![]() Announcing the acquisition, Nadella made it clear that he’s buying the social-networking company because he believes it can improve Microsoft’s existing cloud-based services. In April, the company’s growth results for its cloud business disappointed investors and raised worries about how well it is adapting to the subscription-based model and competing with scrappier rivals. On the whole, Microsoft is doing well-its stock price has risen more than thirty per cent since Nadella’s appointment as C.E.O.-but the coming years could be challenging. And, in addition to the pressures that come with a different way of selling one’s wares, Microsoft faces competition from smaller office-productivity startups with built-in social features, like the messaging service Slack. That makes it especially important to give users a reason to stay-or, put differently, to make it difficult for them to leave. But unlike traditional software, which companies buy once every several years and then pay to maintain, subscription-based cloud services require customers to renew their commitments over and over, sometimes as often as once a month. Nadella’s strategy has instead been to focus on taking businesses where Microsoft has traditionally excelled and moving them to the Internet-based “cloud”-for example, selling subscription-based versions of Office that can be accessed either on a desktop or through the Internet. Facebook and Google have been so successful at consolidating ads on their services that their competitors, including Microsoft, have concluded that they don’t stand much of a chance at building big advertising businesses of their own. But the online-advertising business has come to depend heavily on scale: to attract significant advertising revenue, you must have access to millions, even billions, of users. Back when Ballmer was courting Zuckerberg, online advertising was seen as one of the most promising ways to make money on the Internet: you provided services for free, then charged companies to advertise to your users. But with this purchase Nadella’s motivation is different from Ballmer’s. It might seem surprising, in that context, that Nadella has now staked his career on acquiring a different social-networking company. In June, 2015, his successor, Satya Nadella, wrote in an e-mail to employees outlining his vision for Microsoft that the company would need to “make some tough choices in areas where things are not working.” The letter didn’t mention advertising by then, Microsoft was all but abandoning that business. This was seen as one of Ballmer’s big disappointments as C.E.O. Eventually, Microsoft failed not only at building or acquiring a prominent social-networking service of its own but also at creating a successful online-advertising business at all. Ballmer had an instinct that social networking was important, but he had no idea how to tap into it. ![]() In retrospect, the company’s inability to buy Facebook symbolized a broader failure to navigate an industry that was being radically transformed by new technologies. That was good for Facebook, which is now valued at more than three hundred billion dollars and has one of the most successful online-advertising businesses in the world, but terrible for Microsoft. Zuckerberg was intent on keeping his company independent. ![]() For this, according to the journalist David Kirkpatrick, Ballmer was willing to pay fifteen billion dollars, far more than Microsoft had ever paid for an acquisition. If Microsoft could acquire Facebook, it would gain a user base that could eventually rival Google’s-just what advertisers wanted. People were signing up for accounts in extraordinary numbers. But Ballmer, who wanted to catch up to Google in the online-advertising business, was beginning to see Facebook’s power. During Facebook’s first couple of years, bigger companies had dismissed it, and social networking in general, as a fad for college kids Zuckerberg had even admitted that he didn’t care how Facebook would eventually make money. of Facebook, to let Microsoft buy his company. at the time, Steve Ballmer, flew to Palo Alto to try to convince Mark Zuckerberg, the young C.E.O. Back in the mid-aughts, Microsoft’s C.E.O. Microsoft’s announcement, on Monday, that it would purchase LinkedIn-its biggest acquisition ever, at more than twenty-six billion dollars-brought to mind an earlier takeover attempt, almost a decade ago. PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFRI TARIGAN / ANADOLU / GETTY Microsoft announced this week that it would buy LinkedIn for more than twenty-six billion dollars.
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![]() The leveling system was one of the first things that impressed me it’s surprisingly large and allows for plenty of party customization. The level of depth and attention to detail this game has surprised me I had grown up on Super Nintendo games being rather simplistic in their designs and expected this one to be no different, but First Departure R has a complex system that compares to that of games released today, making me wonder just how mind-blowing this title was back in the 90s. ![]() The artstyle, the story, the characters everything works together seamlessly to offer a unique single-player experience that simultaneously leaves players plenty of opportunities to explore new areas, engage in conversations with party members, craft your own items, and customize your party’s skills and abilities. And, like icing on the cake, it’s all wrapped up in a neat little nostalgic JRPG experience that reminded me of my childhood days with Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy 7. This game combines my two personal loves of fantasy and sci-fi, and pairs it with is an interesting and layered story that got me emotionally invested right from the get-go. The very idea of playing a protagonist from a purely fantasy-esque setting and watching as they are tossed into the realm of science-fiction piqued my interest and kept me glued to the screen. Star Ocean First Departure R captured my full attention almost immediately after starting the game. So when I finally sat myself down and played First Departure R, I had no idea what was waiting for me beyond just a simple JRPG in space. I had never managed to play any of the Star Ocean titles over the years, but being a fan of space-adventure stories, the series would repeatedly catch my attention when a trailer would pop up or a new game would release. ![]() Determined to stop it and save his people from this terrible plague, Roddick joins the space-faring Earth Federation and begins his grand quest for a cure that will lead him on an adventure unlike anything he’s ever seen. Following the story of a townsguard named Roddick he and his close friends are faced with an epidemic that is turning everyone they know and love to stone. Released initially as simply Star Ocean for the Super Famicom back in July of 1996, and released again as an enhanced remake on PlayStation Portable in 2008 Star Ocean First Departure R is a grand adventure of galactic proportions that is filled with drama, mystery, action, comedy and romance. Keybase has recently introduced Teams feature. There is no need to use the graphicĬlient to send a message to another user, you can do something like this:įor more details you can have a look a this blog post on their website: Teams Wouldn't be safe so each message is encrypted using the public key of every device connected Keybase doesn't use PGP to encrypt chat or files. Will be encrypted for them and will be safely delivered. , when randomuser joins Keybase and verify their Twitter account, the message You can even send a message to a person who is not on Keybase yet: if you send a message to Anyone can reach me using one of my online On Keybase I don't need to share my telephone number. The other person to be able to contact us. When we use services like WhatsApp or Signal, we are forced to share our telephone number if we want Messages between usersĪre end to end encrypted and cannot be read by anyone else, not even having access to Keybase You can find more technical information about Keybase encrypted folders in this article: Encrypted ChatĪ few months ago Keybase introduced the encrypted chat. Say that now users have 250GB available to store their files. They won't be able to access the content of your files and not even the files or folders names.Įvery user initially had 10GB quota available, but a few hints (including one of their recent screenshots) Keybase employes only have access to: 1) your top level folder names (like: "andreagrandi,anotheruser"),Ģ) when and for how long you are reading/writing, 3) how much space you are using. (the folder andreagrandi,anotheruser will implicitely exist already) and that file will only be readable by you and anotheruser. Just create a file inside /keybase/private/andreagrandi,anotheruser Not even Keybase employees can access the content of your files,īecause they are encrypted before leaving your devices and decrypted on demandĭo you want to share files with anotheruser? No problem. where is the encryption here?! Whatever you put inside your privateįolder can only be read by you and only you. Files are streamed on demand, so you won't be able to access these files without a working Internet connection. Synced between your devices and Keybase servers. Note: please keep in mind that Keybase doesn't work like Dropbox or similar. Haven't been changed by anyone else in the middle. the other users will access these files with the assurance they You can put whatever you want in these folders: your public PGP key, your official avatar, This is a public folder example of one of the Keybase developers: Share a file with them (or send a message, as we will see later) but you don't follow each other ![]() Note: This is very useful if you only know a person on Twitter (or GitHub etc.) and you want to keybase/public/ github/hello.txt or /keybase/public/ /hello.txt Like for example /keybase/public/andreagrandi/hello.txt but you can also use any other identity like Every user public folder/file can be accessed using their Keybase username, Public foldersĪnything you place inside the /public folder can be accessed by any Keybase user and it'sĪutomatically signed. ![]() Where you will find at least three other folders: public, private, team. There is a virtual folder located at /keybase (on OSX/Linux or k:\keybase on Windows) One of the first features launched by Keybase was their encrypted filesystem. Very useful in some situations, we will see it later. Without having to know your email address or Keybase username. Once you are on Keybase, other users can look for you even using your GitHub or Twitter username Unless an attacker controls all your social accounts, they cannot impersonate and verify In Keybase youĬan link your existing online accounts to your Keybase account and show additional ![]() You don't just say "I'm Andrea Grandi, this is my PGP key.". Many of us have a personal blog, a Twitter or Facebook accounts, a GitHub account etc.Īll these accounts combined together make our online identity.Įvery Keybase account can be verified by other online identities. In Keybase it's possible to either generate a new PGP key or import an existing oneīut the most important thing is being able to verify our own identity using multiple proofs. To encrypt and decrypt a message for a certain user, but it also introduced a very nice When Keybase was launched it was mainly a wrapper for PGP commands Keybase really makes encryption easy to use. ![]() Using PGP can be quite hard, even if you have a lot of experience with computers.īy the way encryption is what gives us privacy and permits us to safely transmit informationĪnd for this reason it should be easy to use, for everyone. ![]() So, you can easily print it and use it anytime anywhere without an Internet connection. Also, we feature an offline or printable table. Decimal: The decimal position of the codepoint. Name: The Unicode name (or parts) of the character. In our ASCII chart, you will find all types of values for all types of characters. Free search: Any information about the character, that doesn’t fit the categories below. Second, your text editor needs to be able to render unicode characters. Another difference is the standard ASCII consists of 7 bits whereas extended ASCII consists of 8 bits. Another thing to remember is that there are three puzzle pieces needed for you to use unicode characters that dont have corresponding ascii codepoints: first, your text file needs to be encoded as unicode. This feature was not present in the standard code. ![]() Also, it is using for higher-level encoding.Įxtended one came into action to fulfill the requirement of diacritics (the mark that we see above the or along with the characters). ![]() However, the extended ASCII code table makes it a total of 255 codes. Code that deals with codepoints must always be done right with UTF-8 because multi-byte codepoints are. However that backwards compatibility does not extend to code, since code has to be recrafted to avoid mangling utf8 strings. It includes alphabets, digits, symbols, and control characters. the unicode standard defines a codespace, 57 a set of numerical values ranging from 0 through 10ffff 16, 58 called code points 59 and denoted as u+0000 through u+10ffff ('u+' 60 followed by the code point value in hexadecimal, which is prepended with leading zeros to a minimum of four digits e. ASCII is also used in markup language tags and other metadata which gives UTF-8 an advantage with any language. Standard ASCII table contains a table of 127 characters. It has a unique code assigned to every character. The following ASCII table with hex, octal, html, binary and decimal chart conversion contains both the ASCII control characters, ASCII printable characters. Therefore, computers and humans can understand it easily. The primary reason behind the development of ASCII was for encoding text into a common format. Please verify the codepoints for non-ASCII characters that you try to insert. ASCII stands for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". ![]() You may be craving some yummy Mexican dish but you can’t find any Caldo de Tomate, however, this shouldn’t stop you from fulfilling your cravings as there are many substitutes you can find to replace Caldo de Tomate in your Mexican dish. you will not find this sauce in your local markets but only in shops that particularly stock and cater to Latin products. It is widely used to make dishes like soup, gravy, Mexican rice, Caldo Gallego, etc. This sauce is readily available in most Latin sections of any well-stocked supermarket. One of these sauces is the Caldo de Tomate. Their sauce is known to have the correct amount of sweet and savory spices to kick the flavor of the dish. One of the main ingredients that are focused on in these dishes is their sauce. Anywhere in the world, you will find the flavor and taste of Mexican, Thai, or Latin food same as all over. These dishes are high on flavor mainly because of the ingredients used in them. You will have to adjust other flavors in your recipe when using it in place of tomato powder, which has no added spices.Mostly you will find that Thai and Latin dishes are popular for their unique flavor and taste. You can use it in many of the same applications that require tomato powder as long as you remember that it already contains herbs and spices. Powdered spaghetti sauce is similar to powdered tomato soup in that it contains tomato powder as well as various spices. You can either grind them yourself to make your own tomato powder or you can reconstitute them and blend them to make sauces and similar preparations. The difference is that sun-dried tomatoes are kept whole. Tomato powder also consists of dehydrated tomatoes, which means that the two have a lot in common in terms of flavor and color. The act of sun-drying tomatoes lengthens their shelf-life and intensifies their flavor. The Aztecs began using this technique of drying tomatoes to preserve them, and the practice continues today for much the same reason. The practice of drying tomatoes in the sun has been around for thousands of years. ![]() Note that if you have a food dehydrator and a little time, you may be able to make your own tomato powder using tomato paste. All you have to do is add water and spices. ![]() It works well as a base for pasta and pizza sauces in addition to soups. You can use tomato paste in many of the applications that require tomato powder. In addition, tomato paste will usually be packaged to give it a long shelf life. While tomato paste is not completely moisture-free, it is still a good tomato powder substitute since has less moisture than other tomato products like tomato sauce or canned diced tomatoes. The whole point of using tomato powder is to get the tomato flavor and color without unnecessary moisture. You should be able to use tomato soup powder exactly as you would tomato powder in most recipes, but you should probably make a test batch to be certain. To keep from throwing the flavor profile off balance, you may need to leave other sources of salt and any other thickeners out of a dish until you have had a chance to taste it. it may also have thickeners that will affect the texture of the finished dish. When using tomato soup powder in place of tomato powder, keep in mind that tomato soup powder will contain its own spices including salt. Mix it with spices to create a dry rub or with vinegar, celery seed, and other ingredients to make your own Russian dressing. You can simply add water according to the maker’s instructions to get tomato soup and you can use it as a base for a variety of other soups as well as for sauces. You have the option of reconstituting it with water, just like tomato powder. Tomato soup powder is similar to tomato powder in that they have both had much of their liquid content removed. The tomato powder substitutes below all share one of tomato powder’s most important characteristics-they are low in moisture. If you are unable to get your hands on tomato powder and need some right away, consider a few of the many viable alternatives. It has the benefit of having a much longer shelf life when compared to fresh tomatoes. You can use it in any preparation that requires tomato in either sauce or powder form. Tomato powder consists entirely of ground, dehydrated tomatoes. Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Pinterest ![]() He also had one sack, one interception (at Eastern Illinois), and one forced fumble/ fumble recovery (at Mississippi State). James Green led the TSU defense with 77 total tackles (41 solo and 36 assists). Patterson finished the season with a team-best 5.5 sacks. Patterson had at least one tackle in all but one game for the Tigers in 2021. Patterson finished with 30 tackles (13 solo,17 assists) and had a team-high 3.0 sacks against Murray State on October 30. Jones took down 28 opposition players with 20 solo tackles and was second on the squad with three sacks for a loss of 15 yards. TSU secured two both defensive tackle spots with Terray Jones and Tadarrius Patterson. Offensive lineman Robert Lacy was instrumental in the Tigers gaining over 1,000 yards on the ground, converting on 27-of-36 red zone attempts and 53 third-down conversions. He made 26 catches and moved the ball 398 yards while averaging 15.30 yards/catch. Wide receiver Zaire Thornton was powerful midway through the season with two touchdowns. Against OVC champion UT Martin, he rushed for 78 yards and a touchdown and caught 12 passes for 117 yards the 12 receptions was the most of any FCS running back in a game this season. That mark was eighth among all FCS running backs. Starling also caught 37 passes (for 312 yards) which was the most on the team, 5th most among all players in the OVC, and tied for 1st among all running backs. He was injured in the next-to-last game of the year (which limited him to just 15 carries and 39 yards over the final two games) but still finished the year ranked 45th nationally with 800 total rushing yards and three touchdowns. Starling followed his Co-Freshman of the Year honors by earning second-team All-OVC honors this year. ![]() He also set program records for passing yards per game (262.5) and total offense per game (268.5). Ellis became only the third Governors quarterback to record 2,500-plus passing yards in a season. He was ranked among the FCS leaders and led the OVC in passing touchdowns (19), passing yards (2,625), yards per completion (13.7), and total offense (268.5 ypg). Entering his first season at TSU after transferring over former OVC foe Austin Peay, quarterback Draylen Ellis - the 2020-21 OVC Co-Freshman of the Year with Devon Starling - followed his impressive freshman campaign with a solid sophomore outing. ![]() The OWASP teams maintain this flawed web app for educational purposes. We’ll use the OWASP Juice Shop, “the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application,” as the vulnerable target. In that perspective, the OWASP top ten could be helpful to define goals and organize a complete work session, but here we’ll demonstrate just a few vulnerabilities. You can install the Burp suite on your system or use the prepackaged version in Kali Linux, but that won’t tell you what to do with it. a browser configured with the Burp proxy (Firefox on Kali is the easiest way)Īlso read: How Hackers Use Reconnaissance – and How to Protect Against It How to Set Up a Burp Suite Demo.a machine with the Burp Suite installed (use the default presets to speed up the install).In any case, you’ll need the following elements for the tests: There are browser extensions to ease the task. If you need to test this feature, you have to configure the browser to use the right proxy. The Burp suite has many advanced features but the most popular is probably the Burp proxy that can intercept requests. Of course, you don’t have to install Kali Linux, as the Burp suite can be installed as a standalone package on most operating systems, including the relatively recent macOS M1.Ībsolute beginners should probably stick with Linux Ubuntu or Debian distributions and download the installer, as Kali can be overwhelming and is more a supercharged OS for pentesters and ethical hackers. ![]() The easiest way to start with Burp is to install some virtual machines so you undertake your tests in safe conditions. How Do You Intercept Requests Using Burp?. |
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