Lessons A Wise Man Would Share

20 Life Lessons A Wise Man Would Share

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism. – Abraham Lincoln

No One is Perfect.  The quicker this is realized the faster you can get on with being excellent.  Start every morning ready to fight harder than you did the day before and run further than you ever imagine.
Avoid over explaining yourself.  Be confident with who you are.
Keep balance in your life.  Write down what’s most important to you and show up.  Sometimes we tend to do the things that are most important to us when it’s written down.
Play the hand you were dealt.  Have the courage to face challenges head on it builds character.  Start looking for a way through instead of a way out.
Be a student of life.  Learn something new every day.  The day you stop learning is the day you become obsolete so keep learning.
No Excuses.  Stop making excuses replace them with ways to do better.  Excuses are a waste of time and energy.
Let others know where you Stand.  Be uncompromising and be up front when someone steps on your core values.
Never be afraid of a challenge.  You put on your shoes like every other man.  Now it comes down to who wants it more.
Service to others.  Small, simple or important be a volunteer and give the very best of you.
Work like hell.  Everyone has a job to do so do it.  Cross every “T” and dot every “I”.
Discover You.  Find your passion, life purpose, and take action.
Don’t take it Personal.  Don’t be afraid to laugh at yourself self confidence shows that you’re comfortable in your own skin.
Manage your time.  Our situation and environment is ever changing so be careful not to confuse the things that are urgent with the things that are important.  Look for time wasters and eliminate them.
Ask for help.  Life can be tough remember you never have to do it alone.
Do your homework.  Know what you getting into before you start.  Doing your homework reduces uncertainty and fear.
Day Dream Often.  On the weekend when you are relaxing embrace a day dream.  During the week take action to preserve your dreams.
Be A HERO.  Cultivate a healthy dose of forgiveness and set someone free.  Learn to forgive others and stop carrying those bags of hate, guilt or regret.
Stay One Step Ahead.  Be proactive, Take the initiative, Brainstorm with the big picture in mind.
Self Love.  Become your own priority.  Strive to be the you, you want to be.
Finish what you started.  Avoid the urge to stray.

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Samsung Fingerprint Scanner Can Easily Be Hacked

Galaxy S5 Fingerprint Scanner Can Easily Be Hacked 

Just some few days ago, the Samsung Galaxy S5 was released in the market, and Samsung did what it does best, break record sales. According to a report from GSM arena, the flagship device managed to set a new record on sales after being released last Friday simultaneously in 125 countries around the world beating its predecessor (the S4) by over 30%, making this the largest-scale launch the Korean company has ever pulled.
The most distinguished feature on the S5 is the fingerprint scanner integrated on the home button. And just after the release, a report from Germany’s Security Research Labs is already out claiming that hackers can easily bypass the fingerprint security.
What the team did is simply create a wood glue spoofed fingerprint from an etched PCB mold using a latent print photographed by an iPhone 4S. With very little effort, the finger print can be easily spoofed to think it is the actual finger print giving the hacker instant access.
Perhaps you may not have very delicate stuff on your phone to make you a tad worried, but remember the S5 integrates with your PayPal account and authentication can be done through the same swiping. The team was able to access a PayPal account, transfer funds and make purchases using this fake fingerprint; a process made easier by the fact you’re allowed unlimited swipe attempts, giving hackers plenty of time to perfect their spoof if it was rejected the first few times.
A PayPal spokesman issued a statement stating “The scan unlocks a secure cryptographic key that serves as a password replacement for the phone,” the statement read in part. “We can simply deactivate the key from a lost or stolen device, and you can create a new one. PayPal also uses sophisticated fraud and risk management tools to try to prevent fraud before it happens. However, in the rare instances that it does, you are covered by our purchase protection policy.”

Generate Solar Power in the Dark

Scientists Discover How to Generate Solar Power in the Dark

Meet 'photoswitches,' a breakthrough set of materials that act as their own batteries, absorbing energy and releasing it on demand.

 

The next big thing in solar energy could be microscopic.

Scientists at MIT and Harvard University have devised a way to store solar energy in molecules that can then be tapped to heat homes, water or used for cooking.
The best part: The molecules can store the heat forever and be endlessly re-used while emitting absolutely no greenhouse gases.  Scientists remain a way’s off in building this perpetual heat machine but they have succeeded in the laboratory at demonstrating the viability of the phenomenon called photoswitching.

“Some molecules, known as photoswitches, can assume either of two different shapes, as if they had a hinge in the middle,” MIT researchers said in statement about the paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry. “Exposing them to sunlight causes them to absorb energy and jump from one configuration to the other, which is then stable for long periods of time.”
To liberate that energy all you have to do is expose the molecules to a small amount of light, heat or electricity and when they switch back to the other shape the emit heat. “In effect, they behave as rechargeable thermal batteries: taking in energy from the sun, storing it indefinitely, and then releasing it on demand,” the scientists said.
The researchers used a photoswitching substance called an azobenzene, attaching the molecules to substrates of carbon nanotubes. The challenge: Packing the molecules closely enough together to achieve a sufficient energy density to generate usable heat.
It appeared that the researchers had failed when they were only able to pack fewer than half the number of molecules needed as indicated by an earlier computer simulation of the experiment.
But instead of hitting a projected 30 percent increase in energy density, they saw a 200 percent increase. It turned out that the key was not so much packing azobenzene molecules tightly on individual carbon nanotubes as packing the nanotubes close together. That’s because the azobenzene molecules formed “teeth” on the carbon nanotubes, which interlocked with teeth on adjacent nanotubes. The result was the mass needed for a usable amount of energy storage.
That means different combinations of photoswitching molecules and substrates might achieve the same or greater energy storage, according to the researchers.
So how would molecular solar storage work if the technology can be commercialized? Timothy Kucharski, the paper’s lead author and a postdoc at MIT and Harvard, told The Atlantic that most likely the storage would take a liquid form, which would be easy to transport.
“It would also enable charging by flowing the material from a storage tank through a window or clear tube exposed to the sun and then to another storage tank, where the material would remain until it's needed,” Kucharski said in an email.  “That way one could stockpile the charged material for use when the sun's not shining.”
The paper’s authors envision the technology could be used in countries where most people rely on burning wood or dung for cooking, which creates dangerous levels of indoor air pollution, leads to deforestation and contributes to climate change.
“For solar cooking, one would leave the device out in the sun during the day,” says Kucharski. “One design we have for such an application is purely gravity driven – the material flows from one tank to another. The flow rate is restricted so that it's exposed to the sun long enough that it gets fully charged. Then, when it's time to cook dinner, after the sun is down, the flow direction is reversed, again driven by gravity, and the opposite side of the setup is used as the cooking surface.”
“As the material flows back to the first tank, it passes by an immobilized catalyst which triggers the energy-releasing process, heating the cooking surface up,” he adds.
Other versions of such device could be used to heat buildings.
Kucharski said the MIT and Harvard team is now investigating other photoswitching molecules and substrates, “with the aim of designing a system that absorbs more of the sun's energy and also can be more practically scaled up.”

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Change WordPress Admin URL to Protect Blog From Hackers.

How to Change WordPress Admin URL to Protect Blog From Hackers.

by Raman

Every day on Internet thousands of websites hacked by hackers because of less security. Especially WordPress websites getting hacked every day because it has huge popularity throughout the world. So automatically hackers try to hack WordPress blogs and websites. Here problem comes from with WordPress default admin URL because most of the bloggers and website owners use the default URL which comes after installation of WordPress on database. WordPress already said about this and they recommended changing the default username “admin” to other username. But these precautions don’t stop your website getting hacked from hackers.
So what to do? Here we come up with another approach which increases your WordPress blog/website security 10 times better than before.

How to Install and Configure Lockdown WP Admin Plug-in?

Here is the basic information about how to install and setup Lockdown WP Admin plug-in on WordPress blogs/websites.

• First Login to your WordPress admin dashboard by entering username and password.
• To get perfect results with this plug-in your site must have permalinks.
• Now just navigate to plugins from the sidebar menu and click on Add new option to install new plug-in.

• Type Lockdown WP Admin in the search box and click on Search button to get search results. Click on Install Now Button to install it on your WordPress blog.

• Once the installation process complete, click on Activate Plug-in to activate Lockdown WP Admin plug-in.

• Now Launch Lockdown WP Admin from the sidebar by clicking on Lockdown WP and select Lockdown WP.

• First of all you need to select the box “Yes, please hide WP Admin from the user” and change the admin URL from WordPress login URL section with any name which is not easy to guess by any one.

• In HTTP Authentication leave the field same that means keep “Disable HTTP Auth” as the default option and click on “save options” to save all these settings.
• If you use HTTP Authentication then you need to create secondary WordPress Admin .htaccess password. This secondary password will be useful even if someone guess your secret admin URL too. If you use WordPress Login Credentials then you need to enter primary username and password to gain access secondary username and password.
• Alternatively you can also use “Private Usernames/Passwords “ to set secondary username and passwords from Lockdown WP>Private Users Section.
• To check whether it’s working or not, just logout from the WordPress dashboard. Now enter old WordPress admin URL and you’ll see 404 not found error page. Now on wards you need to use WordPress secret admin URL to login into WordPress dashboard.

Remove WordPress Meta Widget to Stop Exposing Secret Login Url:

Actually professional bloggers doesn’t keep this meta widget on their blogs but if any case you forgot to remove this widget then follow the below steps and remove Meta Widget.
1. Click on Apperance and select Widgets from the menu.Now you will see all activated and deactivated widgets at one place.

2. In Primary Sidebar you’ll have all active widgets,click on Meta widget and delete from the list.

You can check the below screenshot which exposes the secret admin url before removing meta widget.

There is another method to remove meta widget from wp files but all files are restored again if you update your WordPress dashboard.
Now no one can hack your website by accessing WordPress default admin URL.If you have any doubts while installing this process please leave a comment below.

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The dark side of mobile technology

I’m going to be shifting gears here a little bit. Normally we’d be talking about all of the wonderful things that mobile tech can do for us, how exciting it is looking back and seeing how far we’ve come, discussing all of the latest gadgets that hold our interest, and so on. Today, though, my article will be a little different, because there is another side of smartphones that, quite frankly, I didn’t even know existed up until recently. Since making this discovery, I have to admit that I am positively shocked at what I’m finding out.
When we look at smartphones, we see the future. We’re happy because these little computers can do so much for us. They can keep us connected via phone calls, texting, and various social networks; they serve as media players for videos, music, and photo albums; they can even serve as gaming entertainment. There’s a lot of great things that come from smartphones. Once you go deeper than the smartphone, however, things start to get depressing.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever really considered how smartphones were made. I never thought to concern myself with exactly how smartphones were made because I was too busy enjoying the product in my hands; the finished product was the most important part to me. I couldn’t have cared less about the process of how it got there. I assumed that most factories were operated entirely by machinery at this point, but I was wrong. Until recently, I had never heard about benzene or n-hexane, much less how they directly affect the workers responsible for putting our beloved smartphones together.

It started off with this short documentary called “The Human Cost of Electronics”. The video shows accounts of factory workers who have developed “occupational cancer” - cancer developed as a direct result of working with chemicals in these factories, such as benzene or n-hexane. Cancer of any form is serious, but I think it is most alarming because the people in the film are people are around my age. I’m only 23, and I feel like my life is just getting started. I can’t imagine what these people are going through being around my age and dealing with cancer, and knowing that it was developed as a direct result from their jobs that deal directly with these chemicals for up to 15 hours in a given work day, 7 days a week, in a building with no windows or proper ventilation.
Benzene is a category 1 carcinogen that is banned in most Western countries for industrial use; there is an exception for benzene use in China given that so many electronics are created here. Yes, you read that correctly: We make exceptions to our safety standards in the name of sleek-looking electronics. And yes, this chemical is in all of our smartphones - every single one. Don’t bother looking for one that doesn’t have it, because it doesn’t exist right now. That doesn’t mean that we can’t try and help the situation.
Network Coordinator of Good Electronics in Armsterdam, Pauline Overeem, encourages people to bring up these devastating conditions to manufacturers in order to bring them to an end. “It is part of supply chain responsibility. Banning the use of benzene should be part of that,” says Overeem.
Fortunately, there are alternatives to benzene. Toxicology experts estimate that replacing benzene with safer solvents would only cost around $1 extra per phone.
I would gladly pay more money for a phone made in safer work environments than buying a cheaper phone knowing that somebody contracted a serious illness in the process. These people are working in these factories trying to build towards a better life, like anybody would, and ended up terminally ill in the process. It breaks my heart, and I had no idea. I am certain that there are a lot of people who had no idea, which is why I felt compelled to write about it.
Nobody deserves those conditions. If there is a way to fix it, then it should be done. Manufacturers must replace benzene and n-hexane with safer alternatives. Money is not an excuse not to.