Information is beautiful: war games Amid confusion over the rise in defence cuts, I was surprised to learn that the UK has one of the biggest military budgets in the world - nearly £40bn ($60 bn) in 2008. But I was less surprised to see who had the biggest. Yep, the United States spent a staggering $607bn (£402 bn) on defence in 2008. Currently engaged in what will likely be the longest ground war in US history in Afghanistan. Harbourer of thousands of nuclear weapons. 1.5m soldiers. iWeb2Shot - Free Online Web Page to High Resolution Image Snapshot Convert Web Page to High Resolution Image SnapshotSupported Images (PNG, GIF, JPG, TIF, BMP, PPM, PGM)Set Image to Custom Wallpaper or Actual Page SizeBookmarklet to Get Image Directly from BrowserShare, Save, or Email Cool Websites as ImageBookmark on Image Network such as FlickrNo Registration, No Email, Unlimited UsageChrome Extension - Firefox Add-On Setting image to PNG results in high resolution Wallpaper but large file size | Javascripts contained in a web page are disabled for security | Does not work with websites that require user login Bookmarklet Convert web pages to Image Snapshot directly from your browser. Drag this button to your browser Bookmarks toolbar
Rhetological Fallacies A brain-blending categorisation and visualisation of errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking. How many do you use? The word ‘rhetological’ is made up. Just so I can munge two types of entity: rhetorical techniques and logical fallacies. Both are used heavily by institutional powers – governments, religions, political parties, across the entire spectrum to sway opinion, confuse and obfuscate.
Boxing Clever: What Law Firms Can Learn From Effective Business Intelligence (Edge Int'l) By Tony Bash, Edge International, UK Managing for success May 2012 10 PRACTICE MANAGEMENT: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Ihave been working with law firms for longer than I care to remember, and, over those years, one of the more common terms bandied about has been business intelligence (BI). Sadly, however, time and again, that intelligence has provided very little real insight. This is because effective BI isn’t what often masquerades as it in law firms – a pack of Excel spreadsheets about the firm’s performance that goes out in a hardcopy monthly management report. And no, it isn’t any better if the reports are emailed as PDFs or put on the intranet!
Crisis narrows China-UK gap About this Video 200 years ago, United Kingdom was a leading nation of the world – both in regard to health and economy. In this video, Hans Rosling details UK’s 200-year journey, to present time, and also shows that China, in the coming five years, will narrow the gap to UK faster than ever. OpenSourceFeatures – FalconView This page contains a summary of the features of FalconView Open Source along with some screen captures that illustrate those features. FalconView includes a plugin architecture that makes it easy to add new features as well. Base Map Types Supported ¶ FalconView supports a handful of base map types including: GeoTIFFTIROS TopoBath Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) / LIDAR Vector Product Format (VPF) CADRG MrSID Open Street Maps Additional base map types may be added to FalconView by programmatic extension.
What is Bespoke Software? Bespoke Software UK, Cornwall What is bespoke software? Bespoke or custom-built software is software commissioned by an organisation for a specific function. Off-the-shelf software products are designed to satisfy the requirements of a large number of different users or organisations and consequently provide only those features that are of use to the majority of customers. As every business is different, it can be impossible to find an off-the-shelf solution that matches your organisation's exact requirements. In which case commissioning a bespoke solution may be your best option. Bespoke solutions don't have to be large and complex; they can be simple tools built to match your organisation's needs and can include web-based solutions, desktop applications, databases, mobile phone apps or Microsoft Office add-ins.
Editions and Pricing of Sentinel Visualizer link analysis, social network analysis, knowledgebase visualization software program Software Licenses The Software License prices, above, reflect a one-time purchase of a perpetual software license. Buy it once, own it forever. In general, there are two licensing options: Buy a license for each computer. Share a license among multiple computers. www.securityg33k.com/blog/ 44Con Trip report Last week I attended the UK security conference, 44Con. I went into 44Con feeling a little jaded with the overall security community, but left with a real spring in my step.
Maltego 3: First Look Tutorial by Wardell Motley Maltego, developed by Roelof Temmingh, Andrew Macpherson and their team over at Paterva, is a premier information gathering tool that allows you to visualize and understand common trust relationships between entities of your choosing. Currently Maltego 3 is available for Windows and Linux. There is also an upcoming version for Apple users that has yet to be released. Information gathering is a vital part of any penetration test or security audit, and it’s a process that demands patience, concentration and the right tool to be done correctly. In our case Maltego 3 is the tool for the job. Parse Sign Up Log In Parse Sign up for Parse People & Politics Illustration by Pop Chart Lab, popchartlab.com. Read this article in our February 2012 issue on sale now. On the afternoon of February 15, 2011, Jaime Zapata, a 32-year-old special agent with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was shot to death by members of a drug cartel as he drove along a four-lane highway in Mexico.
The Coding Interview Note: this part is part two of our series on doing your best in interviews. Part one: “How to Rock an Algorithms Interview”. Here at Palantir algorithms are important, but code is our lifeblood. We live and die by the quality of the code we ship. It’s no surprise, then, that coding ability is what we stress the most in our interview process.