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Okay, I've been following a thread on here where an AO user explained XOR to me (I forget who, sorry). But anyways, I wrote a simple C++ app that takes an input file, and XOR's it against the corresponding bytes of another file, and outputs it to an encrypted file...but my problem is, why doesn't it decrypt correctly...when I encrypted a TXT file with "hello", i got some weird ASCII characters...expected. But when I decrypted it, I got "helloou". I used the key "this is garbage.".
Code:#include <iostream.h> #include <fstream.h> char inpath[50], keypath[50], outpath[50]; char buf1, buf2, buf3; main() { cout << "Input file: "; cin >> inpath; cout << "File for key: "; cin >> keypath; cout << "Output file: "; cin >> outpath; ifstream infile(inpath); ifstream keyfile(keypath); ofstream outfile(outpath); while(!infile.eof()) { infile.get(buf1); keyfile.get(buf2); buf3 = buf1 ^ buf2; outfile.put(buf3); } cout << "Process Complete!" << endl; infile.close(); keyfile.close(); outfile.close(); system("pause"); }


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42 U.S. Code § 6249a - Implementation
Petroleum product and facilities contracted for under this part have the same status as petroleum product and facilities owned by the United States for all purposes associated with the exercise of the laws of any State or political subdivision thereof.
At such time as the petroleum product contracted for under this part is withdrawn from the Reserve upon the expiration, termination, or other conclusion of the contract, such petroleum product (or the equivalent quantity of petroleum product withdrawn from the Reserve pursuant to the contract) shall be deemed, for purposes of determining the extent to which such product is thereafter subject to any Federal, State, or local law or regulation, not to have left the place where such petroleum product was located at the time it was originally committed to a contract under this part.
2000—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 106–469 struck out subsecs. (a) and (b) which read as follows:
"(a) Amendment to Plan Not Required.—An amendment of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Plan is not required for any action taken under this part.
"(b) Fill Rate Requirement.—For purposes of section 6240(d)(1) of this title, any petroleum product stored in the Reserve under this part that is removed from the Reserve at the expiration, termination, or other conclusion of the agreement shall be considered to be part of the Reserve until the beginning of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the petroleum product was removed."
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ROME (AP) — Italy's borrowing costs have risen for the second day in a row in a pair of bond auctions that also failed to raise as much money as expected.
The Italian Treasury said Friday it raised €5.88 billion ($7.8 billion) in its auction of 10- and 5-year bonds, shy of the €6 billion target. The interest rates on the 10-year debt rose from 4.45 percent last month to 4.48 percent while the rate for five-year bonds was 3.26 percent, up from the 3.23 percent.
Italy also saw its borrowing costs inch up in Thursday's auction of six-month paper. The country had been enjoying several months of falling interest rates thanks to reforms introduced by Premier Mario Monti and the European Central Bank's offer to buy up bonds.


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Senior Meghan Black and junior Matt Pepdjonovic scored their 1,000th career points for the women's and men's basketball teams respectively this season, joining an elite group of Rams who have reached the milestone over the years.
All-Conference standout for men
Pepdjonovic, a second-team All-Conference selection of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference for the 2011-12 season, reached his career milestone on Jan. 17, becoming the 26th player in Suffolk's 66-year Men's Basketball program history to do so.
Pepdjonovic started all 25 games this season for the Rams, averaging 17 points per game. He averaged 13.6 rebounds per game, leading all players in the GNAC and most NCAA Division-III Men's Basketball players in the nation.
Pepdjonovic was dynamic on both sides of the court, recording points and rebounds double-doubles in 21 of 25 contests for the Rams, the second highest total in NCAA Division-III Men's Basketball. His 3.2 blocked-shots-per-game average (80 total) is the fifth best mark in the country and tops in the league.
Pepdjonovic was a first-team All-Conference selection for the 2010-11 season by the Great Northeast Athletic Conference, and in 2009-10, he was named GNAC Rookie of the Year, while also garnering 3rd team All-Conference honors.
Making history for women's basketball
Black became the 10th Suffolk University Women's Basketball player and the 44th player in Great Northeast Athletic Conference history to score 1,000 points on Feb. 23 as the Rams lost to Emmanuel College in the GNAC semifinals.
Black needed 13 points to reach the milestone entering the playoff game and achieved the mark with 31 seconds remaining on the clock. She finished the evening with 14 points.
Rams records
Kathleen Norton is the Rams' all-time leading women's basketball scorer with a total of 1,516 points. She was inducted into the Suffolk University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009 and was placed into the GNAC's inaugural Hall of Fame later that year.
Pepdjonovic has totaled 975 career rebounds and is on pace to finish his career as the second player to record 1,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds in Suffolk University Men's Basketball history. Christos Tsiotos ('77) is the only other player to do so, as he achieved 1,639 points and 1,016 rebounds. Tsiotos was a 2009 inductee into the Suffolk University Hall of Fame.


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Geneva Anna Pratt, 102, of Utica, formerly of Cook, died Dec. 20, 2012 at the Utica Com-munity Care Center in Utica. She was born March 2, 1910 in Coleridge, Neb., to Wenzel and Mary Ullsperger.
Geneva Anna Pratt, 102, of Utica, formerly of Cook, died Dec. 20, 2012 at the Utica Com-munity Care Center in Utica. She was born March 2, 1910 in Coleridge, Neb., to Wenzel and Mary Ullsperger.
She grew up in the Dunbar/Syracuse area and graduated from Dunbar High School. After high school, she worked in Nebraska City as a waitress and housekeeper. She attended Peru State College and received her teaching certificate. She taught country school in the Syracuse/St. Mary area for eight years.
On May 25, 1939, she married Elvo Pratt. She and Elvo had their own business, a grocery store, cream station, and feed store for 40 years in Cook. After retiring from the grocery store, she worked at the Dairy Sweet in Syracuse.
She enjoyed working in the grocery store, square dancing, ceramics, textile painting. She especially enjoyed family activities.
Geneva participated for many years in Cook Women's Club, American Legion Auxiliary, Cook Band Mothers and other numerous area activities. She was also a member of St. Paulinus Catholic Church where she was active as much as possible.
She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Ardith Ann and Don Rut, Utica, and Shirley and Vern Lowery, Denver; grandchildren Rory Rut and wife Jane, Tomball, Texas, Rachelle Huber and husband Ramon, Lincoln, Stacie Murphy and husband Brandon, Denver, and Chris Kirk and wife Rachael, Virginia Beach, Va.; step-grandchildren Lee and Shellina Lowery, Denver, and Michael and Tonia Lowery, Denver; great grandchildren Riley Murphy, Ian Murphy, Sorel Rut, Maeryn Rut, Lara Rut, Lila Kirk, and Charlotte Kirk; step great grandchildren Pamella Lowery, Joshua Neutz, Nevaeh Weddel, Giovanni Lowery, Alyia Martinez, and Noah Falance; brother Harold Ullsperger of Lincoln; sisters-in-law Anna Ullsperger of Cook and Dorothy Ullsperger of Syracuse; nieces and nephews.
She was preceded by husband Elvo; great granddaughter Carys Elizabeth Rut; sisters Irene Schumacher and Anne Straub; brothers Albert Ullsperger, Edward Ullsperger, and George Ullsperger; sisters-in-law Gladys Ullsperger and Martha Ullsperger; brothers-in-law Oscar Schumacher and Paul Straub; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.
A funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, Dec. 29, at 11 a.m. at St. Paulinus Catholic Church in Syracuse with Father Michael Stec officiating. A rosary service will be held prior to the Mass at 10:30 am. at the church.
Visitation will be Friday, Dec. 28, from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. at the funeral home with family greeting friends 4-6 p.m.
Online Condolences can be expressed at www.fusselmanallenharvey.com.
Fusselman-Allen-Harvey Funeral Home, Syracuse, is in charge of arrangements.


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Yesterday, I opined that Jeremiah Wright should not be off-limits in the 2012 campaign unless research demonstrates that bringing up the Obama-Wright relationship will not hurt Obama. My suspicion is that Obama has some vulnerability here.
That suspicion is confirmed, I think, by the Obama campaign's shrill reaction, and that of its MSM friends, to reports that a PAC might inject Wright into the race (the PAC decided not to). Team Obama reacted by claiming that the Romney camp is playing the race card. As this headline in Politico puts it, "Race Issues Return With Rev. Jeremiah Wright."
Now, in context, the headline isn't entirely unfair. The particular consultant who wanted to bring up Wright apparently was going to do so in an ad that spoke of Obama's attempt to portray himself as a "metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln." How stupid can you get?
But there is nothing inherently racial about bringing up the fact that Rev. Wright served as Obama's spiritual adviser, while denouncing America, hating on Israel, and embracing Louis Farrakhan. Any candidate (of any race) who was closely associated with any minister (of any race) who delivered hateful, anti-American sermons would be expeced to answer for it.
Sure Wright and Farrakhan are Black, but that doesn't give them a pass for their racism and anti-Americanism. By the same token, the fact that Obama is Black doesn't excuse him for selecting Wright as his spiritual leader. There were many other black clerics Obama could have looked to for guidance. He chose the Black liberationist who spews a message of hate.
If it wasn't racist for Obama eventually to disavow Wright, it isn't racist to hold him accountable for being so tight with Wright for so long.
Accordingly, I doubt that Team Obama and its friends in the MSM will get anywhere by hollering "racism" when the subject of Rev. Wright comes up, provided of course that the subject is raised intelligently. But my thesis can be tested through polling and focus groups. It should be, if this hasn't occurred already.
Naturally, the Obama campaign would rather play by the "rules" of 2008, under which Rev. Wright was off-limits — their man won that election. Team Romney should write its own rules.


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The coldest days of this young year are upon Fairfield and the region this week and could bring more snow by the weekend.
Temperatures were in the teens Tuesday morning, Jan. 22, and expected to reach a high of 23 degrees before falling into single digits Tuesday night that could feel like 0 degrees. Along with the frigid temperatures, a "blustery northwest wind" is expected to blow at 9 to 14 mph, according to the National Weather Service. While the wind is expected to die down after dark, the wind chill could be "as low as zero," according to the weather service.
It is expected to be even colder and feature scattered flurries in the afternoon on Wednesday, Jan. 23. The high Wednesday is expected to be near 22 with more northwest wind 10 to 15 mph. Wednesday night could bring more scattered flurries with a low around 12 that feels like -1 with the windchill.
Thursday's high is also expected to be near 22 with northwest winds of 7 to 17 mph — with gusts as high as 29 mph, according to the weather service. Thursday night's low is expected to be about 9 degrees.
Friday, Jan. 25, could bring more snow in the afternoon as temperatures rise to as high as 27. The chance of snow is 60% during the afternoon and evening. The nighttime low is expected to be around 17.
The weather service says it could be "a moderate accumulating snowfall Friday into Friday night as an area of low pressure passes south of the tri-state region," according to a hazardous weather outlook.
Over the weekend, the weather is expected to be in the mid to high 20s with lows in the mid to low teens.
But Monday could see temperatures above freezing for the first time in a week.


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You vote: Bruins draft class of '11, how does it rate?
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David – 3-4 years ago, I'm all over a run to get Gagne. Today, I wonder about his makeup and for what he'll ask, I see 'buyer beware' typed in small print.
Then again – it might be worth it simply to make sure he's not potting goals against us in the playoffs.
Forgot about Leino (instead of Cole) – that would be a double whammy – and might even help one of the PP lines….
We might as well take a run at Gagne if we want to go for Cole, Gange can be a full-time top liner.
MCK – I agree. Kaberle, to me is a no brainer. For the love of God, we all just watched him for months – what makes anyone think it will become a better fit with a full training camp?! I'd just as soon try someone else.
As for Ryder. I think I like him more than most – but that's not saying much. Again – we know what he brings, and honestly the most attractive thing about him is his little bit of cohesion with Seguin. If its for one year… ok. But I'm a much bigger fan of the following.
Sign Cole and put him with Krecji and Horton. Slide Looch to the Bergeron line with Marchand and I think you've then got an absolute monster line for ANY team to contend with.
JPT, it must really suck for you to watch Bergeron then.
Signing Kaberle and Ryder is a mistake.
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I think they only resign Ryder and Kaberle if the price is right. I don't think they are going to hand Ryder anything close to his current cap hit and it is possible Ryder may find greener fields elsewhere although a part of me thinks he might take the hometown discount to stay with Julien.
JPT, I'm never right with predictions but I have to guess the Bruins will look very similar to last years team as well. I think they resign Ryder and Kaberle, then let the young players battle for Recchi's spot. For some reason I see a team looking to reach the salary floor making a push for Wiz with an overpayment.
George, if it was up to me, I would take a pass on Jagr. I would rather the team build with youth. People are hoping Laich from Washington is a target of Gauthier but I think we would have to over pay for him. I am guessing we will have pretty well the same team as last year. I am hoping the Bruins stay away from Wizneiwski.
the other nifty
I gave it a B. The later round guys are in leagues that are hard to judge comparitively. I like the fact they used those picks on players that will have somewhere to play in two years. Not a big risk and it's worth the gamble on guys that have Ivy league discipline. The only thing that kept me out of Cornell was high school.
I got to admit, I wasn't happy the Bruins got Hamilton because he is a good player and he is big. But I would have been more pissed if they had gotten Sean Couturier. To have a big center man from Quebec come back and haunt the Habs for years playing with the Bruins would have been hard to take. You guys owe Brian Burke a big Thank you.
Ask me about the 2011 draft in 2014.
JPT, a lot of Jagr talk out there with the Habs….any thoughts? Or is there another FA out there Habs fans are wishing for?
JPT – I'm anxious to see what Subban and Beaulieau can pull off in the same lineup with Markov. Interesting back line if the old dog can stay healthy. Big If on big money though.
Hahaha, even before I saw the comments I was going to post one accusing you, JPT. Glad to see you did not disappoint.
Just so you are not guessing, I am the one who gave Cheerioselli an F for his work yesterday and today.
I was really hoping that the Bruins would draft local kid Colin Blackwell from St. John's Prep in round 6 or 7 but the San Jose Sharks grabbed him with their 7th round pick. Oh well….I'll enjoy watching play for Teddy Donato at Harvard this fall.
I give it an A mostly because I think Hamilton was an absolute surprise for where we were picking and I think he will contribute a lot down the road and after a little more seasoning.
The other picks seem like they may be good gambles who can pay off down the road as well-especially mixed in with some of the other prospects.
I think the draft is mostly one giant gamble anyway. Other than maybe a cluster of truly sound picks at the top, I think for the most part it is a huge gamble on whether any of those drafted produce as expected. Dan Paille is an example-given where he went in the draft he was a bust and didn't live up to expectations, but he found a niche, produces for a reasonable cap hit, and just won the cup.
I am content with who they picked and only time will tell if this was indeed a good draft or a bust or somewhere in between.


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The grain complex -- wheat, corn, soybeans and oats -- is in some ways closely coordinated but at times widely different in the price movements of its futures contracts. "Cumulative percent price change" (below) shows how the futures performed from January through March 2012. Continuing their close correlation, wheat and corn played tag, with wheat being slightly more volatile. Meanwhile, soybeans increased at a relatively steady pace and oats slacked off in early March before catching up with soybeans by the end of the month.
Average percentage changes during the three months tend to support the notion that wheat and corn form a good pair for price spreads. Wheat declined on average 3.71% while corn dropped by an average of 3.99%. Oat and soybean futures increased on average 1.18% and 3.36%, respectively.
Overall, it is clear on the cumulative percent price change chart that soybean futures are the only one of the four grains to grow consistently during the first quarter of 2012, and that wheat and corn currently are in a trendless condition despite forecasts of higher food prices caused by low inventories. Only the substantial price gains for July wheat and corn futures on March 30 — 7.46% and 6.56% — give a hint of possible upward trends.


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NOPD officer arrested on rape charges
Wednesday night, New Orleans police arrested one of their own on rape charges.
According to information from the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, 42-year-old Desmond A. Pratt was arrested on several charges including rape.
The alleged victim is a 15-year-old female.
Pratt joined NOPD in 1997. A representative from NOPD says he has been suspended without pay. He was arrested Wednesday at his home. Pratt most recently worked in the 6th district.
He is currently in the Orleans Parish Prison. No bond has been set.
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Mobile net filters block legit content too – campaign group
It even bins age-appropriate stuff
Mobile operators currently provide filter systems that enable parents to stop children accessing websites deemed to contain content suitable for individuals aged 18 or over. However, the Open Rights Group (ORG) said there are "a number of serious problems" with how those systems work.
"At present the filtering systems are too blunt an instrument and too poorly implemented," the ORG said in a report (43-page/408KB PDF) on "mobile internet censorship".
The ORG continued: "Mobile internet filtering blocks too much content, and applies to too many people, meaning it effectively adds up to a system of censorship across UK networks.
"As more people use mobile devices to access the internet, and as the internet continues to provide a potential platform for promoting both freedom of expression and economic innovation, it is critical that such problems are addressed. If they are not, then this form of censorship will continue to create unwanted restrictions on access to information for adults and young people, which will damage markets, undermine the free flow of ideas and open communication, and make it harder to promote responsible Internet governance internationally," it said.
ORG said that its report was based on complaints it had received about "over-blocking" and also on a 'mystery shopper' exercise it had conducted where it "complained about incorrectly blocked sites to the mobile operators and assessed the response."
The group said its findings show that the filters do not just prevent access to "adult sexual content" and that there were problems with the "classification" of websites on 'blacklists' that has led to some being wrongly blocked by filtering.
Mobile operators are also "not transparent enough about how their filtering systems work or the kind of content they block" and it is "often not clear how to report mistakes and problems." the ORG said. Another problem the group identified was the difficulty in turning filters off.
"Getting mobile operators to turn off blocks often requires consumers to provide credit card details as a means of identification or to go to a store," the ORG said. "For many this may not be too onerous or problematic, although some may not want to provide credit card details either over the phone or through the page returned to a user when a site is blocked."
"A more significant concern may be finding a way for those who run website they believe have been incorrectly blocked to 'opt-out. It is not at all clear that it is possible for sites to have themselves removed from content filters," it said.
"The result [of these problems] is that a system ostensibly designed to help parents manage their children's access to the Internet is effectively implementing much broader restrictions on access to information that affect a much wider group of people than intended," it said.
"The worthwhile aspiration to help parents manage their children's Internet access has led to filtering systems that are clumsy, inaccurate, and inefficient, based on opaque and error-ridden lists of sites considered 'blockable'," the group added.
The ORG said that some mobile internet providers are better than others at providing clear information about opting-out of filters, but that it was "clear that all the systems in use by the mobile operators suffer in some respects from these four issues."
ORG said that current mobile filtering in the UK does not follow three rules recommended by the UN's rapporteur on freedom of expression, Frank La Rue, over how filtering measures should operate. Last year La Rue reported that filtering of content can have a "chilling effect" on freedom of expression unless the use of filters are limited to exceptional circumstances, governed by law and a clear legal process and are necessary and the least restrictive means required to achieve the aim, the ORG said.
The campaigners said that the UK's mobile filtering system is "overly broad, and governed by informal industry frameworks and contractual relationships with filtering service providers."
It said some of the "consequences" of the UK's system is that businesses are cut off from accessing their market because of over-blocking and that the system can also lead to censorship.
"There are clear problems for free access to and sharing of information when decisions about access are taken out of people's hands, and left to opaque and informal agreements or clumsy and unresponsive technical systems," it said. "This is especially problematic in a filtering system that is not 'granular' enough, leading to blanket filtering that covers far too much material, for example sites such as restaurant sites, blogs about shelves, or political discussion sites."
"Furthermore, if online censorship is widespread and accepted with little opposition as a way to implement a broad range of public policy issues, it becomes far harder to argue for Internet freedom elsewhere," ORG said.
Other "consequences" of problems with the current mobile filtering systems is that young people are "denied access to legitimate and age-appropriate information and resources such as sexual health information and advice". The systems also offer a "false sense of security" and may not actually adequately protect children from online risks, because filters can be circumvented and because new encryption technology is making it "impossible for an ISP to 'check' the web address the user is visiting," ORG said.
ORG said that "in the longer term" filtering systems should be "device-based" rather than at "ISP level" because, generally, "the closer to a user the filtering happens, the more control the user has over it".
In the shorter term the campaigners said mobile operators should enable customers to choose whether to opt in to censorship measures at the point of signing-up to their service, the ORG said. The nature of the censorship tools should be referred to as 'parental controls' rather than 'adult content' because "the range of material caught stretches far beyond sexual content and the terminology should reflect this," it said.
The operators should also be more transparent about what their filters block and provide adults with "clear advice about the kind of content that may be blocked, and ... with clear information on how the blocking works," including any information on the identity of any third-party suppliers of the filtering technology, ORG said. It added that there should also be "clear and easy ways to check if a site is blocked" and that there should be an easy-to-use mechanism "to complain about wrongful blocks, including at the time when an incorrectly blocked website is found."
ORG also recommended that mobile operators regularly review the operation of their filter systems and provide a means of redress to website operators in order that they can "challenge a refusal to remove their site from a blocking system."
ORG said that problems with filtering of content may extend beyond those problems affecting mobile operators' systems if new government policies on child protection filtering, or filtering content related to terrorism and extremism and for copyright enforcement, are not carefully drafted.
"Where filtering is mandatory – meaning imposed by the government or mandated by a court order with no choice to have filtering applied – questions about necessity, proportionality, and due legal process become even more significant," it said. "What mobile filtering already helps to demonstrate is that seemingly simple, laudable goals such as protecting children through technical intervention may have significant harmful and unintended consequences for everybody's access to information."
ORG also said that no filtering systems should be introduced "by default". However, draft legislation currently before the House of Lords would, if enacted, introduce such a statutory requirement on both ISPs and mobile network operators.
The Online Safety Bill places a "duty" on ISPs and mobile network operators that provide internet access services to "provide a service that excludes pornographic images" by default. It has received a first reading in the House of Lords after it previously made "no further progress" beyond a first reading in the Lords during the last Parliamentary session.
Under the bill, only if subscribers aged over 18 actively "opt in" to access the adult content would the ISPs and operators allow the material to be accessed, and even then access would have to be denied unless the website featuring the images "has an age verification policy which has been used to confirm that the subscriber is aged 18 or over".
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WILMINGTON — Although thebruinsblog.net proved that he cannot be passed in the race to be the Eastern Conference All-Star head coach, Boston Bruins bench boss Claude Julien declined comment on the matter today after his team's practice at Ristuccia Arena.
"Not officially," Julien defiantly said when asked his reaction to coaching the All-Stars. "There's no announcement, I'm not talking about it."
The coach is selected based on the team with the best points percentage after games of Jan. 10 and no team in the East can catch Julien and the Bruins. The game will be played in Montreal Jan. 25.


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-- From Zone-H.org, more info check out this link.Linux Kernel: Multiple DoS and permission vulnerabilities
1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Version Information
Advisory Reference GLSA 200407-16 / Kernel
Release Date July 22, 2004
Latest Revision July 22, 2004: 01
Impact high
Exploitable local
Package / Vulnerable versions / Unaffected versions / Architecture(s)
sys-kernel/aa-sources < 2.6.5-r5 2.4.23-r2, >= 2.6.5-r5* All supported architectures
sys-kernel/alpha-sources < 2.4.21-r9 >= 2.4.21-r9 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/ck-sources < 2.6.7-r5 2.4.26-r1, >= 2.6.7-r5* All supported architectures
sys-kernel/compaq-sources < 18.104.22.168.7-r8 >= 126.96.36.199.7-r8 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/development-sources < 2.6.8_rc1 >= 2.6.8_rc1 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources < 2.6.7-r8 >= 2.6.7-r8 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources < 2.4.26-r5 2.4.19-r18, 2.4.20-r21, 2.4.22-r13, 2.4.25-r6, >= 2.4.26-r5 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/grsec-sources < 18.104.22.168.0-r6 >= 22.214.171.124.0-r6 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/gs-sources < 2.4.25_pre7-r8 >= 2.4.25_pre7-r8 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/hardened-dev-sources < 2.6.7-r2 >= 2.6.7-r2 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/hardened-sources < 2.4.26-r3 >= 2.4.26-r3 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/hppa-dev-sources < 2.6.7_p1-r2 >= 2.6.7_p1-r2 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/hppa-sources < 2.4.26_p6-r1 >= 2.4.26_p6-r1 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/ia64-sources < 2.4.24-r7 >= 2.4.24-r7 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/mm-sources < 2.6.7-r6 >= 2.6.7-r6 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/openmosix-sources < 2.4.22-r11 >= 2.4.22-r11 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/pac-sources < 2.4.23-r9 >= 2.4.23-r9 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/planet-ccrma-sources < 2.4.21-r11 >= 2.4.21-r11 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/pegasos-dev-sources < 2.6.7-r2 >= 2.6.7-r2 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/pegasos-sources < 2.4.26-r3 >= 2.4.26-r3 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/ppc-sources < 2.4.26-r3 >= 2.4.26-r3 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/rsbac-sources < 2.4.26-r3 >= 2.4.26-r3 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/rsbac-dev-sources < 2.6.7-r2 >= 2.6.7-r2 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/selinux-sources < 2.4.26-r2 >= 2.4.26-r2* All supported architectures
sys-kernel/sparc-sources < 2.4.26-r3 >= 2.4.26-r3 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/uclinux-sources < 2.6.7_p0-r2 2.4.26_p0-r3, >= 2.6.7_p0-r2 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/usermode-sources < 2.6.6-r4 2.4.24-r6, 2.4.26-r3, >= 2.6.6-r4 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/vserver-sources < 22.214.171.124.28-r1 >= 188.8.131.52.28-r1 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/win4lin-sources < 2.6.7-r2 2.4.26-r3, >= 2.6.7-r2 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/wolk-sources < 4.14-r4 4.9-r10, 4.11-r7, >= 4.14-r4 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/xbox-sources < 2.6.7-r2 2.4.26-r3, >= 2.6.7-r2 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/mips-sources < 2.4.26-r5 All supported architectures
sys-kernel/vanilla-sources <= 2.4.26 * All supported architectures
Warning: *: Needs to be manually updated
Related bugreports: #56171, #56479
Multiple permission vulnerabilities have been found in the Linux kernel, allowing an attacker to change the group IDs of files mounted on a remote filesystem (CAN-2004-0497), as well as an issue in 2.6 series kernels which allows /proc permissions to be bypassed. A context sharing vulnerability in vserver-sources is also handled by this advisory as well as CAN-2004-0447, CAN-2004-0496 and CAN-2004-0565. Patched, or updated versions of these kernels have been released and details are included along with this advisory.
2. Impact Information
The Linux kernel is responsible for managing the core aspects of a GNU/Linux system, providing an interface for core system applications as well as providing the essential structure and capability to access hardware that is needed for a running system.
The Linux kernel allows a local attacker to mount a remote file system on a vulnerable Linux host and modify files' group IDs. On 2.4 series kernels this vulnerability only affects shared NFS file systems. This vulnerability has been assigned CAN-2004-0497 by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project.
Also, a flaw in the handling of /proc attributes has been found in 2.6 series kernels; allowing the unauthorized modification of /proc entries, especially those which rely solely on file permissions for security to vital kernel parameters.
An issue specific to the VServer Linux sources has been found, by which /proc related changes in one virtual context are applied to other contexts as well, including the host system.
CAN-2004-0447 resolves a local DoS vulnerability on IA64 platforms which can cause unknown behaviour and CAN-2004-0565 resolves a floating point information leak on IA64 platforms by which registers of other processes can be read by a local user.
Finally, CAN-2004-0496 addresses some more unknown vulnerabilities in 2.6 series Linux kernels older than 2.6.7 which were found by the Sparse source code checking tool.
Bad Group IDs can possibly cause a Denial of Service on parts of a host if the changed files normally require a special GID to properly operate. By exploiting this vulnerability, users in the original file group would also be blocked from accessing the changed files.
The /proc attribute vulnerability allows local users with previously no permissions to certain /proc entries to exploit the vulnerability and then gain read, write and execute access to entries.
These new privileges can be used to cause unknown behaviour ranging from reduced system performance to a Denial of Service by manipulating various kernel options which are usually reserved for the superuser. This flaw might also be used for opening restrictions set through /proc entries, allowing further attacks to take place through another possibly unexpected attack vector.
The VServer issue can also be used to induce similar unexpected behaviour to other VServer contexts, including the host. By successful exploitation, a Denial of Service for other contexts can be caused allowing only root to read certain /proc entries. Such a change would also be replicated to other contexts, forbidding normal users on those contexts to read /proc entries which could contain details needed by daemons running as a non-root user, for example.
Additionally, this vulnerability allows an attacker to read information from another context, possibly hosting a different server, gaining critical information such as what processes are running. This may be used for furthering the exploitation of either context.
CAN-2004-0447 and CAN-2004-0496 permit various local unknown Denial of Service vulnerabilities with unknown impacts - these vulnerabilities can be used to possibly elevate privileges or access reserved kernel memory which can be used for further exploitation of the system.
CAN-2004-0565 allows FPU register values of other processes to be read by a local user setting the MFH bit during a floating point operation - since no check was in place to ensure that the FPH bit was owned by the requesting process, but only an MFH bit check, an attacker can simply set the MFH bit and access FPU registers of processes running as other users, possibly those running as root.
3. Resolution Information
2.4 users may not be affected by CAN-2004-0497 if they do not use remote network filesystems and do not have support for any such filesystems in their kernel configuration. All 2.6 users are affected by the /proc attribute issue and the only known workaround is to disable /proc support. The VServer flaw applies only to vserver-sources, and no workaround is currently known for the issue. There is no known fix to CAN-2004-0447, CAN-2004-0496 or CAN-2004-0565 other than to upgrade the kernel to a patched version.
As a result, all users affected by any of these vulnerabilities should upgrade their kernels to ensure the integrity of their systems.
Users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available sources for their system:
Code Listing 3.1
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv your-favorite-sources
# emerge your-favorite-sources
# # Follow usual procedure for compiling and installing a kernel.
# # If you use genkernel, run genkernel as you would do normally.
4. References
VServer /proc Context Vulnerability


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"the problem of insecure software is not primarily a technological problem, it is an economic problem." – Bruce Schneier.
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David Ben-Gurion (Oct 16, 1886 Plonsk (Poland) - Dec 1, 1973 Tel-Aviv) was the founder of the modern state of Israel, which he proclaimed on May 4, 1948. He served Israel as its first prime minister until 1963 except for a brief period from 1954 to 1955. He was also minister of defense.
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- Bar-Zohar, Michael: Ben Gurion, 1971-1974
- ↑ Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Zionist Leaders: Ben-Gurion


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An atheist's critique of the Bible (Book and eBook now available)
04-04-2011, 02:35 AM (This post was last modified: 02-11-2012 02:55 PM by Buddy Christ.)
An atheist's critique of the Bible (Book and eBook now available)
Yep. This is gonna be a long one.
Feel free to throw your own logical dissections at any time.
First off, I'm skipping the whole "how were plants created before light/photosynthesis, how was light created before the sun, contradictions of which was created first" word games. Those take up too much time and words and pie.
1:16 "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also."
-The moon is not a light, it is a reflection of the sun's light. This is the first of many examples that suggest that God's omnipotence seems to be limited to the knowledge of the demographics and time period of when the Bible was written. Strange.
1:26 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"
-Our? Just how many gods are there?
2:2 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."
-even though they say that God only "rested" to set an example of how would should rest on the 7th day, couldn't the Bible just say "rest on Sunday" ??(question mark)? It clearly says God rested, which means that this all-powerful being was worn out from all those valleys and hills and Wyoming and platypuses.
The Garden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
-Sooooo... God takes these 2 newly formed, ignorant to life humans, puts them in a garden with a tree bearing food, nonchalantly goes "don't eat from it" ... then leaves... to go make Venus, I guess. And you know the rest.
So... WHY did he put them near the tree? WHY did he have that which he didn't want humans to attain be edible and tempting? WHY did he leave? WHY did he allow Satan the Snake to be in the garden, knowing full well that he would tempt them? Why did God design these 2 humans to be susceptible to temptation?
Then God comes strolling by (3:8 "walking in the garden in the cool of the day") at the PRECISE moment after they eat the fruit and goes "whoa whoa, what's going on here?" (I'm paraphrasing, of course)
It's like having a 2 year old child and going "Now son, I'm going to leave these delicious chocolate chip cookies sitting right here within reach of you. I'm going to the store to buy some Funyuns. Don't eat them. Bye!" When any caring parent would remove temptation, knowing that the child doesn't know any better.
So it's quite obvious to me that God WANTED man to F up royally. God created man with the sole purpose of imposing "original sin" upon him, so that he may feel guilty and grovel and ask forgiveness for something that wasn't his fault for all eternity.
That child who ate the cookies is now 40 and the parent is still bringing it up daily. "I don't care if you saved an orphanage from burning down today... remember when I told you not to eat those cookies and you did?"
Cain slays Abel and is "cast out" arbitrarily from one remote location of this empty world to another random remote location. Then he worries that "every one that findeth me shall slay me."
-This is a strange worry since he is 1 of 3 people in existence. Then he sleeps with his wife to start the incestual chain of humanity... but where did his wife come from?
6:4 "There were giants in the earth in those days"
-I'm assuming these are literal giants and not "intellectual giants" or some modern term.
Then the Lord decides that all humanity is corrupt and needs to be massacred via flood.
-One... why the need for an elaborate flood? Why not just use your God powers and make every one not exist? You can only create from nothing, not turn into nothing? Two, were we not already told that men were made in His image? So either God is evil and corrupt, which is why we turned out like we did before and after the flood... or he is incapable of creating things how he wants. God is a flawed designer.
Maybe that's why he doesn't show his face anymore. He tried once, messed up and started over. Then he was like "whoa hold on, hold on. No, stop making more people. Wait, why did you kill that guy? Stop fucking! There's too many of you already! You know what!? Fuck this, I'm out!"
Then there's the Ark which I won't discuss do to redundancy. There are thousands of videos mocking this obvious nonsensical fairy tale already. The average thinker explaining the flaws of Noah and his ark is analogous to a world renowned chemist giving a lecture on the validity of alchemy.
Then Noah (the only righteous man in the world) gets hammered on wine and passes out naked.
Then the humans build an impressive tower and God (completely caught off guard) confuses them by making them speak multiple languages because their tower was more impressive than the one he made in shop class.
Many pages of slaves and servitude and historical inaccuracies and more incest
18:9 "And God said unto him, 'Where is Sarah thy wife?'" You're omnipotent, God. Quit messing with me. And stop asking about my wife, perv.
Lot offers his virgin daughters to a mob of rapists to appease their lust for the sexually attractive angels
God burns Sodom and Gomorrah to the ground, including all those "evil" children and newborn babies.
God turns Lot's wife in a pillar of salt just for kicks and giggles. Why exactly was it so wrong to look back at a village being assaulted by fire raining from the sky? If no one was supposed to look, perhaps God could've made the destruction a little more subtle.
Lot's daughters got their father drunk, then raped him." Yeah, I've been really drunk before, even drunk, high, and on acid at the same time. And not once during that time would I have "mistakenly" slept with my family members. Especially since they lived in a cave, separate from anyone that could have been confused for a bar skank.
21:1 "And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived..."
-God made a booty call
For some reason, God takes human form and wrestles Jacob. He is losing so he cheats and gropes Jacob's inner thigh.
Various pages discerning which parts of the penis to chop off.
Onan is murdered by God for spooging on the ground instead of impregnating his brother's wife.
A 7000 page story about Joseph being thought dead, but actually not.
For those of you that read this far... Bravo, you bored and dedicated souls. Obviously all the books aren't as interesting or important as Genesis, and will be skipped over (I'm looking at you Psalms).
Now I continue on with Exodus. Ahem...
"Ain't got no last words to say, yellow streak right up my spine. The gun in my mouth was real and the taste blew my mind."
"We see you cry. We turn your head. Then we slap your face. We see you try. We see you fail. Some things never change."
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RE: An atheist's critique of the Bible
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RE: An atheist's critique of the Bible
I'm actually using that site, Complete Idiot's Guide to the Bible, comedy bits by David Cross, and my own rapist wit to form these things.
"Ain't got no last words to say, yellow streak right up my spine. The gun in my mouth was real and the taste blew my mind."
"We see you cry. We turn your head. Then we slap your face. We see you try. We see you fail. Some things never change."
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RE: An atheist's critique of the Bible
I prefer this summary
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RE: An atheist's critique of the Bible
(04-04-2011 02:35 AM)Buddy Christ Wrote: 2:2 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."Technically saturday, but you know how christianity likes to bastardize certain days if not practices from pagan religions for the sake of converts.
(04-04-2011 02:35 AM)Buddy Christ Wrote:We've been discussing this one in my comparative world religion class. I'm the only atheist in there, and somehow we still all come up with the same answer, the only thing that varies is the intellectual level/chosen words to express it: The god of the bible is a douche.
(04-04-2011 02:35 AM)Buddy Christ Wrote: 6:4 "There were giants in the earth in those days"Always found this one odd too. Genesis talks about creating plants, birds, animals, humanity, sun and moon, blah blah blah, but oh yeah, did we forget to mention THE GIANTS? The existence of giants seems vastly important to me, from a food chain aspect and from a paleontological aspect. Pics or it didn't happen, Abraham-ists.
(04-04-2011 02:35 AM)Buddy Christ Wrote: God burns Sodom and Gomorrah to the ground, including all those "evil" children and newborn babies.I could actually see catholicism's pre-revoked limbo god being ok with that, as long as they weren't baptized. Because babies are born bad. Thats why we must symbolically drown them. Or just eat them like The_Observer Cooking Newborns Thread
(04-04-2011 02:35 AM)Buddy Christ Wrote: 21:1 "And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived..."I've known people who thought they had to see their god as more moral than those of the greeks and romans. This passage says otherwise.
Yeah dude, do Leviticus.
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RE: An atheist's critique of the Bible
I HAVE to do Exodus next. It's the Bible's "How To" section on slaves. I have to sleep first... then find money for rent... then impress the fine, leathery skinned ladies at my bowling league... then I'll try another chapter.
I'm doing Leviticus of course, but Deuteronomy may be a challenge. It's so ridiculous in it's own right that I will have trouble mocking it. I mean, if a woman breaks up a fight by grabbing a dude's junk, you should cut off her hand? Where do I go from there?
"Ain't got no last words to say, yellow streak right up my spine. The gun in my mouth was real and the taste blew my mind."
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RE: An atheist's critique of the Bible
(04-04-2011 09:25 AM)Buddy Christ Wrote: I'm doing Leviticus of course, but Deuteronomy may be a challenge. It's so ridiculous in it's own right that I will have trouble mocking it. I mean, if a woman breaks up a fight by grabbing a dude's junk, you should cut off her hand? Where do I go from there?
Where do you go from there? Revelations. Don't forget to take a hit of acid (LSD) so you can understand it.
When I find myself in times of trouble, Richard Dawkins comes to me, speaking words of reason, now I see, now I see.
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RE: An atheist's critique of the Bible
Baby Moses constructs a mini sailboat out of Legos and reenacts Huckleberry Finn minus the black guy until he discovers the underwater city of Rapture, where he then must alter his genetics through plasmids in an attempt to destroy Big Daddy.
-More or less, this is exactly what happened.
2:24 "And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob."
-God "took notice" and "remembered his covenant" ... meaning that God can be distracted and forgetful. He looked up from the Lakers game and went "oh shit, the covenant. My bad, I forgot."
God appears to Moses as a burning bush
-Why? So far God has shown himself physically to Adam and Eve, then manifested himself as a professional wrestler with Jacob, and now this? Seems like God is slowly getting lazier. "Ah whatever, a bush will do, now where's my omnipotent Zippo?"
4:3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
4:6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
4:7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
-So Moses takes his rod/serpent and his stinkfist magic trick that he got from a bush and sets off to gather up his posse.
4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
-Moses' wife goes all Lorena Bobbitt on his ass.
6:3 "And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them."
-First instance where God mentions his name. If he had gone with Brent or Todd, it probably wouldn't have been received as well.
7:5 "And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD"
-Prideful, vengeful dick much?
Moses engages the Pharaoh's magicians in a epic sorcery battle. Much like a modern day Chris Angel vs David Blaine showdown.
Moses did the snake trick, the magicians did the snake trick. Moses hit em with bloody rivers and the magicians did likewise. Moses frogged their asses and the magicians frogged him right back. Moses cast Affliction of Lice +4 and the magicians tried to duplicate but were lacking the proper Tier 9 gear set from the epic dungeon final boss loot.
-Which was strange, considering the time frame, you would think that everyone would have already had lice.
Then Moses gives em flies, dead cattle, and boils.
9:14 "For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou may know that there is none like me in all the earth."
-God being a prick again
9:23 "And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail."
-Really God? A natural weather occurrence? We're all so very impressed.
The hail killed the cattle for a 2nd time. And the Pharaoh, apparently the hardest man in the world to convince, changed his mind again after the hail stopped.
So Moses makes it dark and has a locust rave party. Every time Moses asks the Pharaoh to let his people go, the Lord intervenes and "hardens the Pharaoh's heart so that he would not let them go."
-The Lord is using the Pharaoh as his puppet so that he may continuously torture people and put on a display of power.
12:12 "For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD."
-God kills innocent babies and asks Moses' people to smear blood on their door frames, so that the Lord, in his genocidal rampage, doesn't accidentally kill the wrong children. I mean... we're a chapter and a half into this book and I already don't want to worship this God character.
-God also kills the cattle for a 3rd time. But he probably resurrected them to kill them again because as he so proudly states, I am the friggin LORD!!
After his slaughter, God goes on to make arbitrary rules about the Passover holiday he just created in celebration of himself (ummm... you shall only eat unleavened bread. So help me, if I find leaven in your house...).
12:45 "A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof... for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof."
-In Sweet 16 fashion, the Lord states that no immigrants, blacks, or Jews can come to his party.
13:17 "And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines"
-"Land of the Philistines" is quite a strange term to be mentioned hundreds of years before the Philistines even settled in Canaan... Bible alteration much?
Then the Pharaoh emptied out Egypt's army to chase after these refugees who seemed to mean more to him than the million he already ruled over. But God, taking the form of half-cloud/half-fire, parted the sea, knocked off the Egyptian's chariot wheels, and drown them all.
-Once again, for an all-powerful being this seems rather elaborate and unnecessary. Why not just make the Pharaoh not chase after them, the way you mind controlled him earlier? Or just block their path? Must you satisfy your urge to kill again?
15:3 "The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name."
-Very useful reference when discussing how christianity is a religion of "peace" ...along with the millions of people he kills in the next cities
Moses and his people wander around lost in the desert for 40 years, complaining the whole time
God slaughters the Amalekites... but only as long as Moses keeps his hand raised.
Moses goes "I'm going up this magic mountain to my secret meeting with God... oh and if anyone follows me, you'll die." Then he presents them with the 10 Commandments, which I'll not go into since many brilliant people have already ripped them apart (Carlin, Penn and Teller, etc).
Exodus 21: The Guide to Owning a Slave
-Detailed instructions on how to split up your new slave from his family and which of his kids are now yours if his wife gives birth (Hint: it's all of them).
-How to sell your daughter and what to do if she fails to please her new master
21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
-Unruly children should be put to death, and don't steal my slaves motherf...
21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
21:27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
-Beat your slave with a rod, just don't kill him... and if you kill him, make sure it takes a few days for him to die. And don't put out his eye or knock out a tooth, or else you have to let him go
22:18 "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
-One of my favorite lines in the Bible. Those damn witches.
22:19 "Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death."
-Bestiality = Death
Pages of "Thou shall not"s and animal sacrifices.
God shows his metrosexual side and spends 7 pages talking about curtains, candlesticks, perfume, and accessories
28:30 "And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim;"
-The Book of Mormon gets a shout out
Instructions on how to kill, cut up, and burn your animal sacrifices. And how to cover yourself with the sacrificial blood.
-Getting a little creepy. Little tribal for my taste.
31:14 "Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death:"
-Kill the Sabbath workers. Seems to be an unbelievable amount of killing for this peaceful religion.
Moses gets uber pissed when he sees his people dancing naked around a golden calf, so he melts it down, mixes it with water and makes people drink it.
33:23 "And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen".
-You can't look at God's face, but feel free to check out His ass
34:14 "For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:"
-Wait... now his name is Jealous? Jealous who is jealous? Obvious troll is obvious?
At this point the author of Exodus realizes he needs more filler pages to meet his page count quota and starts telling the story of Mount Sinai again. He then closes out his masterpiece with 5 pages describing the construction of a tabernacle.
"Ain't got no last words to say, yellow streak right up my spine. The gun in my mouth was real and the taste blew my mind."
"We see you cry. We turn your head. Then we slap your face. We see you try. We see you fail. Some things never change."
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RE: An atheist's critique of the Bible
(04-04-2011 02:35 AM)Buddy Christ Wrote:
BC - good stuff
Loved your use of graphics on Exodus! Inspiring!
My wife just got me an ipad2 for a birthday present. In exploring my new toy, I actually downloaded the KJ Bible on iBooks (free of course) and reread Genesis last night - what fun!
How anyone can read that book and not come away with it as a fairy tale is beyond me...
The one conundrum that is left out: The bible is pretty clear on how many times Adam "got to know" Eve and the children they had. The whole lineage thing goes on ad nauseum...
So how is it that after Cain kills off Abel he is banished but manages to find a wife? On top of that - the dude is concerned that anywhere he goes post banishment - people are going to want to kill him for his misdeed. Where'd all these "people come from? Wouldn't they be his brothers and sisters, etc.?
Or, maybe it's me and I just don't read clearly...
RE: An atheist's critique of the Bible
Actually, when he says "everyone will try and kill me" the only other people in existence are his parents.
"Ain't got no last words to say, yellow streak right up my spine. The gun in my mouth was real and the taste blew my mind."
"We see you cry. We turn your head. Then we slap your face. We see you try. We see you fail. Some things never change."
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from the Extended Mahāvaṁsa, XIX. The Journey of the Great Bodhi Tree
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King Devānampiyatissa, who delighted in the benefit of the world, had heard from the novice Sumana about the day of the arrival of the Bodhi Tree, and from the first day that began the month of Maggasira he decorated the highway from the north gate as far as Jambukola with silver leaves of cloth strewn like sand that had been sprinkled all round on the highway.
From the day the King went out from the city he waited at the grounds of the reception-hall by the ocean, and there the Lord of the Earth, through the psychic power of the Great Elder Nun, saw the Great Bodhi Tree coming in the middle of the great ocean, decked out in all its splendour, and by the power of Mahinda, he drew as though close to it.
In that place a hall was made to display the wonders which became well-known as the Ocean Reception Hall. After leaving the Ocean Reception Hall and standing outside, while raising the pandal, he saw both of the roads strewn all round with five-coloured flowers, and various flags and clothes, together with priceless flowers, great water pitchers, all full with lilies.
The Guardian of the World, having placed them at intervals on the road, through the power of the Great Elder together with the other Elders, after leaving, in one day had reached Jambukola.
The Lord of the Earth, driven by joy at the coming of the Great Bodhi Tree, plunged into the water up to his neck and raised the beautiful body of the Great Bodhi Tree on his head.
He emerged from the ocean, placed it aside with all offerings, and put it under the care of the sixteen families in that lovely pavilion. For three days on the shore of the ocean the Lord of Laṅkā, having adorned it, worshipped it with sovereignty over Laṅkā.


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DENVER - Danilo Gallinari returned to the lineup to score 26 points, and the Denver Nuggets pulled away late to beat the Boston Celtics 97-90 Tuesday night.
Ty Lawson also had 26 points and added six assists, and Kenneth Faried had seven points and 16 rebounds for the Nuggets, who snapped a three-game skid.
Jeff Green led Boston with 20 points, and Avery Bradley added 17.
The Nuggets avenged a triple-overtime loss nine days ago in Boston. The Celtics pulled out that game after Green and Paul Pierce hit 3-pointers to force the last two overtimes.
They couldn't find the same magic in Denver.
The game was tied at 65 late in the third quarter when the Nuggets started to take control. A 3-pointer by Gallinari and two layups by Corey Brewer gave Denver a 78-70 lead heading into the fourth.
The Celtics wouldn't go away, though. Denver missed four shots to open the fourth, and Green's 3-pointer cut Boston's deficit to 80-79 with 8:55 left.
Bradley tied it with a 3-pointer with 5:34 left, but Gallinari answered at the other end to make it 87-84.
Lawson hit a floater in the lane to extend the lead to five, and after Kevin Garnett missed two free throws, Faried's putback made it 93-86 with 2:35 left.
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The Celtics had a chance to get within two in the final minute, but Garnett missed a contested layup and Lawson hit two free throws to seal it.
Lawson scored 10 points in the second quarter, including a 3-pointer with 36 seconds left to put the Nuggets up 49-48. Courtney Lee hit a 17-foot jumper at the halftime buzzer to give Boston a one-point lead.
NOTES: The Nuggets got Gallinari and Andre Iguodala back in the lineup after both missed the previous two games. Gallinari was out with a sinus infection, and Iguodala suffered a strained neck in the triple-overtime loss in Boston. Iguodala scored just one point in 29 minutes Tuesday.


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The Huskers head on the road to participate in the ITA/USTA Women's Central Region Tennis Championships in Tulsa, Okla., hosted by the University of Tulsa this weekend Oct. 19-22.
This annual tournament, which is being held at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center features almost 100 players from 19 various universities across the Central Region including Big Ten rivals Iowa and Minnesota. Champions of the Central Region Tournament earn an automatic bid to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships on Nov. 8-11 in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. .
Nebraska freshman Lauren Wagner played in the singles qualifying draw today looking to advance to the singles main draw that begins Friday morning. Requiring two victories to advance, Wagner fell short of that mark falling in the first round of the draw to Arkansas State's Janie Nowland 0-6, 4-6.
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But there is a new development. Breezy wants to talk to the cops to tell his side of the story since he knows it proves he is innocent of all wrongdoing. The R&B star and Rihanna's boyfriend is insistent that he didn't initiate the brawl and he is itching to tell the cops the truth.
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Geragos' team reportedly has surveillance footage of the end of the fight, which had spilled from the parking lot into the lobby, proving that Breezy's hands are not bloody and that he didn't throw a single, solitary punch. But there's a caveat. The video also shows that Ocean never hauled off and hurled a punch, either.
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Orleron wrote:I think it's a fun idea if you can idiot-proof it. Problem is God always builds a better idiot.
Heed wrote:And the use after say 24 - 48 hrs up?
Since I'm in ballpark scrying mode lets get some current numbers and multiply them by, say, 5.
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PlasmaJohn wrote:Heed wrote:And the use after say 24 - 48 hrs up?
Between 150Mb and 350Mb depending on how big the mod is and how popular it is.Since I'm in ballpark scrying mode lets get some current numbers and multiply them by, say, 5.
*snorts* I don't doubt that you're right.
Moredo wrote:I'm more saddened by the lack of new features, than anything else.
I know I've posted this before, and I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I want (and almost expect) to swim and climb and ride and jump and sneak in windows and all that stuff, from a game that's released late 2006.
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Hello, my friends. This is mostly a cautionary message for PW builders based on some questions that were asked in the chat last night. Of specific note was a question asking if we had run a module with 300 areas in it.
The answer is not only "no," but "not even in our dreams". It's true that the average gaming rig is a lot beefier today than it was when the original NWN was released. But the complexity of our areas -- both interior and exterior -- is dramatically greater. One consequence is that a NWN2 area tends to have a hefty memory footprint. This is especially true on exteriors, where super texture-layered height-mapped terrain is stuffed full of trees, bushes, and high-detail buildings. We are still in the process of optimizing our data and beautifying areas intelligently, but we're typically looking at 6-9 megs for a mid-sized NWN2 exterior. On the extreme end, big areas run upwards of 20 megs.
This might not seem like that big of a deal on machines that often have 1 or 2 gigs of RAM, but when you throw in ten of these suckers and a bunch of interiors that are all part of the same module, you are on a highway to the proverbial danger zone. Combined with the game's overhead for doing everything else, it's a lot for a server to deal with.
For people playing our "OC" and building adventure modules, none of this should be a big concern. You can chop up your modules into whatever size you want and people can just deal with lugging the party around. For PW builders this may cause logistical problems for how large your modules can be. If you were planning to have a series of areas running continuously from Baldur's Gate to Lathtarl's Lantern (a personal favorite), you will need to have a server forged by the hand of Bane himself. Or maybe twelve 30th level arcanists. Either way, it's a big deal.
I know this is probably less encouraging news than, "Yeah, we're running 500 areas in a single module!" but I figure that letting everyone know now is better than letting you figure it out through trial and error after the game comes out. Lest this come off as a tepid, eye-roll-inducing "temper your expectations" message, let me end with clarity:
NWN2 areas take up a lot of memory. The exteriors take up even more memory. If you are planning to have huge chains (10+) of large exteriors and interiors linked in a single module, it's not going to run smoothly on current hardware.
Orleron wrote:Over on WFM there's a sizable discussion about how we won't be doing the all encompassing scale approach for NWN2. The overland map will be used and only the "important" areas will actually be made. The NWN1 server is the opposite in that it strives to make one overland area every 50 miles for rural areas, and one area every quarter mile or so for urban areas.
Nevertheless, there is still doubt in my mind. Even with reducing the scale like that, it's still easily conceivable that we'll need more than 50 outside areas.
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Tesh wrote:God I hope that they can optimise the outdoor area walkmeshes better. Last time I did any reading on it the biggest issue was that for any given outdoor area they needed to do 'null walkmeshing' (I think thats what they called it) where if an area was say... 10x10 they needed to make walkmesh data for a 12x12 area so that horizons and graphics in the distance could be included which blew out the memory load in a big way....
Tesh wrote:Without decent outdoor areas I'll be very saddened, I'm a nut for rangers and am very excited about 3.5 rangers, to the point where I have a concept and rough back story for one, and without a reasonable number of outdoor areas rangers are at a disadvatage to the rogue
Orleron wrote:You have to excuse Themi. Tact, diplomacy, and softness are not his best traits, but he does not mean anything by his writing. He's a nice guy. You just get used to it after a while because he doesn't seem to learn.
Themicles wrote:From what I've read, PWs in NWN2 will not be any worse off than PWs in NWN1.
I voted Good, but not great. It could be better, but some sacrifices must be made to have the engine advances we'll be getting.
I wonder: How much of our current area layout gets used often? I think the info is in our database actually.
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