is driving to the right and descending, then we would say that the slope is negative.
Here's where it gets tricky: If the car turned around instead and drove back down the left side of the hill, the slope of that side would still be positive. This is because the rise would be -3, but the run would be -4 (think of the \begin{align*}x-\end{align*}axis - if you move from right to left you are moving in the negative \begin{align*}x-\end{align*}direction). That means our slope ratio would be \begin{align*}\frac{-3}{-4}\end{align*}, and the negatives cancel out to leave 0.75, the same slope as before. In other words, the slope of a line is the same no matter which direction you travel along it.
Find the Slope of a Line
A simple way to find a value for the slope of a line is to draw a right triangle whose hypotenuse runs along the line. Then we just need to measure the distances on the triangle that correspond to the rise (the vertical dimension) and the run (the horizontal dimension).
Example 1
Find the slopes for the three graphs shown.
There are already right triangles drawn for each of the lines - in future problems you'll do this part yourself. Note that it is easiest to make triangles whose vertices are lattice points (i.e. points whose coordinates are all integers).
a) The rise shown in this triangle is 4 units; the run is 2 units. The slope is \begin{align*}\frac{4}{2}= 2\end{align*}.
b) The rise shown in this triangle is 4 units, and the run is also 4 units. The slope is \begin{align*}\frac{4}{4}= 1\end{align*}.
c) The rise shown in this triangle is 2 units, and the run is 4 units. The slope is \begin{align*}\frac{2}{4}= \frac{1}{2}\end{align*}.
Example 2
Find the slope of the line that passes through the points (1, 2) and (4, 7).
We already know how to graph a line if we're given two points: we simply plot the points and connect them with a line. Here's the graph:
Since we already have coordinates for the vertices of our right triangle, we can quickly work out that the rise is \begin{align*}7 - 2 = 5\end{align*} and the run is \begin{align*}4 - 1 = 3\end{align*} (see diagram). So the slope is \begin{align*}\frac{7-2}{4-1} = \frac{5}{3}\end{align*}.
If you look again at the calculations for the slope, you'll notice that the 7 and 2 are the \begin{align*}y-\end{align*}coordinates of the two points and the 4 and 1 are the \begin{align*}x-\end{align*}coordinates. This suggests a pattern we can follow to get a general formula for the slope between two points \begin{align*}(x_1, y_1)\end{align*} and \begin{align*}(x_2, y_2)\end{align*}:
Slope between \begin{align*}(x_1, y_1)\end{align*} and \begin{align*}(x_2, y_2) = \frac{y_2 - y_1} { x_2- x_1} \end{align*}
or \begin{align*}m= \frac{\Delta y}{\Delta x}\end{align*}
In the second equation the letter \begin{align*}m\end{align*} denotes the slope (this is a mathematical convention you'll see often) and the Greek letter delta \begin{align*}(\Delta)\end{align*} means change. So another way to express slope is change in \begin{align*}y\end{align*} divided by change in \begin{align*}x\end{align*}. In the next section, you'll see that it doesn't matter which point you choose as point 1 and which you choose as point 2.
Example 3
Find the slopes of the lines on the graph below.
Look at the lines - they both slant down (or decrease) as we move from left to right. Both these lines have negative slope.
The lines don't pass through very many convenient lattice points, but by looking carefully you can see a few points that look to have integer coordinates. These points have been circled on the graph, and we'll use them to determine the slope. We'll also do our calculations twice, to show that we get the same slope whichever way we choose point 1 and point 2.
For Line \begin{align*}A\end{align*}:
\begin{align*}&(x_1, y_1) = (-6, 3) \qquad (x_2, y_2) = (5, -1) && (x_1, y_1) = (5, -1) \qquad (x_2, y_2) = (-6, 3)\\ &m = \frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1} = \frac{(-1)-(3)}{(5)-(-6)} = \frac{-4}{11} \approx -0.364 && m = \frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1} = \frac{(3)-(-1)}{(-6)-(5)} = \frac{4}{-11} \approx -0.364\end{align*}
For Line \begin{align*}B\end{align*}
\begin{align*}&(x_1, y_1) = (-4, 6) \qquad (x_2, y_2) = (4, -5) && (x_1, y_1) = (4, -5) \qquad (x_2, y_2) = (-4, 6)\\ & m = \frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1} = \frac{(-5)-(6)}{(4)-(-4)} = \frac{-11}{8} = -1.375 && m = \frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1} = \frac{(6)-(-5)}{(-4)-(4)} = \frac{11}{-8} = -1.375\end{align*}
You can see that whichever way round you pick the points, the answers are the same. Either way, Line \begin{align*}A\end{align*} has slope -0.364, and Line \begin{align*}B\end{align*} has slope -1.375.
Khan Academy has a series of videos on finding the slope of a line, starting at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXP1Gv9IMBo.
Find the Slopes of Horizontal and Vertical lines
Example 4
Determine the slopes of the two lines on the graph below.
There are 2 lines on the graph: \begin{align*}A (y = 3)\end{align*} and \begin{align*}B (x = 5)\end{align*}.
Let's pick 2 points on line \begin{align*}A\end{align*}—say, \begin{align*}(x_1, y_1) = (-4, 3)\end{align*} and \begin{align*}(x_2, y_2) = (5, 3)\end{align*}—and use our equation for slope:
\begin{align*}m= \frac{y_2 - y_1} {x_2 - x_1} = \frac{(3)-(3)}{(5)-(-4)} = \frac {0}{9} = 0.\end{align*}
If you think about it, this makes sense - if \begin{align*}y\end{align*} doesn't change as \begin{align*}x\end{align*} increases then there is no slope, or rather, the slope is zero. You can see that this must be true for all horizontal lines.
Horizontal lines (\begin{align*}y\end{align*} = constant) all have a slope of 0.
Now let's consider line \begin{align*}B\end{align*}. If we pick the points \begin{align*}(x_1 , y_1) = (5, -3)\end{align*} and \begin{align*}(x_2 , y_2) = (5, 4)\end{align*}, our slope equation is \begin{align*}m = \frac{y_2 -y_1}{x_2 - x_1} = \frac{(4)-(-3)}{(5)-(5)} = \frac{7}{0}\end{align*}. But dividing by zero isn't allowed!
In math we often say that a term which involves division by zero is undefined. (Technically, the answer can also be said to be infinitely large—or infinitely small, depending on the problem.)
Vertical lines \begin{align*}(x =\end{align*} constant) all have an infinite (or undefined) slope.
Find a Rate of Change
The slope of a function that describes real, measurable quantities is often called a rate of change. In that case the slope refers to a change in one quantity \begin{align*}(y)\end{align*} per unit change in another quantity \begin{align*}(x)\end{align*}. (This is where the equation \begin{align*}m= \frac{\Delta y}{\Delta x}\end{align*} comes in—remember that \begin{align*}\Delta y\end{align*} and \begin{align*}\Delta x\end{align*} represent the change in \begin{align*}y\end{align*} and \begin{align*}x\end{align*} respectively.)
Example 5
A candle has a starting length of 10 inches. 30 minutes after lighting it, the length is 7 inches. Determine the rate of change in length of the candle as it burns. Determine how long the candle takes to completely burn to nothing.
First we'll graph the function to visualize what is happening. We have 2 points to start with: we know that at the moment the candle is lit (\begin{align*}time = 0\end{align*}) the length of the candle is 10 inches, and after 30 minutes (\begin{align*}time = 30\end{align*}) the length is 7 inches. Since the candle length depends on the time, we'll plot time on the horizontal axis, and candle length on the vertical axis.
The rate of change of the candle's length is simply the slope of the line. Since we have our 2 points \begin{align*}(x_1, y_1) = (0, 10)\end{align*} and \begin{align*}(x_2, y_2) = (30, 7)\end{align*}, we can use the familiar version of the slope formula:
\begin{align*}\text{Rate of change} = \frac{y_2 - y_1}{x_2 -x_1} = \frac{(7 \ \text{inches})-(10 \ \text{inches})}{(30 \ \text{minutes})-(0 \ \text{minutes})} = \frac{-3 \ \text{inches}}{30 \ \text{minutes}}= -0.1 \ \text{inches per minute}\end{align*}
Note that the slope is negative. A negative rate of change means that the quantity is decreasing with time—just as we would expect the length of a burning candle to do.
To find the point when the candle reaches zero length, we can simply read the \begin{align*}x-\end{align*}intercept off the graph (100 minutes). We can use the rate equation to verify this algebraically:
\begin{align*}\text{Length burned} & = \text{rate} \times \text{time}\\ 10 & = 0.1 \times 100\end{align*}
Since the candle length was originally 10 inches, our equation confirms that 100 minutes is the time taken.
Example 6
The population of fish in a certain lake increased from 370 to 420 over the months of March and April. At what rate is the population increasing?
Here we don't have two points from which we can get \begin{align*}x-\end{align*} and \begin{align*}y-\end{align*}coordinates for the slope formula. Instead, we'll need to use the alternate formula, \begin{align*}m=\frac{\Delta y}{\Delta x}\end{align*}.
The change in \begin{align*}y-\end{align*}values, or \begin{align*}\Delta y\end{align*}, is the change in the number of fish, which is \begin{align*}420 - 370 = 50\end{align*}. The change in \begin{align*}x-\end{align*}values, \begin{align*}\Delta x\end{align*}, is the amount of time over which this change took place: two months. So \begin{align*}\frac{\Delta y}{\Delta x} = \frac{50 \ \text{fish}}{2 \ \text{months}}\end{align*}, or 25 fish per month.
Interpret a Graph to Compare Rates of Change
Example 7
The graph below represents a trip made by a large delivery truck on a particular day. During the day the truck made two deliveries, one taking an hour and the other taking two hours. Identify what is happening at each stage of the trip (stages A through \begin{align*}E\end{align*}).
Here are the stages of the trip:
a) The truck sets off and travels 80 miles in 2 hours.
b) The truck covers no distance for 2 hours.
c) The truck covers \begin{align*}(120 - 80) = 40 \ \text{miles}\end{align*} in 1 hour.
d) The truck covers no distance for 1 hour.
e) The truck covers -120 miles in 2 hours.
Let's look at each section more closely.
A. \begin{align*}\text{Rate of change} = \frac{\Delta y}{\Delta x}=\frac{80 \ \text{miles}}{2 \ \text{hours}}=40\ \text{miles per hour}\end{align*}
Notice that the rate of change is a speed—or rather, a velocity. (The difference between the two is that velocity has a direction, and speed does not. In other words, velocity can be either positive or negative, with negative velocity representing travel in the opposite direction. You'll see the difference more clearly in part E.)
Since velocity equals distance divided by time, the slope (or rate of change) of a distance-time graph is always a velocity.
So during the first part of the trip, the truck travels at a constant speed of 40 mph for 2 hours, covering a distance of 80 miles.
B. The slope here is 0, so the rate of change is 0 mph. The truck is stationary for one hour. This is the first delivery stop.
C. \begin{align*}\text{Rate of change} = \frac{\Delta y}{\Delta x}=\frac{(120 - 80) \ \text{miles}}{(4-3) \ \text{hours}} = 40 \ \text{miles per hour}\end{align*}. The truck is traveling at 40 mph.
D. Once again the slope is 0, so the rate of change is 0 mph. The truck is stationary for two hours. This is the second delivery stop. At this point the truck is 120 miles from the start position.
E. \begin{align*}\text{Rate of change} = \frac{\Delta y}{\Delta x}=\frac{(0-120) \ \text{miles}}{(8-6) \ \text{hours}}=\frac{-120 \ \text{miles}}{2 \ \text{hours}}=-60 \ \text{miles per hour}\end{align*}. The truck is traveling at negative 60 mph.
Wait – a negative speed? Does that mean that the truck is reversing? Well, probably not. It's actually the velocity and not the speed that is negative, and a negative velocity simply means that the distance from the starting position is decreasing with time. The truck is driving in the opposite direction – back to where it started from. Since it no longer has 2 heavy loads, it travels faster (60 mph instead of 40 mph), covering the 120 mile return trip in 2 hours. Its speed is 60 mph, and its velocity is -60 mph, because it is traveling in the opposite direction from when it started out.
Lesson Summary
- Slope is a measure of change in the vertical direction for each step in the horizontal direction. Slope is often represented as "\begin{align*}m\end{align*}".
- Slope can be expressed as \begin{align*}\frac{\text{rise}}{\text{run}}\end{align*}, or \begin{align*}\frac{\Delta y}{\Delta x}\end{align*}.
- The slope between two points \begin{align*}(x_1, y_1)\end{align*} and \begin{align*}(x_2, y_2)\end{align*} is equal to \begin{align*}\frac{y_2 - y_1}{x_2 -x_1}\end{align*}.
- Horizontal lines (where \begin{align*}y = a\end{align*} constant) all have a slope of 0.
- Vertical lines (where \begin{align*}x = a\end{align*} constant) all have an infinite (or undefined) slope.
- The slope (or rate of change) of a distance-time graph is a velocity.
Review Questions
- Use the slope formula to find the slope of the line that passes through each pair of points.
- (-5, 7) and (0, 0)
- (-3, -5) and (3, 11)
- (3, -5) and (-2, 9)
- (-5, 7) and (-5, 11)
- (9, 9) and (-9, -9)
- (3, 5) and (-2, 7)
- (2.5, 3) and (8, 3.5)
- For each line in the graphs below, use the points indicated to determine the slope.
- For each line in the graphs above, imagine another line with the same slope that passes through the point (1, 1), and name one more point on that line.
- The graph below is a distance-time graph for Mark's three and a half mile cycle ride to school. During this ride, he rode on cycle paths but the terrain was hilly. He rode slower up hills and faster down them. He stopped once at a traffic light and at one point he stopped to mend a punctured tire. The graph shows his distance from home at any given time. Identify each section of the graph accordingly.
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Horace Greeley founded the "Trib"— and the union that eventually helped kill it. But in 125 years it knew many a shining hour.
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None of Brown's devices availed to hold back the rising costs or augment the diminishing revenues. Brown Reid faced a difficult decision—whether to gamble on another price rise or to seek support outside the family. In 1957, he chose the latter, turning to a man with whom Whitelaw and others in the management had already held preliminary discussions. This was John Hay Whitney, at the time President Eisenhower's ambassador to the Court of St. James's.
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Deron Williams is a superstar. Maybe the best PG in the NBA. The Nets don't have another superstar after him. Humph, Lopez, Wallace etc are big athletic players but none are even close to superstar level. Joe Johnson gets the superstar paycheck but isn't even all-star caliber. David Stern screwed the Nets over by blocking the Howard trade so he could go to LA. The 3,000 Nets fans are still bitter over Carmelo picking the Garden over Barclays Center.
How about Mike D'antoni? Idiot is trying to play run n' gun with half-court players like Dwight and Kobe. He'll be s-canned by the trade deadline.
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Nets dominated the 1st quarter and really had no excuse to lose the game. They can say Lopez is out but Amare, Shumpert and Camby are all out for the Knicks. Devestating? Not quite but definitely a disappointment for Prokhorov who is trying to turn the Nets into the NBA's marquis franchise.
I'm supremely happy with our team as well, and love Melo...
But saying Deron isn't a superstar is equally ignorant as the other dude saying Melo isn't.
DWill might be the best all-around PG in the league. He's without a doubt the best shoot first PG, and other than the arguments for CP3, Rondo, and even at this age: Nash...can you name a better pass-first PG?
I think you guys are making too much of this. A superstar is the top tier player, then there are star players after that, then there good players, JAGs, etc. in descending order.
DWill is not the best all-around PG. Paul is. But that doesn't make DWill a bum. I'm just saying he isn't an upper echelon player like LeBron, Wade (healthy), Dirk (healthy), Melo, Paul, Kobe, and Durant.
DWill is not on those 7 player's level, that's why he's a notch below.
Would you guys prefer that I call DWill a superstar and those 7 I mentioned super-duper-stars?
Last edited by SMC; 12-12-2012 at 09:01 PM.
You're welcome to call them whatever your heart desires. I don't care much. I was just pointing out the ignorance in your statement.
Just curious though, why 7 for superstar players? Seems a bit arbitrary. Why not the best starting 5? Or top 2 at each position? Or just top 3 overall players? 7 random players just seems arbitrary... Used to fit an argument.
Sure CP3 is the better passer and defender, but DWill is the better shooter by miles and is a very solid defender in his own right. Plus he can post and drop for rebounds, two things Paul can't do.
I'm not gonna knock you for taking CP3 over DWill, but to not put the two in the same sentence is...well, biased, or downright ignorant.
Edit: I'd rather take DWill than Dwade right now on Miami. Dwade is still superstar level, but DWill is higher.
You can view my statement as ignorant, but it's not as if the opinion is divergent compared to those covering the game. The list of upper tier players can expand or contract, but those are primarily the names included.
With respect to your suggestions, the best starting 5 doesn't work because it would include a position which would not necessarily have a top player, such as at C, to the exclusion of another. Top 2 at position? Maybe, but again, the top players in the NBA are those regardless of position.
As to CP3 vs. DWill, CP3 shoots for a better percentage than DWill across the board and utterly dominates DWill in career PER (25.4 vs. 19.1) and career WS/48 (.240 vs. .136). So for you to criticize me for not putting the two in the same sentence shows your own ignorance.
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One thing to consider though- Chad Pennington led the NFL many many times in completion percentage. I'd still have taken at least 6 or 7 QBs over him.
Percentages are the most unbiased equators of apples to apples. However, they need to be viewed in context, my friend.
I agree with the weak centers argument...which is why I hedged and included top 3 overall. Again, I don't see why the number was limited to 7. I stick by my original statement...Deron is a superstar in the NBA.
Now back to important things like the Knicks being the team to beat in the east!!!
To SMC's point, DWill has star #s... Not superstar #s...
Williams has regressed a bit it seems. His shooting is flat out horrible right now: 38% from the field, 27% from 3. His career numbers are 45% from the field and 34% from 3. His assists are slightly down. If it's not regression, hopefully it's the nagging injuries and he'll eventually get back on track. I think he said something a few weeks back about his confidence being down which ain't good at all. Even as a Nets fan I wouldn't call him a superstar right now.
Although it really doesn't matter what we label any of these dudes. Just makes for some fun, useless banter.
Yeah, that's point. I'm not killing the guy. I'm not calling DWill a bum, JAG, etc. I'd love for a PG like him to be on the Knicks.
The word "superstar" is thrown around loosely in the media IMO, when it should only be used for a select few.
But regardless, the Knicks and Nets have set their own paths. The Knicks have a big game tonight and need to bury a Lakers team in shambles.
Although Magic was my favorite non-Knick player, I've always hated the Lakers and seeing them further implode on the Garden floor would be awesome.
Last edited by SMC; 12-13-2012 at 11:13 AM.
And what is the difference between star #'s and superstar #'s? He listed 7 "superstars" and included CP3, dwill and cp3 have basically identical numbers for the entire career. Dwill is also 13-4 head to head vs CP3.
If you tell me kobe, dirk, lebron, and wade are superstars because they have won a title, ok I see the distinction. Durant carried a team to a finals, ok see another distinction. But CP3, Melo, Dwill have not played in a finals yet, and of the 3 Melo has the worst record/history in the playoffs. Its just typical over the top homerism by Knick fans because Melo is finally (albeit through 20 games) playing at a unreal superstar level. Prior to the start of this season he has/had done nothing to be labeled a "superstar." Great scorer who has superstar ability but never lived up to it. I am not arguing one is better than the other or that Dwill is even a superstar, but Melo is not a superstar by my standards. He is off to the start that finally displays the ability and talent he has, but he never lived up to.
Best record in the East. Two 20 point victories over the defending champs and a come from behind victory against the best team in the West on the road. Superstar playing at an MVP level and a HC who has the best record in franchise history after 45 games.
I'm proud to Ray-Ray the crap out of the Knicks right now.
Dan D'Antoni, Mike's brother and assistant coach in LA, believes things could have ultimately worked out for MDA, Melo and the Knicks. He says it would've been only a matter of time before the Knicks started winning.
"That's what we think. We think it would have [worked]," Dan D'Antoni said.
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A runaway cat. A lovelorn bus driver. A child admiring his hockey hero. A patient with rare medical conditions. These are characters singer-songwriter John K. Sampson, central figure in Canadian indie-rock band the Weakerthans, embodies on Reunion Tour. Sampson's penmanship here is the most minute and observant among a recent batch of great songwriting (see Ferraby Lionheart, Will Sheff). Sampson can get an entire verse out of a beer-addled bar patron fumbling to peel the label off his bottle. It's as if Sampson has a microscope through which he sees exquisitely into the human psyche.
A rock musician writing what basically amount to short stories nowadays is of course going to garner comparisons to Sufjan Stevens. Sampson doesn't have an MFA in creative writing, but his narratives are just as gripping as Stevens'. (As is the story of Sampson's own musical evolution: After starting out as the bassist for noisemakers Propaghandi, he formed the Weakerthans to explore his more poetic leanings.) Even some music on Reunion recalls Stevens. The simple, gorgeous "Bigfoot!" features the type of somber horn sounds that helped make Stevens' Michigan such a revelation.
Mostly, the Weakerthans keep the songs in a rocking, mid-tempo groove reminiscent of good (read: older) Rilo Kiley as Sampson spins his well-worded yarns. A cat named Virtute becomes a recurring character here after an initial appearance on the last Weakerthans album, 2003's Reconstruction Site. This time the feline's tune is much slower and sadder, as Virtute tells her owner why she left and things she missed, like, "How I'd knead into your chest while you were sleeping/ Your shallow breathing made me purr."
Depicting a cat's inner thoughts requires imagination; depicting a person's requires pathos. Sampson has that in spades. "Sun in an Empty Room" and first single "Night Windows," which appear back to back, bring to mind Edward Hopper-esque imagery not only with their titles, but with their lyrics as well. Both come from the point of view of men who've lost love but don't know exactly how it got away. That bus driver on opener "Civil Twilight" says he can't stop finding an ex's face in those of his passengers. To take his mind off that, he makes up games: "I recite the names of provinces or Hollywood actors/ Oh, Ontario, oh, Jennifer Jason Leigh."
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There was a time when, to use a computer, you merely turned it on and were greeted by a command prompt. Nowadays, most operating systems offer a security model with multiple users. Typically, the credentials you present at login determine the amount of privilege that programs acting upon your behalf will have. Everyday tasks can be accomplished using unprivileged userids, minimizing the risks due to user error, accidental execution of malware downloaded from the Internet and so on. Any program needing to exercise privilege must be executed using a privileged userid. In UNIX, that is userid 0, the root user. Unfortunately, this means any software needing even just a bit of privilege can lead to a complete system compromise should it misbehave or be attacked successfully.
POSIX capabilities address this problem in two ways. First, they break the notion of all-or-nothing privilege into a set of semantically distinct privileges. This can limit the amount of privilege a task may have, so that, for example, it only is able to create devices or trace another users' tasks.
Second, the notion of privilege is separated from userids. Instead, privilege is wielded by the files (programs) a process executes. After all, users sitting at the keyboard just invoke programs to run on their behalf. It is the programs that actually do something. And, it is the programs that an administrator may entrust with privilege, based on knowledge of what the program does, who wrote it and who installed it.
POSIX capabilities have been implemented in Linux for years, but until recently, Linux supported only process capabilities. Because files are supposed to wield privilege, the lack of file capabilities meant that Linux required workarounds to allow administrators and system services to run with privilege. The POSIX capability rules were perverted to emulate a privileged root user.
Although file capabilities are now supported, the privileged root user remains the norm. In this article, I demonstrate a lazy prototype of a system with an unprivileged root.
Each process has three capability sets:
The effective set (pE) contains the capabilities it can use right now.
The permitted set (pP) contains those that it can add back into its effective set.
The inheritable set (pI) is used to determine its new sets when it executes a new file.
Files also have effective (fE), permitted (pP) and inheritable (fI) sets used to calculate the new capability sets of a process executing it.
At any time, a process can use cap_set_proc() to remove capabilities from any of the three sets.
Capabilities can be added to the effective set only if they are currently in its permitted set. They never can be added to the permitted set. And, they can be added to the inheritable set only if they are in the permitted set or if CAP_SETPCAP is in pE. When a process executes a new file, its new capability sets are calculated as follows:
The inheritable set remains unchanged.
The new permitted set is filled with both the file permitted set (masked with a bounding set, but for this article, I assume that always is full) and any capabilities present in both the file and process inheritable sets.
Capabilities in the file permitted set will be available to the new process—an example use for this is the ping program. Ping needs only the capability CAP_NET_RAW in order to craft raw network packets. It is typically setuid-root, so all users can run it. By placing CAP_NET_RAW in ping's permitted set, all users will receive CAP_NET_RAW while running ping.
Capabilities in the file inheritable set are available to a process only if they also are in the process inheritable set—an example of this would be to allow some users to renice other user's tasks. Simply arrange (as I explain a bit) for CAP_SYS_NICE to be placed in their pI on login, as well as in fI for /usr/bin/renice. Now, ordinary users can run renice without privilege, and the "special" users can run renice, but no other programs, with CAP_SYS_NICE.
The effective set is by default empty, or, if the legacy bit is set (see The File Effective Set, aka the Legacy Bit sidebar), it is set to the new permitted set.
The File Effective Set, aka the Legacy Bit
Linux has an unfortunate discrepancy between the setcap command API and what it actually does. Although setcap expects the user to define a file effective set, the kernel simply knows about a "legacy bit". Practically speaking, if the file effective set is empty, the legacy bit is not set. If all bits in the file permitted and inheritable sets are in the effective set, the legacy bit is set. If only a subset of those bits are in the effective set, setcap will return an error.
The reasoning for the setcap API command is that Linux is loathe to change userspace APIs. The reason for using the legacy bit is that we want to encourage applications to begin with an empty effective set if they are capability-aware. Hence, the file effective set should be empty unless the application is not capability-aware. But if the application is not capability-aware, all capabilities available to it must be in its effective set from the start.
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Petty's arrest happened the same day drug agents arrested his roommate, 23-year-old Matthew Paul Verracci, on similar charges.
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Valerie S. Manzo, Esq. a New York attorney who practices in the areas of Elder Law, Estate Planning Medicaid applications, Probate, Real Estate and Zoning, comments on the proper estate planning to save your parents life's savings.
In my 33 years of practice, I have met many folks who end up doing "crisis planning", in situations where a loved one suddenly can no longer take care of their "activities of daily living". The adult children are faced with so many challenges at once: grieving for the parent's loss of ability to care for him or herself, an avalanche of duties in selecting a proper residential placement, dealing with the "well spouse's" shock over placement of the disabled one, sticker shock regarding the financial impact of the costs of long term nursing care, the prospect of losing the ill parent, and many others. When prospective clients sit at my desk and a Medicaid application is about to be made to cover the long term care costs, I always tell them "you'd better like me because we are going to go steady for about six months". And, we do.
What is a person to do to avoid this? Take good care of yourself, and help you parents do the same. Plan for incapacity. And then hope for the best. None of us can predict just who will get the sort of illness that will lead to incapacity………..Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's disease, or one of the other diseases which leave you alive but unable to remember what you need to do, or undertake caring for yourself such as bathing, dressing, eating, cooking, walking, transferring from bed to chair, toileting yourself, and remembering to take your meds, or the other "activities of daily living" which enable you to live on your own.
When meeting with clients to make plans for asset protection, most attorneys use "Questionnaires" to elicit information and get the full picture of one's assets, familial relationships, goals and dreams, and health. Once all the parameters are known, a plan can be put in place. How things are titled is key, and how the client selected beneficiaries and contingent beneficiaries for assets such as Life Insurance policies, IRAs and annuities must be ascertained and, if necessary, changed. One can have all sorts of unanticipated results from uneducated planning. For example, one can name a spouse as IRA beneficiary, and two adult children as contingent beneficiaries. The agent holding the asset, such as Raymond James, Merrill Lynch, etc. etc. may or may not discuss what happens of your spouse is gone and one child does not survive you. How many people know that "winner takes all"? So, if your son is unlucky enough to die before you, your daughter gets it all…and your son's kids are disinherited, due to inadvertence. So, these grandchildren not only prematurely lost a parent. When grandma or grandpa dies, they get nothing from what could be a sizable IRA, and their aunt gets everything in grandma's IRA. Sound like a good outcome?
For this reason and many more like it, we all need to make a thorough and thoughtful estate plan. And the only way to do that is to have a "family meeting", get elderly mom and dad to make a list of absolutely everything they own, get them to get letters from places holding their assets listing beneficiaries and contingent beneficiaries, and bring it all to a skilled estate planning attorney. He or she, working with a skilled financial planner, can lay out a plan of action.
Another common mishap is that folks, having executed a Will ten or twenty years prior, think they are done. They have provided for what happens when they DIE, but what about their own incapacity? We are statistically much more likely to wind up disabled than we were twenty years ago, when certain diseases killed us. We all need to have Powers of Attorney, Health Care Proxies and Living Wills to confirm our wishes if we are disabled, even temporarily.
What about ready cash? So many small business owners have no one authorized to access their accounts should they die. And so, their businesses become tied up during the Probate process, as their Wills are verified and while awaiting Letters Testamentary, and their loved ones cannot even pay the business bills, get business mail, or take care of their loved ones affairs, due to improper planning………or none at all. This too can be avoided by the estate planning client and her attorney.
What about the now-famous Medicaid "five year look back"? This is the period one must keep uppermost in one's mind, as a need to pay for long term residential nursing care (in a nursing home) is now about $450 per day. One can lose all one's assets in short order if all she has is a Will. But if she had, prior to the sudden need for residence in a nursing home, placed assets into an Irrevocable Trust, five years from the "transfer to trust" her trust assets are not considered for imposition of Medicaid's "penalties" for said transfers. Keep in mind that the only program that pays for long term nursing home care is Medicaid. And it is a program created for the benefit of the sick poor. You must be down to $14, 400 and an Irrevocable Burial Trust to qualify for coverage by this program. Any other assets, unless placed into an Irrevocable Trust or given away as a gift, are subject to the costs of such care.
So why not just "give the house to the kids"? Because an outright gift has ghastly tax consequences if the kids sell to a third party after you die. Capital gains taxes are based on what grandma and grandpa paid…meaning the IRS subtracts from the net sale proceeds the cost of grandma's purchase and the kids get to pay capital gains tax on that large amount. This can be avoided by proper planning.
Health care decision-making and end of life choices are also essential topics to be discussed with counsel. Many a time I have received frantic calls from adult children whose loved ones are in a hospital or rehabilitation center and have taken a turn for the worse. The doctors want to place a feeding tube, place a stent for kidney dialysis, or some other procedure, even though mom is in extremis and not likely to revive and be her old self again, or have any quality of life if the current crisis is averted. A loving child would always extend life, you may think. But, in many instances, the quality of life that mom would have, even with the best of outcomes, is not what grandma would want. So, the adult child must carefully weigh the choices and evaluate the outcomes. If mom or dad had discussed such a situation with counsel, and selected the proper child or friend or relative to make such tough health care decisions if mom or dad could not do it, then the determination would be so much easier for the child to handle. This lessens the grief and guilt over making such heart-wrenching choices, and, when I have been the one to have these conversations with the elders, I am happy to convey their wishes and discuss the choices with the children. Many clients will have had such a conversation with their kids themselves, but some may not have had the chance.
The end of life need not be torture for the elder and the loved ones they leave behind. We will all be there one day. The best way to handle it is to face it squarely when we are hale and hearty and can think clearly and make our wishes clear.


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NEW YORK, Tuesday—Last weekend I took the train to Hyde Park with my friend, Miss Adelaide Enright, who is here from St. Paul, Minn.
It was a long time since I had gone up by train and, of course, when one really wants to enjoy the Hudson River the train is the only way that gives you a good view. The parkway is beautiful, but you never catch a glimpse of the river. Even Route 9W does not give you too many river views, so the train is the way to ride up the river if you want to get the full beauty of this great river—and it is truly a great river. In spots it reminds me of the Rhine, except that the Rhine seems smaller. I could not help thinking that we admire scenery all over the world and often forget that we have right at home some of the most beautiful scenery.
Once arrived, we took the dogs for a walk in the woods and enjoyed finding a profusion of violets and a few trilliums. The white trilliums I looked for seem to have disappeared again. I missed looking for them the previous weekend and perhaps they have already bloomed and faded. It would be a great disappointment to me if they have died out.
For the first time two little pink dogwood are flowering on the lawn and the white dogwood, which is an old tree outside my bedroom windows, is more beautiful than I have ever seen it. It's heavy with bloom.
I don't know whether we should be thankful for the recent rain, but I don't think I have ever seen a more luxuriant growth than I find everywhere this spring. It is certainly not because of warm weather because I think we have had cooler days than I can remember for many years.
I saw a report the other day that someone who follows the cycle of the seasons said that the coming summer would be a particularly hot one. I hope he is wrong, but if it is going to be very hot I hope at least we will have plenty of rain, as that does cool the atmosphere at least for a little while every day.
I found on my table when I returned last week a very delightful booklet written by Col. William A. Eddy and published by the American Friends of the Middle East, Inc. The booklet is titled, "F.D.R. Meets Ibn Saud."
This account is delightfully written and completely accurate. My husband came back full of interest in the whole meeting and with great admiration for King Ibn Saud. But Colonel Eddy says in one place that he was surprised to hear that my husband said he was disappointed in his interview. I think I can clear that point up.
It was not the meeting nor the personal feeling he had for the King that was a disappointment. It was something else, which I heard him speak of several times. He had hoped that from this meeting there could come an understanding with the King which would make for a pleasanter atmosphere surrounding the small, new state of Israel.
My husband felt that there was so much land in that area, and that the promise of a homeland had been made to the Jews who settled in Israel. He hoped that by peaceful means a settlement could be arranged which would not create bad feeling between peoples that had lived side by side in harmony. He was disappointed that, just as Colonel Eddy reports, King Ibn Saud made no concessions as regards Israel.


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24 years ago today, something beautiful happened. Perhaps the most beautiful thing the world has seen since God invented gold. 24 years ago today, humanity was given a present so resplendent, so magnificent, it needs only one name — Zefron.
Happy 24th birthday, Zac Efron.
Efron, also known as "he of amazing hair," burst onto the scene as the star of "High School Musical." But Zefron doesn't belong to just the teens. So he quickly went mainstream with films like "Charlie St. Cloud" and "17 Again." Zefron had been dating "HSM" co-star Vanessa Hudgens pretty seriously, but that relationship fell apart when Zefron discovered the truth; that he is truly too much for any one person and that he belongs to all of us.
So Happy Birthday, Zac. We hope that your upcoming film, "New Year's Eve," is a massive success and that your abs get even more impressive as you enter the prime of your life. Thank you for giving us the greatest gift of all — you.


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