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Penn State uses a colossal waste of time and money called Angel. It is the biggest piece of shit I have ever had the misfortune to use.

Issues I can remember:
"One of the three servers was down all weekend before we noticed. In the future if you can't log in make sure you try a few times."
"Something happened and we lost all your quiz scores for the semester. You'll have to redo them."
Plus it's IIS with a SQL Server backend. It took down the entire IST departments network for two and a half days.

CO2, like any greenhouse gas, acts as a blanket, keeping warmth in. That's not in dispute by anybody.

This dude would seem to dispute that.

From the link:
Does the atmosphere (or any greenhouse gas) act a blanket?

At best, the reference to a blanket is a bad metaphor. Blankets act primarily to suppress convection; the atmosphere acts to enable convection. To claim that the atmosphere acts a blanket, is to admit that you don't know how either one of them operates.

Not that I buy his semantical reasoning. He just disputes the fact that greenhouse gasses act as blankets.

Since my main apps arent written with the altivec in mind (they are in fortran and have branches inside loops), i'm hosed.

I'm thinking about getting this for an upcoming project.

Paul Durcan's "Christmas Day" (not online) has a comment that could be Slashdot's motto:

Why do computer programmers always answer
When asked in questionnaires
In Sunday newspapers
What is your idea of Heaven? -
Snorkelling in Acapulco.

Pope Leo XIII wrote a Latin piece on photography in 1867: [translation]

O miracle of human thought,
O art with newest marvels fraught...

Some gleanings from my weblog: landing-gear crisis, Chuck-E-Cheese, auto repair

Okay, you're right, and I'm wrong. I blame my teacher for that one.
But it does affect hurricane spin.

The carbonised version of gnuplot does work well. However, it is based on 3.7.1 which is getting on a bit now. 3.8 (the pre 4.0 version) has some very nice extra features including mouse interaction for zooming and 3d plot rotation. And some very nice surface mapping and image handling functions.
I have had no problems building version 3.8 under OSX 10.2.4. The aqua term works fine but you only get the mouse interaction when running under X11 which also works perfectly well in my experience.

On a related point you can use gnuplot from within octave a matlab-like environment which is open source. This also works fine under OSX 10.2.4 and can make use of the VecLib BLAS and Lapack accelerate libraries under OSX - details on HPC for OSX. However, I must admit my preference is with R for data analysis outside of my own code (several others have already mentioned R) purely because of the wealth of statistical functionaility available.

Cost Effective Computing Array at Penn State

Check out http://todd.phys.psu.edu/fitd/ It is a Star Wars fan cartoon called Falling Into Darkness. Yours truly plays the voice of Grand Admiral Thrawn. On a side note the Alliance mentioned on hidden Jedi haven has nothing to do with the goings on in the regular StarWars universe. They are a force local only to that planet.

> Not to mention, if humans were so creative 50,000 years ago, why do we only have ~5,000 years of recorded history? Did it really take another 45,000 _years_ for us to write something down, or carve something, etc...? Come on.

Even if you are only familiar with recent history it should be clear that our species' technological capabilities are growing at an exponential rate. When you look further and further back you should be unsurprised to see that progress is almost flat out on the tail of the curve.

Simply put, no one wrote anything down until someone invented writing.

> ve never heard of anything man-made that's 50,000 years old.

Start with this. I can't vouch for the accuracy of that site, but if you don't like it a few minutes with Google should turn up a few thousand others. Or if you're really desperate you should be able to find lots of goodies in a library or anthropology textbook.

> Doesn't that really throw a monkey-wrench into the theory of evolution (which, like so many other theories, is so often stated as fact by those blinded to other possibilities).

If you have an alternative theory that explains the facts as well or better than the ToE does, there are lots of scientists who would like to hear it.

I think the insurance carriers should charge you based on your record, not some statistical abberation of a 17YO wrecking daddy's BMW 3 times a year.

they charge you based on your liklihood of costing them a payout for an accident. This is in part determined by your record. however, your assertion that a 17yo wrecking a car is an aberration is far from both truth and rationality. A cursory google check revealed this: "according to the National Safety Council, from 1991 through 1996, 16-year-old drivers had an average of 37 police-reported crashes per 100 drivers. This is more than 20 times the national average for all other drivers combined. " this link shows the risks of a traffic accident by age.

New Protocol Speeds Up Internet Resource Sharing

The new technology speeds to 10 times faster the allocation of Internet resources, said Park of his proposed Order-based Deadlock Prevention Protocol with Parallel Requests.

"In the near future, the demand for collaborative Internet applications will grow," Park said. "Better coordination will be required to meet that demand, and this protocol provides that."

Park describes his research in a paper, "A Scalable Protocol for Deadlock and Livelock Free Co-Allocation of Resources in Internet Computing," given Jan. 29 at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Symposium on Applications and the Internet in Orlando, Fla.

Park's proposed algorithm enables better coordination of Internet applications in support of large-scale computing. The protocol uses parallel rather than serial methods to process requests. That helps with more efficient resource allocation as well as solves the problems of deadlock and livelock caused by multiple concurrent Internet applications competing for Internet resources.

The new protocol also allows for Internet applications to choose among available resources. Existing technology can't support making choices, thereby limiting its utilization.

Its other advantage: Because it is decentralized, Park's proposed protocol can function with its own information. That allows for collaboration across multiple, independent organizations in the open environment of the Internet. Existing protocols require communication with other applications - not feasible in the open environment of the Internet.

Internet computing - the integration of widely distributed computational and informational resources into a cohesive network - allows for a broader exchange of information among more users than is possible today. Those can range from the military and government to businesses.

One example of such collaboration is Grid Computing that, much like electricity grids, harnesses available Internet resources in support of large-scale, scientific computing. Right now, the deployment of such virtual organizations is limited because they require a more sophisticated method to coordinate the resource allocation.

Park's decentralized protocol could provide that.

or even better, read his publications. While deadlocks are deadlocks, his research isn't about databases but concurrency. If there wasn't technical merit to his work his peers would reject his publications.

yeah, but IIRC AltiVec is a much cleaner, better implementation of a VPU than the x86 flavors (do they still share the FP registers a la MMX?) - so its code is still probably going to be faster than SSE optimized code (on a specialized black hole simulation that one of my former professors uses, i've seen a >20x speedup with good AltiVec code).

Also on campus is the Mary Beaver White building. And in the adjoining town is Beaver Avenue on which lies the Beaver Terrace apartments.
And don't forget Penn State Beaver, a satellite campus located in Beaver County, PA.

Back to main campus, 20,000 Beavers between the ages of 17 and 23. This, my geek friends, is why one goes to college.

I love how various anime fans I know go running around using the words like 'bakas' (hurray for pluralizing Japanese words \o/) in the middle of English sentences, squealing at the site of pockey, and insisting that you tack -chan at the end of their names.

Now if you will excuse me I am off to play me some Arrow Arrow Stomp, it is soooo~ cool because it is Japanese. Or maybe I'll go watch some Haibane Renmei

Bush's pernicious zealotry is mainifesting itself in far more that revisionism; last July, he cut funding to the UN Population Fund (normally at http://ww.unfpa.org , but I can't seem to get in ATM).
An enthusiastic bunch of our right-wing friends in the Population Research Institute claimed - without evidence and despite UN law to the contrary - that the UNFPA supported coerced abortions in China. Everyone from Colin Powell down who knew anything on the subject derided the PRI's claimes - check out the PDF from the House of Representatives - but despite all the evidence to the contraray, Bush went ahead and cut funding.

Interestingly, I googled to check the facts before posting (going against /. tradition, I know. Forgive me.), and came across a plethora of news stories on the topic, most of which run along the lines of "Bush cuts funds to UN body that supports coerced abortion", usually with a denial from some Chinese official. Here's the Telegraph version.

The PRI are here; couldn't find a link to the story.

When trying to predict the future, one must always look at the past. What have we seen in the past? Well, usually what happens is something so groundbreaking, so radical is invinted that it changes and shapes the whole course of civilziation in ways no one could have expected, making the current way of life and even forms of government inadequet. Cannons/Gunpowder in the feudal age was such an invention, basically defeating the enitre purpose of castles. The automobile was another... what part of your daily life is NOT touched in some way by the invention of the automobile? In the future, instantaneous matter transportation (beam me up, Scotty!) could be such an invention. Think of how quickly the world would have to change if anyone could travel anywhere instantly. Think of the implications it would have for crime if there was no way to prevent people from "beaming" into certain locations. Also, this is something that we a currently able to imagine. The really future-changing inventions will be extensions of future inventions, thusly being almost impossible for us to concieve right now.

I have a lot of hope for humanity. I think that in a few million years we could have a maverlous, galactic civilazation, numbering in the trillions. The quality of life would be so vastly improved by the technolgy and the abudant resouces available in the galaxy in the form of solar power and raw elements, especially compared to what we have here on this little blue dot called home. Sometimes, I think I was accidentally born a few hundered thousand years too soon. ;)

Here is a picture of some of the chips

This isn't right. It isn't even wrong.

... in the physics department, Julian Maynard works on thermoacoustic refrigeration. He does some pretty neat stuff. (I went to a talk where he was telling us how he was determining resonant modes in a quasicrystalline lattice. Instead of trying to solve the quantum mechanical Schroedinger equation analytically or numerically, he experimentally built a simulation of the quasicrystal by cutting out appropriately-shaped metal plates, putting tuning forks on them, and wiring the forks together to couple neighboring "crystals". He arranged it so the classical resontant modes of the simulated system would duplicate the quantum eigenstates of the real system, and just experimentally measured the normal modes.) He's always desperate for graduate students and has tons of funding to spare, because acoustics can be lucrative, but isn't trendy.

Though the BBC didn't get his name right (Garrett), I actually worked for his research lab at PSU. Very interesting stuff.

There's more information about other projects the group is working on here.

Some of the players in loop quantum gravity (LQG) before Kalamara are Abhay Ashtekar, Lee Smolin, Carlo Rovelli, John Baez and Chris Isham. Also, Julian Barbour has written a cute semi-popular book called The End of Time on the subject as has Lee Smolin---Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

"Corporations are not known to plant trees when they chop them down!"

Well, some of them are :)

This is a hostile reference, it's true, but does not contradict that at least the world's largest timber company (which has a good incentive to plant trees) does in fact plant them.

As to the chip-on-shoulder complaint that Weyerhaueser "does not expand upon how many of those 40 million seedlings make it to maturity or how many of those tree farms are replacing our disappearing old-growth forests," eh, no comment at this time :) Few primitivists expand much upon the effects of slash and burn agriculture, either :) (Not that these are some sort of binary choice, just that the world is complex, and most of life is a series of interesting tradeoffs.)

timothy

Write a FAQ like every other open source project in the world

So yeah reading these other pages I have no doubt that the coriolis effect is quite negligible in these situations...

But, I find this guy's web page questionable

Specifically, his whining about the commonly understood causes of cloud formation and greenhouse heating are extraordinarily nitpicky.

I'm sure he's correct in saying that clouds form because the rate of evaporation for h20 falls below it's rate of condensation. But he says it's horrible to link this to the temperature of the medium (air) that contains the h20 because the h20 would act similarly no matter what medium it is in. Um.. so what, in this case since the temperature is even across the whole medium (air) what's wrong with this slight simplification?

And worse is his whining over the analogy that the atmosphere works as a blanket to cause greenhouse effects. He says a blanket chiefly stops convection while an atmosphere enables it. (but a blanket also stops conduction and radiation effectively) He seems to miss the point that most people just associate a blanket with "something that traps heat" and I think that's just fine.

Does the atmosphere trap radiation?
No, the atmosphere absorbs radiation emitted by the Earth. But, upon being absorbed, the radiation has ceased to exist by having been transformed into the kinetic and potential energy of the molecules. The atmosphere cannot be said to have succeeded in trapping something that has ceased to exist.

what!? that's rubbish. So what the energy has changed phase, it's still trapped! It's like saying a battery doesn't trap an electrical energy, because it's storing it as chemical energy.

Does the atmosphere reradiate?
One often hears the claim that the atmosphere absorbs radiation emitted by the Earth (correct) and then reradiates it back to Earth (false). The atmosphere radiates because it has a finite temperature, not because it received radiation. When the atmosphere emits radiation, it is not the same radiation (which ceased to exist upon being absorbed) as it received. The radiation absorbed and that emitted do not even have the same spectrum and certainly are not made up of the same photons. The term reradiate is a nonsense term which should never be used to explain anything.

What?! so what if it's different photons at different wavelengths. The atmosphere is slowing the net flow of energy off of the earth's surface by absorbing radiation and returning some of that energy through radiation.

The author takes an amazingly condescending tone towards anyone who would use these horrible analogies.

And in fact, I think that his summary of this greenhouse issue is dead wrong

"The surface of the Earth is warmer than it would be in the absence of an atmosphere because it receives energy from two sources: the Sun and the atmosphere. "

Umm.. no. The atmosphere actually makes the daytime surface temperature much lower. It then helps maintain a nighttime temperature.

Read this guy's page and the faq's associated with them and you can see the amazing logical disconnects he makes to form some of his arguments.

This apparently is the first time it's been this close since the Neanderthals.

Now they can come back again ... And we will be the Neanderthals this time ...

Please use a mirror, yeah, har har. Thanks, buddy. As of now, of course, none of the mirrors have updated, possibly because people post links right to the master.

Australia (Canberra, .au only) http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
Australia (Melbourne) http://www.openbsd.aba.net.au/ftp/songs/song32.ogg
Australia (Sydney) http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
Australia (Sydney) http://the.wiretapped.net/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Austria (Vienna) http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/OpenBSD/songs/song32. ogg
Belgium (Ghent) http://openbsd.rug.ac.be/ftp/pub/OpenBSD/songs/son g32.ogg
Canada (Edmonton) http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song3 2.ogg
Canada (Sherbrooke) http://gulus.usherb.ca/ftp/OpenBSD/songs/song32.og g
Finland http://ftp.fi.debian.org/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Finland (Jyvskyl) http://ftp.jyu.fi/ftp/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Germany (Esslingen) http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/OpenBSD/songs /song32.ogg
Germany (Frankfurt) http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/OpenBSD/songs/so ng32.ogg
Germany (Stuttgart) http://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
Italy (Napoli) http://ftp.openbsd.it/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Sweden (Uppsala) http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Sweden (Uppsala) http://mirror.pudas.net/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Taiwan http://openbsd.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
TamSui, Taiwan http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
USA (Batesville, AR) http://gandalf.neark.org/pub/distributions/OpenBSD /songs/song32.ogg
USA (Sunnyvale, CA) http://east.dl.sourceforge.net/mirrors/OpenBSD/son gs/song32.ogg
USA (Tallahassee, FL) http://mirror.csit.fsu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song3 2.ogg
USA (Lake in the Hills, IL) http://rt.fm/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
USA (Indianapolis, IN) http://archive.progeny.com/OpenBSD/songs/song32.og g
USA (West Lafayette, IN) http://ftp7.usa.openbsd.org/pub/os/OpenBSD/songs/s ong32.ogg
USA (Cambridge, MA) http://openbsd.mirrors.netnumina.com/songs/song32. ogg
USA (State College, PA) http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song3 2.ogg
USA (Fairfax, VA) http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.og g
USA (Fairfax, VA) http://openbsd.secsup.org/songs/song32.ogg
USA (Springfield, VA) http://www.tux.org/pub/bsd/openbsd/songs/song32.og g
USA (Madison, WI) http://mirror6.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/OpenBSD/son gs/song32.ogg

Then why is it alway represented by a two dimensional pallet?

Always? 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

It is often represented two dimensionally because it is difficult to display it three dimensionally. Two dimensional displays most often display Hue and Saturation and completely discard Value.

Color can be coded as RGB (Red/Rreen/Blue) or HSV (Hue/Saturation/Value) or HSL (Hue/SaturationLightness) or YCbCr aka YUV aka YIQ (used in TV) or CMY (Cyan/Magenta/Yellow) or L*a*b* or XYZ. It always requires exactly three components. Note CMYK uses 4, but K is redundant, it improves the quality of ink printing.

it isn't "exact" either, since many humans are missing at least one of the dimensions.

That is precisely why I included the word "normal" in "normal human vision".

-

Even in the US, Microsoft would probably prefer people using pirated MS software over using no MS software, as long as they couldn't afford to buy the Software from MS. This is why MS gives millions worth of their products to college students every year. Up to this month, my university had an agreement to give out free ms software including: Office, Windows XP, Visual Studio, and more. This agreement has finally ended, and I can't help to wonder if MS tries use a drug dealer approach to software, to come in to a University and set up an agreement to give away software and then end it after a couple of years in hope that the University will shell out big bucks to keep the agreement.

For the pirates that can't afford MS software, they want then to become accustomed to MS software to the point where when they leave school they will buy computers with the latest version of windows preloaded and more importantly, demand that windows be in their computer at work.

"...the great earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 was accompanied by large fires, and it was said at the time that this was due to the fracture of gas pipes in the ground. That may well have been the case; however flames were also seen on hills nearby that had no gas pipes and also on roads and fields in nearby San Jose. The Armenian earthquake of 1990 showed a line of burnt bushes along a visible faultline."

Playing armchair scientist for a moment (and damning the worms to worm-juice) - mine that baby! Aside from the immediate, relatively clean energy supply, the experience of undersea methane hydrate mining would be good to have for future space-based mining.

Jury Nullification
Jury Nullification
Jury Nullification
Jury Nullification
Jury Nullification:History, questions and answers about nullification, links
Don't believe what the judge told you, as far as I can tell.

Don't people do this all the time with Sounding rockets? Although maybe the point is that NASA runs that program too, and this is really independent? Still, it doesn't seem that big a deal...

it does - anyway

Powers of Ten
Powersof10.com and Eames Office - Powers of Ten
Quarks to Quasars
`Powers of Ten' scales (additional links)
The book at Amazon, Barnes & Nobel.

Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps, by Kees Boeke (1957)
Cosmic View
Cosmic View (another version)

A Powers of Ten variant (my own)
How Big Are Things? (comments encouraged)
Scaling the universe to your desktop

Other PoT presentations of length
Length
Orders of magnitude - Distance
Scales of Measurement (ASCII version) from Niel Brandt's Timelines and Scales of Measurement Page

- Mitchell Charity

Powers of Ten
Powersof10.com and Eames Office - Powers of Ten
Quarks to Quasars
`Powers of Ten' scales (additional links)
The book at Amazon, Barnes & Nobel.

Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps, by Kees Boeke (1957)
Cosmic View
Cosmic View (another version)

A Powers of Ten variant (my own)
How Big Are Things? (comments encouraged)
Scaling the universe to your desktop

Other PoT presentations of length
Length
Orders of magnitude - Distance
Scales of Measurement (ASCII version) from Niel Brandt's Timelines and Scales of Measurement Page

- Mitchell Charity

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Our web is located at http://www.umsl.edu

"It was just about this time, spring 1993, that the University of Minnesota decided that it would ask for a license fee from certain classes of users who wanted to use gopher. Since the gopher software being picked up so widely, the university was going to charge an annual fee. The browser, and the act of browsing, would be free, and the server software would remain free to nonprofit and educational institutions. But any other users, notably companies, would have to pay to use gopher server software.

"This was an act of treason in the academic community and the Internet community. Even if the university never charged anyone a dime, the fact that the school had announced it was reserving the right to charge people for the use of the gopher protocols meant it had crossed the line. To use the technology was too risky. Industry dropped gopher like a hot potato."

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toilet ... equator ... Coriolis Force

Toilet/Coriolis connection debunked here.

Xbox and GameCube discs spin clockwise just like any other common optical disc (such as a CD, a copy-protected audio disc, or a DVD); they just store their boot blocks on the second layer, which normally starts at the outside of the disc and spirals inward.

DVD Region 4 is Australia and water spins backwards there due to the Coriolis Eeffect (or not). The author implied that this could be applied to DVD's too. Ok, well I thought it was funny.

> when did a new cola flavor become news?

It's news when it's a new flavor of pain reliever

Well, I hate to be nitpicky, but I'm pretty sure Yahoo!'s Buzz came first, and that Metacrawler's Metaspy came even before that. This study provides a more long range view along the same lines. I'm trying to start a web page that lists these sorts of "what are people interesed in" sites around the Net. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very interested.

It's a mirror, and 'cause I posted it here, it's gunna get a beating. ;)

ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/ yellowdog/iso/rome-2.2-20020407-install.iso

Orange

Nothing that you'd notice in your commode, anyhow. See The Bad Coriolis Page for further details.

Your fourth grade science teacher lied to you. Hunt her down and leave a dead woodchuck in her mailbox.

Here is the research working paper that goes into detail.

Yes, at most big schools now they Universities have made deals with bigger software companies to get the software at discount prices. (So the students use the software in school, get sucked in and end up purchasing the software when they leave the University.) For example, Pennsylvania State University offers a "lending library" where students can stop by and borrow cds to install the software on their system. They get a week or so before they have to return it. Also, if you don't want to borrow the cd, you can download an installation file (Most of them are the entire cd in one huge exe file which you can directly install from)

Here anyone with a Penn State user access ID and the right privledges (student, etc) can download it. They offer Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Visual Studio (plus Visual Java)... MacOS X licensces, Microsoft Office, and one REALLY useful product, Norton Corporate pro. (I work for a Residential Helpdesk at Penn State... and with all the virii sororites pass around..NO, NOT THAT KIND!!!, the computer kind, being able to install Norton Corporate pro on any machine in the University has made the job a thousand times smoother...)

The download system/lending library counts the liscense and tracks who downloaded what. I don't believe it's actually a bad system they have working here.

In such cases it would be wise to adapt a Si-based form, which has quite similar characteristics to C when placed at a higher temperature.

The properties may be similar but they are in general still not the properties needed for life. For instance, when carbon oxidizes it produces a gas, which is a useful characteristic for breathing. When silicon oxidizes it produces sand, which would prevent breathing.

One could imagine very different organic chemistries but these would might not have anything in common with carbon chemistry and thus silicon would not be relevant. For instance, nitrogen and phosphorous can form the long molecular chains needed for DNA-like structures.

Life should be quantified in terms of energy and entropy instead.

One of the key characteristics of life as we know it is chirality, which is the property of a the mirror image of an object like a molecule to be a different shape from the object. Carbon-based organic molecules have this property but phosphorus-nitrogen ones do not.

Chirality suggests that organic molecules might need to embody certain mathematical characteristics that are fundamental to life. What we would need, therefore, is a mathematical definition of life.

Of course, anti-matter engines are waaaaaaaay off

Actually, we already have anti-matter engines, they're just not very sophisticated. Pennsylvania State University and NASA are investigating these drives. The drive could power a mission to Mars in 120 days. That's: go to Mars (30 days), stay for 30 days, and come back (30 days). Sum: 120 days. That's awesome.

Ah, here we go:

Antimatter Catalyzed Micro Fission/Fusion

NASA Press release

Antimatter drives

ANTIPROTON-CATALYZED MICROFISSION/FUSION PROPULSION SYSTEMS FOR EXPLORATION OF THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND

That one extraction techniques site is way great, though, you really should check it out. Did you know that in order to remove a jar from someone's rectum, you stick a tounge depressor in the jar, then (very carefully) fill the jar with plaster, and then, after the plaster hardens, using a speculum or something to hold open the anus, you pull the jar out using the tounge depressor. Ingenious!