(Bloomberg) -- Jennifer Rie, a senior litigation analyst for Bloomberg intelligence, discusses the proposed merger between Anthem and Cigna, and whether or not the two companies actually want the merger to go through. She speaks with Michael Best and June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
среда, 30 ноября 2016 г.
Immigrant Detention Gets Held up in the Supreme Court (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Neils Frenzen, director of the Immigration Clinic at USC School of Law, and Jon Feere, legal policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, discuss a Supreme Court case, which concerns the constitutionality of immigrant detention. They speak with Greg Stohr and June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
India Unveils the World’s Largest Solar Power Plant
Kamuthi in Tamil Nadu, India is now home to the world’s largest simpler solar plant that adds 648 MW to the country’s generating capacity. Previously, the Topaz Solar Farm in California, which was completed two years ago and has a capacity of 550 MW, held the title. Aljazeera reports: the latest solar news
вторник, 29 ноября 2016 г.
10 Months to 10,000 Page Views Per Month
How long does it take a new site, in a new niche to get to 10,000 monthly page views? Turns out it can take 10 months, without taking much of your time. Let me tell you how I did it, and how Rafal and I are planning to do it again, with another new site, […]
Massachusetts Accuses Texas Judge of Power Abuse (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Jeff Cramer, managing director at the Berkeley Research Group, discusses why Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is accusing Texas Judge Ed Kinkeade of abusing his power. He speaks with Greg Stohr and June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
Bloomberg Law Brief: Trump Rejects Election Recount (Audio)
Josh Douglas, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, discusses a vote recount in the United States presidential election, which has already been criticized by several members of Donald Trump's transition team. He speaks with Greg Stohr and June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
понедельник, 28 ноября 2016 г.
Donald Trump Reacts to Green Party Election Recount (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Josh Douglas, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, discusses a vote recount in the United States presidential election, which has already been criticized by several members of Donald Trump's transition team. He speaks with Greg Stohr and June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
The Entrepreneur Fighting the Snoopers’ Charter in the UK With a Privacy-Protecting Web Browser
Edward Snowden’s GCHQ and NSA leaks in 2013 prompted people to think differently about their personal privacy. It was revealed that telephone recordings, emails, and instant messages were being collected en masse.
Surveillance in the digital age is unsettling, but privacy advocates are increasingly frustrated that many people seem not to care.
“It’s a hard sell to people to say, ‘care about what you do on the Internet’,” admitted tech entrepreneur Alex Kontos. “But it’s good to have freedom on the Internet.”
The 22-year-old is developing an alternative web browser called Aegis that focuses on the user’s online privacy. He says he’s not looking to “re-invent the wheel” but is ardent about providing a free and open web, particularly in an era where the end user often becomes the product. To protect user privacy, he won’t be tracking data and there will be no ads.
It’s release is set to be this December, particularly timely – though unintentionally so – with the UK Parliament passing the Investigatory Powers Bill, also known as the Snoopers’ Charter, on November 16th. The Bill will come into effect after receiving Royal Assent.
The Bill legalises a range of surveillance tools that give the government the ability to intercept millions of UK citizens’ communications. It was passed despite criticism from privacy advocates and major technology companies, including Apple.
If even one person uses it and it makes a difference then I couldn’t ask for more
Kontos said all of the records for people using the Aegis browser, which encrypts traffic, would be “garbled information”, “nonsensical”, and of no use.
But one of the requirements of the new Bill is for Internet companies to log every user’s web browsing history for a year. Several public agencies can access this information, in some cases without a warrant.
“I completely disagree with what’s been passed,” Kontos said. “It’s a bit of a bad situation. I’ll try and fight it if I can, but I’m just one person.”
Aegis is also designed for people under repressive regimes like China and Iran, so journalists, campaigners, and activists can maintain their privacy online without fear of reprimand from the state.
Alex Kontos expects his new browser to be released in December, 2016 (Si Gross/Epoch Times)
It’s set to run on Tor, which is a popular way to protect online anonymity but is known to be slow. To make things faster, Kontos is planning to set up a private network modelled on Tor, with servers hosted in countries like Iceland and the Netherlands, where he says there won’t be the risk of censorship.
“If even one person uses it and it makes a difference then I couldn’t ask for more. Hopefully I’m not trying to fill in shoes too big because I’m just one person and I don’t want to have my plate too full,” he said.
He sometimes still feels daunted by the popularity of the Waterfox web browser that has around 6 million downloads, and which he coded at the age of 16 purely because he wanted a faster Internet browser.
Born in Cyprus to a Cypriot father and Romanian mother, his interest in computers was sparked by his father, a programmer. He remembers sitting in front of a BBC Micro with his father at age 10.
At 20, he worked on developing a charitable search engine, where half of the ad revenue from searches would be split with charities. He said it “crashed and burnt in typical start up fashion” but has taken it as good learning experience for his current project.
He’s now put his heart into building an indie web browser that can help protect people’s privacy.
“I figured I’ll put everything I can behind working and doing something good,” he said. “I’m stressed most of the time, but it’s a good kind of stress.”
Piquant pork: An easy apple-glazed tenderloin dinner dish to celebrate sweater weather
Apple-Glazed Pork Tenderloin is a table delight, thanks to the meat's overnight bath in a spiced apple marinade
Bloomberg Law Brief: Cheerleading Uniforms go to Court (Audio)
Susan Scafidi, director of the fashion law institute, and Christopher Buccafusco, a professor at the Cardozo Law School, discuss a Supreme Court case, which will decide whether cheerleading uniforms can be copyrighted under federal law. They speak with Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
суббота, 26 ноября 2016 г.
Generating a WordPress rtl. css with Gulp
This is post 3 of 4 in the series “WordPress Automation” Generating a rtl.css files is something I don’t enjoy … Continue Reading Generating a WordPress rtl.css with Gulp
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четверг, 24 ноября 2016 г.
John McAfee on the Erosion of Privacy and Freedom
NEW YORK—John McAfee, who created the world’s first antivirus computer program, VirusScan, in 1987, and became a news sensation in 2012 when he was on the run from the law in Belize, gives a sobering view of how we are allowing technology to slowly erode our privacy, and with it, our basic freedoms.
“People are missing the fundamental truth of privacy,” said the McAfee Associates founder, in an interview with Epoch Times. “Governments, phone companies, and Google would like us to believe that if we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear. That is an extraordinarily naive understanding of privacy.”
When you go to the grocery store and meet a new clerk, do you tell that clerk all the details of what you did the night before? asks McAfee. What about your bank problems? The mortgage on your house?
When you leave the store, maybe you bump into an acquaintance, and with this person, you make small talk about how their family is doing. But you don’t divulge to this person the level of information you would to a close friend, he points out.
“We have a social structure and order and process for such interactions, and they involve very limited choices,” McAfee said.
We have different levels of trust for each person we encounter, and the amount of personal information we divulge is based on this level of trust. Privacy, he said, is built by the “constant decisions and actions that each of us makes thousands of times per day.”
Privacy is complex. It’s not as simple as ‘I’ve got nothing to hide therefore, I’ve got nothing to fear.’ If everyone knew everything about everyone else, there would be riots in the streets.
McAfee views privacy as “the glue that holds our society together.” There’s the understanding that if we all divulged every detail about ourselves—our deeds both good and bad, all of our political views, all of our thoughts and opinions—it wouldn’t be our similarities that stick out anymore, but rather our differences.
The human race tends to be as judgmental as it is loving, he said. If people knew the misdeeds, betrayals, and bad thoughts of everyone around them, it could lead to riots in the street.
“It is the negative qualities that require privacy in order to have a smoothly functioning society,” McAfee said.
The idea that sharing information and ideas online would somehow help people to better understand each other has been proven false by the divisiveness now on display. “We just had election riots in the streets. Does any of that dialogue matter? No.”
For all that people can exchange ideas online, the level of debate is far from functional. McAfee believes people are judgmental and fixed in their opinions. “If I like Trump, then there is nothing that you will tell me about Hillary Clinton that will change my mind.”
He said reality differs from the optimistic view that sharing information about ourselves online can bridge differences. “All of these pie-in-the-sky hopes for technology, I don’t think will be achieved.”
As people divulge their deeper ideas, people with different views are often left feeling offended. The divulging of information, in this case, is leading to calls for the online censorship of rival viewpoints and information. Twitter’s recent purge of alt-right political commentators could be seen as a worrying precursor.
The Information Dictatorship
The idea of a single authority having control over information, the ability to discredit ideas and opinions, and the ability to censor at will, brings prospects that McAfee believes we as a society should find deeply concerning.
We’re already seeing this, as major technology hubs like Facebook and Google become both the storehouses of our personal information and the choke points of information we are able to receive.
“Google has prohibited power, has unconscionable power,” he said.
Many people take Google search results as fact, but overlook the sources of that information, and how Google selects which to put at the top of the list and which to bury. The next dictator, McAfee said, “will not be a political, head-of-state dictator.”
“It will be,” he said, “the dictator of information.
“What I choose for you to believe, understand, know, or to fight for is the ultimate power.
“Who has that vault of power? Right now, it is Google.”
In the endless barrage of information, the challenge becomes knowing what is fact and what is fiction.
“The fake and the real cannot be distinguished if one person controls the delivery of the truth.”
Any information filtered by that person, he said, is going to be colored by their own prejudices and judgments, no matter how kind the person may be.
Big Brother Through Big Data
People also underestimate the significance of the data they generate, said McAfee. Beyond the bits and bytes stored on smartphones, people leave a wealth of information behind with every website they visit and every purchase they make.
Everything from Facebook comments to phone calls leaves data to be harvested.
“It’s every interaction of your life in the electronic world,” McAfee said.
He believes the rapid erosion of privacy, and the corporate collection of our personal data, is threatening society in a fundamental way.
“I see this headed in a direction that will cause a major collapse of the social order,” he said.
Our personal data is being traded, used, and monitored. Businesses like Google are using it to serve us advertisements. Companies are using it to understand our behaviors and personal interests. Governments are using it to watch for threats, or to prosecute us if we step out of line.
What I said 10 years ago is happening. What I said last year, it’s happening. But it doesn’t make me less of a lunatic.
McAfee noted that most great military leaders were great because they could predict the actions of their enemies. Now we are divulging data that can be used against us, in just the same way, right down to our most basic activities, interests, opinions, and beliefs.
“The goal of every dictator has not been absolute power,” he said, “It has been absolute knowledge of the populous, because a dictator who knows everything about you—where you are, who you’re with, what you’re saying—that man will never be unseated. This has been the search of all dictatorships since Adolf Hitler.
“This is George Orwell’s ‘1984,’ where you re-write history every day. This is the horror.”
As we enter a new the world of big data and the loss of privacy, there exists a power of dictatorship unprecedented in human history, an ability for a government to know the intricate details of its citizens, and shape their reality according to its machinations.
“This is that combination of what the dictator knows about the individual, and what the dictator allows the individual to know about his or her reality,” he said.
“We are standing on the edge of a cliff, teetering.”
среда, 23 ноября 2016 г.
The Key to Attention and Engagement
What is the secret of getting a person’s attention? Why do some people seem to be able to get anyone to take their call, while other people seem cursed with obscurity? I have been asked this question twice, recently. I’m always uncomfortable when I have multiple answers, none of them satisfactory. So I mulled over […]
Tesla Runs Tau In American Samoa Island On Solar Power
Tesla has announced that their simpler solar panels are nearly entirely powering the island of Ta’u in American Samoa. SolarCity developed a microgrid with 1.4 megawatts of solar generation capacity — enough to power nearly 100% of the island, according to a SolarCity blog posted on Tuesday seen by latest solar news web site. The microgrid ...
вторник, 22 ноября 2016 г.
New Mexico Considers Warrants for Digital Evidence (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter and English, discusses a proposal in the New Mexico state legislature, which aims to require warrants for investigations involving digital evidence. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Michael Best and June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
Take your holiday baking to the next level
Anna Olson's white chocolate cranberry mousse tart is a festive favourite. The mousse is set in a chocolate crumb crust, and cranberry compote scented with orange zest and brandy
Bloomberg Law Brief: North Carolina Court Packing (Audio)
Robert Orr, a former associate judge on the North Carolina Supreme Court, discusses allegations that the republican state legislature is trying to pack the court with republicans after voters decided on a democratic court. They Speak with Bloomberg’s Michael Best and June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
понедельник, 21 ноября 2016 г.
Bloomberg Law Brief: Day Reckoning For Valeant Execs (Audio)
Former Valeant Phamaceuticals executives Gary Tanner and Andrew Davenport have been arrested and charged with fraud and money laundering. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Elizabeth Krutoholow and Bloomberg Biotech Reporter Doni Bloomfield discuss the case with Bloomberg Law hosts June Grasso and Greg Stohr.
Resuming My Couch To 5k Training – Learning To Run
I started this journey way back in 2013 with my Couch to 5k training and my dusty treadmill and unfortunately this category on my blog has remained lonely with only 2 posts in it for the past 3 years.
But now I’m eating well with WildFit, I feel great and have loads of energy, plus I’m way better at committing to things now – I decided to take it up again.
I think last time I only documented the first workout of week 1 and probably didn’t manage to get much further than that: Couch-to-5k – Week 1 Workout 1 Conquered!.
This time though, I WILL FINISH IT! No promises I’ll actually be able to run 5 kilometres at the end, but I’ll give it a damn good go.
So yah, I started again. Started with walking at 3.2 mph and jogging at 5.2 mph – not too bad. Got a good sweat on and heart rate maxed out (my Fitbit Charge 2 arrived just in time!).
It’s a good work-out, nicely paced and with 3.2/5.2 mph I find it very manageable to complete. The first week has you going about 2.6km in 28 minutes.
I’ve actually complete 3 weeks of the program now and am starting my 4th (tomorrow night will be Week 4 – Day 1) and I haven’t missed a single session yet, plus I’ve completed them all.
My speed is up as well, now I’m doing 3.4 mph for the brisk walk and 5.4 mph for the jogging sections (the past week had 2x 3 minute jogs – which was pretty intense).
It’ll be interesting to see what the coming week brings, I can definitely feel the difference in my cardiovascular fitness, stamina and ability to run. It helps a lot of Badminton (which I try to play at least twice a week) – and burns insane calories (1500-2000 in a 2 hour session).
Definitely getting thinner, fitter and healthier every day!
Get a great book to help here: 5K Training For Beginners: From Couch To 5K Runner In 8 Weeks Or Less
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воскресенье, 20 ноября 2016 г.
Revealed: Winners of the 'Oscars of watches'
It's the prize giving ceremony that everyone's on time for.
суббота, 19 ноября 2016 г.
RPGCast - Episode 404: "Pansexual WoW Characters"
We know many of you need comfort in these dark times. RPGCast is here and hopes to be an escape from the worries and tribulations of the world around you. Please download and listen and we'll do our best to help you cope with our new reality. Do not worry and take heart, as Persona 5 WILL come out one day.
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In the U.S. election of 1796, the President of the U.S. Philosophical Society (Jefferson) ran against the founder of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Adams). The most popular musician around that time was Ludwig Van.
Looking back from the age of Trump, Clinton and Bieber, it's clear that things have gone to shit to an extent that hasn't been seen since Rome fell. I don't want to labour the point, but if standards continue to decline at this rate for another couple of centuries, the President of the United States would be literally a chimp, and music would be more hideous than any yowling yet produced by man or beast.
пятница, 18 ноября 2016 г.
How to outsmart fake news in your Facebook feed
Fake news is actually really easy to spot -- if you know how. Consider this your New Media Literacy Guide.
четверг, 17 ноября 2016 г.
Leonard Leo on Federalist Society Convention (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Leonard Leo, Executive VP of the Federalist Society For Law & Public Policy Studies, discusses the Federalist Society convention starting Thursday. He speaks on Bloomberg Law with June Grasso and Greg Stohr.
Graber & Johnson on Trump Budget Tightening for Cities (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Lena Graber, a Special Project Attorney, at the San Francisco Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and Kevin Johnson, a Law Professor at the UC School of Law, discuss how Mayors of cities providing sanctuary for undocumented immigrants, are bracing themselves for President-elect Donald trump's budget restraints. They spoke on "Bloomberg Law" with host June Grasso.
среда, 16 ноября 2016 г.
Peers on Comprehensive Law Needed For Brexit (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Steven Peers, a Law Professor at the University of Essex School of Law\u0010discusses how a UK judge says we might need comprehensive law to start Brexit. He speaks with June Grasso, Michael Best, and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Law.
Setting up Gulp for WordPress – and Checking TextDomains Automatically
This is post 2 of 4 in the series “WordPress Automation” For the first part in my ‘Automating WordPress Development‘ … Continue Reading Setting up Gulp for WordPress – and Checking TextDomains Automatically
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вторник, 15 ноября 2016 г.
Berman and Gordon on Chrysler Being Accused of Cheating (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Steve Berman Managing Partner/Co-Founder at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, and Erik Gordon, a Professor at University of Michigan Law School Will discuss Dodge truck owners accusing Chrysler of VW-like cheating. They speak on "Bloomberg Law" with host June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio.
Brightest supermoon since 1948
See photos of November's supermoon -- the brightest in nearly 70 years.
понедельник, 14 ноября 2016 г.
How to get more people to sign up, and keep them subscribed to your list long term
Do you want more email subscribers and readers? What is stopping your list from growing? How do you keep people from leaving? I will tell you there is always something you can improve when it comes to growing your subscriber base, and the answers are not always difficult or complex … once you see what […]
пятница, 11 ноября 2016 г.
States Vote on Death Penalty in Election (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discusses several state elections which upheld the death penalty is states across the United States. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Michael Best and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
четверг, 10 ноября 2016 г.
Experts Debate Trump's Impact on Immigration Laws (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Harlan York, founding Partner of Harlan York and Associates, and Stephen Legomsky, a professor at Washington University Law School, discuss how president-elect Donald Trump could impact immigration laws in the United States. They speak with Bloomberg’s Michael Best and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
среда, 9 ноября 2016 г.
Implications of Trump Presidency on Antitrust Suits (Audio)
(Bloomberg) -- Jennifer Rie, senior litigation analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses how president Trump could impact antitrust litigation in the United States. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Michael Best and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
Adobe Lightroom for Android makes it easier to dump your PC - CNET
A new feature, the ability to edit raw photos, makes tablets and phones a more powerful option for Adobe's software for editing and cataloging photos.
вторник, 8 ноября 2016 г.
It’s not what you say that matters
How many times have you seen a misunderstanding caused by a message being delivered lazily over text? How many people have you seen get into an argument because of what they perceived to be an insult, that was not intended that way. It’s happened to most of us at one point or another, particularly during […]
Google uses AI to help you find that obscure Android app - CNET
A neural network -- and a human touch -- help Google figure out which apps belong in which categories.
Bloomberg Law Brief: Janet Reno’s Legacy (Audio)
Bert Brandenberg, president of Appleseed and director of public affairs for the department of justice under Janet Reno, discusses the legacy of the late attorney general. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Greg Stohr and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law." Bloomberg's Karen Moskow and Bob Moon report the day's top legal stories.
понедельник, 7 ноября 2016 г.
Report of Different Samsung Phone Model Exploding
PARIS—A Samsung phone user in France says her Galaxy J5 smartphone caught fire and exploded on Sunday. The model is different from the Galaxy Note 7 that has been recalled worldwide.
Lamya Bouyirdane told The Associated Press on Monday that she noticed the phone was very hot after she asked her four-year-old son to pass it over during a family gathering at her home. She said she threw the phone away when she realized it had “swollen up” and smoke was coming out.
“I panicked when I saw the smoke and I had the reflex to throw it away,” said Bouyirdane, a mother of three in the southwestern French city of Pau.
The phone then caught fire and the back blew off. Her partner quickly extinguished it.
Bouyirdane said she bought the phone new last June on a website offering discounts.
The South Korean company recently recalled millions of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones globally because of a problem that caused the batteries to overheat and catch fire.
William Stofega, a mobile analyst for IDC, said the incident in France was most likely an isolated one, noting that the phone has been on the market for several months now and this is the first report of a battery fire that he’s aware of.
“These reports tend to cluster,” he said.
He added that problems involving lithium-ion batteries used in not just smartphones, but also laptop computers, have been around for years and there’s no easy fix for them. Manufacturing defects or even a small amount of damage can cause a short circuit, resulting in an overheated battery and potentially a fire.
Samsung did not immediately respond to an email from the AP seeking comments following the latest incident.
пятница, 4 ноября 2016 г.
Samsung, After Phone Recall, Recalls 3M Washing Machines
Nearly 3 million Samsung washing machines are being recalled in the U.S. following multiple injuries—including a broken jaw—due to “excessive vibration.”
Samsung is the South Korean company that last month was forced to recall millions of its of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after batteries inside began to overheat and catch fire.
Safety officials cited 733 reports of malfunctioning, top-loading washing machines and nine injuries, including the broken jaw and an injured shoulder.
The recall Friday affects 34 models of washing machines manufactured between 2011 and this year. Samsung is offering free repairs, a rebate on the cost of a new machine or a full refund for machines purchased in the last 30 days.
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