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Tomorrow, as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers reforming the decades-old federal email privacy law , the personal Inboxes and love lives of senior military and intelligence figures may be on that august body's mind. When the FBI pored through the personal lives of CIA Director David Petraeus, Paula Broadwell, Jill Kelly and General John Allen, citizens across the land began to wonder how the FBI could get that kind of information, both legally and technically. So, just how do you exchange messages with someone, without leaving discoverable records with your webmail provider? This is an important practical skill, whether you need to use it to keep your love life private, to talk confidentially with a journalist, or because you're engaged in politics in a country where the authorities use law enforcement and surveillance methods against you.
Don't be a Petraeus: A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts
Europe's most popular cities are also among its most expensive, but it is possible to do them on the cheap. Photo: AFP Europe's most popular cities are also among the most expensive. Shaney Hudson explains how to make the most of them without burning a hole in your pocket. Europe's cities have a wealth of historical and cultural riches-but that doesn't mean you have to spend a fortune.
Budget best: cheapest ways to do Europe's greatest cities
Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router
Of all the great DIY projects at this year's Maker Faire , the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router. The router has an interesting history , but all you really need to know is that the special sauce lies in embedding Linux in your router. I found this project especially attractive because: 1) It's easy, and 2) it's totally free.
If you have an old LCD display you can remove the polarized and anti-glare films from the inside of the monitor's glass surface and reassemble it; this will make the screen look bright white to the naked eye. To see the actual display you just need to use a bit of paint thinner to remove the anti-glare film from the polarization film and cut that to match the frames of an old pair of glasses. This produces a monitor that can only be seen when you're wearing the polarization filter glasses. Instructables user dimovi provides step-by-step instructions and photos that describe how to remove the polarization filter from the display and cut that filter to make lenses for disposable 3D glasses or old sunglasses.
Hack an Old LCD Monitor into a Polarized Privacy Monitor
Build a Touchless 3D Tracking Interface with Everyday Materials
<img src="http://makezineblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/rs_wp10_blog_3d1.jpg?w=600&h=450" alt="" title="Touchless 3D Tracking Interface" width="600" height="450" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-233499" /> <img src="http://makezineblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/rs_wp10_blog_3d2.jpg?w=600&h=415" alt="" title="Touchless 3D Tracking Interface" width="600" height="415" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-233500" /> Combine low-tech materials with some high-tech components and build a completely Touchless 3D Tracking Interface .
Several years ago I bought some remote property in Arizona. I am an astronomer and wanted a place to practice my hobby far away from the sky-wrecking light pollution found near cities of any real size. I found a great piece of property . The problem is, it's so remote that there is no electric service available. That's not really a problem.
How I built an electricity producing wind turbine
High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity May 2nd, 2007 2013 Update How Unique – and Trackable – Is Your Browser?
High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity
Nepal to crack down on witchcraft accusations - khabarsouthasia.com
For women in Nepal, being branded as a witch can be the ultimate nightmare -- leading to beatings, hatred and even murder. Now the government is taking steps to discourage such allegations. Sunita Pudasaini never imagined she would ever again be accepted after being accused of practicing witchcraft in Jorpati, outside Kathmandu. Now, four months after being physically tortured in March because of the allegation, she has been welcomed back by her community.
Stare at the center of the below illusion for about a minute. The longer the better. Then look away and watch you world melt! Press F11 to see the illusion full screen for a stronger effect! (press F11 again to return to normal browser view afterwards) Try all 8 above for different effects.
Dynamic Optical Illusions - GROW ILLUSION.
How to Break Into a Windows PC (And Prevent It from Happening to You)
If you're trying to break into a Windows computer—whether you've forgotten your password or are hatching a more sinster plan—you have quite a few options. Here's how to do it, and how to keep your own computer protected. There are a few methods to breaking into a computer, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF)." David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at Cornell University's Department of Psychology at the time) conducted a series of four studies showing that, in certain cases, people who are very bad at something think they are actually pretty good. They showed that to assess your own expertise at something, you need to have a certain amount of expertise already.
Revisiting why incompetents think they’re awesome
"What U Hear" Recording - Enable
How to Enable What U Hear Recording For those of you who want to record what you are hearing over your speakers/headset. You will need to un-hide and enable recording options. If you are using a Creative Sound Blaster sound card this option will be called "What U Hear" if you are using another audio device such as Realtek on-board or generic sound devices this option will be called "Stereo Mix". For the tutorial I am going to show how to un-hide and enable the "What U Hear" option.Hi, Recently I've been having some problems playing back any sort of media. At regular intervals the audio will freeze/skip for a second and make a loud grinding noise, then resume. This happens with music, streaming videos, games, pretty much everything.