![]() ![]() ![]() It is preferable to close the blinds or curtains on the windows to remove distractions for you and to prevent variations in the daylight, possibly from clouds passing before the sun, ruining your video. So turn on all the room lights and any lamps you have. The trick is create a diffuse, soft light. Unless you are an anonymous informant, being silhouetted is a bad look, as is having intense sunlight masking your features in a blinding white light. Somewhere away from road or street noise, where you can close all doors and windows and where Fido is out of earshot. So pick a location where you can limit extraneous noise. If your audience is awestruck by the extraordinary vocal range of your pet pooch as it wails for attention then they will not be giving their full attention to what you are saying. So when thinking about your location make sure the background is clean and uncluttered with no curiosities that could distract the audience. If your audience is wondering how you came to be in possession of the 16 th century Mycenaean funerary mask hanging on the wall behind you then they are not focussing on the message you are delivering. Ideally, you are looking to remove visual and audible distractions. It all starts with thinking about your location. Nevertheless, there are a few basic rules that, if followed, will make sure we can be seen, heard and communicate effectively. We don’t need to be as accomplished at presenting to a camera as Tony Jones or Leigh Sales to be an effective communicator via smart phone or webcam. You could also opt for the warts and all authenticity of a cinéma vérité approach to video, but that may distract from your message as viewers wonder why you look so scruffy, so crumpled and why it is that they are getting a fabulous view up both your nostrils! Sure, there are smart phone filters that can cleverly superimpose animal features onto video of a human face, but I wouldn’t recommend that as a presentation option for your next virtual investor roadshow. The truth of it is a camera dispassionately and without bias captures the reflected light from whatever is in front of it, be that a box of bananas or the CEO of a company. If you don’t believe me just think back over a few of the virtual video sessions we have all been enjoying as part of the COVID-19 inspired ‘new normal’. The cameras built into smartphones and laptops are amazingly sophisticated but are no guarantee that a video presentation will look good or be engaging. The camera never lies! A broad statement that still holds true despite the incredible advances in software to manipulate digital imagery. GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communications and Media Advisor ![]()
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![]() ![]() The hope is that privacy-centric technology would give consumers more secure options to choose from. A MIT researcher even proposes encrypting genetic information. Jeeves, a programming language in the making, accommodates built-in privacy protocols. ![]() The app comes hot on the heels of the Blackphone, which launched pre-orders for its cryptographically-secured phone last week. Innovative developers are feeding this hunger with an array of technologies. 'Two years ago not a lot of people cared,' he comments. ![]() In an interview with Ars Technica last December, Cryptocat developer Nadim Kobeissi said: Privacy developments have been fueled by a newish hunger. Not to mention, Cryptocat has come a long way since repairing a "rookie" cryptographic mistake made last year. ![]() Private communications have come a very long way since cypherpunks organized an esoteric email group focused on discussing the technical aspects of encrypted communications in the 90's. Cryptocat has been a main player in this movement. Developers have been struggling to make secure communications, of all sorts, more user-friendly. One might think securing information would be a cinch, but secure communications require complex cryptography. It took Cryptocat a year to transit to a mobile app. According to The Verge, the servers are stored "in a Swedish nuclear bunker to protect them from government intrusion." Security measures extend beyond the cryptographic protocols. It utilizes Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR), a cryptographic protocol for secure instant messaging, and perfect forward secrecy, a system that constantly generates new user keys so snoops cannot decrypt older messages. Users of Mozilla, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Mac OS X – and now iOS, can use the app. It's available for free from the Apple app store. In a demo at RightsCon, a gathering in Silicon Valley that focuses on technology and combating human rights challenges, Cryptocat unveiled its chat-based cryptographically-based private mobile app, a tool they've been cooking up this past year.Ĭryptocat's mission, according to its blog, is "Making encrypted chat easy, fun, and accessible for everyone." While not as simple as using Facebook or GChat, it's easier to use than other encrypted instant messaging services. In the case of the iOS app specifically, the flaws were addressed before the app version was rolled out.Cryptocat, a web application for private chatting, now functions on smartphones. “There were some bugs found in the regular Web version, and those did affect versions already released,” Kobeissi said, “but those bugs were also swiftly fixed in the past few weeks before the audits were published.”Ĭorrection: A previous version of this article was titled “CryptoCat is anything but secure,” but was changed to address the fact that CryptoCat developers had already fixed security flaws detailed in an audit by iSEC Partners, which was commissioned by CryptoCat. In a blog post, “ Recent Audits and Coming Improvements,” CryptoCat’s developers explain in detail their solutions to both the authentication and MITM vulnerabilities, which they say have both been resolved. The conversation carries on without interruption and no one is the wiser-except for the attacker who can now monitor the entire exchange. In addition, the researchers found CryptoCat was vulnerable to MITM (man-in-the-middle) attacks, leaving conversations susceptible to eavesdropping.ĭuring a MITM attack, an attacker secretly establishes connections between the two participants, receiving data from one user and passing it to the other. “After all, there is no need for CryptoCat if one must first communicate securely in order to use it with confidence,” the report said. The first security issue essentially required a user to verify the identity of the person with whom they wish to speak by other secured means prior to initiating CryptoCat, thus negating the entire purpose of the app. Perhaps the most widely read report, written by iSEC Partners researchers, found that the open-source app contained several flaws, which could have permitted attackers to compromise CyptoCat users’ OTR (off-the-record) conversations. “That was the point of asking for these audits.” “It’s important to note that both of these audits were commissioned by us, and that all bugs in the iPhone version were fixed before the iPhone app was released,” Kobeissi told the Daily Dot. Furthermore, he says, all flaws uncovered in the reports were patched weeks before the audits’ publication. A pair of controversial security audits that called into question the effectiveness of cryptographic protocols utilized by the popular browser- and iOS-based chat application CryptoCat were commissioned by CryptoCat itself, says Nadim Kobeissi, CryptoCat’s lead developer. ![]() ![]() Through or family reunification efforts, tfcf successfully helped 32 women, whose parental rights were previously revoked, with re-establishing family visits with their children and a total of 21 children were reunited with their mothers to live in a safe and supportive environment. 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Results: At Time for Change Foundation we don’t recycle homelessness, we end it. ![]() ![]() Nicholas: Do white-supremacist groups pose a national-security threat to the United States, and should the president condemn them more clearly and directly than he has to date? We need leaders who can bring us back together and generate confidence in our identity as Americans and as human beings. We have these centripetal forces in our society today, created by this interaction of identity politics with racism and bigotry. No leader should encourage any group that is based on a narrow identity that aims to supersede our identity as Americans. He said, of the Proud Boys-a far-right group of “Western chauvinists”-that they should “stand back, and stand by.” Is that an adequate response? Peter Nicholas: At the debate, Trump was asked to condemn white-nationalist groups. Our conversation has been edited for clarity and length. Though he’s not given to alarm or blame, he casts Trump as something of a destabilizing force in our politics. He worries that the president’s comments might leave such groups feeling emboldened. As he told me yesterday, he believes Trump needs to speak out more directly about the evils of white supremacy. Though McMaster isn’t likely to be the next James Mattis, who denounced Trump in a lengthy statement earlier this year, he’s not entirely neutral, either. And with Trump failing to clearly condemn white supremacists at Tuesday’s debate, maintaining silence might grow more untenable. With other Trump alumni taking clear sides, pressure increases on those who haven’t. Writing a review in The Washington Post about McMaster’s recent book, Battlegrounds, Ben Rhodes, a former deputy NSA in the Obama administration, concluded: “In it, we learn almost nothing about his interactions with Trump or his personal opinion of the man.”īut although that might be how McMaster wants it, it’s not an easy position to hold. On that score, McMaster has typically kept mum. He presumably knows plenty about the character of the 45th president and whether he’s fit to lead the free world. ![]() ![]() McMaster was part of a coterie of high-level advisers who met often with Trump, explaining global threats and laying out options for him to consider. The retired Army general served as Trump’s second national security adviser, leaving in early 2018 after about a year in the job. As the election nears, a parade of ex-administration officials and political advisers has come forward to denounce President Donald Trump and offer firsthand accounts of incompetence and venality running through his government. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weaving in this symbolic sense and spiritual power were almost synonymous, so it should come as no surprise that a symbol involving power over life and death would be visualized as a knot.Ī less satisfying explanation that some scholars have invoked is that the Valknut could be the “ Hrungnir‘s Heart” ( Hrungnis hjarta) mentioned in Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda: “Hrungnir had a heart made of hard stone and pointed with three corners, just like the carved symbol which has been called Hrungnir’s heart ever since.” All that this description tells us about the visual form of “Hrungnir’s Heart” is that it had a triangular shape. This explanation is all the more plausible since the form of heathen Norse magic that the sources mention the most often, namely seidr, used imagery related to spinning and weaving fiber to symbolize altering the course of events. Ellis Davidson, “Odin had the power to lay bonds upon the mind, so that men became helpless in battle, and he could also loosen the tensions of fear and strain by his gifts of battle-madness, intoxication, and inspiration.” She and others interpret the Valknut, with its knot-like appearance, as a symbolic expression of this idea. In the literary sources, Odin and his attendant spirits such as the valkyries often use magic that is described in terms of binding and unbinding, tying up the mind or untying it. Odin was also one of the most powerful of all magicians and shamans. To find associations with both death and Odin together should come as no surprise, since Odin was, among many, many other things, a psychopomp – that is, a figure who ferries the spirits of the dead to the underworld and then back to the world of the living – as well as the leader of various hosts of the dead, such as the warriors of Valhalla and of the Wild Hunt. For example, the Anglo-Saxon urns feature depictions of horses and wolves, two animals that are often the companions of Odin in the Norse mythological tales. Even in instances where he’s not present directly alongside the Valknut, we often find other symbols that are closely associated with him. ![]() In most of these cases, Odin is also present. Similar-looking symbols can also be found on the cremation urns of the Anglo-Saxons, another Germanic people closely related to the Norse linguistically, ethnically, and in terms of their pre-Christian worldview and religion. In the archaeological record, the Valknut appears only in connection with the cult of the dead, as in the aforementioned runestones and ship burial. The longer answer is: The Valknut on the Stora Hammars I stone, Gotland, Sweden What, then, was the meaning of this symbol? Its name isn’t mentioned in any period sources valknut is a modern Norwegian compound word that means “knot of those fallen in battle” and was introduced by Norwegians who lived long after the Viking Age. Archaeologically, it appears on several runestones and pictorial memorial stones that date from the Viking Age and stand on the Swedish island of Gotland, as well as on grave goods from the Oseberg ship burial in Norway. Visually, it’s comprised of three interlocking triangles. The Valknut (pronounced “VAL-knoot”) is one of the most widely-discussed yet enigmatic of all of the symbols that appear in connection with Norse mythology.
![]() ![]() I think an updated unit with more CPU/DSP/lotsa storage and very specifically productized user IR support (ala the beta 1101 custom firmware) would be a unit that could get them back on the map. With the 1101 it seemed like they were following the L6 model where they were repackaging and tweaking a floor unit's tech into the rack unit. As a consumer, I'd love to see them go back to the GSP2101 paradigm where they are shooting for the cutting edge with their rack unit. how do you think apple get so rich? i phone and ipad i pod new models often and same user buy next gen model no question.Ĭlick to expand.TBH, at this point in the product's life cycle, I think that is the best thing for Digitech to do. beside, they want to make new products every few years to stay in business. items user request are often new hardware change and not fixed with simpler firmware. that is how i get they just move on if something works factory stable (no updates or add on). but during that time, less was done for other products in mbb group. had been orig factory official servicing of gsp, then i may give them full credit. must be beta was a different "unofficial" project. the only thing historically i see digitech do in days of internet is provide updates for various editors, and only address small bugs for firmware. if product is functional as they tested, digitech just moves on to next thing. line 6 gear is always ready to play.ĭigitech makes their presence if after they have product there is problem. at stores digitech gear were always hard to find hooked up or powered on. it also do not help when line 6 mark up was better (commission $). imo internet has displaced many of the human reps in any capacity. before internet there was always fair amount of reps and shows and product demos digitech provided. I disagree about previous digitech presence. updated to c63 and is very very cool piece of gear. hey no matter, i got my gsp and c2 for less than 300 shipped. ![]() ![]() ![]() Explore these switcher options and see which of them works best for your needs.
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