Tuesday, December 31, 2019

A social media influencer will serve 14 years in prison after his plot to take over a website at gunpoint backfired - CNN

A social media influencer will serve 14 years in prison after his plot to take over a website at gunpoint backfired - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/us/social-media-influencer-sentenced-trnd/index.html
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/12/10/us/social-media-influencer-sentenced-trnd/index.html

Knife crime: Fatal stabbings at highest level since records began in 1946 - BBC News

Knife crime: Fatal stabbings at highest level since records began in 1946.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47156957
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-47156957

Misconceptions: Unrestricted Release of Offensive Security Tools

Misconceptions: Unrestricted Release of Offensive Security Tools

"Uncontrolled proliferation of offensive capability is facilitating network intrusions by actors of all categories and sophistication. The proliferation of capability has increased the overall threat within the security environment — there are more actors with more capability than ever before. "

GoogleWhy the global telecoms dream turned sour

Monday, December 30, 2019

Mykotronx

Mykotronx: "Rainbow was responsible for developing and supporting top secret encryption devices used by the NSA, NRO and other government agencies [2]. In 2004, Rainbow Technologies was acquired by SafeNet and went on as SafeNet Government Solutions, LLC, providing INFOSEC and COMSEC products for the US government [3]. Nevertheless, the KIV-7 COMSEC products were still sold under the Mykotronx brand, just like the Fortezza Crypto Cards."

Trichiasis (ingrowing eyelashes) – BOPSS :

Trichiasis (ingrowing eyelashes) – BOPSS:

"Trichiasis describes eyelashes that are misdirected towards the eye,"

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Help us fix bad broadband speed | Fix bad broadband

Help us fix bad broadband speed | Fix bad broadband: "Broadband is an essential part of modern life.
Yet the service many of us get simply isn’t good enough."

Broadband – House of Commons Library

Broadband – House of Commons Library: "Ofcom and the UK Government consider that a “decent” broadband connection for typical home broadband usage is one capable of delivering a download speed of at least 10 Mbps and an upload speed of at least 1 Mbps."

GigaCube – the alternative to home broadband from Vodafone

GigaCube – the alternative to home broadband from Vodafone: Featuring Huawei B528

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Old folks enterprise prize

Applications are now open and will remain open until February 26th 2020, 17:00 CET  https://aal.challenges.org/

Ai ethics

Jeep FCA in here somewhere

Vehicle vulnerable

Friday, December 27, 2019

Cheddar sauce

Research news - A £300,000 boost for research into an iron overload genetic condition - University of Exeter

Research news - A £300,000 boost for research into an iron overload genetic condition - University of Exeter: "Now the Exeter team has received £291,000 from the government’s UK Medical Research Council (MRC) for research into why the disease is more severe in some, and on the longer-term effects of the faulty genes on diseases such as dementia and diabetes."

DNA Registry Unlocks Key to Fallen Servicemembers' Identities

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Barely any UK homes or businesses have fibre broadband access | ITProPortal m

Barely any UK homes or businesses have fibre broadband access | ITProPortal
https://www.itproportal.com/news/barely-any-uk-homes-or-businesses-have-fibre-broadband-access/

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

What is AMPYRA(R) (dalfampridine)?

What is AMPYRA® (dalfampridine)?
https://ampyra.com/what-is-ampyra

Trump admin shuts down pollution-tracking map | TheHill

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Ring's Neighbors Data Let Us Map Amazon's Home Surveillance Network

Ring's Neighbors Data Let Us Map Amazon's Home Surveillance Network: "one of the most “striking” and “disturbing” glimpses yet, privacy experts said, of Amazon’s privately run, omni-surveillance shroud that’s enveloping U.S. cities."

Google News - Chinese 2FA

Like she said...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-hacker-group-caught-bypassing-2fa/

Monday, December 23, 2019

The 3D Book Cover Creator You’ll Love to Use

The 3D Book Cover Creator You’ll Love to Use: "The 3D Book Cover Creator You’ll Love to Use"

Baroness Greenfield - Wikipedia

Check out the voice part of the page:

Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield - Wikipedia

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points

Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points - Columbia Journalism Review: "These networks of sites can be used in a variety of ways: as ‘stage setting’ for events, focusing attention on issues such as voter fraud and energy pricing, providing the appearance of neutrality for partisan issues, or to gather data from users that can then be used for political targeting."

Friday, December 20, 2019

simple website?

How to Tell if Your PHP Site has been Hacked or Compromised

How to Tell if Your PHP Site has been Hacked or Compromised | Greg Freeman's Blog: "how to locate potential malicious php code hosted on your servers and how to fix it."

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Warwick Professor Georgia Kremmyda

Professor Georgia Kremmyda: "ENHANCE - ENabling Humanitarian Attributes for Nurturing Community-based Engineering".

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Carers' support | Coventry City Council

Welcome to Carersmart.org - CarerSmart

Group Support - Carers Trust HofE

Monday, December 16, 2019

How to do Windows Backups with Robocopy

How to do Windows Backups with Robocopy – Tips & Tricks | Michael McKinnon:

robocopy /Z /E /R:0 /W:0 source destination /XD "Temp" "Temporary Internet Files" /XF pagefile.sys hiberfil.sys

e.g.

robocopy /Z /E /R:0 /W:0 C:\ D|backup /XD "Temp" "Temporary Internet Files" /XF pagefile.sys hiberfil.sys

Conservative Party manifesto 2019: 13 key policies explained - BBC News

These are just some of the things Boris has promised the UK:

Conservative Party manifesto 2019: 13 key policies explained - BBC News

Coventry Street map : Cosmographics Ltd

Coventry Street map: Cosmographics Ltd: Up-to-date Ordnance Survey mapping showing and naming the majority of streets

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Experts raise new fears about killer air pollution in UK

Situational Crime Prevention - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology

Situational Crime Prevention - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology: "Situational crime prevention (SCP) is a criminological perspective that calls for expanding the crime-reduction role well beyond the justice system."

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Direct Connections Between Macs

Direct Connections Between Macs: "A Thunderbolt connection will provide the fastest data transfer speeds you can achieve on your Macs — often much faster than your hard drives can keep up with."

Capable Guardian - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Capable Guardian - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics: "Routine activity theory, developed by Cohen and Felson, revolves around three things: a “potential offender, a suitable target, and the absence of a capable guardian”"

Friday, December 13, 2019

Managing iPod/iPhone Without iTunes

Managing iPod/iPhone Without iTunes: "Your device will be detected and its content loaded within seconds."

How to Download an Entire Website for Offline Viewing

How to Download an Entire Website for Offline Viewing: "It allows the user to download a website from the internet to their local directory, where it will build the directory of the website using the HTML, files, and images from the server onto your computer."

Clone Larger HDD to Smaller SSD - EaseUS

Thursday, December 12, 2019

In KMAC's 'In The Hot Seat,' Artists Explore Chairs As Art, Design

In KMAC's 'In The Hot Seat,' Artists Explore Chairs As Art, Design: In the lobby of KMAC Museum, there’s a newly-installed sculpture by Hawaii-based artist Jeremy Dean.

Google News - ring

Analysis of cases of alleged electoral fraud in the UK in 2017 | Electoral Commission

Analysis of cases of alleged electoral fraud in the UK in 2017 | Electoral Commission
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media/789

Contact Us - GIGABYTE U.K.

Contact Us - GIGABYTE U.K.: You are also welcome to join the community of GIGABYTE users
and discuss any issue at GIGABYTE Forum: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Pollution · Patrick Collison

Pollution · Patrick Collison
Check this out...
https://patrickcollison.com/pollution

Lavinia Bunn - Ancestry.com

Lavinia Bunn - Ancestry.com: 1832 city, Staffordshire, England

Humanitarian Engineering (MSc/PGDip/PGCert/PGA)

Humanitarian Engineering (MSc/PGDip/PGCert/PGA): "Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) (60 credits)
Take any combination of core modules (excluding Research Project) for 60 credits (4 modules) or any combination including a maximum of 30 credits of optional modules."

Applied and Professional Ethics PGDip | University of Leeds

Applied and Professional Ethics PGDip | University of Leeds: "Explore the ethical issues raised by different professional contexts, and discover how ethical principles can be applied to help us navigate our increasingly complex working environments."

Monday, December 9, 2019

Digital ethics rising in importance | CSO Online

Digital ethics rising in importance | CSO Online: "we must keep in mind that just because we have the ability to deploy a new technological innovation does not mean that we should."

New phenomenon: most growth in high-tech jobs happened in just 5 metro areas

Steve Ranger | UK | Meet the Team | ZDNet

Sunday, December 8, 2019

British cave diver branded 'pedo guy' faces potentially ruinous legal costs

Google News - Elon Musk could face a RETRIAL in $190million defamation case as lawyer of British cave diver he branded 'pedo guy' claims jury blundered over Twitter technicality as his client faces potentially ruinous legal costs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7767145/British-cave-diver-branded-pedo-guy-Elon-Musk-faces-potentially-ruinous-legal-costs.html
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEBL2gxWdr16tLEGk_-d4_q4qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowzuOICzCZ4ocDMM2GowY?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

Saturday, December 7, 2019

Collectors on illicit collecting: Higher loyalties and other techniques of neutralization

the unlawful collecting of rare and precious orchids and antiquities - Simon Mackenzie, Donna Yates, 2016
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1362480615607625 

Collectors on illicit collecting: Higher loyalties and other techniques of neutralization....

Ethics and criminal actions: Collectors on illicit collecting: Higher loyalties and other techniques of neutralization in the unlawful collecting of rare and precious orchids and antiquities - Simon Mackenzie, Donna Yates, 2016
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1362480615607625 

Friday, December 6, 2019

Adam Smith - Wikiquote

Thursday, December 5, 2019

US and UK bust one of the worst cyber banking hacks in a decade, charging Russians in multi-million dollar scheme

Google News - crap cellphone coverage

Hidden by FCC....
https://news.google.com/articles/CBMieGh0dHBzOi8vYXJzdGVjaG5pY2EuY29tL3RlY2gtcG9saWN5LzIwMTkvMTIvZmNjLXRyaWVzLXRvLWJ1cnktZmluZGluZy10aGF0LXZlcml6b24tYW5kLXQtbW9iaWxlLWV4YWdnZXJhdGVkLTRnLWNvdmVyYWdlL9IBfmh0dHBzOi8vYXJzdGVjaG5pY2EuY29tL3RlY2gtcG9saWN5LzIwMTkvMTIvZmNjLXRyaWVzLXRvLWJ1cnktZmluZGluZy10aGF0LXZlcml6b24tYW5kLXQtbW9iaWxlLWV4YWdnZXJhdGVkLTRnLWNvdmVyYWdlLz9hbXA9MQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Breathing London air same as smoking 150 cigarettes a year, experts warn

India pollution: The tech cities of Bangalore and Gurgaon are choking on their own success - CNN

India pollution: The tech cities of Bangalore and Gurgaon are choking on their own success - CNN
... compare with Coventry ...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/03/tech/india-pollution-crisis-tech-cities/index.html
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/12/03/tech/india-pollution-crisis-tech-cities/index.html

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Compact ML100G-40 Fanless AMD Ryzen Industrial Computer

Compact ML100G-40 Fanless AMD Ryzen Industrial Computer | Logic Supply is now OnLogic: "The ML100G-40 is a compact fanless AMD Ryzen industrial computer with quad-core processing, dual LAN, DIO,
Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, and long embedded lifecycle."

Google News - Toxic air and gridlock: India's tech cities are choking on their success

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

William Lee | Christs College Cambridge

William Lee | Christs College Cambridge: "Thou aimest high, Master Lee. Consider thou what the invention could do to my poor subjects. It would assuredly bring to them ruin by depriving them of employment, thus making them beggars". Most likely the Queen's concern was a manifestation of the hosiers' guilds fear that the invention would make the silks of its artisan members obsolete.

William Lee Invents the Stocking Frame Knitting Machine : History of Information

William Lee Invents the Stocking Frame Knitting Machine : History of Information: "Framework knitting, as the use of Lee's machine in stocking production was called, was the first major stage in the mechanization of the textile industry, a process that 200 years later led to the Industrial Revolution."

William Lee (1563 - 1614) – Knitting Together The Heritage of the East Midlands Knitting Industry

William Lee (1563 - 1614) – Knitting Together The Heritage of the East Midlands Knitting Industry: "William Lee, the legendary inventor of the knitting frame, has been associated with a number of stories regarding his life, but uncertainty remains as to how many of them are fiction rather than fact."

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: The Story of William Lee and His Knitting Machine

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: The Story of William Lee and His Knitting Machine: "The underlying source seems to be in an 1831 book, History of the Framework Knitters, written by Gravenor Henson."

Small Technology Foundation – Home

Small Technology Foundation – Home: "We advocate for and build small technology to protect personhood and democracy in the digital network age."

Sunday, December 1, 2019

The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet - The New York Times

The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet - The New York Times: "Axiom’s station can house eight passengers, including a professional astronaut. Each will pay $55 million for the adventure, which includes 15 weeks of training, much of it at the Johnson Space Center, a 10-minute drive from Axiom’s headquarters, and possibly a trip on one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets."

LIGHTWEIGHT BODYWARMER WAISTCOAT | Gillicci Clothing

MENS CHAMPION CASUAL SMART FISHING HUNTING DALE LIGHTWEIGHT BODYWARMER WAISTCOAT | Gillicci Clothing: A super multi- pocket activity waistcoat with a pocket for every purpose.

A great travel vest for sight seeing and safaris...

Champion Men's Arundel Warm Fleece Lined Padded Thick Gilet Bodywarmer Waistcoat | Gillicci Clothing

Champion Men's Arundel Warm Fleece Lined Padded Thick Gilet Bodywarmer Waistcoat | Gillicci Clothing: Full Fleece Lining With Quilted Body

Women risk early menopause from pollution, scientists say | News | The Times

Blocked for legal reasons

San Diego ranks 6th among most polluted cities in US - The San Diego Union-Tribune

CalEnviroScreen 3.0 | OEHHA