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With many people working remotely, everybody should by now know how to behave when in a Zoom or Microsoft Teams meeting. Your camera picks up every move even when you think no one is watching, and your microphone can catch the faintest of sounds. Most people assume that muting their computer’s microphone gives them total privacy. That should be the case, but it’s not.Read on to find out how your microphone is sneakily still listening to everything you say.Here’s the backstoryResearchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered that your device’s microphone continues to listen even after hitting the mute switch.While...

Calling all Massachusetts Freepers: I know there has to be some Bay State Freepers out there who can give us the "pulse" of the Brown/Coakley Race. What are people saying? How is the race looking this last weekend? Any other info you can give us.

PARIS (AFP) – The UN climate chief said Wednesday he was "very encouraged" by Barack Obama's stance on global warming, and said he hoped the US president-elect would join in key talks in December before taking office. "It is impossible to advance on this important topic without the full engagement of the United States," Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told AFP by phone. "I am very encouraged by the stated commitment of Senator Obama to the issue of climate change, and I really hope that he or his representatives can come to...

WASHINGTON - Rep. Jim McDermott said Friday he will ask the Supreme Court to decide whether he had a right to disclose contents of an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago. A federal appeals court ruled in May that the Washington state Democrat should not have given reporters access to the tape-recorded telephone call of Republican leaders discussing the House ethics case against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. McDermott's offense was especially egregious since he was a senior member of the House ethics committee, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of...

San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales said he was trying to be a ``get-it-done kind of mayor'' when he failed to tell his colleagues on the City Council that there was a labor problem with a Norcal Waste Systems contract that ended up costing the city an extra $11.25 million. Gonzales made his comments today, his first attempt to explain his motives in the controversial Norcal matter, before the city council took up the issue of whether to level the city's first-ever censure of a mayor. ``I've always tried to carry myself as a get-it-done kind of mayor,'' said Gonzales in...

When I was in high school, every once in a while, our class would be visited by a graduate who was currently attending a college as a Freshman or Sophomore. As this college student would speak with his former teacher, we would be somewhat impressed with the “vast knowledge” of this person who seemed like a man of the world in comparison to us mere high school kids. Of course, these college guys weren’t really all that knowledgeable but they still appeared to make an impression on us little high school kids who didn’t know any better. And now...

As we prepare the state’s budget for the next biennium (2006-2007), we have the great responsibility and opportunity to chart a positive course for the future of Minnesota. In January of 2003, when I took office, Minnesota faced an historic $4.5 billion deficit and the state’s budget reserves were gone. After a great deal of work, we finished fiscal year 2004 with a positive balance, our budget is currently balanced and we have replenished the budget reserve. In short, we have made great progress in the last two years. Projections for the next biennium predict a deficit of $400 million....

Technology and Funds to Drive "Smart Highways"

The Arkansas Free Republic community seems to be having some communication snafus and we would like to resolve them. Since last November the Arkansas chapter of Free Republic (Hog Wild FReepers) have been having regular meetings where we have enjoyed food, drink, discussion and good company. And every month we hear from somebody that they didn't know about the meeting or that if we had it somewhere else they might be able to make it, but mostly we hear nothing. I agreed to address this issue on the general forum because it seems that not everybody gets notified of the...

Archbishop's web site Denver Catholic Register Parishes Catholic Pastoral Center June 5, 2002 Archbishop requests input from faithful to take to Dallas meeting U.S. bishops release drafts of sexual misconduct policies, propose national day of prayer At 2 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on June 4, the U.S. bishops, through their Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse, released three important documents. The first is a national "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People." This is the framework the bishops propose for dealing with the sexual misconduct tragedy in the Church. The second text is "Essential Norms for Diocesan/Eparchial Policies."...