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Advanced Data Recovery on Linux
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It’s the perfect nightmare and everyone do all his best to avoid it but sooner or later it happens.
Loosing data from a hard disk or a USB device is more common than you can image and everyone has experienced it!
Windows has different commercial solutions available to recover data and partitions but, if you use Linux, you need something different.
The best solution I found for Linux is an old but current article by Lifehacker.au that I strongly recommend if you are experiencing this kind of problems and want to solve them.
Software to Record Linux Tutorials by Matt via 
“My question: what apps do you use to record/stream your desktop while using your camera to insert your face live on the bottom right of your screen?”
Referendum 2016 in Italy – Update
Today it is allowed to publish the forecast….
Forecast data analysis will come soon..
Referendum 2016 in Italy – Forecast
As for the USA Presidential Forecast I used my algorithm with some (better: many) needed changes to adapt it to the Italian Referendum scenario.
Today, it is not possible to publish the results due to the Italian laws about referendum but I created a .png file that shows them. Then I obtained an on-line timestamp by http://www.originstamp.org/ and so I will be able to publish the .png forecast file tomorrow proving exactly when I created it.
Moreover, I published a Tweet with the file hash of that .png file in order to publicly prove it:
5ea2eaf69dcf2188d0d721a07628d5cd5b647ff965621137e861766a4ab6f49e https://t.co/HAMCyXLzj5 via @OriginStamp
— Galigio (@galigio) December 3, 2016
Meanwhile, let me publish just some data about the main referendum hashtags trends on 11/15/2016 and today:
Credit: http://www.ritetag.com – 11/15/2016
Credit: http://www.ritetag.com – 12/03/2016
The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz by via 
“…Cambridge Analytica, has been using Facebook as a tool to build psychological profiles that represent some 230 million adult Americans…
…No data point is very informative on its own, but profiling voters, says Cambridge Analytica, is like baking a cake. “It’s the sum of the ingredients,” its chief executive officer, Alexander Nix, told NBC News…
…It didn’t have to build everything from scratch. Mark Zuckerberg and others had already built the infrastructure the campaign needed to reach voters directly…”
Credit: danielforstyth.me
12 Light and Fast PC Operating System For Old PC, Laptop and Tablet by Devendra via 
“If your computer having problems or lags while using Windows operating systems, you’ll discover some fast and lightweight OS in this article. There is another post where we discussed best alternative operating systems that are not specifically for old PC’s”
Facebook’s Ad Targeting Is Under Scrutiny About Whether It Allows Discrimination – ProPublica suggests illegality – by via 
“… Christian Martinez, Facebook’s head of multicultural, posted a response to the article.
“A nonprofit that’s hosting a career fair for the Hispanic community can use Facebook ads to reach people who have an interest in that community. And a merchant selling hair-care products that are designed for black women can reach people who are most likely to want its products,” he wrote.
“That merchant also may want to exclude other ethnicities for whom their hair care products are not relevant—this is a process known in the ad industry as “exclusion targeting.”…”
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In my personal opinion, this could mean:
but potentially also…..
That’s a dilemma!
Customer Relationship Automation Is the New CRM by Clara Shih via 
“…Artificial intelligence and decision-support algorithms that can offer data-driven suggestions will unleash a new level of productivity among workers, allowing everyone to focus on what matters and to continually help one another improve.
Turning this into reality may be closer than you think, thanks to machine learning and predictive data engines…”
Faking Your Death Online Is a Lot Harder Than It Used to Be by Roisin Kiberd via 
“…But pseudocides are rarer in recent times. “Vanishing” oneself is more difficult; the world is simply too small a place now, connected as it is by social media and the surveillance it entails….”
“…Let’s say you are hiding in Japan, and a tourist takes a photo where you’re in the background,” he told me. “The photo is uploaded to social media and a week later, a cop uploads your photo into a facial recognition site like TinEye [a reverse-image search engine]. Boom—you’re busted, because TinEye will find your photo online…”
Computer Borders 