Hillary's worst nightmare -- Re: Garnier Fructis strikes again - was Re: Hillary Clinton Says Epstein Assassination Was To 'Manage Anxiety'
Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare just struck the Earth like a Death Star on meth just hit by one of those "flashing GIFS and they're on the dark web and nobody can find them but they keep reappearing" - and this time it's not even Putin, it's ... ... ... the -entire- Russian population - or at least, ~72% of Russians by referendum voting to allow Putin to run as president until - - 2036 - Yeah Baby, oh I'm -so- falling over you.. So Clinton's last hope for Mark "Dumb Furks" Zuckerberg as president, at least in the "near" future, are dàschun on the rocks-ski :D Oddly, Clinton only believes in Satan and Durham, and not God ... go figure.. and so she's been rocked to the core by this Russian constitutional changes soon to be law including "inclusion in “a belief in God” named as one of Russia’s traditional values". Reports are that Clinton's DUMB bunker is rapidly freezing over as we speak. Putin emphasized this appeal to "traditional values" in a Tuesday television address, saying “We’re voting for the country that we’re working for and that we want to hand down to our children and grandchildren.” He urged Russians to support what he described as a constitution ensuring— "stability, security and prosperity." And Russia got a ~60% turnout at their referendum, in the face of the COVID scare! Go Russkies ;) President For Life? Russian Voters Grant Putin Ability To Rule Until 2036 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stability-security-prosperity-exit-poll-shows-landslide-yes-vote-paving-way-putins In non-Soviet Russia, computer communicate -you-! On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 01:43:25PM +1100, Zig the N.g wrote: > Garnier "Biden Collection" Fructis strikes again - promises to choose only > Obama's ex-first tranny "Michael Obama" as running mate and for SCOTUS picks. > > Supreme Identity Politics: Biden Pledges To Only Consider Black Females For > SCOTUS Pick > > https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-identity-politics-biden-pledges-only-consider-black-females-scotus-pick > > https://jonathanturley.org/2020/03/19/supreme-identity-politics-biden-pledges-to-only-consider-black-females-for-supreme-court-pick/ > > In his debate with Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden made two pledges to voters > and asked his opponent to do the same to nominate only a black woman for the > next open Supreme Court seat and to choose a woman as his vice president. > Even with identity politics, the pledge to impose a gender and race > requirement for the next Supreme Court nominee is as ironic as it is > troubling. What Biden was declaring, and what Sanders wisely avoided, would > effectively constitute discrimination in admission to the Supreme Court. > > Indeed, the Supreme Court has declared that such race or gender > conditions are strictly unconstitutional for admission to public colleges. > > ... > > > > -- > That's freakin' n.gtastic, batman!
Re: Affirmative
> > Fundamntal rights are fundamental for a reason - they are fundamental to > life, to our rights to survive, to thrive, and to merely exist. > > We cannot survive without existing. > > We cannot thrive without surviving. > > So we each individually, and collectively, are with all fundamental rights to > exist and to survive. > Survival defined precisely our essence, as Humans, because we are the very product of Survival. If there was no need to survival, we wouldn't be Humans at all. Which implies if, in our post-whatever-modern societies, there is no need for survival, there is no meaning at all to be Human. Survival here indeed implies to survive to that giant and monstrous worldwide system which is been created in front or our eyes. Not destroying it, it's totally impossible, just escaping it or outliving it.
Re: Assange Superseding Indictment
On 07/01/2020 02:19 PM, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 19:05:50 -0700 > Mirimir wrote: > >> On 06/30/2020 06:34 PM, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: >>> On Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:52:49 + > >>> >>> certain kinds of heinous criminals forfeit their rights. Government >>> criminals for instance. >> >> Sure, but "criminal" is such an ambivalent term. As they say, it depends >> on whose ox is getting gored. > > I can rephrase and avoid moral terms : > > if governmetn agents spy, steal, torture, kill and the like they can't > then object when they are treated in the same way. Exactly :) >>> take for instance cops and soldiers, who are nothing but govcorp's >>> hitmen. Those people can't complain if they are exterminated like they >>> deserve to be. >> >> I generally agree, although I'm not so bloodthirsty about it ;) > > well strictly speaking they should be given the chance to surrender and > pay for the damage they caused. And if they don't... Sure, if "pay" includes death ;) >> As I see it, privacy rights are inversely proportional to power over >> others. So even if governments are necessary, which is questionable at >> best, nothing about them ought to be private. Because openness is a >> prerequisite for public oversight. And because despotism is totally >> inevitable without public oversight. >> > > Agreed. No privacy for government agents seems fair to me. If they > don't like it, they can get a honest job. Right :) But "government" is also ambiguous. I mean, I live on an old farm with several hundred others, with sociocratic governance.
Re: Personal Black Box? Even a bit of video can entirely change the story around.
https://reason.com/2020/06/30/11-redacted-seconds-of-video-of-fatal-2014-drug-bust-undermine-florida-cops-official-story/ [partial quote follows] 11 Redacted Seconds of Video of Fatal 2014 Drug Bust Undermine Florida Cops' Official Story Previously unreleased video shows Jerry Brown didn't have much time to react before Pasco County deputies shot and killed him. ZURI DAVIS | 6.30.2020 12:00 PM (Screenshot via Pasco Sheriff's Office) In 2014, Florida deputies shot and killed Jerry Dwight Brown during a small-scale drug bust. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said the deputies fired after Brown refused several orders to comply. The State Attorney's Office cleared the deputies of any wrongdoing due to Brown's alleged noncompliance. But last week, the Tampa Bay Times released a video of the shooting that challenges the department's official story. Brown was shot and killed on July 1, 2014. The 41-year-old inadvertently sold illegal prescription pills to an undercover deputy with Pasco County Sheriff's Office (PCSO). The sting was part of a monthslong investigation into Brown. After the undercover deputy motioned for fellow deputies to move in and arrest Brown, the department claimed that they repeatedly ordered Brown to show his hands and shot him after he made a sudden movement. Brown died at a hospital following the shooting. The department found that he was unarmed during the interaction. The day after the shooting, Nocco told 10 Tampa Bay, "When we are ordering commands to show me your hands, when we are telling somebody they need to comply and they make motions that are not, and make our detectives feel their lives are being threatened you have a millisecond to make a decision." The sheriff's office provided Reason with a redacted version of the video from the drug bust. In the video, an undercover deputy interacts with Brown outside of Big Ben's Tires in Zephyrhills. He urges Brown to enter the vehicle to make the sale. A reluctant Brown does so, takes the pills out, and begins to count at the undercover deputy's request. Armed deputies then approach the car and the video skips 11 seconds. When the video picks up again, the deputies are pointing guns and surrounding the vehicle. On Friday, almost exactly six years after the shooting, the Tampa Bay Times released the redacted portion of the video. [end of partial quote]
Affirmative
Affirmative. We bind ourselves to our conscience, or perhaps we are bound :) Affirmative pursuit, actions pursuant to conscience. Individual right to speak, right to "follow", right to converse, engage, block, all pursuant to personal will alone, no middle man. Without the right to survive, or even so simple as -exist-, as Razer so simply put it, we have no life. Without the right to communicate exercised, then thought, and existence, has no end, no purpose, and we have no relationships, no community. Without community, and relationship inherent within any real community, we are dead to one another, to the whole world, and without meaningful life, without the opportunity to discover one another - our cries, our loves, hopes and dreams for each other. Fundamntal rights are fundamental for a reason - they are fundamental to life, to our rights to survive, to thrive, and to merely exist. We cannot survive without existing. We cannot thrive without surviving. So we each individually, and collectively, are with all fundamental rights to exist and to survive. Every opposition to you/ an individual exercising one or more of these basic rights, is despotism, the evidence of sociopaths in action, and ought be called out publicly as such. As hackanarchopunks, we can facilitate the exercise by the individual, be he with 9 or 90 million followers, to converse digitally amongst his "follower" group. Gatekeepers belie the sociopath. Sociopaths conduct entire false campaigns, even "damaging their share price" to the tune of literally billions of dollars and with the credible deniability of actual "withdrawing advertisers", in the pursuit of control, and censorship, and for the mere opportunity to inflict an almighty damaging blow to those he sees as his opposition. Till the morrow,
Re: Assange Superseding Indictment
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:54:00AM +, таракан wrote: > > > As I see it, privacy rights are inversely proportional to power over > > others. > > It's a dangerous view... so unless you're totally inoffensive, you have no > right to privacy ? > > Actual system think also about the same ... > > > > So even if governments are necessary, which is questionable at > > best, nothing about them ought to be private. Because openness is a > > prerequisite for public oversight. And because despotism is totally > > inevitable without public oversight. > > Governments are not necessary at all if we consider a population where *each > individual* can self-govern itself. So far you can't get x people, make them > live together without conflicts, hate, jealousy, conspiracy etc... it's human > nature. > > Here the point I think would be more to protect oneself to be spied by > governments rather than to spy on governments. > > To be able to live - simply to live in freedom - without tracking, > constraints, control, monitoring (not only from Gov but also from other > people acting as if they were the Government) is a terrible challenge > nowadays. No need to go and try to hack the secrets of corporations.(which > BTW have not so big secrets ...) > > Possibly a new form of resistance will be to try to simply ... live in a > world shaped by global video-monitoring, paranoia, fear, controls, distrust, > etc... > > Live without having to wear masks to get food or money. Live without having > to make selfie of your ass to get a phone number. Life without the fear to > get video-monitored by the iPhones of people in secret. Life without having > to show your ID at anytime to anyone dressed in something looking as a > uniform with insignia. > > Yet it is claimed that a society without control would result in a large > criminal world where several mafias would rule and you would fear to get > wounded or killed at any corner of the street. > > But 'Mafia' is also and before all a 'society' of control. Their controls are > far more cruel than anyone can imagine. > > All this isn't new, the "game changer" is technology which provide evil > governments the way to make the planet as a giant 'supermax'. > > > Once again, this is probably where Cypherpunks, or others who still may have > to come, may have a role to play as well... because this is all about > technology (and the science behind)... one can fight against technology of > controls (gps/sim/ai/pki/...) only by using an equivalent - if not superior > - technology in order to defat these technologies of control. Defeating the authority/ power/ control of another, even the very concept, gives some implicit, even explicit, recognition and engagement of that other, involvement in bringing closer to my heart it's evil. Try as I might, the paradox dominates me, smashing the fabric of thought itself no the rocks of apparent certainty... It is not fighting and defeating we must seek - in fact the opposite since defeating includes "may be being defeated", so this is tacit (or worse) consent to the war, is it not personal involvement, recognition , and wringing every ounce of life out of this war, so "real" there is no other life ... then .. no life ??? This thinking we have is entrained over millenia - we must instead ditch "drone" thinking. Push against wall makes wall heavy, ignore wall it does not have so much existence in my consciousness. Application of this principle is the riddle in a rhyme in a conundrum of uncertainty but hope for an alternative to this war.. If "to fight" begats war, we must not fight, at least not for "to fight the good fight" alone in that there we die .. fruitless. But what then? Plug holes in bucket? create loopholes for a few? Wherefore what for ought we do? Tis evidently not so easy to know what to do? Is it a secret? Perhaps yes -and- no. Can our entrained, enschooled, ensheepled think, be a primary barrier to our living in freedom? Is "MY mind" the ultimate virus? Is it "I"? What clouds my mind so, that I struggle so, to think outside the box, the war, the ever present evil in "others" "out there", ever never blame within? Johnathan briefly shook in fear as he contemplated the unending unfathomables, sinking once more into his trancelike apoplexy as he again held the table for it's feigned succour of external support - yet a physical, so temporary illusion of solidity which immediately began slipping again from his awareness and reality. ...
Re: ZFS encrypted HOME, krypt vols, combine /boot with / root, + rando snippets
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 02:35:27AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:15:27PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 12:08:34AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > For those yet to leap into the cool clear waters of ZFS and Luks > > > encrypted sparse ZFS files, or who need to combine /boot with / root > > > if /boot has filled up or is insufficient for needs, the beginnings > > > of some hints: > > > > > > https://github.com/zenaan/quick-fixes-ftfw > > > > > > Create your world, > > > > > > Revisited ZFS backups in vigour, wrote an easy to follow little tute so I > > don't bloody forget how to do it next time :/ > > > > Update here: > > > > https://github.com/zenaan/quick-fixes-ftfw > > > > and the backups "4 actually simple steps", part way down the direct link > > here: > > > > https://github.com/zenaan/quick-fixes-ftfw/blob/master/zfs/zfs.txt > > > > When it sings, ZFS is the git of filesystems, only with a leaner, more > > elegant TUI. Enjoy, > > > ZFS tute updated, headers Markdownified, some clarifications, and bonus new > tutes: > >Step 5 - Easily create a full additional backup drive. >Step 6 - Do a full scan (check for errors) of your backup drive(s)/ bak > pool >Step 7 - Easily replace a bad/failing backup drive > > (And e.g. ZP_BAK changed to BAK_POOL for easier reading.) > > Seriously, with zfs we've never had backups like this - so simple (almost > trivial to do), so elegant and synchronized to a point in time (and this is > LIVE fs backups!) so no uncertainty or inconsistencies, and all ZFS raid > levels just a trivial command (and extra drive or 3) away! > > You owe it to yours elf to get this power on board your hot little fingertips > - this is so insanely easy you will undoubtedly start imagining that > "commercial online backup" enterprise you've got on yer bucket list. > > And now you have a tutorial that even has bold headings :D > > On fire! > > Read it and praise your maker: > >https://github.com/zenaan/quick-fixes-ftfw/blob/master/zfs/zfs.md About finished now; added: - TOC - advanced tute 2: Free up disk space, "remove" low prio data pool filesystem - "first steps" tute 0: Tutorial 0: Create a ZFS data partition Tute 2 is tested as written this evening, so mostly bug free :) In the middle of a resilver arising from doing "Easily create a full additional backup drive". Double smile .. Tute 1, steps 6 and 7 not personally tested, yet - git fetch in a month or so and that should catch any possible small updates. Tutorial 0: Create a ZFS data partition Step 0 - Locate your data partition or disk drive Step 1 - Create your data pool Step 2 - Create zfs filesystems Step 3 - Create a point in time zfs snapshot Tutorial 1: ZFS Backups - send/recv Step 0 - Create at least 1 snapshot of source pool/filesystem to backup Step 1 - Init new (e.g. USB) 'backups' disk/drive Step 2 - Create initial "full" source pool backup Step 3 - Export and unplug backup drive(s) Step 4 - Do subsequent "incremental" zfs zpool backup Step 5 - Easily create a full additional backup drive Step 6 - Do a full scan (check for errors) of your backup drive(s) Step 7 - Easily replace a bad/failing backup drive Tutorial 2: Free up disk space, "remove" low prio data pool filesystem Step 0 - Import backup pool, using alternate root Step 1 - Clone the low priority filesystem Step 2 - Delete low prio filesystem from primary pool These are the tutes I wanted for zfs. Now they exist.
Amen, Brother
"Now, as Assange’s U.S. extradition battle intensifies, the internet is calling for the rise of cypherpunks ‚ Assange’s fellow “capable generous men,” who exercise their power for social good to unite once again and take up their moral duty. The future of the internet believes in Bitcoin, the potential of this “crypto with values” to become the currency of resistance to defend its freedom." https://www.facebook.com/JoeStrange709/posts/3114211461998722 CJ Parker #05987-196 Proud To Be A Felon In AMERI A
The Last Shall Be First - TSOB
THE TRUE STORY OF BITCOIN by TotoshiLast Alleged Chapter --- [WAS: Alleged Last Chapter] [!WAS: eWe Know It Never *Really* Ends, Don't eWe?] [WAS!WAS: Crap, Looks Like This Is Going To Be A Long One...] To: "Trei, Peter" Subject: Re: DoD orders vendors to use Key "Recovery" From: Alan Olsen Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 20:49:52 -0700 Toto began counting on his fingers. "Twenty-two" said Bubba Rom DOS. "What?" Toto looked confused. "Twenty-two years since 1998," Adam Back confirmed, after checking his slide rule, adding, "and the Key Grabbers are saddled up again, and ready to ride." He shared the URL... https://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2020/06/do-not-consider-government-access-to-encrypted-personal-data-until-hillary-clinton-and-others-go-to-jail.html Toto slipped into a telephone booth cleverly disguised as a service station restoom that really, really needed cleaning, and emerged wearing a tattered old SuperMan costume that had been modified to befit "!!! The World's Greatest Hacker !!!" as the emblem proudly proclaimed. Tim C. May shook his head and muttered, "Wishful thinking." Toto ignored the senile old fart and declared, "Being as how 'The Game' is once again 'A Foot' ( or 15 inches, if you are a True CypherPunk ) and I am in Stage 4 of Kidney Failure ( no sympathy, please, he is still drinking a half-bottle of Pepe Lopez Tequila every day ) and am unlikely to make it to the final (Jim) Bell, it is time to pass on my WGH legacy to others, that they may continue to fight the GooDog Battle. "I am about to reveal TheSecret that makes me The World's Greatest Hacker..." "But *first*..." --- Discussion on Bitcoin.com 12 comments Can Clues to Bitcoin’s Earliest Mysteries Be Found in a Cryopreserved Brain? Robyn Steele 2 years ago "Maybe Satoshi is Sara Lee. Her pies are in the frozen food section... --- Realizing that Toto was once again about to go off on a tangent and spew out an interminably long, semi-senseless sentence containing a diatribe of dualities... "Oh, crap!" Bubba realized, "Now I'm doing that myself." Dale Thorn's alter-ego, the irresistably unattractive soul-mate of Satoshi, Ataka Dawn, turned to everyone present, and cut to the chase. "Toto, along with a few select others, is The World's Greatest Hacker because he quite simply realizes that the InFallible Flaw in all computer systems and operating systems is: (Drum Roll..) IN ORDER TO COMMUNICATE, YOU HAVE TO *TELL* SOMEBODY SOMETHING!!! (...BadaBoomBadaBING!)" "Precisely!" Toto exclaimed, coming back to the discussion at hand. "I had a thousand ways of hacking into a system just because every time I tried to recreate my previous hacking successes, I turned out to be too stupid and scatterbrained to remember what I had done the *last* time. That's why I was forced to be a *genius* and figure out a *new* way to hack a system...every damn time!" "So the proof of your 'genius' is your 'stupidity.' came the cold, icy voice of Hal Funny. "Let me write that down, so I don't forget it. And btw, I didn't appreciate that 'Sara Lee' crack, you fucking AssHole." "Yeah," replied Toto, "I was going to explain that in a previous chapter when I talked about the 'thing' you know? The Intel stuff. The 'virus'...uh 'thing.'" Toto continued, trying to remember if he was running for the presidency or for the Senate. "I am *not* Joe Biden!" he suddenly shouted and then grew quietly contemplative. "I am not Toto," Eric Hughes broke in, "like most of you here in these insane diatribes, who are merly splinters of his seriously fractured Persona. So let me explain this from a perspective of someone who doesn't have their head halfway up TheAuthor's butt. "Software is *communication*...no matter what operating system or which hardware it is working with...nothing, I repeat, *nothing* gets done or accomplished without there being *communication* between software and software, software and hardware, hardware and hardware." "Attila T. Hun" he continued "noted that 'There is no safety this side of the grave' and he was talking both about life and about the whole myriad of cryptography and privacy discussions that took place on the CypherPunks Disturbed Male Lisp." Tim May recognized that Eric Hughes was beginning to 'drift' and picked up the discussion, in terms of hardware. "The 'virus thing' that Toto aka 'Uncle Joe' was referring to in regard to Intel was a hardware flaw that Meltdown and Spectre attacks took advantage of. It was indeed a matter of the different components of hardware needing to 'communicate' with one another and 'bad actors' managing to figure out how to listen in on and sometimes participate in those internal 'conversations'... "Attila T. Hun, aka Dr. Daniel Flickinger, became a *pioneer* in recording technology by taking a handful of disparate 'parts' designed to enable aircraft to fly and using their 'communications' abilities to speak to musicians and sound engineers in a
Re: Assange Superseding Indictment
> As I see it, privacy rights are inversely proportional to power over > others. It's a dangerous view... so unless you're totally inoffensive, you have no right to privacy ? Actual system think also about the same ... > So even if governments are necessary, which is questionable at > best, nothing about them ought to be private. Because openness is a > prerequisite for public oversight. And because despotism is totally > inevitable without public oversight. Governments are not necessary at all if we consider a population where *each individual* can self-govern itself. So far you can't get x people, make them live together without conflicts, hate, jealousy, conspiracy etc... it's human nature. Here the point I think would be more to protect oneself to be spied by governments rather than to spy on governments. To be able to live - simply to live in freedom - without tracking, constraints, control, monitoring (not only from Gov but also from other people acting as if they were the Government) is a terrible challenge nowadays. No need to go and try to hack the secrets of corporations.(which BTW have not so big secrets ...) Possibly a new form of resistance will be to try to simply ... live in a world shaped by global video-monitoring, paranoia, fear, controls, distrust, etc... Live without having to wear masks to get food or money. Live without having to make selfie of your ass to get a phone number. Life without the fear to get video-monitored by the iPhones of people in secret. Life without having to show your ID at anytime to anyone dressed in something looking as a uniform with insignia. Yet it is claimed that a society without control would result in a large criminal world where several mafias would rule and you would fear to get wounded or killed at any corner of the street. But 'Mafia' is also and before all a 'society' of control. Their controls are far more cruel than anyone can imagine. All this isn't new, the "game changer" is technology which provide evil governments the way to make the planet as a giant 'supermax'. Once again, this is probably where Cypherpunks, or others who still may have to come, may have a role to play as well... because this is all about technology (and the science behind)... one can fight against technology of controls (gps/sim/ai/pki/...) only by using an equivalent - if not superior - technology in order to defat these technologies of control.
Saddle Up...
Jonathan reached for a bottle of Jim Beam and, in doing so, realized that he had subconsciously come to a decision. He would seek out Bubba Rom Dos. He would seek out the Circle of Eunuchs. -- Joe Strange "I Have A Master's Degree in BDSM"
Lock & Load
Jonathan The room started to spin, and Jonathan put his hand on the edge of his desk, to steady himself. He realized that he had stopped breathing, and he inhaled mightily, causing the room to spin even more. After a few moments, the room stopped spinning, but Jonathan's mind continued to remain enmeshed in a conflicting whirl of old memories and new fears-all engendered by the receipt of a simple CyberPost. A CyberPost from the past. A hundred years in the past. A CyberPost which had shown up on his personal GraphiCube this morning, a century after being sent via an antiquated communications mode which the Masters of Antiquity called email. A CyberPost addressed to an anarchist organization that had been outlawed for over a hundred years-the CypherPunks. Jonathan had immediately, instinctively, hit the illegal kill-switch on his ground-connection and booted his Telsa Snarf Barrier. He had needed time to stop the room-and his mind-from spinning. But how long had he been sitting here, motionless? GlobeNet Security would be re-establishing his ground-connection in a matter of minutes and he would have to have an answer ready for his cutting of the ground-link to Headquarters. Jonathan hastily saved the CyberPost to a disposable HydroCube that he could swallow, if need be. He pulled an Insta-Log chip of his own making out from under his seat and placed it online, booting down the Telsa Snarf Barrier at the same time, just as the GraphiCube launched an overlay of the Day Monitor, Rabin. Rabin did not look happy. "Third time this week, Jonathan, what's going on?", Rabin's frown twitched with impatience. "If I have to put you on report, I can guarantee that you can kiss your HomeWork Privileges goodbye." "I'm still working on that InfoWar Scrambler Mechanism for GS-7, Rabin." Jonathan thought quickly, knowing that he was skirting the edge of disaster. "Those damn wanna-be programmers that you assholes keep hiring to keep your relatives happy don't know the difference between a Test-Boot and a Transmit-Boot." Jonathan paused, then added, "I don't need my head on a chopping block because Headquarters thinks that I'm launching my own Channel Revolution." "Then file for Offline Work Authorization." Rabin snapped. "Every goddamn time I work on this crap they feed me?" Jonathan snapped right back at him. "I'm not supposed to need to work off-line on this project. It's supposed to arrive at my station in Test mode, Rabin, not in Nuke Headquarters mode. Do you want me to run this shit from your HomeStation, instead?" Rabin laughed, for the first time, and glanced down at Jonathan's Log File once again, confirming that he had killed a transmission from the InfoWar Scrambler Mechanism. "OK, Jonathan, I'll kill the report, but try to work on that stuff during someone else's shift, pal. The brass is running us ragged on one of their interminable pet projects and we've got to account for every millisecond of CPU use. They've got a full-court press on this one, and we're having trouble keeping our GelMem from overheating." Jonathan paused for a second, his mind working swiftly, and then made a giant leap forward toward a destination that was only now beginning to take shape in his subconscious mind. "I could get you some spare cycles, Rabin, if you're really that desperate." Rabin began to speak, then stopped, obviously wondering what this generosity on Jonathan's part was going to 'cost' him, in the long run. "Look, Rabin," Jonathan continued, filling in the empty space, "I don't want to lose my HomeWork Privileges, and I know that you can't keep burying my ground-connection kills, so I might as well shut down for the day and spend some time at Headquarters getting this shit straight. That will free up eighteen GelMem units at GS-7 for you, and you can steal my HomeWork cycles until the end of your shift." Rabin looked thoughtfully at Jonathan, decided that Jonathan was working in his own self-interest and thus would not expect to extract future concessions for this gratuitous offering, and nodded agreement. "Done." said Jonathan as he shut down his Headquarters programs. "Besides," he said with a wink, "I need to restock my liquor cabinet and the Headquarters commissary is a damn-sight cheaper than what these local-yokels are gouging for a good bottle of booze around here." Toad.com Rabin's face faded from the screen, as Jonathan kicked in Privacy Mode and fell back into his chair with relief. He realized that he was shaking slightly, and his thoughts returned to the CyberPost which was now sitting in the HydroCube at the back of his desk. CypherPunks. Mere mention of the name in public came with a gold-plated guarantee of a visit from GlobeNet Security. Even when speaking of them in private conversation, it was advisable to do so only in historically proper context, referring to them as the villainous instigators of Channel War II. Jonathan avoided
