Tammie, What a brave life you’re living with Alexia in your home! I reckon you can get around the spy recording sessions by playing really loud Christian music or a sermon message in the room Alexia is in ... (perhaps the device will turn itself off or go into sleep mode) and you and your husband can talk personal business in a different room in the house. :whistle: Geri, you are too cute, I watch a lot of prophecy YouTube such as Amir, JD, Jan, and Gary. I also tell Alexia to play many of my favorite Christian songs. So all those Alexia listeners are certainly getting a witness. :amen: :bible :mdrmdr: I love it! I had no idea the device has the capability of playing prophecy youtubes and Christian songs ... that is really cool! Truly amazing how its backfiring and the Alexia listening spies are receiving the Gospel! :good: That is an interesting point you bring up mom... if you have an Alexa in your home - it could be accidentally witnessing to whoever is listening in... :mdrmdr: Especially if y’all have the conversations we have at my folks’ house! Geri, Alexa will play music for you but not YouTube unless integrated into a smart tv. However, my folks watch a lot of YouTube prophecy videos and Alexa overhears. B-) I agree with the statement above that technology is not inherently evil. True enough, but history also teaches that even good things can be and are usually appropriated to accommodate evil. Don't get me wrong, I thank God for toilet daily and consider the automobile a "dang" marvel by way of replacing the horse or burro! But the latest and newest frontiers of science and technology are married but with the intent of denying God and glorifying the ascent of Man. Seems to me, simple technologies basic to life struggles are wonderful but beyond those, fantasmagorical, fantasy, entertainment, gene manipulation, AI, and the conquering of deep space doesn't seem to be that advantageous. Replacing God as "creator" just doesn't seem like a good idea. TR TR you are correct, man (satan influenced) is always trying to outdo God. Just look at the Tower of Babel, brick and mortar, but still build in defiance of almighty God. I on the other hand, just like hundreds of others (Jan, Amir, JD, etc...) choose to use mans technology to spread the gospel. All the Alexia listeners here the gospel almost daily and as Hev mentioned we have lively discussions in our home surrounding the church, salvation, prophecy, Christian topics, politics (why the left is so off -minus God), Israel and even the Christian movies we watch, along with Christian YouTube, and Christian music. So for getting condemnation as a Christian, there is no doubt in Alexia or AI world that as for me and my house, we serve the risen Saviour. Even all my devices have apps on them so that when I’m gone up into the clouds, those left behind will get a witness. I have left nothing to chance, I have books, bibles, tracks, letters, and movies to all share the gospel and why thousands of people Have suddenly left the planet. The witness is that important as the delusions will be strong. So for now I’m using technology to the Christian advantage as did lol others before us use what God opened a door for, horse to car to travel miles spreading the gospel, letters to radio to TV to satellite to smart devises! Go there and leave a witness footprint. :good: B-) :prayer-hands: More on the “Beast System” and how Amazon is playing a big part ... DHS to Move Biometric Data on Hundreds of Millions of People to Amazon Cloud The department seeks a new platform to identify people using fingerprints, irises and faces, and eventually DNA, palm prints, scars and tattoos. Nextgov The Homeland Security Department is looking to upgrade the software it uses to analyze biometric data on hundreds of millions of people around the globe, and it plans to store that information in Amazon’s cloud. The agency’s Office of Biometric Identity Management will replace its legacy biometric analysis platform, called the Automated Biometric Identification System, or IDENT, with a new, more robust system hosted by Amazon Web Services, according to a request for information released Monday. IDENT essentially serves as an enterprisewide clearinghouse for troves of biometric and biographic data collected by the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, Secret Service and other Homeland Security components. The system links fingerprint, iris and face data to biographic information, allowing officials to quickly identify suspected terrorists, immigration violators, criminals and anyone else included in their databases. In total, IDENT contains information on more than 250 million people, a Homeland Security spokesperson told Nextgov. According to the solicitation, Homeland Security is in the process of replacing IDENT with the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology System, or HART. The new system will include the same biometric recognition features as its predecessor, and potentially additional tools that could identify individuals based on DNA, palm prints, scars, physical markings and tattoos. Whereas IDENT stores records in government-run data centers, the Homeland Security solicitation states “HART will reside in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) FedRAMP certified GovCloud.” Further, “biometric matching capabilities for fingerprint, iris, and facial matching will be integrated with HART in the Amazon Web Services GovCloud.” Amazon Web Services will also store HART’s biometric image data. Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud US-East and US-West regions are data centers specifically built by the company to house some of the government’s most restricted information. AWS is no stranger to hosting sensitive government data, having already claimed the CIA, Defense Department, NASA and other federal agencies as customers in part because of perceived security improvements over government legacy systems. When reached for comment, an AWS spokesperson referred inquiries to DHS. In 2018, Northrop Grumman won a $95 million contract to develop the first two stages of the HART system, and its contract is set to expire in 2021. The department plans to use responses to the latest solicitation to inform its strategy for further developing the platform, the DHS spokesperson said. Specifically, officials are asking vendors for ideas on how to build those multiple identification functions into the new system, while leaving room to add any new recognition “modalities” as they arise. Officials also want input on developing a handful of general reporting, analytics and search tools, as well as desktop and mobile web portals where Homeland Security employees can access the system. Interested vendors must respond to the request by July 17. In addition to the hundreds of millions of records stored locally in its IDENT system, Homeland Security can also access swaths of biometric information housed at other agencies. According to the solicitation, the agency shares biometric data and technology with the Defense Department and the FBI, which can access some 640 million photos for its own facial recognition operations. Officials also said they can tap into the State Department’s Consular Consolidated Database—which contained nearly 500 million passport, visa and expat records as of 2016—as well as the databases of “several foreign governments as well as state, local, tribal and territorial law enforcement agencies.” The government’s use of biometric technology, particularly facial recognition, has come under sharp scrutiny in recent months. Members of the House Oversight Committee have expressed broad bipartisan support for reining in the use of biometrics at agencies like the FBI, and on Monday, a group of lawmakers raised concerns about CBP’s expanding facial recognition program. Frank Konkel contributed to this article. -Fair Use- Just received another Amazon “hot deal” must have ...
By Jack Corrigan - June 19, 2019
Thankfully it wasn’t coffee makers or coffee pods ... instead it was buying e-gift cards and e-thank you cards. Just wondering if others received the same “hot deals” .... because back on June 15th I mentioned in the Father’s Day thread started by Watchman35 ... I would buy gifts or give money out to my nieces and nephews and to my annoyance they failed to send a simple thank you via email or phone call. Just weird how the Amazon “hot deals” keep arriving in my inbox of things I talk about on-line :wacko:
