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NetLingo The Internet Dictionary

NetLingo The Internet Dictionary
'Deflower,' 'pornography,' and 'marijuana': The taboo words your iPhone won't spell In case you weren't aware, Apple is a family company. Chris Gayomali informs us, Apple is keeping it clean. The iPhone's autocorrect feature has certainly given the world its fair share of chuckles and book deals of questionable merit. But in less humorous news, it turns out that the iPhone refuses to preemptively fix a handful of so-called "sensitive" words, including "abortion," "rape," "murder," and more. A new experiment by The Daily Beast's NewsBeast Labs used a computer program to go through some 14,000 words that iOS 6, at factory settings, won't change if you make a slight spelling mistake:

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OneLook Reverse Dictionary <div id="needs_javascript"><center><b>Note: OneLook Thesaurus requires JavaScript.</b><br /><img src="/img/a.gif?q=omg_a_user_without_js"> If you have disabled JavaScript in your browser, please <a href=" it for this site</a> or use the <a href="/?w=entersearchhere&loc=revfp_legacy">old version of the reverse dictionary</a> here.</p><p></center><div> How do I use OneLook's thesaurus / reverse dictionary? The Freenet Project - /whatis "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralised to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in "darknet" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect.

Grand dictionnaire terminologique Le grand dictionnaire terminologique (aussi appelé GDT) outil édité par l’Office québécois de la langue française, propose depuis le 7 juin 2012 une nouvelle version plus conviviale et efficace. Le grand dictionnaire terminologique est un service en ligne gratuit qui permet à tout internaute de consulter 3 millions de termes en français, en anglais (et nouvellement en espagnol, portugais ou italien) dans plus de 200 domaines d’activité notamment des termes techniques. Le principe du GDT : « Chaque fiche renseigne sur un concept lié à un domaine d’emploi spécialisé et présente les termes qui le désignent en français, en anglais et, parfois, dans d’autres langues. » Outil terminolinguistique de référence dans le monde depuis 35 ans, le grand dictionnaire terminologique est doté de nouvelles fonctionnalités :

Semantic Web I have an idea that I think is very important but I haven’t yet polished to the point where I’m comfortable sharing it. I’m going to share it anyway, unpolished, because I think it’s that useful. So here I am, handing you a dull, gray stone, and I’m saying there’s a diamond inside. Vocabulaire fondamental de l'arabe moderne par Jean-Claude Rolland acheter l'e-book en ligne - Vocabulaire fondamental de l'arabe moderne, niveau A (2014) - Vocabulaire fondamental de l'arabe moderne, niveau B (2014)

EXCLUSIVE: Woman can use Facebook to serve divorce papers - NY Daily News A Brooklyn woman scored a judge’s approval to legally change her relationship status to “single” via Facebook. In a landmark ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is allowing a nurse named Ellanora Baidoo to serve her elusive husband with divorce papers via a Facebook message. Baidoo, 26, “is granted permission serve defendant with the divorce summons using a private message through Facebook,” with her lawyer messaging Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku through her account, Cooper wrote.

Twitter is a Teacher Superpower! “We all know that education budgets are getting cut more and more, and that meaningful professional development opportunities have unfortunately become a bit of an oxymoron in education. Not only can being a “connected educator” help change that, but it can also provide you with ongoing inspiration and support. I’d even go as far to argue that being connected will be the most impactful thing you can do in your career.” Elana Leoni, blogger for Edutopia. I will even go far enough to say that becoming a connected educator is a Teacher Superpower! While I can come up with pretty new and innovative ideas while planning inside my classroom, I can gain so much more from sharing my ideas, collecting ideas on Twitter (known jokingly as #ideabandits), and connecting with other educators to collaborate about even more inspiring ideas.

Synonyms for the 96 most commonly used words in English Amazing — incredible, unbelievable, improbable, fabulous, wonderful, fantastic, astonishing, astounding, extraordinary Anger — enrage, infuriate, arouse, nettle, exasperate, inflame, madden Angry — mad, furious, enraged, excited, wrathful, indignant, exasperated, aroused, inflamed Answer — reply, respond, retort, acknowledge Ask– — question, inquire of, seek information from, put a question to, demand, request, expect, inquire, query, interrogate, examine, quiz

Open Directory Project DMOZ (from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links. The site and community who maintain it are also known as the Open Directory Project (ODP). It is owned by AOL but it is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. Project information[edit] The Gnuhoo directory went live on June 5, 1998. TeleGeography's gorgeous map of the global Internet. Each year, a telecom market research firm called TeleGeography releases a map of the underwater cables that connect the global Internet. Past years’ maps have been merely fascinating. This year’s is flat-out gorgeous. The lines trace the paths that the world’s data take every day as packets of information zip between the continents.

Submarine Cable Map 2013 Register Register for our free TeleGeography Insider site to access in-depth data and analysis, including webinars, presentation slides, analyst articles, and infographics. Become an Insider Licensing All data and images presented in TeleGeography’s Telecom Resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Direct links to our site are greatly appreciated.

Wireless Network Watcher - Show who is connected to your wireless network See Also Description Wireless Network Watcher is a small utility that scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network. For every computer or device that is connected to your network, the following information is displayed: IP address, MAC address, the company that manufactured the network card, and optionally the computer name. How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network. 1.Back Track Today we’re going to run down, step-by-step, how to crack a Wi-Fi network with WEP security turned on. Dozens of tutorials on how to crack WEP are already all over the internet using this method.

Ning Fails at Free Social Networking Ning co-founder Marc Andreessen promised Ning network creators they would be able to port their networks elsewhere. Now, they may have good reason to do so. Ning, a brainchild of Netscape bazillionaire Marc Andreessen that was designed to let anyone make a social network about anything for free, won’t do it anymore. Each of the service’s 2.3 million networks’ users will disappear unless its creator either pays Ning or migrate the network to another platform. So much for “free” as the future of business — as far as Ning goes, anyway.

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