Temple Mount Secured for Jewish Holiday
AP reports, "Police prevented dozens of ultranationalist Jews from entering a contested holy site Thursday...The hilltop, once home to two biblical Jewish Temples, is now the location of the Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine. Thursday was the annual day of fasting and mourning for the destruction of the Temples by invading armies." :: This report is a bit late, but I did want to note it. Activity on and around the Temple Mount is always prophetically important.
Friday, August 08, 2003
Google News Alerts
This is just a quick aside, but those of you who follow the news (and you would not be here if you didn't) may be interested in this new service from the good folks at Google. All you have to do is give them a topic you want to follow, tell them how often you want to get an alert, and then give them your e-mail address, and they will then alert you everytime your keyword is mentioned in online news.
This is just a quick aside, but those of you who follow the news (and you would not be here if you didn't) may be interested in this new service from the good folks at Google. All you have to do is give them a topic you want to follow, tell them how often you want to get an alert, and then give them your e-mail address, and they will then alert you everytime your keyword is mentioned in online news.
Thursday, August 07, 2003
Believer Murdered, Pastor Clubbed in South India
Christian Aid Mission reports, "Hindu extremists clubbed a Christian believer to death in Karnataka state recently, beat another pastor till he was unconscious, and then hindered relatives from conducting Christian burials. Even though Karnataka itself does not yet have an anti-conversion law, the presence of an anti-conversion law adopted last fall in neighboring Tamil Nadu-and similar laws in four northern states of Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh-is thought to have lent a permissive atmosphere for such violence."
Christian Aid Mission reports, "Hindu extremists clubbed a Christian believer to death in Karnataka state recently, beat another pastor till he was unconscious, and then hindered relatives from conducting Christian burials. Even though Karnataka itself does not yet have an anti-conversion law, the presence of an anti-conversion law adopted last fall in neighboring Tamil Nadu-and similar laws in four northern states of Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh-is thought to have lent a permissive atmosphere for such violence."
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
Stealing The Internet
The Tom Pain public interest journal reports, "The Internet as we know it is being hijacked, warn two leading digital democracy defenders. If telecom giants have their way, Americans will soon be paying for net use by volume, and every move will be part of a grand marketing scheme." The marketing bothers me, of course, I hate pop up ads as much as the next guy, but what really worries me is the monitoring that is required for advertisers to set rates and for businesses to assess the value of a web property. They have a monetary interest in knowing who is visiting a web site, and when, and from where. It will be increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to surf the Internet anonymously. The tools that corporations use to monitor the Internet can also be used by governments, both benign and totalitarian.
The Tom Pain public interest journal reports, "The Internet as we know it is being hijacked, warn two leading digital democracy defenders. If telecom giants have their way, Americans will soon be paying for net use by volume, and every move will be part of a grand marketing scheme." The marketing bothers me, of course, I hate pop up ads as much as the next guy, but what really worries me is the monitoring that is required for advertisers to set rates and for businesses to assess the value of a web property. They have a monetary interest in knowing who is visiting a web site, and when, and from where. It will be increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to surf the Internet anonymously. The tools that corporations use to monitor the Internet can also be used by governments, both benign and totalitarian.
A New Era for PGP
ZD reports, "Speaking at the Black Hat security conference in Vegas, PGP pioneer Phil Zimmermann says the dark times are over for the encryption software." This may be merely an interesting tech article for those of us in the West, but for missionaries working in repressive countries like China, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab and Islamic world, the privacy of e-mail communication may be a matter of life and death. If your church is sending missionaries to places where the enemy rules, make sure they are equipped with the latest in e-mail security software.
ZD reports, "Speaking at the Black Hat security conference in Vegas, PGP pioneer Phil Zimmermann says the dark times are over for the encryption software." This may be merely an interesting tech article for those of us in the West, but for missionaries working in repressive countries like China, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab and Islamic world, the privacy of e-mail communication may be a matter of life and death. If your church is sending missionaries to places where the enemy rules, make sure they are equipped with the latest in e-mail security software.
Monday, August 04, 2003
Keychain Drives Store Files Smartly
AP reports, "In our rich media world of digital music and photography, flash memory has replaced the floppy disk as king of portable storage. The market is now flush with a bazaar of key chain storage devices that use it." Portable memory for your Trib Force, and who knows, perhaps those Saudi customs officials won't know your keychain contains a Bible.
AP reports, "In our rich media world of digital music and photography, flash memory has replaced the floppy disk as king of portable storage. The market is now flush with a bazaar of key chain storage devices that use it." Portable memory for your Trib Force, and who knows, perhaps those Saudi customs officials won't know your keychain contains a Bible.
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