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Cyber security has become a major concern for many people in recent years. Web users are always searching for new and better ways of shielding themselves from identity theft and fraud. One of the greatest threats to cyber security is adware. These are programming codes which invade your computer and replicate themselves without your consent. However, many people don’t know how adversely adware can affect their computers. Most see adware as a small inconvenience which can be dealt with casually or overlooked. However, if left unchecked, adware can have significant negative impacts on your computer, and even lead to permanent damage.

So, how exactly does adware affect your computer?

Adware is one of the biggest threats to your efforts towards internet security and privacy. When these rogue programs find their way into your computer or laptop, your sensitive and personal details might end up being leaked on the internet. This is a major cause of concern for many people, especially those who do a lot of transactions online.

Adware uses a lot of disk space in a computer. As a result, it clogs up your computer systems, thus interfering with their operations. Applications and processes which worked very fast will be slowed down significantly. At times, your computer could even become completely unresponsive. Besides slowing down your computer, adware can also reduce the speed of internet connection. This can end up causing a major inconvenience to users, especially people who use computers to work or study. In your attempt to free up space in your computer, you might end up losing some of your important documents in your hard disk.
Dealing with the problem of hardware is a must for anyone who is serious about enhancing the operation, as well as safety of their computer.

So how do you deal with the problem of adware?

First, you need to realize that removing adware completely is a difficult task. For people who use the internet very frequently, avoiding adware or eliminating it totally is not possible. Even with the most advanced detection systems, some rogue programs will still find their way through. However, you need to do your best to deal with these programs.
The best way of dealing with adware is by installing adware removal software on your computer. Trying to find and eliminate these rogue programs on your own is futile. You will find a lot of good and affordable adware software in the market. You could even start with one of the many free downloadable programs available online. Installing such programs will have several effects. First, your computer will be kept safe from these bad programs. By freeing up space in your hard disk, your computer will be able to run more efficiently without getting slowed down. Besides cleaning up your system, adware removal software will also help you get rid of spam email by blocking the source of such emails.

HTML 5 is basically a next generation of HTML. The previous versions of HTML (HTML, HTML 4.01) were introduced in 1999. After that, a lot of changes have been made in the web. HTML 5 is still in working process. But many main browsers still support HTML 5 elements and API’s.

How it get started:
HTML 5 is basically cooperation between World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). Initially, WHATWG was working with web application (web forms). On the other W3C was working with XHTML 2.0. But later they decided to collaborate and work as a team for new version of HTML.

After that, some rules for HTML 5 were established. Here are these rules:

Some New Rules For HTML 5 Are:

All the new features will be based on HTML, CSS, DOM and Java Script.
In HTML5, there will be a reduction of external plug-ins (like flash).
It will handle different errors effectively and efficiently.
It will have more mark ups to replace scripting.
It will be device independent.
Its development process will be visible to the public.
But with the passage of time, some new features are also introduced in HTML 5.

Some New Features Introduced In HTML 5 Are:

For 2D drawing, it has <canvas> element feature.
For media playback it has <audio> and <video> elements.
It has also support for local storage.
It has some new content-specific elements such as <article>, <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <section> etc.
It has also some new forms of control such as date, time, email, search, URL etc.
But it is not yet an official standard. At the moment, there is no browser who has full HTML 5 support. However, all the main browsers like Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer are trying hard to add new features of HTML 5 to their latest and updated versions.

HTML 5 <! DOCTYPE>:

Currently HTML 5 has only one DOCTYPE declaration. But this declaration is pretty simple.

<! DOCTYPE html>


Minimum HTML 5 Document:

The minimum HTML 5 document has the following data.

<! DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title> document title </title>

<body> content of the document </body>

</html>

On 29th February 2012, Pirate Bay, the world’s leading BitTorrent website said goodbye to the .torrent links, and gave an option to its user in the form of magnet links. Now the question is what are magnet links? How are they different from normal torrent links? Let’s find out what are Magnet Links.

Magnet Links

After the govt. started taking some serious action against the file sharing and torrent websites, there was a strong need to make torrents more secure as the agencies could easily track the torrent origin.

So that’s why most of the torrent websites are preferring magnet links. Magnet links uses a technology called DHT (Distributive hash Table). DHT technology is often called as “trackless torrents”. DHT is used to find the IP address of peers.

Magnet links does not require tracker to download a separate file before starting the download. It means that magnet links abolishes the centralized system used in the torrent links for tracking purpose.Magnet Links allows a group of users to share a file faster amongst themselves without having to rely on a server.

.Torrent File

Whereas the .torrent file holds is information about the location of different pieces of the target file. Torrents work by dividing the target file into small information chunks, found on an unlimited number of different hosts. Through this method, torrents are able to download large files quickly.

A torrent file contains the URLs of many trackers and integrity metadata about all the pieces. It can also contain additional metadata defined in extensions to the BitTorrent specification. These torrent files include metadata for stating who created the torrent, and when.

Benefits of Magnet Link:

1) The information about the uploader and the server remains anonymous.
2) Magnet links are just links that have no file associated with them.
3) While using magnet links, BitTorrent indexers don’t have to store any file.
4) Magnet Links can be shared as plain text. That means you can share them via email, chat or on social media website.

Case Study: The Pirate Bay

When TPB (The Pirate Bay) announced that they will be using Magnet Links from now on, there was lot of smoke all over. Everyone wanted to know the reason behind it.

TPB is using magnet links to avoid all their legal problems over copyright issues. So now TPB won’t be hosting anything that contains some copyright material. As magnet Links are not traceable so no one can blame TPB for the copyright material.

Downloading Files Using Magnet Links:

It is as simple as you download normal torrent file. When you will open the TPB website and will go to a download page you will see a link “Get This Torrent”, just simply click on it.

Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.
Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.
Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got fucking scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.
They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.
Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.
Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.
Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the fucking White Death, damn it.
Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...
...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.




Yogendra Singh Yadav was a member of an Indian grenadier battalion during a conflict with Pakistan in 1999. Their mission was to climb "Tiger Hill" (actually a big-ass mountain), and neutralize the three enemy bunkers at the top. Unfortunately, this meant climbing up a sheer hundred-foot cliff-face of solid ice. Since they didn't want to all climb up one at a time with ice-axes, they decided they'd send one guy up, and he'd fasten the ropes to the cliff as he went, so everyone else could climb up the sissy way. Yadav, being awesome, volunteered.
Half way up the icy cliff-o'-doom, enemies stationed on an adjacent mountain opened fire, shooting them with an RPG, then spraying assault-rifle fire all over the cliff. Half his squad was killed, including the commander, and the rest were scattered and disorganized. Yadav, in spite of being shot three times, kept climbing.
When he reached the top, one of the target bunkers opened fire on him with machine guns. Yadav ran toward the hail of bullets, pitched a grenade in the window and killed everyone inside. By this point the second bunker had a clear shot and opened fire, so he ran at them, taking bullets while he did, and killed the four heavily-armed men inside with his bare hands.
Meanwhile, the remainder of his squad was standing at the top of the cliff staring at him saying, "dude, holy shit!" They then all went and took the third bunker with little trouble.
For his gallantry and sheer ballsiness, he was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military award. Unlike the Medal of Honor, the Param Vir Chakra is only given for "rarest of the rare gallantry which is beyond the call of duty and which in normal life is considered impossible to do." That's right, you actually have to break the laws of reality just to be eligible.
It has only been awarded 21 times, and two thirds of the people who earned it died in the process. It was initially reported that Yadav had as well, but it turns out that they just mistook him for someone less badass. Or they just figured no real human being could survive a broken leg, shattered arm and 10-15 fresh bullet holes in one sitting.



An allied commander in WWII, and an avid fan of surfing, Captain Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill aka "Fighting Jack Churchill" aka "Mad Jack" was basically the craziest motherfucker in the whole damn war.
He volunteered for commando duty, not actually knowing what it entailed, but knowing that it sounded dangerous, and therefore fun. He is best known for saying that "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed" and, in following with this, for carrying a sword into battle. In WWII. And not one of those sissy ceremonial things the Marines have. No, Jack carried a fucking claymore. And he used it, too. He is credited with capturing a total of 42 Germans and a mortar squad in the middle of the night, using only his sword.
Churchill and his team were tasked with capturing a German fortification creatively called "Point 622." Churchill took the lead, charging ahead of the group into the dark through the barbed wire and mines, pitching grenades as he went. Although his unit did their best to catch up, all but six of them were lost to silly things like death. Of those six, half were wounded and all any of them had left were pistols. Then a mortar shell swung in and killed/mortally wounded everyone who wasn't Jack Churchill.
When the Germans found him, he was playing "Will Ye No Come Back Again?" on his bagpipes. Oh, we didn't mention that? He carried them right next to his big fucking sword.
After being sent to a concentration camp, he got bored and left. Just walked out. They caught him again, and sent him to a new camp. So he left again. After walking 150 miles with only a rusty can of onions for food, he was picked up by the Americans and sent back to Britain, where he demanded to be sent back into the field, only to find out (with great disappointment) the war had ended while he was on his way there. As he later said to his friends, "If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!"

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."


"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for
eternity."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth
shut."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."

"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

Wherever you are on the internet, there’s often a virus lurking around the digital corner. As processor power and bandwidth increases, so does the number of viruses. A hacker will always find a new way of getting your data – and turning it into money.

That’s why Hacker Halted – held in Miami, Florida this October – is boldly circled in the IT security professional’s calendar. And as we found-out at last year’s event; hacking has developed from threatening our data security, to potentially threatening our lives.

YES.

Hacker Halted 2011. A ‘white hat’ hacker addresses the bewildered audience armed with an automated insulin pump, and a PC that could be found in any hospital. The pump delivers insulin to the patient based on pre-determined programming of the computer software. Guess what happens to the unsuspecting patient when that program is infected by a virus…

This is obviously an extreme case. But in the USA alone, more than 27 million have fallen victim to identity theft over the last five years, according to the National Crime Prevention Council. That’s 27 million lives affected by hackers.