Just going to throw some knowledge in here before we get too many people lamenting that college should be about education and how money could be better spent elsewhere. Most universities pay for their athletics programs through tickets to events, money from wealthy donors, and sponsorships. In most cases, if you took away the athletics from a university you'd just be removing a source of entertainment for students, alumni, and fans. For most, there would be a net zero change in how much is spent on the university.
Another thing to remember is that 99% of all student athletes are never even going to sniff being a professional athlete. Most don't even really have professional leagues they can join. These athletes are getting a huge opportunity to get college paid for and, hopefully, gain an education that benefits them later.
The outliers - like Alabama, Miami, USC, Notre Dame, etc. - are just that. They make millions and reap those rewards at the expense of the smaller schools who can't keep up with the Joneses. This ruling, even though it is fair to athletes, will have major repercussions on the state of college sports, and without a major overhaul of the system we will see cutbacks in many programs as we saw when Title IX - another fair ruling - went into effect.
The Expanse handles this stuff much better than other shows, as has been noted many times. As entertaining as it is, For All Mankind gets things very wrong in a lot of cases and falls prey to a lot of the 'space tropes' that plague sci-fi. And I certainly don't expect hard sci-fi realism everywhere, but in something like For All Mankind, which is supposed to exist in an alternate timeline but be firmly planted in the real world, it's jarring. When it's in something like the movie Event Horizon I really don't care about realism.
I just watched the scene in For All Mankind with the astronauts/lunar surface/duct tape and it seemed to match this article. Which aspects of For All Mankind are you referencing that got it wrong?
The duct tape scene is not right, there is a youtube video [0] from a physicist and astronomer that explains pressure suits (which the duct tape would provide). He surmised that they had a minimum of a minute to do their work, and certainly wouldn't have been leaking blood all over the place.
The other trope that For All Mankind really fumbled on was the decompression of the space station (I'm avoiding spoilers for those that don't know why). It followed the trope of massive amounts of air continuously rushing out of the station when that can only happen when there is a massive amount of air available to continuously feed the decompression. In reality, it would be a short rush of air to vacuum as the window was large enough for most to escape very quickly.
In the book she exhales:
"She pushed her jaw forward in a yawn, opening her throat and her Eustachian tubes. Cyn yelped as she hit OPEN OUTER DOOR. Air tugged at her once, hard, as it evacuated. Adrenaline flooded her blood as she was assaulted invisibly on every square centimeter of flesh. The breath in her lungs rushed out of her, trying to pull her lungs along with it.[...] With her lungs empty, there was no reserve. She wasn’t holding her breath, surviving off the gas held inside her. Someone could hold their breath for a couple minutes. In the vacuum, she could make it maybe fifteen seconds unaided.
Corey, James S.A.. Nemesis Games (The Expanse) (p. 425). Orbit. Kindle Edition.
If you're referring to the scene where she deliberately exits an airlock, then she actually exhaled whereas the other person with her did not and died.
(Purposely being vague to avoiding spoiling anyone on this great series)
I rewatched this moment on Prime and I remembered it correctly. While she exhales after last words slowly, she inhales sharply before pressing the button.
I remember it probably because I watch everything with subtitles on and that was written. I now watched it without to avoid being biased and it still holds.
In addition she was exposed to the vacuum about 40 seconds before using the shot.
It is 'magic' but a really interesting concept. It's essentially a self-replicating terraforming device. An ancient civilization sends out probes with the molecule - in this case a small planetoid - that will hopefully crash into a planet with biological material and then collect and convert said material into a ring that connects to an interstellar network. The problem is that the one in The Expanse got caught up in Jovian system, like gets done with a lot of interstellar objects.
It's a variation on the Von Neumann probe. A self replicating spacecraft. Instead of being for exploration or production of a specific widget its purpose is building ftl gates as part of a presumably galactic network.
Not just while the wood is drying, wood 'movement' is something woodworkers have to take into consideration in almost every project. Everyone lives in an environment with humidity (some more than others) and when seasons change solid wood will expand and contract. Plywood is very stable with respect to humidity.
With my knowledge as a non-professional woodworker, there's not a lot to cabinets. Even professionally made cabinets use veneered plywood for the bases so what IKEA does isn't any different than almost all cabinets here in the US. The US mostly uses 'framed' cabinets instead of European 'frameless' cabinets, but the cabinet box is essentially the same.
The government doesn't want it's citizens to horde money. A ton of money sitting in the bank or in assets doesn't really do anyone any good. An inheritance tax pushes the rich into using their money - instead of leaving your kids cash and assets, you leave your kids a company or something similar. They can either continue to own the company and get paid for it or sell it and get taxed on it. Regardless, a company that provides jobs is a much more interesting prospect to the gov't than just rich people with assets.
Isn't the main security feature of hashing that you hash against a salt and that no one but the server knows the salt? Once you send the salt to the client (and anything on the client should be considered insecure) you give the ability to generate lookup tables for common passwords. Without the salt it's much harder to brute-force the password.
No. Salts are not intended to be secrets. The expectation is that in the case of a breach that salts are also exposed. What they do is prevent precomputation of lookup tables, granting the developer a bit of time after a breach before all bets are off.
No, the salt can be public (it was on Unix machines before the invention of /etc/shadow). The important thing is that it is unique per password, so that Hash(Salt#Password) is unique even if two passwords happen to be the same.
Why would used cars drop in price? Since no one is buying new cars there's no supply of used cars. Lower supply means increased prices but demand is probably down as well so almost no change.
Leases come due. Cars hit the used market. You also have rental companies dumping cars onto the market since business has collapsed. Hertz might be going into bankruptcy. Repo's are another thing to consider along with private sales when people can't afford them or need to raise money.
There is a big supply of used cars coming. Rental agencies are offloading cars because they have storage issues with nobody renting their vehicles. However, lots of the car auctions are closed so that could prevent the prices from coming down.
They're actually about to reduce used vehicle supply to artificially inflate market conditions above where they're going to sink to. The corporate gangsters in Detroit are working on Cash For Clunkers part 2 (which will harm the poorest vehicle buyers the most over the span of years as supply is reduced, just as it did last time).
When I bought my current used car, in cash, the dealer offered it on financing for 0% or 0.9% or something very low — no impact on the selling price. It wouldn't have been a terrible decision to take the super low interest loan and put the purchase money into my investment portfolio instead (just another form of leverage). I paid cash anyway, because I went in intending to, but characterizing all financing as extremely desperate is misguided.
