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Most AI deployments are insecure by default. Here’s the threat landscape you need to understand before deploying AI anywhere.

Pull up a chair—or a terminal. This is my corner of the internet for cybersecurity, tech, gaming, and sci-fi.

Fleet battles and ground-pounders—my guide to the military sci-fi genre and the authors who do it best.

A short story about waking up somewhere unexpected—and getting a second chance you never asked for.

Your family wakes up with the ability to know when anyone lies. You cannot. You stumble across the solution to anti-grav. You wake up in your childhood room, stumble to the mirror and see your 12 year-old self staring back at you.

“So you wanna be the master of Pokemon? Do you have the skills to be number one” Google challenges you this April Fools to catch 150 Pokemon all around the world. Open your Google Maps app to start!

We finally got our first look of Maleficent’s dragon form! This movie just went from ehh to must-watch for me.

The long anticipated sequel and book 2 of the Stormlight Archive hit stores march 4th. It picks up right were we left off, the assassin in white has decapitated the leadership of Roshar and targets Dalinar Kholin the blackthorn and true power behind the Alethi kingship. While the first book of any epic fantasy series needs to build the world, the second book needs to make us care about the characters. If you have read fantasy for long enough nearly everyone reads “this big book that goes nowhere.” The second book in the series needs to be paced particularly well to keep the reader engaged and show significant character development. Words of Radiance has it in spades.

Words of Radiance, March 4th # Book 2 of the Stormlight Archive. the highly anticipated sequel to The Way of Kings is at the top of my personal list. Bringing us back to the world filled with Spren as the war against the Parshendi escaltes on the shattered plains, and with the assassin in white gutting nobility and power all over the world is now targeting Dalinar the arguably the real power behind the Alethi throne. Kaladin, who has sworn to protect Dalinar and the king, is struggling to master his new windrunner powers while keeping them secret, has also been elevated from a branded slave to the new royal guard commander. For more information on this series check out our review here.

The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings is Brandon’s first volume in his new epic fantasy series: The Stormlight Archives. Released in 2010, it’s been 4 long years since my first read through but to properly examine the book we first need to get some perspective.

````What to Expect # This guide will walk you through setting up a DNS server and BIND on a CentOS 6.5 server. In this guide you will learn:

Pairs is a fast and easy card game by James Ernest, with artwork based on The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. From the makers of Deadwood and Unexploded Cows, Pairs is brought to you by Cheapass Games a Seattle-based game company established in 1996 by game designer James Ernest. They make many fun, off-beat games, many of which you can learn and start playing in 5 minutes.

Don’t Sweat the Little Things # Is it going to rain? What’s the traffic like? Did I submit my time sheet? Any important emails? What are my top things to do today? meetings?follow ups? Is today a birthday? An anniversary? A due date?

MySQL: Lesson 1, What is MySQL and Where do I start? # The Basics: # Before we get to MySQL, what is exactly is SQL?

I’m going to honest, I’m burned out. Dead as a door nail, stick a fork in me, I’m done. # I’m stressed out, but not from one particular task or subject. I come home mentally exhausted, and usually with a headache. This isn’t anything new, everyone gets burned out from time to time, but my usual management techniques just don’t work anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I put on a good face but I’m dead inside. I get accolades and awards for my work. I make time for my hobbies every other weekend yet I feel unfulfilled. This isn’t depression, depression is an old companion of mine. Depression I could handle, mange, and live with. I’ve always been a self-starter, but what I lack is a more important, a goal. I’m fighting complacency, I’m satisfied with what I have accomplished thus far and I struggle to want more.

So while I was tinkering away last night WordPress.org announced today the release of WordPress 3.6, featuring a new blog-centric theme and a re-engineered revision browser. You can download the new release now from WordPress.org/Download.

The Well Of Ascension Evil has been defeated. The war has just begun. They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire.

As an avid fan of all things sci-fi and fantasy, I thoroughly enjoy RPGs. One close to my heart is Dungeons & Dragons. While its been many years since I’ve played I’ve started to dabble once again in the immense world limited only by your imagination.

So I wanted to install Jetpack but once I activated the plugin I was no longer able to reach the WordPress admin area. My obvious conclusion was that something about the plugin wasn’t agreeing with my server. After a quick once over the logs and finding nothing useful I needed to manually disable the plug-in. This can be done easily by deleting the value from ‘active_plugins’ row in the ‘wp_options’ table in your wordpress database. For most people with managed servers you can use phpMyAdmin to quickly navigate and edit to value. However seeing as I do not have it installed I needed to manually edit my database.

Hello everyone, so this is my first post to what I guess will be my blog. I guess my current focus is mostly just getting this site up and running completely I’m still working out the page layouts and sections I want. This blog section will be my place to write down my thoughts and ramblings on various topics. These topics will probably be very broad in scope as I am interested in many things so I hope you check back often for new content. My interests include but are not limited to: Snowsports, Cyber Security, Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels, gadgets & gizmos, and much much more.