Amazon Discounts This hidden rulebook for giant web store Amazon has 14 top tricks to slash prices. This includes our Amazon Discount Finder Tool, which instantly finds secret 75%+ off bargains, including electronics, cameras, clothes, TVs and more. You can also track price reductions, grab free gift vouchers and beat delivery charges. 1. Don't assume Amazon's cheapest Take 20 seconds to check elsewhere Free solar panels worth £12,000: Save £120/year on your electricity Solar panels can mean big bucks. They reduce your electricity bill and pay you for generating power. Yet the 'feed-in tariff' you get for generating electricity will be cut from 1 April, so act now if you want them.
First experiments with sodium alginate Here’s some pictures and a video of my first experiments with sodium alginate and spherification. I used sodium alginate from the Texturas series and calcium chloride from a drug store. Needless to say, I’m very fascinated by the texture and the whole process. I have blogged about the chemistry behind previously. Materials used: 2.0 g sodium alginate 200 g water (with low calcium content!)
Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack September 10th, 2012 at 19:25 UTC by Mike Bond November last, on the Eurostar back from Paris, something struck me as I looked at the logs of ATM withdrawals disputed by Alex Gambin, a customer of HSBC in Malta. Comparing four grainy log pages on a tiny phone screen, I had to scroll away from the transaction data to see the page numbers, so I couldn’t take in the big picture in one go. Four ways to use a polarising filter A polarising filter is one of the few filters I still own and more importantly use on a regular basis. It was also the first type of filter that I ever bought but that was way back when I first started photography 25 years ago. Since then the humble polarising filter has hardly changed at all, in fact the only real difference is that there’s now two types; linear polarisers (for film cameras) and circular polarisers (for digital cameras). If you’ve ever used a polariser then you’ll already know how they work.
Blog My new book on sleep and dreaming, Night School, is published today. It has been 2 years in the making and so I am very excited to see it out there! Based on research, mass-participation experiments and the world’s largest archive of dream reports, it reveals how to… …get the best night’s sleep of your life …discover what your dreams really mean …learn information while you sleep ….banish jet-lag, nightmares and snoring To give you a flavour of the material, here are 7 surprising facts about sleep and dreaming… 1) If you want to feel sleepy when you head to bed …Banish the blues: Blue light from computer screen and smartphones keeps you awake.
Humor AchievementBurning Love The Webby Awards is excited to honor the team behind ‘Burning Love’ — Ken Marino, Erica Oyama, Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, Jonathan Stern and Mike Rosenstein — with a Webby Special Achievement Award for their groundbreaking Web series. By successfully challenging the standards of network television with regard to both production quality and distribution, Burning Love has set a new benchmark for quality content on the Web. untitled This is an archive of the long-running column on security metrics known as "For Good Measure." For its first five years, it ran in the IEEE's Security & Privacy magazine. Until further notice, it runs in the USENIX Association's ;login: magazine. Many of the columns have co-authors. What We Got for Christmas , January/February 2008 Beware the IDs of March , March/April 2008 Strong Attractors , July/August 2008 Type II Reverse Engineering , September/October 2008 Security is a Subset of Reliability , November/December 2008 The 0wned Price Index , January/February 2009 Hard Data is Good to Find , March/April 2009 A Doubt of the Benefit , May/June 2009 Risk Concentration , September/October 2009 Patch Grief with Proverbs , November/December 2009 A Life Is Short, a Half-Life Is Forever , January/February 2010 Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained , March/April 2010 A Time to Re-think , July/August 2010 An Index of Cybersecurity , November/December 2010 Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats?
remedial thoughts: How To: Virgin Media Super Hub + Apple Time Capsule I've recently upgraded my broadband with my cable provider Virgin Media, from 20 to 30 meg. As part of this process I was advised that my existing modem would be incompatible with the upgrade so I was going to be sent their wonderful Super Hub (a custom Netgear box). The problem was that this Super Hub is a wireless router and that it wasn't quite compatible with my existing home network: an Apple Time Capsule and an Airport Express. If I was to connect the Time Capsule to the Super Hub I'd run into the dreaded double NAT problem whereby each of the routers would try to allocate all the devices on my network IP addresses, causing all manner of conflicts. Ideally, all the Super Hub needs is a kill switch to make it act like a modem and nothing else. But it doesn't.
Parkerian Hexad The Parkerian hexad is a set of six elements of information security proposed by Donn B. Parker in 1998. The Parkerian hexad adds three additional attributes to the three classic security attributes of the CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, availability). Ramin Shokrizade's Blog - The Top F2P Monetization Tricks The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. [UPDATE: Alex Dale, the CMO of King.com, has graciously taken his time to clarify a few points related to CCS, and I have edited this paper in a few places using italics to show the updates] Coercive Monetization A coercive monetization model depends on the ability to “trick” a person into making a purchase with incomplete information, or by hiding that information such that while it is technically available, the brain of the consumer does not access that information. Hiding a purchase can be as simple as disguising the relationship between the action and the cost as I describe in my Systems of Control in F2P paper.
Language Turned Convict Heere I set before thee (good Reader) the lewd lowsie language of these loytering lusks, and laysie lorels, wherewith they buy and sell the common people as they passe through the countrey. – Thomas Harman, 1573 Around the year 1566, a Kentish gentleman named Thomas Harman became a literary sensation. His Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors Vulgarely Called Vagabones offered the reader a chance to look into the world of the beggars who walked from town to town seeking alms or shelter and irritating respectable folk.
Resilience Metrics ENISA is working on the measurement frameworks and metrics for resilient networks and services. This belongs is under the broader umbrella of the of network resilience. In this area of activities ENISA launched in 2010 a study on Measurement Frameworks and Metrics for Resilient Networks and Services. World's Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks Let us know if we missed any big data breaches. » 70% of passwords are in this chart. Is yours?