Sunday, June 19, 2016

Is the workplace killing women younger!




Ever since I was a child I have seen women compete and succeed in all the same sports and events as men.   I have no interest in offending women.  I am simply going share a perspective in the least offensive way possible. 

Throughout the last couple of hundred years women maintained a role at home (not talking about pre-society where they were gatherers).  The role that they took was to take care of the children and look after the cleanliness of the abode.  All of this was done while the men spent time at work slaving for another masters personal gain. 

  In the last hundred years things have changed.  Women have taken an interest in the job place and have fought and won the rights, which in my opinion they always had, to work side by side with the men and other women in a professional environment.   

The original inspiration for this behavior came from women who lost their husbands in WW1 and WW2.  When the women became widowers they had to do something to raise their children and themselves.  With so many of these women being to heartbroken to ever marry again they started finding work wherever they could.   Over time the women's rights movement progressed for the equal treatment of women providing the added benefit of making it easier for women to find jobs.     

Now that women are fully integrated into all forms of the professional realm.  Military, music, sales, corporate CEO's.  Let's talk about reality.  For years the life expectancy of women has been longer than men.   Then women decided to leave the matriarchal status at home and go into the workplace slaving for another master.  

 Statistics are now showing for the first time since statistics like this have been tracked the life expectancy of women has gone down.  This study done in 2016 at OSU stated that this decrease in life expectancy is due to hours worked at their jobs.  The workplace has caused in women a huge increase in heart disease, cancer and other serious diseases. 

 These are the facts.   

While this is only a new trend I see this trend continuing.  

Women can now begin to see with statistical facts what men were truly sacrificing for them.  

They're lives.  

 However with all this being said things between men and women are still not equal.  Women still do not have to register for the draft even though it has been proposed (the bill hasn't been finalized)  Women have to register for draft .  Women do not make dollar for dollar the same wage as men.  Ask the U.S. soccer team.   
There are countless other gripes that still have to be addressed for national equality.    

With all that now being known i believe its time for men to stand back and say thank you to women for taking on the stress that they no longer have to deal with.  Blindly walking into the awaiting arms of the reaper earlier in life.  And giving men more of an opportunity to influence the children of the world.   Are those really good things?

So keep fighting for equality women and i hope one day the issue of equality never even crosses women's minds at the workplace.

Thanks for reading. 

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

What is Cyber Warfare?






Cyber warfare is the use of computer networks to carry out the agenda, of a nation or group.  Often the agenda is of a political nature to steal information or carry out some type of sabotage.

I have recently come across a great example of this named: Stuxnet.

Stuxnet, a virus created in 2010 is my favorite current example of cyber warfare.  This virus has unknown origins. However it has been rumored that it was designed by a U.S./ Israel partnership to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.

The Stuxnet virus was designed to go from the Microsoft windows operating system to an operating system created for Siemens to control and manage the production of centrifuges that Iran was procuring (illegally).  These centrifuges had their own software that was then infected.  

After the centrifuges made it to Iran the brilliance of the virus began to show itself.  While the Iranian scientists were trying to enrich uranium the centrifuges would spin erratically eliminating the possibility of concentration.  The hardware on the centrifuges was designed to show the errors however the virus was designed the cover up the error.  So the scientists didn't know why the kept failing at the enrichment process!

This virus was introduced via a flash drive after creation to an unknown computer.  It has infected 60 percent of PC's in Iran and only 1.56 percent in the U.S. even though it has the potential for many more.  

Stuxnet was not designed to cause any abnormal behavior on regular PC's. If it infects a regular computer it will sit dormant until it finds the Siemens software and then it will make its move.  

This virus has been called the first digital weapon and was a first of its kind.  

Stuxnet is Cyber warfare.

Thanks for reading!


Saturday, June 4, 2016

Rotating Image Java Android Studio

Here i have some code that i edited from http://www.viralandroid.com/ They got me lined up with the correct code concepts and i modified it to fit my needs.

This code is different from the original code in that you click the image not a button to rotate the image.

The following code allows you to click on the Android image and it will rotate 360 degrees.  This code uses xml to create the animation.

 The code was written and tested in Android Studio 2.1.1 so i know i works.

Thank you for reading and i hope i helped.  If you questions follow the instructions at the original website.

Java Code for MainActivity.java 

import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.view.animation.Animation;
 import android.view.animation.AnimationUtils;
 import android.widget.ImageButton;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {  ImageButton rotateImage;  @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); }
  public void startRotatingImage(View view) { rotateImage = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.start_rotating_button); Animation startRotateAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getApplicationContext(), R.anim.android_rotate_animation); 
rotateImage.startAnimation(startRotateAnimation); } } 


Create in folder res/anim/android_rotate_animation.xml 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <rotate android:duration="1500" android:fromDegrees="0" android:pivotX="50%" android:pivotY="50%" android:startOffset="0" android:toDegrees="360" /> </set> 


This is the activity_main.xml file 
I have it in a relative layout. 

 <ImageButton android:id="@+id/start_rotating_button" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginTop="16dp" android:src="@drawable/ic_action_name" android:onClick="startRotatingImage" /> 

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