Back of the Book

Sat, Dec 31, 2022 05:00 AM

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Hosts: R. Paul Martin & Pickles of the North

Topics:

COVID~19 cases in the whole world - 660,072,705 on Friday.
COVID~19 deaths in the whole world - 6,689,101 on Friday.
COVID~19 cases in the United States of America - 100,738,182 on Friday.
COVID~19 deaths in the United States of America - 1,092,622 on Friday.
COVID~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 2,489.
Black holes - We finished up this topic arc.
Information - Is it indestructble or is R. Paul right that information can be destroyed?
The New Year - We wished everyone a merry one.

Synopsis:

Do Black Holes Prove That Information is Indestructible?

A lot of this program was taken up with the final part of our discussion about black holes and the assertion by astrophysicists that a thought experiment involving black holes proves that information is indestructible. R. Paul talked about disagreeing with that assertion. We talked about the pandemic and we wished all of our listeners a merry new year.

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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