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

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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

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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

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“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/

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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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