The Upper Room gathering from Acts Chapter two in todays accepted way of doing it...

 

 

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 I received an email from a Christian organization today.

What you read above is the outline of the email with a few things changed by me to make a point,

I inserted the day of Pentecost instead of their Prophetic conference and I changed the names of their important star people who will be there.

 

Wonder if there ever would have been a Pentecost if it was trapped behind a paywall?

 

Would the wind have blown?

 

Would there have been tongues of fire?

 

Would everyone have heard their own language being spoken?

 

Would Peter's friends and family been able to pay up to gain access to the event?

2 Timothy 3New International Version (NIV)

3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

⁶ They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, ⁷ always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. ⁹ But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

A Final Charge to Timothy

¹⁰ You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, ¹¹ persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. 

 

Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. ¹² In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, ¹³ while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 

 

¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, ¹⁵ and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 

 

¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 

 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 

2 Timothy 4:3

 

Just Some Stuff

 Bill Gates has now publicly stated that Apple should cooperate with the FBI in the San Bernadino terrorist's phone unlocking case.

 He states that it is for this specific case, but seems to miss the point that there are other law enforcement officials waiting on the wings with their requests should this precedent be set. 

The war against privacy escalates. Setting aside the actual practicality of unlocking the San Bernadino phone, the teams that are emerging on this issue include some pretty strange bedfellows:

John McAfee and Bill Gates on the pro-unlocking side, and Woz, Edward Snowden and even some of the victim's families on the con.

 Bill Gates ‘Disappointed’ by Reports He Backs FBI Over Apple

Public protest

If you're counting on Apple to keep your digital information safe, you may want to think again ... at least if you live in Australia. 

Yesterday the country's two major political parties — Labor and the Coalition — voted down a motion in Federal Parliament calling for strong encryption to be supported in the wake of the FBI's demands that Apple unlock iOS. 

It appears that implementing comprehensive telephone and email retention in Australia may not have been the end of demands by law enforcement in the country.

https://placesjournal.org/article/inside-mexico-citys-c4i4-surveillance-center/ 

 Apple engineers have already begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now at the center of a court fight in California, according to people close to the company and security experts. 

If Apple succeeds in upgrading its security — and experts say it almost surely will — the company would create a significant technical challenge for law enforcement agencies, even if the Obama administration wins its fight over access to data stored on an iPhone used by one of the killers in last year's San Bernardino, Calif., rampage. 

The F.B.I. would then have to find another way to defeat Apple security, setting up a new cycle of court fights and, yet again, more technical fixes by Apple.

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The Wall Street Journal (paywalled) is reporting that the Department of Justice is seeking Apple's help in decrypting 12 other iPhones that may contain crime-related evidence. 

The cases are not identified, though a list of the 12 phones in question has come out, but it is not known what level of Apple assistance is required (i.e., how many of those cases are waiting on the FBI request for special firmware to be developed and to be used on "one more phone").

 It appears Tim Cook's assertion that hundreds of requests are waiting on this software may not be a fabrication, and the goal is not about just one phone, but to set a precedent to unlock more phones.

 As TechDirt (which also lists those 12 cases, a list which certainly does not encompass all the phones the Feds would like to peer into) puts it, "[O]nce again, Director Comey was flat out lying when he claimed the FBI has no interest in setting a precedent."

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 TIL a mason in 1700's Jerusalem left his wooden ladder behind after doing some work on a church and now it can't be moved without the agreement and permission of six different Christian leaders.

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Security Ledger has a piece that looks at the efforts of a string of startups to secure ATM transactions from skimmers and malware-based attacks. 

Step 1: get rid of the ATM card. The article profiles a couple different companies.

 One, Trusona, has technology that can uniquely identify standard issue ATM cards by analyzing the unique distribution of Barium Ferrite particles on their magnetic strips and using it to connect the card to the customer. 

The company combines that with card swipe biometrics to thwart malware-based replay attacks.

 The article also mentions upgrades that will allow banking customers in the U.S. to use a mobile application to withdraw cash from ATMs without a card or PIN, and a prototype from Diebold that combines proximity based sensing (via NFC) with iris scans to authenticate customers and authorize transactions.

 Cool as it sounds, its worth remembering that most ATM attacks are decidedly "low tech."

 A survey by the ATM Industry Association in 2015 listed "physical attacks" and those using "explosives" as the second and third most common type of ATM attack after card skimming.

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Always remember, ya got to land on the white stuff!

Ya Right...

 Buzz Aldrin spills the beans and let's the cat out of the bag skillfully in the above video...

  Between the years of 1964 and 1967 a total of 10 astronauts lost their lives in freak accidents. 

These deaths accounted for an astonishing 15% of NASA's astronaut corps.

One person's investigation.

When you are forced to live a lie, it can become overburdening.  

 http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/405042/The-Mercury-Seven-mission-astronauts-left-their-wives-depressed-and-isolated

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"The noises reportedly were heard in May 1969 by the Apollo 10 astronauts as they circled the Moon, months before the first astronauts stepped foot on the lunar surface on July 21 that same year." 

Get Informed And Survive!

Cancer causes many deaths each year, and anyone that's lost someone to cancer knows how painful and grueling it can be.

 The one saving grace is that it ultimately only kills the host.

 But is this changing?

According to several recent papers, scientists have suggested that cancer could become contagious.

Cancer cells could have the ability to metastasize, not just from organ to organ, but from person to person. While this is not an imminent threat, it has already happened in unusual circumstances.

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We Are Fast Headed For The Cashless Society Predicted Thousands Of Years Ago In The Bible By Prophets

The NYT has an interesting editorial on why getting rid of big bills will make it harder for criminals to do business and make it easier for law enforcement to detect illicit activity. 

That's why officials in Europe and elsewhere are proposing to end the printing of high-denomination bills. 

According to a recent paper from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, a stack of 500-euro notes worth $1 million weighs just five pounds and can be carried in a small bag.

Whereas a pile of $20 bills worth $1 million would weigh 110 pounds and would be much more difficult to move around. Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury secretary and former adviser to President Obama, has argued that the United States should get rid of the $100 bill. 

"The fact that in certain circles the 500 euro note is known as the "Bin Laden" confirms the arguments against it," says Sanders. "Technology is obviating whatever need there may ever have been for high denomination notes in legal commerce."

Critics who oppose such changes say the big bills make it easier for people to keep their savings in cash, especially in countries with negative interest rates. 

 Some people also prefer not to conduct transactions electronically because they fear security breaches. According to Sanders the idea of removing existing notes is a step too far but a moratorium on printing new high denomination notes would make the world a better place.

 "The United States stopped distributing $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills in 1969," concludes the NYT editorial.

"There are now so many ways to pay for things, and eliminating big bills should create few problems."