fabiochiu/medium-articles huggingface dataset:
Impeachment is a Ruling-Class Spectacle
By: Matthew John
Tags: Politics, Neoliberalism, Impeachment, Congress, Trump

Donald Trump with Bill Clinton at Trump Tower in 2000 (Wikimedia Commons)

It is unquestionably good for American democracy and the well-being of common people to rid ourselves of the Trump administration. Donald Trump is a xenophobic, racist, sexist, nationalistic con man and a pathological liar. He is corrupt to his very bones and should never have been afforded a position of power over a single individual. His administration has perpetrated grave crimes, including child separation policies, operating concentration camps, arming the genocidal Saudi regime, giving the wealthy a trillion-dollar tax cut, implementing a “Muslim ban,” and empowering white supremacists and domestic terrorists.

However, he was not impeached for these crimes. The recent House of Representatives impeachment proceedings primarily revolved around allegations that Trump leveraged military aid to Ukraine in attempt to open politically motivated investigations (never mind that some of this “aid” has reached the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion).

Now let’s take a stroll down memory lane. Like Trump, former president Bill Clinton was impeached in the House of Representatives. As a teenager at the time, I recall being quite enthralled while perusing the salacious details of the Starr Report in my local newspaper. To be frank, Clinton was impeached primarily over an extramarital affair. Not for killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq through economic sanctions. Not for bombing a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, likely leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths. Not for his expansion of the racist War on Drugs and mass incarceration. Not for deregulating Wall Street with his repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act.

William Jefferson Clinton was impeached for lying about a blow job.
2020 Notları
By: E.Hilal Ceylan
Tags: 2020, Türkçe, Özeleştiri, 2021, Yeni Yıl

Get this newsletter By signing up, you will create a Medium account if you don’t already have one. Review our Privacy Policy for more information about our privacy practices.

Check your inbox

Medium sent you an email at to complete your subscription.
Please Stop Blaming D&D For Everything
By: Daniel Kay
Tags: Game of Thrones, Television, Culture, TV Series, Entertainment

Image credit: HBO promotional shot

It’s Monday, which means for most of us, it’s time to waste our workdays by reading professional hot takes and social media comments about the latest Game of Thrones episode.

Like most of the chapters in this shortened final season, this last episode sure was a doozy. It brought Dany’s army to King’s Landing, and concluded the conflict the show had been building since the very first episode.

I’m not going to give any plot spoilers beyond that brief summary.

What I do want to talk about is just one thing:

David and Dan

Venture into any Game of Thrones comment section on the web, and you’ll very quickly see a faction of people claiming the show has fallen off. Often, these folks will be quick to point the finger at “D&D”, aka David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the show’s executive producers. You will recognize these men as the talking heads who pop up on the “Thrones Explained” featurettes after every episode.

These fellas. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Yes, as executive producers and co-creators of the show, much of the authorship of the show lies with these two. They certainly don’t help their case by featuring so heavily in the explanatory featurettes.

But here’s where Thrones fans get unfair about things. They start comparing a real thing that exists to an imaginary, theoretical version which will supposedly fix all the flaws.

I’m talking, of course, about “the books”

As many of the aspiring writers on Medium will know all-too-well, a book is always is perfect inside your head. Lots of people say “oh yeah, I’ve got a great idea for a book/movie/blog/podcast/etc.” The idea is easy. How many people actually make their thing?

The Books

As everyone knows by now, the Game of Thrones show is based on an incomplete series of fantasy books by author George R. R. Martin, titled A Song of Ice and Fire (“A Game of Thrones” is the title of the first book in the series). Martin has written five books, which coincide with (roughly) the first six seasons of the show.

Martin, then, is the one who created this wonderful world and set the brutal tone which attracted so many viewers to Thrones in the first place.

The last book was released in 2011, in between the first and second seasons of the TV show. To the disappointment of many, Martin has failed to produce a continuation of the story, even as he saw the TV series gaining popularity and threatening to finish his story for him.

His direct involvement in the TV series has been limited for the past few seasons. He gave D&D plot notes, but has not written an episode or served as an executive producer for several seasons.
Big Day
By: Joseph Emmi
Tags: Personal, Commitment, Goals, Personal Growth, Personal Development

Hello Berlin!

Tomorrow is the big day, I will be delivering the talk I’ve been working over the last few week together with a think tank where people will be able to debate and discuss the topic.

Looking forward to it, but also many lessons learned for me in terms of workload, self-sabotage, commitment and long-term vision.

Wish me luck and here I go!
NEX Exchange (NEX) — Fast and secure decentralized NEP-5 supporting exchange
By: Stefan Ivanoff
Tags: Ethereum, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Crypto, Love

The NEX exchange is an ambitious project. They want to create the first Decentralized Exchange — DEX that will support all NEO tokens while being able to support the large volumes that centralized exchanges can.

Centralized exchanges can handle a lot of volume without slowing down. So only 2 years ago the 24 hour volume of the entire cryptocurrency market was around 20 million dollars. If you check, you will see that there was a 24 hour volume of about 70 billion dollars during January 2018. When depositing you funds on a centralized exchange, they are actually controlled by the people owning the exchange. You funds are no longer yours and you depend on their integrity and hope they do not run off with your money.

Another downside is that these exchanges can be hacked. This has happened before and it happens quite often these days as well.

So the people running an exchange have realized they have to evolve fast. Some are aiming to becoming decentralized in the future.

The transactions are being done on-chain, with the help of a smart contract and when they become a lot, the system slows down. NEX are aiming to tackle this problem in the following manner — the order matching will be done off-chain alleviating the strongest computing element, the blockchain and the smart contracts. After the orders get matched off-chain, they get commited on-chain.

You can read our in-depth analysis and further specifics on the project here:

Trading Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be done peer-to-peer(p2p) or on the exchanges where you have security. The safest exchanges are usually the top volume exchanges as being in the top they have all eyes on them and can not afford to not operate properly. Down are some that we are using and have not had any problems with:

If you have not created an account on the biggest cryptocurrency exchange you can do it here binance.com It is fast and free. This is a safe link, verified by us, going directly to the exchange, as there are many phishing sites, please be aware and careful. Also note that the exchanges close registrations for an undetermined timespan when they get overwhelmed, so even if you do not intend on trading now, someday you might decide to and not have the opportunity.

Here are also verified links to good emerging exchanges: bibox.com, kucoin.com, huobi.com

And the biggest fiat currency to crypto gateway coinbase.com, where you can get a 10$ bonus following this link.

You can follow us on our official facebook page — https://www.facebook.com/cryptohydra/

Or in these groups where we have daily discussions on crypto -

https://www.facebook.com/groups/kriptovaluti.bg/?ref=bookmarks

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1964897273826859/?ref=bookmarks
Nueva versión del Estudio del Consumidor digital en Santander
By: Gabriela Nova
Tags: Eivos, Investigation, Digital, Investigación De Mercados, Agencias

in In Fitness And In Health
Upcoming Event: Blockchain Impact Investment Summit
By: Fab Info
Tags: Events, Blockchain, Investing, Canada, China

September 27–28 2018, Toronto, Canada

The 2018 Blockchain Impact Investment Summit hosted by Miller Thomson LLP and Blockchain Impact Institute will take place from September 27–29 at the Downtown Hilton Hotel in Toronto.

This year’s event is expected to attract over 500 investors, 30 companies, partners and Blockchain industry leaders from around the world and will feature speakers from Microsoft, Huobi Canada, Miller Thomson, Draper Associates, Interac and more.

This event plans to bring together the best from China and Canada in the heart of Toronto to share developments, discuss technologies and their practical applications, and build relationships that will transform the way that we interact with blockchain technologies in the foreseeable future.

FAB will be joining the event to showcase our project and connect with the blockchain community in Toronto. To join us, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/blockchain-impact-investment-summit-tickets-47563518765?aff=Influencers89&afu=234251989368&discount=LC100. You will receive a $100 discount when purchasing through this link!

We hope to see you there!
DPM and Exchange Server 2007 SP1 x64
By: Eric Vanderburg
Tags: Data Protection Manager, Dpm, Exchange, Information Technology

For those of you using Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager and Exchange Server 2007 SP1 x64, you will definitely want to check out this blog entry. We followed the Microsoft guides for using DPM with Exchange Server 2007 SP1 x64, but the guides give you the wrong information and you end up with consistency errors like this one:

The replica of Storage group First Storage Group on mail.vanderburg.com is inconsistent with the protected data source. All protection activities for data source will fail until the replica is synchronized with consistency check. You can recover data from existing recovery points, but new recovery points cannot be created until the replica is consistent.

For SharePoint farm, recovery points will continue getting created with the databases that are consistent. To backup inconsistent databases, run a consistency check on the farm. (ID 3106)

Data consistency verification check failed for LOGS of Storage group First Storage Group on mail.vanderburg.com. (ID 30146 Details: Unknown error (0xfffhhc01) (0xFFFHHC01))

The error here hides the real problem. The Exchange Server 2007 SP1 x64 ESEUTIL.EXE is a 32-bit process and it failed because DPM mounts the log file volume within the System32 directory. On a 64-bit machine, SysWOW64 is where the mounts are located, but 32-bit processes use System32 instead of SysWOW64, which prevents them from viewing the mounted volumes in the SysWOW64 directory.

Solution:
Do I Smell Snow? — Sento Odore Di Neve?
By: Alice Toneatto
Tags: Italiano, Snow, Winter, Poem, Poetry

“The temperature is dropping.”

Says the weatherman.

“It’s time to wear gloves and woolen cap.”

Replied mom warming her hands together.

“Is it going to snow?”

I asked, feeling like a child again.

Freezing, freezing morning,

the air stays still.

The whole world seems to have stopped,

the sky is a light blue greyish color.

And then, comes a gentle breeze,

wait, “Do I smell snow?”

I almost didn’t see it,

intangible fluffy ice.

Little white flakes falling from the sky,

dancing in the wind.

They dance and drop, and suddenly,

it’s all white around me.
Captive Dependency with ASP.NET Core
By: Ashish Patel
Tags: Dotnet, Aspnetcore, Dotnet Core, Dependency Injection, Ioc

What is a Captive Dependency?

When you use a Dependency Injection (DI) Container, one aspect of configuration is to manage the lifetime of various services. If you’re not careful, though, you may misconfigure lifetimes in such a way that a longer-lived service holds a shorter-lived service captive — often with subtle, but disastrous results. You could call this mis-configuration a Captive Dependency.

It occurs when a service intended to live for a short(er) amount of time gets held by a service that lives for a more extended amount of time. It’s a typical and dangerous DI Container configuration error. In a complex architecture, captive dependency can lead to notorious runtime bugs which can very hard to identify and debug.

You can re-create this problem with any major DI Container. The problem isn’t associated with any particular DI Container. Here we use .NET IoC container.

Service lifetimes in ASP.NET Core IoC Container:

Transient — Created each time they are requested Scoped — Created once per request Singleton — Created once for the lifetime of the application

Key Points

Singleton service should not depend on either a Transient service or a scoped service. Scoped service should not depend on a Transient service.
Episode 4: The bar without money
By: Martin Breitsprecher
Tags: Crypto Tokens, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Token, Bitcoin

Episode 4: The bar without money

Using tokens for value exchange

Our friends want to run The Blockchain Bar together as equal peers. Now they have to decide how to handle the money.

Sure: Money is great. But it also has real disadvantages. For example, it is complicated to handle — or who likes coins?! Our friends do not want all this hassle.

Oscar shouts: “I’ll handle the money!” — Remember: Oscar is the guy who wanted to drink for free — can they really trust him?

Bob says: “I don’t want him to become the new gatekeeper!”

Alice: “Let’s create our own bar tokens for paying drinks. And we’ll take turns in selling the tokens to new guests at the door.” (In fact, this isn’t really new: Many festivals use drink vouchers to simplify cash management.)

Blockchains adapted this idea and use their own tokens, represented by encrypted transactions. Why? Because tokens can be easily transferred, can be programmed and don’t depend on outside factors, such as banks and currency fluctuations.

But how will they manage the tokens? Find out in the following episodes …

Or maybe you first want to read more about tokens on TheBlockchainBar.com.
White People: Stop Oversharing on Social Media
Tags: Social Media, Whiteness, Hygiene, Humor, Race

Photo by Dominik Martin on Unsplash

Next came a survey about whether or not people wash their legs when they take a shower.

The poll finished at a little over 850,000 votes and 80% said yes. While 20% said no.

Though we had an inkling of the demographic that said no, we didn’t know with certainty. Had they opted to remain silent, no one would’ve known the culprits of the dirty 20. It would have remained speculation.

Until…white people, seeing the negative responses, came into twitter threads to defend themselves linking article after article that they feel absolves them of their nasty pastime.

Many defenders of foregoing leg washing all had the same verbatim defense — “the soap runs down”. The next common line that ties in with the articles was how washing your legs dries out your skin.

Naturally, Black women parried with, “that’s why you moisturize” and some even named their favorites to assist white people in this, hopefully inevitable, transition.

Regrettably, it’s likely there will be some that will remain entrenched in the dark side of leg washing. After all, one white women said she just cleans her face and armpits and showers twice a week rather than succumb to classism.

Who is she implying is the class that is “obsessed with cleanliness”? Upper class? Middle? Poor? She implies that she’s bucking that “bullshit”. The responses to this were certified gold.

Are we saying it’s only white people who don’t wash their legs? No.

But they exceed all in their hell bent determination to share their plague bringing habits on social media. If any people in our camps are whitewashing, so far the majority have the good sense to avoid online confessions.

Nor is it all white people participating in this custom, as evidenced by the white people who a) knew we weren’t talking about them and b) participated in ribbing fellow white people.

But for them, as exhibited by how many white celebrities and politicians exist with their foot perpetually embedded in their mouths, remaining silent about their questionable actions appears to be intolerable to them. They must have their say, even at their own detriment.
ØDA: The Future of Asset-Backed Cryptocurrencies
By: Ø Crypto Union
Tags: Investment, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services, Bitcoin

For average Joe, the world of cryptocurrency can be incredibly confusing! Prior to being introduced to Bitcoin, the only type of ‘fiat’ that the ordinary person had heard of was one of four wheels and made in Italy! Whilst the common notions that Bitcoin is ‘digital gold’, a ‘store of wealth’ or a future ‘alternative global reserve currency’ are all valid perspectives, when considered graphically on a price chart, such labels can leave many dumfounded.



Undoubtedly, there are tremendous capital gains to be found through the newly-emerging cryptocurrency markets; however, it is also difficult to overlook the associated risks. How do investors hedge against idiosyncratic risk whilst exposing their position to market growth? Ø Crypto Union has the answer — ØDA!



ØDA, or Ø Diversified Asset, as the title suggests, is a security asset that offers market exposure to a diversified fund of assets across various classes. The fund has been structured with a prime focus of risk mitigation, offering price resilience against market swings.

Ø Crypto Union has full confidence in the robustness of the modelled portfolio, which is derived by way of applicative methods of empirical analysis through the use of Recurrent Neural Network models.

Holding wealth in fiat currencies, or fiat-backed cryptocurrencies, such as USDT, often lead to negative returns in real terms when accounting for inflation. Retrospective application of the ØDA fund distribution has found significantly higher returns than the aforementioned hedge.

Additional Links

Twitter

Facebook

BitcoinTalk

Reddit

Telegram Announcements

Telegram Community
Drama is a Journey from an Idea to a Story-line
By: Rajat Dangi
Tags: Drama, Acting, Inner Journey, Life Lessons, Stories

This article was originally written by Ayush Pandey.

Shakespeare once wrote a famous phrase, “All the world’s a stage” and here I am sharing my experience of 20 years on the planet and 20 years of acting.

Dramatics is not just my interest, for me, it’s like living another life. I can live two lives in a single life span. Our lives are hasty and we don’t have time to think for a second that why are we doing all this? By getting involved in drama, I am able to inspect my personality better and to know what I am actually capable of. I would have never done whatever I have done during a drama. I have a totally different personality and I get deep down into it during the performance.

Drama is the whole procedure of nurturing a raw idea to a complete story-line with the dialogues and the final enactment. It’s not just a mere process of execution of acting, but to feel and understand what life means. Everything that we do, affects our life somewhere down the line. It makes us value the efforts that we make in our life.

Drama helps me express myself and again it’s not just in the act. It can be anywhere in the whole procedure or we can say that ‘Drama Development Life Cycle’. I always loved to write scripts, and when we usually do meetings for script writing, the flow of innovative ideas are a treat watching even at late nights and unusual times. I like to be simply observant about people that what all they are doing and what exactly is their thought process or what is their body language while performing the drama.

Drama, according to me makes people more aware of their surrounding and can help them control their emotion. When people are in a situation where they feel that they want to be free then they tend to allow themselves the room to express by performing the drama and enacting roles which they could have never thought of doing in their real life. This is where the real beauty of the dramatics lies.

At last, I would like to end the article with a very famous poet’s quote which sums up the dramatics and my dedication for it:
Can Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) replace Venture Capital?
By: Hip Property
Tags: Private Equity, Hip Property, Jon Matonis, ICO, Venture Capital

It’s a global debate. Can Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) replace Venture Capital on an international scale?

In 2016, ICOs raised $96.3m. In 2017, it went up to $4bn. Already in the first month and a half of 2018, the figure stands at just short of a billion dollars.

Proving themselves to not just be a fad, ICOs have demonstrated themselves to be a fully irrefutable and dynamic way of raising funds. But where do venture capitalists stand on them?

This new way of fundraising has divided VCs across the world — some see it as the next step on the evolutionary journey, others view them as a threat to the current staus quo. Could ICOs replace the entire venture capitalise private equity process, or could the two co-exist harmoniously?

Jon Matonis, founder of Bitcoin Foundation, says in order to survive, VCs will have to take on an adapt-or-sink approach — as the ICO train shows no signs of slowing down.

The venture capitalists that are embracing ICOs are making the system work for their operations by implementing certain criteria, which Matonis explains in this video:
Globalization of R&D
By: Alok Tyagi
Tags: Software Development, Globalization, Innovation

As world continue to flatten and economies become increasingly inter-connected — globalization of R&D remains a successful approach. Booz & Company published its recent study of 1000 public companies sharing the trend; rationale and geographic growth. The study is pretty recent and it was published in Winter of 2008.

Check out the study here.

This study emphasize — what I have always believed in — that globalization of R&D is just not about lower cost. Although cost gets more touted than the overall perspective that globalization can bring. It is about Innovation, access to better talent pool and market proximity otherwise not available.

I also believe that doing it right require time and commitment. There is no quick fix. In fact, more established an organization — harder it can be. It is like any other execution effort where there are companies that has successfully implemented the model as there are countless others who tried and failed.

Snippet of message that sums up the study:

“… companies that invest wisely in a multinational innovation footprint are gaining far better returns on their R&D investment than companies that exclusively keep their laboratories at home — or that fragment them across a wide variety of locations.”

Here is a data point pertaining to the globalization of R&D as it relates to US:

“At first glance, observers might think that this represents a loss of jobs, intellectual power, and influence for the home countries of these companies. But innovation spending seems to flow in both directions at once. Even as the companies based in the U.S. performed $80.1 billion worth of R&D in other countries, companies headquartered elsewhere poured $42.6 billion into R&D conducted in the U.S. In fact, 40 percent of the money spent on R&D in the U.S. is spent by companies headquartered elsewhere. The total amount of R&D spending in the U.S. is 2.7 times as great as in Japan, whereas the spending generated by companies headquartered in the U.S. is only two times as great.”
Why Do Men Humiliate Each Other for Fun?
By: Thomas Brown
Tags: Masculinity, Relationships, Men, Culture, This Happened To Me

Why Do Men Humiliate Each Other for Fun?

From boys on a playground to soldiers on the battlefield, these interactions serve a deeper purpose

(Photo by Matheus Ferrero on Unsplash)

My friend group enjoys playing cards. To raise the stakes, we usually impose a forfeit for the loser. Money quickly loses its appeal, so these forfeits almost always end up being something physical.

The other weekend, after a particularly long game of Black Ball, a loser was declared and the winner picked the punishment: each of the other 7 players would slap the loser on the ass. The rule was made worse — at least for the loser — when a caveat was added that made it so you can only slap as hard or harder than the person before you…

Everyone was going full throttle by about the 3rd turn.

Fortunately, I did quite well that round, so was not the recipient of this abuse. The person who lost however was someone I only just met that night. Before this, we had only spoken a few words. By the end of the round, we were good friends with a funny story.

Was it humiliating to be bent over a chair while 7 guys — some strangers, some good friends, and one sibling — slap your ass as hard as they can? Absolutely.

But the unspoken truth remained: He set aside this humiliation for the sake of the group. He could have simply said no. He would have been a sore loser instead of physically sore. In this case, he also likely would not be coming back next week to do it all again (which we are).
Coinbase Uncovers 51% Attack on Ethereum Classic Protocol
By: Finrazor Team
Tags: Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto, Ethereum, Coinbase

Coinbase published a blog post revealing a deep chain reorganization attack with double spend on ETC totaling to 219,500 of the coins equivalent to approximately $1.1 million

On 5 January 2019, Coinbase temporarily ceased on-chain ETCtransactions following the discovery of a 51% attack. The exchange found eight more attacks subsequent to the first discovery with a sum of 88,500 ETC or $460,000 in double spend. In the latest update, 12 more deep chain reorganization attacks was detected carrying a total of 219,500 ETC or $1.1 million in double spend.

Though the initial discoverer of the attack, the exchange emphasized they are not the objective of it. As of yet, there is no information on whom the attack is targetting.

User funds are secure and Coinbase, currently assessing the security of reinstating ETC transactions, will give updates on the status of ETC support.

A Response from Ethereum Classic Team

Ethereum Classic replies to Coinbase through Twitter saying, the exchange neglected to inform the ETC team before running the blog post.

To be clear we are making no attempt to hide or downplay recent events. Facts are facts and as the situation develops we’ll soon get a full picture of what actually took place.

Linzhi is testing ASICS. Coinbase reported double spends; both may be true. In time we will see. https://t.co/bbq6eqIoiS

— Ethereum Classic (@eth_classic) January 7, 2019

A Laconic on Double Spend

An attack such as the 51% attack or deep chain reorganization is not easy to execute, especially against networks with huge market capitalizations. But the opposite is true for coins with lesser capitalization. It requires the perpetrator to gain the greater share of a network’s hashrate; the longest chain. The attacker will then be able to tamper the ledger, thus, restructuring the blockchain. The attacker is then able to do double spend by reversing previously confirmed transactions.

Small-cap cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Litecoin Cash (LCC), Verge (XVG), Vertcoin (VTC), and ZenCash (ZEN) encountered such an attack to their protocol in 2018. The difference between the ETC incident and those from last year is that ETC is among the top-20 of the largest cryptocurrencies in the market.
bleed
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Women, Poet, Feminism, Poetry, Poem

I lie here and breathe through you

invisible bruise. obdurate pain.

suffering is a consistent visitor

divert focus to a bus ambling by

its rumble an impotent noise

you demand to be felt

curl me up into a fetal ball

roll it back to girlhood-before

your unannounced arrival

the aches and pills and tears

over petty things, over heavy things

the incorrigible bleed

announcing my womanhood.
Quarantine Dreams
By: Jason Mcbride
Tags: Hope, Quarantine, Haiku, Comics, Poetry

Image by Jason McBride

What have your quarantine dreams been like?

I like to think that my dreams offer me a respite from both the creeping existential dread of a world careening towards oblivion and the mundane stress of keeping a business and household afloat when nobody ever goes anywhere.

Often my dreams channel all of my emotions that I don’t have the time to process during the day into lurid nightmares where I am searching in vain for paradise while being hunted by some enigmatic predator.

Rarely, I find myself dreaming about an exotic oasis. But, even these pleasant dreams extract a toll.

With the nightmares, I wake up long before twilight, panicked and juiced on adrenalin, and am unable to fall back asleep.

When I awake from a pleasant dream of some impossibly beautiful promised land, I am filled with a strange nostalgia and painful yearning for a place I’ve never been, that never was, and that I cannot ever return to. And yet these dreams are worth the price.

These singular nocturnal visions also fill me with hope and a determination to create a piece of that dreamworld for everyone else to visit through my inadequate haiku and collage art.
What is the Encryption Software Market size?
By: Rajesh Varma
Tags: Encryption, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software

May 2020 | Report Format: Electronic (PDF)

The global encryption software market is likely to reach USD 8.74 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc., progressing at a CAGR of 16.8% during the forecast period. Software enterprises around the world are rapidly adopting encryption solutions to enhance business proficiency and improve data security. Rising concerns over data breaches and privacy compliance regulations, coupled with increasing adoption of modern technologies, including cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), virtualization, and mobility are expected to fuel product demand over the next few years.

These solutions safeguard privacy of the information stored in database and data in transit as per security requirements and compliance of any business organization. This renders information unreadable even to authorized person, thus improving the security of intimate data.

Presently, encryption has become a legal requirement for several businesses in different industries to comply with international and domestic laws. For instance, in the U.S., the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA) makes it mandatory for organizations to safeguard consumer confidentiality or non-public personal data, which calls for securing data and is estimated to catapult the growth of the encryption software market over the forecast period.

Additionally, an organization’s reputation or brand image is a critical part of its marketing mix and hence requires strong protection. Data security is critical as a lot of confidential customer records are at risk of being leaked in seconds. It is imperative in maintaining customer loyalty and protecting enterprises’ brand reputation. Hence, the adoption of security solutions is on a rise to prevent any incidence of data loss, theft, or leak.

To request a free sample copy of this report, click the link below:

www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/encryption-software-market

Further key findings from the study suggest:
A Sex Worker Talks to a John
By: Logan Sachon
Tags: Sex Work, Antonia Crane, Jobs

The money changing hands is a way of saying, “This money symbolizes our agreement that this is temporary, a fantasy, it’s just pretend, and at the end of the hour we go our separate ways. Now c’mere and let’s pretend!”

There’s a saying, which I think is kind of crass-sounding, that “You aren’t paying for the sex, you’re paying for her to go away afterwards.” But it’s true in a way, and the agreement goes both ways. By paying, you are agreeing that the hour is all you get, is all you are entitled to. In some ways, this is preferable to one-nighters and hookups and short-term affairs, when even if there is agreement to not get attached, inevitably somebody might anyways, and then there may be resentments and long-lasting emotional consequences to deal with
Do we need to know the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto?
By: Mehran Muslimi
Tags: Nakamoto, Satoshi, Bitcoin, Crypto, Finding Satoshi

I’ve been thinking about this question over the last few weeks. I was prompted to do this by Craig Steven Wright and the battle between him and others, such as Hodlonaut, on Twitter. Then there was the announcement that Binance was delisting Bitcoin SV (BSV), a cryptocurrency that is connected to nChain, a Wright-affiliated blockchain and Coingeek run by Calvin Ayre.

The problem people have with Wright is that he claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, or one of the people behind Satoshi and the creation of Bitcoin. Wright’s dramatic claim was backed by Gavin Andresen, former Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer and executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation. However, Wright has never provided he is Satoshi, or one part of ‘him’, but that hasn’t stopped the claim.

Last week John McAfee also claimed to know the identity of Satoshi and boasted that it had been extremely easy to work out. But, for personal reasons, McAfee declined to reveal who it is. I use the present tense because McAfee claims to correspond with Satoshi, unless he talks to him via the services of a psychic medium. He certainly didn’t suggest it was Wright, but on the other hand he didn’t mention him at all, so perhaps, perhaps, perhaps?

Wright, like McAfee, is known for making big claims, and he has been called out on quite a few of them by big hitters in the crypto world, including Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum, Grag Maxwel of Blockstream and Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance. Even Charles Sturt University (Wright’s alma mater) informed Forbes that Wright had never received a PhD from the university, although Wright claimed he had.

Wright, like McAfee, lives for publicity; It is his oxygen. And by hitting back when he claims he is Satoshi, the crypto community is feeding his addiction by talking about him and sending Google Search trends soaring with searches about him and BSV.

If we want the crypto industry to be taken seriously, we need to focus less on personalities like Wright and McAfee, who potentially discredit it with fiction, and ask ourselves, do we really need to know the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Is it not possible to admire the Bitocin network without knowing the identity of the person/s behind it? Does not knowing for sure the identity of the creator/s give the technology less legitimacy? Perhaps one of the Gods can give us an answer to that question.
Welcome — What’s on this site?. From your tutors…
By: Building Digital Skills For Psychology Students
Tags: Education

This site uses Medium. Medium is a platform that enables you to create and share blogs easily and effectively. It is an open access platform enabling all students on the programme to learn to use this tool, to publish their own blogs and to be inspired and learn from others. Support is easily available and you can access and share information across a broad network. You can find out more about Medium if you want at: About Medium

What’s on this site? You will see that there are separate tabs depending on whether you are completing your blog assignment as part of the the Short Work Placement (SWP) or Career Management Unit (CMU) module and under those tabs you will find the assignment requirements, and marking criteria. Use Support for all the help available to make your assignment effective and to build your digital skills. Once published, yours and other students’ blog posts can be found under Student Submissions. You might find it odd that you can read other students’ blogs, and that they can read yours, but we are working in a spirit of open access and knowledge sharing. We trust that our contributors (you and your fellow students) will post their own, independent work but recognise that you can gain inspiration and ideas from those around you. Why not capture that in your coursework? You edit your stories right up until the submission/deadline date, and choose when to ‘publish’.

Photo by CJ Dayrit on Unsplash

Finally you should look at the Your Future in Digital? to read about all the things you could do whilst at university to continue on your digital journey and grow your skills (whatever your career interests). For example, how will you use your digital skills in the world of work, which ones are needed most by employers?

Any questions?

If you have any questions, please contact us through the discussion board for your module on Blackboard or if it’s a technical question go here:

Thank you. Thanks to all our contributors to this platform including our student bloggers, alumni volunteer contributors and you, all our students. You are building a valuable resource.
The Top 5 Most Powerful People and Their Thoughts on Climate Change
By: Oliver Zatch
Tags: Leaders, Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Politics

So I’m not sure how they determine who is powerful or not. But a list was made in 2018 by Forbes of the most powerful people. So, it may be a bit outdated, especially after the US election, but still, it's some indication of how the powerful stand on the climate issues.

My thinking is that the most powerful people would have substantial influence in the world. With that power, it's not unimportant what they think about climate change.

Without further ado, I bring to you the powerful five:

Xi Jinping (China) Vladimir Putin (Russia) Donald Trump (United States) Angela Merkel (Germany) Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com)

What do these powerful human beings have to say about climate change? I have searched far and wide (I've googled) and this is what I have found.
Glitter Warning
By: Bradley Wester
Tags: Free Verse, Art, LGBTQ, Poetry, Found Poetry

Glitter warning congratulations

on purchasing

this item this

product is

intended

for indoor use

only some glitter

may fall

off

during

transit of

while unpacking

the product has been

designed so

its beauty will not

be diminished by

this.
Reminder — KYC is a MUST for receiving your TOKENS!
By: Bubbletone Blockchain In Telecom
Tags: Kyc, ICO, Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology, Token Sale

Why is it important to complete KYC?

Know Your Customer (KYC) is the process of a company verifying the identity of its clients and assessing potential risks of illegal intentions for the business relationship.

The objective of KYC is to prevent the Bubbletone project from being used by criminal elements for illegal purposes, including money-laundering, tax evasion and terrorist financing.

This procedure also enables the Bubbletone team to better understand its customers and their financial dealings. This helps the team manage their risks prudently.

Bubbletone team ensures that all the relevant data protection laws are respected in the course of the process and that users’ data cannot be used for any purpose other than for KYC verification.

What should I do to pass KYC?

To complete KYC, users have to log into their personal accounts at the ICO website https://ico.bubbletone.io/login. Then a user is asked to fill in нan online form with their basic credentials (name, surname, date of birth, etc.) and upload scans of their ID documents as well as pictures of themselves.

Can US citizens pass KYC?

US citizens cannot have their KYC approved since only accredited US investors have the right to buy UMT tokens.

Who else cannot have their KYC approved?

We also don’t distribute UMT tokens to the citizens of the following countries: Cayman Islands, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Lybia, Somalia, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, South Sudan, Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe.

What happens if I don’t complete KYC before the token distribution is over?

All crowdsale participants who don’t complete KYC, won’t receive any tokens! We kindly ask all those crowdsale participants who haven’t completed their KYC to hurry up. Only 3 days left until the start of the distribution.
ADF BC REST Query and SQL Nesting Control Solution
By: Andrej Baranovskij
Tags: Sql, Oracle Adf, Rest Api, Jdeveloper, Oracle

I will talk about expert mode View Object (with hand written SQL), this View Object is created based on SQL join. So, thats my use case for today example. I will describe issue related to generated SQL statement and give a hint how to solve it. This is in particular useful, if you want to expose complex VO (SQL with joins and calculating totals) over ADF BC REST service and then run queries against this REST resource.

Code is available on my GitHub repository.

Here is SQL join and expert mode VO (the one where you can modify SQL by hand):

This VO is exposed through ADF BC REST, I will not go through those details, you can find more info about it online. Once application is running, REST resource is accessible through GET. ADF BC REST syntax allows to pass query string along with REST request, here I’m filtering based on StreetAddress=’ABC’:

On backend this works OK by default and generates nested query (this is expected behaviour for expert mode VOs, all additional criteria clauses will be added through SQL wrapping). While such query executes just fine, this is not what we want in some use cases. If we calculate totals or average aggregated values in SQL, we don’t want it to be wrapped:

To prevent SQL wrapping we can call ADF BC API method in VO constructor:

While probably this works with regular ADF BC, it doesn’t work with criteria coming from ADF BC REST. SQL query is generated with two WHERE clauses, after query nesting was disabled:

Possible solution proposed by me — override executeQueryForCollection method, do some parsing and change second WHERE to be AND, apply changed query string and then execute super:

This trick helps and query is generated as we would expect, criteria added from ADF BC REST query call is appended at the end of WHERE clause:
13 Rules for Life
By: Brad Stulberg
Tags: Personal Growth, Leadership, Habits, Success, Personal Development

13 Rules for Life

The Real Secrets to Success

The secret is there is no secret. What follows are 13 rules-supported by ancient wisdom and modern science-to help you feel better and be better.

Move your body. Aim for at least 30 minutes every day. More is better. Walk. Run. Lift weights. Dance. Garden. If possible, do some of this outdoors. Whatever you do, don’t try to be a hero, lest you’ll wind up injured. Start small. Consistent effort compounds over time; inertia is real and it works in both directions.

Eat whole foods. Avoid stuff that comes wrapped in plastic. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Pick one to three habitual eating patterns that aren’t great and upgrade them.

Build community. The people with whom you surround yourself shape you. Being super productive is fine, but not if it crowds out time for cultivating relationships. Most people feel best in a tribe. It’s our nature.

Care deeply. The things you care about will break your heart. That’s fine. Keep caring. Stay in the arena. The depth of your life is directly proportional to the depth of your caring.

Hold pain tenderly. When it hurts, be kind to yourself. If you can’t, call upon your community and let them be your life boat.

Give help. We’re all in this together. What comes around goes around.

Get help. We’re all in this together. What comes around goes around. (Also: good therapy helps everyone.)

Stay on the path. Know your core values. These are the tenets you want to embody, the ways in which you wish to live your life. Let them serve as your guideposts.

Fall off the path. Mess up. Because you are a human.

Get back on the path. Do not judge yourself too harshly, but learn from your mistakes. Go to the place you fell off and start walking again.

Be patient. It’s a nine-inning game. We often think we’re in the bottom of the seventh when we’re really only in the top of the third.

Accept what is-and keep going anyways. Somewhere between burying your head in the sand and pollyanna delusion is wise hope. That’s the place to be.

Sleep when you’re tired. Machines are hard. Humans are soft. These are facts.
How to Fix Greyed Icons on iOS Document Browser and Picker
By: Andrea Scuderi
Tags: Programming, Swift, iOS, Mobile, Xcode

Greyed Icons

I built my app following the best practices and tutorials provided by Apple and everything seemed correct until I installed my app in a real device.

Now, most of the cyclists have more than one app to import GPX files and the result is that on some occasions the Document Browser inside the app shows greyed icons.

Once the icons are greyed out in the Document Browser, the user cannot open any file from the app.

Image provided by the author.

Digging a little bit more on the issue I came across this post on the support blog:

“We understand that you are having issues with your type definition for .gpx files. At this time, there is no commonly-accepted Uniform Type Identifier for .gpx files and different developers have defined their .gpx declaration differently. This means that if two apps are installed on the same device that claim to open these files with different definitions, they won’t interact correctly: from the user’s point of view, only one of those apps, chosen seemingly at random, will be able to open these files.”

The GPX format is defined here and it’s an XML text file. So in different conditions, depending on which app the user has installed, iOS may display it as a Text icon, an XML icon, or a custom icon.

It seems there is no solution to the issue, but I found one.
A Gallery of ggplot2 Extensions
By: Daniel Emaasit
Tags: Data Science, Ggplot2, R, Data Visualization

A couple of months ago, I announced the ggplot2-extensions website which tracks and lists extensions built on top of the popular R visualization package ggplot2.

Now, I wanted to make it even easier for R users to filter and search for these extensions and so I have added a Gallery page. You can now search packages based on a filter like: if it’s on CRAN; or if it’s for a particular task e.g. time series, networks, tech, etc.

It’s now easier for R developers to add their extensions to this Gallery. Submit a pull request by following these simple instructions:

Fork the gallery repository on Github.

Create a png thumbnail of an interesting plot from your extension that will look good on a retina screen at 350x300 pixels and put this file in the images directory of the gallery repository.

directory of the gallery repository. Add an entry for your extension in the _config.yml file of the repository with the meta data for your extension.

file of the repository with the meta data for your extension. Push your changes and create a pull request.

Acknowledgement: Special thanks to Dr. Ryan Hafen (@hafenstats) for inspiring the design of this Gallery page.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Social, Photography, Tuesday, Comics, Humor

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

Follow
Daily Blockchain Use Cases and News #54
By: Pavel Romanenko
Tags: Bitcoin, Technology, News, Blockchain

IBM, Seagate Team Up to Tackle Hard Drive Fakes With Blockchain - CoinDesk

IBM is to use its blockchain platform to track Seagate-produced hard drives as a means to guarantee their authenticity.