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I don't play or copy CD's DVD's or Blueray discs and have avoided programs that allow you to save those forms of media to another system. I saw one available for free today on give away of the day dot com.
One of my clients is in the business of total home automation where lights, appliances, window shades can be controlled via an iPhone. That includes TV's and sound system throughout the house. He has software that allows him to copy any DVD, including protected ones and migrate those movies to a huge hard drive so the clients total library is accessible and they don't have to flip DVD's to watch movies.

Since I'm avoiding Geekdom, much of that process uses ISO files. A quick read says it's a compressed single file of the contents of data or possibly an operating system. So copying an entire DVD to one ISO file so it can be played directly from the system without having to play the DVD.

Most of the people I know who are deeply into streaming, have Netflix or some other service so they pull whatever video they want via internet to see from a huge library. Unless they have a big collection of movies, they probably bypassed the ISO phase.

I'll probably read a little more for the knowledge as I'm told you can copy an entire Windows operating system to ISO for future retrieval.

What's the best way to produce electricity at home , does anybody have a solar system for home ?

Anybody know about a dating site call Mingle2.com? Two weeks ago I sign with that site and now I can't delete my account. The site is full of scammers and spammers.

People Lineup to Get Microchips Implanted in their Hands! Mark of Beast is On Its Way Here!

by Power Point Paradise • November 24, 2014 •

By Lisa Haven

Major! People are lining up to get implanted! Wow! We all knew it was coming but did we realize how fast! A man by the name of Martijn Wismeijer has been able to store Bitcoins inside his body through a 12mm glass computer chip implanted in his flesh, but he’s not alone! Others are lining up receiving personalized alarm clocks and keyless doors that they can operate from a chip inside their bodies. Here is the breaking report by Ricky Scaparo…

Also if you haven’t seen this check out the Mark of the Beast Prototype that Motorola rolled out…

“He [The False Prophet] causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:16-17

VeriChip (now known as PostiveID) meets all the criteria that could give the Antichrist the ability to ‘mark’ every human being and prevent them from buying or selling anything. VeriChip is a RFID microchip that can be inserted into human flesh. Today it is used to microchip people who have medical conditions and will be used under Obamacare. It is the same technology used to tag animals to help reunited a pet with its owner. In October of 2004 it was cleared by the Food & Drug Administration. According to the VeriChip website RFID solutions are currently in use in over 5,000 installations worldwide including: healthcare, security, government, industrial markets, and more.

The Bible declares anyone receiving this ‘mark of the beast’ will get the Wrath of God..

“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” Revelation 14:9-1

According to the Bible anyone who receives the mark will drink the wrath of God and the smoke of their torment will rise up forever and ever!
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(If you're wondering if someone who has received the mark, then receives Jesus, will be raptured? Yes, God's mercy endures forever! But why wait?! ... for the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth, faithfulness, and kindness to all generations. Psalm 100:1-5; 136:1; 2 Chronicles 7:3)


PowerPointParadise TFI (Video Posted)

A Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) monitors the pressure in a cars tires and should it drop below a certain safe point, an icon on the dashboard will light up. This is a warning should a tire take a nail and lose air as driving on a flat can destroy a tire, especially the ones with a low profile.

Temperature changes will make air expand and contract and 2 cold mornings in South Florida (below 50F) made the warning light come on. A few minutes of driving and the tires warmed up increasing the pressure and the warning light went off.

The pressure is probably at the low reading so I'll top off with more air later today.

Who invented it?
Who owns it?
How does it work? (what makes it possible)

I was talking with a gentleman the other night. Out of nowhere he starts talking about today's society. He says in his opinion, we were introduced to too much technology, too soon.

What do you think?

Friday... 6pm and I'm unable to get any YouTube videos to play.
Checking my bandwidth connection and 3 sites confirmed I'm getting downloads greater than 50mbps.
C'mon YouTube, I've got some new helicopter gear and need to see a few setup tutorials.
It's dinner time... people get off the internet!

The 25 year period following 1990 was characterized by rapid advances in the field of information technology. It was very much like the early days of the railroad.

Every few years a new locomotive was build which was bigger, better and stronger than its predecessors. Only computers developed much faster. Every few months a new computer hit the market that was smaller, stronger and faster. And with it came bigger hard drives, more memory and more powerful new software.

Information that was almost unobtainable previously, is now available with a few mouse clicks, admittedly not always accurate, but available.

How long before odors and tastes too will be digitized? Imagine watching the Grand Prix on TV, getting the smell of burned tires and exhaust fumes in your nostrils.

How long will it be before knowledge will be downloaded directly from the human brain to be saved on a storage device for later use. Think of the advantages if such knowledge (and even experience) could be uploaded to another brain. Need to learn a new language? No problem, just slip in another disc. Schools will become an outdated concept overnight. No longer will an Einstein’s knowledge perish with the brain.

But this is not limited to humans only. What if your new puppy could be uploaded with a complete set of doggie manners? Think of the brand new practice of slavery if baboons could be uploaded with the knowledge to perform useful tasks.

A bit far fetched you may think but maybe not so, considering that as recent as fifty years ago, the marvels that we now accept as the norm in computers were deemed to be impossible.

Something is only impossible until somebody figures out a way how to do it.

May you all have a marvelous day.

I have an added feature with my phone carrier to notify me of potential spam calls and an enhanced blocking feature. For some reason my good friend John gets added to the blocked list. Several calls to tech support gets him removed and minutes later... he's back to being blocked!

My call was transferred from the carrier to Samsung's tech support where I installed an app allowing them to do diagnostics remotely on my phone. They couldn't find John on the blocked caller list so it must be a glitch. According to Samsung, the cure was to go back to the carrier and get a new SIM card.

A second after I entered the store, the salesman asked if he could help. I explained my friend keeps getting blocked on my phone and that Samsung said I need a new SIM card.

Immediately I detected an attitude... he said that wasn't the problem and that I needed to buy a new phone. After we went through the identification verification, he got the tool to remove the SIM and I said "The phone is still on!"
That didn't stop him from removing the SIM and inserting a new one while the phone was powered up.

Flipping screens on my phone and his tablet to enter the new number scanned from the card holder, he was back and forth a few times removing and reinstalling the SIM. All attempts were unsuccessful as the phone reported no SIM installed, when one was in the phone. He removed it again and installed the old SIM and got the same message.

At that point... he told me my phone was broken. I asked his name, SNATCHED MY PHONE FROM HIS HAND, said "Have a nice day" and walked out of the store.

Ya think I was pissed?

There's another store 5 miles away, so I went there.

Explaining the salesman (at the first store) 'hot swapped' the SIM on my phone. The new guy knew exactly what I was talking about. He scanned the card, installed a new SIM, powered up the phone and all was well.



I cannot recall how many times my phones have had SIM card changes in the last 25 years and EVERY time it was done with the phone turned off.

Basically, removing the SIM while the phone was on, damaged it, installing a new SIM while the phone was on, damaged it too.

John isn't on my blocked list anymore.

I'm happy that the issue was only with the SIM cards and thankful that it didn't damage my phone or the SD memory that shares the same tray.

Not rocket science...

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