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It is said, that was their plan. Luciferians were rumored to have said they wanted to get rid of the Bible without destroying it. It was not, get rid of Christian religion...by say...exposing the misdeeds of priests.

How would you do that...get rid of the Bible without destroying it?

In a conversation last night, it occurred to me.

Before radio and television...and now the internet, books were the biggest influencers. One could argue the Bible was the biggest influencing book. As technology trickles in with first the radio and now the internet, the influence of books are diminishing. So, if that is what the Luciferians were talking about, is some technology the work of them?

As a side note:

The curiosity occurred to me while listening to a show about the invention of television. It is fine that they invented the television and put it on the market for people to buy. But, television required antennas to receive waves from television stations. So in other words, somebody had to actually build television stations first before putting televisions on the market. That would indicate that whoever was involved with that technology would have had to known that tv's would be a huge thing...they would have had to had a bunch of recorded videos to broadcast, and they would have had to had a lot of money. It is almost like the chicken or the egg scenario...what came first? It was a revolutionary move for society...as is the internet today....which is equally compelling with its inception.

....steering us away from The Book.

An old man took his phone to a repair shop.
Technician: Nothing is wrong with this phone
Old man with tears in his eyes said. Then why DONT my children ever call me?

This 'effective power' text will make your friend's iPhone crash if you send it to them - here's how to protect your own phone
Apple have warned about the 'effective. Power' text, which causes your phone to shut down, and has advised on how to safeguard against itThis is a surefire way to annoy all your friends- a bug in the Apple operating system means that if you send this text to your friends, it will reset their phone.
The string of characters are really specific, but if you copy and paste it into a text, it will turn their phone off.
Only the people who know the characters will be able to send it to their friends, and once they do, the phone will crash.
It only works if you send it to someone who also has an iPhone. It won't work if you or the recipient has a Windows or Android phone.
• Apple releases fix for effective power iPhone crash prank
People on Twitter have found the prank funny and are using it to bug their friends.
effective. Power ?????????????????? ? ?h ? ? ? Send that to someone with an iPhone it turns their phone offBy Helena Horton

For years, I've been reading about Amazon making deliveries by drone. For the record, it's not perfected yet. Good idea or not, something on a large scale must get the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which is the same government agency that hasn't allowed flying cars. Remember those?
I'm reading some drone companies have plane-like aircraft that drop their cargo from 10 to 12 feet and not land to release the package. Tell that to your Rolex vendor.

People who make flying cars often depict someone stuck in traffic and like a transformer, opening wings and taking to the sky. Read my lips: It ain't happening.
Airplanes (real or converted cars) have to get approval from a flight tower and have a prescribed flight plan... with the exception of a crop duster in Kansas, they all have to be 'on the radar' and takeoff and land from a runway. That includes manned drones.

While Amazon drones have great merit, you cannot fill the sky with drones dropping $200 Yeazy sneakers across town. What are they good for? In my opinion, special emergency authorization like a 20 minute direct flight transporting a heart (on ice) to a hospital 50 miles away where an ambulance transport could be more than one hour getting through one busy city to another busy city. Just like an ambulance helicopter transport, a designated heli-pad is where the package would be received. Logically, there would need to be a fast charge station for the return flight.

Drone on...

Saves Millions Of Lives

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.

WOW...Connecting Singles is a "used to be thing".
When someone has to maneuver reading or reply & try to put it somewhere to have it read.
I think it is highly overdone when the the site seems desperate to claim such huge ads. Are they broke?? They can`t realize why we singles are here? And they were once doing so good!!
I`m so sad they go to this length to cover or discover our mail. I really am hating this new stuff.
Answer how you feel. Will complaining do? (at least to make the ads smaller).
Nessie G

Are you skeptical/sceptical about some new inventions or technology yet to come? Don’t be but if you insist, don’t talk about it too much. Some very bright and knowledgeable people made colossal fools of themselves in the past. Don’t let the same happen to you.

I have a few examples here for you, in the reverse sequence that it happened, of how people have made giant arseholes of themselves. Many of them were proved wrong with-in their own lifetimes. Bill Gates and Ken Olsen were proved wrong within ten years, Lord Kelvin in two years and Admiral William Leahy swallowed his words within months.

"640k ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson, founder, chairman & president of DEC, 1977

"Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Producer Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946

"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives."
U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
IBM chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

"A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere."
The New York Times, 1936

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Milliken, 1923

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
David Sarnoff's associates during the 1920s.

"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value."
General Marechal Foch, Professor of Strategy. Circa 1910

"Everything that can be invented has already been invented."
Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

"Radio has no future, x-rays are clearly a hoax and the aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-99

"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
An internal Western Union memo, 1876

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

"Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."
Boston Post, 1865

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!"
Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859

My advice – Don’t comment on future technology.


A great day to ya all.

Totally useless

Rookie errors make it child's play to decrypt data

The encryption systems used in Western Digital's portable hard drives are pretty pointless, according to new research. It appears anyone getting hold of the vulnerable devices can easily decrypt them.

WD's My Passport boxes automatically encrypt data as it is written to disk and decrypt the data as it is read back to the computer. The devices use 256-bit AES encryption, and can be password-protected: giving the correct password enables the data to be successfully accessed.

Now, a trio of infosec folks – Gunnar Alendal, Christian Kison and "modg" – have tried out six models in the WD My Passport family, and found blunders in the software designs.

For example, on some models, the drive's encryption key can be trivially brute-forced, which is bad news if someone steals the drive: decrypting it is child's play. And the firmware on some devices can be easily altered, allowing an attacker to silently compromise the drive and its file systems.

"We developed several different attacks to recover user data from these password-protected and fully encrypted external hard disks," the trio's paper [slides PDF] states.

"In addition to this, other security threats are discovered, such as easy modification of firmware and on-board software that is executed on the user's PC, facilitating evil maid and badUSB attack scenarios, logging user credentials, and spreading of malicious code."

My Passport models using a JMicron JMS538S micro-controller have a pseudorandom number generator that is not cryptographically secure, and merely cycles through a sequence of 255 32-bit values. This generator is used to create the data encryption key, and the drive firmware leaks enough information about the state of the random number generator for this key to be recreated, we're told.

"An attacker can regenerate any DEK [data encryption key] generated from this vulnerable setup with a worst-case complexity of close to 240," the paper states.

"Once the DEK [data encryption key] is recovered, an attacker can read and decrypt any raw disk sector, revealing decrypted user data. Note that this attack does not need, nor reveals, the user password."

Drive models using a JMicron JMS569 controller – which is present in newer My Passport products – can be forcibly unlocked using commercial forensic tools that access the unencrypted system area of the drive, we're told.

Drives using a Symwave 6316 controller store their encryption keys on the disk, encrypted with a known hardcoded AES-256 key stored in the firmware, so recovery of the data is trivial.

It must be stressed that the flaws are in WD's software running on these microcontrollers, rather than the chips themselves.

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