We’ve updated our popular Ohio State University salary database, which covers more than 30,000 workers at Central Ohio’s largest employer.
It’s embedded below and you can also find it here.
The database shows Ohio State has 11 employees who made more than $1 million in total compensation last year.
The school also has 110 employees who made more than $500,000 and 781 workers who pulled in more than $250,000.
You have to scroll way down to see all 4,844 employees who made at least $100,000.
Here…
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OSU salary database updated for 2016, plus the school’s highest-paid employees
Standing can also be bad for you, says scientist studying desk set-up
Researchers are falling down on the job of figuring out the healthiest way to work.
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Standing can also be bad for you, says scientist studying desk set-up
MySQL sample databases: for testing and training
Sometimes it’s useful to have a set of data prepared to be used on a fresh MySQL install for testing purposes. Or you might be preparing some training or workshop and want to prepare examples with fake information. For MySQL there are some choices available:
Employees Sample Database: provides a combination of a large base of data (approximately 160MB) spread over six separate tables and
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MySQL sample databases: for testing and training
The Punisher Makes a Bloody Brilliant Entrance in This New Daredevil Featurette
There’s just two days to go before we get new Daredevil episodes, but we’re still getting a bunch of new looks at season two—like this Frank Castle-focused featurette, which it shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with the Punisher to know comes with a NSFW warning for scenes of violence.
The featurette includes a ton of new footage showing Frank Castle shooting his way through Hell’s Kitchen. We get a lot more of the Punisher killing than we’ve seen in any of the trailer, especially of the rooftop scene paying homage to the iconic Devil By the Horns story from the comics. It is, as Punisher actor Jon Bernthal himself says, “kickass, man.”
Daredevil season two drops this Friday, March 18th.
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The Punisher Makes a Bloody Brilliant Entrance in This New Daredevil Featurette
How to Find & Use Subtitles in VLC Media Player for Any Video
Once you start using subtitles, you really can’t go back. They’re so useful for keeping up with dialogue in shows and films, especially when characters whisper, mumble, or have an accent you’re unfamiliar with. They’re obviously come in handy for foreign-language films, too. So let’s say you have a video file — maybe you ripped one of your DVD or Bluray discs — and you need subtitles. How do you go about this? All you have to do is visit a subtitle repository like Subscene or OpenSubtitles and search for the show or film you plan to watch. The subtitles…
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How to Find & Use Subtitles in VLC Media Player for Any Video
John Oliver Explains Why You Should Side With Apple Over The FBI Better Than Most Journalists
You had to know this was coming eventually, but the latest John Oliver main story was his take on the Apple v. FBI encryption fight. If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is:
But the biggest contribution to the debate — which I hope that people pay most attention to — is the point that Oliver made in the end with his faux Apple commercial. Earlier in the piece, Oliver noted that this belief among law enforcement that Apple engineers can somehow magically do what they want is at least partially Apple’s own fault, with its somewhat overstated marketing. So, Oliver’s team made a "more realistic" Apple commercial which noted that Apple is constantly fighting security cracks and vulnerabilities and is consistently just half a step ahead of hackers with malicious intent (and, in many cases, half a step behind them).
This is the key point: Building secure products is very, very difficult and even the most secure products have security vulnerabilities in them that need to be constantly watched and patched. And what the government is doing here is not only asking Apple to not patch a security vulnerability that it has found, but actively forcing Apple to make a new vulnerability and then effectively forcing Apple to keep it open. For all the talk of how Apple can just create the backdoor just this once and throw it away, this more like asking Apple to set off a bomb that blows the back off all houses in a city, and then saying, "okay, just throw away the bomb after you set it off."
Hopefully, as in cases like net neutrality, Oliver’s piece does it’s job in informing the public what’s really going on.
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John Oliver Explains Why You Should Side With Apple Over The FBI Better Than Most Journalists
John Oliver breaks down the San Bernardino iPhone case
John Oliver has earned himself a reputation for explaining politically complex topics in a way that anyone can understand during his Last Week Tonight talk show. After tackling net neutrality and Donald Trump, the comedian has turned his attention to the San Bernardino iPhone case. The legal tussle between Apple and the FBI has been all over the news recently, but the various arguments and counterarguments can be difficult to describe to someone that rarely reads about encryption, backdoors and government warrants. If you have friends or family that fall into this camp, Oliver’s new 18-minute breakdown is a good place for them to start.
The TV host delivers the recap with his usual wit and charm, packing in plenty of gags that should keep even the least tech-savvy viewer engaged. In the video, Oliver covers the general purpose of encryption, the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, exactly what the FBI has asked Apple to build and its justifications for such an order. He then summarises Apple’s counterarguments and the potential issues — technical and political — with building such a controversial workaround. It’s not the deepest of dives, but if you know someone that wants to quickly catch up with the whole affair this is an accessible, humorous and fairly comprehensive take.
Source: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (YouTube)
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John Oliver breaks down the San Bernardino iPhone case
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Why Apple is right to resist the FBI
The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do: break its own technology. Specifically, the FBI wants Apple to build a new version of its mobile operating system (iOS, or GovOS) so that the contents of an iPhone can be removed from an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino shooting. Read More
Listen To An Astronomer Lose His Mind Watching An Eclipse From A Plane
Over a dozen “eclipse chasers” hopped onboard Alaska Airlines Flight 870 from Anchorage to Honolulu not to pick up spam musubi for dinner, but rather, to intersect the path of a solar eclipse. Astronomer Joe Rao captured the action from seat 32F, and I’ve never heard a man so excited about anything in my life.
According to Alaska Airlines, Rao is associate astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium, so this sort of thing is his life’s calling. His excitement for the natural occurrence is beyond contagious as he delivers a breathless play-by-play of everything that’s happening with the eclipse.
Per the airline, Rao discovered a year ago that Flight 870’s path would intersect the eclipse’s path of totality on March 8, where the moon creates the darkest shadow on the Earth. Only problem: the flight would be 25 minutes early to catch the eclipse in all its darkest glory.
After Rao called to let the airline know about the eclipse, Alaska bumped the flight back and adjusted its flight path so that Rao and other astronomers could watch from onboard. What better in-flight show than one provided by Mother Nature? Fellow eclipse chaser Dan McGlaun even brought special glasses for the entire plane so that passengers could safely watch the sun.
One semi-retired astronomer on the plane, Craig Small, caught his thirty-first eclipse on the Flight 870. He explained the appeal to Alaska Airlines:
I’m not one for hyperbole, but you don’t just see an eclipse, you experience it with every fiber of your being. It is the most spectacular naturally occurring event that anyone could witness in their lifetime.
Rao’s narration was pretty spectacular, too.
According to Alaska Airlines, the plane was flying at 500 mph at an altitude of 35,000 feet when it intercepted the eclipse’s path 695 miles north of Honolulu. The eclipse lasted for almost two minutes.
Contact the author at stef.schrader@jalopnik.com.
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Listen To An Astronomer Lose His Mind Watching An Eclipse From A Plane