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Chrome 56 Quietly Added Bluetooth Snitch API (theregister.co.uk)
Richard Chirgwin, writing for The Register: When Google popped out Chrome 56 at the end of January it was keen to remind us it's making the web safer by flagging non-HTTPS sites. But Google made little effort to publicise another feature that's decidedly less friendly to privacy, because it lets websites ask about users' Bluetooth devices and harvest information from them through the browser. That's more a pitch to developers, as is clear in this YouTube video from Pete LePage of the Chrome Developers team. "Until now, the ability to communicate with Bluetooth devices has been possible only for native apps. With Chrome 56, your Web app can communicate with nearby Bluetooth devices in a private and secure manner, using the Web Bluetooth API," Google shares in the video. "The Web Bluetooth API uses the GATT [Generic Attribute Profile - ed] protocol, which enables your app to connect to devices such as light bulbs, toys, heart-rate monitors, LED displays and more, with just a few lines of JavaScript." In other words, the API lets websites ask your browser "what Bluetooth devices can you see," find out what your fridge, and so on, is capable of, and interact with it.
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I have a classic book in front of me published in the year 1868, titled âoeGOD IN HISTORY and GOD IN SCIENCE,â authored by London Pastor John Cumming (1807-1881).[1] May I say kindly, there's no such thing as an atheist! Some of the world's wealthiest celebrities have the stench of Hell on them, which is where they are all going, blaspheming the very God Who is kind to them. Luke 6:35b, âoe...for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.â
Legendary singer Billy Joel is a professed atheist...
âoeI gradually decided that just because I didn't have or couldn't find the ultimate answer didn't mean I was going to buy the religious fairytale. As an atheist you have to rationalize things.â â"Billy Joel
On page 139 of his book, âoeGOD IN HISTORY and GOD IN SCIENCE,â Pastor John Cumming makes a brilliant observation concerning professed atheists...
Atheism is folly as much as wickedness. But suffer me, before I show this, to say, that it is absolutely impossible that any man can be an atheist, in the strict sense of that word. All that any can say is this: âoeNo spot that I have searched does reveal a God; every organization I have examined does not show traces of wisdom, goodness, and design:â but that individual cannot say; âoeThere is no God;â because he cannot say, âoeI have soared to the farthest star, I have descended to the deepest mines, I have swept all space, and searched all time, and in the realms of infinite space I have not detected any traces of a God.â In other words, to be able to say, âoeThere is no God,â you must yourself assume to be God, which is a reductio ad absurdum, an utter and a complete absurdity.
SOURCE: âoeGOD IN HISTORY and GOD IN SCIENCE,â p. 139; by Rev. John Cumming, D.D.; New York: Published by Carlton & Lanahan; 200 Mulberry-Street; 1868.
What a brilliant observation. How can any man claim to be an atheist unless he has traveled to the farthest place in the universe? The nearest star to the earth (after our own sun) is Alpha Centauri, which is 4.37 light-years away (28,200,000,000,000 miles away!). This is just one star, being the closest to earth besides our own sun, which is 93,000,000,000 miles away. My friend, the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that there are at least 200,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe. And each of those galaxies contains BILLIONS of stars! It is anticipated that when the James Webb Telescope is launched in 2018 from NASA, that it will discover over ONE TRILLION GALAXIES!!!
The Word of God teaches that God made the stars. I love how Genesis 1:16 is written... âoeHE MADE THE STARS ALSO.â It's like the Bible is saying, âoeOh, by the way, God also made all the stars!â Genesis 1:16, âoeAnd God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.â God is amazing, Who knows the exact number of stars that He created, and he calls them each by their own name. Amen! Psalms 147:4, âoeHe telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.â I have just briefly discussed the stars. The world that exists under a microscope is even more amazing, complex and a mystery to mankind. How can anyone reasonably claim to be an atheist when man hasn't even discovered what's in 90% of the earth's oceans? Pastor John Cumming is so right... For anyone to say, âoeThere is no God!,â you must yourself assume to be God! No human being has traveled to the ends of the u