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Hurricane Irma

This hurricane has officially hit a category 5. To give you an idea of the strength of this storm:

Harvey was a category 4.

Katrina and Andrew were a category 5 and Irma is at the moment is stronger than both of them. This hurricane is going to cause absolute destruction when it hits. Puerto Rico (especially this beautiful isla)  Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Florida are all in it’s path. Here’s a checklist if you can afford these supplies.

Food

Bottled Water- a week’s supply minimum (One gallon daily per person)

Non perishable items that don’t require cooking ( Tuna, nuts, fruit cups, Cereal bars, peanut butter, crackers, dried fruits, canned vegetables, chili)

Dry pet food 

Packaged juices 

Powdered or canned milk 

Supplies

Manual can opener

Toilet paper 

Baby wipes ( this will make a great alternative for showers)

Batteries ( AAA, AA, 6V, C, and D)

Flash lights (if you have manual ones even better)

Battery powered radio 

Utility knife 

Waterproof matches 

5 gallons of gas

Tampons and pads 

Portable phone charger fully charged)

Sand bags (redirects water and debris flow)

First aid kit

Blankets 

Rain gear - Ponchos, boots. (avoid umbrellas)

Medications 

Portable cooler

Documentation / Legal End

A closed water proof sealed container

Take pictures and send them to yourself in an email of the following: Drivers License, photo ID, social security numbers, medical insurance cards (of each person) 

Take photos of everything! Insurance companies are not your friends. Email everything to yourself. 

If you have young children and they are able to make sure they memorize your name, address, and phone number

Other tips: 

Before the hurricane hits fill up the bath tubs in your house (extra water for flushing the toilet) 

Bring any ornaments from outside inside 

Trim trees

Board your windows

Have a secure room that you an pile everyone ( has to have no windows) 

if you have any questions message me. Keep safe mi gente xx 

Reporter: So, Irma, now that you're a Category 5, what are you going to do?

Irma: I'M DOING TO DISNEY WORLD!

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Dbl Trouble: Fix Falls Short for Backdoor in China-Made Devices

Dbl Trouble: Fix Falls Short for Backdoor in China-Made Devices

A hidden, backdoor account affects a line of VoIP gateways made by DblTek, researchers from TrustWave found. (Image courtesy of DblTek.) In-brief: A hidden, backdoor account affects a line of VoIP gateways made by DblTek, researchers from TrustWave found. The manufacturers fix, however, may not solve the problem.  (more…)

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Report: Hacking Crews are all APT now

Report: Hacking Crews are all APT now

  The tactics of cyber criminal hacking crews are indistinguishable from those of sophisticated, state sponsored “advanced persistent threat” groups, the firm FireEye said in its most recent M-Trends report. In-brief:The tactics of cyber criminal hacking crews are indistinguishable from those of sophisticated, state sponsored “advanced persistent threat” groups, the firm FireEye said in its most…

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Google Busts Symantec-Issued Certificates and Its a Big Mess

Google Busts Symantec-Issued Certificates and Its a Big Mess

Google said it would begin withdrawing trust from web sites with certificates issued by Symantec Corp. In-brief: Google’s rebuke of Symantec over its sloppy and problem-plagued certificate authority business risks upsetting some of the Internet’s biggest brands.  (more…)

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is it a good idea to drink redbull when you are prone to anxiety induced by F1 races

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde (via story-dj)

i think one of my favorite parts about traveling is knowing that others have been here before, but they’ll never experience it the way i do.

ramblings past midnight (via bisexual-lance)

me: anime is saved thanks to SGRS

SGRS: season 2 episode 12

me: I was a fool to ever believe

Weird how the moment my FP goes to bed/stops talking to me is the same moment my mood goes from 100 to 0…. hm, must be a coincidence….

So at work today I worked with a new server and she told me and the other servers how much she loved me and how good of a worker I am and that I’d make an amazing server and omg its so nice to see people appreciate my work. My manager thanked me for coming in and doing my job and above and beyond and I was just like “dude I’m just working” lol and he’s like nah you do more than that and I’m just glad they liked my work ethic and that I get a serving job cause that pays more, a lot more. AND it’s a good job until I can do acting full time =‘) and a lot of servers tell me they love me and appreciate me <3 WHICH IS AMAZING CAUSE THEY WILL TIP ME WELL !!!

me: why haven't i bought this game yet

me: oh right i forgot i need money to purchase goods and services

*5 minutes pass*

me:

me:

me:

me: why haven't i bought this game yet

me: damn I hate winter GIVE ME SPRING AND SUMMER

spring starts, bugs start coming out

me: take me back to winter

me on the outside looking in at Louis and Harry, hand against the glass: you’re doing so good kids….

Sometimes I really wonder how people manage to be larries but also kind of think that louis is some kind of idiot that just accepts whatever ‘nasty selfish Harry’ is doing like he’s some love fool that just accepts things while the fandom clearly sees through said version of Harry like what kind of relationship do people think they have? And do people realise they are basically questioning louis’ intelligence?

ive got an affinity for really zoomed in faces as reaction images

Books every programmer should read

Code Complete (2nd edition) by Steve McConnell

The Pragmatic Programmer

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie

Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest & Stein

Design Patterns by the Gang of Four

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

The Mythical Man Month

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth

Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

Effective C++

More Effective C++

CODE by Charles Petzold

Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers

Peopleware by Demarco and Lister

Coders at Work by Peter Seibel

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Effective Java 2nd edition

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

The Little Schemer

The Seasoned Schemer

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

The Inmates Are Running The Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

The Art of Unix Programming

Test-Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck

Practices of an Agile Developer

Don’t Make Me Think

Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin

Domain Driven Designs by Eric Evans

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu

Best Software Writing I by Joel Spolsky

The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt

Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnel

The Passionate Programmer (My Job Went To India) by Chad Fowler

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

Writing Solid Code

JavaScript - The Good Parts

Getting Real by 37 Signals

Foundations of Programming by Karl Seguin

Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition)

Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel

The Elements of Computing Systems

Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky

Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

The Annotated Turing

Things That Make Us Smart by Donald Norman

The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander

The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom DeMarco

The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition) by Stroustrup

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Computer Systems - A Programmer’s Perspective

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

Framework Design Guidelines by Brad Abrams

Object Thinking by Dr. David West

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens

Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter

The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander

Design Patterns in C# by Steve Metsker

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

About Face - The Essentials of Interaction Design

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

The Tao of Programming

Computational Beauty of Nature

Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire

Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications by Grady Booch

Effective Java by Joshua Bloch

Computability by N. J. Cutland

Masterminds of Programming

The Tao Te Ching

The Productive Programmer

The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick

The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World by Christopher Duncan

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case studies in Common Lisp

Masters of Doom

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas with Matt Hargett

How To Solve It by George Polya

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation

Writing Secure Code (2nd Edition) by Michael Howard

Introduction to Functional Programming by Philip Wadler and Richard Bird

No Bugs! by David Thielen

Rework by Jason Freid and DHH

JUnit in Action

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read

A software problem which has already been solved, but not everywhere.

In the early days of the WWW, some websites were a lot better than others. Some places you would fill out a form and it would log you out and forget your stuff; the meaning of icons varied across the web; ….

Nowadays, there are a lot of Standards. There’s a certain way things generally work. Visual cues consistently mean the same thing and work the way I, as a semi-daft user with a lisp and a peg leg, would expect it to, without any further thought or research.

How did this wonderful increase in usability and optimisation happen? I think it’s due to JQuery.

For those who don’t know, JQuery is a bunch of software libraries that do common tasks like “initiate twitter-like pagination” or “build a form” the right way. In other words, some people who had seen a lot of good and bad choices, wrote some functions that any other programmer can use, and wrote down all the best 500-line programs so that other people could do them with just 1 line. (If you still don’t understand what I mean by a “library”, look at the third or fourth lesson on an introduction to C++ tutorial – somewhere in the beginning the instructor will explain why sometimes you want to take a long program and split off bits of the code as separate functions.)

  So here are several problems that have all been solved very nicely. The problems were that:

not everyone has the time/funds to perfect every last nanometer of their website

not everyone has the expertise to do everything perfectly

consequently, users had a bad experience

consequently, less business was transacted online

many people were solving the same problem

too much code was being written to solve the same problem in different places

consequently, management’s and programmers’ interests were disaligned.

The problem was solved through specialisation, as well as programming techniques like abstraction, callbacks, encapsulation, so on.

How far can this Library solution be taken? I mean both in the sense of economic viability and in the sense of programmability.

If I’m typing in some random stuff into R, I kind of expect that sparse matrices are multiplying in the best way possible, or in general that calculations are being done as quick as they could be.

Wouldn’t it be nice if every data structure could automatically tap into any relevant mathematical theorems that reduce calculation time or provide insights? For example the computer shouldn’t literally add the numbers 1+2+3+…+97+98+99+100 because mathematicians already know that 1+100 + 2+99 + 3+98 + 4+97 … = 101 × 50, which is way quicker to calculate. Wouldn’t it be great if data structures could automatically “know” (via libraries) any theorem about curvature, graph traversal, Yoneda lemma, and so on, without the programmer having to be a maths textbook him/herself?

Is this impossible? Or has it just not been done yet?

Automating the Publish/Subscribe Pattern in JavaScript

The Publish/Subscribe pattern is one of the most used patterns in software, especially in User Interfaces with JavaScript. It is used whenever 2 pieces of a system need to communicate, but cannot or should not communicate directly. For example, a system receives data from a server at regular intervals that a bunch of components can use (which are added while the system runs):

var Publisher = function() { var self = { subscribers: [] }; self.subscribe = function(callback) { self.subscribers.push(callback); }; self.publish = function(data) { self.subscribers.forEach(function(callback) { callback(data); }); }; return self; } var publisher = Publisher(); // Simulate a set of data being returned over time var serverStream = function(callback) { Array.apply(null, { length: 5 }).forEach(function(unused, index) { var ms = index * 500 setTimeout(function() { callback('data-piece: ' + ms + ' ms'); }, ms); }); }; serverStream(publisher.publish); // Simulate components being registered over time. publisher.subscribe(function(data) { console.info('subscribe from part 1', data); }); setTimeout(function() { publisher.subscribe(function(data) { console.info('subscribe from part 2', data); }); }, 1000) // subscribe from part 1 data-piece: 0 ms // subscribe from part 1 data-piece: 500 ms // subscribe from part 1 data-piece: 1000 ms // subscribe from part 1 data-piece: 1500 ms // subscribe from part 2 data-piece: 1500 ms // subscribe from part 1 data-piece: 2000 ms // subscribe from part 2 data-piece: 2000 ms

The problem is that same pattern with almost identical code will be written over and over again in the same project. So instead of creating a publisher and subscriber with multiple message types each time this pattern needs to be used, it is simpler to just use new instances of the publisher object each time:

var messageSet1 = function(callback) { Array.apply(null, { length: 3 }).forEach(function(unused, index) { setTimeout(function() { callback('Hello ' + index); }, index * 500); }); }; var messageSet2 = function(callback) { Array.apply(null, { length: 3 }).forEach(function(unused, index) { setTimeout(function() { callback('World ' + index); }, index * 500); }); }; var MessageBox = function() { var self = { publishers: [] }; self.streams = function(streams) { self.publishers = []; streams.forEach(function(stream, index) { self.publishers.push(Publisher()); stream(self.publishers[index].publish); }); }; self.subscribeTo = function(index, callback) { return self.publishers[index].subscribe(callback); } return self; }; var messageBox = MessageBox(); // Use a trivial example to preserve clarity messageBox.streams([messageSet1, messageSet2]); messageBox.subscribeTo(0, function(data) { console.info('subscribe from part 1B', data); }); messageBox.subscribeTo(1, function(data) { console.info('subscribe from part 2B', data); }); // subscribe from part 1B Hello 0 // subscribe from part 2B World 0 // subscribe from part 1B Hello 1 // subscribe from part 2B World 1 // subscribe from part 1B Hello 2 // subscribe from part 2B World 2

A non-index based naming scheme could be introduced by passing more data into the streams call, but I wanted to keep the example as minimal as possible.

Github Location: https://github.com/Jacob-Friesen/obscurejs/blob/master/2016/publishSubscribeAutomation.js

Migrating From Desktop to Cloud Accounting Software

We’ve looked at the benefits of cloud accounting software, and listed the top picks and their features. Nobody’s denying the need to move to the cloud anymore, but the big question is the how.

Migrating company data from accounting software on a local system to one on the cloud is a tricky process that varies for each company and software.

All the major providers such as Sage, Intuit and Xero are helping their clients who already use desktop software move to the cloud in their own way and in a manner that best suits the client’s needs.

For example, Intuit customers moving from QuickBooks Desktop Basic Simple Start, Pro, Premier or Enterprise versions to QuickBooks Online have a multitude of resources and documentation available in the knowledgebase.

There’s a simple visual guide that takes you step-by-step through the process of importing your company file into QBO. There’s a more detailed import guide that tells you everything about migrating from a desktop version to QBO.

Another Intuit guide tells you about the limitations and the way the data is changed when you move it to QBO. Note that you won’t be able to do any of this on QBO Basic or QBO Simple Start.

Sage does one better by including a conversion tool in the software for those who have a desktop version of Quickbooks and want to switch to Sage 50 (formerly Sage Peachtree).

Those who are already Sage 50 users can move to the cloud easily just by signing up with hosting providers who offer an instantly accessible application that is remotely hosted at a secure off-site location.

These Sage 50 solution partners such as InsynQ, myownasp.com, Right Networks, Qutera, Cloud9 Real Time and HarborCloud.com offer turnkey solutions.

Your Sage 50 will be fully functional online, and you will be able to use MS-Office and other applications that often need to be used along with accounting software. Multiple users will be able to access the same files online from anywhere, regardless of their location.     

Xero, which only offers cloud accounting software, has both a free conversion tool and a DIY guide for those who want to move their Quickbooks data to Xero.

As you can see, each company has its own way of helping customers who want to use their software on the cloud. Your choice must therefore take into consideration not only the features of the software, but also whether their migration support matches your needs.   

Photo credit - Πrate/wikimedia

Save Your Computer

I have the worst luck. I’ve broken five computers and four laptops but I’ve finally learnt my lesson. After losing my work so many times, I have been great at rewriting because I’d never backed anything up. Take it from me:

Even if you backup your work in one external source from your computer, back it up online or in as many places as you can

Back up according to how much valuable work you have so if you save work/programs frequently, back up once every week

If you have a Windows computer, go onto Control Panel and search “back up”. Click on the first link and follow through from there

Do not wait until it’s too late

I may add more information on if I can think of any, but here are some useful links on some other ways to back up your computer: Windows help to backing up files How to Back Up a Computer (among other devices) How to Back up Data The absurdly simple guide to backing up your PC Three Best Ways to Back Up Your Files 6 cheap ways to back up your files 8 Ways to Back up Your Computer Files How to back up your data Done a Computer Backup Lately?

Creativity is not a rare insight, that comes to you suddenly, once in a lifetime, to change the world. It’s just the opposite…The key is to learn how to bring your ideas together, over time.

Keith Sawyer (via creativesomething)

List to help you code, script, & program (from imgur)

**NOT MINE** 

Reposting in case the original source is lost someday. Check back on the original though; OP said he would keep it updated.

SOURCE

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After seeing a list of pretty much only frameworks, with no actual learning resources I decided to throw together an actual list of resources. I will admit my personal focus has always been front & backend web, so this list may be a little biased. I’m sure I missed some and skipped some, sorry.

========== LEARNING ==========

Codecademy - https://www.codecademy.com //Multi Languages 

SoloLearn - http://www.sololearn.com //Multi Languages 

TutorialsPoint - http://www.tutorialspoint.com //Multi Languages 

thenewboston - https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston //Multi Languages 

Derek Banas - https://www.youtube.com/user/derekbanas //Multi Languages 

Coursera - https://www.coursera.org  //Multi Languages 

TechRocket - https://www.techrocket.com //Multi Languages 

FreeCodeCamp - http://www.freecodecamp.com //Web Languages 

The Odin Project - http://www.theodinproject.com //Web Languages 

DataCamp - https://www.datacamp.com //R 

Learn-C - http://www.learn-c.org 

Learn C++ - http://www.learncpp.com 

Learn  C# - http://www.learncs.org 

Learn Python - http://www.learnpython.org 

Think Python - http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python 

Learn Java - http://www.learnjavaonline.org 

Learn JavaScript - http://www.learn-js.org 

Learn PHP - http://www.learn-php.org

========== HOME PAGES ========== 

 PHP.net - http://php.net 

ASP.net - http://www.asp.net 

Ruby - https://www.ruby-lang.org/en 

Ruby On Rails - http://rubyonrails.org 

Python - https://www.python.org 

Java - http://java.com/en/download/faq/develop.xml 

MySQL - https://www.mysql.com 

PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org 

sqLite - https://www.sqlite.org 

Lua - http://www.lua.org 

 ========== REFERENCES ========== 

MDN - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US //Web Documentation & Tools 

Stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com //Large Question Forum 

GitHub - https://github.com //Repository 

W3School - http://www.w3schools.com //Web Documentation. Contains some outdated or wrong info, but not terrible for quick references 

W3C - https://www.w3.org //Web Standards 

 ========== PLAYGROUNDS ========== 

JSFiddle - https://jsfiddle.net 

CodePen - http://codepen.io 

JS Bin - http://jsbin.com 

CodePad - http://codepad.org 

PHP Fiddle - http://phpfiddle.org 

SQLFiddle - http://sqlfiddle.com 

RegEx101 - https://regex101.com 

txt2re - http://txt2re.com 

CheckiO - http://www.checkio.org 

 ========== Editors / Clients ==========

NotePad++ - https://notepad-plus-plus.org //windows 

SublimeText - https://www.sublimetext.com //windows & OSX & Ubuntu 

Atom - https://atom.io //Windows & OSX & Ubuntu & Linux 

Coda - https://panic.com/coda //osx 

TextWrangler - http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler //osx 

Brackets - http://brackets.io 

Cloud9 - https://c9.io //Dev in the Cloud 

VIM - http://www.vim.org //Cross platform 

Emacs - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs //Cross platform 

Putty - http://www.putty.org //windows 

iTerm2 - https://www.iterm2.com //osx 

phpMyAdmin - https://www.phpmyadmin.net //browser based 

FileZilla - https://filezilla-project.org //windows 

Cyberduck - https://cyberduck.io/?l=en //osx 

Transmit - https://panic.com/transmit  //osx 

MATLab - http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab 

 ========== Frameworks / Helpers ========== 

====== DO NOT JUST JUMP INTO THESE ======= 

============ LEARN FIRST ============= 

=========  There are tons more  ========== 

— HTML & CSS — 

Bootstrap - http://getbootstrap.com 

HTML5 BoilerPlate - https://html5boilerplate.com 

LESS - http://lessframework.com 

SASS - http://sass-lang.com 

 — Javascript — 

jQuery - http://jquery.com 

Prototype - http://prototypejs.org 

YUI - http://yuilibrary.com 

React - https://facebook.github.io/react 

Angular - https://angularjs.org 

 — PHP — 

Zend - http://framework.zend.com 

Cake - http://cakephp.org 

Laravel - https://laravel.com 

Symfony - http://symfony.com 

yii - http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/?tag=yii2 

 — Ruby — 

Rails - http://rubyonrails.org 

Sinatra - http://www.sinatrarb.com 

Ramaze - http://ramaze.net 

 — Python — 

Django - https://www.djangoproject.com 

Gears - http://turbogears.org 

Cherry - http://www.cherrypy.org 

Flask - http://flask.pocoo.org 

 — Perl — 

Catalyst - http://www.catalystframework.org 

Mojolicious - http://mojolicio.us 

 — Java — 

Spring - http://spring.io 

Play - https://www.playframework.com 

Dropwizard - http://www.dropwizard.io 

Eclipse - https://eclipse.org/downloads 

IntelliJ - https://www.jetbrains.com/idea

========== PERSONAL TIPS ==========

// Stay hydrated. I recommend Mt Dew, Monster, or Red Bull //The last line was sarcasm, these drinks do not hydrate you. Drink water for hydration. Green tea, coffee and dark chocolate can be good (moderation matters) sources for an extra energy boost. // Comment heavy, comment often. You may know what you’re doing at 4:30am, but when you revisit that code in 2 months you can quickly become your own wost enemy. // When switching languages, remember your syntax. + is not . // A semicolon can make or break you // KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid. What seems to be the most complex problem is usually the easiest solution; e.g. after debugging  for an hour, remember you changed a default in your table from 0 to NULL and that is why our code is breaking … not that I’ve ever done that; especially not last night.

“ Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” -Martin Golding

“ A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.” -Doug Linder

“Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” -Michael Sinz

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Facebook helps companies detect rogue SSL certificates for domains

Facebook has launched a tool that allows domain name owners to discover TLS/SSL certificates that were issued without their knowledge.

The tool uses data collected from the many Certificate Transparency logs that are publicly accessible. Certificate Transparency (CT) is a new open standard requiring certificate authorities to disclose the certificate that they issue.

Until a few years ago, there was no way of tracking the certificates issued by every certificate authority (CA). At best, researchers could scan the entire web and collect those certificates being used on public servers. This made it very hard to discover cases where CAs issued certificates for domain names without the approval of those domains’ owners.

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via http://www.computerworld.com/article/3149741/security/facebook-helps-companies-detect-rogue-ssl-certificates-for-domains.html#tk.rss_news and www.computechtechnologyservices.com

Apple launches late AirPods into immediate ship slip

Apple today began selling the delayed AirPods, but the wireless headphones almost immediately skated to a 2017 ship date.

The Cupertino, Calif. company warned customers that the product would be available in “limited quantities at launch.”

Indeed.

The $159 headphones – which resemble enlarged ear buds sans wires – debuted on Apple’s online store earlier Tuesday. Within minutes, the estimated ship date shifted from Dec. 21 to mid-January 2017.

Apple introduced the AirPods in September, alongside the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. At the time, executives said that the headphones would be available in October. Late in October, however, Apple confirmed that the AirPods were delayed, saying, “We need a little more time before AirPods are ready for our customers.”

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via http://www.computerworld.com/article/3149861/computer-peripherals/apple-launches-late-airpods-into-immediate-ship-slip.html#tk.rss_news and www.computechtechnologyservices.com

Pacific Ocean To Close In 2018

The world’s largest ocean, after being open for almost 750 million years, will end its run in July of 2018. Pacific Spokesman Roland Haphausenhauer cited over-fishing, pollution, and the bad global economy as the reasons for the closure.

“This is the end of quite an era,” said the spokesman, “We tried to keep the Pacific going as long as we could but the fact is, it’s just not profitable and it’s just no longer rewarding work for those responsible.” The Pacific has seen several hundred lay-offs in recent years, with the ocean becoming less popular with tourists and new businesses. Now over 30 billion USD in debt, the ocean will file for bankruptcy and close its shores forever.

The effects will be long lasting as ships fall to the dry ocean floor, weather and water concerns go haywire, and many countries bordering the ocean dry up and their people flee in search of water. Said Japanese oceanographer Noriyuki Honjo, “Japan as we know it is essentially over with this news. Much of our economy is based on fishing, most of our contact with other countries happens by sea. With no Pacific Ocean, our land is doomed.” Most other island nations have expressed similar fears.

This is the largest geographical closure since the breakup of Pangea, a supercontinent that comprised most of the world’s landmass well into the Mesozoic, when it was hit with an antitrust lawsuit and was forced to break into smaller continents.

this week the senate will vote on whether or not to give the fbi warrantless access to your browsing data. this is extremely dangerous and a violation of privacy. not only would the fbi be able to essentially hack into your computers and internet service, but they might also hack into ones overseas. anything on your computers, they’ll be able to have access to. this is an extremely dangerous power the fbi is trying to get, and it CAN be stopped, but only if you guys are willing to put forth the effort.

how do you stop it? first, get the word out. twitter, tumblr, facebook, just get the word out by either making your own status or sharing this link. 

secondly, call your senators. on this website, just enter your phone number and it will give you a script to read off of. it will take you less than 30 seconds, trust me. you can also tweet them, send them emails, etc. all the contact info is on this site here. they will listen. dont know who your senators are? go here and scroll to the bottom. it lists all the senators and who you can call. also, you can tweet at them or send them an email. (all the links in this paragraph lead to the same source)

guys, it is extremely important this bill not get passed. PLEASE reblog this and at least tweet at them? you dont even have to think of anything to type. you literally click the tweet button and it does it for you. please, guys, please.

Shoutout to tumblr users without internet friends.

Shoutout to tumblr users who are still trying to figure out aspects of tumblr.

Shoutout to tumblr users who for whatever reason feel excluded from fandoms/other communities.

Shoutout to tumblr users who feel lonely.

Shoutout to tumblr users who feel like everyone else on tumblr is cooler or smarter or better than them.

I’m prayin for us to overcome self-consciousness, shyness, whatever is in our way. You’re not defined by your blog or your online presence. I love you and know you can do anything.