Sufi Dancing. Darwin Awards. Homo sapiens decline; Neo Sapiens rise! October 2012. Explanation - John's Personality Test<sup>α</sup> Personality Types: Explained The brain is in charge of everything from regulating our heartbeat, to remembering what was for dinner yesterday. Many of these functions are unconscious – not a part of our everyday awareness. The conscious brain, in sum, oversees two tasks: perception and judgment. Perception is to take in, interpret, and interact with information. Judgment is to organize information, and reach conclusions or decisions. Although people are different in many ways, Personality Types are specifically used to describe how people differently perceive and judge the world. The Cognitive Functions Perception is either Sensing (S) or Intuition (N). Judgment is either Thinking (T) or Feeling (F). The four basic functions (S, N, T, and F) each have two forms, an inward version and an outward version.
The outward form is open and direct, living in the outside world. . - An example of Outward Sensing (Se) is actively looking around a physical environment. The Sixteen Types.
The Higgs boson made simple. STUTTGART, Germany — At the Mercedes-Benz headquarters here, a showroom display illustrates the rapid evolution of the iconic luxury brand’s hydrogen-fueled cars. In a 1992 prototype, the fuel cell takes up the entire cargo area of a delivery van. Across the room, today's model — now merely the size of an average television set — is displayed in front of a neon-lit outline of a compact passenger car. This “zero emission” engine, it appears, is ready for prime time.
With the aid of government spending and joint efforts by Ford and Nissan, Daimler — Mercedes’s parent corporation — aims to start selling hydrogen-fueled cars to the public as early as 2017. If they take off, the biggest impact may be felt not in the car industry but in wind energy. Experts say a large commercial market could enable green energy producers to use their excess power to make clean hydrogen instead of storing it in costly batteries. The selling points for consumers are strong. That doesn’t mean the going will be easy.
The Nervous Breakdown. SQL Injection Attacks by Example. A customer asked that we check out his intranet site, which was used by the company's employees and customers. This was part of a larger security review, and though we'd not actually used SQL injection to penetrate a network before, we were pretty familiar with the general concepts. We were completely successful in this engagement, and wanted to recount the steps taken as an illustration. "SQL Injection" is subset of the an unverified/unsanitized user input vulnerability ("buffer overflows" are a different subset), and the idea is to convince the application to run SQL code that was not intended. If the application is creating SQL strings naively on the fly and then running them, it's straightforward to create some real surprises.
We'll note that this was a somewhat winding road with more than one wrong turn, and others with more experience will certainly have different -- and better -- approaches. We speculate that the underlying SQL code looks something like this: A standalone query of. Why We Need Hokum (Part 4) I thought I was done with “Why We Need Hokum” at the end of our third installment (here are parts one, two, and three), but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Getting back to the topic of hokum and why we need it, I’ve been interested in the various pieces of research that suggest an actual structural difference between the minds of conservatives and liberals, and not just because of the schadenfreude. Personality Traits Theorized to be Associated with Liberal (or Left-Wing) and Conservative (or Right-Wing) Orientation Liberal/Left-WingSlovenly, ambiguous, indifferentEccentric, sensitive, individualisticOpen, tolerant, flexibleLive-loving, free, unpredictableCreative, imaginative, curiousExpressive, enthusiasticExcited, sensation-seeking Desire for novelty, diversityUncontrolled, impulsiveComplex, nuancedOpen-mindedOpen to experience Conservative/Right-Wing You’ll notice a fair amount of redundancy in both lists, the result of combining characteristics listed in different studies.
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Union of Concerned Scientists Admits It Was Wrong - Hit & Run : Reason. Last week, my column, Union of Concerned Scientists Cooks the Books, Media Swallow It, dissected the artful way in which UCS analysts had used corporate giving data to imply that General Electric executives were climate change hypocrites, by allegedly supporting think tanks that endorse the scientific consensus on man-made global warming and others that are skeptical. In the UCS study the Reason Foundation, the non-profit that publishes this website, was specifically cited as garnering GE corporate support and was also accused of "misrepresenting" climate change science Setting that accusation aside, going through the figures it turns out that the Union analysts were counting $325 in corporate matching funds for employee donations to Reason as damning evidence of corporate climate change hypocrisy.
I called up Francesca Grifo, the UCS' scientific intergrity officer, to ask her if the report was seriously counting those donations? She replied yes. Yesterday afternoon, Dr.