CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Made Out of Babies Origin Brooklyn , New York , United States Genres Noise rock , Sludge metal , Post metal , Post hardcore Labels Neurot Recordings Associated acts Battle of Mice Red Sparowes Pigs Clean Teeth United Nations Bad Powers Members Matthew Egan Brendan "Bunny" Tobin Julie Christmas Eric Cooper Made Out of Babies was a sludge band from Brooklyn , New York formed in 2005 that disbanded in 2012. 1 Biography 2 Members 3 Discography 3.1 Albums 3.2 EPs 3.3 Compilations 3.4 References 4 External links Biography [ edit ] Drawing equally from noise-rock bands like The Jesus Lizard and post-metal bands like Isis , the band developed a following after the release of their debut album, Trophy . Their first two albums were released by Neur...

CentralNotice Lost Luggage From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Lost Luggage The cover of Lost Luggage Developer(s) Games by Apollo Publisher(s) Games by Apollo Designer(s) Ed Salvo [1] Platform(s) Atari 2600 Release September 1982 Genre(s) Action game Mode(s) Single-player Two-player simultaneous Lost Luggage is an action video game developed and released in 1982 for the Atari 2600 by Texas-based studio Games by Apollo . The player controls skycaps working at an airport and tries to collect pieces of luggage that fall overhead from a frantic luggage carousel . A two-player mode, in which the second player controls the direction the luggage falls, is also available. Programmer Ed Salvo was inspired to make Lost Luggage when he was waiting for his luggage at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport ,...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (September 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) This article's factual accuracy is disputed . Please help to ensure that disputed statements are reliably sourced . See the relevant discussion on the talk page . (April 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Part of a series on the History of video games ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search MurmurHash is a non- cryptographic hash function suitable for general hash-based lookup. [1] [2] [3] It was created by Austin Appleby in 2008 [4] and is currently hosted on Github along with its test suite named 'SMHasher'. It also exists in a number of variants, [5] all of which have been released into the public domain. The name comes from two basic operations, multiply (MU) and rotate (R), used in its inner loop. Unlike cryptographic hash functions , it is not specifically designed to be difficult to reverse by an adversary, making it unsuitable for cryptographic purposes. 1 Variants 1.1 MurmurHash3 1.2 MurmurHash2 2 Implementations 3 Vulnerabilities 4 Algorithm 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Variants [ edit ] MurmurHash3 [ edit ] The current version is M...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The term black fax refers to a prank fax transmission, consisting of one or more pages entirely filled with a uniform black tone. The sender's intention is generally to use up as much of the recipient's fax ink, toner , or thermal paper as possible, thus costing the recipient money and/or denying the recipient use of their own machine (this is similar to computer-based denial of service attacks). This is made easier because the fax transmission protocols compress the solid black image very well, so a very short fax call can produc...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search A hack in progress in Lobby 7. Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are practical jokes and pranks meant to prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness, or to commemorate popular culture and historical topics. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] The pranks are anonymously installed at night by hackers , usually, but not exclusively, undergraduate students. The actions of hackers are governed by an extensive and informal body of precedent, tradition, and ethics. [7] [8] Hacks can occur anywhere across campus, or occasionally off campus; many make use of the iconic Great Dome , [9] [10] Little Dome , [11] Green Building tower, [12] [13] or other prominent architectural features [14] of the MIT campus . Well-known hacker alumni include Nobel Laureates Richard P. Feynman ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search A toilet papered residence Deerfield, Michigan A practical joke (also known as a prank, gag, jape or shenanigan) is a mischievous trick or joke played on someone, typically causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort. [1] Practical jokes differ from confidence tricks or hoaxes in that the victim finds out, or is let in on the joke, rather than being fooled into handing over money or other valuables. Practical jokes or pranks are generally lighthearted, reversible and non-permanent, and aim to make the victim feel foolish or victimised to a degree, but may also involve cruelty and become a form of bullying if performed without appropriate finesse. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References Practical...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article is about the orthographical and typographical concept. For the similarly-named grammatical concept, see Grammatical case . For the minimalist musical subgenre, see Lowercase (music) . For New Testament minuscules, see Category:Greek New Testament minuscules . This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The lower-case "a" and upper-case "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the alphabet. Letter case (or just case ) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also uppercase , capital letters , capitals , caps , large le...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Not to be confused with Descriptive complexity theory . This image illustrates part of the Mandelbrot set fractal . Simply storing the 24-bit color of each pixel in this image would require 1.62 million bits, but a small computer program can reproduce these 1.62 million bits using the definition of the Mandelbrot set and the coordinates of the corners of the image. Thus, the Kolmogorov complexity of the raw file encoding this bitmap is much less than 1.62 million bits in any pragmatic model of computation. In algorithmic information theory (a subfield of computer science and mathematics ), the Kolmogorov complexity of an object, such as a piece of text, is the length of the shortest computer program (in a predetermined programming language ) that produces the object as output. It is ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Cherenkov radiation glowing in the core of the Advanced Test Reactor . Cherenkov radiation in the Reed Research Reactor . Animation of Cherenkov radiation Cherenkov radiation , also known as Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation , [a] is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron ) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium. The characteristic blue glow of an underwater nuclear reactor is due to Cherenkov radiation. It is named after Soviet scientist Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov , the 1958 Nobel Prize winner who was the first to detect it experimentally. [1] A theory of this effect was later developed within the framework of Einstein 's special relativity theory by Igor Tamm and Ilya Frank...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Time in Indiana : Counties grouped by tz database zones. Lake Michigan shown in blue at top left. Standard DST US time zone Red and pink UTC−06:00 UTC−05:00 Central Time Other colors UTC−05:00 UTC−04:00 Eastern Time Indiana counties The U.S. state of Indiana is split between Eastern and Central time zones . The official dividing line has moved progressively west from its original location on the Indiana– Ohio border, to a position dividing Indiana down the middle, and finally to its current location along much of the Indiana– Illinois border. Being on the western frontier of the Eastern time zone resulted in opposition from many in the state to observing daylight saving time for decades. [1] The 2005 decision by the Indiana General Assembly to implement dayl...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article has been nominated to be checked for its neutrality . Discussion of this nomination can be found on the talk page . (April 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) This article relies too much on references to primary sources . Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . (October 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) QUIC ( Quick UDP Internet Connections , pronounced quick ) is an experimental transport layer [1] network protocol designed by Jim Roskind at Google , [2] initially implemented in 2012, [3] and announced publicly in 2013 as experimentation broadened. [4] [5] [6] QUIC supports a set of multiplexed connections between two endpoints over User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and was designed to p...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Natural Trap Cave is a pit cave in the Bighorn Mountains , in northern Wyoming , United States. Excavations in the cave are an important source of paleontological information on the North American Late Pleistocene , due to a rich layer of fossils from animals that became trapped in the cave. [1] 1 Location 2 Early explorations 3 2014 explorations 4 References 5 External links Location [ edit ] The cave is located northeast of Lovell, Wyoming , at an elevation of 4,560 feet (1,390 m). It is a bell-shaped pit or sinkhole within the Madison Limestone , 85 feet (26 m) deep, with a slightly elongated opening of 12 feet (3.7 m) by 15 feet (4.6 m) at the top, and a diameter of around 120 feet (37 m) at the bottom. [1] Early explorations [ edit ] The first investigation of its anima...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search International Cometary Explorer Artist rendering of ICE Names International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 International Sun-Earth Explorer-C Explorer 59 Mission type Magnetospheric research ISEE-3: Earth / Moon L 1 orbiter ICE: 21P/G-Z & Halley fly-by Operator NASA [1] COSPAR ID 1978-079A SATCAT no. 11004 Mission duration Final: 18 years, 8 months and 23 days Spacecraft properties Manufacturer Fairchild Industries Launch mass 479 kg (1,056 lb) Dry mass 390 kg (860 lb) Dimensions 1.77 × 1.58 m (5.8 × 5.2 ft) Power 173 W Start of mission Launch date August 12, 1978, 15:12 ( 1978-08-12UTC15:12Z ) UTC Rocket Delta 2914 #144 Launch site Cape Canaveral SLC-17B End of mission Disposal Contact suspended Deactivated M...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Not to be confused with Script (disambiguation) . scrypt General Designers Colin Percival First published 2009 Cipher detail Digest sizes variable Block sizes variable Rounds variable In cryptography , scrypt (pronounced "ess crypt" [1] ) is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival, originally for the Tarsnap online backup service. [2] The algorithm was specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory. In 2016, the scrypt algorithm was published by IETF as RFC 7914 . A simplified version of scrypt is used as a proof-of-work scheme by a number of cryptocurrencies , first implemented by an anonymous programmer called ArtForz in Tenebrix and followed by Fairbrix and...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For the Etruscan goddess, see Semla (mythology) . Semla A typical semla Type Sweet roll Cookbook: Semla Media: Semla A semla (most common name in Sweden [ citation needed ] ) or fastlagsbulle (Southern Sweden and Swedish speaking Finland ), laskiaispulla (Finnish), vastlakukkel (Estonian) or fastelavnsbolle (Danish and Norwegian) is a traditional sweet roll made in various forms in Sweden , [1] Finland , Estonia , Norway , Denmark , the Faroe Islands , Iceland , Latvia , and Lithuania associated with Lent and especially Shrove Tuesday in most countries, or Shrove Monday in Denmark, parts of southern Sweden and Iceland. 1 Etymology, cognates 2 Semla/laskiaispulla 3 Fastelavnsbolle 4 History 5 See also 6 References Etymology, cognates [ edit ] The name semla...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search 1989 Tour de France Route of the 1989 Tour de France Race details Dates 1–23 July Stages 21 + Prologue Distance 3,285 km (2,041 mi) Winning time 87h 38' 35" Results Winner Greg LeMond ( USA ) ( AD Renting–W-Cup–Bottecchia ) Second Laurent Fignon ( FRA ) ( Super U–Raleigh–Fiat ) Third Pedro Delgado ( ESP ) ( Reynolds ) Points Sean Kelly ( IRE ) ( PDM–Concorde ) Mountains Gert-Jan Theunisse ( NED ) ( PDM–Concorde ) Youth Fabrice Philipot ( FRA ) ( Toshiba ) Combination Steven Rooks ( NED ) ( PDM–Concorde ) Sprints Sean Kelly ( IRE ) ( PDM–Concorde ) Team PDM–Concorde ← 1988 1990 → The 1989 Tour de France was the 76th edition of the Tour de France , a race of 21 stages and a p...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts discharges heated water to Mount Hope Bay . [1] Thermal pollution is the degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature . A common cause of thermal pollution is the use of water as a coolant by power plants and industrial manufacturers. When water used as a coolant is returned to the natural environment at a higher temperature, the change in temperature decreases oxygen supply and affects ecosystem composition. Fish and other organisms adapted to particular temperature range can be killed by an abrupt change in water temperature (either a rapid increase or decrease) known as "thermal shock." Urban runoff — stormwater discharged to surface waters from roads and parking lots —can also be a source of ele...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Wafer-level packaging ( WLP ) is the technology of packaging an integrated circuit while still part of the wafer , in contrast to the more conventional method of slicing the wafer into individual circuits (dice) and then packaging them. WLP is essentially a true chip-scale package (CSP) technology, since the resulting package is practically of the same size as the die. [1] Wafer-level packaging allows integration of wafer fab, packaging, test, and burn-in at wafer level in order to streamline the manufacturing process undergone by a device from silicon start to customer shipment. Wafer-level packaging consists of extending the wafer fab processes to include device interconnection and device protection processes. Most other kinds of packaging do wafer dicing first, and then put the individua...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search There are various methods to calculate the day of the week for any particular date in the past or future. These methods ultimately rely on algorithms to determine the day of the week for any given date, including those based solely on tables as found in perpetual calendars that require no calculations to be performed by the user. A typical application is to calculate the day of the week on which someone was born or any other specific event occurred. 1 Introduction 2 Useful concepts 2.1 Corresponding months 2.2 Corresponding years 3 A tabular method to calculate the day of the week 3.1 Basic method for mental calculation 3.2 Complete table: Julian and Gregorian calendars 3.3 Revised Julian calendar 3.4 Sunday Letter 4 Other purely mathematical algorithms 4.1 Gauss's algo...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "Gray-green" redirects here. For the bus operator, see Grey-Green . For a broader coverage related to this topic, see Green . Green Spectral coordinates Wavelength 520–570 nm Frequency ~575–525 THz Color coordinates Hex triplet #00FF00 sRGB B ( r , g , b ) (0, 255, 0) HSV ( h , s , v ) (120°, 100%, 100%) Source W3C TR CSS3 Color Module [1] B : Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Some tints and shades of green Varieties of the color green may differ in hue , chroma (also called saturation or intensity) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness ), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades , a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The line of purples circled on the CIE chromaticity diagram In color theory , the line of purples or the purple boundary is the locus on the edge of the chromaticity diagram between extreme spectral red and violet . Except for the endpoints, colors on the line of purples are not spectral. Line-of-purples colors and spectral colors are the only ones which are considered fully saturated in the sense that for any given point on the line of purples there exists no color involving a mixture of red and violet that is more saturated...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Broadcast encryption is the cryptographic problem of delivering encrypted content (e.g. TV programs or data on DVDs) over a broadcast channel in such a way that only qualified users (e.g. subscribers who have paid their fees or DVD players conforming to a specification) can decrypt the content. [1] [2] [3] The challenge arises from the requirement that the set of qualified users can change in each broadcast emission, and therefore revocation of individual users or user groups should be possible using broadcast transmissions, only, and without affecting any remaining users. As efficient revocation is the primary objective of broadcast encryption, solutions are also referred to as revocation schemes . [4] [5] Rather than directly encrypting the content for qualified users, broadcast encryptio...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Mirai Original author(s) "Anna-senpai" (online pseudonym) Repository github .com /James-Gallagher /Mirai Written in C (agent), Go (controller) Operating system Linux Type Botnet Mirai (Japanese for "the future", 未来) is malware that turns computer systems running Linux into remotely controlled "bots", that can be used as part of a botnet in large-scale network attacks. It primarily targets online consumer devices such as remote cameras and home routers. [1] The Mirai botnet has been used in some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks , including an attack on 20 September 2016 [2] on computer security journalist Brian Krebs 's web site, an attack on French web host OVH [3] and the October 2016 Dyn cyberattack . [4] [5] [6] Accordi...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search In computer science , a 2–3–4 tree (also called a 2–4 tree ) is a self-balancing data structure that is commonly used to implement dictionaries . [ citation needed ] The numbers mean a tree where every node with children ( internal node ) has either two, three, or four child nodes: a 2-node has one data element , and if internal has two child nodes; a 3-node has two data elements, and if internal has three child nodes; a 4-node has three data elements, and if internal has four child nodes. 2-node 3-node 4-node 2–3–4 trees are B-trees of order 4; [1] like B-trees in general, they can search, insert and delete in O (log n ) time. One property of a 2–3–4 tree is that all external nodes are at the same depth. 2–3–4 trees are an isometry of red–black trees , meaning...