[FRIAM] After years of warnings, mobile network hackers exploit SS7 flaws to drain bank accounts • The Register

[Owen Densmore]

We know that Two Factor Authentication is supposed to be more secure. And
Google's Authenticator app which gives you a new "pin" every minute seems
quite effective.

But many TFA's use messages to your phone with a pin. Guess what. They are
easily hacked! The cellular network protocol used for TFA pins have been
hacked and are used to drain your bank account!
​​
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/03/hackers_fire_up_ss7_flaw/?mt=1493924328271

​Whoda thought! Dongles and Authenticator are still safe, whew.

   -- Owen​

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Re: [FRIAM] the arc of ai (was Re: Whew!)

[Marcus Daniels]

“The alternative new world vision is one of community and sharing--because 
technology will not get us out of the profound implications of rapid climate 
change.”

Maybe after some big extinction event.  Until then, how about some holes?  
There are some respectable numbers here compared to 10 billion tons a year of 
carbon.

http://globalenergyobservatory.org/list.php?db=Resources=CO2_Storage


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[FRIAM] Fwd: Notification of Bids & RFPs: PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

[Tom Johnson]

FYI
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Publication Services for the Official Santa Fe Guide


The Contractor shall provide the following services for the City:

The Contractor shall publish the Visit Santa Fe
(VSF) 2018 Santa Fe Guide including but not limited to the following tasks:

   1. Acquisition, coordination and consolidation of all promotional
   information and all pertinent materials regarding Santa Fe, in order to
   properly direct visitor and group sales inquiries.
   2. Detailed information and photos on Santa Fe’s hospitality, culture &
   history, cuisine, visual & performing arts, outdoor activities, shopping,
   relaxation, service facilities, including the demographics of Santa Fe and
   support for Santa Fe as world class national and international tourism
   destination. Photos used in the publication would also have usage rights
   for VSF to use.
   3. Publication advertising shall be arranged by Contractor at
   established rates, as shown in the rate card. These rates will be mutually
   agreed upon between the City and the Contractor, 30 days before any rate
   card is printed or distributed.
   4. Cover, design and all editorial content (excluding paid listings) to
   be approved by the VSF on behalf of the City. Any changes requested shall
   be followed by the Contractor.  Final responsibility for the accuracy of
   the content rests with the Contractor.  The City shall be given a minimum
   of three possible covers to choose from and 10 working days to review all
   editorial content.  The City will reserve the right to reject cover and use
   its own advertising agency to produce an alternate cover.  Contractor will
   pay advertising agency for all alternate cover work.
   5. One online version of the 2018 Santa Fe Guide using NXT book media or
   equivalent program to be housed on the santafe.org website. Contractor
   is responsible for including hyperlinks for all advertisers and listings.
   Online version must be completed and all code turned over to the City of
   Santa Fe by December 19, 2017.  In addition, contractor will provide a PDF
   and JPG file of the Guide at the same time.
   6. The City of Santa Fe is looking for responses that incorporate
   innovation “value added” options including, but not limited to electronic
   versions of the Santa Fe Guide, cross-promotional opportunities, web
   marketing programs, etc. In addition, we encourage contractors to provide
   new ideas and concepts for the Guide.
   7. Mechanics:


   1. Approximately 8 ½” x 11” in size


   1. Paper weight: 60 lb text minimum, high quality grade.  Cover paper
   weight: 65-70lb cover stock with a coated finish.


   1. Number of pages: 65maximum to include editorial, advertising and
   covers.

  4  Minimum ratio of forty-five percent (45%)
advertising to fifty-five percent (55%) editorial (ads include all paid
listings)

   1. 350,000-400,00 copies


   1. All pages will be 4-color.  Black and white ads are not acceptable.


   1. Packed bulk, color code labeled, in cardboard cartons, and in
   smaller wrapped packages, mix to be determined by the City.


   1. Maximum weight per carton limited to 40 lbs.


   1. Cover graphics to include: Official Santa Fe Guide 2018, using
   trademarked Santa Fe logo typeface, to be supplied by City.


   1. Advertising rate card using trademarked Santa Fe logo typeface.


   1. Table of contents


   1. Photo credits approved by City


   1. The City will provide the publisher with a list of specifications
   concerning the number of visitors guides requiring indicia, self-mailer
   insert on the back cover, 90 days before delivery is due


   1. The Contractor shall deliver 100,000 copies of the 2018 Santa Fe
   Guide to the City on or before December 15, 2017, between the hours of 8:00
   a.m. and 3:00 p.m., upon coordination with the City, at least five days in
   advance.  A delivery schedule for the balance will be agreed upon by the
   Contractor and the City. All delivery charges will be paid be the
   Contractor.


   1.   VSF must approve all ad placements including location in guide and
   position on pages.
   2.   Contractor shall have the ability to deliver Guides to other
   locations in Neighboring States

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[FRIAM] the arc of ai (was Re: Whew!)

[glen ☣]

Though definitely less scifi than it used to be, Ted's prediction is clearly 
wrong in the most important part: increasing specialization.  The distinction 
missing (here -- I haven't read the manifesto) is the distinction between 
special vs general intelligence.  GI is still mysterious and we're a long way 
from any GAI.  And what passes for SAI like Watson and AlphaGo are still not 
very much like, say, the nerd who wins all the trivia nights or a professional 
Go player who also happens to be married.  The idea that humans will become the 
specialized intelligences and the system (bureaucracy and/or robots) will 
become the general intelligence(s) is proving false.

But the moral and ethical part of what he's saying is coming true.  And the 
ability of corporations to pit us against each other is _clearly_ true, as 
evidenced in the thread. 8^)  Of course, part of our _elite_ superpower is our 
ability to tease apart complex structures (like Ted, Coca-Cola, and the 
etiology of diabetes).  So, small disagreement clearly would never disable our 
ability to recognize and work towards larger agreement.

Tangent re: anarchists -- my usual argument that those who call themselves 
"anarchist" must "police themselves" in the same way actual Christians (who 
hold Jesus' sayings highest) should police the "Christians", won't work.  Or 
maybe it will.  These "thoughtful anarchists" Merle talks about have a duty to 
distinguish their beliefs and actions from, eg, the black bloc 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc).  Or, maybe not.  Merle, do these 
thoughtful anarchists support smashing windows and burning piles of trash in 
the middle of the city?  Or are such behaviors limited only to "thoughtless 
anarchists"?  (No judgement on my part either way.  I'm sympathetic to the idea 
that we sometimes have to go through a trough to reach a peak.  A little 
disordered heat is sometimes necessary to obtain a stronger crystal.)


On 05/03/2017 07:34 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> “175. But suppose now that the computer scientists do not succeed in 
> developing artificial intelligence, so that human work remains necessary. 
> Even so, machines will take care of more and more of the simpler tasks so 
> that there will be an increasing surplus of human workers at the lower levels 
> of ability. (We see this happening already. There are many people who find it 
> difficult or impossible to get work, because for intellectual or 
> psychological reasons they cannot acquire the level of training necessary to 
> make themselves useful in the present system.) On those who are employed, 
> ever-increasing demands will be placed: They will need more and more 
> training, more and more ability, and will have to be ever more reliable, 
> conforming and docile, because they will be more and more like cells of a 
> giant organism. Their tasks will be increasingly specialized, so that their 
> work will be, in a sense, out of touch with the real world, being 
> concentrated on one tiny slice of reality.
> The system will have to use any means that it can, whether psychological or 
> biological, to engineer people to be docile, to have the abilities that the 
> system requires and to "sublimate" their drive for power into some 
> specialized task. But the statement that the people of such a society will 
> have to be docile may require qualification. The society may find 
> competitiveness useful, provided that ways are found of directing 
> competitiveness into channels that serve the needs of the system. We can 
> imagine a future society in which there is endless competition for positions 
> of prestige and power. But no more than a very few people will ever reach the 
> top, where the only real power is (see end of paragraph 163). Very repellent 
> is a society in which a person can satisfy his need for power only by pushing 
> large numbers of other people out of the way and depriving them of THEIR 
> opportunity for power.”

-- 
☣ glen

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Re: [FRIAM] Quick cross posting re:website maker sugestions

[Gillian Densmore]

Thanks again Roy!
It looks like I might like Bliki(Blog+Wiki) for this.

I tried out TikiWiki ages ago. It seemed pretty fun to use then. I've
googled for what ones are out their with easy to follow how to's just try
them out.
DokuWiki. Pm, Pb and FOSWiki.
Any ideas what to look for or articles on trying a Wiki as Blog+WebyWeb
helper?
In a Weird way that might be what I'm looking for. And as  and Glen pointed
out because the likely triekier part of colaberating on articles or  how
to's is baked in.

Anyway thanks again for the fresh insperation and ideas. I reely apreciate
that.



On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Sarbajit Roy  wrote:

> Maybe what u are looking for is like this :-
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/AuthUser
>
> On 5/3/17, Gillian Densmore  wrote:
> > Thanks for the idea Roy!
> > I think I want something  possibly in the middle. I don't know how simple
> > that's to do though.
> > I have this wered picture in my head where I think I want a way where
> some
> > how some people can edit and subit articles together. But yet also to
> avoid
> > trolling problems a moderator could also say just so you know we need you
> > to clean up a articles.
> >
> > I seem to recall at one time Twiki was trying to be a middle between the
> > extremes of Wiki and blogging.
> >
> > I simply don't know what's out there that can have a nice colaberation a
> > bit like Wiki's do as well as submit a article for posting like the
> > wordpress's can do as well.
> >
> >
> > Htmly looks reely sexy as well btw. Thanks for the link.
> >
> > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Sarbajit Roy  wrote:
> >
> >> There are hierarchies for multi-user blogs.
> >>
> >> For eg. would you want multiple users to be able to edit the same
> >> article (like a wiki) ? Or do you want a single user to write "his"
> >> article, which an administrator can edit / delete.
> >>
> >> HTMLY (http://www.htmly.com) is light enough for the 2nd type of
> >> blog.and simulates Wordpress well enough with minimal resources and no
> >> databases, rendering well enough on (Android) mobiles
> >>
> >> eg:
> >> http://www.wikipediacritics.com/category/wikipedia-
> garbage-in-garbage-out
> >>
> >> On 5/3/17, Gillian Densmore  wrote:
> >> > Thanks for the question Glen ^_^
> >> > I think what I have is this mental picture where somehow some people
> >> > (or
> >> > groups) somehow  write articles and worktogether with those. Someone
> >> might
> >> > have say a reely cool story talking about how that other Densmore
> found
> >> > beer on mars, or raving and geeking about some great coffee and beer
> he
> >> > likes.
> >> >
> >> > I think I also want a way where if some(S) are want to work on a not
> >> quite
> >> > ready to publish paper they can do that to where only them and the
> >> > system
> >> > sees it, and they can worktoegher on it. As concrete examples. They
> >> > could
> >> > well be a resident Uber Geek at NASA, or LANL and have some great
> story
> >> > they're group can finally share about the deep space probe around
> >> orbiting
> >> > Saturn, Or  espousing the wonders of Energy Theory.
> >> >
> >> > Those are I think some of the reasons  I I want to be easy and fun to
> >> use.
> >> > And feel reely inspiring, cool and just a plain fun place to go to
> use.
> >> >
> >> > Writing articles or papers for me should come Complete with undue's
> >> > oops
> >> > and typos happen. Or you need to include pictures and vidoes to show
> >> > what
> >> > that group has.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 1:10 PM, glen ☣  wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> It's not clear to me what you mean by "stuff".  Are you talking
> solely
> >> >> about multiple people blogging to the same site?  Or are you talking
> >> >> about
> >> >> collaboration on text documents?  Or do you have in mind something
> >> >> broader
> >> >> ... like collaborative mind-mapping?
> >> >>
> >> >> Here's a list of some collaborative systems:
> >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software
> >> >>
> >> >> On 05/02/2017 11:55 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> >> >> > I'm trying my hand again at making a fun place for people to work
> >> >> together on stuff.
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> ☣ glen
> >> >>
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[FRIAM] Evolution Letter Volume 1, Issue 1

[Alfredo Covaleda Vélez]

Acaban de lanzar una nueva revista sobre evolución.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evl3.2017.1.issue-1/issuetoc?hootPostID=a91ec76fb4b68418001c11cdcbcf7c47

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