Apparently this is the weekend everyone
takes off for Christmas shopping – or perhaps nothing what-so-ever
happened yesterday?
“I'm shocked, shocked I tell you...”
U.N.
summit votes to support Internet eavesdropping
A United Nations summit has adopted
confidential recommendations proposed by China that will help
network providers target BitTorrent uploaders, detect
trading of copyrighted MP3 files, [Flash! The RIAA speaks Chinese!
Bob] and, critics say, accelerate Internet censorship in
repressive nations.
Approval by the U.N.'s International
Telecommunications Union came despite objections from Germany, which
warned the organization must "not standardize any technical
means that would increase the exercise of control over
telecommunications content, could be used to empower any censorship
of content, or could impede the free flow of information and ideas."
My first reaction is, “If not, why
not?” Drones actually have military value. Sneaky drones, even
more so. I worry about the drone that can be piloted from the
Secretary of State's desktop, using a gameboy...
Air
Force May Be Developing Stealth Drones in Secret
… Ace aviation reporter Bill
Sweetman has gathered evidence
of new stealth drones under development by Lockheed Martin and
Northrop Grumman — the latter potentially armed, and both drawing
on classified funds.
… To be clear, no one thinks
unmanned aircraft are becoming
any less vital to Washington’s shadowy counter-terrorism
campaigns in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and, possibly soon, Mali.
Missile-armed Predators, the larger Reapers carrying bombs and
missiles, and stealthy, unarmed Sentinel spy drones, operated jointly
by the CIA and the military, are still America’s weapon of choice
for hunting terrorist leaders. Three years ago then-CIA director
Leon Panetta, now the defense secretary, called UAVs the “only
game in town” for disrupting the core of al-Qaida.
Everyone complains about PowerPoint,
but no one does anything about it.
… Microsoft
Office’s PowerPoint is the most commonly used application for
this task, but it’s not the only tool which can get the job done.
In fact, some alternatives to PowerPoint might even be better,
depending on which features you desire the most. Did I also mention
that these tools are openly available on the web and entirely free?
Plus you aren’t even required to be connected to the Internet when
it’s presentation time!
Google
Presentations. A part of the Google
Drive suite of office applications, Google Presentation is meant
to be an online PowerPoint replacement with a Google twist.
… Google
Presentations makes it very easy to embed special items such as
YouTube videos
directly into your presentation, so you won’t ever have to click on
a link to awkwardly open a browser ever again. You can also export
your Google Presentation file into a PowerPoint file, PDF file, and
many more. Finally, Google Presentations maintains the status quo by
including all of PowerPoint’s core features, such as slides,
transitions, offline presentation, and more.
Prezi.
With Prezi, you’re given a single canvas which has infinite width
and length. You are then free to put on it whatever you’d like,
from text boxes to pictures to videos.
… Prezi is
free so long as you keep your presentations public; otherwise, you’ll
have to pay a fee to set it as private.
PhotoSnack
If most of your presentations are simply a bunch of pictures that
you want to show to friends and family, then PhotoSnack
is the way to go.
… You can add
pictures to the presentation from multiple sources, including your
computer, Facebook,
Picasa, Photobucket, flickr,
SmugMug, and Instagram.
Music may also be added to your presentation if you would like. You
can then choose from different templates, and share with whomsoever
you’d like! The presentations are shown using HTML5
instead of Flash,
so as long as your recipients are running a modern browser, they
should be good to go!
There are some things man was not meant
to know...
… You’re probably familiar with
tools like EVEREST, Speccy, and HWMonitor. They do a really great
job at taking heaps of system information and pulling them together
for the user to analyze. One of the best tools that you’ve
probably never heard of in this same field is LookInMyPC, and I’d
like to introduce that to you in this post.
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