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  • mazsa 10:18 on June 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    The Ideological Turing Test “[...] Mill states it well: “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.” If someone can correctly explain a position but continue to disagree with it, that position is less likely to be correct. And if ability to correctly explain a position leads almost automatically to agreement with it, that position is more likely to be correct. (See free trade). It’s not a perfect criterion, of course, especially for highly idiosyncratic views. But the ability to pass ideological Turing tests – to state opposing views as clearly and persuasively as their proponents – is a genuine symptom of objectivity and wisdom. [...]” http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.html

     

  • mazsa 16:36 on April 10, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    Test your internet connection and perform diagnostics

    Network diagnostic tool
    Test your connection speed and receive sophisticated diagnosis of problems limiting speed.

    Glasnost test
    Test whether certain applications or traffic are being blocked or throttled on your broadband connection.

    Network path & application diagnostics
    Diagnose common problems that impact last-mile broadband networks.

    Bandwidth test
    See how much bandwidth your connection provides

    Traffic shaping test
    Determine whether an ISP is performing traffic shaping.

    Mobile traffic test
    Detect whether your mobile broadband provider is performing application or service specific differentiation.

    http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools

     

  • mazsa 19:05 on October 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    “The Dodecad ancestry project has two goals: 1) To provide detailed ancestry analysis to individuals who have tested with 23andMe; other testing companies may be included in the future. 2) To build samples of individuals for regions of the world (e.g. Greeks, Finns, Albanians, Southern Italians, etc.) currently under-represented in publicly available datasets. [...]

    Who is eligible to participate

    Due to my inability to process a large number of samples, at present, only the following groups are eligible to participate in the project’s current pilot phase:
    Greeks (not necessarily from Greece: Cypriots, Pontic Greeks from the former USSR, North Epirotes, Griko speakers from Italy, Muslim rumca speakers from Turkey, etc. are all accepted)
    People from the Balkans
    People from Anatolia
    People from the Caucasus
    Italians
    Non-Indo-European speakers from Europe (e.g., Finns, Hungarians, Basques)
    Scandinavians and Icelanders
    Iranians
    Armenians
    Jews from Italy, the Balkans, or Anatolia
    Assyrians
    Arabs
    Samples should be received by the end of October 2010.

    What you will receive: [...]” http://dodecad.blogspot.com/2010/10/introducing-dodecad-ancestry-project.html

     

  • mazsa 11:17 on October 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Free Security Check-Ups 

    “Many computer security vendors offer free computer security checks for your computer. Visit a link below to check your computer for known viruses, spyware, and more and discover if your computer is vulnerable to cyber attacks”: http://www.staysafeonline.org/tools-resources/free-security-check-ups

    Cf.: http://www.staysafeonline.org/about-us/board-members

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/national-cyber-security-awareness-month.html

    http://safetyandsecuritymessaging.org/tips.html

    Related: http://www.google.com/familysafety/

     

  • mazsa 07:07 on September 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    System fingerprint: a passive, cross-browser user tracking that works even in private mode “Web browsing software needs to share system information with the visited web services. However, shared information can characterize the user’s system, and therefore allow individual identification, even in private browsing mode or after deleting HTTP and Flash cookies. In our tests, even a Firefox-based anonymous web browser could be tracked with the same identifier that was assigned to other browsers of the same system.

    If you would like to test this tracking feature of your browser, just click on the link below! After the analysis, the test computes an identifier for your system, which we call the system fingerprint. If you like, you can compare these IDs in different browsers, and even in private browsing mode. Naturally, it is not the purpose of our test to facilitate user tracking but to show the weak points of privacy protecting systems.” http://pet-portal.eu/?page=fingerprint&intl

     

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