We’re incredibly excited to launch Element One!
It’s a complete messaging package - the Element app with high-performance hosting, the entire Matrix universe and bridging to WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram. All for just $5 per month. //
Element One is the quickest and easiest way to get unlimited bridging to WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram.
Just sign up from the Element website.
https://ems.element.io/element-one //
It’s also worth noting that end-to-end encryption is necessarily broken as messages to (and from) WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram pass across the bridge(s). The bridge(s) operates in Element’s trusted EMS environment, with no content scanning or datamining, but currently bridged conversations are not stored end-to-end encrypted in Matrix (they will be in the future).
The trick isn’t to convince the CEO of a conglomerate to become an edgy thrillseeker. Instead, the job of the internal innovator is to communicate a bigger picture to leadership in a way that acknowledges their command over the present and shows them the path ahead. “The management of your company may be very good at their business without understanding innovative ideas created by new generations,” Fujino says. “You need to help them understand the future.” //
Honda’s then-CEO Takeo Fukui gave the HondaJet the commercial green light after intense deliberation. But it wasn’t the 20 years of research, the substantial investment or even the public accolades for the HondaJet prototype that convinced him.
It was the fact that Fujino successfully planted the idea that the HondaJet was a natural, logical and necessary part of Honda’s portfolio. And telling that story took a lot of groundwork and advocacy. “It took years to reach the CEO, and every time I spoke with him I took the opportunity to raise the subject,” Fujino said in a previous interview.
That approach worked so well that, as Fujino remembers it, “He spoke as if he were convincing himself. ‘Honda is a mobility company. We should pursue the future through the HondaJet.’”
We take no pleasure in pointing this out, since the U.S. needs a President who can handle the the strains of the job. Mr. Biden was never Demosthenes, and all Presidents stumble in speech. But Mr. Biden’s frequent public confusion about the major issues of the day is a reason for growing public concern.
A long time back, most of the software used to ship with .hlp (WinHelp help format) help files. Since Windows Vista, the legacy .hlp format has been deprecated. To view 32-bit Help files with the .hlp file extension in Windows Vista (and higher — through Windows 8.1), you will need to download and install WinHlp32.exe (KB917607 package) from the Microsoft Download Center.However, this update isn’t available for Windows 10. This article tells you how to restore the missing WinHelp (.hlp) viewer in Windows 10.
Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as open-source software. ///
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No matter the file type, these free audio editors have you covered
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If you want to record or meter what you are hearing over your speakers/headset then you may not find the option not available. By default in Windows the ‘What U Hear’ or ‘Stereo Mix’ input is disabled.
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".
Right-click over the speaker icon.
Click ‘Open Sound Settings’.
Click ‘Sound Control Panel’ as above.
On Windows 10 this takes you to Settings as above.
Click on "Sound Control Panel"
On older Windows you go straight to the original Sound Control Panel as below.
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You should now have the old Sound Control Panel open.
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Go to the "Recording" tab.
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Right click over any source and check the ‘Show disabled devices’ option.
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Now that the hidden options are visible, right click on each of them and click on enable.
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Right click on the What U Hear or Stereo Mix source and click on ‘Set as default device’.
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Once the device is set as default you will be able to use the "What U Hear"/"Stereo Mix" option in your recording or metering applications to record or monitor the audio you are currently hearing over your speakers or headset.
Music management software is especially useful when you need to open different formats of audio files. An efficient music organization software should support a wide variety of files and feature a set of editing tools.
EduPak replaces rote teaching with the spark of modern technology.
We use a media storage device (Synology DS218+ w/ 2x 2TB HDD) and wireless technology to stream thousands of videos to any wifi enabled device. All tablets, cell phones, laptops and desktops that have wifi access can access our media storage device that delivers thousands of educational videos ///
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The words 'upper case' and 'lower case' originated with the history of the printing press. Lower case letters, because they are used most often, were kept in a lower case, while the upper case letters were kept above, in an upper case.
Intro to CS using MakeCode & Microbits Course Introduction This is an introduction to coding and computer science by way of making and design, using the revolutionary new micro:bit microcontroller board, and Microsoft’s easy and powerful MakeCode block-based coding environment. It is a project-based curriculum with a maker philosophy at its core; the idea is that by making physical objects, students create a context for learning the coding and computer science concepts.
A 14 week Introduction to Computer Science course.
This course is targeted to middle school grades 6-8 (ages 11-14 years). It is also written for teachers who may not have a Computer Science background, or who may be teaching an “Intro to Computer Science” course for the first time.
This course takes approximately 14 weeks to complete, spending about 1 week on each of the first 11 lessons, and 3 weeks for students to complete the final project at the end. Of course, teachers should feel free to customize the curriculum to meet individual school or district resources and timeframe.
Unfortunately, the 0.74 stable PuTTY release does not safely guard plain-text passwords provided to it via the -pw command line option for the psftp, pscp, and plink utilities as the documentation clearly warns. There is evidence within the source code that the authors are aware of the problem, but the exposure is confirmed on Microsoft Windows, Oracle Linux, and the package prepared by the OpenBSD project.
After discussions with the original author of PuTTY, Simon Tatham developed a new -pwfile option, which will read an SSH password from a file, removing it from the command line. This feature can be backported into the current 0.76 stable release. Full instructions for applying the backport and a .netrc wrapper for psftp are presented, also implemented in Windows under Busybox.
While the -pw option is attractive for SSH users who are required to use passwords (and forbidden from using keys) for scripting activities, the exposure risk should be understood for any use of the feature. Users with security concerns should obtain the -pwfile functionality, either by applying a patch to the 0.76 stable release, or using a snapshot release found on the PuTTY website.
there is no question that Elias played a key role in radically altering election rules and procedures in ways that benefited Democrats. In January 2020, long before anyone knew how COVID-19 might affect voting, Elias published a piece arguing that there was an ‘epidemic of uncounted ballots.’ He said that it was wrong not to count ballots that don’t have signature matches, even though signature matches are one of the very few security measures through which mail-in ballots can be verified.”
Elias then announced a four-part initiative to greatly expand mail-in balloting, including free postage, counting of ballots arriving long after Election Day, relaxed signature verification, and allowing ballot traffickers to visit people’s homes to collect ballots, and, if needed, pressure voters into giving up their ballots (it’s not coincidental that this process mimics union card check elections).
In the middle of the thousands of islands of the Croatian coast, Bavljenac, an islet of derisory size stands out for its large number of walls. These dry stone walls, typical of the Mediterranean, give the island a unique and singular aspect.
A fragmented territory
The Croatian coast is very fragmented along the Adriatic Sea. The country always seems to break up in the water into distinct sets of archipelagos. Indeed Croatia is the largest archipelago in the Adriatic Sea with 79 islands, 525 islets and 642 reefs or rocks (Rocks are defined as islets smaller than 0.1 km², islets are between 0.1 and 1.0 km² and islands proper are bigger than 1.0 km²). Of these 1246 islands, which represent a territory of 3,300 km2 , only 48 islands are inhabited. One of these uninhabited islands is the island of Baljenac (or Bavljenac) located in the center part of the Croatia coast. It is part of the Šibenik archipelago, 10 km from the coast.
Between the walls
Although it is of an insignificant size of 0,14km² it represents a historical interest for the mark that man has left there. The island is completely covered by walls built of stones piled one on top of the other. The ancient wall network is 23.357 km long on an island whose coastal perimeter does not exceed 1431m. These dry stone walls were built only by superimposing simple stones to delimit agricultural plots and protect the olive trees and vines from the wind. Farmers from the neighboring island of Kaprije are said to have started the agricultural colonization of the island in the 19th century, although some of the walls may have been built earlier. These networks of walls is indeed found in some neighboring islands, although the island of Baljenac is the largest concentration of these walls. However, it is estimated that 300 farmers would have built 106km of walls on a surface area of 12 km² in all the neighboring archipelago.
This uninhabited island has a physiognomy totally transformed by man. These agricultural plots give it a physical and totally improvised plot plan, almost random. Seen from the sky the island looks like a maze, a puzzle or a fingerprint, the hundreds of walls giving the island a unique and singular identity.
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I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader, and what I read were British and American children's books.
Like other Italian towns selling 1 euro houses, Pratola Peligna has a steadily declining population. While the town had approximately 13,000 residents in the 1930s, that number has fallen to today’s population of around 7,000 as many residents left looking for better and higher paying jobs.
Some of the abandoned houses are in relatively good condition. On the other hand, many are in need of significant restoration while others are, essentially, ruins. In fact, the municipality has issued more than 40 warnings to owners noting that the house is in imminent danger of collapse, according to 1eurohouses.com.
In response, some owners have deeded houses to local authorities to avoid the burden and cost of maintaining buildings. That’s why Pratola Peligna is now able to sell houses for 1 euro.
Other towns selling 1 euro houses typically require buyers to pay a deposit of thousands of dollars to guarantee they will actually renovate their new home. Pratola Peligna, however, will instead simply issue the new owner a fine of 10,000 euros (approximately $11,500) if they fail to register a detailed plan of restoration with the town within 6 months.
“This is really in a worst-case scenario,” Di Bacco told CNN. “We just want to make sure buyers actually follow through on their commitment and don’t simply purchase a house for 1 euro and then disappear.”
NASA has previously discussed how nuclear propulsion technology could allow the agency to send humans to Mars more quickly than by using traditional chemical rockets.
"Nuclear electric propulsion systems use propellants much more efficiently than chemical rockets but provide a low amount of thrust," NASA has said. "Nuclear electric propulsion systems accelerate spacecraft for extended periods and can propel a Mars mission for a fraction of the propellant of high-thrust systems."
There are multiple types of nuclear propulsion that could be used in space technology. With nuclear electric propulsion, thermal energy from a nuclear reactor is turned into electric energy that powers whatever type of electrical thruster or propulsion tech that a spacecraft uses. With nuclear thermal propulsion, reactors heat up propellants like hydrogen and then the gas from that reaction is ejected, creating thrust. This can create a lot more thrust than electric propulsion systems.
"They are a wonderful driving experience. But at the same time, they're an enormous burden in time and in energy in finding chargers and getting them charged," Anderson said. "And you’re not really saving much in terms of charging costs ... you may be paying more.”
Costs to drive an EV compared with a gasoline car are detailed in a report Anderson Economic released Thursday called "Comparison: Real World Cost of Fueling EVs and ICE Vehicles."
The study has four major findings:
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There are four additional costs to powering EVs beyond electricity: cost of a home charger, commercial charging, the EV tax and "deadhead" miles.
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For now, EVs cost more to power than gasoline costs to fuel an internal combustion car that gets reasonable gas mileage.
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Charging costs vary more widely than gasoline prices.
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There are significant time costs to finding reliable public chargers — even then a charger could take 30 minutes to go from 20% to an 80% charge. //
A mid-priced internal combustion car that gets 33 miles per gallon would cost $8.58 in overall costs to drive 100 miles at $2.81 a gallon, the study found. But a mid-priced EV, such as Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan Leaf or a Tesla Model 3, would cost $12.95 to drive 100 miles in terms of costs that include recharging the vehicle using mostly a commercial charger. //
“That’s apples to apples and includes the extra EV taxes, the commercial charging and the home charging and the allowance of driving to a gas station, which, for most Americans, is very short compared to driving to a commercial charger for an EV owner," Anderson said. //
The study differs from some reports that show it's cheaper to drive an EV than a conventional car. For example, a 2018 study from the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute found the average cost to operate an EV in the U.S. was $485 per year compared with a gasoline-powered vehicle at $1,117. Anderson said most studies include only the cost of residential electricity and don't factor in the four other costs that this study does.
CCTV went to China’s first compressed-air energy storage facility to show what it proposes to do. Instead of using increasingly precious and expensive lithium-ion batteries, the plant uses cheap energy to compress air in huge tanks. Its official name is quite long: National Energy Large-Scale Physical Energy Storage Technology Research and Development Center.
When there’s peak demand for electricity, and prices get higher, the unusual energy storage facility uses that air to propel turbines and generate power. According to CCTV, the facility can deliver up to 40 MWh of energy per day, enough to power 3,000 houses. //
CCTV describes this strategy as if the plan was to use it with any means of producing electricity and eventually mentions that it can avoid wasting electricity produced by renewable energy sources. Ironically, this may be the main application of such a solution instead of the mega batteries used in Australia and California.