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If you're an NGO, you plug it in and then you have Cryptocat for your entire organization. They're tiny Raspberry Pi servers, custom-made to be embedded Cryptocat servers that are just plug-and-play. I also want to engineer and ship Cryptocat mini-servers. I'm trying to do one for Firefox, and I also want to make native mobile apps for Android, iPhone, and Blackberry. I've already made an app that integrates into your Google Chrome browser for Cryptocat. So if you were to get more funding, what's on your to-do list? But I don't want Cryptocat to become a commercial venture, with ads on it or something. I mean, I wouldn't mind people funding me for research. I've received a lot of - incredibly pretentious - emails from venture capitalists, which I've ignored. I live in a single bedroom apartment and I'm kind of broke a lot of the time. Right now, I finance it out of my wallet. How are you able to finance Cryptocat now? I was watching the video you made for your Indiegogo fundraising campaign, which also has the 8-bit vibe. I have the pentagon tattooed and I'm getting the triangle tattooed soon enough. You might think I'm exaggerating, you might think I'm going a bit haywire.I'm sorry, I just really love Com Truise. Oh my god! He's amazing! I got a tattoo on my body because of Com Truise. My taste in music and art is very directly inspired by computers and by what I saw in computers when I was a kid. The other part of Cryptocat, which means a lot to me, is the aesthetic part. Things like SOPA and CISPA are ridiculous Cryptocat is an accessible way to still be able to use the Internet easily and communicate with your friends without having to trust Facebook or Google or your government or your boss. The purpose of Cryptocat is not only to help people in the Middle East. But I'll try to have it super-ultra-beta tested by everyone on Earth before I can go to activists in Iran and tell them, 'Hey, you can use this.' Before I can duel with Iranian Cyber Intelligence people I have to make sure that Cryptocat is really bulletproof. Now I understand that using your talents for human rights–related work and things that make a difference is the best thing you can do.ĭo you see the development of Cryptocat as an inherently political act? A lot of people are apathetic or, I'm sorry to say this, just not very well educated politically. The government is very corrupt, very backwards, and there's very little hope for change. There's a lot of government surveillance in Lebanon, and you get an idea of just how unfair the government is - I left for a very good reason. But I think it impacted what I decided to actually do with that interest. I think my interest in computers would have happened no matter what. How did your upbringing impact the work you do now? It's actually a Persian name, which funnily enough means 'drunken friend' - 'the friend who the Sultan goes out to drink with.'Ĭryptocat Adventures, a short 8-bit film about Cryptocat They named me Nadim because "Nadim" doesn't belong to any one religious community in Lebanon. My father was a philosophy professor, and my mom was a journalist for radio and TV. My own neighborhood was bombed, my house was destroyed. You have Hezbollah always picking fights with Israel, Israel killing people. It's not a bad place to grow up, but the area is very politically charged. We spoke via Skype about altruistic hacking, sticking it to venture capitalists, sweet 8-bit tunes, and his future tattoo plans. Kobeissi is a student of political science and philosophy at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. As Kobeissi says, "You don't have to trust anyone you don't want to trust with your communications, because you shouldn't have to trust them in the first place." Whether you're an investigative reporter or an Iranian activist - or you just don't want your boss all up in your business, Cryptocat keeps private conversations private. And it also runs as a Tor hidden service for added protection from snoop dogs. Unlike more invasive applications like Google Talk or Facebook chat, Cryptocat encrypts your conversations with top-secret-worthy AES-256 and deletes them when you're done talking, so no one, not even Kobeissi, can snoop on you or collect data. Open-source and secure, the year-old, ever-growing project offers group instant messaging that works on web browsers and mobile phones and includes file-sharing services. More information on working during studies can be found on the School’s Working on a visa in the UK page. Taught Masters students and some PhD students who are Student visa holders will continue to be restricted to term-time levels of permissible hours of work during the summer, paid or unpaid. This means that students are expected to study beyond the end of the Spring term to prepare their dissertations in time for September submission. Students on full-time 12-month taught Master's programmes are required to study for a full calendar year. Tuesday 5 May (due to May bank holiday) – Friday 19 June 2026įor 12-month master's students and students in Year 2 of a 24-month master's programme, Spring Term extends until the official end date of your programme. Reading week: Monday 23 February – Friday 27 February 2026 Monday 19 January – Thursday 2 April 2026 (due to Good Friday on 3 April) Monday 15 December 2025 - Friday 16 January 2026 Reading week: Monday 3 November – Friday 7 November 2025 Monday 29 September – Friday 12 December 2025 Tuesday 6 May (due to May bank holiday) – Friday 20 June 2025įor 12-month master's students and students in Year 2 of a 24-month master's programme, Spring Term extends until the official end date of your programme. Reading week: Monday 24 February – Friday 28 February 2025 Monday 16 December 2024 - Friday 17 January 2025 Reading week: Monday 4 November – Friday 8 November 2024 Monday 30 September – Friday 13 December 2024 Reading week: Monday 19 February – Friday 23 February 2024įor 12-month master's students and students in Year 2 of a 24-month master's programme, Spring Term extends until the official end date of your programme. Monday 15 January – Thursday 28 March 2024 (due to Good Friday on 29 March) Monday 11 December 2023 - Friday 12 January 2024 Reading week: Monday 30 October – Friday 3 November 2023 Monday 25 September – Friday 8 December 2023 Please note: term names are changing from 2023/24 which is reflected below. Tuesday 2 May (due to May bank holiday) – Friday 16 June 2023įor 12-month master's students and students in Year 2 of a 24-month master's programme, Summer Term extends until the official end date of your programme. Please note that there are multiple systems for week numbering, this is the ISO week date standard (ISO-8601), other systems use weeks starting on Sunday (US) or Saturday (Islamic). Reading week: Monday 20 February – Friday 24 February 2023 All weeks are starting on Monday and ending on Sunday. Reading week: Monday 31 October – Friday 4 November 2022 Monday 26 September – Friday 9 December 2022 If it is lurking in the shadows at a pond's edge, this posture can make an alligator impossible to detect. When lurking, only the eyes and nostrils are above the waterline. And, in very cold water, an alligator can last up to eight hours submerged. In a pinch, an alligator can stay underwater for two hours if it is at rest. A typical dive might last 10 to 20 minutes. Alligators can stay underwater for quite a while. Flaps close off the ears and nostrils, the inner eyelids protect the eyes and a special flap called the palatal valve closes at the back of the throat to keep water out of the throat, stomach and lungs. When swimming underwater, alligators are water tight. While an alligator is sitting about or swimming, these inner eyelids protect the alligator's eyes and provide clearer vision in the underwater environment. The inner lids are clear and close back-to-front. They are made of skin and close top-to-bottom. This makes it possible for an alligator to escape from most situations on land and get into the water.Īlligator eyes have two sets of eyelids. For comparison, the fastest humans running at world-record times in a 100 meter dash, are running about 20 MPH (32 KPH), but a typical adult human is no faster than an alligator. Photo courtesy of Alligator Adventures in Myrtle Beach, SCĮven though alligators are huge and cold-blooded, they can be quite fast, with a top speed of 11 MPH (17 KPH) over short distances. While there are reports of one alligator, held in captivity, that lived to be well over 100 years old, something like 40 years might be a more typical old age for alligators living in the wild. This limits their range to the warmer, wetter areas in the southeastern United States from Texas to North Carolina. Because they are cold-blooded reptiles, alligators are not big fans of cold weather. (There is a nice interactive presentation on Utan available at the Alligator Adventures Web site.)Īlligators are fresh-water animals and can be found in lakes, ponds, rivers and irrigation canals. He is claimed to be the largest living Crocodylian in captivity. At the Alligator Adventures alligator park in Myrtle Beach, SC, a very large crocodile named Utan weighs in at 2,000 pounds and is almost 20 feet long. Males can actually get much larger - 1,000 pounds is not unusual. Females are, on average, about 8 feet long and weigh about half as much as male alligators. Male alligators are, on average, about 11 feet (3.5 meters) long and 600 pounds (270 kg). The accessibility settings can help reduce the number of buttons required or give you a more forgiving time to land tricks. In fact, if you don’t want the meter at all, you can turn it off. One thing I did enjoy was the game is more generous with the balance meter on moves. Way too often, it would mean I’d overshoot a landing, or it didn’t get enough air, which sucks when trying to nab some of those collectibles. Flapping your wings does give you a little boost upwards or can carry you forward further, but it’s often at your detriment. Only it doesn’t work well when you have to control that bird. I understand it’s part of the whole playing as a bird deal they are little things with wings flapping around. Unlike steering a human skater around, controlling your little bird is an ongoing nightmare. The game is also great for helping you get used to the button prompts, which you can turn off if you don’t want too much guidance. SkateBIRD thankfully adopts a similar control scheme to the Tony Hawk games, making it easier to jump into if you’ve played any. Whereas Tony Hawk games would have you completing typical objectives for each level, SkateBIRD will give you seemingly random ones. You can, of course, take your time and explore, finding more bird accessories and music tracks to unlock. You’ll want to pick up missions when you can because it’s how you open up more levels. Because it’s so open, it also makes it hard to see where the mission-giving/story-progressing birds are around the level. The large open spaces feel empty, and getting around the levels takes more time than you’d want in a skating game. It’s fun seeing what’s been used to make the skateparks on a small scale.īecause you’re just a tiny bird, it’s understandable that the spaces are so big, but they feel a little too big. Skate parks made around the mundane human world are of course much bigger for a budgie. Skating around in the human world, reminded me of playing Micro Machines way back when (and it’s about time for another Micro Machines game). It’s also the most likely thing that grabbed your attention about the game a little bird on a skateboard. Finally, it’s 2021, and after some all-too-common Covid related delays, you can get out your bird-sized skateboard and get ready to SkateBIRD!Īs I already mentioned, SkateBIRD is too cute for its own good. It was absurd and way too cute, and it was a must-have when it came out. SkateBIRD first showed up in 2018, quickly grabbing attention with the simple combination of a little bird riding a little skateboard. |