Back of the Book

Sat, Dec 10, 2022 05:00 AM

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Hosts: R. Paul Martin & Pickles of the North

Topics:

COVID~19 cases in the whole world - 648,475,559 on Friday.
COVID~19 deaths in the whole world - 6,651,594 on Friday.
COVID~19 cases in the United States of America - 99,397,378 on Friday.
COVID~19 deaths in the United States of America - 1,084,398 on Friday.
COVID~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 3,113.
Respect for Marriage Act - passed as amended in the House, should be signed next week.
Artemis I Project - Radio's Pickle of the North reported on the Orion spacecraft which is returning to Earth.
Cryptocurrency mining - New York State "pauses" it for two years.

Synopsis:

Same Gender Marriage, Ukraine Strikes Back, New York Pauses Crypto-Mining

We talked about New York State not permitting new cryptocurrency "mining" operations for two years. The amended Respect for Marriage Act passed the House and will be signed next week. The Artemis I Project is drawing to a successful close. R. Paul's disintegrating dental crown is cutting up his cheek.

Guests:

Guests? Guests? We don't got no guests. We don't need no stinkin' guests! -

Playlist:

Barracuda - Heart
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Info / Links:

I have a Web site.
R. Paul is on Twitter.
WBAI LSB Treasurer's Reports are here.
If you want to do something to protect your privacy while using regular browsers, like Firefox, you can check out NOSCRIPT which gives you more control over what Web sites can learn about you.
Search engines help us to find things on the World Wide Web. Most search engines exist not to help you find things but to allow the companies that provide the search service to data mine your searches and then sell your search history to clients so they can spam you. An alternative to getting your privacy compromised is to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.
If you'd like to keep your browsing history private you can get yourself the Tor Browser. Using the DuckDuckGo search engine is automatic with the Tor Browser, and by accessing the DuckDuckGo search engine from the Tor Browser you are pretty much guaranteed that no one can trace searches back to you.
Gnu Privacy Guard can help you to encrypt your data and preserve your privacy.
For those who need some help getting started with Gnu Privacy Guard there is Gentle GPG which does a lot of the work for you.
For the somewhat more advanced user who wants to protect his or her privacy there is the Tails OS. Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB flash drive or a DVD. It allows you to use any computer that will allow you to boot up off a USB flash drive or a DVD and it provides a lot of good security for your on-line activities. You can get the Tails OS here.

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