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"https://radio.garden/listen/capitalfm/EtGQtdHK" RADIO GARDEN: CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LISTEN TO THE WORLD, FROM THE LIVE BROADCASTS OF HAVANA TO ALEPPO "https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/radio-garden-listen-to-worlds-stations-aleppo-havana-london-korea-a7479031.html" Radio Garden works like any other digital radio but, in this case, the world is your tuning dial. As you turn it with your mouse, gliding between borders, over cities and towns, it crackles and tunes into every station available in the area. The project was designed by Amsterdam’s Studio Puckey and released on Monday. It lets users listen to 7,877 radio stations around the world by dragging and dropping a pointer over a 3D Google Earth interface.

Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules "https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/police-cant-force-child-porn-suspect-to-reveal-his-password-court-rules/" The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution bars people from being forced to turn over personal passwords to police, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled this week. In a 4-3 ruling, justices from Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned a lower-court order that required the suspect in a child-pornography case to turn over a 64-character password to his computer. The lower-court ruling had held that the compelled disclosure didn’t violate the defendant’s Fifth Amendment rights because of statements he made to police during questioning.

Dog owner dies after being LICKED by his pet: Healthy 63-year-old caught deadly infection from his animal's saliva "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7714499/Dog-owner-63-dies-horrific-death-LICK-pet.html" The man developed blisters all over his body He suffered from multiple organ failure, pneumonia and gangrene in his limbs Bacteria in his dog's saliva triggered sepsis and his health rapidly deteriorated Normally it's people with weak immune systems so badly affected, doctors said

Another New Form of Carbon – It’s A Weird One "https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/15/another-new-form-of-carbon-its-a-weird-one" Here’s a surprise: a report of a completely new (and rather unusual) allotrope of carbon. There doesn’t appear to be a manuscript out there yet, but the results were presented earlier this month at a conference in Richmond and earlier this year at the APS meeting, and caused a stir. Weirdly, this one appears to have properties that are best described as semi-metallic: it’s harder than stainless steel (although much lighter), electrically conductive, reflects light like a mirror, and is ferromagnetic. Those properties could turn it into a very useful industrial substance, depending on how it can be produced and worked. This work was revealed by Joel Therrien of UMass-Lowell. He was trying to produce “pentagraphene“, a predicted-but-never-observed form of carbon consisting of nothing but irregular five-membered rings. (That would be a rather odd substance, too, although there are arguments about whether it would actually be a stable form).

Seems to be about this report in "https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-1OCBC1P5&ct=190731&st=sb"

"https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/22/we-have-five-questions-about-teslas-cybertruck/" We have five questions about Tesla’s Cybertruck Now that the dust has settled, some questions stick out. Is the design final or how will Tesla have to change it to meet regulations? Tesla says the Cybertruck has a maximum range of 500 miles, but how will that change once a trailer is behind it? And what’s the size? It looks significantly longer than a full-size Ford F-150. Why does it have super glass and who does Tesla expect to buy it? How does the design need to change to meet safety regulations? There are many safety regulations throughout the world. Each market has slightly different variations. Does the current design meet these regulations? What changes are expected to meet these regulations? The tires look to stick out from the wheel-wells, and that’s not allowed. The vehicle seems to lack a pedestrian-friendly front bumper. Where are the windshield wipers and turn signals and side mirrors?

Came across the news but not the video.. seems to pack a punch..

25 Words That Are Their Own Opposites "https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their-own-opposites" Here’s an ambiguous sentence for you: “Because of the agency’s oversight, the corporation’s behavior was sanctioned.” Does that mean, "Because the agency oversaw the company’s behavior, they imposed a penalty for some transgression," or does it mean, "Because the agency was inattentive, they overlooked the misbehavior and gave it their approval by default"? We’ve stumbled into the looking-glass world of contronyms—words that are their own antonyms.

"https://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=itbj"

we hear of even 5G technology is also not secure and has issues..

How end-end encryption has been a farce in Whatsapp etc. with breaches every now & then , Wi-fi security even the latest WPA3 also with issues. so nothing is secure, encryption has to be fool-proof. But can it be?

Absolutely on the mark, when you say something, one shoudld stand with it, not do anything deceptive in the background..

A touch of 'Spanish Guitar'..

Microsoft's "Love" of Linux "http://pedrocr.pt/text/microsofts-love-of-linux/" Recently Microsoft has been making a lot of announcements and releases of technology that fall under a supposedly “Microsoft Loves Linux” type of strategy. This is particularly noteworthy given the history of Microsoft since the end of the 90s. Their internal policy was a full attack on Linux1. and they were convicted by a US court of anti-trust violations for acting out that strategy2. If they have indeed now fully turned around and now “love” Linux that would indeed be big news. Two particular strategies became famous in how Microsoft treated Linux (and also other technologies and competitors): Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD): a marketing strategy designed to discredit the technology and it’s proponents by spreading that open-source software infringes on Microsoft patents and is costlier to operate among other claims3. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish (EEE): a technical and market strategy of starting by becoming compatible with an upcoming technology only to extend its monopoly by creating incompatible extensions and using them to push out the original competitors4. To finish, this is a theory, and as any good theory needs to be falsifiable. So here are the kinds of news that would require re-evaluating it because they would definitely signal some kind of “love” for Linux: Microsoft launches Office for desktop Linux or otherwise makes the Linux Office experience go from fourth-rate6 to first-rate (e.g., by making Office a web-only product accessible from any standards-compliant browser). DirectX, Win32 and other Windows-only APIs are dropped. New apps opt-in to a brave new world of .NET/Vulkan/etc that can be equally run on Linux and old apps run in backwards compatibility mode like DOS apps. Active Directory and associated technologies are released as 1) a set of closed source containers or VMs to be launched in the Linux cloud of your choice and 2) a fully featured open-source client stack that plugs into standard Linux technologies allowing corporate admins to manage Windows and Linux clients with the same tools I think all of these would be strategic blunders from the point of view of Microsoft shareholders. But they’re the kind of things you do for love.

hmm.. All with one mission, to target user activity with different mktg. strategies..

The Trouble with VPN and Privacy Review Sites "https://blog.privacytools.io/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-reviews/" There's a massive problem in the privacy world. Websites, social media accounts, and other platforms are constantly popping up out of nowhere, telling you to buy The Greatest Service Ever in order to solve all your privacy woes, whatever that may be. These websites often employ marketing teams to make sure their "reviews" are what you see first when you begin your research. Some of them are even operated by VPN providers themselves, operating under anonymous business entities to hide their bias, or doing it right out in the open, hoping you'll mistake their advertising-filled press releases and blogs as insider knowledge of the VPN space. When a seemingly "unbiased review" on a site is merely a paid advertisement in disguise, that website is breaking their reader's trust. From a consumer's point of view, affiliate marketing and other paid promotional techniques like this make it near impossible to know when a review is genuine or not. Furthermore, their list includes NordVPN, a company notable for not disclosing security breaches in a timely fashion, and ExpressVPN, a provider notable for once using weak 1024-bit encryption keys to protect their users. By any objective standard, these providers do not deserve to be included in a top 10 recommendations list for securing anybody's information. This review site in particular claims to have set criteria for their recommendations, but this just demonstrates that any criteria can be adjusted to fit any goal you may have.

So, it's a hopeless situation, with no end. So, no trusting what ever one may say, the techies with 'crocodile tears' may come up with.

Then why not bring in laws / acts to make it reality and adherence by the techies?

A million dollar question.. if such a possibility exists, it would have been in place way back..

source - RD

readersdigest1119.mp3

Audio Reading Service Podcast A service of the Allen County Public Library specifically designed for and directed to people who have visual, physical, learning or language challenges to reading normal printed materials. Reader’s Digest – November 19, 2019 This week’s Reader’s Digest. Updated every Tuesday. "https://audioreadingservicepodcast.com/2019/11/19/readers-digest-november-19-2019/"

In recent years, the United States has been either the world's largest or second largest exporter of pork and pork products, with exports averaging over 20 percent of commercial pork production in most years. China is the No. 2 buyer of U.S. pork. In 2017, it imported $1.07 billion worth of pork meat, based on U.S. government data compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.