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chimeric-art · 3 months ago

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“Are you writing music?”

Jay’s pencil scratched across the page. He swore, aggressively erasing the mark.

“What'd I say about sneaking up on me?” he rebuked the girl who was suddenly there, leaning her elbows on the wall behind him. She had a habit of moving nearly silently through the grass, and Jay didn’t always pay attention to her whereabouts these days.

It had been a couple weeks; they got used to eachother’s presence somewhat, her mostly giving timid little waves from across the park when she arrived and then giving him space, like he’d asked. Occasionally she would wander close and they would exchange a few words.

“Sorry,” she mumbled, almost too quiet for him to hear.

Jay rolled his eyes. She was a little bolder these days–not that it took much. She was able to speak in short intervals at least, but she very quickly retreated into her shell at the slightest hint of his irritation…and Jay’s hints tended to be as subtle as dropping anvils.

“It’s music, yeah,” he answered as a peace offering, before scowling down at his scrawled page of shorthand tabs and fragmented phrases. “Or it’ll hopefully be, someday.”

“Is that what you do? You’re a musician?”

Jay barked a single, bitter laugh. “Nah, what I do is sit on my ass all day, waiting for the universe to stop pissing on my life,” he corrected with a wry smile.

There was silence for a bit–not uncommon for her still, she sometimes took time to get her thoughts in order. Jay glanced up and caught her straining over the lip of the wall to see his notepad better.

“Don’t fucking fall,” he exclaimed sharply, snapping the notebook shut and lurching to his feet. She swayed back, disappointment ripe in her big eyes.

“What?” Jay demanded, ignoring the pang of guilt for causing such a look.

“I wanted to see,” she replied softly.

“Why?”

She fidgeted with the hem of her sleeve. “I…I like music.”

“Most people do, the fuck does that have to do with my shitty songs?”

“No, I…” She chewed on the inside of her cheek, clearly wrestling with something. “I’m, I’m good at it. At music.”

Jay snorted. “What, you mean you’re some kind of band geek?”

She shrugged, looking peculiarly miserable about it. Jay narrowed his eyes. “Okay, how’s this: you can see the notebook if you tell me what the fuck you mean by ‘good at music.’”

Her mouth opened and closed several times, as if the words were formed and taken from her. Finally she swallowed hard and clutched the lapel of her jacket. “Private lessons, since I was five,” she admitted. “Singing, piano, music theory. Won some, um…some competitions. State, national. That kind of stuff.”

Jay stared at her, eyes wide with some unplaceable emotion. Then he hacked a laugh. “Oh fuck, you’re like, band geek royalty,” he joked, dragging fingers through his messy black hair.

She shrugged again, clearly uncomfortable judging by all her fidgeting and shrinking into herself.

“Alright, alright, a deal’s a deal. Here.” He handed over his notepad, watching as her curious fingers traced along its cover before carefully cleaving it open as if handling a precious artifact and not something Jay routinely chucked into the wall and slept on. She scanned the first few pages intently, brows drawing together in concentration in a way that made Jay feel oddly self-conscious.

“I don’t recognize the notation style,” she admitted after a long few minutes. “Can you explain it to me?”

“What, the tabs?”

“Is that what they’re called? I’m only used to reading music in treble and bass clef.”

Jay blinked at her.

She blinked back. Hey, at least she was able to look at him this time.

“Look, I learned this shit from a buddy of mine who played guitar, I’m not claiming to be someone who knows jack shit about music–”

She was shaking her head. “No, no, I can follow most of it, it corresponds to the strings of a guitar, right? I’m just not familiar with what those notes are.”

Jay scowled. “Neither am I, just know what they sound like.”

She frowned in thought. “Would it help if we had a guitar?”

“Ha! Kid, I’ve been trying to get my hands on one for over a year now. Not exactly rolling in money, here.”

“Oh.” She handed his notebook back to him. “I might be able to get one, maybe.”

Again Jay stared at her, dumbfounded. “What?”

She smiled a little, for possibly the first time he’d seen. “Being band geek royalty has its perks sometimes.”

Jay was rudely awakened by someone crashing sharply into his shin.

“Fuckin– Watch it!” he snarled, cracking through sleep-crust and smudged eyeliner to glare up at the culprit as she stumbled to catch her balance. “Watch where the fuck you’re going!”

The girl slowly turned to look down at him. Her big aqua eyes went even wider, looking like she’d seen a ghost.

Which, okay, Jay had been slumped over on a concrete half-wall showing no signs of life, so that was fair. But now he was very much full of life, particularly lively anger.

“You got a fuckin’ problem?” he snapped up at her.

She shook her head, clutching the strap of her beat-up messenger bag. She was young: high school, maybe younger.

Jay sized her up now that he was slightly more awake. Fuck, he’d picked this spot specifically to avoid people, it was in the far corner of the park. Yet here she was, a fidgety thing dwarfed by layers of clothes, decorated with plaid patterns here, stripes there, polka dots and checkerboard–was she trying to see how many different patterns she could wear at once? It gave him a headache to look at her, or maybe that was from going 48 hours fueled only by nicotine and spite…

He squinted up at the sun. “Shouldn’t kids like you be in school?” he grumbled. Despite only being 19 himself, the “all grade-school kids should be in class when it’s convenient for me” mentality set in quick.

She shook her head again.

“Saturday,” she mumbled, so quiet he barely heard her in the dead silence of the deserted park.

Oh, right. Fuck. Jay smushed at his eyes with the heel of his hand, willing consciousness back into himself. “Whatever. Get lost.”

She hesitated a fraction of a second, long enough for him to reflexively prepare another acerbic dismissal–

And then she was ducking her head and hurrying away. Jay exhaled long and slow, leaning his head back to rest on the wall. “Weird fuckin’ kid,” he muttered, letting his eyes drift closed again.

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sethshead · 5 years ago

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For starters, as far as we know, President Obama was not whispering in Flynn’s ear when Flynn lied to the FBI about contacts with a hostile foreign power, and so even if this were an attempted coup, it was one that could’ve been quite easily rebuffed by simply not lying to federal agents.

As for the Rice notes, to believe that President Obama was acting illegally—or even inappropriately—when being cautious about Russian intelligence requires either a view of the environment on January 5, 2017 that lacks all context about what happened in the 2016 election or having bought into the Trumpian alternative-history hoax, line, and sinker.

After all, Flynn did lie about his contacts with Russia.

Flynn did lie about being a foreign agent on the payroll of both Turkey and Russia.

Trump did call for Russia to hack Clinton’s emails.

Trump did hire a fixer with a history of working for Russian interests as his campaign chairman.

Trump’s previous fixer did have communications with the Wikileaks about the emails Russia hacked to help Trump.

Trump’s son did email Russian operatives welcoming dirt against Hillary Clinton.

In these extraordinary circumstances, with an incoming national security advisor who had literally taken income from the country in question, would you not expect the outgoing president to have discussed the implications in a meeting with his national security team? What exactly is the crime there again?

The answer is “very obvious to everybody”: none at all.

Another right-wing conspiracy theory that is not limited to the fever swamps. But is this so new? From Vince Foster to Wag the Dog to “Climate change is a Chnese hoax” to Birtherism to Benghazi to Pizzagate, the right has never been clear about the motives and endgame they attribute to their opponents, much less the means and methods. Obviously, the larger, more grandiose a conspiracy’s scope, the more people involved, the greater its ambitions, the less likely it is to succeed. A workable conspiracy is usually pretty direct, a simple quid-pro-quo, you know, the way Trump likes to do it.

These right-wing conspiracy theories in fact remind me of antisemitic libels in the number of disparate events that would have to be manipulated to bring them to fruition. Crash one market to cause a run on another to create a shortage forcing people to buy a third thing - why bother when you can make the same profits with simple speculation? This is what gives “goyishe kop” its pejorative sense. But conspiracy theorizing is an art form unrelated to conspiracies, a chance to explore baroque happenstance through intricate Rube Goldberg devices meant to impress more by the arcane virtuosity one assigns one’s comic book arch-villains than by the practical likelihood of the charges’ accuracy. Again, it’s not about uncovering the truth but about unwinding a narrative.

And lord knows, these narratives are successful. Take the Birtherism that launched Trump’s political career: do people really believe that shit?

Well, actually, yes.

Perhaps not as truth, but adherents aren’t thinking in terms of truth: they’re already post-truth. They knew they disliked Obama’s otherness and that they couldn’t resort to the “n-word” in polite company, so they latched onto the next best thing: an impossible tale that nonetheless painted Obama as irreconcilably alien. And that emotional catharsis was all the truth they needed. Did it have to make sense in any traditional way? No. That it self-validated made it fact, a narrative for frustration and grievance.

Which is all a better reason why, whether on the responsible right or the campus left, we have to break the spell of focus on the narrative and return to the more tedious practice of collecting and ascertaining facts. Because the world is not a roman à clef of itself; it is the only world we have, and we are laying waste to it and to ourselves.

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prwizard · 2 years ago

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libertariantaoist · 8 years ago

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When former FBI chief Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel to preside over the “Russia-gate” probe, official Washington sang hosannas. Democrats, Republicans, the pundits, and the cocktail party chatterers of every persuasion swooned over his “impeccable” credentials.

That should’ve served as a warning sign, right there. Because what are those credentials? What is the Mueller record, and why does it inspire confidence in all the usual suspects?

Mueller has been consistently wrong about every important investigation he’s been involved in: and not only that – he’s erred on the side of a group-thinking warmongering and utterly clueless political class.

Let’s start with the most egregious case: the “Amerithrax” investigation. When, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, letters containing anthrax showed up at the offices of NBC, the New York Post, and two US Senators, then FBI Director Mueller mobilized his agency to get to the bottom of a crime that shocked the nation – and helped push us into the Iraq war. Colin Powell used the anthrax attacks in his talking points for war with Iraq, telling the United Nations:

“Less than a teaspoon of dry anthrax, a little bit about this amount – this is just about the amount of a teaspoon – less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an envelope shutdown the United States Senate in the fall of 2001. This forced several hundred people to undergo emergency medical treatment and killed two postal workers just from an amount just about this quantity that was inside of an envelope.”

The Iraqis, intoned Powell, had never accounted for their biological weapons. The implication was clear: the Iraqis were behind the anthrax attacks. Americans were told by their government that another terrorist attack utilizing biological weapons was imminent: they rushed to the hardware stores and bought up duct tape and plastic tarps. Mueller appeared before Congress, testifying that cooperation between Iraq and al-Qaeda on US terrain represented a direct threat:

“Secretary Powell presented evidence last week that Baghdad has failed to disarm its weapons of mass destruction, willfully attempting to evade and deceive the international community. Our particular concern is that Saddam may supply al-Qaeda with biological, chemical, or radiological material before or during a war with the US to avenge the fall of his regime. Although divergent political goals limit al-Qaeda’s cooperation with Iraq, northern Iraq has emerged as an increasingly important operational base for al-Qaeda associates, and a US-Iraq war could prompt Baghdad to more directly engage al-Qaeda.”

A month later, the invasion of Iraq began.

And the anthrax investigation dragged on. The probe focused on one Steven Hatfill, a former employee of USAMRIID, the primary US government bio-weapons research lab. Given the weaponized nature of the anthrax contained in the letters, FBI investigators were convinced that a scientist connected to anthrax research was the culprit. But why fixate on Hatfill?

This focus was due largely to the efforts of two individuals who were not experts in the field. Instead of homing in on the science – trying to trace the peculiar anthrax strain found in the deadly missives, which had killed 17 people – the FBI investigation under Mueller’s direction was based on purely circumstantial evidence uncovered by two individuals with little to no scientific knowledge: one was Don Foster, a Vassar College professor whose claim to fame was tracking down Newsweek columnist Joe Klein as the anonymous author of Primary Colors, a roman a clef about Bill Clinton’s scandal-plagued career. The other was Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a molecular biologist and former advisor to President Clinton on bio-weapons, who believed that the anthrax attacks were the unintended consequence of a secret CIA project gone awry and that the FBI wasn’t making any arrests because it would reveal the government’s responsibility for the whole affair.

Like the amateur “investigators” of the Twitterverse, who today weave elaborate conspiracy theories linking various Trump administration figures to murky Russian operatives, Foster had done some digging and uncovered a pile of circumstantial “evidence” pointing to Hatfill: he dug up an interview with Hatfill during his tenure at the National Institutes of Health in which he outlined how bubonic plague could be manufactured and launched in someone’s garage. Foster also found an unpublished novel written by Hatfill that described a biological warfare attack on Washington, D.C. More “clues”: Hatfill had been in Rhodesia during an anthrax outbreak that occurred during the 1970s, and had been a student at a medical school in the town of Greendale – the name of the made up school listed as the return address on the anthrax letters.

Rosenberg was also on to Hatfill’s trail, and she got together with Foster, comparing notes: they had independently come to the same conclusion – Hatfill was the likely culprit. Foster had previously gone to the FBI, which initially rejected his evidence: Hatfill, they told him, had a good alibi. Yet the Foster-Rosenberg team of amateur sleuths soldiered on: Rosenberg carried out a public campaign explicating her pet theories, including authoring a “Possible Portrait of the Anthrax Perpetrator” that did not name Hatfill but surely described him to a tee, even naming one of his friends.

Still, the FBI was uninterested in the Foster-Rosenberg sleuthing effort – but this changed when the two amateur investigators met with Senate staffers, including those whose offices had been targeted by the anthrax letters. The FBI agent in charge of the probe was brought into the meeting. As David Freed, writing in The Atlantic, put it:

“Rosenberg criticized the FBI for not being aggressive enough. ‘She thought we were wasting efforts and resources in a particular—or in several areas, and should focus more on who she concluded was responsible for it,” [FBI agent Van] Harp would later testify.

“’Did she mention Dr. Hatfill’s name in her presentation?’ Hatfill’s attorney, former federal prosecutor Thomas G. Connolly, asked Harp during a sworn deposition.

“’That’s who she was talking about,’ Harp testified.

“Exactly a week after the Rosenberg meeting, the FBI carried out its first search of Hatfill’s apartment, with television news cameras broadcasting it live.”

From that day forward, Hatfill’s life became a living nightmare. Then Attorney General John Ashcroft declared that Hatfill was a “person of interest.” The FBI trailed him everywhere. The media hounded him. He was driven out of two jobs. His friends abandoned him. His home was trashed by agents, as was his girlfriend’s apartment. He was constantly stopped by local police. He became a pariah. Although ultimately exonerated when the “evidence” against him collapsed – Hatfill was awarded a $5.82 million settlement after enduring six long years of torture – his life was effectively destroyed. And all because Robert Mueller fell for a conspiracy theory that had no basis in fact.

As Freed notes, President George W. Bush was constantly needling Mueller about the slowness of the anthrax investigation, and there was tremendous pressure for the FBI Director to come up with something. The hysteria level in the country was reaching new heights on a daily basis. The theory of Hatfill’s guilt filled a need for Mueller, both politically and career-wise. As Freed writes:

“There was enough circumstantial evidence surrounding Hatfill that zealous investigators could easily elaborate a plausible theory of him as the culprit. As fear about the anthrax attacks spread, government and other workers who might have been exposed to the deadly spores via the mail system were prescribed prophylactic doses of Cipro, a powerful antibiotic that protects against infection caused by inhaled anthrax. Unfamiliar to the general population before September 2001, Cipro quickly became known as the anti-anthrax drug, and prescriptions for it skyrocketed.”

Pursuing the trail pioneered by Foster and Rosenberg – Hatfill’s good alibi was apparently forgotten – the FBI tried to tie together the bits and pieces of information linking Hatfill to the attacks into a legally airtight case – and they failed. But that didn’t stop them from leaking to the media all along the way. As Freed writes: “The result was an unrelenting stream of inflammatory innuendo that dominated front pages and television news. Hatfill found himself trapped, the powerless central player in what Connolly describes as ‘a story about the two most powerful institutions in the United States, the government and the press, ganging up on an innocent man. It’s Kafka.’”

Is any of this beginning to sound familiar?

Here is a politically important case, in which several high-level people have been targeted: investigators come into the probe assuming the identity of the responsible party, and are engaged thereafter in looking for confirmation of their assumption.

The parallels with the “Russia-gate” investigation are glaringly obvious: despite the lack of any real forensic evidence, the investigation is based on the assumption that the Russians, under the direction of Vladimir Putin, interfered in the 2016 presidential election by “hacking” the DNC and John Podesta’s emails, handing them over to WikiLeaks, and otherwise engaging in a concerted campaign to keep Hillary Clinton out of the Oval Office. All evidence to the contrary – and there’s plenty of it – is being pointedly ignored. Instead, the Russian conspiracy theory is being pushed by political actors with dubious (and quite obvious) motives, with the probe headed up by a man with a history of succumbing to political pressure in order to get “results.”

Like the Foster-Rosenberg conspiracy theory targeting Hatfill – and the “evidence” the Bush administration utilized to drag us into war with Iraq – bits and pieces of “intelligence” are being strung together to depict a Vast Russian-Trumpian Conspiracy to steal the 2016 election. A meeting with the Russia ambassador: a meeting with some Russian lawyer; the selling of condos to Russian clients; bit and pieces of intercepted communications leaked by anonymous intelligence officials. The whole thing resembles the “factoids” touted by the Bush era “Office of Special Plans” that were disseminated in the media to mislead the public and the Congress into going along with the Iraq war.

Rod Rosenstein’s letter appointing Mueller as Special Counsel assumes a conclusion and then seeks evidence to confirm it: the letter takes as a given the role of the Russian government and gives Mueller the authority to probe “links” – the same carefree methodology that led to Hatfill’s years-long persecution at the hands of the government and its media accomplices.

Speaking of media accomplices, the worst was undoubtedly New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who persistently passed along Rosenberg’s unverified accusations under the thinly-veiled protective shield of prefacing it with “some say.” Weeks after Hatfill was exonerated, Kristof dashed off a reluctant-sounding pseudo-apology: that he’s now among the chief expositors of the Russia-gate conspiracy theory should come as no surprise.

Mueller’s weakness for convenient conspiracy theories that complement the conventional wisdom in Washington make him the worst possible choice for a special counsel. His tendency toward groupthink made him a key player in the campaign to lie us into the Iraq war. His utter lack of epistemological integrity in targeting an innocent man for the anthrax attacks – and refusing to clear Hatfill two years after investigators concluded he wasn’t the perpetrator – demonstrate his unfitness so clearly that one can only marvel there was no public outcry at his appointment. These flaws are more than likely to produce the same results in the Russia-gate probe – albeit on a much larger scale.

If Mueller carries out his mandate as special counsel the way he conducted the Amerithrax investigation, it will be as if Louise Mensch, Eric Garland, and Seth Abramson are providing the FBI with leads and guidance – just as Don Foster and Barbara Hatch Rosenberg did in the Hatfill case. But with this difference: hard scientific evidence – tracing the anthrax variant contained in the deadly letters – eventually led the anthrax probe in a different direction. In the case of Russia-gate, there is no science, only the guesswork of various self-interested cyber-security firms like CrowdStrike, which first fingered the Russians as the DNC/Podesta hackers. The inherent subjectivity of hacking attribution, and the extreme politicization of the investigation, will block this kind of corrective.

Which will empower Mueller to make it up as he goes along. Or, paraphrasing David Freed writing about the anthrax investigation fiasco: If there is “enough circumstantial evidence” surrounding the Trump administration that “zealous investigators could easily elaborate a plausible theory” of them as the culprits in a collusion scheme involving the Kremlin, then that is what we can expect to see.

This goes way beyond the Trump administration, Russia-gate, and the current political brouhaha over the 2016 presidential election: this is about the epistemic corruption that is rife in our political class. It is a pandemic born of groupthink, hypocrisy, smugness, and the willingness to fabricate “facts” in order to achieve political ends. It is a deadly disease, and it is killing us. The only antidote is a free media untethered to political interests and answerable only to the truth – and that is precisely what we don’t have right now. The media is complicit in all this: indeed, they are the carriers of the bacillus that is destroying this country. What happens when a free society poisons itself? I’m afraid we’re about to find out.

Important note: I don’t want to leave the impression that Mueller got it right when he targeted scientist Bruce Ivins as the culprit. In fact, the “evidence” marshaled against Ivins – who committed suicide before he could be brought to trial – was pretty much on the same level as the allegations made against Hatfill. I wrote about the Ivins case here. I also wrote about the anthrax attacks here, here, and especially here, in 2003, where I upheld Hatfill’s innocence and pointed in the direction of the probable perpetrators.

In short, Mueller never got it right.

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radioactivepeasant · 8 years ago

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One of my stranger ways of dealing with the occasional writer’s block

Sometimes I like to pretend I’m composing a score to go with the story (I can’t write music. At all. I can hear music in my head sometimes and put together compositions in my mind every once in a while, but I can’t write it down and I only read Alto Clef, so....)

And then, as if I were the composer, I make up fake track names to go with the fake score. Which is what @crazyfanatic97 and I ended up doing today for the sheer heck of it, for a three-part trilogy collaboration of ours that’s been in the works for like almost two years now. So this is my (completely, 100% fake) soundtrack for this project.

Disc One: Remembrance 1. Prologue/Old Wounds 2. Optimus Always Knew 3. Moving Out/Calling Home 4. Supremacy 5. Banner Protocol 6. This is Madness 7. Here’s Where Things Get Tricky 8. Heck of a Proposal 9. I’m Still Here 10. Binary System 11. What Now? 12. Hacked 13. She’s Not Talking 14. Another Lead 15. We Need a New Plan 16. Catching a (Sound)Wave 17. He’s Out Now Bonus Track: Last Stand at the Oh No Corral

Disc Two: Working Title Revenant 1. Let’s Take it From the Top 2. Short Fuse 3. The Return 4. Let’s Make it Big 5. I’m Watching 6. U.E.2 7. Day of the Dead 8. Memorial 9. Goodbye, Partner 10. You Don’t Scare Me 11. Mutagenesis 12. Download 13. I’ll Find Her 14. Breakout 15. House on the Hill 16. Cross the River 17. House on the Hill (dark reprise) 18. Landslide’s Battle/Let the Battle be Joined 19. Inconvenient 20. Not Your Fault 21. Code of the Hero 22. Just the Beginning

Disc Three: Working Title Retaliation 1. Ready for This 2. We Found It 3. Off the Charts 4. Experimental 5. Diplomatic Immunity 6. Jack’s Nightmare 7. Raf Can’t Remember 8. What Are You Doing Here? 9. An Old Warlord 10. You’re Prime, Now 11. Just a Kid 12. Overlord 13. Übermensch 14. Remember Me? 15. Almost Brothers 16. Not Dead After All 17. Woke Up Like This 18. New Mission 19. Cutting the Head off the Snake Bonus Track: Not Dead, Just Resting

If I could actually write music, I’d be tempted to make these real scores, but I already know that because of all my other projects, I’d never have the time. Still, it’s really fun to come up with fake soundtracks and track titles. Helps give me an idea of where the stories are going.

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dezid744-blog · 6 years ago

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On the off chance that you didn't change the default esteems amid establishment of WordPress, you can in any case change them. I would encourage you to dependably transform them amid establishment since it is very simple and clear. The table prefix is one of the reasonable things to change here in light of the fact that it is contacting a great deal on the database. On the off chance that you do this and roll out bothersome improvements to the database, it would imply that your site would not be available on the off chance that you had not upheld up the database.

3. USERNAME AND PASSWORD

As I referenced before, having administrator as your username isn't verify. On the off chance that you have an establishment with administrator as the username, you don't need to stress despite the fact that there is no straightforward method for renaming it separated from making another client. This should be possible by erasing the administrator account, obviously subsequent to making another record!

The initial step to do this is signing in to your dashboard and tapping on clients. You can include another client by tapping on the Add New menu alternative. Here, set the username to something different, obviously maintaining a strategic distance from your genuine name which could be unsafe to utilize, or simple to figure.

After this, fill the other required fields which incorporate the secret phrase, email, first and last names and site. You can leave clear the site and last name on the off chance that you don't need them. Make sure to utilize a solid secret key, and set job as a chairman.

Presently, you can logout of WordPress and log back in utilizing the new username that you have quite recently made. Returning to clients on the dashboard, you can see since you have two clients, the upgraded one and the one that you had. We have to erase the client with username administrator. When you drift the cursor over it, you can see additional alternatives, for example, alter and erase. Snap on erase to evacuate it totally.

To add an epithet to the new client, essentially click on profile on the sidebar. This will bring a structure that you will fill, including an epithet that can be noticeable to site clients on the off chance that you communicate with them.

4. Beast FORCE LOGINS AND SECURING ADMIN AREA

An assailant may get into a circumstance where they are endeavoring to figure one secret key after another so as to access your establishment. This is a beast constrain assault. A standout amongst the most ideal approaches to maintain a strategic distance from this is to ensure that you are not utilizing basic passwords.

There is a module considered Bulletproof Security that is utilized to constrain the occasions a client is permitted to figure a secret key, or to endeavor a login. This module suspends a guest for a hour in the event that they mistakenly utilize the wrong secret phrase for three back to back occasions. You can utilize it by login into your dashboard, at that point go to modules and include new. Once introduced, dispatch it from the side bar and just select the default alternatives and spare.

The administrator zone area is another esteem that is focused by programmers. To dodge this, you can include a fundamental device that diverts aggressors on the off chance that they figure out how to go through the Bulletproof Security module. Stealth Login Page is a module that can be utilized for this reason. Subsequent to introducing this module, dispatch it from the sidebar and empower it. At that point include a stick or a url that assailants can be diverted to in the event that they endeavor to access your login page. The picture underneath shows how the module looks like when propelled.

The stick is vital. It will be added to your login page, and you will require it to probably login to your dashboard.

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The measures talked about above will no uncertainty help you secure your WordPress establishment. There is no restriction to the things you can do to ensure that your establishment is sheltered. There are different things you can do, for example, constraining clients with administrator jobs, utilizing LastPass or Clef, staying away from the utilization of tedious passwords among others.

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Hackathons Are Usually Dominated by Men; This One Was Just for Girls

If some of these apps sound like something a teen girl would love, that’s because they were designed by teen girls

Photo: Janet C. Fang

“HeartOnSleeve,” “Too Tired to be Tired,” “Moodchanger,” “Food for Less Thought.” If these apps sound like something a teen girl would love, that’s because they were designed by teen girls—and that’s a good thing for the future of women in tech.

These were just a few of the winning apps that came out of last month’s Superposition II, a 24-hour hackathon in San Francisco for middle, high school, and college students who identify as female. It drew 150 hackers along with 39 mentors and 12 judges. The hackers formed 33 project teams—some ahead of time on Facebook, some on the spot.

Areeta Wong, a student from San Mateo High School, started holding these events last year, after attending the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program.

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Areeta Wong

Says Wong, “Females shouldn’t shy from a field—like I originally did—because of social norms. Although Girls Who Code had opportunities, they required long-term commitments; I wanted to help females access opportunities quicker and easier, just a weekend of freedom to learn computer science and build a product. I also wanted to show students different fields that could merge with computer science.”

Wong named her effort Superposition, she says, because the term refers to an idea that exists in the world that people have to see to believe. “Lots of people in the tech industry deny the gender gap; I want to be able to show people both that it is real, and to start changing it,” she says.

Outreach coordinator Anelise Cho says Superposition I was her first hackathon. “I’ve been very interested in computer science most of my high school career and participated in competitions and camps, but never before a hackathon,” Cho says. “Going in, I had a vague idea of what we’d be doing, but soon found it blew past my expectations. The positive and motivated atmosphere, the incredibly helpful mentors, the bond with my new team; overall it was a fantastic experience and I felt glad to have experienced it!”

Cho answered a recruitment ad for the outreach coordinator position after that experience.

These students, I have to say, are unbelievably professional. Cho’s steady but not overbearing push for media coverage rose above the vast majority of public relations emails I receive, and Wong’s concise but thoughtful responses were right on target. And I did not initially know they were high school students—I had assumed they were young engineers already working in the field—until I went to LinkedIn to fact check this post after writing it. The future of women in tech looks like it’s in good hands.

Here’s a roundup of the winning apps:

HoliBot, an app that keeps users posted on obscure holidays, won Best Pitch.

Botlucky, an app that helps people share their food, won Best Use of a .tech Domain. (My son was named biggest mooch in his high school yearbook for his ability to scout out people willing to share their food, so I can confirm that this is an app teens would use.)

Auptics, a gadget that attaches to someone’s ankle and warns of obstacles that could trip them up, won Best Hardware Hack.

VisualEyes, an app that describes the user’s surroundings and reads street signs for the visually impaired, won Best Use of Hasura APIs and Best College Hack.

Reality Check, a game that allows players to test out life choices and face virtual consequences, won Best Game.

Cleffer, an automated translator that can switch music between bass and treble clef, won Best Web App.

Task a Teen, a marketplace for members of a community to hire local teens for chores, won Best Android App.

Position, an app that runs Weiszfeld’s algorithm to help position buildings and key features within them, won Best iOS App.

HeartOnSleeve, wearables that track and display a user’s moods and says whether they’d prefer to be comforted or left alone, won Best Social Good Hack.

La Femme, an app that connects homeless women with donations of feminine products, won Best Female Empowerment Hack.

BrightPath, a tweak on Google Maps that optimizes routes for safety, won Most Creative Hack.

Too Tired to be Tired, an app that sets activity reminders, but adjusts them depending on how exhausted the user already is, won Most Innovative Hack.

FakeBook, an app that uses machine learning to classify news as real or fake, won Best Beginner Hack.

MoodChanger, an app that tackles sadness or boredom with either entertaining or thought-provoking quotes, won Best Middle School Hack.

Food for (Less) Thought, an app that asks a few basic questions and then tells you what to have for breakfast, lunch, or dinner by pulling a recipe from Yummly, won Best High School Hack. (I was really impressed with this one, I’m not sure how deep the database is or how random the selections are, but I do get bored with my own meal ideas, and this came up with some great alternatives.)

Hackathons Are Usually Dominated by Men; This One Was Just for Girls syndicated from https://jiohowweb.blogspot.com

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New unfastened device To prevent WordPress Hacks; Clef opportunity

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New unfastened device To prevent WordPress Hacks; Clef opportunity

Truong, the only insured authorization platform, just released a one hundred% Unfastened product to help protect folks that manipulate WordPress websites, in addition to their readers, from hacks and Malware. Triton’s WordPress Plugin removes static, username / password-primarily based logins (which might be made to be had after a breach) and guarantees that the right man or woman is logging into an account (now not just someone who has the credentials).

By means of the use of Triton’s WordPress Plugin, managers of WordPress websites can ensure they may be the only ones making updates to content material and guard their readers against Malware. With Clef shutting down in June, Triton’s WordPress Plugin can function a wanted safety Device for the millions of WordPress- powered websites.

One of a kind Motives Why Blogs and Websites Are Regularly Hacked Do you have any concept on why Web sites and blogs are Frequently hacked? For a few human beings, they usually suppose that it’s miles all approximate cash but every so often, there may be something else at the back of every concept on hacking Web sites and blogs. it’s miles actual that there are quite a few WordPress protection issues and different running blog systems additionally have a variety of safety breaches but hackers have their very own motives on why they do this. Right here are some of the feasible Motives why hackers determine to hack blogs and Web sites.

Non-public Enjoyment

You could find this a bit awkward however there are some programmers who definitely enjoys hacking Web sites. Once they find any WordPress security vulnerabilities, they find joy in looking to play with the device and hack blogs and Websites. Well, this sort of cause might not be as tough as others because When they effectively hacked the weblog or Websites, they may already stop.

Testing Out their Programming Abilities

This is additionally every other easy reason why a few human beings hack Web sites and blogs. Usually, those hackers are simply simple programmers. In order to test out their programming Capabilities, they Frequently attempt to get right of entry to Websites or blogs with tight protection. it’s far already an achievement for them. With numerous WordPress security troubles 2011, they’ll attempt out something to test in the event that they have improved on their programming Skills.

Viable Competition

Nicely, whether or not you deny this reality, it is also one of the Motives why blogs and Websites are being hacked. As you already know regardless of the massive Competition, there are nevertheless a number of WordPress protection problems 2012 so Websites and blogs are not a hundred% covered. There are some folks that rent hackers to damage or break a particular webpage because of Competition. This is a totally complex difficult and till now, they do not have any type of evidence that the non-stop hackings have direct worries on this difficulty. However, a few internet site owners already stated that Opposition might also in all likelihood be an amazing motive why Websites and blogs are being hacked.

Money Matters

This is basically the maximum commonplace motive why WordPress hacked occurs all the time. When you consider that Web sites and blogs are Often used to earn money online, some human beings desired to take gain of the earnings that Internet Marketers get. Seeing that they need to have clean cash, they are trying to hack famous Websites and blogs to earn cash for themselves.

As you can see, these are only a few of the famous Motives why blogs and Web sites are Regularly hacked. simply, it totally relies upon on the hackers, however, irrespective of what their Reasons are, it’s going to still cause damage to the Websites and blogs in addition to to the proprietors of the blogs.

A way to Discover Capacity WordPress Hacks

At the same time as WordPress is usually a comfy and strong platform, it may fall sufferer to hackers whilst no longer maintained, or whilst poorly advanced or previous plugins are used.

One of the extra commonplace techniques for hackers to hide the malicious Personal homepage code inserted into WordPress is to base64 encode the hacked code, after which use base64 decoding and eval() to execute the code at runtime. (If this has already handed your level of information in Hypertext Preprocessor or WordPress, seek advice from a certified internet site developer or WordPress expert for help.O

Since base64 encoding appears as a long string of random alphanumeric characters, it stands proudly inside the Hypertext Preprocessor code. typically, this encoding is utilized by a hacker to embed Hypertext Preprocessor code inside WordPress to output hyperlinks, redirect customers to precise websites, and is worse cases, permit unauthorized access to the WordPress gadget and database.

Whilst it’s far viable to manually search your WordPress subject matter code for base64 code, there are some plugins available that help experiment and detect potentially malicious code for you. one of the greater famous plugins is BulletProof security, that’s designed to guard a WordPress internet site in opposition to XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection, and SQL. Injection hacking attempts.

Even as using a plugin inclusive of This is greater powerful at securing a WordPress website than relying on guide inspection, it is significantly important to check your WordPress subject matter and WordPress installation on a routine basis. Know-how how your WordPress website online is designed and configured will help you to greater without problems identification situations in which the web page isn’t functioning commonly. it’s going to also turn out to be less complicated with a purpose to spot changes in code structure which can suggest that malicious code has been injected into the WordPress theme.

If you perform a WordPress web page as part of a small business or depend upon website online traffic as a part of your ongoing web advertising marketing campaign or membership power, don’t forget to maintain an expert net consultant with WordPress security experience to study your WordPress set up. One malicious plugin can damage the difficult-earned popularity of a WordPress internet site, and reason membership degrees to plummet. A skilled WordPress protection consultant can fast and easily discover, do away with, and restore the harm as a result of malicious Hypertext Preprocessor or JavaScript code, and help to Save you such issues from reoccurring inside the future New unfastened device To prevent WordPress Hacks; Clef opportunity.

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Clef Replacement, Keyy, now Available

This is version 1 of the software. Please don’t hit us with a bad review, but we’re very eager for your feedback in the support channel. In the coming weeks and months we will: Replace the QR code (current version) with a “Keyy wave” – an animated barcode which was a loved feature of Clef Launch a single-sign on feature, so logging into one site with Keyy logs you into all sites on that device Announce many more soon! It replaces typing usernames, passwords and the usual two factor tokens with a simple cryptograph that users sync to an app on their mobile phone. It makes logging in both incredibly safe and unbelievably easy. Keyy instantly boosts user account security and protects the site. Everyone wins, except for the hackers! The threat of hacking has never been stronger, and it’s constantly evolving in both scale and sophistication. There’s a bewildering array of online security solutions and best-practices out there. The trouble is, most of them have flaws and loopholes that criminals are always looking to exploit. What’s more, implementing them is a pain. Who wants to remember yet another password? And who wants to go fumbling about Source: https://managewp.org/articles/15251/clef-replacement-keyy-now-available

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Clef Replacement, Keyy, now Available

This is version 1 of the software. Please don’t hit us with a bad review, but we’re very eager for your feedback in the support channel. In the coming weeks and months we will: Replace the QR code (current version) with a “Keyy wave” – an animated barcode which was a loved feature of Clef Launch a single-sign on feature, so logging into one site with Keyy logs you into all sites on that device Announce many more soon! It replaces typing usernames, passwords and the usual two factor tokens with a simple cryptograph that users sync to an app on their mobile phone. It makes logging in both incredibly safe and unbelievably easy. Keyy instantly boosts user account security and protects the site. Everyone wins, except for the hackers! The threat of hacking has never been stronger, and it’s constantly evolving in both scale and sophistication. There’s a bewildering array of online security solutions and best-practices out there. The trouble is, most of them have flaws and loopholes that criminals are always looking to exploit. What’s more, implementing them is a pain. Who wants to remember yet another password? And who wants to go fumbling about from ManageWP.org https://managewp.org/articles/15251/clef-replacement-keyy-now-available

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Intercede Announces Secure Login For WordPress

Today, digital identification and credentials professional, Intercede announced the release of RapID Secure Login WordPress(RapID-SL), a Plugin for WordPress that enables directors and subscribers to log into websites and blogs with fingerprints instead of usernames and passwords. By casting off the use of insecure passwords, users are provided with superior usability and extra robust protection.

RapID Secure Login is a WordPress Plugin that works with an Android or iOS app.

Available thru the WordPress Plugin Directory, it harnesses Intercede’s RapID credentialing service to offer excessive protection authentication the use of 2048-bit cryptographic keys while not having to write a line of code.

To log in from any laptop browser, users scan a QR-code with RapID-SL on a phone. The app then supplies a cryptographic signature which logs the person in without having to enter any information into the browser. As a result, there’s no danger of information being intercepted or cached. Users also don’t need to don’t forget complex passwords that may be hacked. To login with RapID-SL from a cellphone or tablet, customers truly tap the QR code on display and eventually offer a fingerprint or PIN.

The integrated plugin can be hooked up onto WordPress with none coding or technical knowledge.

As a replacement for the popular but quit-of-life ‘Clef’ 2FA plugin, RapID-SL offers excessive ranges of security and comfort without being depending on 3rd party authentication offerings. With fewer ‘shifting parts’ RapID-SL is constructed with performance and reliability in thoughts. As a primary in the industry, WordPress users are provided with ‘frictionless’ fingerprint or PIN login from an unmarried mobile app, enabling access to a couple of money owed on multiple websites without passwords in sight.

“Based on Intercede’s confirmed experience working with a number of the maximum safety conscious corporations in the global, this new Plugin offers customers with an at ease, easy to implement and easy to use authentication service for any WordPress web page,” commented Intercede’s CEO, Richard Parris. “The solution is protection magic for small agencies and purchasers who’ve previously felt digitally disenfranchised from taking part in strong tiers of security and privateness. Faced with the harsh truth of today’s digital financial system, usernames and passwords are no longer fit for the reason as they turn out to be a smooth target for hackers. RapID-SL provides an opportunity that is both greater cozy and person-friendly. We assume greater agencies and purchasers to demand this stage of security in destiny to guard their touchy statistics from prying eyes.”

Ten Differences Between An Insecure Leader And A Secure Leader

Some time again I was talking with a fellow mission manager about a tough issue he turned into having along with his new boss. The thumbnail precis of the discussion became that the undertaking manager became feeling overly scrutinized and micro-managed. Now I knew the project manager to be a successful expert who should with a bit of luck cope with the work assigned to him. Yet his boss insisted on managing every specific factor of his paintings. More so, his boss changed into very crucial of the work being completed although it turned into accomplished to professionally applicable fashionable. The state of affairs became unbearable for the project manager; he ultimately left the enterprise.

As I thought approximately this example, I noticed an exciting parallel to other management situations I have visible and been a part of. Both the project supervisor and his boss had similar backgrounds and similar years of enjoying. Although the boss has been a supervisor for years, he tended to surround himself with younger, greater green managers. Having a more senior and skilled challenge supervisor reporting to him changed into absolutely something that took him out of his consolation area. Rather than embracing the revel in, the boss felt threatened with the aid of the undertaking supervisor and labored to “preserve him in his place”.

As I introduced matters up in my mind about the situation one factor came clear; the boss’ personal lack of confidence turned into a key problem driver and changed into hampering the institution’s capacity.

This scenario caused me to begin questioning extra about insecure and comfy chief attributes.

After noodling thru I settled on ten key variations between an insecure and a comfy leader. Give these a look and spot if any resonate with you:

Insecure selectively expose and withhold facts. Secure freely share data. Insecure educate employees what they want to recognize. Secure nurture employees to assist them to discern out what they need to recognize. Insecure discourage danger taking. Secure inspire calculated chance taking. Insecure deliver commands and anticipate them to be accompanied. Secure provide steerage and count on effects. Insecure demand respect. Secure earn respect. Insecure can also renowned super overall performance, however, make certain in addition they get the credit score. Secure highlight super performance and don’t worry approximately getting credit. Insecure lease and sell others who suppose like they do. Secure hire and promote others who think differently than they do. Insecure deflect failure. Secure be given obligation for failure. Insecure promote those they are able to manipulate. Secure sell those they do not must manipulate. Insecure grow top doors. Secure develop high-quality leaders.

WordPress Security Checklist for WordPress Websites

WordPress Security Checklist

Here is a simple checklist for WordPress proprietors and publishers. WordPress is one of the most famous website structures due to its ease of use but, it has its problems, and it’s miles because of its reputation that hackers use this platform to attempt to inject their malware and malicious scripts. WordPress Security has grown to be essential these days to guard not handiest your website, however, your logo reputation.

Unknown Infections

Often WordPress proprietors are unaware that their website has been hacked. Just due to the fact your website has been hacked it doesn’t necessarily imply you may see an ordinary image when you get entry to your website. Hackers frequently disguise the truth they’ve hacked your website as they’ve injected a mailbox and are spamming from your IP deal with.

Use our tick list for the foundations of correct WordPress Security

1. Clean and cast off spyware, malware, and viruses out of your PC/Mac earlier than entering the backend of your WordPress set up

2. Backup your website earlier than you do anything, that is without difficulty accomplished with the use of Backup Buddy.

3. Never use ‘admin’ as a username.

4. Always use a robust password.

5. Stay Updated – Ensure your WordPress Installation and WordPress Plugins are usually updated. See Latest WP Security Updates inside the sources section beneath.

6. Limit Login Attempts – Ensure you lessen the login tries down to around 3 tries. Don’t make it clean for the hackers.

7. Remove unwanted WordPress Themes – When topics are nonetheless for your website and they go out of date Hackers use these to gain access. Only have the topic you are the usage of mounted and keep that up to date.

Eight. Spring Clean – Your WordPress internet site can also have other folders on the foundation of your server. Do you really want them or are they development regions. If you don’t need the folders delete them.

Nine. Your Hosting Company – Make sure you are the usage of a website hosting company that specializes in WordPress installations. WordPress servers need unique attention to guard your website.

10. Double Layer Authentication – Use an introduced layer of safety.

Summary

Whilst the tick list above is not an exhaustive list, it’s miles a foundation level of protection. Protection is the start of the method, monitoring your internet site on a day by day basis is important. We realize that many internet site owners simply don’t have the time or the knowledge, so we offer three offerings that can be located in the sources section underneath.

Top five Qualities of a Good WordPress Developer

How do you become aware of the quality WordPress developer from a pool of programmers? A dedicated WordPress developer is capable of pushing the limits, going past the fundamentals and bringing innovations inside the assignment they’re assigned. Professional WordPress builders are usually busy in discovering extra about the state-of-the-art trends and technologies to stay in advance in their peers.

Here are the pinnacle 5 characteristics of a green WordPress developer:

Technical Skillset A good WordPress developer can have an apt understanding of various technology and be able to create a masterpiece. A best WordPress developer ought to have the sound expertise in PHP, MySQL, codebase on Trac and Xref and should able to set up neighborhood improvement surroundings and run the nightly construct. They have to be well-versed with the technicalities of WordPress inclusive of center, plugins as well as the one-of-a-kind subject matters on the way to create an internet site, which might assist you to stay in advance in the competition. Learner’s Mindset The variations of WordPress are gradually transferring ahead, and so is the surroundings. An exact developer needs to hold up with the modern day layout, technology and safety traits to construct websites, which are strong and current. A previous look or a bugged portal will tarnish your emblem image. A stagnant developer will purpose stagnation for your enterprise earnings and for your image too. Attention and Self-Motivation

WordPress professionals need to constantly push their abilities and feature a truthful concept of just about all of the elements of this platform. WordPress gives an extensive range of options which includes plugins, topics, front-quit design, and e-trade. Therefore, a developer has to have palms-on, specialized expertise to parent out what would paintings high-quality for a project. A self-prompted developer will make certain that his paintings sticks out in the crowd and does no longer just make up the numbers. Solid Planning Skills

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New Free Tool To Prevent WordPress Hacks

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New Free Tool To Prevent WordPress Hacks

Truong, the best-insured authorization platform, simply released a one hundred% loose product to assist protect individuals who manipulate WordPress web sites, as well as their readers, from hacks and Malware. Triton’s WordPress Plugin eliminates static, username / password-based logins (which might be made available after a breach) and ensures that the proper person is logging into an account (no longer simply someone who has the credentials).

By using Triton’s WordPress Plugin, managers of WordPress web sites can insure they are the handiest ones making updates to content material and defend their readers from Malware. With Clef shutting down in June, Triton’s WordPress Plugin can function a needed safety tool for the tens of millions of WordPress- powered sites.

Different Reasons Why Blogs and Websites Are Often Hacked Do you have any concept on why websites and blogs are regularly hacked? For a few humans, they usually think that it is all approximately cash but sometimes, there’s something else in the back of every concept on hacking websites and blogs. It is actual that there are loads of WordPress protection troubles and different running blog platforms also have a whole lot of security breaches but hackers have their own motives on why they do that. Here are a number of the feasible motives why hackers decide to hack blogs and websites.

Personal Enjoyment

You might also find this a chunk awkward but there are some programmers who simply en joys hacking websites. Once they locate any WordPress security vulnerabilities, they discover joy in looking to play with the machine and hack blogs and websites. Well, this form of purpose might not be as troublesome as others because once they efficiently hacked the blog or websites, they’ll already stop.

Testing Out their Programming Skills

This is likewise any other simple cause why some human beings hack websites and blogs. Usually, these hackers are just easy programmers. In order to test out their programming abilities, they regularly attempt to get entry to websites or blogs with tight protection. It is already a fulfilment for them. With diverse WordPress security issues 2011, they will attempt out some thing to check in the event that they have stepped forward on their programming competencies.

Possible Competition

Well, whether you deny this reality, it’s also one of the reasons why blogs and web sites are being hacked. As you recognise notwithstanding the huge competition, there are nonetheless lots of WordPress safety troubles 2012 so websites and blogs aren’t one hundred% protected. There are a few people who hire hackers to harm or wreck a selected website because of opposition. This is a totally complex trouble and till now, they do not have any kind of evidence that the non-stop hackings have direct worries in this issue. However, a few website proprietors already said that competition can also in all likelihood be an amazing reason why websites and blogs are being hacked.

Money Matters

This is essentially the maximum not unusual reason why WordPress hacked happens all of the time. Since websites and blogs are frequently used to earn cash on the line, some humans wanted to take benefit of the earnings that Internet Marketers get. Since they want to have clean cash, they’re trying to hack popular websites and blogs to earn cash for themselves.

How To Identify Potential WordPress Hacks While WordPress is usually a comfortable and solid platform, it could fall sufferer to hackers while not maintained, or while poorly advanced or outdated plugins are used.

One of the extra commonplace methods for hackers to hide the malicious PHP code inserted into WordPress is to base64 encode the hacked code, after which use base64 deciphering and eval() to execute the code at runtime. (If this has already passed your degree of information in PHP or WordPress, consult a qualified website developer or WordPress professional for help.)

Fortunately for WordPress users, the base64 code is fantastically clean to identify in PHP code, and looks just like the following:

Since base64 encoding appears as an extended string of random alphanumeric characters, it stands out inside the PHP code. Typically, this encoding is used by a hacker to embed PHP code inside WordPress to output hyperlinks, redirect users to particular sites, and is worse instances, allow unauthorised get right of entry to the WordPress machine and database.

While it is feasible to manually search your WordPress subject code for base64 code, there are a few plugins to be had that help scan and discover doubtlessly malicious code for you. One of the greater popular plugins is BulletProof Security, that’s designed to shield a WordPress internet site against XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking attempts.

While the use of a plugin inclusive of that is greater powerful at securing a WordPress site than counting on guide inspection, it’s miles severely essential to check your WordPress subject matter and WordPress installation on a recurring basis. Understanding how your WordPress website online is designed and configured will assist you to more readily identification situations wherein the site isn’t always functioning typically. It may also emerge as less difficult on the way to spot adjustments in code shape which could indicate that malicious code has been injected into the WordPress subject matter.

If you use a WordPress website as a part of a small enterprise or depend upon web page traffic as a part of your ongoing web advertising marketing campaign or club force, bear in mind preserving an expert internet consultant with WordPress security experience to study your WordPress installation. One malicious plugin can ruin the hard-earned popularity of a WordPress internet site, and motive membership ranges to plummet. A skilled WordPress safety representative can quick and easily discover, dispose of, and repair the damage due to malicious PHP or JavaScript code, and assist in preventing such troubles from reoccurring in the future.

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wordpress New Free Tool To Prevent WordPress Hacks; Clef Replacement

Truong, the only insured authorization platform, simply launched a 100% loose Replacement product to assist guard those who manipulate WordPress websites, in addition to their Clef readers, from hacks and Malware. Triton’s WordPress Plugin removes static, username / password-based totally logins (which might be made available after a breach) and ensures that the proper man or woman is logging into an account (not just someone who has the credentials).

Through the usage of Triton’s WordPress Plugin, managers of WordPress sites can ensure they may be the handiest ones making updates to content material and shield their readers from Malware. With Clef shutting down in June, Triton’s WordPress Plugin can serve as a needed protection device for the thousands and thousands of WordPress- powered websites.

How Much Does a Titanium Knee Replacement Weigh?

Medical technology has come an incredibly long way over the past several decades. Individuals who are suffering from consistent and serious joint pain have more options available to them than ever before for getting relief from the pain and restoration of movement in hips, elbows, and knees. Joint replacement surgeries are on the rise with younger patients than we have seen in the past. Many athletes are finding that years of abusing their joints have caused them to need a full knee replacement. One of the questions that many patients are asking is how much does a titanium knee replacement weigh?

Titanium is an elemental metal, meaning that it is not man-made. It is an extremely low-density metal and does not corrode. Titanium has the lowest strength-to-weight ratio of any metal, which makes it especially useful for medical applications. Pure titanium is as strong as steel but weighs approximately 45% less. As a strong, lightweight and corrosion-resistant material it is perfect for use in joint replacements. To construct a prosthetic knee, the material is melted down and then cast into the components which will eventually form the replacement knee joint. But how much does a titanium knee replacement weigh?

The light weight nature of titanium is actually one of the biggest benefits to using titanium. Although the weight of an individual knee replacement varies depending upon the size of the knee and the patient, they only weigh a few pounds. Ultimately there is no single answer for the question. The better question for your doctor might be how much does MY titanium knee replacement weight. Each knee prosthetic is individually constructed to the exact measurements of the recipient. Just as every person’s knees are different and unique, so too is every titanium knee replacement.

If you are a candidate for knee surgery, you probably have many questions running through your head. Will I be able to walk again? How long will my recovery be? Will I be limited in my activities? What types of physical therapy will I be doing?

While there have been great advances in medical technology, a successful outcome is determined by the patient’s attitude and willingness to do the necessary therapy. Based on their experience, many doctors have somewhat low expectations for recovery and may not be very encouraging. It is up to the patient to find and follow an exercise program that has already shown proven results. Equally important is finding a trainer or mentor who has a positive attitude toward recovery from knee surgery and who can teach anyone the same mindset. Believing it can be done and working with someone who has already achieved the desired results is the key to returning to normal activities and remaining free from pain.

Jerry Seaman is a two-time knee replacement patient and former state wrestling champion. He knows how much these knees weigh, he has two!. At age 65, just 8 weeks after his second knee replacement surgery Jerry is able to squat 205lbs for 20 reps, stand and balance on a basketball, hang upside down on a bar 12 feet off the ground, and has a full 135 degrees of flexion in his knee. He has developed a complete recovery plan which includes exercises for flexibility and strengthening, a diet program to support weight loss and improved muscle tone, and his unique and powerful Success Mind-set program. It’s all available on one simple CD.

Learn to Play Piano – Left Hand Playing Is The Reverse of Right Hand Playing

Playing piano requires both hands to play at the same time at two different areas of the keyboard, the right hand the mid to high range notes and the left hand the bass notes.

In order to differentiate the two areas of the piano keyboard to be played with each hand, music is written on two sets of five lines. The upper set of five lines is the place that the right-hand notes are placed. The lower five lines are where the notes for the left hand are placed.

To confirm the two sets of lines are for the higher registers and the lower registers a sign is placed on the far left of each set of lines. The sign is called a clef. The clef for the top set of lines is the treble clef. The clef for the lower set of lines is the bass clef.

The fingers of the hands are numbered, from the thumbs of both hands being number 1 to the little fingers being number 5. With the right hand, the thumb starts on the lower notes and the fingers 2, 3, 4, and 5 play the notes to the right (progressively higher in pitch) sequentially. The left-hand fingers play the opposite way. The thumb plays the higher pitch notes and the other fingers moving left down the keyboard play the lower pitch notes.

Music always has lower pitched notes at the bottom of the lines and higher pitched notes at the top. This remains constant regardless of the set of lines being used. (Treble or Bass clef)

Confusion can occur when first attempting to play with the left hand. The notes on the music for both clefs follow the same rules of lower notes at the bottom and higher notes at the top. The right hand follows the notes with the large thumb playing lower notes and the tiny little finger playing the high notes. The left-hand does everything in reverse. The large thumb plays the higher notes and the tiny little finger plays the deep heavy notes.

Music notes are named after the first 8 notes of the alphabet, which is A to G. To be able to work out the notes to be played, working the alphabet from A to G is easy; however, few of us learn the alphabet backward. To follow music it is essential to know the alphabet from G to A. To play with the left hand, the ability to know the alphabet from G to A is crucial as the left-hand plays its finger numbers backward. Once this is mastered with a little practice using the left hand backward becomes second nature.

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Is It Worth Hiring A WordPress Consultant?

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When it comes to hiring someone for a WordPress related job, it really depends on who you think is the right person for the job. You can hire a freelancer, a WordPress agency, a decent developer or a WordPress consultant. But not all situations demand a WordPress consultant. Similarly, not all tasks can be accomplished by a freelancer.

It depends on a lot of things.

Nature of Work

For simple tasks like newsletter integration or customization of a theme, you can approach a decent freelancer or a developer.

If you need a custom WordPress website for your business, you definitely need to approach either an agency or a competent WordPress developer.

If you are a small, medium sized or large business house, you need more than just a custom website solution. You need a well-behaved website, successful online presence, SEO optimized site, and conversion rate optimization. You will need to run various advertising campaigns.

This involves the discovery, planning, implementation, and deployment. A Consultant is a right person for this kind of job (period).

A WordPress Consultant will start with assessing the needs of a website for the business/company, will work out a plan and discuss the possible solutions. He will take the reins in his hands to deliver a site that takes your business to the next level. The focus of a WordPress Consultant is on delivering the site that generates revenue and drives sales.

Budget

You can hire a freelancer at a very low rate. You can find a freelancer to happily work for you for as low as $5 per hr. The problem is freelancers, experiment at the cost of your website. Many of my clients have shared their horrible stories of working with the freelancers. Some of them worth mentioning are:

– The work delivered was not as per the expectations. – After the deadline was over, freelancer informed that he was not competent enough to provide the solution. – I have to approach the freelancer every now and then to get the site fixed. My website breaks with every WordPress / plugin update.

So basically working with cheap freelancers come at its own cost.

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New Free Tool To Prevent WordPress Hacks; Clef Replacement

Trust NA, the most effective insured authorization platform, simply released a one hundred% loose product to assist guard individuals who manipulate WordPress websites, in addition to their readers, from hacks and Malware. Triton’s WordPress Plugin removes static, username / password-based totally logins (which might be made available after a breach) and ensures that the right person is logging into an account (no longer just a person who has the credentials).

Through the use of Triton’s WordPress Plugin

Managers of WordPress websites can ensure they may be the handiest ones making updates to content and defend their readers from Malware. With Clef shutting down in June, Triton’s WordPress Plugin can serve as a wanted security device for the hundreds of thousands of WordPress- powered websites.

How to Prevent Your Stretched Ears From Stinking

Ear stretching has been practiced for loads of years by using indigenous human beings for diverse rituals in nations like Africa, Europe, and maximum these days exploding in North The united states and Europe. Ear stretching is largely widening a healed hole inside the ear lobe and setting a plug or tunnel inside the pierced hole. Choosing to stretch your ears gives you a personal obligation to take right care of your piercing. Stinky ear plugs usually referred to as ear cheese, is as a result of dead skin cells forming inside the stretched earlobe and compiling on the plug. Ear cheese is a mixture of lifeless skin cells and shampoo/soap products coming collectively to form a disgusting and stinky discharge. Once this occurs, you’ll want to take the subsequent steps to rid your ears of this horrendous tank.

Step 1- Cleaning Your Plugs

Take your plugs out and wash carefully in a sink with warm water. Use slight liquid soap to wash all aspects and clean the jewelry very well. Whilst completed, use a paper towel to dry and hold blanketed. Make certain you do no longer depart in shower or sink as feasible recontamination can arise. For organic plugs like wood, unique oils like JoJoba can help in properly Cleaning special substances.

Step 2- Cleaning Earlobes

First, slather both fingers together with warm water and easy with anti-bacterial soap. Then in a round motion, use one finger to rub the inner of your stretched lobe. Ensure to rub and easy all dead pores and skin cells in earlobe with masses of antibacterial cleaning soap and water. If your lobes are not large sufficient on your finger, then strive the usage of a Q-tip to easy inside. Ensure to completely dry lobes internal and out with a brand new, clean paper towel to prevent trapping bacteria.

Step 3- Re-putting your Plugs

As soon as the inside of the lobes has been wiped clean and dried, right now insert plugs lower back into your stretched lobes. lately wiped clean plugs and ear earrings can effortlessly select up microorganism while air drying in sinks or showers, so it’ essential to try this quick. Wipe all closing water surrounding your piercing with an easy fabric or paper towel. If your lobes want lubrication Whilst replacing plugs, attempt massaging vitamin E oil on them.

Many Cleaning dealers like alcohol and hydrogen peroxide can provide to be too harsh for ear piercing and stretching. We advise soaking piercings and plugs 1-2 times every day in mild saline solution with heat water and non-iodized sea salt. Following these easy-to-do steps on an, each day foundation can prevent Stinky stretched ears and stop ear cheese.

Is Amazon a Good Solution To Host Your WordPress Website

After dealing with the fact that I want a quicker website hosting issue, I finally decided to attempt out some of Amazon’s web hosting merchandise. Amazon has so many net offerings that it could be a bit daunting to get commenced with them, however, I determined to present it a pass.

The primary element that I searched for turned into the capability to host WordPress websites. After a little research, I discovered that Amazon had just brought a program for WordPress. Using their new “LightSail” product, I found that it became in reality pretty simple to configure and load up WordPress. There are numerous other famous CMS apps as nicely, inclusive of Drupal and Joomla. In case you are inquisitive about an e-Commerce solution, Magento is likewise supported.

Lightsail isn’t always for large deployments

But it is quite darn easy for smaller requirements. In a nutshell, you sign on, put in your area call, set up WordPress, installation your DNS zones, map the static IP deal with it truly is assigned to you, and it launches.

Whilst you visit launch one of the apps, Amazon refers to them as “instances”. You would pick out the example that you are interested in (WordPress, Drupal, and many others) and observe the step by means of step directions.

1. The primary factor is to call your example. In case you don’t call it, Lightsail will create a name for you. Amazon works in zones, and in my case, it is usually Virginia. You may trade the quarter if you like, but I have found it’s better simply to go away it at the default area.

2. You may additionally select your instance plan, that is the month-to-month price that suits your necessities.

3. You can also run other numerous scripts and pick both the default SSH key pair or trade the key pair. As above, I constantly stick with the default.

4. Then click on create. It takes a few minutes and then a web page comes up with a public IP cope with and a username to hook up with the instance. You’ll need your private key out of your Amazon account, so In case you do not have one, you may want to create it.

five. Bitnami is used to connect to the brand new website. but after, you’ve loaded WordPress, you login exactly the identical way with every other web hosting agency. Bitnami is quite intuitive and would not take extra than 15 or 20 mins to learn how to navigate around.

There may be also a few project courses and motion pictures as properly to assist with the installation

According to the WordPress undertaking manual, There are most effective five steps, but in reality, it’s greater like eight steps.

I loaded this up a few weeks in the past, so I have not had time to absolutely build it out, however, I had no issues loading the topic. I’m also Using an AWS plugin (loose) that will replica any media files to Amazon S3 and serve from S3 Cloudfront. Hopefully, this may cut down on load times for my pages.

It takes a few getting used to now not having Cpanel, but, all in all, I’d say, it’s an exact “Yes” to at least trying Amazon’s Lightsail to host your WordPress sites.

Four Creative Life Hacks for Moving Sleeper Sofas

Sleeper sofas are notable ideas for website hosting short-time period visitors. The springy, wiry help underneath a thin layer of padding is the suitable compromise for estranged siblings and visitors who might be tempted to overstay their welcome. It’s almost like imparting an actual bed, but you understand that their aching back will be a reminder to get a real job or hit the street. The biggest downside to this piece of furniture is while it comes time to move to a brand new condominium or residence. The compact internal beds make sleeper sofas about as light and maneuverable as 2nd fridges. If you stay on the second one ground, you may as nicely attempt to cautiously maneuver an orca around the corner inside the stairwell. when it is time to transport, recollect those existence hacks.

Craigslist

The cheap fixture is a warm commodity on Craigslist, mainly whilst local college students are transferring again into the metropolis. In case you aren’t really devoted to the fabric and fashion of your modern piece, then getting an alternative have to be smooth. In case you pass frequently, then it can be better to get a futon, which offers a whole lot of the identical versatility at less than half the burden.

“Forget” It

In case your preparations with the landlord had been largely phrase of mouth, and when you have already accrued your deposit, it might be possible to break out with just leaving the thing at the back of. Unless the following resident could be very choosy about decor, they may be able to use the element somewhere. In case you aren’t the passive-competitive kind, then you could speak to the owner directly. Factor out that the property may want to then be indexed as “partly furnished,” which could appeal to more interest from ability residents.

An Axe

This possibly should not be “plan A,” however disposing of sleeper sofas will be a whole lot simpler after they’re decreased to smaller portions. On account that very few fashions are held collectively via screws, an extra destructive method will probably be necessary. The best device will depend on the aspect you are dismantling for the time being. A noticed could also paintings for the wooden body and backing, however, an Axe could sense infinitely greater cathartic. Be cautious swinging any sort of tool in opposition to the padding or springy bed shape.

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