[accesscomp] Dan's Tip of the Day

From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 16:32:02 -0700

Fact of the day:

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

Contents

*1) Samsung's Smart TVs gather and transmit potentially private information
to third parties

*2) NASA finds evidence of ancient ocean covering 20 percent of Mars

*3) Blind Perspective Newsletter is having a Mother's Day Contest

*4) Talking Taxes

*5) 6 of Ben Franklin's Greatest Hoaxes and Pranks | Mental Floss

*6) CellPHone numbers go public this month:

Start of Friday Finds

*1. Samsung's Smart TVs gather and transmit potentially private information
to third parties

when it was first unveiled
<http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/156515-kinect-for-xbox-one-an-always-on-w
orks-in-the-dark-camera-and-microphone-what-could-possibly-go-wrong> - the
company stuck behind the "You can't disable it" rhetoric much longer than
was healthy for the overall console. It's still possible that Samsung is
missing the forest through the trees. People might be more likely to buy
into ideas like Smart TVs if these devices kept data locally and handled the
processing on the TV SoC, or if the terms and services made strong
guarantees about precisely which information was captured, shared, and
transmitted to third-party services.

Source link: Extreme Tech

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/199006-samsungs-smart-tvs-gather-and-tr
ansmit-potentially-private-information-to-third-parties

*2. NASA finds evidence of ancient ocean covering 20 percent of Mars

* By Ryan Whitwam <http://www.extremetech.com/author/rwhitwam> on
March 6, 2015

The Mars we know today is dry, dusty, and thoroughly inhospitable. It wasn't
always like that, though. Evidence is mounting that Mars was a much
wetter, more temperate planet a few billion years ago.

http://www.extremetech.com/tag/mars

* NASA to livestream
<http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/202363-nasa-to-livestream-flying-saucer-
mars-lander-test-today> 'flying saucer' Mars lander test today [UPDATED]
March 31, 2015 at 11:22 am

Watch NASA test its design for future Mars landers live.

*
<http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/202181-iss-astronauts-to-test-new-eye-pr
otection-for-future-mars-missions> Mars

Here:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/202363-nasa-to-livestream-flying-saucer-m
ars-lander-test-today

NASA scientists have just published a paper that explores how much water
Mars had and what happened to all of it. According to this analysis, Mars
had a gigantic ancient ocean that once covered one-fifth of the planet.

To get a better handle on Mars' watery past, researchers used the Keck II
telescope and NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii, as well as the
ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile .

View the location here:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/195453-work-begins-on-extremely-large-tel
escope-will-be-able-to-image-tiny-earth-like-planets-from-light-years-away

They took readings of the Martian atmosphere over six years and analyzed the
composition of water in the ice caps. While all water is composed of two
hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, the specific form of hydrogen can
change its properties.

In this case, Mars was found to have a high concentration of so-called
"heavy water," which contains a hydrogen atom with an extra neutron known
as deuterium. This makes up a very small proportion of naturally occurring
water, so the high ratio of deuterium to regular hydrogen on Mars is very
telling.

The Mars of 4.5 billion years ago had an atmosphere, but as the solar wind
stripped the envelope of gas away, most of its water would have evaporated
into space. However, water with deuterium remains on the surface, and we
know the natural ratio of deuterium water to regular water. This allowed the
NASA team to estimate how much water Mars had all those eons ago. The
findings indicate that only 13 percent of an ancient ocean remains on Mars,
mostly in the ice caps.

The link below opens to apage with videos and sound to more information
about Mars.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/200599-nasa-finds-evidence-of-ancient-oce
an-covering-20-percent-of-mars

*3) The Blind Perspective is conducting a contest in honor of Mother's
Day. We would like you to write in 150 words or less what your mother means
to you. Moms include stepmothers, adoptive moms, foster moms, grandmothers,
or whoever you consider your mom to be. We will choose three winners, each
receiving an Amazon gift card. First Place: $30.00, Second Place: $20.00,
and Third Place: $10.00. Note: if you are chosen, you agree to have your
winning submission published in May's edition of The Blind Perspective.

The Blind Perspective.

April 2015

Volume 1 Issue 4

Contents:

Greetings from the Editor

Hear Ye Hear Ye

Movers & Shakers

International Perspective

Healthy Living

Have I Got A Story For You

The Braille Highway

Talking Taxes

Kaleidoscope of Krafts

Spencer's Spotlight

Computer Tech 101

Cooking Concoctions

Riddle

Brain Buster

Announcements

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Greetings from the Editor

By Karen Santiago

The seasons have recently changed; some places will be getting warmer, while
others will be experiencing cooler weather. Wherever you live may you enjoy
the times of the season. I would like to offer those of you who live outside
of the United States the opportunity to submit your own article for our
International Perspective segment. If interested, write about your
experiences as a blind person within the country you reside in, and we will
publish it in an upcoming issue. Submit your international story here

We are introducing a new segment titled, Subscriber's Submissions. This is
for you, the subscribers of The Blind Perspective. Here is where you will be
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The Blind Perspective is holding a contest! Please read below for complete
details.

Hear Ye Hear Ye, A Contest!

The Blind Perspective is conducting a contest in honor of Mother's Day. We
would like you to write in 150 words or less what your mother means to you.
Moms include stepmothers, adoptive moms, foster moms, grandmothers, or
whoever you consider your mom to be. We will choose three winners, each
receiving an Amazon gift card. First Place: $30.00, Second Place: $20.00,
and Third Place: $10.00. Note: if you are chosen, you agree to have your
winning submission published in May's edition of The Blind Perspective.

Entries need to be submitted no later than April 21, and only one entry per
person please. Write Mother's Day Contest in the subject line.

contest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Winners will be notified by email no later than April 28.

*4) Talking Taxes

By Leisa Rosen

Credit for the elderly and the disabled: The IRS offers two ways to qualify
for the Credit for the Elderly and the Disabled: be at least 65 years old or
have a disability that forced you to retire before your employer's mandatory
retirement age, usually age 65. To qualify as disabled, you also need to
have taxable disability income such as Social Security disability benefits.
This credit reduces the amount of tax owed to the IRS. Unlike the earned
income tax credit, it is nonrefundable, meaning it does not offer a refund
if it lowers your tax liability to zero.

Remember to file your taxes by April 15.

http://www.theblindperspective.com/current.htm

*5) 6 of Ben Franklin's Greatest Hoaxes and Pranks | Mental Floss

As
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/ben-franklin-wasnt-allowed-to-write-
the-declaration-of-independence-because-the-boys-thought-hed-sneak-in-bad-jo
kes.html> the story goes, the Continental Congress tasked Thomas Jefferson
with writing the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. because
they feared Ben Franklin would sneak in jokes. And with a history of pranks
like these, who can blame them?

1. Silence Dogood

The New England Courant: Silence Dogood

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/courant/silencedogood.htm

Ben Franklin knew all about faking it 'til you make it. At the age of 16, he
apprenticed at his older brother's Boston print shop, publisher of The
New-England Courant. Alas, James Franklin wasn't supportive of Ben's writing
ambitions and rejected every piece he submitted. Desperate to get
published-and to prove his brother wrong-the younger Franklin wrote a letter
to the editor under the pseudonym
<http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/courant/silencedogood.htm> Silence Dogood
and slipped it under the shop's door at night. James Franklin found the
middle-aged widow's social commentary humorous and, in 1722, printed 14
Dogood letters.

The letters really resonated with the community-a few eligible bachelors
even mailed marriage proposals to the fictitious woman! When Ben came clean
as the real Silence Dogood, James wasn't amused. But we all know who got the
last laugh: Ben Franklin moved to Philadelphia and founded Poor Richard's
Almanack 10 years later, while the Courant folded in 1726.

2. Titan Leeds's Death

The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, published in 1733, established
an ongoing prank on Titan Leeds, an astrologer, competing almanac publisher,
and frenemy of Ben Franklin. Under the pseudonym Poor Richard Saunders,
Franklin predicted Leeds's death and encouraged readers to stick around to
see if his prognostication was right. The feud that followed sold a lot of
pamphlets, benefiting both publishers.

The next year, the Almanack printed an obituary for the still living Leeds
and reported that the man claiming to be him was an identity thief. When
Leeds actually died in 1738, Saunders commended the imposter for ending the
prank once and for all. But Franklin doesn't get all the credit for this
one. The hoax was inspired by Jonathan Swift, who used the pseudonym Isaac
Bickerstaff to pull an enduring April Fool's Day joke on astrologer John
Partridge in 1708.

3. The Speech of Miss Polly Baker

Franklin clearly enjoyed using pseudonyms, but one of his more progressive
"pranks" was done completely anonymously. In 1747, he published "The Speech
of Miss Polly Baker
<http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0057> " in The
General Advertiser. In it, a woman goes on trial for having an illegitimate
child-a crime she's committed four other times-and wonders why the men
involved were never punished. Franklin perfectly balanced humor, sex, and
sympathy to both entertain readers and challenge the double standard. While
many people believed Miss Baker's was a true story, it was in fact only
partially inspired by true events: Franklin himself had a son out of
wedlock. Allegedly, the founding father didn't come clean as the story's
author until 1777, at which time he was ambassador to France.

4. Faking the Boston Independent Chronicle

Long before The Onion, in 1782, Ben Franklin published a fake supplement
<http://allthingsliberty.com/2014/11/propaganda-warfare-benjamin-franklin-fa
kes-a-newspaper/> to the Boston Independent Chronicle. It wasn't all in
good fun-he hoped to arouse the sympathies of British citizens for the
Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War in time for peace
negotiations. To do so, he needed content that would get reprinted in
British newspapers, and, well, sensationalism sells. The most affecting
bogus story was a grisly letter detailing how the British employed Native
Americans to scalp colonists. When Franklin sent the letter to
correspondents, he admitted the supplement's questionable veracity, but
maintained that the scalping issue was very real and warranted reporting. No
one knew it was a hoax until more than 70 years later!

5. Daylight Saving Time

Satire is rooted in truth. In the essay "An Economical Project for
Diminishing the Cost of Light," published in the Journal de Paris in April
1784, Ben Franklin suggested that the French could conserve 64 million
pounds of candle wax if they woke up with the sun in springtime. He
hilariously proposed firing cannons and ringing church bells as a sort of
unavoidable alarm clock. It was a preposterous idea. until it became a
reality (minus the cannons).

Today, the joke's on us. A New Zealand entomologist named George Vernon
Hudson proposed the daylight savings time we temporarily loathe today in
1895. European countries adopted it in 1916, and the U.S. followed suit two
years later.

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As
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/ben-franklin-wasnt-allowed-to-write-
the-declaration-of-independence-because-the-boys-thought-hed-sneak-in-bad-jo
kes.html> the story goes, the Continental Congress tasked Thomas Jefferson
with writing the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. because
they feared Ben Franklin would sneak in jokes. And with a history of pranks
like these, who can blame them?

1. Silence Dogood

Ben Franklin knew all about faking it 'til you make it. At the age of 16, he
apprenticed at his older brother's Boston print shop, publisher of The
New-England Courant. Alas, James Franklin wasn't supportive of Ben's writing
ambitions and rejected every piece he submitted. Desperate to get
published-and to prove his brother wrong-the younger Franklin wrote a letter
to the editor under the pseudonym
<http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/courant/silencedogood.htm> Silence Dogood
and slipped it under the shop's door at night. James Franklin found the
middle-aged widow's social commentary humorous and, in 1722, printed 14
Dogood letters.

The letters really resonated with the community-a few eligible bachelors
even mailed marriage proposals to the fictitious woman! When Ben came clean
as the real Silence Dogood, James wasn't amused. But we all know who got the
last laugh: Ben Franklin moved to Philadelphia and founded Poor Richard's
Almanack 10 years later, while the Courant folded in 1726.

2. Titan Leeds's Death

The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, published in 1733, established
an ongoing prank on Titan Leeds, an astrologer, competing almanac publisher,
and frenemy of Ben Franklin. Under the pseudonym Poor Richard Saunders,
Franklin predicted Leeds's death and encouraged readers to stick around to
see if his prognostication was right. The feud that followed sold a lot of
pamphlets, benefiting both publishers.

The next year, the Almanack printed an obituary for the still living Leeds
and reported that the man claiming to be him was an identity thief. When
Leeds actually died in 1738, Saunders commended the imposter for ending the
prank once and for all. But Franklin doesn't get all the credit for this
one. The hoax was inspired by Jonathan Swift, who used the pseudonym Isaac
Bickerstaff to pull an enduring April Fool's Day joke on astrologer John
Partridge in 1708.

3. The Speech of Miss Polly Baker

Franklin clearly enjoyed using pseudonyms, but one of his more progressive
"pranks" was done completely anonymously. In 1747, he published "
<http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0057> The Speech
of Miss Polly Baker" in The General Advertiser. In it, a woman goes on trial
for having an illegitimate child-a crime she's committed four other
times-and wonders why the men involved were never punished. Franklin
perfectly balanced humor, sex, and sympathy to both entertain readers and
challenge the double standard. While many people believed Miss Baker's was a
true story, it was in fact only partially inspired by true events: Franklin
himself had a son out of wedlock. Allegedly, the founding father didn't come
clean as the story's author until 1777, at which time he was ambassador to
France.

4. Faking the Boston Independent Chronicle

Long before The Onion, in 1782, Ben Franklin published a
<http://allthingsliberty.com/2014/11/propaganda-warfare-benjamin-franklin-fa
kes-a-newspaper/> fake supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle. It
wasn't all in good fun-he hoped to arouse the sympathies of British citizens
for the Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War in time for peace
negotiations. To do so, he needed content that would get reprinted in
British newspapers, and, well, sensationalism sells. The most affecting
bogus story was a grisly letter detailing how the British employed Native
Americans to scalp colonists. When Franklin sent the letter to
correspondents, he admitted the supplement's questionable veracity, but
maintained that the scalping issue was very real and warranted reporting. No
one knew it was a hoax until more than 70 years later!

5. Daylight Saving Time

Satire is rooted in truth. In the essay "An Economical Project for
Diminishing the Cost of Light," published in the Journal de Paris in April
1784, Ben Franklin suggested that the French could conserve 64 million
pounds of candle wax if they woke up with the sun in springtime. He
hilariously proposed firing cannons and ringing church bells as a sort of
unavoidable alarm clock. It was a preposterous idea. until it became a
reality (minus the cannons).

Today, the joke's on us. A New Zealand entomologist named George Vernon
Hudson proposed the daylight savings time we temporarily loathe today in
1895. European countries adopted it in 1916, and the U.S. followed suit two
years later.

*6) CellPHone numbers go public this month:

REMEMBER Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month.

REMINDER..... All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing
companies and you will start to receive sales calls.

YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:

888-382-1222.

It is the National DO NOT CALL list It will only take a minute of your
time.. It blocks your number for five (5) years.

You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You
cannot call

from a different phone number.

HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON. It takes about 20 seconds.

----contributed by Trish

He sees the perils that are in our path that we cannot see. He speaks to us
in mercy and grace and He builds us up to meet the dangers and be prepared
to receive the things we could not wisely use today. There are many things
which we can employ tomorrow that we cannot wisely use today.

-A.A. Conrad

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