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Top 10 Tech Concepts You Always Wanted To Learn About (But Never Did)

Top 10 Tech Concepts You Always Wanted To Learn About (But Never Did)
Store your data on someone else's computer, hope they don't do anything bad with it or decide to shut down. Stallman calls it "Careless Computing". If you put personal data in-the-cloud like future plans., trips, your current GPS location, then you should expect that data to be shared all over the world with nice people, nice companies and criminals (looking for when to rob you). Facebook connections and twitter followers provide information about you and your friends. If they assume you are similar to your friends, then the personal information those other people enter helps them build a profile of your likes/dislikes too. Photos tagged with your real name provide all sorts of other information that you may not want known to anyone in the world with a computer and internet connection. If you aren't paying for the services ( ea probably $15/month or more), then you and your data are probably the product being sold. It's good to have a paranoid person around, but citations please.

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Coke forge and sword! !!Important lots of heat and fumes given off so out side is a must for this type of forge, when the worked mettle is taken out it will be red-white hot, you will feel the heat from a distance so don’t let it get any where near your or any ones skin or body or it will hurt, a lot!! Materials The materials needed for constructing a non-permanent forge depends on the size and shape, this forge was made for the job of forging the blade of my sword, so I will list the materials as if u was replicating this exactly (or kind of). Forge: •Building bricks with 2-3 holes, x8 •Solid building bricks (sand stone bricks not as good due to the heat) aprox x40 •Roofing tiles x5 •Breeze block x1 •Slabs x2-3 (depending on size of slabs) •Hair dryer x2 (similar powers) •Soft clay about 1kg Sword (if making) •Steel to work, suggest part of a small car leaf spring because of the high carbon factor and easy to work size another easy option is a car coil spring cut up.

50 Things Everyone Should Know - StumbleUpon by Mark and Angel Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.

How to setup a remote desktop and connect to your PC from anywhere – Computer Chips & Hardware Technology Remote desktop, which lets you access another computer over the internet just as if you were at the keyboard, is incredibly handy when you need to make changes to your home Minecraft server, get Steam to start downloading a game, or just keep an eye on a progress bar. As an added bonus, it’s also the tool of choice for providing occasional family or friend tech support. There are a few ways to setup a remote desktop, but if you’re running Windows you’ve already got one built right in: Remote Desktop Connection. To get started with this useful, yet under-used Windows feature, you’ll just need to be comfortable changing Windows and router settings and have a few minutes to configure and test it.

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