I know it's a bit of a joke, but "duck and cover" in the event of a nuclear attack isn't all that worthless. The shockwave from a nuke travels quite a distance, much further, in fact, than the radiological effects. It will blow out windows and generate searing heat in its path, and the best way not to be killed by this is not to be in front of a window. "Duck and cover" puts you below the window sill (in most cases), so it's actually not such a bad idea.
I've lived in Berkeley my whole life. (oh snap) Nobody hear calls it "California". To talk about the individual campus, we say "UC Berkeley", or if the context is clear, just "Berkeley" or "Cal".
We're talking about XSS, here. It IS enough to check form data and strip html tags. Whitelist DB interactions, and you're safe 99% of the time. (And that 1% is on huge sites that are worth targeting by experienced attackers who can use the methods you just mentioned.) That Yahoo was hit by XSS is a bit embarrasing, actually.
California isn't a university. It is a state. There's California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech), University of California (UC, which itself is more a system of universities), and California State University (CSU, another such system). I'm sure there's more, but you get the picture...
A word of warning regarding ear plugs: put them in a plastic bag or some other sort of container when you're not using them. I set a pair of plugs down on my piano, and the literally melted the lacquer underneath, right down to the wood.
Well, adjusting for inflation since the iTMS was introduced in 2003, 99 cents becomes about $1.11 in 2008 dollars. So the price for a better product (higher bitrate, larger filesize, higher bandwidth/hosting costs, no DRM) comes in at less than 20 cents. Apple needs some leverage, since there's no economic reason for the RIAA to switch over to non-DRM music witout an incentive. Welcome to economics.
Well, the way the grandparent put it, yes, it doesn't make much sense. But isn't it rather astonishing how similar the edge of our universe and the event horizon of a black hole look? time approaches zero, redshift approaches infinity...
Dear Slashdot editors, please refrain from posting further stories with SCARY, zombie-like accompanying pictures. Especially at 3:30 AM, EST. Because now I can't sleep. Thank you.
Bullshit. You're right that obscure education is lost on 98% of the people, but that's not the point. The benefit to society in teaching obscure or useless material such as advanced mathematics and Latin comes not from a higher overall education level in the general population, but rather it comes from that top 2% on whom that education was NOT wasted. Yes, I know that's mean, and it's an oversimplification, but it's to make a point: if you teach "basic" life skills, you take time and more importantly energy away from other, more obscure topics that the university-bound student will need to know.
Calling these people stuipd only makes you look like an arrogant asshole. For most people, a microwave is a black box contraption in their kitchen that makes food hot. Sure, they also know that you shouldn't put a fork or knife in, but have no idea why. This isn't because they're stupid, it's because they're ignorant about the inner workings of that particular machine in their kitchen.
Oh, but you say, taking things as fact without questioning why is a folly committed only by stupid people, thus making them ignorant. The two are really the same. I would then ask you why light is both a particle and a wave and why electrons jump to a different energy level when hit by the right frequencey of light. There's probably less than 1,000 people on the planet who can give a good answer to these questions, and unless you're one of them, you've committed the same folly as your average suburban mom - you still don't truly know why a microwave works.
You can't compress this stuff unless you do it losslessly. Compression artifacts mess up photometry - if you're trying to compute apparent brightness, you need to factor in things like how bright the ambient sky is, and how much point sources get spread out (FWHM, seeing). That is, a point source that passes through the atmosphere looks like a normal probabliity distribution because of atmospheric distortions. So to get an apparent brightness, you have to correct for this effect. If compression artifacts are introduced, FWHM is thrown off, and you have no idea how "crisp" your image really is. That's why these data sets are so large. Quite literally, they're doing a pixel dump from their massive ccd all night. But hey, somehow I doubt they'll be using this telescope for anything but object detection. There's no reason to store it all except to compare a current picture to one in a base set, kinda like KAIT on stearoids.
From my own personal experience, masseuses are generally built like Rosie the Riviter. If I wanted that kind of treatment, I'd go down to the basement and use vice-grips.
I don't know if you're being serious or not, but I'll answer anyway. Supernovae are transient objects: they show up suddenly and are very bright, growing to their maximum brightness within the first week. They then taper off and disappear in a few months. Astronomers will take a picture of a supernova every night and then graph its (apparent) birghtness as a function of time. This light curve is most useful if there's data from when the supernova is at its brightest, which is why it's best to catch supernovae early. You can then classify supernovae according to its light curve and spectrum, and they usually fall into several predictible camps (Type Ia, Ib, Ic, II,...).
Those weren't so bad. People are looking past the intent and overall meaning of what they said and instead focusing on nitty gritty details that anyone is bound to get wrong. The first one about filling her body with chemicals (haha but everything's a chemical, you stupid bitch!) is perfectly legit. The second one, while poorly phrased, didn't say that walking took away the injury, but rather that it took away the pain. How is that so stupid? The third is probably the worst, but still she's right about a lack of information having a negative effect on cancer awareness. The milk one is again pretty stupid, I admit, but childhood obesity IS indeed a problem. And lastly, force-feeding animals shouldn't be done, but not because it gives us "cancer", but because it's cruel and inhumane.
Just yesterday I spoke with someone from ILM, and they were saying how the film wasn't going to happen because Lucas kept rejecting scripts. Good to hear he found one he liked...
Ah, ok. Well just for the record, I think the idea is stupid too. We should fix the problem by fixing the problem, not by launching a sunshade. But still, CO2 is a greenhouse gas, which means if we're dumping CO2 into the atmosphere, it's going to raise the global temperature. It is indeed a big deal.
Welcome to/. I don't mean to be rude, but when you say "i think there should be more research into our contribution to raising the earths temperature", are you speaking from the perspective of someone in academia, preferably in a similar field, or are you just another bloke? Because I do know a few people doing climate research, and there in fact has been considerable investigation into this matter. And it's not controversial, either. Inside these circles, they're pretty much in agreement that humans are the cause of increased CO2, and this in turn is causing and will continue to cause global climate change.
If Yahoo bought facebook and stuck the little Y! icon in the corner, I would leave. The whole reason us college students liked facebook in the first place was that was made by and for us, the college students. The only way for Yahoo to make back their money would be for them to sell the personal information (unless somehow the EULA prohibits it, which I hope is the case). If they do that, then we will revolt (see how well the "feed" feature went over, and that was information we already had), and facebook will be nothing more than a less neurotic version of myspace. Zukerberg, please don't sell. I LIKE facebook the way it is.
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You can stop there. Stay the frak out of our politics.
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_ex plosions)
I've lived in Berkeley my whole life. (oh snap) Nobody hear calls it "California". To talk about the individual campus, we say "UC Berkeley", or if the context is clear, just "Berkeley" or "Cal".
And a unit of time is... ? (no, really, I'd like to know!)
We're talking about XSS, here. It IS enough to check form data and strip html tags. Whitelist DB interactions, and you're safe 99% of the time. (And that 1% is on huge sites that are worth targeting by experienced attackers who can use the methods you just mentioned.) That Yahoo was hit by XSS is a bit embarrasing, actually.
It's the same as preventing SQL injection. If you take a user input, escape html tags before displaying them.
California isn't a university. It is a state. There's California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech), University of California (UC, which itself is more a system of universities), and California State University (CSU, another such system). I'm sure there's more, but you get the picture...
A word of warning regarding ear plugs: put them in a plastic bag or some other sort of container when you're not using them. I set a pair of plugs down on my piano, and the literally melted the lacquer underneath, right down to the wood.
Well, adjusting for inflation since the iTMS was introduced in 2003, 99 cents becomes about $1.11 in 2008 dollars. So the price for a better product (higher bitrate, larger filesize, higher bandwidth/hosting costs, no DRM) comes in at less than 20 cents. Apple needs some leverage, since there's no economic reason for the RIAA to switch over to non-DRM music witout an incentive. Welcome to economics.
Well, the way the grandparent put it, yes, it doesn't make much sense. But isn't it rather astonishing how similar the edge of our universe and the event horizon of a black hole look? time approaches zero, redshift approaches infinity...
Dear Slashdot editors, please refrain from posting further stories with SCARY, zombie-like accompanying pictures. Especially at 3:30 AM, EST. Because now I can't sleep. Thank you.
Bullshit. You're right that obscure education is lost on 98% of the people, but that's not the point. The benefit to society in teaching obscure or useless material such as advanced mathematics and Latin comes not from a higher overall education level in the general population, but rather it comes from that top 2% on whom that education was NOT wasted. Yes, I know that's mean, and it's an oversimplification, but it's to make a point: if you teach "basic" life skills, you take time and more importantly energy away from other, more obscure topics that the university-bound student will need to know.
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Oh, but you say, taking things as fact without questioning why is a folly committed only by stupid people, thus making them ignorant. The two are really the same. I would then ask you why light is both a particle and a wave and why electrons jump to a different energy level when hit by the right frequencey of light. There's probably less than 1,000 people on the planet who can give a good answer to these questions, and unless you're one of them, you've committed the same folly as your average suburban mom - you still don't truly know why a microwave works.
Speaking of construction, I love how a 2-by-4 isn't really 2"x4".
gosh, to bad there's no vacuum out there, especially in space...
You can't compress this stuff unless you do it losslessly. Compression artifacts mess up photometry - if you're trying to compute apparent brightness, you need to factor in things like how bright the ambient sky is, and how much point sources get spread out (FWHM, seeing). That is, a point source that passes through the atmosphere looks like a normal probabliity distribution because of atmospheric distortions. So to get an apparent brightness, you have to correct for this effect. If compression artifacts are introduced, FWHM is thrown off, and you have no idea how "crisp" your image really is. That's why these data sets are so large. Quite literally, they're doing a pixel dump from their massive ccd all night. But hey, somehow I doubt they'll be using this telescope for anything but object detection. There's no reason to store it all except to compare a current picture to one in a base set, kinda like KAIT on stearoids.
From my own personal experience, masseuses are generally built like Rosie the Riviter. If I wanted that kind of treatment, I'd go down to the basement and use vice-grips.
I don't know if you're being serious or not, but I'll answer anyway. Supernovae are transient objects: they show up suddenly and are very bright, growing to their maximum brightness within the first week. They then taper off and disappear in a few months. Astronomers will take a picture of a supernova every night and then graph its (apparent) birghtness as a function of time. This light curve is most useful if there's data from when the supernova is at its brightest, which is why it's best to catch supernovae early. You can then classify supernovae according to its light curve and spectrum, and they usually fall into several predictible camps (Type Ia, Ib, Ic, II,...).
Those weren't so bad. People are looking past the intent and overall meaning of what they said and instead focusing on nitty gritty details that anyone is bound to get wrong. The first one about filling her body with chemicals (haha but everything's a chemical, you stupid bitch!) is perfectly legit. The second one, while poorly phrased, didn't say that walking took away the injury, but rather that it took away the pain. How is that so stupid? The third is probably the worst, but still she's right about a lack of information having a negative effect on cancer awareness. The milk one is again pretty stupid, I admit, but childhood obesity IS indeed a problem. And lastly, force-feeding animals shouldn't be done, but not because it gives us "cancer", but because it's cruel and inhumane.
Just yesterday I spoke with someone from ILM, and they were saying how the film wasn't going to happen because Lucas kept rejecting scripts. Good to hear he found one he liked...
Ah, ok. Well just for the record, I think the idea is stupid too. We should fix the problem by fixing the problem, not by launching a sunshade. But still, CO2 is a greenhouse gas, which means if we're dumping CO2 into the atmosphere, it's going to raise the global temperature. It is indeed a big deal.
Welcome to /. I don't mean to be rude, but when you say "i think there should be more research into our contribution to raising the earths temperature", are you speaking from the perspective of someone in academia, preferably in a similar field, or are you just another bloke? Because I do know a few people doing climate research, and there in fact has been considerable investigation into this matter. And it's not controversial, either. Inside these circles, they're pretty much in agreement that humans are the cause of increased CO2, and this in turn is causing and will continue to cause global climate change.
If Yahoo bought facebook and stuck the little Y! icon in the corner, I would leave. The whole reason us college students liked facebook in the first place was that was made by and for us, the college students. The only way for Yahoo to make back their money would be for them to sell the personal information (unless somehow the EULA prohibits it, which I hope is the case). If they do that, then we will revolt (see how well the "feed" feature went over, and that was information we already had), and facebook will be nothing more than a less neurotic version of myspace. Zukerberg, please don't sell. I LIKE facebook the way it is.
haha oh man... thanks for the laugh!