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That’s a question that most of us don’t think about. Today hacking your car is possible, though it hasn’t happened in the real world very often if ever. It has happened when researchers tested the electronics and communications in an auto.
Can Your Car Get Hacked?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=George_Uliano]George Uliano
That’s a question that most of us don’t think about. Today hacking your car is possible, though it hasn’t happened in the real world very often if ever. It has happened when researchers tested the electronics and communications in an auto.
When you sit back and think about this, the newer cars are Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capable. Most modern cars have key fobs that remotely lock and unlock the car; some even have a remote start. Some auto manufacturers install Telematics that will collect and transmit data from your vehicle to a central computer server. This transmission or in car data storage can be hacked. Let’s list some of the items that might be hacked:
Telematics: As stated above this is the collection and transmission of your car data.
Door Locks: These are usually operated by using a key fob using an encrypted code that matches a code in your vehicle.
Smartphones: Most modern vehicles provide a way for you to connect your smartphone to your vehicle’s entertainment system. This would be a way to introduce a virus by a contaminated App or a hacked MP3 audio file; a video file can also be hacked to transmit a virus.
Key Fob: As discussed above these are used to lock and unlock the vehicle; they can also be used to remotely start a vehicle. It sends an encrypted code that would be difficult for someone to hack and de-encrypt. However, this code could be intercepted as it goes from the fob to the vehicle.
Wi-Fi: Some autos have a built in W-Fi system. I think by now most people realize that a W-Fi system is susceptible to hacking.
Ignition: When we get into our new vehicles we push a button to start it. The key fob is usually in our pocket or purse which we rarely take out. The communication between the key fob and the vehicle is usually a Bluetooth communication. This would be an area that hackers might be able to control.
At each new model year auto manufacturers add more features to their vehicles, these features are usually additional electronics or computer controlled items. Both Apple and Microsoft are working hard to try and get into vehicles at the manufacturer’s level.
The good news is that the auto manufacturers know all of this and are building in anti-hacking defenses. The manufacturers are building defenses into their auto computers and communications and so far it seems to be working.
George Uliano is a security professional with years of law enforcement and security experience. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice and Business graduating with honors. George holds three U.S. patents on different locking principles. This combination gives George and His Company Locking Systems International Inc the unique ability to provide its customers with the correct security at an affordable price.
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So few people are willing to do ‘extra’, so that’s exactly why those of us that want to win should be doing extra. Give yourself extra homework if you have to… Trust me… This is how you get ahead in this world!
Study Now!
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Daniel_Blanchard]Daniel Blanchard
Study? Yes! Study! Believe it or not that’s how you get ahead in life. Think about this for a moment. Most people are not eager to study or do homework. Us humans, sitting there comfortably on the top of the food chain tend to struggle with doing extra things like studying or doing homework. If we carefully consider this simple truth that so few people want to go the extra mile, then doesn’t it just make sense that going the extra mile is exactly what we want to do to get ahead of our competition?
Now I hear you. I was once a teen and I know some of you find this extra studying and extra homework so foreign that you can’t quite get your head around it yet. Some of you think that it’s crazy to assign yourself additional work beyond everything else that you already do. Well, my answer to that is… EXACTLY!
You are exactly right! It is crazy! And that is why this is such a powerful secret weapon of successful people. This tactic of doing extra is so potent and effective because so few are willing to do it. Sadly, because this is so rare, some can’t even think of it. And since this concept of doing extra is so far off the main path, we now have a golden opportunity to tap into a resource that others aren’t even aware of. We can get ourselves a huge advantage if we just do extra. Come on… if we want our lives to be something different than what it presently is, then don’t we have to start thinking and acting differently than we presently are?
Now teens and even tweens, go learn, lead, and lay the way to a better world for all of us. Remember to study and then study some more through additional self-assigned homework. If we do this little bit of extra then it can only add up to us doing a little better in school and in life. And once again, thanks in advance for all that you do, and all that you will do…
Award-Winning Author, Speaker, and Educator Dan Blanchard wants you to study more! For more great leadership tips be sure to visit Dan’s website at: [http://www.GranddaddysSecrets.com]http://www.GranddaddysSecrets.com. Thanks.
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What tools do you carry in your life toolbox? There is a little used tool, that we often forget to pull out and use. See what happens when you do!
The Hidden Tool in Your Tool Box
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Beverly_Molina]Beverly Molina
If you ever get the chance, ask a firefighter to show you what he carries in his turnout pockets.
As this firefighter is pulling out the tools that she has carefully deemed the most necessary and beneficial ones that she wants at her side in the storm of an emergency, ask her to tell you about them, and why she has chosen these specific tools for her pockets. You will come away having learned a lot about firefighting and the firefighter too.
What Are Your Go-To Tools?
Some of the tools in my own pocket include a black ninja-like hood, to be worn under my helmet that provides protection against the intense radiating heat from a fire; a brass pocket spanner for charging the hose with water from the fire hydrant; a multi-tool spring-loaded center punch with a seatbelt cutter, for breaking out glass of a vehicle where a patient needs immediate extrication; a pocket knife and cable cutters for cutting entangling wires and cables that I may encounter as I crawl through the darkness of a building, where the structural elements that hold ceilings and walls together are falling apart or melting away; a hose strap for a quick rescue drag; and tubular webbing attached to a carabineer for a hasty escape if necessary.
I continually pay attention to the tools in my pocket, keeping the ones that serve me and changing them up if they don’t.
In our own lives, we each carry a set of metaphorical tools in our pockets. Many of our tools are ones born out of the necessity of our individual experience. Do we move through life with a positive outlook, fierce determination, appreciation, practicality, fear-based mentality? Maybe our go-to tools are ones we have used to survive not-so-ideal environments we grew up in. Defensive walls or victim consciousness or people pleasing may be what we use to help us get through our present situations.
Whatever our stories, and whatever tools we rely on as we move through our journey, it serves us to go through our toolboxes once in a while to see if our instruments of choice are truly serving us. When we abandon the tools that no longer work and try out new ones, we may be surprised at the shifts that may occur in our experience.
The Elusive Tool
Let me tell you about an elusive tool that I have found very helpful in my own life toolbox. She doesn’t look or feel like one of your traditionally manufactured devices. She does not push, shove, or pry. She’s called Allowing.
Huh?? To my inner firefighter this sounds like a pretty passive, even weak and laughable tool. “Move over Allowing, and let my axe and sledge hammer get this job done!” my inner firefighter bellows.
It was many years ago on a fire academy drill ground that I met Allowing and was able to practice her art, first hand. Like every new fire recruit in a fire academy, I found myself fully suited up in my heavy turnout gear, my SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) on my back, breathing twenty minutes worth of air through my mask, ready to practice going into small, dark, and undesirable spaces.
I was crawling on my belly through a hundred-foot long, pitch-black commercial pipe–feeling the hot sweat that I could not wipe through my mask, dripping down my face and into my eyes. I could feel the constriction of the pipe, as my helmet would bump up against the top of it. My arms were uncomfortably bent to the sides of me, pulling me inch by inch through the blackness with the rhythmic push of my steel-toed boots. There was only slow forward movement here, no room to turn back or even reach my arm behind me. I felt for my academy mates of football player stature.
At about the halfway point of this limiting space, I stopped for a second. I could feel the rising potential of a dark, confined, imprisoned freak-out coming on, even in my self-assured, non-claustrophobic nature. In that moment I knew I had three choices:
• Freak out – not an option, not here, no way!
• Push through – better than freak out, do-able, but I would lose a lot, if not all, of my limited air if I pushed and struggled, or
• Allow it to be.
The Art of Allowing
In that second, I went with allow. I closed my eyes, which made no difference in terms of the blackness in front of me, and invited Allowing in. In my allowing of that moment to be exactly as it was, all was transformed.
The darkness, that seemed to suffocate me, became a safe and comforting cocoon. The confined walls of the pipe stretched into an expansive space that cradled me. As I even allowed myself to feel the fear, the fear dissolved into peace. I continued my journey through the pipe, out through the end, like a baby crawling through a playhouse. When we allow, we invite movement, we open space for change, and we invite transformation.
Where can you invite allowing into your daily experience? I have found that she can transform many a situation. When we allow ourselves to feel fear, for example, it might be uncomfortable at first, or even terrifying. However if we allow ourselves to feel it, we will move through those feelings eventually. Conversely, we may choose to push our fear away. This may work in the interim, until it comes up again.
Can we practice allowing in our every day encounters with strangers? Can we allow people to be who they want to be, with out our judgments pushing against the situation? Can we allow ourselves to feel our array of human emotions, without pushing them away? When we allow in these ways, we may find ourselves growing in leaps and bounds.
There is a beautiful element of trust that accompanies allowing, I have found. Do we trust that the people, situations, and circumstances that we encounter are there for a reason, or for a lesson for us, or even for our own good? When we practice the art of allowing, we open up space for change and transformation in our lives.
I admit that there will be times when we feel that other tools in our pockets work best in certain situations. The push-pull tools of determination and struggle are often at the top of our tool chest. Perhaps the next time you are pushing and struggling, you will pause and dig a little deeper in your cache, and look for the unassuming tool that patiently waits underneath. Give Allowing a try. You may be pleasantly surprised.
If you enjoyed this article and would like to read more about how you can live a fulfilling and authentic life, please visit my website at http://www.braveandawake.com and check out my newly released book called BRAVE AND AWAKE – A Story of Authentic Becoming.
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The harsh weather and unique photographic conditions that winter brings to our landscape can cause many of us to retreat inside until the world warms up again in spring. If you do decide to face the elements, there are six key tips you need to know to bring back pictures that really do justice to the fragile light and often frozen beauty of the winter landscape.
The Six Secrets of Successful Winter Photography
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Suzanne_Bender]Suzanne Bender
The harsh weather and unique photographic conditions that winter brings to our landscape can cause many of us to retreat inside until the world warms up again in spring. If you do decide to face the elements, there are six key tips you need to know to bring back pictures that really do justice to the fragile light and often frozen beauty of the winter landscape.
1. It may seem obvious, but it is essential to dress correctly if you’re going to get the pictures you want. This means dressing in something that is going to keep you not only warm and dry, but also comfortable enough to spend as long as you need outside. If you’re going to be working outside over a long period of time, you need to be prepared for all eventualities and changes in the weather- think more options rather than less if you’re packing for a long trip.
2. Always check the weather forecast before you go out. Knowing what conditions to expect will not only help you to dress appropriately and bring the right equipment, but it can save you a wasted trip. There is nothing worse than finding out the weather has changed for the worse when you arrive at your intended shooting location.
Always remember that winter weather can be severe and extremely unpredictable at times. Be prepared for this, and make sure that someone knows where you’re going to be, and when to expect you back. There are too many stories of people who have been lost or injured, or were out in a storm without having left the vital information behind that could have helped their rescuers.
3. Don’t load yourself up with heavy equipment that you’ll never use. By the time you’ve spent a long day trekking through the freezing cold you’ll regret having wasted your energy carrying unnecessary lenses. Pick out only the essentials, and think about what you’ll really value most at the end of the day; when you’re cold, wet and tired, after struggling across snowy landscapes for hours. Do you really need more equipment, or would an extra layer of warm clothing, or a hot flask of your favorite drink, be more desirable?
4. The key to a good picture is finding detail in the bleak winter landscape. A blank white shot of snow banks usually won’t be as successful as a close up of ice crystals, or the patterns drawn in frost across the ground. Most people think of snow as a blank, white canvas. It will take a keener eye to brink out the detail and texture in the winter landscape, but it is this that will make the best shot.
5. Think carefully before you decide where to set up your camera. The light on a winter morning is often ideal for photography, but be aware of the way the bright sunshine and reflective white landscape will affect your picture. To create stronger shadows and a bolder photo, you will need to position your camera so that the angle between it and the sun is oblique. A sense of depth will be enhanced if you take the time to concentrate on the foreground of your shot once you have set your camera up.
6. The bright, white surface of snow or ice can trick your camera into taking an underexposed shot. The reflective surface will affect the readings you get from external light meters, or the one inside your camera. It will assume that the snow is a gray color. You can work around this using bracketing. In order to get a truer picture, you will need to add one to two stops of light. Together with a gray card of 18%, this will allow you to get a light reading that produces correctly exposed shots
If you follow these simple tips, with good planning and preparation, you will be able to face the challenge of capturing the coldest season on film.
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