Monday, October 28, 2013

If I was Invisible 10/28

If I was invisible i would help out kids that are being bullied. Watching over everyone without someone seeing you could make a difference. I would also like to help people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time. For example, people who accidentally walk on to the street and get hit by a car. I can pull the person away so they wouldn't get hurt.

I would also like to help cancer survivors get their lives back on track. Helping them do things like get food for them, cook for them. I would also clean their homes. Just do things that they can't do until they get better. My grandma had someone do her things for her to. which makes me want to do the same

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Tech Article 10/24

The Nexus 7 Is The Best Android Tablet


  • The Nexus 7 has blazing fast speeds and the touch reaction is the top of the line
  • Retina display with realistic images 
  • The Nexus 7 is the most bought android tablet beating out the Kindle Fire HD by 200,000 units
  • The Nexus 7 is retailed at $230, which is a steal
  • With Google sponsoring this the programs are up to date and the best they could be google nexus 7 tablet

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Tech Article 10/11

                                   15% of America's Adults are NOT Online 

A study shows that 15% of the adults in America don't use the internet. Although now of days it may seem everyone is. 92% of the people asked if they are ok with this number said that it was fine. This shows how the internet really isn't all that needed to live a normal everyday life. The one downfall that this has had is people losing their jobs. During the past four years almost 32% of the people who lost jobs don't even have emails or anything that has to do with the internet. So maybe that 15 needs to go down to a 0 in order for our job percentage to get back up.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Tech Article 10/4

                                      Former NSA Contractor Makes Surveillance Proof Font 

  Can our font keep our privacy? Well Former NSA contractor Sang Mun thinks so. After Edward Snowden's leak of NSA classified files Mun was asked to work on something to keep documents online safe and unhackable. He started making a typeface that wouldn't be readable by scanning softwares. Either by the NSA (or any other government agency) or a lone hacker. After he tried he first couple times to scan the typeface it either gave little away or nothing at all. To make the font he used countless hours of drawing softwares and different types of patterns. The four fonts he used as the final product are; Camo, False, Noise, and Xed. He used these because it was unreadable to a computer's vision.

Former NSA contractor Sang Mun's ZXX font is designed to disrupt Optical Character Recognition (OCR) -- the software used by Google and others to scan books or physical documents.