Status Update: Privacy Dead, Surveillance Alive, Secrets Hidden
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/03/the-governments-privacy-watchdog-is-basically-dead-emails-reveal/ https://theintercept.com/2017/03/04/trump-wants-nsa-program-reauthorized-but-wont-tell-congress-how-many-americans-it-spies-on/ https://theintercept.com/2017/03/04/if-trump-tower-was-wiretapped-trump-can-declassify-that-right-now/ And govt and most everything else... fucked. Oh, wait, no status change since last time, sorry for the noise, dept of redundancy dept.
Re: [TriggerWarning: Sexist-Racist-Baiting, cmon...] Selma Burke
On 3/5/2017 3:43 PM, Razer wrote: I expect that you're blind. Not even a remote resemblance to the image on a dime: Here is the dime and medal side by side. It is obvious that John R. Sinnock simply cloned his medal to make the dime, simplifying the hair slightly but not changing it in the otherwise, and that Selma Burk plagiarized John R. Sinnock's medal. Well, obviously, because she is black, and all famous black inventors, artists, scientists etc either plagiarized their stuff, or their inventions are fictional. Just as you cannot find a plausibly innocent black who was lynched, you cannot find a plausibly smart black intellectual. You look really really hard for black victims of white racism, come up with Emmett Till. You look really really hard for smart blacks, come up with Selma Burke. You look really really hard for innocent blacks gunned down by policeman, come up with Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin. You look really really hard for the great white upper class rapist, come up with the Duke University Lacrosse Team, and Haven Monahan at the University of Virginia. Recapping the story of Haven Monahan: http://www.vdare.com/posts/uva-rape-hoax-the-importance-of-three-words-catfishing-and-haven-monahan You look really really hard for a great woman scientist, and proceed to award not one but two Noble prizes to the mediocrity Marie Curie.
Re: Is the revolution over?
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:05 AM, \0xDynamite wrote: > I still have a complete revolution in my pocket As do many. So the essential question is, who will stand with you, and when do you pull the trigger.
Re: Is the revolution over?
Just because under tyranny good men fear to speak their minds in public, does not mean there are no good men around. On Mar 5, 2017 12:06, "\0xDynamite" wrote: > Honestly, I'm back to this list shell-shocked. I left this > civilization, thinking things were on track, but coming back, I see > the information revolution has turned into another glam and sham > celebration. What happened to John Perry Barlow? > > What's the value of cryptography if everyone's content with facebook, > jabbascript login portals, and the same old commerce now 100 times > easier? > > Are there any revolutionaries? Is the soul for real change dead? Is > everyone medicated, over-eaten, touch-screen hyper-media and everyone > is PERFECTLY CONTENT? > > I still have a complete revolution in my pocket, but I guess I'll have > to chuck it, if there's no one here... > > Marcos >
Re: [TriggerWarning: Sexist-Racist-Baiting, cmon...] Selma Burke
On 03/04/2017 08:52 PM, whitebread wrote: > On 3/5/2017 12:21 PM, Razer wrote: >> Designer does not mean creator of the image, and his denials bore me >> without images of his "/studies which he made from life in 1933 and >> 1934/" as evidence. As far as I can find there are no such 'studies' >> that produced any tangible image. >> > > Here is the medal. > > As you can see the black woman plagiarized the white man. What would > you expect. > > > I expect that you're blind. Not even a remote resemblance to the image on a dime: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/1_Dime_%28United_States%29.jpg/800px-1_Dime_%28United_States%29.jpg I could start with the ear and go from there but you simply aren't worth the bandwidth whitebread. Rr
Re: Is the revolution over?
On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 00:05:09 -0500 "\\0xDynamite" wrote: > > Are there any revolutionaries? Is the soul for real change dead? Is > everyone medicated, over-eaten, touch-screen hyper-media and everyone > is PERFECTLY CONTENT? so it seems... > > I still have a complete revolution in my pocket, but I guess I'll have > to chuck it, if there's no one here... > > Marcos
Is the revolution over?
Honestly, I'm back to this list shell-shocked. I left this civilization, thinking things were on track, but coming back, I see the information revolution has turned into another glam and sham celebration. What happened to John Perry Barlow? What's the value of cryptography if everyone's content with facebook, jabbascript login portals, and the same old commerce now 100 times easier? Are there any revolutionaries? Is the soul for real change dead? Is everyone medicated, over-eaten, touch-screen hyper-media and everyone is PERFECTLY CONTENT? I still have a complete revolution in my pocket, but I guess I'll have to chuck it, if there's no one here... Marcos
Re: [TriggerWarning: Sexist-Racist-Baiting, cmon...] Selma Burke
On 3/5/2017 12:21 PM, Razer wrote: Designer does not mean creator of the image, and his denials bore me without images of his "/studies which he made from life in 1933 and 1934/" as evidence. As far as I can find there are no such 'studies' that produced any tangible image. Here is the medal. As you can see the black woman plagiarized the white man. What would you expect.
Re: Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg
On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Razer wrote: > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/30/facebook-emotion-study-breached-ethical-guidelines-researchers-say Top Secret MKULTRA alive and well. Only this time the drugs are also brought to you by cute little companies in the form of phones and apps. The mind, such a terrible thing to let go to waste ;) # unethical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_subject_research
eBook (pdf) Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism - Libcom
A "Psychogeographical look at the ever increasing encroachment of militarism and high tech surveillance into urban areas." "Cities Under Siege comprises three broad, thematic chapters, followed by seven extended case studies. The first of the thematic chapters looks at how warfare, political violence and military and security imaginaries are now re-entering cities. This development follows a long period when Western military thought was preoccupied with planning globe-straddling nuclear exchanges between superpowers or massed tank engagements across rural plains. It examines, too, the ways in which the latest military and security doctrine is working to colonize the everyday environments of modern conurbations. Chapter 2 moves on to look at how the various bastions of the political right increasingly work to demonize cities as intrinsically threatening or problematic places necessitating political violence, militarized control, or radical securitization. In Chapter 3, I detail the particular characteristics of the new military urbanism, and use some of the latest research in the social sciences to highlight key features of the deep ening crossover between urbanism and militarism. The next six case studies address the circuits through which the new military urbanism connects urban life in the West to existence on colonial frontiers. The first three look at, respectively, the proliferation of borders and surveillance systems within the fabric of urban life; the US military's ambitions for urban and counterinsurgency warfare based on the deployment of armed robots; and the connections between entertainment, simulation and US military and imperial violence. The final three explore the diffusion of Israeli technology and doctrine in urban warfare and securitization; the links between urban infrastructure and contemporary political violence; and the ways in which Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) culture is embedded within a geopolitical and political- economic setting that links domestic and colonial cities and spaces. https://libcom.org/library/cities-under-siege-new-urban-militarism-stephen-graham Direct link, PDF, 7.3Mb: https://libcom.org/files/Graham,%20Stephen%20-%20Cities%20Under%20Siege.%20The%20New%20Military%20Urbanism_0.pdf
Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project Corporate Document FOI Request
https://www.torproject.org/about/findoc/2016-TorProject-Bylaws.pdf http://archive.is/9tcfa http://archive.is/www.torproject.org Tor Project Inc has quietly without public mention posted one version of its bylaws. However note clearly, as documented within them, that at least three other versions (including the implicit first version) do exist. At least one previous unpublished version of which is highly likely to be contextually relavant to recent #TorGate and TPI affairs in general. Note that TPI have failed to post those versions, indeed all versions, thus again dodging simple community FOI request for same. Requests for minutes of meetings of the board, and other transparency docs, continue to be ignored. Posting of requested finance docs remains a year delayed from actual date of completion and formal / customary submittal deadlines to government entities (ie: dates of which they become legally official, caveat any rare formal revision / correction submittal to such entities). To date it is believed Tor community / interested parties have not observed or journaled any public acknowledgment of or response to said community FOI request by any TPI officers.
Re: Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg
On 03/04/2017 07:21 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg >> https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-global-community/10154544292806634 > Too much all under one roof, too left, definitely into censorship, > outright creepy datamining and psychosocial testing and engineering > (search youtube for facebook talking heads on this crap), shaping > and pushing their narrative down upon userbase, with some say > insecure Zuckerberg seeking validation. Above and beyond the billions > already made exploiting you 'for free'. > > Would hundreds of millions of candy crush playing idiots all rising > up at once on command feel like a "safe space" to you? > > Facebook is a closed corporation and said to have TOP SECRET government > involvement, the same for Zuckerberg. Trust? > > If you want to enter politics and vie for good on your own and > solicit followers, great, go for it. But don't go engineering your > captive users into it as your own private army. > > Good that Zuck and Chan sortof spent his wad on medical disease > reserch, but only if it's free for all opensourced and free of > patent royalty copyright license fee, goes on to foster same, etc. > > Facebook did opensource some datacenter things, but that's negligible. > > Trap? Huge. > At least this time it was announced in public. > Who will listen? > You decide. Public ... Unlike their little emoticon Emotional Engineering experiment where they failed to get one single informed consent from 700,000 users. Ethics schmethics! Markets are waiting, and the product is you... > Facebook emotion study breached ethical guidelines, researchers say > > /Lack of 'informed consent' means that Facebook experiment on nearly > 700,000 news feeds broke rules on tests on human subjects, say scientists/ > > Researchers have roundly condemned Facebook's experiment in which it > manipulated nearly 700,000 users' news feeds to see whether it would > affect their emotions, saying it breaches ethical guidelines for > "informed consent". > > James Grimmelmann, professor of law at the University of Maryland, > points in an extensive blog post that "Facebook didn't give users > informed consent" to allow them to decide whether to take part in the > study, under US human subjects research. > > "The study harmed participants," because it changed their mood, > Grimmelmann comments, adding "This is bad, even for Facebook." > > But one of the researchers, Adam Kramer, posted a lengthy defence on > Facebook, saying it was carried out "because we care about the > emotional impact of Facebook and the people that use our product." He > said that he and his colleagues "felt that it was important to > investigate the common worry that seeing friends post positive content > leads to people feeling negative or left out." > > The experiment hid certain elements from 689,003 peoples' news feed – > about 0.04% of users, or 1 in 2,500 – over the course of one week in > 2012. The experiment hid "a small percentage" of emotional words from > peoples' news feeds, without their knowledge, to test what effect that > had on the statuses or "Likes" that they then posted or reacted to. > > The results found that, contrary to expectation, peoples' emotions > were reinforced by what they saw - what the researchers called > "emotional contagion". > > But the study has come in for severe criticism because unlike the > advertising that Facebook shows - which arguably aims to alter > peoples' behaviour by making them buy products or services from those > advertisers - the changes to the news feeds were made without users' > knowledge or explicit consent. > > Max Masnick, a researcher with a doctorate in epidemiology who says of > his work that "I do human-subjects research every day", says that the > structure of the experiment means there was no informed consent - a > key element of any studies on humans. > > "As a researcher, you don’t get an ethical free pass because a user > checked a box next to a link to a website’s terms of use. The > researcher is responsible for making sure all participants are > properly consented. In many cases, study staff will verbally go > through lengthy consent forms with potential participants, point by > point. Researchers will even quiz participants after presenting the > informed consent information to make sure they really understand. > > "Based on the information in the PNAS paper, I don’t think these > researchers met this ethical obligation." > > Kramer does not address the topic of informed consent in his blog > post. But he says that "my co-authors and I are very sorry for the way > the paper described the research and any anxiety it caused. In > hindsight, the research benefits of the paper may not have justified > all of this anxiety." > > When asked whether the study had had an ethical review before being > approved for publication, the US National Academy of Sciences, which > published the controversial paper in it
Re: [Cryptography] Text of Burr-Feinstein encryption backdoor bill
On 03/04/2017 06:52 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2797124/Burr-Feinstein-Encryption-Bill-Discussion-Draft.pdf >> https://www.burr.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BAG16460.pdf > Dianne Feinstein's husband has interest in Compass Automation (/I believe they were eventually bought out by Synopsys/) . A company that makes the tools used to put backdoors in (/at least/) comm chipsets,. They probably didn't like me referring to her as a “Corrupt Bitch” when they followed their vanity search to http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/54758257254
Re: Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg
> Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg > https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-global-community/10154544292806634 Too much all under one roof, too left, definitely into censorship, outright creepy datamining and psychosocial testing and engineering (search youtube for facebook talking heads on this crap), shaping and pushing their narrative down upon userbase, with some say insecure Zuckerberg seeking validation. Above and beyond the billions already made exploiting you 'for free'. Would hundreds of millions of candy crush playing idiots all rising up at once on command feel like a "safe space" to you? Facebook is a closed corporation and said to have TOP SECRET government involvement, the same for Zuckerberg. Trust? If you want to enter politics and vie for good on your own and solicit followers, great, go for it. But don't go engineering your captive users into it as your own private army. Good that Zuck and Chan sortof spent his wad on medical disease reserch, but only if it's free for all opensourced and free of patent royalty copyright license fee, goes on to foster same, etc. Facebook did opensource some datacenter things, but that's negligible. Trap? Huge. At least this time it was announced in public. Who will listen? You decide.
Fwd: [Cryptography] Uber "Greyball"-ed city authorities w/fake screens
-- Forwarded message -- From: Henry Baker Date: Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 6:53 PM Subject: [Cryptography] Uber "Greyball"-ed city authorities w/fake screens To: cryptogra...@metzdowd.com FYI -- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html 'To build a case against the company, officers ... posed as riders, opening the Uber app' 'Uber had tagged [the officer] ... based on data collected from [his/her] app ... The company then served up a fake version of the app populated with ghost cars' 'When Uber moved into a new city, [an Uber employee] ... would try to spot enforcement officers. One technique involved drawing a digital perimeter, or "geofence," around the government offices ... people were frequently opening and closing the app ... near such locations as evidence that [they] might be associated with city agencies. Other techniques included ... credit card information and determining whether the card was tied directly to an institution like a police credit union.' http://www.cultofmac.com/304401/ubers-android-app-literally-malware/ Uber's data-sucking Android app is dangerously close to malware [updated] By Buster Hein -- 11:22 am, November 26, 2014 Uber has been sideswiped by a ridiculous number of controversies lately, but things are about to get even worse for the ride-sharing service. A security researcher just reverse-engineered the code of Uber's Android app and made a startling discovery: It's "literally malware." Digging into the app's code, GironSec (http://www.gironsec.com/blog/2014/11/what-the-hell-uber-uncool-bro/) discovered the Uber app "calls home" and sends data back to Uber. This isn't typical app data, though. Uber has access to users' entire SMSLog even though the app never requests permission. It also accesses call history, Wi-Fi connections used, GPS locations and every type of device ID possible. The app even checks your neighbor's Wi-Fi and retrieves info on the router's capabilities, frequency and SSID. News of the app's vulnerability was first posted on Hacker News with the charming intro, "TLDR: Uber's Android app is literally malware." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8660336) One developer commenting on the revelation said there isn't "any reason for Google not to immediately remove this app from the store permanently and ban whatever developer uploaded it. There should probably be legal action." Here's the full list of all the data Uber is collecting through its Android app (we're checking to see if the iOS version works the same way): -- Accounts log (Email) -- App Activity (Name, PackageName, Process Number of activity, Processed id) -- App Data Usage (Cache size, code size, data size, name, package name) -- App Install (installed at, name, package name, unknown sources enabled, version code, version name) -- Battery (health, level, plugged, present, scale, status, technology, temperature, voltage) -- Device Info (board, brand, build version, cell number, device, device type, display, fingerprint, IP, MAC address, manufacturer, model, OS platform, product, SDK code, total disk space, unknown sources enabled) -- GPS (accuracy, altitude, latitude, longitude, provider, speed) -- MMS (from number, MMS at, MMS type, service number, to number) -- NetData (bytes received, bytes sent, connection type, interface type) -- PhoneCall (call duration, called at, from number, phone call type, to number) -- SMS (from number, service number, SMS at, SMS type, to number) -- TelephonyInfo (cell tower ID, cell tower latitude, cell tower longitude, IMEI, ISO country code, local area code, MEID, mobile country code, mobile network code, network name, network type, phone type, SIM serial number, SIM state, subscriber ID) -- WifiConnection (BSSID, IP, linkspeed, MAC addr, network ID, RSSI, SSID) -- WifiNeighbors (BSSID, capabilities, frequency, level, SSID) -- Root Check (root status code, root status reason code, root version, sig file version) -- Malware Info (algorithm confidence, app list, found malware, malware SDK version, package list, reason code, service list, sigfile version) Uber might have a legitimate reason to use most of this info in the app, perhaps for fraud detection or an intelligence-gathering tool. The problem is that the information is being sent and collected by Uber's servers without users' knowledge or permission. Sen. Al Franken sent a letter to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick last week demanding the company account to the public for its data gathering. The letter came as a response to a recent controversy where an Uber executive threatened to spy on and blackmail journalists who wrote unfavorable articles about the company. Uber's "God View" tool, which gives company insiders unlimited access to riders' data, has also been a cause of concern in recent weeks. Cult of Mac asked Uber for comment on the collection and transmission of the data its Android and iOS apps are performing, but haven't r
Re: [Cryptography] Text of Burr-Feinstein encryption backdoor bill
> https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2797124/Burr-Feinstein-Encryption-Bill-Discussion-Draft.pdf > https://www.burr.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BAG16460.pdf Lawmaking, Crypto, and Weasel Words... One Random Read Between The Lines > A BILL > To require [crap] > and for other purposes Because "other purposes" is how you sneak in more unwanted crap behind the first crap. And how you avoid legitimate up or down on any single issue. Feature creep 101. > "Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016" Sounds dreamy and routine doesn't it, just breeze over it on a lazy Sunday in the park and vote yes on Monday. Nothing to see here, move along. > It is the sense of Congress that ... These weasel words are particularly revolting, they smell like flowers but they're not. They vote for them because flowers... after all, their expected "sense" and thus their expected vote has already been printed on paper for them by their leaders, how could they ever vote against such pretty things. After gleefully voting for it, they then find themselves forever trapped because this "sense" has now been formally imposed upon their prior independance by law. Any dissent against the enacted flowers now becomes an embarrassing politically suicidal case of position changing, and illegal, because it's not following the official "sense". Disgusting. > (1) no person or entity is above the law Actually, they are, at least until the law exerts itself over special selectees among them, typically reserved for dissenters. > (2) economic growth prosperity security, stability, > and liberty require adherence to the rule of law Actually, none of these *require* any law, let alone blind adherance to it. > (3) the Constitution and laws of the United States > provide for the safety, security, and civil > liberties of all United States persons No, they don't, nor are there any such guarantees. > and the > protections and obligations of these laws apply to > all persons within United States jurisdiction No, they don't. Notice the routine trotting out of grand patriotic bullshit like this to dispel any critical thought and bank votes on shit laws. PATRIOT even had it in its title. > (4) all providers of communications services and > products (including software) "Software"... see, they snuck in the all encompassing grandaddy of them all... any / all / your "software", including opensource and private use, and extends to hardware as software in silicon. > should protect the > privacy of United States persons through implementation > of appropriate data security Stage setting under dissentproof "sense of congress" for future legislated "security". Lots of failure there. See also: CALEA Everywhere, plugin goatse version > and still respect the rule > of law and comply with all legal requirements and court > orders Attempt at washing away dissent, disrespect and noncompliance as unconscionable / evil acts, or unacceptable to even think of. > (5) to uphold both the rule of law and protect > the interests and security of the United States, Wait a minute, thought this US thing was about "we the people", now it's only about "of the United States" itself? > all persons receiving an authorized judicial order Wait a minute, judges issue their own independant orders, all the way up to the Supreme's, so now just exactly *who* is doing this "authorizing" above them? You don't think the Judicial Branch will just lay themselves over entirely to statutory law do you? Alternatively, just what is the police force of the Judiciary, and who does it report to? > for > information or data must provide, in a timely manner, > responsive, intelligible information or data, or > appropriate technical assistance to obtain such > information or data These days, thanks to your allowing them twisting it for 15+ years, "technical assistance" now includes indefinite detention and rubberhose "tech"niques, destruction of family / work life, asset forfeiture, etc. Also, tricking and ratting out others is hip. > (6) covered entities must provide responsive, > intelligible information or data, or appropriate > technical assistance to a government pursuant to a court order. All "entities" to any "a government" around the world? Nice one. Global Order [?] brought within a Sea of Pretty Flowers. Proudly passed by your Presidents and Congresses, stamped by Judges picked by same. People around the world need to be reading the crap that gets put in their laws, then getting rid of the crap that put it there.
Re: [TriggerWarning: Sexist-Racist-Baiting, cmon...] Selma Burke
> Burke was chosen to sculpt a portrait of then-President Franklin D. > Roosevelt honoring the Four Freedoms.[9] Completed in 1944, the > 3.5-by-2.5-foot plaque was unveiled in September 1945 at the Recorder > of Deeds Building in Washington, D.C., where it still hangs today.[10] > Some have suggested that the plaque may have served as John R. > Sinnock's inspiration for his obverse design on the Roosevelt > dime.[10] Sinnock, however, denied this vehemently, claiming the > design for the dime was based on earlier medals he had sculpted in > 1933 and 1934 as well as photographs of FDR.[11][12] Her work next to the quote here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Burke#Biography > > > Sinnock denied this claim and said that the obverse portrait of the > President was a composite of two studies which he made from life in > 1933 and 1934. Sinnock said that he also consulted photographs of FDR > and had the advice and criticism of two prominent sculptors who > specialize in work in relief > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Sinnock#Urban_folklore Designer does not mean creator of the image, and his denials bore me without images of his "/studies which he made from life in 1933 and 1934/" as evidence. As far as I can find there are no such 'studies' that produced any tangible image. It's easy to see his plagiarization in the hair details. Rr
Re: [TriggerWarning: Sexist-Racist-Baiting, cmon...] Selma Burke
On 3/5/2017 10:52 AM, Razer wrote: You know... THAT "Selma Burke". The Black Woman who never received credit for her portrait of Franklin D, Roosevelt on the US dime. https://twitter.com/Crystal1Johnson/status/838140498841763840 That is because she never had anything whatsoever to do with the portrait of Franklin D Roosevelt on the US dime. Like most black inventors, scientists, artists, etc, her achievements are largely fictional, fraudulent, or plaigarized. The portrait on the US dime is by John R. Sinnock, and resembles his previous works on Roosevelt, predating her works, so she copied from him, badly. He did not copy from her.
[TriggerWarning: Sexist-Racist-Baiting, cmon...] Selma Burke
You know... THAT "Selma Burke". The Black Woman who never received credit for her portrait of Franklin D, Roosevelt on the US dime. https://twitter.com/Crystal1Johnson/status/838140498841763840 Rr
"802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks"
Semi-technical history and discussion (all technical terminology linked): > > > When wireless networking based around the 802.11b standard first hit > consumer markets in the late nineties, it looked pretty good on paper. > Promising "11 Mbps" compared to original wired Ethernet's 10 Mbps, a > reasonable person might have thought 802.11b was actually faster than > 10Mbps wired Ethernet connections. It was a while before I was exposed > to wireless networking—smartphones weren't a thing yet, and laptops > were still hideously expensive, underpowered, and overweight. I was > already rocking Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps) wired networks in all my > clients' offices and my own house, so the idea of cutting my speed by > 90 percent really didn't appeal. > > In the early 2000s, things started to change. Laptops got smaller, > lighter, and cheaper—and they had Wi-Fi built in right from the > factory. Small businesses started eyeballing the "11Mbps" that 802.11b > promised and deciding that 10Mbps had been enough for them in their > last building, so why not just go wireless in the new one? My first > real exposure to Wi-Fi was in dealing with the aftermath of that > decision, and it didn't make for a good first impression. Turns out > that "11Mbps" was the maximum physical layer bit rate, not a speed at > which you could ever expect your actual data to flow from one machine > to another. In practice, it wasn't a whole lot better than dial-up > Internet—in speed or reliability. In real life, if you had your > devices close enough to each other and to the access point, about the > best you could reasonably expect was 1 Mbps—about 125 KB/sec. It only > got worse from there—if you had ten PCs all trying to access a server, > you could cut that 125 KB/sec down to 12.5 KB/sec for each one of them. > > Image: D-Link's DI-514 802.11b router. It was a perfectly > cromulent router for its time... but those were dark days, friend, > dark days indeed. > > > Just as everybody got used to the idea that 802.11b sucked, 802.11g > came along. Promising 54 screaming Mbps, 802.11g was still only half > the speed of Fast Ethernet, but five times faster than original > Ethernet! Right? Well, no. Just like 802.11b, the advertised speed was > really the maximum physical layer data rate, not anything you could > ever expect to see on a progress bar. And also like 802.11b, your best > case scenario tended to be about a tenth of that—5 Mbps or so—and > you'd be splitting that 5 Mbps or so among all the computers on the > network, not getting it for each one of them like you would with a > switched network. > > 802.11n was introduced to the consumer public around 2010, promising > six hundred Mbps. Wow! Okay, so it's not as fast as the gigabit wired > Ethernet that just started getting affordable around the same time, > but six times faster than wired Fast Ethernet, right? Once again, a > reasonable real-life expectation was around a tenth of that. Maybe. On > a good day. To a single device... > > > > In full > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/802-eleventy-what-a-deep-dive-into-why-wi-fi-kind-of-sucks/
sweden, leader of the Free World
now has free conscription! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39140100 war is peace and slavery is freedom
ROTF! "Imperial Leftists"! (image: 90kb)
Re: Relatively Free: A twenty minute documentary about Barrett Brown.
On 03/04/2017 01:07 AM, grarpamp wrote: >> https://fieldofvision.org/ > Or, you know, people could just copy and post the damn direct link... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh19A0elV6E > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrqJVr6ddfA > > The story of, and by, Barrett Brown has been, and will be, important... That was the link that went by on the ticker. I'd honestly rather give the clicks to people running a site focusing on social justice than Google whenever possible. They apparently are, or have contact with the videograpners, because the request for material at the bottom about footage of Muslims being hassled at airports mean they're proactive and looking for documentary material. That earns my click. Rr
Re: Long, but very good: About Anti-Fascists and Anarchism
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 05:19:51PM +, jim bell wrote: > From: Joshua Case > >Though you would agree that this exists though, and is of late gaining > >momentum of some sort, yes? > >https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t4359/ > >And while it pretends to play nice, you are never a click away from overtly > >fascist neo-nazi siege-heiling in front of a camera. > Hey, I don't like that either, but it is an unfortunately predictable > consequence of misconduct at the other side of the political spectrum. Ukraine, from the East side - speaks directly to nationalism, fascism and more: http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/03/be-patient-givi-full-episode.html
[WAR] Mr Trump, please disband the CIA, good men continue to die at their hands...
This must stop. Analyst: CIA killed Russian Ambassadors [Video] http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/02/analyst-cia-killed-russian-ambassadors.html
Re: coinciding with the USA's next "debt ceiling deadline" - Fw: Julie Bishop summons all Aust Diplomats home]
On 3/4/2017 5:19 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Anyone know what's really happening? Is this the big global reset? Long ago silver was money, and gold was money, but banknotes were like checks - people would turn them into real money as fast as they possibly could. And then, for no readily understandable reason, near the end of the nineteenth century, silver stopped being money, and only gold was money. And then, people got used to using bank notes, and came to trust banks. Until the US started to run out of gold. Whereupon Nixon said that US dollars were money, and gold was not money, and sort of got away with saying that. And it came to pass that national currencies, banknotes, were money but only the home country, except that the US dollar was money everywhere. And people said that gold was not money, and for a while, it seemed like it might be true, that gold was not money, that only the US dollar was money. But somehow, gold never really stopped being money, and after a while people gave up on saying that gold was not money. So now we have two global moneys: The US dollar and gold - a potentially unstable situation. But chances are this situation will go on for a very long time without being resolved one way or the other way. If everyone starts thinking that one day the US dollar will stop being international money, they will turn all their dollars into gold, causing the prophecy to come true. And if everyone starts thinking that one day gold will stop being international money, they will turn all their gold into dollars, causing the prophecy to come true. And history suggests that it is not very likely that people are going to stop thinking that gold is money. But there is no indication that the crisis is near.
[WAR] War, what is it good for! American style "military dominance" in Vietnam
Cutting as it gets, from a lowly murderer of the ranks.. The Joke of America’s Military Rule http://journal-neo.org/2017/02/26/the-joke-of-america-s-military-rule/ " All of those with me soon learned to hate the Marine Corps and that we were on the wrong side in Vietnam. ... It isn’t just a few, it became a disease during the Reagan presidency and after when military service was being glorified again, pretending to be a Vietnam veteran was a popular pastime. For those of us who actually fought the war, we only remembered losing our friends or being forced to fight an enemy that was defending its country against an evil foreign invader, meaning “us.” ... What I want to know is where are the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, wars even more stupid than Vietnam, and why aren’t they telling the truth? Why aren’t we hearing about murdered civilians, about rapes, about massive drug dealing, about theft and corruption on a massive scale? These are the most evil and corrupt wars of modern times? Why is no one talking about them? When it comes to these wars, that search for non-existent WMDs or, more recently, Trump’s insane assertions about Iran’s nuclear program or his denialism about Israel and Saudi Arabia as the root of world terrorism, why is the silence deafening? "
Re: Relatively Free: A twenty minute documentary about Barrett Brown.
> https://fieldofvision.org/ Or, you know, people could just copy and post the damn direct link... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh19A0elV6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrqJVr6ddfA The story of, and by, Barrett Brown has been, and will be, important...
