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^^ The last estimate that I saw was lower. It was closer to $14.

Beats headphones sound terrible - anyone who has ever owned a pair of decent headphones understands that Beats are vastly overpriced.

http://afritechnet..com/2015/06/windows-10-wi-fi-sense-leaks-info-to.html



'Wi-Fi Sense' is a feature built into the both the Windows 10 desktop and Windows Mobile operating systems. Wi-Fi Sense allows devices to automatically enable (and disable) Wi-Fi connection. It is advertised as a way of saving on mobile data costs alongside the following 'benefits':

Automatically connect you to open WiFi networks it knows about by crowdsourcing networks that other Windows Phone users have connected to. These are usually open WiFi hotspots that you see when you're out and about.

Automatically accept the terms of use on your behalf for networks that require it

Provide additional information on your behalf to networks that require it

Let you exchange WiFi network access with your Facebook friends, Outlook.com contacts or Skype contacts to give and get Internet access without seeing each other's WiFi network passwords

WiFi Sense uses your location to identify open networks near you that it knows about by crowdsourcing. By using WiFi Sense, you understand and agree that it will use your location.


The above 'benefits' may seem convenient for users but are, in actuality, dangerous. Automatically accepting terms of use without being granted the means or time to read them should be of particular concern to users.

'Wi-Fi Sense' should act as yet another reminder of the dangers of linking multiple social media accounts together. In doing so users hand over even more data and power to companies such as Facebook and Microsoft and leave themselves (by way of their personal data) incredibly vulnerable. Both companies have a history of data breaches and leakages for which there has been no recourse for the common user.

Even when 'Wi-Fi Sense' is disabled on a personal computer, anyone else connecting to the network could leak the password to their Facebook 'friends'.

All users are recommended to opt out of this feature for their own security. The best option is to change the SSID to include the tag "_optput" at the end.

http://afritechnet..com/2015/06/windows-10-wi-fi-sense-leaks-info-to.html

wahles:
Meself don tire# A and B claiming to b ryt, one s wrong, both r wrong, which s?

The 'right way' is to give children the confidence to think for themselves. To absorb information and be able to discern that which is nonsense (e.g. Virgin births, illiterates writing whole books) from that which is logical.

Dear God, stop brainwashing children

Let us now put our hands together and pray. O God, we gather here today to ask you to free our schoolchildren from being forced to go through this charade every day. As you know, O Lord, because You see all, British law requires every schoolchild to participate in “an act of collective worship” every 24 hours. Irrespective of what the child thinks or believes, they are shepherded into a hall, silenced, and forced to pray – or pretend to.

If they refuse to bow their heads to You, they are punished. This happened to me, because I protested that there is no evidence whatsoever that You exist, and plenty of proof that shows the texts describing You are filled with falsehoods. When I pointed this out, I was told to stop being “blasphemous” and threatened with detention. “Shut up and pray,” a teacher told me on one occasion. Are you proud, O Lord?

Forcing children to take part in religious worship every day is a law worthy of a theocracy, not a liberal democracy where 70 per cent of adults never attend a religious ceremony. That’s why the Association of Teachers and Lecturers – one of the teachers’ unions – has recently moved to ask the Government to stop forcing its members to take part in this practice.

Why does this anachronism persist in this blessedly irreligious country? For all their whining that they are “persecuted”, the religious minority in Britain are in fact accorded remarkable privileges. They are given a bench-full of unelected positions in the legislature, protection from criticism in the law, and vast amounts of public money to indoctrinate children into their belief systems in every school in the land.

I can understand why the unelected, faltering religious institutions cling to this law so tightly. When it comes to “faith”, if you don’t get people young, you probably won’t ever get them. Very few people are, as adults, persuaded of the idea that (say) a Messiah was born to a virgin and managed to bend the laws of physics, or that we should revere a man who at the age of 53 had sex with a nine-year-old girl. You can usually only persuade people of this when they are very young – a time when their critical and rational faculties have not yet been developed – and hope it becomes a rock in their psychological make-up they dare not pull out.

But why do the rest of us allow this fervent 5 per cent of the population to force the rest of our kids to follow their superstitions? Parents can withdraw their children if they choose – but that often means separating the child in an embarrassing way from her friends and exposing them to criticisms from the school, so only 1 per cent do it. Most don’t even know it is an option.

More importantly still, why is worship forced on 99 per cent of children without their own consent or even asking what they think? As the author Richard Dawkins has pointed out many times, there are no “Christian children” or “Muslim children”. I was classed as “Christian” because my mother is vaguely culturally Christian, although at every opportunity I protested that I didn’t believe any of it. Children are not born with these beliefs, as they are born with a particular pigmentation or height or eye colour. Indeed, if you watch children being taught about religion, you will see most of them instinctively laugh and ask perfectly sensible sceptical questions that are swatted away – or punished – by religious instructors.

I am genuinely surprised that no moderate religious people have, to my knowledge, joined the campaign to stop this compelled prayer. What pleasure or pride can you possibly feel in knowing that children are compelled to worship your God? Why are you silent?

The prayer-enforcers offer a few arguments in their defence. At first, they claim it instils “moral values” in children. The scientist Gregory S Paul produced a detailed study in 2005 to find out if rates of murder and rape went up as levels of religion went down. He found the exact opposite. On detailed international comparisons, the more religious a country is, the more likely you are to be stabbed or raped there. There isn’t necessarily a causal relationship – but it blasts a bloody hole in this claim.

Of course, if you actually followed the morality explicitly commanded by the Bible, Torah and Koran, you would kill adulterers, gay people, apostates, and disobedient children and be sent to prison. Thankfully, the vast majority of religious believers long since decided to disregard much of “God’s word”, because it is manifestly appalling, and read it metaphorically. But you have to strip away an awful lot of the texts as metaphor before you get to a few bland lessons about being nice to each other. Can’t we get the lessons about niceness from somewhere else, without the bogus metaphysics and endless injunctions to kill our friends?

Once the morality defence dissolves, the religious switch tack, and claim that children indoctrinated into religion perform better academically. As “proof”, they point to the fact that faith schools perform somewhat better on league tables. It’s true – but look a little deeper.

There have been two detailed studies of this, by the conservative think tank Civitas, and the Welsh Assembly. They found faith schools get better results for one simple reason: they use selection to cream off highly motivated children of the wealthy and weed out difficult, poor or unmotivated students who would require more work. Once you take into account their “better” intakes, faith schools actually underperform academically by 5 per cent (and that’s before you factor in all the other problems they cause).

I am absolutely not saying that schools should teach children to be atheists. No. Schools should take no position on religion. They should be neutral, and equip children with the thinking skills – asking for evidence, and knowing how to analyse it rationally – that will enable them to make up their own minds, when they wish, beyond the school gates. How can a religious person object to that, without admitting that open-minded, evidence-seeking adults would see through their claims in a second?

elisha90:
I don't think I wish to celebrate any honour from UK. these people are the origin of Nigerians problem, they mean no good for us, they are not willing to assist us in any positive way. to hell with their honours. we remain Nigeria. we are the true Africans.

The Queen and the British Royal family benefited from the rape of Nigeria, as well as other parts of the world. I do not respect that institution at all. Especially when you consider that the UK is one of those countries going around the world preaching about 'good governance' and the need for a meritocracy meanwhile they maintain a hereditary monarchy in 2015, the most archaic form of government.

Anyone who knows this guy's history understands that he's full of bull excrement.

He needs to disclose how he got his television station started, that would be a good place to start. Or what he did when he was Director General of NTA.

agarawu23:
we Humans cannot stop the rains from falling. These are natural events, but we can do something to prevent them from having great impact.

our Government are not trying at all because they are lot of step they can take to control flooding and make flow of water easy.

I have seen countries where rain fall constantly but there is a good drainage system and underground well, once the rain stops within 1-2 hours everywhere is dried up.

Blame our Government.

Blame the government for a city built on land below sea level?

Do you also blame the Oklahoma state government for their floods? Or the New Orleans city authorities for their flooding? How about the authorities in Houston and New York? Do you also blame them?

fratermathy:
Akwa-Ibom State is in the South-South and not South-East. Please take note Op. It was before the 1990s that it was regarded as part of the Eastern Region but the state is currently in the South South together with Cross-River State.

Back to the topic, this is a good development for Nigerian! The key to unlock stable power supply in Nigeria is in Nuclear power.

AKS is in the south-east of Nigeria.

South-east is a geographical term.

South-south is meaningless term couched in atrocious English.

special19:
I completely agree with you. Some of our girls here see it as a status symbol having these white folks as friends or boy friend. They would be like, I don't date black guys. I think it boils down to inferiority complex. Some don't mind dating white trash to boost their ego.

Anyone who has spent more than a few weeks on an American college campus should know how disturbed a significant percentage of white males are. So many cases of rape/date-rape/sexual assault that aren't investigated by the police because the colleges don't want bad press.

The problem that you identified as being one of inferiority complex is really part of a general African problem of cozying up to those who represent the majority/those in power irregardless of morality or justice.

Africans should be more supportive of African-Americans but yet it seems that many arrive and as soon as they touch down in America they want to disrespect and demean them - they seem to have no understanding of historical context or the basic concept of 'cause and effect'.

iPopAlomo:
What are you saying nah... I asked you a simple question... whats the point in camping if it's not too fish out the weed... four good players in the bench and your taking about Berti and Lars... that's one lack of technical competence...

Managers often do that when there is a lack of focus from players in training - that is apparent to anyone who has been following football for more than 4 weeks. It has nothing to do with 'technical competence'. Had you read my initial response properly you would have seen what I had to say about this comment.

vfactor:
I am not just looking at results or past glory. And looking at the team! Have u watched the super eagles recently? Did you notice how their games lacked direction and game plan and how it was difficult for them to fashion out chances? That's what I am talking about

Manu Garba has won an international tournament, the u17 world cup. But lemme ask you, why is it that we can't translate u17 success to u20 and national team sucesss? I will tell you. At u17 level our boys when compared with the Europeans are very talented have lots of skills. At this stage kids just play and with our talent we can beat these teams! But what about when the boys start understanding tactics and game plan, then the difference is clear. How can manu Garba use long balls against a German defence who's average height is higher than that of the Nigerian strikers? Many indigenous coaches have won the u17 world cup. But after then what?

I am not just after foreign coaches, but coaches who have the technical know how. He maybe African or European but he should be tactical and willing to develop our players and our football. The Keshi u re calling today is the product of Westerhof!

The problem with Nigerian football is the structure - Nigeria needs a viable league that allows for young players to develop. Clearly the coaching is good at junior level for them to get to international tournaments and win, the problem is that as they age they do not get enough playing time against seasoned professionals, too many are being sent abroad at a young age where they do not get the coaching or the playing time that they need. It does not make sense to keep relying on foreign clubs and coaches to develop Nigerian players - they do not have Nigeria's best interests at heart.

As to your claim that Keshi is a Westerhof product - he also played under other coaches and would have learned from them as well.

tonychristopher:
Black man and inferiority... Why white coaches

It's part inferiority but it's mainly fraud.

They like hiring the foreigners because it's easier to get kick-backs from them when they are hired and because they tend not to last very long they can keep making money in hidden hiring 'fees'.

engrjacuzzi:
NFF will never seize to amaze Nigerians with this issue of foreign coach.
if they need to get a world class coach with pedigree, will they be able to cough out £6m a year when we know that national team coach don't get involved to often just like the club side aspect. if the NFF is indeed serious, they should go for the best hands like jurgen klopp, José mourinho, Carlos ancelotti,.
if that is too high, then we have harve reina, big Sam allaydice, mark Hughes , Brendan Rodgers.

Why would you suggest Brendan Rogers? What has he won?

What has Mark Hughes won as a manager?

Sam Allardyce? You seriously want Nigeria to play like his teams? Do his teams win tournaments?

Which 'Reina'?

Nigerian football needs better structure - the league needs to be taken seriously as a viable business and a as a means of developing Nigerian talent. Foster healthy competition and the best will evolve into world class products. There is no evidence that skills are ever transferred when foreigners are hired. Nigerians need to strip themselves of some of these silly myths that they hold onto about 'development'.

iPopAlomo:
Did Keshi win the world Cup.... and as per Manu... Simon, Success, Nacho, Yahaya... ask on the bench and you call that a coach... an international coach keeps his best for attacking players on the bench and uses Ehanoloo(I destroyed his name) throughout the tournament... guy explain that logic...

Any coach picks his team based on the evidence available - if they were left on the bench then he must have seen something that he did not like.

How many coaches currently working have won a World Cup?

How many foreign coaches have Cote D'Ivoire hired and how many tournaments have they won with all the talent that they've had over the past ten years?

Why have Egypt struggled so much with all the foreign coaches that they have had since Shehata stepped down?

What did Berti Vogts do for Nigerian football? Or even Scottish football?

Do you want Nigeria to hire another Lars Lagerback? Is he better than Keshi or even Siasia?

Most of these foreign coaches that wind up in Africa are not very good, that is why they leave Europe because they know that there are foolish people like you who assume that they know what they are talking about because they come from Europe. If you judged them based on their track record they would not be hired at all.

It's bad enough that they come with bad ideas for excessive pay but what makes it worse is that they all coach a horrible (usually northern European) style of football that no one wants to watch and is not successful anywhere.

Nigeria's problem is that the league is not taken sufficiently seriously - for some reason the NFF seems to think that they can partially develop players and then send them abroad and others will take care of them. Players need a viable domestic league to grow into top class players, it is foolish to rely on foreign leagues and coaches to take care of your own.

Look at what Mikel was at 19 and look at him now. Why was a vibrant, positive attack minded midfielder turned into a water carrier? This is what will keep happening if Nigerian football does not take care of itself.

bushdoc9919:
The problem is not the coach...it is the way we bring up the youth players.

It is the structure of Nigerian football that needs changing but if that happens the leeches in the NFF will lose out.

The NPL needs to be a completely private enterprise - run it as an efficient business and the cream will rise to the top. That will help with the development of the Nigerian players. It's foolish to think that it's a good idea to send so many young Nigerian players abroad where many do not get sufficient attention or playing time (such as Ihenacho).

vfactor:
Shame?? Why shame? Nigerian coaches couldn't really prove their selves with the national teams they handled. They had the talents and players with great skill set, but no technical know-how and game plan for each game. That's why u see our boys and girls do the playing while the other teams just observe and score us when they want and game over! We need coaches who can read matches well, understand opponent weak areas and develop a strategy to exploit these weaknesses and hide ours.

I would like the NFF to hire a highly technical and tactical coach who has a penchant for youth development, rather big name prayers. They can also make our local coaches his understudy, so that in the nearest future we could have world class homegrown coaches!

Manu Garba has won an international tournament.

Keshi has won an international tournament.

I guarantee you that the foreign mercenaries that they hire will not have achieved as much yet people like you will somehow claim that they are better.

sinkhole:
I thought Dangote and others are constructing refineries?

Not the same as the NNPC refineries.

I don't even know why NNPC is still in operation - it's not as if they do anything positive. Clearly there is no value for money to be found there.

freethinker01:
That's one thing I hate 'bout the whites.
THEY DON'T FORGIVE.
Don't ask me how I knew, I'm a living witness.

It's not that they don't forgive but moreso they harbor a lot a crazy people in white American society, hence the killing sprees that they go on.

Also, this guy was a bum.

special19:
Don't want to sound like a racist, but I don't understand what our female Nigerians see in these white folks. One thing is common to them, you can't be so sure if they are normal or insane. I live with them. You may not know when you're crossing their line. These guys can kill for just any reason. So sad.. RIP to the dead.

A lot of people are very naive when it comes to seeing white dysfunction, especially immature women, who seem to be swayed largely by media portrayal instead of balanced personal social experience.

It's unfortunate that she's gone but Nigerians and other non-whites need to open their eyes to the reality that you put yourself in danger around these people. If you play with fire expect to get burnt, I feel for the family but I hope others are paying attention - there are very clear lessons to be learned here.

From the description this guy sounds like a bum - what was the attraction?

I had a Korean friend who barely survived after being attacked by a white psychopath. We have monthly reports of white boys going on killing sprees yet there are people walking around with their eyes shut to reality.

All these useless traditional rulers.

When will people in Nigeria open their eyes and see when they are being exploited?

This is what happens when religious myths are tolerated - nothing can be challenged or done away with because everyone's opinion is valid.

obailala:
PDP had 16 years to witch-hunt and imprison all the APC rogues that have been stealing and impoverishing Nigerians. What did PDP do with that long opportunity?... They themselves were too distracted stealing that they couldn't even arrest a single APC rogue all through their time.

Now APC has taken over and is about to start arresting PDP rogues, some agents of darkness are crying witch-hunt.

You seem to make a distinction between the PDP and the APC - what difference is there between the two?

How many APC members were not PDP members at one point? Who has been a more crooked politician than Tinubu? Or Atiku?

Some people will believe anything.

This is just like that stupid story about human flesh being served in a restaurant.

ocelot2006:
It's more than just taxation. What of income from govt-owned corporations?

The majority would be taxation.

Most states realise that industry should be run by the private sector.

new2020:
Yet it has the largest debt...deceiving the gullible ones. It's no different from Osun..it borrows greatly to supplement it's IGR; an IGR generated largely by non yorubas.

Debt is needed to finance new projects - no one takes their income and ploughs it all into building. That is why we have banks.

ocelot2006:
Plus taxation.

IGR IS taxation.

wordychap:
I disagree with akwa-ibom 15.9 billion
Where did they get such IGR from?

Hotels/Tourism, construction (and surrounding businesses) as well as an influx of retailers and manufacturers.

Imagine what the IGR would be if churches and other houses of religious fraud had to pay tax?

Macelliot:
Where is Akwa Ibom and Kano state? With the high FG allocation it receives monthly.

You can't read? AKS is there.

Where is Kano is a valid question.

imas:
The thing is somehow to me, they don't tolerate religion, yet they are prospering, in Nigeria we carry all manner of religions for head yet still struggling to develope.

Many things taught by religious groups are actively harmful to a society.

Telling people to be fruitful and multiply when they have problems taking care of themselves is irresponsible.

What does the UK have to do with his allegations in the US?

This is such a red herring.

Caseless:
if there is anything govt of China is good at doing, is bullying its citizens by force. Muslims shouldn't promote their religion, what about other religions in China? Muslims are the targets here.

China is not known for religious tolerance - Christians in China often complain of religious persecution.

It is not just Muslims that are dealt with aggresively by the Chinese authorities.

wiegraf:
Possibly, dunno, but quite a few are peaceable. Who would you rather have as a neighbor, a fundie xtian or a fundie Buddhist?

The suggestion that all religions are equally harmful is a myth, clearly.

Islam sits in the VIP section of the cancer luminaries. Considering their numbers they need to be addressed, and realistically. Just as xtianity needed to be addressed at a point in time in Europe (and obviously should be addressed here now). Hand waving is not an option

Actually, not even sure Islam can be reformed, as uncle mo, well.....

I didn't say that all were equally harmful but the idea that one group of people have the answers to all of life's questions and that anyone else is inferior is the foundation for many a conflict.

As to your question about who is more dangerous between the fundamentalist Xtian or the Buddhist - that depends very much on which corner of the world you reside in. Many a non-Buddhist has been slaughtered in south east Asia by Buddhist nutcases.

What religious groups call 'reform' usually amounts to ignoring the more inconvenient aspects of the religious texts - when was the last time you heard a Xtian minister speak out against usury for example?

Personally I don't want any of them to reform - all self-proclaiming religious sheep should be made to follow every tenet of their religion. Let them deal with the inconvenience of their ignorance to the fullest.