Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has been sentenced to life in prison

ROSS ULBRICHT CONCEIVED of his Silk Road black market as an online utopia beyond law enforcement’s reach. Now he’ll spend the rest of his life firmly in its grasp, locked inside a federal penitentiary.

On Friday Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in creating and running Silk Road’s billion-dollar, anonymous black market for drugs. Judge Katherine Forrest gave Ulbricht the most severe sentence possible, beyond what even the prosecution had explicitly requested. The minimum Ulbricht could have served was 20 years.

“The stated purpose [of the Silk Road] was to be beyond the law. In the world you created over time, democracy didn’t exist. You were captain of the ship, the Dread Pirate Roberts,” she told Ulbricht as she read the sentence, referring to his pseudonym as the Silk Road’s leader. “Silk Road’s birth and presence asserted that its…creator was better than the laws of this country. This is deeply troubling, terribly misguided, and very dangerous.”

In addition to his prison sentence, Ulbricht was also ordered to pay a massive restitution of more than $183 million, what the prosecution had estimated to be the total sales of illegal drugs and counterfeit IDs through the Silk Road—at a certain bitcoin exchange rate—over the course of its time online. Any revenue from the government sale of the bitcoins seized from the Silk Road server and Ulbricht’s laptop will be applied to that debt.

Ulbricht had stood before the court just minutes earlier in navy blue prison clothes, pleading for a lenient sentence. “I’ve changed. I’m not the man I was when I created Silk Road,” he said, as his voice grew hoarse with emotion and cracked. “I’m a little wiser, a little more mature, and much more humble.”

The defense also made an extensive appeal for leniency, citing Ulbricht's ability to contribute to society in spite of his crimes. Ulbricht's team submitted nearly a hundred letters from friends, family, and other acquaintances, testifying to Ulbricht's good character. "I’ve had my youth, and I know you must take away my middle years," Ulbricht wrote in a pre-sentencing statement, "but please leave me my old age." Judge Forrest had a harsh reaction to Ulbricht's plea, describing it as a "display of arrogance that the court takes into consideration."

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PLAY IT FORWARD: A BLOGGERS POKER TOURNAMENT 2015

Nuffnang Philippines will be in partnership with Resorts World Manila in holding its flagship charity event called PLAY IT FORWARD: A BLOGGERS POKER TOURNAMENT 2015.
This invite-only event aims to raise funds for various charitable institutions in a fun and exciting night of friendly poker tournament participated by the country’s top bloggers, celebrities and social media rock stars who will come together to battle it out and play for their favorite charities.

Support your favorite bloggers and social media influencers as they vie for podium finish and win financial assistance for their chosen charity.
Stay tuned for more updates about Play It Forward. Who knows, you might be playing with us soon!
Visit http://playforcharity.ph/ to know more about the event.
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How To Create Contact Form on Blogspot Page

Adding contact form in a blog is absolutely necessary and by doing so you are encouraging your blog visitors to be social. By adding a contact form, visitors will have the opportunity to speak up their mind. So instead of using your blogs comment section, people will contact with you more personally using these contact forms.

Sometimes people in your blog left unrelated message in your posts comment area.

Now we are going to create a contact form for Blogger using Google docs where you can manage multiple forms. Believe; it’s a simple, powerful, spam free contact form for your blog and it has more options.

Benefits of Google docs contact form

• You can create as many contact forms.
• You can view all your responses in a separate spreadsheet.
• Create and easily embed the contact form to any pages in your blog.
• You can add radio buttons, checkboxes and list in contact form.

How to create contact form for Blogger

Go to Google Drive and login using your Blogger account. Now at the top left corner click create form and you will see different templates to choose from. Better choose the default template and name the title as “Contact Form”.

Now as of basic contact form you will have to create three fields that is name, email and message field. After selecting the template you will see three options that is question title, help text and question type.

Your Name

Now to add a name field select “text” in question type and name the question title as “your name”. If you want to help your readers with more info then you can add help text. Now check this field as required question, so that users will not be able to leave a message with this field blank. Check the Required  Question .Click done.

Your Email

You have just added the name field and to add an email field select “text” in question type. Now name the question title as “Your Email” and mark this question as required. This is an email field and so users have to only enter their email address and not a normal text. In order to force them to enter their email address just select date validation, text and email address as you see in the image.

Your Message

Now for the message field select paragraph text, mark the field as required and name the field as “your message”. Question type  "Paragraph". Now drop down date validation, select text and set the minimum character count as 100. By doing so, your users will leave a long detailed message.

If you wish to add phone number, country or URL field then the process is same what you did above. For number drop down date validation, select number and select greater or less than values. For URL value drop down date validation, select text and then select URL.

Additional Spam protection – Click Add item and select check box and mark it as required question and name it as “Human Verification”. In option field enter “Confirm that you are a Human and not robot!” and click done.

 When you click send form a popup window opens, now click embed and grab the iFrame code.

Copy the code , and the log in on your blogger account. Create a new Page name it Contact Us click the html .

Now paste the embed code in HTML view and publish it.

Now you have a simple, yet powerful contact form in your Blogger contact page. Edit iFrame width and height to perfectly fit your blog.

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Google I/O 2015: Keynote, Android M Preview, Develop, Engage, and Earn - Insight

Google I/O is two days of inspirational talks, hands-on learning, and a chance to hear more about Google's latest developer products. 8th annual Google I/O conference, joined by 5,600 developers at Moscone Center, 530 I/O Extended communities around the world, and millions via the I/O Live stream. This year’s event is focused on delivering incredible experiences on mobile and helping developers build successful businesses through these key themes: Develop, Engage, and Earn.

During the keynote, we had a number of announcements that covered the evolution of the mobile platform, tools for Android, iOS, and Web developers, and the push towards more immersive mobile experiences with VR. Here’s a closer look at the news:

Develop

• Android M Developer Preview — Get an early look at the next version of Android.
• Google Play services 7.5 — Check out new features like Smart Lock for Passwords, new APIs for Google Cloud Messaging and
• Google Cast, and the Google Maps API on Android Wear devices.
• Android Studio 1.3 — Preview Android Studio v1.3, now with improved Gradle build speed, a new memory profiler, and full editing and debugging support for C/C++.
• Polymer 1.0 — As the first production-ready release for the web components library, we’re also adding new product lines of elements. Features range from toolbars and menus to offline caching.
• iOS & CocoaPods — Access your favorite libraries via CocoaPods, the official distribution channel for Google SDKs on iOS.
• Cloud Test Lab — Building on the technology from our acquisition of Appurify, cloud Test Lab automates the testing of your mobile apps.
• Firebase — Firebase makes it easy to build apps quickly, without spinning up servers or writing server-side code.

Engage

• App Indexing — Index your app’s content into Google Search, just like you would with a website. Available for Android, and now piloting on iOS.
• Google Cloud Messaging — As one of the most popular ways to send messages from the cloud to user's devices on Android and Chrome, GCM is now also available on iOS.
• Engagement on the Web — Access previously unavailable native functionality on the web with push notifications from your mobile website and add to homescreen.
• Empowering successful global businesses on Google Play — Get new and powerful tools to help you further grow your business, improve decision making based on smarter insights, and engage and retain a valuable user base.
• Universal App Campaigns coming soon — Set up app install ads with just a few inputs like your budget and the cost you’re willing to pay per user--we take care of the rest.
• Measure App Installs Ads with Google Analytics — Measure app install campaigns based on engagement and lifetime value. On iOS, Google Analytics is now integrated with 20+ ad networks making it easy to understand how to spend your acquisition budget.

Earn

• AdMob — Monetize your apps intelligently on a single platform, so you can gain insights about your users, drive more in-app purchases and maximize your ad revenue.

What’s Next

• Android Nanodegree — Enroll in the industry's first Android Nanodegree, developed in collaboration with Udacity. The curriculum was built from the ground up s to meet the high standard we have for Android development. The Nanodegree covers everything from fundamentals to advanced development skills, as well as Google Play services and Material Design.
• Cardboard SDK — The Cardboard SDK for Unity now supports both Android and iOS.

Here some my Note at Google I/O

Android M

Today at Google I/O, we announced a developer preview of the next version of Android, the M release. Last year’s developer preview was a first for Android and we received great feedback. We want to continue to give you developers early access to Android so you have time to get your apps ready for the next version of Android. This time with the M Developer Preview, we will provide a clear timeline for testing and feedback plus more updates to the preview build.
 

The Android M release: improving the fundamentals

For the M release, we focused on improving the core user experience of Android, from fixing thousands of bugs, to making some big changes to the fundamentals of the platform:

Permissions - We are giving users control of app permissions in the M release. Apps can trigger requests for permissions at runtime, in the right context, and users can choose whether to grant the permission. Making permission requests right when they’re needed means users can get up and running in your app faster. Also, users have easy access to manage all their app permissions in settings. On M, as a developer, you should design your app to prompt for permissions in context and account for permissions that don’t get granted. As more devices upgrade to M, app permission behavior will be a critical development flow to test.

App links - We are making it even easier to link between apps. Android has always allowed apps to register to natively handle URLs. Now you can add an autoVerify attribute to your app manifest so that users can be linked deep into your native app without any disambiguation prompt. App links, along with App Indexing for Google search, make it easier for users to discover and re-engage with your app.

 Battery - We’re making Android devices smarter about managing power through a new feature called Doze. With M, Android uses significant motion detection to learn if a device has been left unattended for a while. In this state, Android will exponentially back off background activity, trading off a little bit of app freshness for longer battery life. Consider how this may affect your app; for instance, if you’re building a chat app, you may want to make use of high priority messages to wake your app when the device is dozing.

The Android M release: advancing assistance and payments

Now on tap - We are making it even easier for Android users to get assistance with Now on tap -- whenever they need it, wherever they are on their device. For example, if your friend texts you about dinner at a new restaurant, without leaving the app, you can ask Google Now for help. Using just that context, Google can find menus, reviews, help you book a table, navigate there, and deep link you into relevant apps. As a developer, you can implement App Indexing for Google search to let users discover and re-engage with your app through Now on tap.

Speech Recognition Accuracy and Deep Neutral Networks On Google Search.
Example if you say on Google Search " movies this weekend? " it recognize it and it will show movies available now.

Android Pay & Fingerprint - We’ve built on our work with Near Field Communications (NFC) in Gingerbread and Host Card Emulation in Kitkat to develop Android Pay. Android Pay will enable Android users to simply and securely use their Android phone to pay in stores or in thousands of Android Pay partner apps.

With M, native fingerprint support enhances Android Pay by allowing users to confirm a purchase with their fingerprint. Moreover, fingerprint on M can be used to unlock devices and make purchases on Google Play. 

With new APIs in M, it’s easy for you to add fingerprint authorization to your app and have it work consistently across a range of devices and sensors.
These are just a few highlights from the M Developer Preview that we announced today. The M preview will be available for download right after the keynote.

The M Developer Preview includes an updated SDK with tools, system images for testing on the official Android emulator, and system images for testing on Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Nexus Player devices. We are excited to expand the program and give you more time to ensure your apps support M when it launches this fall. Based on your feedback, we plan to update the M Developer preview system images often during the developer preview program. The sooner we hear from you, the more feedback we can integrate, so let us know!

To get started with the M Developer Preview and prepare your apps for the full release, just follow these steps:

1. Update to Android Studio v1.3+ Preview
2. Visit the M Developer Preview site for downloads and documentation.
3. Explore the new APIs & App Permissions changes
4. Explore the Android Design Support Library & Google Play Services APIs
5. Get the emulator system images through the SDK Manager or download the Nexus device system images.
6. Test your app with your supported Nexus device or emulator
7. Give us feedback

Always-on and Wi-Fi with the latest Android Wear update

A new update to Android Wear is rolling out with lots of new features like always-on apps, Wi-Fi connectivity, media browsing, emoji input, and more. Let’s discuss some of the great new capabilities that are available in this release.

 

Always-on apps

Above all, a watch should make it easy to tell the time. That's why most Android Wear watches have always-on displays, so you can see the time without having to shake your wrist or lift your arm to wake up the display. In this release, we're making it possible for apps to be always-on as well.

With always-on functionality, your app can display dynamic data on the device, even when the app is in ambient mode. This is useful if your app displays information that is continuously updated. For example, running apps like Endomondo, MapMyRun, and Runtastic use the always-on screen to let you keep track of how long and far you’ve been running. Zillow keeps you posted about the median price of homes nearby when you’re house-hunting.

Over 4000 plus  Android Wear apps

Always-on functionality is also useful for apps that may not update data very frequently, but present information that’s useful for reference over a longer period of time. For example, Bring! lets you keep your shopping list right on your wrist, and Golfshot gives you accurate distances from tee to pin. If you’re at the airport and making your way to your gate, American Airlines, Delta, and KLM let you keep all of your flight info a glance away on your watch.

Note: the above apps will not display always-on functionality on your watch until you receive the update for the latest version of Android Wear.

Wi-Fi connectivity and cloud sync

Many existing Android Wear devices already contain hardware support for Wi-Fi, and this release enables software support for Wi-Fi. The saved Wi-Fi networks on your phone are copied to your watch during setup, and your watch automatically connects to those Wi-Fi networks when it loses Bluetooth connection to your phone. Your watch can then connect to your phone over the Internet, even if they’re not on the same Wi-Fi network.

Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate

 

Multi-wearable support

The release of Google Play services 7.3 now allows support for multiple wearable devices to be paired simultaneously to a single phone or tablet, so you can have a wearable for fitness, and another for dressing up. While DataItems will continue to work in the same way, since they are synchronized to all devices, working with the MessageApi is a little different. When you update your build.gradle to use version 7.3 or higher, getConnectedNodes() from the NodeApi will usually return multiple nodes. There is an extra virtual node added to represent the cloud node used to communicate over Wi-Fi, so all developers need to deal with this situation in their code.

Google is looking forward the possibilities to improve connect and control all in a single device

  WEAVE - a cross platform let different device understand a command function.

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Google Maps Offline - recently Google introduce YouTube offline in some country like India , Vietnam, and Philippines. Now Google start rolling out Google Maps Offline , to reduce mobile data. Now, navigate the real World Offline and Online. Starting later this year. (Polymer 1.0)

+Taylor Savage, Product Manager, Polymer

1.0 version of the Polymer library. Polymer is a new way of thinking about building web applications - a sugaring layer on top of Web Components, making it easy for you to create interoperable custom elements. These elements can then be put together to create app-like immersive experiences on the web.

Since the “Developer Preview” release, we’ve re-written the library from the ground up, focusing on cross-browser performance while keeping the developer-friendly ergonomics. The new library is about 3x faster on Chrome, 4x faster on Safari, and a third less code than in developer preview. And it’s ready to be used in production applications.

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Falcon Northwest’s New Tiki - The world's most powerful micro-tower

For Falcon's 20th anniversary, Falcon jammed an 18-core Xeon E5-2699 V3 CPU inside the Tiki's 4-inch wide case. And yes, that CPU has Hyper-Threading, so be prepared to feel your jaw slap your face after it has bounced off the floor when you pull up the Task Manager in Windows and see the Tiki's thread count: 36.

It doesn’t stop there though. Falcon taps none other than Nvidia’s beastly GeForce GTX Titan X for graphics. Besides being able to play many of today’s games at 4K resolution by itself—though you’ll still want a G-sync panel in my opinion—it's also a tour de force of specsmanship with 12GB of RAM and a GPU core with 3,072 shader units.

A Falcon Northwest Exclusive Design

The Tiki does packs all that firepower into a chassis 4-inches wide, 13.25-inches tall and 13-inches deep. Impossible! After all, you’re thinking, you can’t get an LGA2011-V3 CPU into such a small machine, much less an 18-core Xeon.

That may have been true last year, but this spring Asrock released its crazy X99E-ITX/AC motherboard, which did what others told me was impossible: Put a massive LGA2011-V3 socket into a tiny Mini ITX motherboard. You see, the X99 chipset and its big-boy CPUs feature quad-channel memory controllers, and that means you need four pieces of RAM.

Falcon Northwest uses Asrock’s new X99E-ITX/AC to get the 18-core Xeon inside its Tiki.

Unlike other small PCs you may have seen, Tiki isn't compact because there's not much in it. Falcon Northwest’s designed it from the ground up to be an enthusiast-class system, and every millimeter of space is packed with power.

Here's just a few of its features:

Tiki Features

• Full-metal construction: steel and sandblasted aluminum faceplate
• The fastest Intel® CoreTM i7 and XeonTM processors - from 4 to 18 cores!
• NVIDIA® GeForceTM and QuadroTM series graphics, including TITAN-X.
• Bays for 2 solid-state hard drives and a standard drive or 2 more SSDs
• Slot-loading Blu-Ray or DVD optical drive
• Up-front USB 3.0 and audio ports
• Internal 450 or 600 Watt modular power supplies
• 16-32GB of DDR3 or DDR4 memoryTiki top closeup
• Completely customizable configurations
• Liquid cooled CPU
• Overclocking available
• Only 4 inches wide - 40% smaller than our FragBox!

 More Info : http://www.falcon-nw.com/desktops/tiki

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Lenovo A7000 on Sale! With Pineng 5000mAH Power Bank

Lenovo A7000. On sale starts  May 28, at 12 noon. It comes with a Pineng 5000mAH power bank plus free screen protector and back cover, all packaged at a price of PHP 7,499! The Lenovo A7000 is the first ever smartphone to feature Dolby® Atmos™ technology, offering true surround sound. Other features include: 

• 5.5” HD screen 
• MediaTek 4G LTE True8Core™ processor 
• 2GB RAM 
• 8MP and 5MP cameras  

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Creepily Stalk your friends from FB messages

A student developer from Cambridge has created a Chrome extension that works similar and also named it Marauder’s Map.The extension that allows you to watch every footstep of your Facebook friends by grabbing location data from Facebook Messenger and rapidly plotting your friends’ locations on a map.

If you remember the magical Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter books that reveal the whereabouts of characters as they roam classrooms and the halls of Hogwarts school.

Facebook usually encourages Messenger users to share their location by enabling location sharing by default when users install iOS or Android app.

About the creepy potential of the location data we often inadvertently reveal about ourselves on Facebook Messenger, due to its defaults of always sharing your location when sending messages from the increasingly popular mobile app.

The code is open source and available on Github here:
https://github.com/arank/marauders-map
This is available  on google chrome webstore:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/marauders-map/mliofombcghaamgjkmmmmlepkiacdhkh

We all are aware that Facebook shares our location data with our friends, however, what we probably aren’t aware of the accuracy of that data and easiness of extracting that data from the messaging service.

Software developer Aran Khanna’s extension dubbed Marauder’s Map, loads the map in Messenger’s Web interface and fetches the data from messages sent over Facebook Messenger with location sharing enabled.

The extension will able to map your location only for those instances when you have had a conversation with your friends over Messenger with location enabled.

If you don’t want to share your location with your friends and keep your location data private, then you can disable location sharing feature by tapping the arrow icon in your Messenger, or simply go into the settings of your phone and disable Messenger’s location access altogether.

How Do I Use The Map?

To pull the most recent location data of a Facebook user onto the map you have to be on https://www.facebook.com/messages/ and click on any conversation (indavidual or group) in the list on the left with that user in it.

Any message sent from that user with a location attached is added to the map.Bubbles on the map represent the most recent location for each user, and clicking on a user's bubble brings up all past location points recorded for that user.

 To close the map click the blue bar above the map and it will minimize to a tab in the bottom left which can be clicked to re-open the map.

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How to Customize or Change Name PLDT WiFi SSID

Maybe right now you already change your PLDTWIFI  password and SSID.
But you can not remove or customize your WiFi SSID properly.
Most of PLDT user always have  this SSID format PLDTMyDSL_NAME or PLDTHOMEDSL_NAME.
Because of that, now all your neighbors knows that you have PLDT connection hahaha.
Maybe your thinking how to remove that PLDT  on your WiFi connection.

On this post I will teach you how to customize your PLDT SSID WiFi.

1.  Login as Admin

Open browser type your PLDT Gateway IP address
sample 192.168.1.1
login as
user: adminpldt
Password: 1234567890

PLDT Fibr  Huawei 
user:telecomadmin
password: admintelecom

Home_Bro Ultera
user: homebro
password: homebro 

2. Create a Virtual AP

Click on Basic Setup Menu , and then click WLAN
Find Wireless - Guest/ Virtual Access Point
Select and click the checkbox  Change the SSID Name wl0_guest example here is Blogmytuts. then click save/apply wait a few seconds.

SAGEMCOM MODEL:

  In case you have old modem ( PROLINK ,Baudtec, FiDA )this are name as VAP0 to VAP3

Ibang Model

 3. Create or Change Password 

Go to Security menu, select your SSID sample Blogmytuts.
select network authentication WPA2 -PSK , Key. Encryption AES or TKIP or chose both.
Type your  WiFi password on the passphrase or Pre -shared 
Click apply/save 

Other Modem :

Othe Modem.

NOTE:  Sa mga nag sasabing bumabalik sa dati yung mga password etc setting . kailangan yung adminpldt user ang gagamitin nyo dahil yung ang may kakayahan mag permanent ng setting saka dapat lilitaw yang Attention blah blah blah..  click nyo yung SAVE laging lilitaw yan  sa Modem na tulad netong sa ibaba.  At Kung ayaw ng adminpldt user meron po reset button yang modem nyo press nyo ng 2 minutes  (tawag duon hardreset para bumalik sa dating config at setting yan) after nyo ma hard reset login nyo ulit yung adminpldt gagana na yan.

 4. Hide the Default SSID

Notice you have 2 Access Point or SSID now we have to hide the default PLDTHOMEDSL SSID.

Go back to Basic Setup click WLAN click check box "Hide Access Point"
Click apply/save  , then wait a few seconds to take effect.
Now,  try to scan if your setup is effective.

For Prolink , Fida, and BauTec  GUI go to Advance  Disable SSID Broadcast , click Apply and Save.

Yung  isang Model  ganito naman tapos lilitaw na naman ulit yung Attention blah blah blah.. SAVE

Gusto nyo makita mga active client nyo (connected sa modem nyo )
Go to Setup , WLAN , Basic, Show active client ( di lahat same kung saan makikita eto kapain nyo nalang)




 Congrats!  Hindi na kalat na may PLDT connection kayo :p

Final Tanong Pwede ba daw kahit Smartphone or any WiFi  Device kung walang computer or Laptop?

Sagot : Oo pwede wala naman pinagkaiba sa browser ng Desktop or Laptop yan..

TUTS HOW TO HACK PLDT WIFI
http://www.blogmytuts.net/2016/09/top-6-pldt-router-you-can-easily-get.html

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