Thursday, March 31, 2016

Linux, Windows turns upside down on cyber world “- IDG.se

Now it has thus taken place. Linux, Microsoft has been presented, even if there is the name used. It should be possible to run applications designed for Ubuntu Linux directly in Windows without recompilation. In addition, several symbolic tools from the Linux world to become available on Windows, the command prompt Bash.

I do not know if you understand how revolutionary this is. It’s like vectors in Java would begin indexed on one.

Still, not all details known about how it will work with Linux applications on Windows, for example, if indeed any program that works on Ubuntu Linux will to run, but there are still so many interesting aspects of this launch.

to begin with, it can be said that Microsoft and Canonical, the Ubuntu company, must have worked intensively on this project for quite a while, securely over a year. It is really incredible that no more information has leaked out.

Read also: So Microsoft should integrate Linux and Bash in Windows 10

Since you may wonder how much cred Ubuntu in general, and Canonical, in particular, will have left in the purist Linux, open source and free software circles after this. Not much, I think. Talk about selling his soul. Faust and Robert Johnson is, to put it mildly, out of the wind.

I guess Richard Stallman is in her bed and foam at the mouth right now. Or he is in good spirits because the doomsday prophecies that he uppmålat at conferences around the world is about to come true.

If we are to become a little more business-related, we can think about what Microsoft’s Linux Focus will really mean in practice for customers and users.

Will all Windows servers in the world to begin to run Linux programs now? No, of course not. But just knowing that there is a possibility it will eliminate a lot of doubts about investing in Microsoft technology. In addition, it will be easier to recruit IT professionals and system administrators who can bring their skills across platforms.

As for Bash should command line luster not be underestimated. Many are the painstaking ihopknopade scripts as the basis for a large part of the world’s IT solutions, will now be available for Windows. Although not all are suitable to run in the Windows environment so it is a big deal. Add to it that the supply of software for Windows becomes larger, which in some cases may be very important.

We can also reflect on the real reasons that Microsoft is investing in Linux. I really believe that there are a large number of Microsoft employees who have genuinely noble reasons to do this. With that said, you need not be particularly conspiratorial combined to find more sinister motivations for Microsoft.

Conspiracy theory number one is that it is a Microsoft plan to lure and lock, Linux users with technology that fundamentally is proprietary. It can definitely be a result of investing in Linux à la Microsoft, but it is difficult to say how much weight, if any, Microsoft adds that possibility.

Read also: Universal apps have been difficult to attract developers – but Microsoft will not give up

Conspiracy theory number two is that it is a sign that mentally Microsoft has released its focus on Windows, once and for all. Windows is now so unimportant to Microsoft that you do not care about that sullied with something that not long ago was seen as a cancer.

A more balanced theory is that Linux on Windows shows that Microsoft’s focus now located in the cloud, not on traditional architectures. And then it is obvious that minor differences between platforms easier for everyone, both customers and suppliers.

Boring theory is that IT developments have left the phase in which the operating system sets the agenda. They simply relegated to a level that you do not care very much about.

Anyway, it’s fun to be a cyber-journalist right now. The question is how much fun it is to be it customer, at a time when the options are increasing day by day.

Another question is what is the next step for Microsoft. I hardly dare guess. Android as the default OS on the Surface?

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Leaders: The school must make up the sample terror – Dagens Industri

How the investigator in the report “Equal, legally secure and efficient – a new national system for assessment of knowledge” that yesterday was submitted to the Education Minister Gustav Fridolin and secondary Minister AIDA HADZIALIC.


But it
is the test of democracy, perhaps no optimal system, but no one has yet been any better. It is not certain that it was so appropriate to abolish the examinations, in large parts of Europe they are still living in various forms. In the Netherlands, students do not move up to the next level if they have not passed the exams in all subjects. Examinations are based on an understanding that no one is served by authorized and have acquired skills.

     “The national samples weight grades should be regulated.”
     
   

The investigator’s task is primarily been to revise the national samples role. The proposal is to remove the national tests in grades 3, let them remain in Grades 6, 9 and high school, but only in English, maths and Swedish. The samples will be digitized and corrected externally, and its connection to the grade should be “special consideration”.

high time for the digitization and external, or better still central, the correction is naturally when the samples become digital. It is also good if not only considered but regulated the weight of the samples should have the grades. But rather than fewer national tests, we should have more, and more topics. They can replace other larger sample, other teachers can work on homework tests.

There have been one opinion among teachers that national tests “are stealing too much teaching time”, the President of the Teachers Union wrote in Svenska Dagbladet debate Wednesday. It is a remarkable sight that the samples are decoupled from, and the distractions of, education. If they are considered completely incompatible have to consider either the education or samples design.

Teachers Union also believes to their workload must be reduced. It would help if you rehire support staff gradually reduced over the decades, as counselors and school nurses. We should also extend the school year, the time when the children needed to be available to help in agriculture is long past.

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Bjorklund: Red-Green are terrified of samples – Expressen

Jan Björklund accusing Gustav Fridolin to be the government’s “fuzzy Minister”.

– In the red-green school policy is to terrified of tests and grades, he argues.

the Minister of Education responds with a laugh:

– Björklund are old enough to remember the television program “Have you heard this before?” …

the background to the new pajkastningen between former education minister Jan Björklund (L) and his successor Gustav Fridolin (MP) is the investigation of a new national system for assessment of knowledge , which was submitted to the Government on Thursday.

the investigator Tommy Lagergren proposes that the national tests in year three will be replaced by “mandatory national diagnostic assessment support.”

– this proposal is really bad. Of all the educational reforms that alliance government implemented it is my assessment that this is the most important, to early to have a large and wide track of what students have learned so that you can put into using and steps for those who can not keep up, says Jan Björklund continues:

– remove national tests are examples of the red-green fuzzy school policy which is terrified of tests and grades.

But according Gustav Fridolin, Jan Björklund deliberately misunderstood investigator conclusions.

– We will of course introduce a reading-writing-arithmetic guarantee for the early years and it will contain samples. Samples are necessary. But to administer copying of the national tests and correction of the data that a computer just as well be correct, it is unnecessary administration. It steals time from the teacher, and the time goes by students.

According to Fridolin, he and Bjorklund actually agreed that the national tests are important and should be retained.

– It’s how they should be implemented, when and with what purpose. Today there is a mess in this. I can also remind Mr. Bjorklund that it was he who gave Tommy Lagergren asked to look at this.

Jan Björklund again:

– Tests and grades are not unnecessary administration. It is an important part of teaching in every national school systems throughout the world.

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Kass’ robot played home millions in poker – New Technology

The software was deemed play less poker than a man. Although it played the home million from a total of ten poker sites. Now freed the five men behind the robot from serious fraud.

In December 2014 convicted the five men for serious fraud in the District Court. Under the project name Maggie had developed and used a software who played poker against ordinary users in 10 different poker sites. All except the one at the Swedish Game is abroad. Ultimately, the aim was to get enough money to buy shares of a share robot.

– They had formed the company and had a local for the business. I was with the digital forensics at the massive crackdown to secure evidence held legally, says Thomas Winkler, who now works at the Armed Forces.

Thomas Winkler was a team from the National Criminal cybercrimes section that worked on the case . There was an extensive investigation.

– With 35 terabytes of data, the cyber-wise the most extensive investigation that the National Police has been involved in.

The data in the main computers that were seized were encrypted . Thomas Winkler lifted encryption in one of them. The email correspondence and other data that could then be added to the investigation revealed profits in the millions. And they had sought legal advice to see if they were doing could be illegal. Moreover, there was a power point presentation to sell the program to the people against the commission was willing to lend his name to the accounts to play.

– During my 15 years at the National Police, I have never experienced anything where you put so much energy to encrypt, says Thomas Winkler.

the conviction was appealed to the Court of Appeal which acquitted all. The Court of Appeal is based inter alia on the accused’s own data that the robot played worse than they did and they never managed to get it to take into account the psychological aspects of the game. One of them pointed out that they never managed to make programming so good that they managed to transfer all the skill they have when it comes to online poker. And call it a “classical copy” of them.

Because the source code for the program is missing, it is considered difficult to comment in detail about the software’s functionality (see box). The conclusion is that it is not about a unique system for decision support but that the software is professionally built.

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His pay 820 million – Västerbotten Courier

Affärsliv24. Last year was named Sundar Pichai to the president of the famous Google. And he got a real raise.

Google’s new president drew a juicy salary last year. If you count together both the salary paid and the shares Pichai received during the year, corresponding to an income of $ 100.5 million, equivalent to SEK 820 million, writes Business Week.

Pichai was born in Chennai in India and studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. Then he went to the US to study physics, but dropped out and became a consultant instead. Pichai joined Google in 2004 and was appointed CEO of the company in 2015. For it was he who came up with the idea that the company would take its own browser, which led to the Chrome created. Google Chrome has now passed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the most popular search engine in the US, writes Business Week.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The share who became the winner of Apple’s battle with the FBI – Business World

Japanese Sun Corporation took a big jump of 20 percent at the end of last week. Analysts connects rise to the fight between Apple and the US authorities. It writes CNBC.

A week ago it was reported that the Israeli company Cellebrite helped FBI to break into the iPhone that belonged to the perpetrator at the mass shooting in San Bernardino in December last year when 14 people died. Cellebrite is a subsidiary of the Sun Corporation, Japan.

share price for Sun Corp. jumped 20 percent on the task and continued to rise the day after. In a week’s rise 40 percent.

FBI had previously, with a court in the back, asked that Apple would help get Extracting information from the shooter’s iPhone, claims that Apple CEO Tim Cook called “chilling”. Apple has refused to create a backdoor into the system.

After the weekend announced the US Department of Justice that with the help of a third party managed unlock the phone and on Monday was the battle with Apple down. Sun Corps rate continued its upward trend in Toyko Stock Exchange on Tuesday, but fell back slightly today, Wednesday.

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Spotify opens war chest for acquisitions – Dagens Industri

Spotify loaded war chest open both new markets and acquisitions – perhaps of Tidal, or even SoundCloud. But in the longer term, cost-burdened Spotify modest margins to meet, track a leading streaming analysts.

Spotify loading checkout with $ 1 billion and sends a clear signal that the market is waiting within two years.

Read more: Spotify takes jättelån – filling with 8 billion

Giant loan suggests partly because Spotify sjävlförtroende is the upcoming stock market debut, and partly on the streaming market devours money in terms of operating costs, according to Mark Mulligan of Midia Research in the UK, who have followed the streaming industry from an analyst perspective of ten years.

“It is clear that Spotify needs a war chest,” he says. “Spotify is approaching its exit. They should be noted. They seem convinced that those with a strong note rate can repay this money pretty quickly as soon as they get the time to Wall Street investors’ money “.

Meanwhile, time is short for Spotify, which month by month look Apple Music key in terms of number of users. Six months after the launch Spotify challenger had reached 10 million paying users. Spotify has eight years on the market reached 30 million subscribers.

Comments: “Spotify is about to grow out of Sweden”

Spotify’s growth has also been depends on many new users subscribe to promotional prices, according to Mark Mulligan. For example, Daniel Ek companies offering new users a subscription to a monthly rate of $ 1 for three months, a 90 percent discount on the regular price.



The longer Spotify wait, the greater the risk that growth slows

“It Spotify need for a successful IPO is a growth story with a clear motivation. The longer they wait, the greater the risk that growth is slowing, “said Mark Mulligan.

He believes that Spotify is mainly to attract new customers in three ways: through partnerships with telecom operators, discount campaigns or by investing in emerging markets . Apple Music available on a number of major markets – including India, China, South Africa and Egypt – where Spotify has not yet established itself.

Read more: Spotify and billions – here are all the rounds so far

“But all three ways lead still to the same customer base, namely those who are interested in a subscription that eventually cost about 10 dollars a month. In most markets outside the Nordic countries is about 10 per cent of the population, “said Mark Mulligan.

Bolagsköp is another way to stoke growth as well as the listing price. Both Tidal and Swedish founded SoundCloud – which on Tuesday launched a direct competitor to Spotify – would be natural candidates, according to Mark Mulligan. But then the question is whether the money is sufficient.

“Tidal could be a good fit. They do basically what Apple Music does in that they spend money on exclusive release with world artists. But it is unclear whether the valuation would be too high, “said Mark Mulligan.

” SoundCloud might fit better. They have it difficult, is not likely to raise capital in the near future and are in desperate need of a next step. “

Read more: SoundCloud lets Spotify competitor

the new loan can also give Spotify the opportunity to continue to invest in product development. Streaming giant acquired the data analysis service Echo Nest in 2014, and in January announced two acquisitions, the voice mail service The Cord Project and the social networking service Soundwave.



Spotify has huge cost problem

Spotify has stated that 70 per cent the company’s revenue goes directly to rights holders, ie record labels and their artists. In the long term, the company has a relatively modest gross margin to be expected, trace Mark Mulligan.

“They have huge cost problems. When Spotify constitution itself as a sustainable company, they will have a gross margin of more than 5 percent. Right now Spotify losses for each user, especially those who use the service for free, while they spend big money on expansion and marketing. “

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Swedish courts warns of scam emails – Aftonbladet

The e-mails appear to come from the Swedish courts and concerns that you should appear for trial.

But that clicks can be hit by a virus and then forced to pay thousands to get their computer unlocked.

– They get into a lot of money, I can promise you, says Jan Olsson on the police national fraud center.

in recent days the messages that appear to come from the Swedish courts emailed to individuals.

” in order to confirm to the court that you have been given notice to attend the trial, you should sign and return the acknowledgment letter accompanying the notice, “reads the message.

But the emails do not come from the Swedish courts – and anyone who clicks the link may encounter a malicious virus on their computer or mobile.

– It is known as ransomware. You get up an information box on the screen where it says my files are locked, and to get the keys to unlock them you have to pay, says Jan Olsson, the preliminary investigation on the police national fraud center.

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Multi Millions

this is not the first time the method used. Last fall, spread a virus through an email that appeared to come from PostNord. People who clicked on the link were forced to pay thousands to unlock their computers or phones.

– It usually costs one-half or one bitcoin (about 1750-3500 SEK). They are relatively low sums for them to get as much money as possible – and much money, that they get in, I can promise you. The real figure is huge. I know there are many millions who have paid, overall, says Mr Olsson.



No country can investigate

On its website, warns the Swedish courts for the hoax and urges victims to report the fraud to the the police.

But according to Jan Olsson, there is not much the police can do.

– Bitcoinen can at best detect a bitcoinplånbok. But you do not know who owns it, and why is this so waterproof. To investigate this police is capable enough no country.

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Now Apple wants to have the FBI’s help – Daily News

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The FBI has locked up the phone, but Apple – 99mac

The acclaimed encryption case is closed, then the FBI managed to get into the phone without Apple’s help , using an unknown method.

the US Federal police FBI has been able to access the information in the iPhone 5C, which belonged to one of the criminals in the San Bernardino case. This has been done without Apple’s help, show documentation from a court in California that also means that the case against Apple closed down.

The Agency has not reported the details of how they behaved to get into the phone, or whether they found no relevant information there. An anonymous official source stated to CNN that it is too early to say if the method works on different iPhone models. The source could only confirm that the method worked on an iPhone 5C with the operating system IOS ninth

As 99mac previously reported, Apple has opposed the FBI’s demands for the company to develop a special version of IOS which makes it possible to circumvent the built-in security features of the system that erases the contents of the wrong passcode is pressed too many times. Last week, the FBI said that they received help from an “outside source” which was reported to be security company Cellebrite.

Apple has also released a statement to The Verge. The company does not comment on the fact that the FBI managed to circumvent the phone’s security, but writes among other things:

– From the beginning we were against the FBI: s claims that Apple would build a backdoor into an iPhone, because we felt that it was wrong and would create a dangerous precedent. As a result, the case is closed, none of this happened. This case should never have been initiated.

We will continue to help the police with their inquiries, and we will continue to enhance the safety of our products as the threats and attacks on our data becoming more common and more sophisticated.

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FBI enters the Iphone – Sveriges Radio

– Absolutely, all phones are unsafe, says Patrik Wallström.

To all encryption systems has weaknesses, they know who are familiar with security issues, says Patrik Wallström from the Internet Foundation Sweden. So he’s not very surprised that the FBI has managed to unlock a phone. While Apple is known for high security for private data.

Who Now managed to get around the guards, we do not know. FBI refers to help from a “third party” who is probably one of all private companies about doing stuff like this, says Patrik Wallström.

– You find security holes that no one else knows and so do you sell it, he said.

can one imagine that this information can also be sold, for example dictatorships?

– Absolutely, we have seen other examples. It has sold bugs to states that want to monitor their population.

The American justitiedepartementetet has previously launched a lawsuit against Apple for trying to force the company to help unlock the phone belonged to the assassin in San Bernadino. But Apple has refused.

Apple has argued that it would lead to the courts had unlimited power to force private companies to “work as their agents” in a way that harms individuals’ privacy.

the lawsuit is now down because the FBI have got hold of the information.

– We will continue to work to improve the safety of our products since the attacks on our products and data are becoming more frequent, writes Apple in a statement.

the man who shot dead 14 of their colleagues in San Bernardino in December, and his wife was later shot dead by police.

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Apple improves security for the FBI’s iPhone hack – Expressen

Apple refused to hack the iPhone that belonged to one of the people who murdered 14 people in San Bernardino, California, 2 December last year, because it would mean uncertainty for all iPhone users.

the FBI down the lawsuit against Apple after they themselves have managed to find a way to get into the phone.

Now the promises Apple to increase security for the FBI’s successful intrusion.

the FBI wanted that Apple would create a code to get into the killer’s iPhone, but the company opposed this because they feared that such a code could be used on any mobile phone of the same model . The FBI then submitted a lawsuit against the company.

Apple said in a statement that the company objected to the FBI’s demands to create a backdoor to the phone because they thought it was wrong and could create a dangerous guidance similar cases.

The phone belonged to Syed Farook who killed 14 people along with his wife Tashfeen Malik in December, 2015 when they went to the attack on a Christmas party in San Bernardino.

Now, the FBI just announced that they managed to get into the phone information without Apple’s help. Exactly how it happened remains a mystery.

According to Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder, head of security on the Internet Foundation, Sweden, are no phones safe for intrusion and she recommends anyone who owns a smartphone to take charge of its stored information.

– a phone is always possible to replace the loss of sensitive information is worse and can lead to serious consequences.

Apple believe that this is just one of many similar struggles dealing with data integrity. “Apple believes deeply that people in the United States and around the world deserve data protection, security and privacy. To sacrifice one for the second exposing only the people and countries of the greater risk,” the company said in a statement.

The company also said that they would continue to assist law enforcement with their investigations, but that the FBI would never have taken the case to court. But they also promised to increase security for the FBI’s successful intrusion, according computerweekly.com.

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The FBI does not need anymore Apple “- New Technology

The US Department of Justice managed to crack the San Bernardino-terrorist Iphone. Now do not need Apple’s help.

With the help of a third party, the American prosecutors and the FBI now successfully managed to get all the data in the iPhone 5c used by Syed Farook, who together with his wife killed 14 people at a Christmas party in San Bernardino in California last year.

There they stated on Monday in a report to the US court dealing with their request to force the phone manufacturer Apple, produce information from the terrorist’s iPhone.

Thus, prosecutors need no longer Apple help, they conclude.

the case has aroused intense debate surrounding the US government’s right to request information from the example of mobiler- where it is necessary to break into the equipment’s safety systems.

Apple refused to carry out such actions, and took the battle FBI and prosecutors, who are investigating the incident.

After that prosecutors now received the requested information announced that they were withdrawing their court request.

According to information can mirror the phone’s storage memory in order to create secure copies of the information. This allows different pin codes to open the memory is tested – without the data stored in memory.

The FBI received such technical assistance can therefore also found the correct PIN, that is, the one who Syed Farook used to use.

At the same time, according to The New York Times, unclear if there really is no data in the information that the FBI can be useful in their criminal investigation.

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FBI hacked phone without using Apple – New Technology

The US Department of Justice managed to crack the San Bernardino-terrorist Iphone. Now do not need Apple’s help.

With the help of a third party, the American prosecutors and the FBI now successfully managed to get all the data in the iPhone 5c used by Syed Farook, who together with his wife killed 14 people at a Christmas party in San Bernardino in California last year.

There they stated on Monday in a report to the US court dealing with their request to force the phone manufacturer Apple, produce information from the terrorist’s iPhone.

Thus, prosecutors need no longer Apple help, they conclude.

the case has aroused intense debate surrounding the US government’s right to request information from the example of mobiler- where it is necessary to break into the equipment’s safety systems.

Apple refused to carry out such actions, and took the battle FBI and prosecutors, who are investigating the incident.

After that prosecutors now received the requested information announced that they were withdrawing their court request.

According to information can mirror the phone’s storage memory in order to create secure copies of the information. This allows different pin codes to open the memory is tested – without the data stored in memory.

The FBI received such technical assistance can therefore also found the correct PIN, that is, the one who Syed Farook used to use.

At the same time, according to The New York Times, unclear if there really is no data in the information that the FBI can be useful in their criminal investigation.

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Monday, March 28, 2016

The United States says the unlocked iPhone without Apple – Macworld

The US Justice Department announced on Monday that they found a way to unlock an Iphone without the help of Apple, which means that they also took back the right order requiring the company to assist in investigation of a masskjutning.

the decision to drop the case – which went on to demand that Apple helped to open an iPhone use by Syed Rizwan Farook, a vapenman in San Bernardino shootings that took place in December 2015 in which 14 people were killed – means the end of the legislative deadlock that prevailed between the US government and one of the world’s most valuable company. The case has with time become increasingly contentious since Apple refused to help authorities which started a debate about whether private rights or safety are the most important.

At the same time opens judicial capacity to unlock an Iphone by alternative methods, a number of new issues, such as on the security of Apple’s products. The development of the situation also creates a potential conflict between the government and Apple relating to the methods used to open the phone and whether these techniques will be published. Apple’s lawyers have previously said that the company would like to know the procedure used to open their smartphone, but the government may classify method.

The FBI has begun investigating the contents of the phone, but as yet nothing has been said about what is found. The Department of Justice has not mentioned anything about how they managed to get into the smartphone.

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FBI hacked phone without Apple – Swedish Dagbladet

The Department of Justice has now withdrawn the requirement that the IT giant will help to unlock the phone.

“Our decision to end the lawsuit is based on the fact that we have recently, with the help of a third party, has managed to unlock iphone without compromising any information on the phone, “said the prosecutor in the San Bernardino case Eileen Decker said in a statement.

in a document submitted to the Court shows that the Justice Department has” managed to get over data (Syed) Farooks Iphone and therefore no longer need help from Apple. “

Apple has so far not commented on the information.

the court case has been going on for over a month, when a federal judge ordered Apple to make it possible to unlock a phone that belonged to Syed Farook who along with his wife shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino in December.

Apple has, with support from other iT giants like Google and Facebook, refused on the grounds that it would create a precedent that would make it impossible to protect customer privacy.

Last week, shot a legal round between the parties up since the Department of Justice stated that the FBI could possibly lock up phone using the new technology that the federal police has received information from third parties, but the first tests were needed.

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