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Oprah, say it ain't so!
I'm sitting here watching today's Oprah. Yes, I do watch Oprah sometimes.
Oprah has someone from "How Stuff Works" and he's explaining things to her and her audience.
She had no idea how Television works.
I was flabbergasted when Oprah admitted that she had no idea that email was transmitted from her computer to a server and to another server and finally to its destination. She said that she had no idea that it was transmitted via wires and just assumed that it magically arced through the ether and found its way to the recipient.
She's built a billion dollar empire, how can she not have had even a basic understanding of the technology that she uses to run it?


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By MARGERY A. BECK, Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Lottery ticket lines swelled Friday as players drawn by a record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot cast aside concerns about odds to take a chance at becoming an overnight millionaire.
From Arizona, where a cafDe worker reported selling $2,600 worth of tickets to one buyer, to Wisconsin, where a retired soldier doubled his regular weekly ticket spending to $55, people have been willing to test their luck for a shot at instantaneous wealth.
"I feel like a fool throwing that kind of money away," said Jesse Carter, whose two tickets purchased Friday at a Milwaukee grocery store brought his spending to $55 for the drawing. "But it's a chance you take in life, with anything you do."
With a jackpot so large, someone theoretically could buy up every possible number combination, thereby guaranteeing a winning ticket - but doing so would mean putting up millions of dollars on the front end.
Then there's logistics. First, if it takes five seconds to fill out each card, you'd need almost 28 years just to mark the bubbles on the game tickets. You'd also use up the national supply of special lottery paper and lottery-machine printing ink well before all your tickets could be printed out.
A jackpot this large also means a greater chance of multiple winners. And if you have to share the jackpot with even one other winner, you'll be down tens of millions of dollars.
Such uncertainty has been little deterrence to players converging on convenience stores in 42 states and Washington, D.C., where Mega Millions tickets are sold.
Many in Indiana were further encouraged by the promise of freebies: Hoosier Lottery officials were giving away one free Mega Millions ticket to each of the first 540 players at several outlets around the state Friday.
In Indianapolis, college student Chris Stewart said he showed up at the lottery's headquarters at 6:30 a.m., two hours before doors opened, to be first in a line of about 60 people who wanted to claim a free ticket.
"I've never seen a jackpot like this before," said Stewart, who bought five additional tickets for the drawing. "If I won - I mean wow! I just don't know what I'd do. I'd really have to think what I could do with it."
Mike Catalano, chairman of the mathematics department at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, S.D., concedes the math is clear: The more tickets you buy, the better chances you have of winning. Better long-shot chances.
"You are about 50 times as likely to get struck by lightning as to win the lottery, based on the 90 people a year getting struck by lightning," Catalano said. "Of course, if you buy 50 tickets, you've equalized your chances of winning the jackpot with getting struck by lightning."
Based on other U.S. averages, you're about 8,000 times more likely to be murdered than to win the lottery, and about 20,000 times more likely to die in a car crash than hit the lucky numbers, Catalano said.
"You might get some psychological enjoyment from playing the lottery, but from a financial standpoint ... you'd be much better off going to Las Vegas and playing blackjack or the slot machines," he said.
For David Kramer, a lawyer in Lincoln, Neb., buying his Mega Millions ticket Thursday wasn't about "the realistic opportunity to win."
"It's the fact that for three days, the daydreaming time about what I would do if I won is great entertainment and, frankly, a very nice release from a normal day," he said.
Everett Eahmer, 80, of St. Paul, Minn., said he's been playing the lottery "since the beginning."
"If I win, the first thing I'm going to do is buy a (Tim) Tebow football shirt, and I'm going to do the Tebow pose," said Eahmer, who bought five tickets Thursday. "I'm with him in honoring a higher power."
Lottery officials are happy to have Friday's record Mega Millions jackpot fueling ticket sales, but even they caution against spending large amounts per person.
"When people ask me, I just tell them that the odds of a lottery game make it a game of fate," said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Urbandale, Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association that oversees the Mega Millions, Powerball and other lotteries. "Just buy a ticket, sit back and see if fate points a finger at you for that day."
Associated Press writers Carrie Antlfinger and Dinesh Ramde in Milwaukee, Rich Callahan and Carrie Schedler in Indianapolis, Mark Carlson in Phoenix, and Alexandra Tempus in St. Paul, Minn., contributed to this report.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Regarding "The Politics of Piety," by Amy Sullivan, November 2004: I was impressed by your article. I am reminded of a ceremony that took place during medieval times at the election of the pope. A person with a burning piece of flax or some other combustible material approached the new pontiff while he was seated on his throne and intoned: "Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and unto dust shalt thou return."
Might be a good idea to remind our political leaders that they too shall one day die, that their various "legacies" will no longer be in their hands, and that they will be judged just like everyone else.
James Morgan
Olympia, Washington
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I recently wrote a post about entrepreneurship in science and received a lot of feedback. While most people agreed that "with the overabundance of highly educated and specialized STEM workers, we are going to need to be able to fabricate our own jobs", there was a wide range of ideas on how much government involvement should be in place to help support entrepreneurial scientists. One of our followers shared information on an intensive eight week government program funded by the NSF (Innovation Corps) that is the brain child of Errol Arkilic, a program director at NSF, and a 2012 Harvard Business Review "Master of Innovation" Steve Blank. I found it intriguing and wanted to pass it along to you. The pilot classes of Innovation Corps seem to have potential and be set up to give you real life experience using your own creations. Everyone in the program is part of a 3 person teams…one NSF funded PI and his graduate student or postdoc who are appointed as the "Entrepreneurial Lead." The third member of each group is a mentor with previous start-up experience. As someone who would prefer that the government paid down debt rather than fund entrepreneurs, this program makes my mouth water. And it got me thinking…wouldn't a version of this, maybe combined with an introduction to accounting be a great addition to the PhD curriculum? Even if you didn't go the entrepreneur route, the accounting/financial aspect would be beneficial both in academics and industry. After all, a team leader is not only responsible for obtaining grant funding, but also managing (salaries, supplies, conferences) that funding throughout the duration of the grant.
What do you think? Would you welcome the addition of a class focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and accounting?
Update September 6, 2012:
I just found out that the Dublin Institute of Technology offers a structured PhD program that includes training in skills such as communication, innovation and entrepreneurship, leadership and teamwork, and career management. For those of you thinking about getting your PhD, it is worth taking a look at.


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A JDBC Datasource is a Java EE resource that you can create and manage using the Sun Java System Web Server.
The JDBC API is the API for connectivity with relational database systems. The JDBC API has two parts:
An application-level interface used by the application components to access databases.
A service provider interface to attach a JDBC driver to the Java EE platform.
A JDBC Datasource object is an implementation of a data source in the Java programming language. In basic terms, a data source is a facility for storing data. It can be as sophisticated as a complex database for a large corporation or as simple as a file with rows and columns. A JDBC datasource is a Java EE resource that can be created and managed through the Sun Java System Web Server.
The JDBC API provides a set of classes for Java with a standard SQL database access interface to ensure uniform access to a wide range of relational databases.
Using JDBC, SQL statements can be sent to virtually any database management system (DBMS). It is used as an interface for both relational and object DBMSs.
To add a JDBC resource through CLI, execute the following command.
wadm> create-jdbc-resource --user=admin --password-file=admin.pwd --host=serverhost --port=8989 --config=config1 --datasource-class=oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource jdbc
See CLI Reference, create-jdbc-resource(1).
In the previous example, com.pointbase.jdbc.jdbcDataSource represents the JDBC driver class.
For a list of supported JDBC drivers, see JDBC Drivers Known to Work With the Sun Java System Web Server.


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Green Knights Earn NCAA Playoffs Berth, Share of MWC Title
From Sports Information Director, November 10, 2012 | Football
by Dan Lukes, firstname.lastname@example.com, (920) 403-4077
DE PERE - St. Norbert College turned in a dominating defensive performance en route to a 20-10 win over Lake Forest College in a Midwest Conference game on Kolstad Field at Schneider Stadium.
The win, coupled with Carroll University's 49-14 win over Illinois College, sends the Green Knights (8-2, 8-1) MWC to the NCAA Division III Playoffs for the 10th time. The win also gave St. Norbert its 14th Midwest Conference title, which was shared with the Foresters - whose season ended 8-2, 8-1.
The NCAA will announce its pairings for the 32-team tournament at 5 p.m. CST on Sunday. St. Norbert is not expected to host a first-round game.
St. Norbert took advantage of outstanding field position in the first quarter, averaging starting at the Lake Forest 32-yard line in the period, to jump out to a 17-0 lead. Lake Forest was held to a three-and-out on the game's opening possession, and St. Norbert's Joe Green returned the punt 51 yards to the Lake Forest 1. Austin Williams plunged in on the next play for a 7-0 edge 2 minutes 23 seconds into the game.
The Green Knights held the Foresters without a first down on the next possession and an 18-yard punt gave St. Norbert the ball at the Foresters' 42-yard line. St. Norbert marched 42 yards in 11 plays, scoring on an 11-yard touchdown pass from James Tringali to Green for a 14-0 lead with 6:45 left in the first quarter.
Austin Arts intercepted a Pete Scaffidi pass to end Lake Forest's next possession, with the ball returned to the St. Norbert 29. Randy Hill connected on a 37-yard field goal five plays later for a 17-0 lead with 2:24 left in the first quarter.
Lake Forest's best scoring chance in the first half came on its last possession of the second quarter, but Jon Gurchak missed a 40-yard field goal wide left just before halftime to keep the intermission score 17-0.
Gurchak got Lake Forest on the board late in the third quarter with a 38-yard field goal with 3:01 left in the period. St. Norbert put the game away with 7:59 remaining when Hill's 33-yard field goal gave the Green Knights a 20-3 lead.
Lake Forest got a consolation touchdown with 54 seconds left on a 6-yard touchdown pass from Pete Scaffidi to Rocky Al-Mutawa.
St. Norbert finished with 176 yards of total offense, with 85 of those coming in the first quarter. The Green Knights had 37 yards rushing on 39 attempts. Tringali was 13-for-21 for 110 yards and one touchdown pass, while Green caught eight passes for 75 yards and one touchdown.
The Foresters fared worse on the ground, finishing with seven net rushing yards on 27 carries. Scaffidi, who was sacked five times, completed 25 of 47 passes for 234 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Austin Sobey caught eight passes for 113 yards, while Al Mitchell caught nine passes for 77 yards for the Foresters, who finished with 241 yards of total offense.
Petr Bohacek led St. Norbert defensively, posting a team-high eight tackles with three tackles-for-loss and 2 1/2 quarterback sacks. Anthony Parker added seven tackles with one pass defensed.


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krossover necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 798 diseños de 120 diseñadores freelance.
Krossover Intelligence (http://www.krossover.com)
Krossover Intelligence is a Software as a Service company that helps coaches perform better by offering them a set of tools and services to index and analyze game film, collect and create meaningful statistics, and measure individual and team success.
You can check out our site at http://www.krossover.com
We are looking to replace the existing logo that is on the site right now.
Our current customer are all Sports Teams (High school and College). In time, we hope to cater to the professional sports market around the world. In addition, we plan to open up a consumer side of the company, catering to student athletes who are looking to get better, and get recruited by top colleges.
The logo should communicate the following attributes:
• Quick
• Comprehensive
• Smart
• Easy
• Passionate about sports (all sports, not just basketball)
We are at the end of the day, an internet technology company with a focus on the sports industry. The logo needs to be creative to appeal to the consumer side, yet sophisticated enough to get us deals with professional teams and media outlets. We have no requirements, except that our product colors (website) are mainly blue and orange, so the logo colors should not look odd given that we don't plan to change our website. Feel free to go wild!
We can guarantee that the winning designer will get a lot more work from us as we move forward.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Saw this video taken yesterday, July 27, 2017, at the Allen Savory Institute in Boulder Colorado.
I really enjoyed looking at the buffalo.
Have to say though that the land management teaching looks like a lot of environmental United Nations Agenda 21 globaloney to me.
I bet homesteaders and ordinary ranchers don't take too kindly to buffalo, but am not sure.


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Bookmobile Schedule
Alameda County Library Bookmobile
Come visit the Alameda County Library Bookmobile, a vibrant, traveling library that houses materials and resources for all ages, including: fiction and non-fiction books, magazines, music CDs, DVDs, Large Type books, books on CD, and a staff that's always glad to help you find what you're looking for.
With your Alameda County Library card, items can be borrowed and returned just as you would at any of our brick-and-mortar libraries. The Bookmobile visits schools, daycares, senior housing facilities, apartments, neighborhoods, and community centers on a three-week rotation. The Bookmobile creates a community wherever it goes, and is a wonderful place to browse, meet neighbors, and expand horizons.
For all questions about the Bookmobile,
please call our office at 510-745-1477.
To place holds and to check your account:
Visit our website at www.aclibrary.org. You can also call the office or speak with a librarian on the bookmobile.
The first time you place a hold to be picked up on the bookmobile, especially if you place the hold online, please tell the librarian or call the office, to let us know which stop you will be using. Once you have a designated stop, we will bring all of your requests to that location. Due to space limitations, we are only able to carry the holds for the stops we will be visiting on any given day.
Due Dates:
The Bookmobile currently operates on a three-week rotation. All items (including DVD's) are checked out for three weeks in order to coincide with our visits. The Bookmobile follows Alameda County's fines and fees policy. Please keep track of your own due dates and, to avoid fines, return or renew your items before the due date.
There will be occasions when the bookmobile has to go out of service or a stop has to be changed. When this happens we do our best to notify patrons ahead of time, but this is not always possible. It is especially difficult to notify patrons of last-minute, unexpected changes, but we are sometimes able to make an attempt to reach you if you leave your contact information with one of the bookmobile librarians.
If we have to cancel a stop, we will not charge fines for the items that were due on that date.
Please feel free to call us with any questions or concerns. We'll do our very best to help you!


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This morning we talked about the resurrection and I gave you some insight into the spiritual meaning of the resurrection. But by no means did I say all that I would like to have said and I just want to add a little bit of a post script for just a few moments tonight. I know it has been a full day and I don't want to take too long with this but just for a few moments I want to share with you some of the other features that are provided for us spiritually in the resurrection.
Because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ we have been made right with God. We talked about that briefly this morning in the book of Romans. We looked at chapter 6 primarily, but in chapter four and verses 24-25 we read this. "For our sake also, to whom it will be reckoned, as those who believe in Him, who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, He who was delivered up because of our transgressions and was raised for our justification." Just a reminder, that it is in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that we have the substitutionary work, by which God declares us righteous. So there is that declarative, that as it is called, forensic, or that legal statement about our righteousness that comes from the resurrection. Then over in chapter 6 you'll remember this morning we said that not only does the resurrection provide for us a legal justification but it provides for us a new life. And we remember in chapter 6, down in verse 4, at the end it says that because we've been raised with Christ we too walk in newness in life. We've been united with Him in the likeness of His death and we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection. And then it is added to that down in verse 10 that as He lives to God so do we. So in the resurrection we find the accomplishing of the bearing of our sin, it was complete, and so God raised Jesus from the dead because He had completed His sacrificial work on our behalf. And therefore imputed righteousness is granted to us, He takes our sin, we get His righteousness. Also out of the resurrection comes a new kind of life because we die as it were in Christ and we rise in Him to this newness of life. Just expanding on those two things that we briefly talked about this morning.
The third thing that I would like to mention to you is that we receive eternal life. This new kind of life lasts forever. And we remember the words of Jesus Himself in John 11, familiar words to us that remind us of this great reality. John 11:25-26. Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die." Do you believe this? And He's talking here not about physical death. He's talking about spiritual death which is separation from God and eternal death which is an eternal separation from God and a place of punishment. The promise then that Jesus makes is "if you believe in Me because I live you will live also, and you will never die." That is the promise of eternal life. You say, "What happens to a Christian when their physical body dies?" The answer is they do not die spiritually; they do not die eternally but rather are immediately ushered into the presence of the living God in whose presence they will live forever. So we receive not only a declared righteousness, not only a real righteousness in the transformation of life, but a life of righteousness which lasts forever. Jesus said, "Because I live you will live also." And He lives eternally and we will live eternally as well. "The wages of sin," Romans 6:23 says, "is death. But the gift of God is eternal life." Eternal life.
There's another component in the book of Romans that should be added to the list of things that are granted to us in the resurrection. It's in chapter 5:10, chapter 5:10. It says if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more having been reconciled, we shall be literally, be being saved by His life. Now the point that He makes here is quite an interesting one. He says that when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by Christ's death. To say it another way, Christ in His death was able to reconcile us to God. If He could reconcile us in His death, what could He do for us in His life? And the answer in verse 10 is we are being saved by His life. What does that mean? We are being kept. So the next thing that we receive through the resurrection of Jesus Christ is security, security. We have been declared righteous, transformed, given life that is eternal, and that eternal life is secure. In His death He reconciled us, and now in His life he keeps us. We are continually being kept, being saved by His life.
Over to chapter 8. Another way to say that, by the way, is that He ever lives to make intercession for us, another way to say it is that He keeps his own. All that the Father gives to Him He keeps and will raise them up at the last day. John 6. But in Romans 8 again, staying in the book of Romans, 8:34, it says Christ Jesus is "He who died, yes rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us." Because He is raised, because He is alive, because He was resurrected, He has gone to Heaven, and He is at the right hand of the Father where He intercedes for us. That is to say He keeps holding us. He keeps interceding on our behalf so that no sin is charged against us. Back to verse 33. Who will bring a charge to God's elect? God is the one who justifies. Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus, He's at the right hand interceding for us. God justified us and Christ intercedes for us, He keeps us. Well, somebody might say maybe somebody could come along and cause Christ to change His mind. Verse 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Nobody. And whom He loves He keeps. Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword, none of those things shall separate us from the love of Christ. Verse 38. Not death or life, or angels, or principalities, or things present, or things to come, or powers, height, depth, any other created thing is able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Our risen Christ provides justification, provides transformation, provides eternal life, and provides security. He ever lives to make intercession for us; He keeps us permanently because He lives.
There it is another element to the power of Christ or I should say the benefits of Christ that come through the resurrection. And for this one I would have you look at Philippians 3 just briefly. Philippians 3:10, familiar words to any Bible student. Paul says that his desire is that he may know Him. He's talking about Christ here as He's mentioned in verses 8 and 9. He says that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection. One of the great benefits of the resurrection of Jesus Christ is that He is alive to empower His own. He is alive to grant power to those who belong to Him. In Ephesians 1:17 we read that He's praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. Then verse 19. Then, what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. And this power is in accordance it says, with the working of the strength of His might, namely, that strength which He brought about in Christ when He raised Him from the dead. Another of the great benefits of the resurrection is we have resurrection power available in our lives. Power over sin and temptation, power over darkness, and ignorance, and folly, power to enable us to serve the Lord and witness effectively, power to use our gifts, power through prayer, all of those things are granted to us through the living Christ who expresses His resurrection power in us. In Act 1:8 it says that when the Spirit came we received power, power to go into all the world as witnesses. Well the resurrection is at the heart of everything for the Christian. Justification, transformation, eternal life, eternal security, and unlimited divine power are ours because Christ lives and applies the same power which raised Him from the dead to our lives. What a tremendous reality that is. There is yet another to be added to our list of benefits from the resurrection. And for that I want you to look at 1 Peter 1 for a moment. 1 Peter 1 tells us we have something else. In a word we can call it hope. In a phrase we can call it "the hope of the inheritance" which was obtained for us by the resurrection.
1 Peter 1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And what is that living hope? Verse 4. That we will obtain an inheritance, that inheritance obviously in the life to come because it is imperishable, undefiled, will not fade away, is reserved in Heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith. Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ verse 3 says, we have been given a living hope. A hope that cannot die. We don't need to say much about that to make it very clear. The world is full of people who have perishing hopes. People fill their hearts and their minds with endless hopes and dreams and ambitions that end up in ashes. But we have a hope that never dies. We have a hope that is a living hope, an eternal hope that was given to us through the resurrection, that someday in Heaven we will receive an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and will not fade away; an eternal inheritance, an eternal reward. And what is that? We will be made like Christ; we will dwell with Him the Bible says, in the Father's house. We will receive eternal rewards and we will spend eternity praising and glorifying the Lord. We will forever be filled with unbounded and unmixed joy. That is our eternal inheritance and it is reserved for us in Heaven through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We consequently focus on things above and not on things on the earth. We're more concerned about what is ahead of us in the land of glory than what is under us in this passing world.
That leads me to another component of this marvelous benefit that comes from the resurrection, and it's really associated with what I just said. But let's add it to our little list. This would be number seven in my list. The resurrection purchased for us glory, eternal glory. And I don't mean that in a vague sense, I mean that in a quite specific sense, in the sense of Philippians 3 again, but at the end of the chapter. Verse 20. Our citizenship is in Heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now listen to this. Verse 21. Who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory by the exertion of the power that He has, even to subject all things to Himself. What is this saying? This is saying there will be an actual physical resurrection. And, God by His power will transform our bodies into conformity with the body of the glory of Jesus Christ. And when we talk about the benefits of the resurrection, we can talk about being made right with God, we can talk about being transformed, given eternal life, being secure in that eternal life, being given the power of God over sin and for service and witnessing, we can talk about the hope of a glorious eternal inheritance, of praise an honor to be given to the Lord, of service rendered to Him, of the unmixed joy and all that will be ours in heaven. But we haven't said it all until we come to this point where we recognize that not only did Christ come out of that grave physically and literally in an visible body that could be seen and touched, but so will we. There is coming a time according to the Scriptures, when all of the godly who have died and whose spirits are with the Lord will be joined together with resurrected bodies. The Bible tells us that the rapture when the Lord comes for His own, the dead will rise first, glorious glorified bodies like the resurrection body of Jesus Christ, will come out of the grave and be joined to the spirits that have been with the Lord since death. When you die your spirit goes with the Lord, your body has to wait the resurrection. Those who are alive on the earth at that time will be caught up with them to meet the Lord in the air and we will take on the very glory of the resurrection body of Jesus Christ. 1 John 3:2 says we will be like Him when we see Him as He is. So the resurrection is the guarantee of our resurrection. There will be a resurrection. People often ask me "Well, what about the people who've been dead a long time and there's nothing left? What about the people who were cremated, and what about the people who were cremated and their ashes were scattered over the sea? How's God going to find that?" Well, that's not the point. You're going to have a new body. It will be in some way you but it'll be different. It'll be a body incorruptible not corruptible, a body celestial not terrestrial, 1 Corinthians 15 says. The best way to understand it is it'll be like the resurrection body of Jesus Christ which was different than his pre-resurrection form. His post-resurrection glory will be the model for our glorified bodies. And that is to say they recognized Him, they knew who He was, He was to some degree familiar to them, when He disclosed himself to them they could touch Him, they could see Him, they could converse with Him, He could be in their presence, and there was a real literal physical present Christ in glorious perfection. And that's the model of what we will be. You say "Well does that mean that people will recognize me?" That's exactly right. They'll recognize you. They might take awhile because they won't see the kind of behavior they're used to, to put it that way. You say "Will we know our friends in Heaven, will we know our partners, and will I still love my wife?" Yes, you will love her with perfection but so will everybody else. We'll be who we are in glorified form. The promise of the end of sickness, the end of pain, the end of disease, the end of death, the end of sorrow, the end of hunger, the end of thirst, the end of crying, the end of weakness, the end of prayer, the end of learning as we'll know as we're known. There'll be nothing to ask for, we'll have it all. The glorious splendor when this body of humiliation, this poor tent becomes a body of glory fit to dwell in a radiant transparent palace that we know as the New Jerusalem made of transparent gold and diamonds as described in the book of Revelation. Everything in that New Jerusalem shines, everything in that New Jerusalem has a glow about it. The streets are transparent gold and there are diamonds everywhere and multicolored jewels indicating that the light of the glory of God will come out of the throne in the center of the new Jerusalem and it will be refracted through all of the jewels and all of the transparent golden and splatter the blazing light of God's glory to the ends of the endless universe. That is the glorious picture of Heaven. And somehow we too will reflect that glory, that blazing glory that came off of the shining face of Jesus after His resurrection. That glory that was demonstrated if ever so briefly on the face of Moses when he saw God and His glory were on his face. We are pictured in the glory as clothed in dazzling robes, dazzling blazing white robes to show that we too will radiate the shining glory of God. We will be dazzling as white snow. We will be shining, Daniel says, we will be shining as the moon and the stars, remember he says that about the righteous. Daniel also says we will shine like the brightness of the firmament. We will shine like the sun in its might. We will shine like the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. We will radiate brightness and glory. This is the grandeur for which we wait. This is the splendor that shall come to us because Christ lives. That's all in the resurrection for those who put their trust in Jesus Christ.
That is what John calls in John 5, the resurrection of life, the resurrection of life. He says that there are two resurrections. John 5:29 there is a resurrection of life and there is a resurrection of judgment, a resurrection of judgment. For all those who do not participate in the resurrection of life there is left only the resurrection of judgment. Often that is translated the resurrection of damnation. Do you realize that the bodies of all the ungodly of the all the ages will come up from the graves as well? That God will give them a new body, a new body suited to eternal punishment, a new body that can feel the pain of the gnashing of teeth and the weeping and wailing and the unquenchable fire, the terrible darkness, the loneliness, the remorse, can feel all of that, and feel it unrelentingly forever. Everybody participates in the resurrection. When a person dies if they're a Christian their spirit goes to Heaven and waits, the final culminating climactic event provided by the resurrection and that is the resurrection of that body of glory to meet that spirit to take on that eternal form to be made like Christ.
But all the ungodly who die their spirits going to punishment out of the presence of God but they too wait for the resurrection. And in the end they will receive a body. It will be raised to the resurrection of damnation and they will then be sent into the lake of fire in that form to suffer that terrible punishment.
It's in light of that that the apostle Paul stood on the mountain in the city of Athens and addressed the philosophers. He said this, "therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent. Why? Because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead." Jesus Christ being raised from the dead was affirmed as the judge of all men. And on that hill in Athens when Paul had said that and the next verse records when they heard of the resurrection of the dead some began to sneer but others said "We shall hear you again concerning this," so Paul went out of their midst. But some men joined him and believed. And that's always the way it is. You preach the resurrection, you preach the implications of the resurrection, and some sneer and some believe.
There is going to be a resurrection. Christ's resurrection guarantees it. There's a resurrection of the just unto life, the saved; a resurrection of the unjust, the lost unto damnation. All the bodies will be raised to go either to Heaven or to Hell. And certainly in the despair of the time in which we live, in the despair of the world in which we live, this is a crucial, crucial message. There are many hearts that are like these we heard tonight. Empty, searching, and you might think it could take a decade to unscramble somebody from Judaism or Hinduism or Atheism. But it's amazing isn't it, how the shining light of the gospel breaks in on a dark heart and does its work with such power and such delackrity. Don't be hesitant beloved to proclaim the great realities of the resurrection and to give the promise of a resurrection unto life and the warning of a resurrection unto damnation. Well, join me in prayer as we close.
Father again it is so powerful and profound to contemplate these great truths because of the eternal implications. Lord I pray that no one will pillow his or her head in sleep tonight who hasn't come before you and asked for the forgiveness of sin and the promise of eternal life in Jesus Christ. Oh, what can we say? We thank You Lord God for the glories of the resurrection. In it we were justified, in it we were transformed and have received eternal life and are secure in that life. Through the resurrection we have power, the very power that raised Christ and the hope of eternal inheritance and the promise of glory and splendor to come in resurrection bodies. Truly we praise You for raising Jesus Christ from the dead, for all its implications spiritually to us, we thank you. And we would ask Lord that your spirit would be merciful and gracious to many who have not yet passed from death to life with no hope of resurrection unto glory and we pray that you would bring them to the knowledge of Christ in whose name we ask these things.
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Nov. 25, 2011
Fullerton, Calif. - Kanani Danielson blasted a match-high 20 kills and hit .326 to lift the third-ranked Hawaii Rainbow Wahine to a 3-1 volleyball victory over Cal State Fullerton Friday night in front of a record 1,026 fans in Titan Gym.
The Titans conclude their 2011 season with the loss to the Rainbow Wahine and fall to 13-16 overall. Fullerton remains winless in 27 match-ups with Hawaii. The `Bows win their 24th consecutive match of the year and improve to a stellar 29-1 heading into the postseason.
Fullerton which was being televised from Titan Gym for the first time on ESPN3, came out firing on all cylinders, hitting .395 as a team behind five kills each by Kayla Neto and Jennifer Edmond to take the first set, 25-14. They had also held the `Bows to just a .150 mark in that first set, but the visitors never hit lower than .306 in any remaining set to close out the match, 25-16, 25-17, 25-9.
Neto had 12 kills, 6 digs and three blocks to lead the Titans in overall points. Senior Edmond finished with 10 kills in support of Neto in her final match in a Titan uniform. Senior Leah Maurer had nine kills without an error, hit .360 and had a match-high four blocks in her final Titan performance.
Senior setter Andrea Ragan had 40 assists and 15 digs for the double-double in her last action as a Titan. She finishes her career with school records in total assists (4,377) and assists per set (11.05).
Danielson (20 kills, 14 digs) and Jane Croson (13 kills, 14 digs) each had double-doubles for the Western athletic Conference champions. Shanteal Satele had 10 kills and hit .444. Emily Maeda had a match-high 19 digs.
This meeting between the two programs will continue next season as the Rainbow Wahine are set to re-join the Big West Conference in July of 2012. The two programs will meet twice a year in conference play.


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You never know when a hero might emerge. THUMBS UP to the life-saving heroics of Emily Thouin, a 16-year-old junior at River Mill Academy. When her computer instructor, Jon Weis, began to choke on a bite of biscuit, Emily calmly put into action the Heimlich manuever she learned from the Red Cross and from a health class at the school, likely saving his life. Thouin, who hopes to become a nurse, said the training she�d undergone returned without her thinking. �It just kicked in,� she said. We know there is at least one person who was glad her learning kicked in when it did. Good thing she had enough training to take action. Wish more people did.
THUMBS DOWNto the expensive saga of the old Graham school, which Alamance County purchased a few years back for more than $500,000 and will now spend more than $200,000 to demolish � with still no plans in sight or the property. Can we all say, �Ugghh!�
THUMBS UP to the industrious Historic Providence Christian Church, which began celebrating its 250th anniversary this month and will continue to include the community with a series of events running through October. On Sunday, the church will hold an event with the theme �the birth of the United States of America.� In coming months there will be celebrations of the birth of the county, Graham, Elon, the court system, the public library system, education and the development of the religious community.
THUMBS UP to city officials for pursuing East Burlington input on East Burlington problems, After hearing complaints about �broken promises� in the area, Mayor Ronnie Wall has pledged to get behind a scheme to employ a focus group to suggest and create projects citizens think are important for their own neighborhoods. The initial idea is to get people actually living in east Burlington to be in the focus group. Be watching for the announcement for meetings, which should be held as spring approaches. By the way, read more about this in Sunday�s Times-News.
THUMBS UP to People magazine for featuring Harry Cohen, the Williams quarterback who died of an accidental overdose of prescription medication in August 2011, in its current issue. Cohen�s story and an interview with his mother and stepfather, �A Football Star Makes One Fatal Move,� are included in a package of stories about the rise in prescription pill misuse and fatalities in the magazine�s Jan. 28 issue. It�s not a pleasant topic, but it�s necessary young and old alike realize the tragic consequences that can occur. We salute the family for contributing to the story which, as painful as it is, will reach a national audience.
THUMBS UP to Tommie Griffin, who realized just what a gift life itself is. Diagnosed with uterine cancer in early 2011, she has kept a sunny disposition, despite the harsh chemotherapy and radiation treatments and the miserable, fatiguing side-effects. She has relied on faith and the kindness of others to keep positive. She has embodied her very spirit with a painting, �Spirit Alive,� which she feels reflects the prayers and love from family and friends and caregivers. The painting was one of 19 winning artworks in the Lilly Oncology on Canvas competition and is on display at ARMC through Jan. 30. When you see it, think of life.
THUMBS UP to Graham artist Molly Brown Roberts. Roberts painted a lifesize fiberglass cow, dubbed �Cowalina Dogwood,� which is one of only six cows in CowParade North Carolina 2012�s stampede to be chosen for miniature replication. CowParade originated in Chicago in 1999, and new herds have been painted by local artists and displayed regionally ever since. �Cowalina Dogwood� will benefit N.C. Children�s Hospital when she�s auctioned off during �The Battle for the Cattle� live auction and gala event Feb. 2 at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium.
And THUMBS UP to the congregation of Hawfields Presbyterian Church who allowed Steve Buntin to live on the church property in his van. Many recognized his face, few knew his name. Sometimes he was shunned or chased off other properties. Little is known of him. But his death earlier this month touched a nerve in the community and a memorial service in his honor will be held at the church today at 2 p.m.


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Tor Messenger Beta: Chat over Tor, Easily
As of March 2018, Tor Messenger is no longer maintained and you should NOT use it. Please see the announcement for more information.
Today we are releasing a new, beta version of Tor Messenger, based on Instantbird, an instant messaging client developed in the Mozilla community.
What is it?
Tor Messenger is a cross-platform chat program that aims to be secure by default and sends all of its traffic over Tor. It supports a wide variety of transport networks, including Jabber (XMPP), IRC, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, Twitter, Yahoo, and others; enables Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging automatically; and has an easy-to-use graphical user interface localized into multiple languages.
What it isn't...
Tor Messenger builds on the networks you are familiar with, so that you can continue communicating in a way your contacts are willing and able to do. This has traditionally been in a client-server model, meaning that your metadata (specifically the relationships between contacts) can be logged by the server. However, your route to the server will be hidden because you are communicating over Tor.
We are also excited about systems like Pond and Ricochet, which try to solve this problem, and would encourage you to look at their designs and use them too.
Why Instantbird?
Current Status
Today we are releasing a beta version with which we hope to gain both usability and security related feedback. There have been three previous alpha releases to the mailing lists that have already helped smooth out some of the rougher edges.
Downloads (Updated)
- On Linux, extract the bundle(s) and then run:
- On OS X, copy the Tor Messenger application from the disk image to your local disk before running it.
- Note that as a policy, unencrypted one-to-one conversations are not allowed and your messages will not be transmitted if the person you are talking with does not have an OTR-enabled client. You can disable this option in the preferences to allow unencrypted communication but doing so is not recommended.
On all platforms, Tor Messenger sets the profile folder for Firefox/Instantbird to the installation directory.
Source Code
We are doing automated builds of Tor Messenger for all platforms.
The Linux builds are reproducible: anyone who builds Tor Messenger for Linux should have byte-for-byte identical binaries compared with other builds from a given source. You can build it yourself and let us know if you encounter any problems or cannot match our build. The Windows and OS X builds are not completely reproducible yet but we are working on it.
What's to Come
Our current focus is security, robustness and user experience. We will be fixing bugs and releasing updates as appropriate, and in the future, we plan on pairing releases with Mozilla's Extended Support Release (ESR) cycle. We have some ideas on where to take Tor Messenger but we would like to hear what you have to say. Some possibilities include:
- Reproducible builds for Windows and OS X
- Sandboxing
- Automatic updates
- Improved Tor support
- OTR over Twitter DMs
- Produce (and distribute) internationalized builds
- Secure multi-party communication (np1sec)
- Encrypted file-transfers
- Usability study
How To Help
Give it a try and provide feedback, requests, and file bugs (choose the "Tor Messenger" component). If you are a developer, help us close all our tickets or help us review our design doc. As always, we are idling on IRC in #tor-dev (OFTC) (nicks: arlolra; boklm; sukhe) and subscribed to the tor-talk/dev mailing lists.
Please note that this release is for users who would like to help us with testing the product but at the same time who also understand the risks involved in using beta software.
Thanks and we hope you enjoy Tor Messenger!
Update: For Windows 10 (and some Windows 7, 8) users who were experiencing an issue in Tor Messenger where it wouldn't start, we have updated the download links above with a newer version that fixes the problem described in bug 17453.
is there going to be a
is there going to be a PortableApps verison?
The Tor Messenger packages
The Tor Messenger packages are all self-contained. So they're nearly there!
Do you intend to develop an
Do you intend to develop an app IOS etc.
Google blocked my sign-on
Google blocked my sign-on because if it coming from a non-standard country (in this case it was Paris, France). I think it will likely be difficult to use Google Talk through this without dealing with these issues. The other downside is that even if you do train Google to allow logins globally, you've now weakened the protection Google provides regarding account security.
I don't know what the issue
I don't know what the issue is but I cannot log into Facebook. Correct username and password. Could it be the Facebook login verification?
Can you please try the
Can you please try the solution in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17464 and tell us if it works for you? We would like to fix this in the next release.
How on earth does Facebook
How on earth does Facebook chat get encrypted? I don't understand?
I also try to configure it, put in my username and password, but it continually tells me my password is incorrect ..... and it's not incorrect. I've changed it to a new one, same result.
Facebook chat will get
Facebook chat will get encrypted if the person you are talking with is using Tor Messenger, or another OTR-enabled client. When you start a conversation, it will be encrypted. Facebook can't see the content of the conversation. It will just see that you are talking with the person, but not what you are talking about.
If you are having problem using FB, please see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17464. Let us know if it works for you.
Ugh every time I open up
Ugh every time I open up preferences, the whole application locks up and freezes and I have to force quit it. Quality.
Are you on OS X? See
Are you on OS X? See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17456. (It's a beta, we are fixing the problems as they come, that's the entire purpose :)
tor messenger is not working
tor messenger is not working for me with my google account, it says I entered in the wrong password, but all the info, both email and password are correct for logging in with "google talk"
Please see
Please see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17477 for now. We will try to fix this in the future but this is Google blocking logins from Tor exits, something we have tried to fix in the past but couldn't.
I'd love to see mobile apps,
I'd love to see mobile apps, which for many of the people I communicate with, are critical to have a hope of achieving a network effect. Signal/TextSecure/RedPhone somehow interoperating with much of this codebase would be my dream. It's kind of a bummer that you have many of the same goals as OWS but don't appear to be working together. For many users, secure messaging choices will be an even tougher call once the Signal chrome extension (hopefully FF too) becomes available.
Great work!
My feedback &
My feedback & experience:
How to use it with system Tor, if clearnet connections are forbidden by iptables? To do that for Tor Browser Bundle I just remove tor-launcher xpi file (64 bit version). Otherwise, I even would not get firefox started. Here, in Tor Messanger, we have no such file, but directory firstname.lastname@example.com instead. I deleted it. After that my Tor Messanger got started. I also changed port in network preferences to proper one.
I wanted to test it with XMPP server which has a mirror in onion. I specified onion address as host and finally got it working (account was registered in advance). And now many troubles started...
I added tor messanger XMPP account to the roster of my another XMPP IM client (mcabber). Then, Tor Messagnger asked me to "allow" that contact, and I allowed it. However, after this authorization "allowed" account did not get listed in tor messagnger's contact list (roster), which is strange. It means I cannot see contacts I authorized to see my status. Only when I manually added this contact in tor messanger too, it appearaed in my roster. Now both XMPP contacts authorized each other.
When I connected from my IM (mcabber) to tor messanger, the latter complained that OTR plugin is not supported. I was very surprized. Why it is not enabled by default? I found it in preferences and enabled. However, OTR does not work. Neither my Tor messanger contact nor IM contact can start OTR session. I run Tor Messanger with command: ./start-tor-messenger --verbose (it allows me to see warnings). I noticed that each time I click on "start private conversation" I see in log "TypeError: muc is undefined". I opened error console in Tor Messanger, and see an error "Error: __NoSuchMethod__ is depricated; resource:///modules/xmpp.jsm" and then many error messages "muc is undefined; resource:///modules/xmpp.jsm".
If I disable OTR, then messages are passed successfully to both sides. But I failed to get it working with OTR despite (according to prereferences) everything is OK (key was generated, fingerprint was seen).
Another problem are preferences of crtypes-otr extension: sometimes to get button "preferences" working I need to click on "disable", and then on "enable". Otherwise, the window with preferences is not opened.
> Only when I manually added
> Only when I manually added this contact in tor messanger too, it appearaed in my roster. Now both XMPP contacts authorized each other.
This is how XMPP works: both of you have to authorize each other before you can see the status. You can still start chatting, you can only see the availability of the other person if they have accepted your invitation.
> When I connected from my IM (mcabber) to tor messanger, the latter complained that OTR plugin is not supported.
This does not make sense. What are you trying to do here? Just use Tor Messenger -- it supports IRC and OTR is automatically enabled for one-to-one conversations.
Try using Tor Messenger without Mcabber (I am not sure why you are doing this) and you will see most of your problems fixed.
> This is how XMPP works:
> This is how XMPP works: both of you have to authorize each other before you can see the status. You can still start chatting, you can only see the availability of the other person if they have accepted your invitation.
You didn't understand what I say. I don't complain about that I cannot see the status. I complain about that I cannot see this contact in my contact list! In normal XMPP clients when I authorize somebody, I can see him in my list despite I cannot see his status(!). In tor messenger I see absolutely nothing. It means if I forgot which contact I authorized, there is no any simple way to find it.
> This does not make sense. What are you trying to do here? Just use Tor Messenger -- it supports IRC and OTR is automatically enabled for one-to-one conversations. Try using Tor Messenger without Mcabber (I am not sure why you are doing this) and you will see most of your problems fixed.
OMG, somebody of us does not understand the idea of tor messenger. Is it multiprotocol client? If yes, it must be in compliance with XMPP protocol. Does tor messenger support standard OTR protocol for XMPP? If yes, it must be compatible with all XMPP clients and their OTR implementation. The idea of tor messanger is to be compatible with standard IM protocols, so I can chat with anybody who is not yet using tor messanger, isn't it? So if somebody is using standard XMPP client such as mcabber, which supports OTR, why I cannot use OTR from tor messanger? Is its OTR implementation incompatible with the standard?
Experienced people use convenient IM clients (such as mcabber), which are properly customized to work with Tor and end2end encryption. Then, ordinary people could use tor messanger (XMPP+OTR) to anonymously chat with that IM client. It is only possible, when OTR is compatible on both sides, which, as I see, is not the case.
I think I am pretty clear...
P.S. If we don't bother about compatibility with standard protocols and standrad implementation of OTR, why to use tor messenger? It is better to use ricochet.
OK sorry, I misread this
OK sorry, I misread this comment. Let's address the issues one by one.
1. You have to enable "show offline contacts". Is this what you meant? If yes, right-click on the empty space in the contacts window and enable this option.
2. I actually misread this part badly but anyways, this was an error that we just fixed. Mcabber should now work (tested). See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17552. This was due to an XMPP issue, not the OTR code.
(And yes, our OTR implementation is compatible with other clients, that's the point.)
Thanks a lot for your
Thanks a lot for your comment! Indeed, in newer version everything works fine.
1. Yes, thanks, it works.
2. Yes, in 0.1.0b4 it is fixed.
I have just minor comment on script start-tor-messenger, which I run in my terminal as "./start-tor-messenger --debug". It works, but it writes:
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- ./start-tor-messenger: line 268: [: 64: unary operator expected

Probably, you may want to fix this minor warning.
This is more of a
This is more of a suggestion: I don't know much about how Tor works but amongst the list of messengers, i notice theres no "Wickr". I suggest you take a look at Wickr if you haven't and look at how it works as it's a pretty amazing system. Maybe some of the ideas from that may translate well over to TorMessenger or future Tor products?
You can't use a Facebook
You can't use a Facebook account if you have account security on full lock down with two factor authentication.
Is there a version for
Is there a version for Android?
Checkout ChatSecure by the
Checkout ChatSecure by the Guardian Project. It's on Android. Currently, we don't have plans with Tor Messenger for mobile.
So, first of all : great
So, first of all : great work and thanks!
unfortunately I can't get it to run with facebook cause the buffoons at facebook don't want me to use it :)
Any updates on this issue, is there anything I can do to make it work?
Please see
Please see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17464 and let us know if it works for you?
Sorry, but the instructions
Sorry, but the instructions are unclear. What to put as "app-name"? "Tor messenger" or something else?
What to use as login name, my "facebook username" or the newly created appname?
I have the same problem. I
I have the same problem. I tried by putting "Tor Messenger" and "TorMessenger" in the app name field, with no results.
I have used my username (the one after facebook.com when you go in yuor Facebook profile) and not my email. I have also followed the instructions for generating an app password.
Is Facebook blocking Tor Messenger somehow?
Why run Tor on any
Why run Tor on any commercially closed operating system possibly acting like a trojan horse?
Is it safe against trojan horses? How?
Is it safe against spy-chips installed on commercial hardware? How?
Is it using iRL kryptokeys or is it sending kryptokeys over the internet? Why is that considered safe?
Is Tor downloading javascript when it is being run? Why?
The imagination of safety on the internet might be the very thing that makes it unsafe. I suggest awareness and openness in all communication until people themselves create "dedicated trusted computer communication and voting devices".
Swing your thing on the youtube and they will not be able to pull down your pants! ;-)
/Martin Gustavsson
Scientific party of Sweden
how to run in kali linux.?
how to run in kali linux.?
Torchat is not opening after
Torchat is not opening after successful installation can someone tell me what to do?
am running it on host windows 10
Please try the updated
Please try the updated download links. There was a bug which we have fixed. If it still doesn't work for you, let us know.
why there is no usual
why there is no usual uninstall tool? and does it make keys in the registry?
Everything is contained in a
Everything is contained in a single folder. To uninstall, just remove the folder and Tor Messenger will be uninstalled. And no, we don't touch the registry.
what if the other using it's
what if the other using it's not using tor-messenger , we still have an encrypted conversation ? if not
why we use tor-messenger
and when i want start a conversation using facebook it's shown that's it's not an privat conversation , "2:24:56 PM - Attempting to start a private conversation with […]"
If the other person is not
If the other person is not using Tor Messenger or another OTR-enabled client, you cannot talk with them as Tor Messenger does not allow sending of unencrypted communication. This is by design. Also, if the other person is using OTR, it will still say "Attempting to start..." but if it the conversation actually starts, it will tell you that the conversation is private. If all it says is "Attempting to start..." and nothing after it, then that conversation is not secure.
Password not working on
Password not working on gtalk. falls to connect with any account I try.
How come you list Google
How come you list Google Talk as working, when Google denies login because Instabird/Tor messenger don't use OAuth 2.0?
When will this be updated? It is very aggravating.
Google Talk will work with
Google Talk will work with third-party XMPP clients, like Tor Messenger. We don't use OAuth for Google Talk.
How can you say this when I
How can you say this when I have spent the past 12 hours trying to get Google Talk to work and it denies it every time?
Except it does not work at
Except it does not work at all.
Why do you list Google Talk
Why do you list Google Talk when it isn't OAuth 2.0 :
Google Will deny login unless you update it.
Wow what a simply brilliant
Wow what a simply brilliant project.
it would be nice to see android & ios versions of this as many current apps do not support key encryption/decryption.
You may enjoy ChatSecure on
You may enjoy ChatSecure on Android.
You may enjoy ChatSecure on
You may enjoy ChatSecure on Android.
Could you do a feature-by-feature comparison of ChatSecure and this creation of yours? We would like to see a list of pros and cons in using your product over ChatSecure. Thanks in advance.
sha256 match but
sha256 match but verification with .asc file raise an error !
I successfully imported key with command:
$ gpg --keyserver x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 0x6887935AB297B391
but then got an error "BAD sign" with
$ gpg --keyid-format long --verify sha256sums.txt.asc tor-messenger-linux64-0.1.0b3_en-US.tar.xz
>gpg: Signature faite le ven. 30 oct. 2015 20:52:30 CET
>gpg: avec la clef RSA 6887935AB297B391
>gpg: MAUVAISE signature de « Sukhbir Singh »
my apologies, verification
my apologies, verification of sha256sum.txt with .asc file is ok finally
it was a error of my command ;)