ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TOR
Old English torr, probably of Celtic origin; compare Scottish Gaelic torr pile, Welsh twr.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOR»
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Words of Radiance: The Stormlight Archive Book Two
From the bestselling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series comes a new, original creation that matches anything else in modern fantasy for epic scope, thrilling imagination, superb characters and sheer addictiveness ...
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Mohammed: The Man and his Faith
Originally published in 1936. This volume discusses the Islamic faith in the perspective of the ancient Arabian monotheism and its similarities with Christianity and Judaism.
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Geographic Information Systems: An Introduction
If readers can master what is in this volume, they will be well started on this enterprise.
This is the tale of Lars, a Swedish boy, raised in an all-male orphanage without ever seeing even pictures of women, adopted into a new household with enthusiastic siblings and an energetic foster-mother.
After getting lost on Halloween night when he is only a few months old, an intelligent seven-toed kitten makes his way into the life of a struggling musician.
This work is an intriguingly written work of fiction which will captivate the reader. While visiting his distant relative Ingrid Fletcher, Hugh Drapier, a Highland Scot, asks her to take him to the unusual rock formation called Devil's Tor.
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Firstborn: A
Tor.Com Original
But the life Dennison is forced to live will have its surprising lessons to impart… Brandon Sanderson’s novels include Elantris, the Mistborn series (Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages), Warbreaker, and the several ...
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Structure, Function and Regulation of
TOR complexes from ...
There has been an explosion of knowledge in this area in recent years and this volume provides an in-depth review of our current knowledge of TOR complexes by the leaders in the field. * Contributions from leading authorities * Informs and ...
"Montague, an artistic young rat living beneath the streets of New York City, thinks he can do nothing to save his friends from extermination until he achieves a better understanding of both himself and his ne'er-do-well uncle"--Source ...
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Digital Phase Modulation
The last ten years have seen a great flowering of the theory of digital data modulation. This book is a treatise on digital modulation theory, with an emphasis on these more recent innovations.
John B. Anderson, Tor Aulin, Carl-Erik Sundberg, 1986
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOR»
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tor is used in the context of the following news items.
New attack on Tor can deanonymize hidden services with surprising …
Computer scientists have devised an attack on the Tor privacy network that in certain cases allows them to deanonymize hidden service websites with 88 ... «Ars Technica, Jul 15»
Researchers claim they've developed a better, faster Tor
Tor, the world's largest and most well-known "onion router" network, offers a degree of anonymity that has made it a popular tool of journalists, dissidents, and ... «Ars Technica, Jul 15»
Police Standoff on Little Tor Road
At approx. 7:15 p.m. this evening, a resident of 67 N. Little Tor Road in New City reported to the Clarkstown Police Department that she had been threatened by ... «Patch.com, Feb 15»
Tor pedo torpedoed: Ex-US cybersecurity guru jailed for 25 years in …
DeFoggi's sentence is the harshest yet imposed on any of those involved with the specific Tor hidden website in question, which was shut down by the FBI in ... «The Register, Jan 15»
Tor de farce: NSA fails to decrypt anonymised network
An 18-page, redacted file (PDF) dated 13 June 2011, for example, goes into tantalising detail about "A potential technique to deanonymise users of the TOR ... «The Register, Dec 14»
Tor users' IP addresses can be identified by exploiting routers
The fact that feds have seized Silk Road 2.0 and a bunch of other shady websites hiding behind Tor's technology proves that the browser doesn't provide the ... «Engadget, Nov 14»
Riot police deployed after violence against refugees in Rome
The working-class neighbourhood of Tor Sapienza has seen several days and nights of violence against refugees by residents who blame foreigners for crimes. «The Guardian, Nov 14»
Law enforcement seized Tor nodes and may have run some of its own
In a blog post written on November 9, Tor Project director Andrew Lewman went over the possible ways that over 400 hidden services on dozens of servers were ... «Ars Technica, Nov 14»
How Did The FBI Break Tor?
But how exactly did law enforcement take their digital blow torches to the Dark Web sites that were using Tor anonymity software to protect themselves? «Forbes, Nov 14»
Facebook just created a new Tor link for users who wish to remain …
Facebook just took the surprising step of adding a way for users of the free anonymizing software Tor to access the social network directly. Tor is an open source ... «The Verge, Oct 14»
