Re: After Action Report of the First Crypto War
From: Ryan Carboni"The ISDN standard was first defined in 1988. " Frequently, I see Statists assert that the Internet was built by the United States Federal Government. I shut them down with this argument: Set the "wayback machine" to 1980 or so. Typically, modems available to consumers were 300 bps acoustic models. Could you build "The Internet" as we know it today with that? Absolutely not. Nor with 1200 bps modems, nor 2400 bps. 9600 bps, which I recall were available in the very late 1980's, would start, although full-motion video would require far more than this. 14,400 and 28,800 bps modems were an improvement. So, "The Internet" as we know it could not possibly have come into existence without the bandwidth provided by then-new high-speed modems. ISDN would have been very good (initially, it was claimed to be 64,000 bps in early discussion; more later) but by the time it was rolled out in some locations, it was not sufficiently better than then-available modems. Further, the phone companies expected to be paid relatively large fees for ISDN circuits, as opposed to regular voice channels which were "free" beyond the regular monthly cost. Thus, the vast majority of the credit for developing the Internet as we know it, as least before the high-speed dedicated detworks, was to the various companies that figured out how to shove 28,000 bps down a 3,000 Hz voice channel, digitized and companded with mu-law (or a-law) codecs at 8,000 samples per second. Jim Bell
Re: A new meaning to "Intertubz" (sub [snigger] head, The Internet of [ahem] 'Thangs')
On 03/02/2017 09:41 PM, jim bell wrote: > > > From: Razer> >> A "smart condom" that "tracks thrust speed and velocity and lets you > share the data." > >> "It's basically a Fitbit for your man bits..." Sexism! It's typically a two (or more) body problem :) > Come again? > (Sorry about that...) >Jim Bell
A new meaning to "Intertubz" (sub [snigger] head, The Internet of [ahem] 'Thangs')
A "smart condom" that "tracks thrust speed and velocity and lets you share the data." "It's basically a Fitbit for your man bits..." The i.Con Smart Condom, which markets itself as the "world's first smart condom," is actually a ring that fits over a boring, dumb condom and claims to track the exercise of your man bits, as well as detect chlamydia and syphilis. The ring, first announced last July, is currently available for preorder on British Condoms for £59.99 (about $74, AU$97) with an unknown release date. But you can't actually put a ring on it yet -- the company says it won't take your money until the product has a firm release. In short, the i.Con ring promises to answer every burning question you've ever had about your sex session. Don't worry, it will pair with an app for all your data visualization needs. According to the preorder page, the ring will answer questions such as: What's my thrust velocity? How fast are my thrusts? How many calories did that sesh just burn? How many times did I just have sex? What's the average skin temperature of my... eggplant? What's my girth? How many different positions did I just conquer? Plus, it aims to answer that age-old question: How do I stack up at sex to everyone else around the world? Because sure, let's gamify sex. What could go wrong? The ring, which will come with a one-year warranty, will have a Micro-USB charging port to provide six to eight hours of "live" usage (not clear if this means thrust usage or something else). It will work with a combination of "nano-chip and sensors," and pair with your device via Bluetooth. (I thought it would charge kinetically, but maybe that's just a pipe dream.) With zero pictures of the self-styled "future of wearable technology in the bedroom" on the site, it's hard to say just how all this technology will fit into a tiny ring. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. British Condoms does say the i.Con will be available in one size with a "band adjustment feature." Worried about privacy, the data kind? British Condoms says "all data will be kept anonymous, but users will have the option to share their recent data with friends, or, indeed the world." Forget dick pics. Now we have to worry about dick status updates. https://www.cnet.com/news/icon-smart-condom-ring/
Orwell coined the phrase 'cold war'
Interesting short piece written by Orwell just after the US nuked Japan (but prior to writing 1984). http://orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb "Nevertheless, looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity."
Re: Relatively Free: A twenty minute documentary about Barrett Brown.
On 03/02/2017 06:51 PM, Mirimir wrote: > On 03/02/2017 06:43 PM, Razer wrote: >> https://fieldofvision.org/relatively-free >> >> >> Player at top of main page autostarts. Totally free. >> >> >>> Recently released from prison after a four year sentence, journalist >>> Barrett >>> Brown reflects on his incarceration and future prospects as his parents >>> drive >>> him to the halfway house. >>> >>> >> Ps. "When the prison gates open the dragon flies out." ~Ho Chi Minh. > Yes, this is great news :) He should really quit smoking. Considering he hasn't had one for a while. It WAS fun watching him puke though. Rr
Re: Relatively Free: A twenty minute documentary about Barrett Brown.
On 03/02/2017 06:43 PM, Razer wrote: > > https://fieldofvision.org/relatively-free > > > Player at top of main page autostarts. Totally free. > > >> >> Recently released from prison after a four year sentence, journalist Barrett >> Brown reflects on his incarceration and future prospects as his parents >> drive >> him to the halfway house. >> >> > > Ps. "When the prison gates open the dragon flies out." ~Ho Chi Minh. Yes, this is great news :)
Relatively Free: A twenty minute documentary about Barrett Brown.
https://fieldofvision.org/relatively-free Player at top of main page autostarts. Totally free. > > Recently released from prison after a four year sentence, journalist > Barrett Brown reflects on his incarceration and future prospects as > his parents drive him to the halfway house. > > Ps. "When the prison gates open the dragon flies out." ~Ho Chi Minh.
CNN ratings skyrocket
No really, they don't. Poll: CNN Brand Continues to Plummet http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/03/01/poll-cnn-brand-continues-plummet/ Russia's Zakharova gets in on the Fake News action :) ‘Stop spreading lies & fake news,’ Russian FM spokeswoman tells CNN reporter https://www.rt.com/news/379256-russia-cnn-spying-zakharova/ And, CNN continues to remind us why, of course... CNNLeaks: CNN Editors Claim 'No Debate' On Climate Change ... http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/23/cnnleaks-cnn-editor-says-theres-no-debate-climate-change-calls-fox-news-unbearable/ http://www.snopes.com/cnn-and-msnbc-ratings/ CNN Ratings Drop Like A Rock, Even HGTV Beat CNN in 2016 http://theamericanfirst.com/cnn-ratings-drop-like-a-rock-even-hgtv-beat-cnn-in-2016/
Re: Ann Coulter - libertarian? - "There shall be a free market in health insurance."
On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 00:43:48 -0600 "Shawn K. Quinn"wrote: > > The "free market" is what is wrong with "health care" in the US. > For-profit hospitals have to make money, so they charge outrageous > prices. The guy selling hotdogs in the street has to make money too. He doesn't charge outrageous prices*. OOPS - quinn doesn't have a fucking clue. Who would have thought it? So called 'health care' is expensive because of the corporatist 'private' mafia that the government created. In other words, there's no 'free market' in health care. *Of course, everything is more expesive than it should be thanks to nazis (national socialists) like quinn and his beloved government, including food. But not even the so called MSM is calling for food socialism...yet.
I Was A Professional Anarchist Paid By Super-Rich Liberal George Soros To Bring Trump Down
> Weeks into the presidency of a buffoonish but vicious tyrant, I feel > compelled to take off my black bandana, hooded sweatshirt, and kick > off my steel-toed boots to reveal myself to the people. This is > especially for those who believe the United States is faced with an > uprising led by professional anarchists and paid protesters. > > They are right. > > In this communique, I will unmask myself, and thus, in doing so, there > will be truth. > > I can say they are correct because I was hired by New York Hedge Fund > manager and elite liberal sugar daddy George Soros to personally chair > an anarcho-commission of agitators. We were asked to treat our work > like that of a corporation. The more franchises we could start in > cities across America, the more likely we would be able to tear down > Donald Trump. > > But the only problem is Soros is a bitch-ass dickstain. > > That motherfucker promised to pay me $2,000/week and give me health > insurance. He promised to set up a retirement account. He even > promised to give me a sizable bonus at the end of the year. But after > the inauguration, when it was time to be paid, no check came in the mail. > > It is almost the end of February, and still, no check has come. I have > receipts from traveling to Washington, D.C. that I need reimbursed! I > have student loans from my Left-Wing Revolutionary Studies Major to > pay off, asshole! > > So, I am violating the non-disclosure agreement I signed to expose > Soros’ professional anarchist dealings, which are aimed at undermining > the most vicious and most brutal capitalist empire in the world. > Confession follows > https://shadowproof.com/2017/02/25/professional-anarchist-soros-trump/
Re: Our experiments taught us why people troll + ‘Alternative facts’: A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2017 08:01 AM, Marina Brown wrote: > Question - why are today's trolls always nazis or various forms of > fascist ? It would be nice to have left wing trolls. ...not the > garden variety liberal troll but some real leftie trolls. > > THAT would be fun ;-) Ideologically pure followers of the Right and Left both troll non-stop; first themselves, then others. The differences between political leaders on the Right and Left are matters of style, not substance. In Identity Politics game, the Left's victory condition is to prove oneself morally superior, while the Right's victory condition is to stomp someone else down. This seems to fit with the observed behavior of inmates of the Left and Right ideologies, consistent with the personality types targeted by political indoctrination campaigns: The Left package is marketed to people with a strong predisposition to confidence and cooperation in social contexts, the Right package is marketed to those with a predisposition for fear and the use of force in social contexts. About ten years ago there were some press notices of psychological studies confirming a model where Liberal and Conservative "political preferences" are strongly consistent with baseline preconscious emotional and cognitive predispositions as per above. This evaluation of Left and Right Identity Politics may not make sense to some people, especially those who have been sold the Left/Right conflict as some kind of "ideological battle" based on the validity or utility of political and economic theories, and believe the outcomes of such debates in the public sphere affect State political and economic policy. But in a context where acquiring and preserving power for its own sake by any means necessary is the only "ideology" of an economic ruling class, the Left/Right divide is more a matter of style than substance: A basis for popularity contests among political representatives of ruling class factions whose action agendas overlap by 90% or more, in a context where public policy always serves the entire ruling class at everyone else's expense. I call Left/Right Identity Politics a "divide the conquered" strategy. :o/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYuFYUAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqdagH/0VYeGn9UKXmDISCRGg3RKTJ NMPY8xpPGN0u9EZFe4LMDyOXia91oC9Cfj+BFmtvvAqXcBT98TudZPxjn2/5o7xW Oih1TqdaKJ//NTEofb2F2TfhlmL5eGOV1mBaCp8nwrjg0gSJfSLV6a8roCNjFgP4 yuzLifb9oWc9sdOnsK0WHaCf3HjSHepuvYjqAxyuODy+K+OnVS5D8A/cDEEI3GqH OhMmnQKwDDMmLX31PXLaTkdMv0tV3YHS82au9U0tm+I7ru/BjxTn8lZq3KamsSdm 9vPwjEqBgAViNj4zHZdXgbFXdFPjAoL0k7ZRe2d55L+Kfqr3FU8HDx+YG0FtU/I= =IkyL -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Ann Coulter - libertarian? - "There shall be a free market in health insurance."
On 03/01/2017 10:43 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 03/02/2017 12:17 AM,
Re: CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!
On 03/01/2017 11:11 PM, oshwm wrote: > I'd take someone with good imagination who has to look up fine details over > someone who has a photographic memory and no imagination any day. The money men opted for lack of imagination and ability to smile at your co-worker even as you plan their assassination. Because it alway worked before. Rr > On 2 March 2017 04:22:34 GMT+00:00, "James A. Donald"> wrote: >> On 3/2/2017 1:00 PM, Razer wrote: A number of programmers have taken it Twitter to bring it to everyone's, but particularly recruiter's, attention about the >> grueling interview process in their field that relies heavily on technical questions. David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I >> don't do riddles." Another coder added, "Hello, my name is Tim. I'm a lead at Google with over 30 years coding experience and I need to look up how to get length of a python string." Another coder chimed in, >> "Hello my name is Mike, I'm a GDE and lead at NY Times, I don't know what >> np complete means. Should I?" A feature story on The Outline adds: > This interview style, widely used by major tech companies including > Google and Amazon, typically pits candidates against a whiteboard > without access to reference material -- a scenario working > programmers say is demoralizing and an unrealistic test of actual > ability. People spend weeks preparing for this process, afraid that > the interviewer will quiz them on the one obscure algorithm they > haven't studied. " > A cottage industry has emerged that reminds us uncomfortably of SAT prep," Karla Monterroso, VP of programs for Code2040, an >> organization for black and Latino techies, wrote in a critique of the whiteboard interview. [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older people, and people of color. >>> With links: >>> >> https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/03/01/1643251/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process >> >> >> I have not studied any of these things since forever and a day, but I >> can still pass all of them, and anyone who cannot, should not be hired. >> >> I think the last time I read what a bubble sort was, or had to think >> about a bubble sort, was when I read Knuth, more decades ago than I >> care >> to admit, and yet I can do a bubble sort off the top of my head on a >> whiteboard. >> >> If companies have a lot of people who could not pass these tests, or >> could not pass them without cramming, they should fire a lot of people. > I'd take someone with good imagination who has to look up fine details over > someone who has a photographic memory and no imagination any day.
Re: Our experiments taught us why people troll + ‘Alternative facts’: A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth
On 03/02/2017 06:40 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: > # Our experiments taught us why people troll. > > http://theconversation.com/our-experiments-taught-us-why-people-troll-72798 > > > # ‘Alternative facts’: A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted > relationships to truth. > > http://theconversation.com/alternative-facts-a-psychiatrists-guide-to-twisted-relationships-to-truth-72469 > > == > > Troll bonus du jour, woohoo!!! ;D > > # Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous. > > http://theconversation.com/trump-isnt-lying-hes-bullshitting-and-its-far-more-dangerous-71932 > Question - why are today's trolls always nazis or various forms of fascist ? It would be nice to have left wing trolls. ...not the garden variety liberal troll but some real leftie trolls. THAT would be fun ;-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica
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Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica
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Our experiments taught us why people troll + ‘Alternative facts’: A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth
> Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com > Thu Mar 2 03:40:54 PST 2017 > > Alternative facts Like when you think saturated fat is unhealthy and deny the world is headed into ice age ? Or like when you demonize the man that said fuck the TPP ?
Ann Coulter - libertarian? - "There shall be a free market in health insurance."
> juan juan.g71 at gmail.com > Wed Mar 1 23:08:35 PST 2017 > > why would your stupid socialist vomits be 'on topic' > in this list by-the-way? For the same reasons your stupid communist vomits be. Research.
Anarchapulco Presentation
> Razer g2s at riseup.net > Wed Mar 1 09:28:43 PST 2017 > > Muslim society is rape culture Good, you agree.
Our experiments taught us why people troll + ‘Alternative facts’: A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth
# Our experiments taught us why people troll. http://theconversation.com/our-experiments-taught-us-why-people-troll-72798 # ‘Alternative facts’: A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth. http://theconversation.com/alternative-facts-a-psychiatrists-guide-to-twisted-relationships-to-truth-72469 == Troll bonus du jour, woohoo!!! ;D # Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous. http://theconversation.com/trump-isnt-lying-hes-bullshitting-and-its-far-more-dangerous-71932
Re: CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!
"James A. Donald"wrote: These are not tests of rote memorization. Someone who passes them by rote memorization is cheating. These are tests of ability to write a simple program. You ask someone to write a bubble sort, not because anyone ever needs a bubble sort, but because the program you actually need someone to write cannot be looked up on the internet. On 3/2/2017 6:52 PM, oshwm wrote: Then what is the use of asking someone to write a bubble sort (which has been written a million times) - surely you should pick something that hasn't been written before? It is convenient to ask someone to write a bubble sort because one can compactly express the problem. Another popular test is fizz buzz: Print out the integers 1 to 100, except that for each integer divisible by three print "fizz", for each integer divisible by five print "buzz" and for each integer divisible by both three and five, print "fizz buzz" There are a huge number of little tests like this, and because people are cramming on common ones like bubble sort and fizz buzz, you need to invent ever more obscure ones so that the cheaters will be unprepared. And, by and large, that is in fact what we are doing: Inventing ever more obscure tests to beat the cheaters. If your interviewees can guess the program they will be asked to write, you need to fire your interviewers.
Re: Ann Coulter - libertarian? - "There shall be a free market in health insurance."
On 3/2/2017 4:43 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: The "free market" is what is wrong with "health care" in the US. For-profit hospitals have to make money, so they charge outrageous prices. Singapore has socialist health care and genuine free market health care. Most people use the free market healthcare, and pay for it out of their own pockets (not quite their own pockets - out of mandatory savings accounts) It is best healthcare system in the world. The prices are fairly similar to the free market health care sectors in India and Thailand. When government guarantees free healthcare for everyone, the hospitals get overrun by bums seeking a free bed and free meals, and by drug addicts seeking free drugs, as for example in Canada. And then the government starts bumping off old people to make room. The problem in America today is that lots of people get free healthcare, and these people go in by the same door, and see the same triage nurse as you do, so there is always a long queue of bums and drug addicts in front of you running up the cost of healthcare. If you are not prepared to let bums and drug addicts drop dead, you wind up bumping off retirees. Which is the Obamacare crisis. Ann Coulter cannot buy health insurance at any price, because bums and drug addicts are in front of her. She can buy what Obama calls health insurance, but it does not cover cancer, broken legs, etc, and has extremely high deductibles, so is effectively not health insurance. And that is the collapse of Obamacare.
Re: CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!
On 2 March 2017 07:22:48 GMT+00:00, "James A. Donald"wrote: >On 3/2/2017 5:11 PM, oshwm wrote: >> I'd take someone with good imagination who has to look up fine > > details over someone who has a photographic memory and no > > imagination any day. > >These are not tests of rote memorization. Someone who passes them by >rote memorization is cheating. These are tests of ability to write a >simple program. > >You ask someone to write a bubble sort, not because anyone ever needs a > >bubble sort, but because the program you actually need someone to write > >cannot be looked up on the internet. Then what is the use of asking someone to write a bubble sort (which has been written a million times) - surely you should pick something that hasn't been written before?