They don't have to prove anything. Under at-will employment, you can be fired for any (non-discriminatory) reason, or no reason at all. Fox News would certainly be within their rights to fire him for this, whether it's explicitly mentioned in his contract or not.
All those people that pull into the middle and wait to turn are actually breaking the law.
And even many of the anti-gridlock laws make exceptions for turning.
Indeed, pulling into the intersection and waiting for the light to turn is the only way to turn left in much of Chicago. It is explicitly allowed, and drivers in the intersection have the right of way even after opposing traffic gets a green light.
Had I been European, where guns are all but banned, my $25,000 car would be gone. That represents a loss of one whole year of my life (50 weeks at work).
You have a car worth $25k with no comprehensive insurance coverage?
I've used that procedure for a couple clients with success. There are two things you have to consider, since if you've been hit once, you've probably been hit multiple times.
Some fields have probably hit their maximum length, causing the last injected script tag to be truncated, so this procedure will miss them. Clean these up manually so that the field ends in "</script>" (the closing tag for the previous injected script tag). Of course, you could just manually clean up the whole field at this point, but I found it easier to just fix the end and then let the SQL script do the rest of the work.
You'll need to execute the procedure multiple times, since each time will only remove one script tag from each field.
First, you climb Cheney's family tree at powers of two, so 2^10, then come back down with the assumption that these people have an average of 3 children per generation (probably higher as you go back, really), and you've got 2^10*3^10 are related to Cheney. Which is 60,466,176 people who could be related to one of Cheney's ancestors at 10 generations back.
Which is 1/6 of the population of the United States. If you assume 4 children per generation, it's 1/6 of the population of the world. lulz
It's going to be less than that, due to offspring dying before procreation, and overlap. Cheney probably has fewer than 1024 distinct ancestors of 10 generations ago. (If first cousins breed, their offspring will only have 3 sets of great-grandparents.) Forty generations ago, did Cheney have 2^40 (~one trillion) distinct ancestors? More than that, descendants of those ancestors almost certainly interbred, so you are double (and triple, and quadruple...) counting a lot of them.
I agree it was a stupid story. Just saying.
If I recall, the thing about the taste tests is that the testers were only given a small sample of each soda. When taking a small taste of something, people will often prefer a sweeter flavor. Thus, Pepsi, being sweeter, won these taste tests. Over the long term, though, that much sweetness becomes cloying and people will prefer the less sweet option. This is evidenced by the fact that "case tests", where people are given a larger quantity of soda to drink at home over a period of time, generally show a preference for Coke.
But the password is presumably being encrypted by SSL anyway. Your solution would not defeat keyloggers and doesn't seem to add any security in this case.
It does sound like a good idea for an easy way to add a level of security to a site without going through setting up SSL. Thinking back to the way my old college email client worked, the server could send a random token with the form. Like <input type="securepassword" token="934B1DE2582935AE32F32">. Then the client encrypts the token using the password as the key (using symmetric encryption like 3DES) and sends that result over the network. The server knows what this value should be (but only, as you said, if it stores the password in the clear).
1. Is hardly a major issue. It's not even a minor issue. Unless the length of a cubit changes when measuring a diameter as opposed to measuring a circumference, which is doubtful. All that matters is the ratio.
I won't argue with your other points -- an incorrect value of pi is hardly the worst thing about the bible, anyway.
Also, on Parks' website, you can get a
utility belt! I thought it was funny that it lists it as The DefianceTM Belt, Adjustable to fit sizes 32-40. I think he's grossly underestimated his clientelle...
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I do not have a receipt -- I won it as a door prize at the Star Trek convention, although
I find their choice of prize highly illogical
as the average Trekker has no use for a
medium-sized belt.
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Full-text queries can only be done on four or more letter words.
You're just making that up, jackass. There is no limit to how short the text is that you query for.
Not so, it turns out. From that very page:
MySQL uses a very simple parser to split text into words. A ``word'' is any sequence of characters consisting of letters, numbers, `'', and `_'. Any ``word'' that is present in the stopword list or is just too short (3 characters or less) is ignored.
I mean having a CS professor at MIT who cannot distiguish the diffrence brings down the credibility and prestige of the university as a whole.
I was a TA for a CS professor there who hated computers. You had to call him if you wanted to reach him because he didn't even read his email. He probably didn't even know what OS his office computer was running. And yet, he invented the zero-knowledge proof protocol and practically the entire field of cryptography. People seem to forget (or be ignorant of) what computer science really is.
Of course, we are left with the question of why such a person would be testifying about these things. But it certainly shouldn't hurt the reputation of MIT. Computer science is math, it's not figuring out how to hook up a printer.
Free as in speech" means "allowed to do whatever you want with it".
Someone should arrest and jail your High School civics teacher for fraud.
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"Free Software" may indeed mean "allowed to do (almost) whatever you want with it". But that is NOT what "Free Speech" means.
I don't want to be a hard-on about this, but he's not talking about "Free Speech." He's talking about "free as in speech," as opposed to "free as in beer." These have (for better or worse) become the preferred similes used to distinguish the two different meanings of the word "free." The phrase "free as in speech" simply means something like libre, involving freedom, as opposed to something like gratis, involving lack of monetary cost.
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Bad date flick. Title contains the words "Terror", "Justice" and/or a roman numeral greater than III.
Actually, I have read (probably in Maxim) that horror movies are actually a good idea if you're trying to get some. The reason is that the fear/suspense response is chemically similar to passion, and one can be subconsciously confused for the other. So you may actually be somewhat likely to be lashed with a riding crop after taking Heidi to a film with "terror" in the title.
This is really interesting. I hadn't heard anything like this before, so I did a bit of research. What you say doesn't seem to be exactly true, but it has been postulated that potatoes and schizophrenia are linked. And Ireland does have the highest per capita rate of the disease (4 times more prevalent than in the U.S).
The chemical you're talking about is solanine, a steroidal glycoalkaloid. As far as I can tell, it's not particularly found in people with schizophrenia, but it does cause psychotic symptoms.
If potatoes are exposed to too much sunlight they produce an alkaloid called solanine. Solanine has the ability to induce gastro-intestinal problems and psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations. The idea that schizophrenia in Ireland is caused by the potato is not as far fetched as people might believe. Closer to home, a mental disease that afflicted southerners, pellagra, was caused solely from the lack of the vitamin niacin. This may lead us to believe that a mental disorder can be caused by too much exposure or lack of a certain type of food. Another possibility, is the amount of insecticides the Irish consume from the potato. At planting time farmers use high amounts of chemicals on their potatoes to protect them from insects. When an insect ingests the chemicals they are easily killed because the chemicals interfere with the normal functioning of the nervous system by disrupting the transmission of nerve impulses. If large doses of these chemicals have the same affect on humans as they do on insects this could answer the Irish dilemma. These toxins could be especially dangerous to women who are pregnant by damaging the fetal nerve tissue.
Although the aetiology is still unknown, numerous hypotheses
have been postulated including dietetic factors but never has the
potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) been suspected. However, a strong case
can be advanced incriminating this widely, in fact almost universally,
consumed vegetable tuber with its variable content of steroidal
glycoalkaloids (SGAs) with known toxic action on both animals and
humans, including possible teratogenic and cell membrane-damaging
properties, as a very likely aetiological contender in most but
possibly not all cases.
The solanine normally occurs in the leaves and sprouts of the potato plant, and I assume they are the poison that other people in this thread are talking about.
Actually every raw potato is poisonous. It was hard to convince European peasants that they are edible after cooking.
Hm... this is news to me. I eat some raw potato just about every time I cook with them. (A little salt and they're pretty tasty.) And I'm not dead yet. Am I going to need a new liver soon?
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It is hard to understate the importance of Neilsen numbers in Hollywood.
I don't think that means what you think it means.
They don't have to prove anything. Under at-will employment, you can be fired for any (non-discriminatory) reason, or no reason at all. Fox News would certainly be within their rights to fire him for this, whether it's explicitly mentioned in his contract or not.
Sounds like the Chicago area to me.
Except for the whole concept of a "green turn signal". They seem to be quite rare in Chicago, even on crazy 6-way intersections.
And even many of the anti-gridlock laws make exceptions for turning.
Indeed, pulling into the intersection and waiting for the light to turn is the only way to turn left in much of Chicago. It is explicitly allowed, and drivers in the intersection have the right of way even after opposing traffic gets a green light.
You are obviously ignorant of how the electoral college makes one's vote count MORE.
Voting is a zero-sum game. If the EC makes someone's vote count MORE, then it makes someone else's vote count LESS. What's the justification for that?
puts("No virii found");
Any viruses, though?
Had I been European, where guns are all but banned, my $25,000 car would be gone. That represents a loss of one whole year of my life (50 weeks at work).
You have a car worth $25k with no comprehensive insurance coverage?
This attack has been going on for months... http://hackademix.net/2008/04/26/mass-attack-faq/
First, you climb Cheney's family tree at powers of two, so 2^10, then come back down with the assumption that these people have an average of 3 children per generation (probably higher as you go back, really), and you've got 2^10*3^10 are related to Cheney. Which is 60,466,176 people who could be related to one of Cheney's ancestors at 10 generations back.
Which is 1/6 of the population of the United States. If you assume 4 children per generation, it's 1/6 of the population of the world. lulz
It's going to be less than that, due to offspring dying before procreation, and overlap. Cheney probably has fewer than 1024 distinct ancestors of 10 generations ago. (If first cousins breed, their offspring will only have 3 sets of great-grandparents.) Forty generations ago, did Cheney have 2^40 (~one trillion) distinct ancestors? More than that, descendants of those ancestors almost certainly interbred, so you are double (and triple, and quadruple...) counting a lot of them. I agree it was a stupid story. Just saying.
If I recall, the thing about the taste tests is that the testers were only given a small sample of each soda. When taking a small taste of something, people will often prefer a sweeter flavor. Thus, Pepsi, being sweeter, won these taste tests. Over the long term, though, that much sweetness becomes cloying and people will prefer the less sweet option. This is evidenced by the fact that "case tests", where people are given a larger quantity of soda to drink at home over a period of time, generally show a preference for Coke.
But the password is presumably being encrypted by SSL anyway. Your solution would not defeat keyloggers and doesn't seem to add any security in this case.
It does sound like a good idea for an easy way to add a level of security to a site without going through setting up SSL. Thinking back to the way my old college email client worked, the server could send a random token with the form. Like <input type="securepassword" token="934B1DE2582935AE32F32">. Then the client encrypts the token using the password as the key (using symmetric encryption like 3DES) and sends that result over the network. The server knows what this value should be (but only, as you said, if it stores the password in the clear).
Are your airplane tickets usually general admission? I have mostly found my seat to be assigned, regardless of my boarding time.
1. Is hardly a major issue. It's not even a minor issue. Unless the length of a cubit changes when measuring a diameter as opposed to measuring a circumference, which is doubtful. All that matters is the ratio. I won't argue with your other points -- an incorrect value of pi is hardly the worst thing about the bible, anyway.
I do not have a receipt -- I won it as a door prize at the Star Trek convention, although I find their choice of prize highly illogical as the average Trekker has no use for a medium-sized belt.
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I was a TA for a CS professor there who hated computers. You had to call him if you wanted to reach him because he didn't even read his email. He probably didn't even know what OS his office computer was running. And yet, he invented the zero-knowledge proof protocol and practically the entire field of cryptography. People seem to forget (or be ignorant of) what computer science really is.
Of course, we are left with the question of why such a person would be testifying about these things. But it certainly shouldn't hurt the reputation of MIT. Computer science is math, it's not figuring out how to hook up a printer.
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Just trying to help you out.
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The chemical you're talking about is solanine, a steroidal glycoalkaloid. As far as I can tell, it's not particularly found in people with schizophrenia, but it does cause psychotic symptoms.
From http://www.chuckiii.com/Reports/Psychology/schizop hrenia.shtml,
And, from http://www.escribe.com/health/aspartameNM/m102.ht--
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