The Daily Beast: FBI Shuts Down Russian Platform Selling Hacked Data, Accounts, Personal Info
The Daily Beast: FBI Shuts Down Russian Platform Selling Hacked Data, Accounts, Personal Info. https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-shuts-down-russian-platform-selling-hacked-data-accounts-personal-info?source=cheats=rss
Could this be the future of Western warfare?
Could this be the future of Western warfare? Pressing limited and logical aims with unlimited force? Keeping in mind of course that World War One was a result of half of Europe thinking it was appropriate for Serbia to be suborned to Austria-Hungary.
Re: Recommend hackable tablet?
Probably not going to find all that stuff in a pad / tab. And certainly not from Apple at that price. Companies like asus samsung and a bunch of random names make droid and chrome phablets. About $100 more gets a cheap actual unix laptop. Consider if need internal SIM voice, or external SIM wifi. Battery life / change, external power without battery.
Re: SciTechDaily: A New Kind of Light in the Universe? “Super-Planckian” Material Emits Light That Exceeds Limits of Natural Law
Why should any reader of this journal believe this without imbeded links for independent confirmation? On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 9:40 PM jim bell wrote: > SciTechDaily: A New Kind of Light in the Universe? “Super-Planckian” Material > Emits Light That Exceeds Limits of Natural > Law.https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-kind-of-light-in-the-universe-super-planckian-material-emits-light-that-exceeds-limits-of-natural-law/ > > >
SciTechDaily: A New Kind of Light in the Universe? “Super-Planckian” Material Emits Light That Exceeds Limits of Natural Law
SciTechDaily: A New Kind of Light in the Universe? “Super-Planckian” Material Emits Light That Exceeds Limits of Natural Law. https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-kind-of-light-in-the-universe-super-planckian-material-emits-light-that-exceeds-limits-of-natural-law/
Celine's Laws
CELINE'S LAWS by Hagbard Celine As every thinking person has noticed, our national life has become increasingly weird and surrealistic. The waiting lines at banks and post offices are growing longer all the time, even though demographers tell us US population is no longer rising. The street signs more often than not say WALK on the red and DON"T WALK on the green. You can't get a plumber on the weekends. Nobody has been able to explain the cattle mutilations yet. Every survey shows that the price of consumer goods, the number of violent crimes, and the eerie popularity of THE GONG SHOW are ominously accelerating. I believe I have found the explanation these distressing trends. Needless to say, I cannot present, in a short article, all the evidence which I have accumulated in three decades of careful metasociological research; that will have to await the publication of my three-volume study, "Why Everybody Is Going Bonkers." Here I can only mention the thousands of depth interviewws, the innumerable flowcharts and helix-matrix equations, the vast files of computer readouts, the I CHING divinations, and other rigorous scientific techniques used in developing what I modestly call Celine's Laws of Chaos, Discord and Confusion. Celine's First Law is that National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity! That may sound like a paradox, but I will explain it at one. Every secret police agency must be monitored by an elite corps of secret-police-of-the-second-order. There are numerous reasons for this, but three are especially noteworthy. NATIONAL SECURITY IS THE CHIEF CAUSE OF NATIONAL INSECURITY!!! *** 1). Infiltration of the secret police, for the purpose of subversion, will always be a prime goal of internal revolutionaries. This is an ordinary part of the spy-counterspy game. There is nothing Weather Underground would like better than having a few agents in the FBI or CIA, for the same reasons that the FBI or CIA would like to have a few agents in Weather Underground. 2). Such infiltration will also be a prime goal of hostile foreign powers, for the same reasons. Please note that these are simple facts of the secret-police game, well-known even to the general public, the subject of many ingenious plots in popular spy films, and not particularly alarming...yet.Nonetheless, the seeds of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Paranoia are already here, for the simple reason that once a human being develops the habits of worry and suspicion, he or she finds increasing justifications for more worry and more suspicion. For instance, Richard Q. (not his real initial), one of my interview subjects, became concerned, after ten years in the CIA, with the possibility of infiltration by "extraterrestrial" agents. He was eventually retired when he began to claim that demons in the form of dogs wanted him to assassinate Laverne and Shirley. 3). Secret-police officials acquire fantastic capacities to blackmail and intimidate others in goverment. Stalin executed three chiefs of his secret police in a row, because of this danger. One of my informants claims that every president since the National Security Act was passed in 1947 has learned how to have sexual intercourse without making a single audible sound, because of the possible electronic eavesdroppers. As Nixion says so wistfully on the Watergate transcripts, "Well, Hoover performed. He would have fought. That was the point. He would have defied a few people. He would have scared them to death. HE HAS A FILE ON EVERYBODY!" . Thus, those who employ secret-police organizations MUST monitor them th be sure they are not acquiring too much power. In the United States today, the superelite that monitors the CIA is the National Security Agency. ( And a group called "The Store" monitors the NSA). Here is where a sinister infinite regress enters the game. Any such elite, second or third order secret-police agency must be, according to the above pragmatic and necessary rules, subject to infiltration by native subversives or hostile foreign powers, or to acquiring "too much power" in the opinion of its masters. (It may even be subject, if Richard Q. was correct in his anxieties, to extraterrestrial manipulation). And so, it, too, must be monitored by a secret police of the third order. But this third-order secret-police (such as Nixon's notorious "plumbers", or more currently, "The Store"). is also subject to infiltration or to acquiring too much power...and thus, with relentless logic, the
Dysfunctional Decision-making
Every society is run by an increasingly small number of cynical decision-makers. Barring a change of circumstance where cynicism is discouraged, their actions and plans are ultimately rewarded, and more power is accrued to them. Success begets success. Secrecy and immorality is incompatible with a free society, a free press is necessary to provide the necessary information for which society's members can decide the direction society may go. However if the response to a given event is to claim that it isn't happening, this constrains the freedom of action by which society's leaders can devote resources to an issue. Furthermore, it is the interests of cynical decision-makers in the accrual of power to alter society so that various leaders are cowardly and so unlikely to take an unprecedented action. Organizations that operate in accordance to inertia can be easily predicted and deviations from a course can be noticed and responded to accordingly. This is paradoxically incompatible with long-term stability, the people who desire access to the levers of power do not disappear, and if they did, cynical decision-makers do not make up a majority of society's members, they themselves are constrained from making public decisions or actions that would in it self be threatening and lead to a reaction by society's leaders to effect their removal out of a desire for self-preservation (unless it was sufficiently clear that ambition was not synonymous with hazard). Thus even the response to threats to a political order is constrained by perceptions, and this in turn constrains the allocation of resources to respond. The press, if dedicated to preserving the current political order, cannot describe a threat to the political order in terms that would allow for the threat to expand in support beyond society itself is willing to provide in responding to it. Every lock has play. The only lock that cannot be picked is one that cannot be opened.
Re: Coronavirus: Thread
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 04:21:47AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Deaths resolved: 12.9% Do you compute 100 * deaths / recovered? According to wikipedia, the first 3 countries: China: 4.5% Italy: 82% USA: 172% (over 100 is not a typo).
Stanislaw Lem on Packaging Materials
Our mighty civilization strives for the production of commodities as impermanent as possible in packaging as permanent as possible. The impermanent product must soon be replaced by a new one, and this is good for the economy; the permanence of the packaging, on the other hand, makes its disposal difficult, and this promotes the further development of technology and organization. Thus the consumer copes with each consecutive article of junk on an individual basis, whereas for the removal of the packaging; special antipollution programs are required, sanitary engineering, the coordination of efforts, planning, purification and decontamination plants, and so on.
Re: military lock down in 2 weeks, possibly/probably -- [gilma...@gmail.com: From a reliable friend]
Trump is notorious for promoting amazingly good news and profitability, building up debt backed by public assurances, subsidies and tax avoidance, then when the paper-mache-of-contracts construction collapses, walking away hooting with banks debt is good for the economy, creates jobs, win-win-win. This is his long-time method of operation to shift profits to himself and huge debts to the public. National debt the sweetest of honey and myrrh for believers in take the money and run. He is hardly alone in this, to be sure, national security-based econo-olitical systems, engorged by fabricated, exaggerated threats to nations ever renewed by secret reports and periodic outbursts of violence, natural or man-made, are the most common form of government and has been since the racket was invented, taught in schools and churches, bribed in clubs and parades, venerated in cemetaries and monuments and marble piles and luxurious estates. If "invisible threat" coronavirus had not been cooked up by shamanistic scientists, handmaids of natsec, it would be something like it. Apple drop innocence killed. Wait, wait, is this not Trump/Breibart/Stormer/Alex Jones/Fox News/Internet putrid bullshit par excellence, mes amis? Cough, cough, katchoo, snot splatter your paraniod naked face.
Re: military lock down in 2 weeks, possibly/probably -- [gilma...@gmail.com: From a reliable friend]
Take heart, as our wall builder in chief, Trump, proclaims clearly that
coronavirus restrictions will be lifted "soon, a lot sooner than three or four
months."
So it appears 6 weeks and this transition ought be well and truly done ..
Trump Says Coronavirus Restructions Will Be Lifted "Soon", The US "Was Not
Built To Be Shut Down": Live Updates
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/1-3-americans-ordered-stay-inside-global-covid-19-infections-pass-350k-live-updates
Peace,
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 03:41:57PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Possibility of a military lock down ("Level 5" or whatever they call it) in
> about 2 weeks.
>
> (I.e. scratch this morning's prediction of 6 or so weeks or more! You might
> have 2 weeks to prepare for the following few weeks.)
>
> Any cash balances in your bank accounts may disappear, or if your're super
> lucky may in some way be converted to the new semi-global currency on the way.
> So probably better to spend any cash lying around.
> Rum may well hold its value better than fiat currency cash, over the coming
> month or so.
>
>
> - New Zealand parliament today announced they too are going home, this for 6
> weeks (vs Australia at officially "6 months" for our federal parliament).
>Parliamentary suspensions all over the place - a quick Yandex.com will
> find some of them, e.g. Ottawa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada.
>e.g. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliament-suspended-1.5496469
>
>
> Coronavirus: Defence Force, police to patrol streets during New Zealand's
> Covid-19 Lockdown
>
> https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/03/coronavirus-defence-force-police-to-patrol-streets-during-new-zealand-s-covid-19-lockdown.html
> Police officers and Defence Force personnel will patrol New Zealand's
> streets to ensure compliance with public health measures as the country goes
> into lockdown over the ... "I can understand that seeing an increase in
> presence by police and our military may not...
>
>
> Coronavirus live news: UK goes into lockdown as WHO...
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/23/coronavirus-live-updates-uk-us-italy-germany-europe-outbreak-cases-meetings-bans-update-latest-news?page=with%3Ablock-5e7913938f0887f6e2b5c345
> UK: police to enforce lockdown. Heather Stewart and Rowena Mason report
> on the drastic new measures just announced that will take the UK into
> lockdown ... Coronavirus live updates Australia: national cabinet to consider
> lockdowns of Covid-19 hotspots – latest.
>
>
> COVID 19 Delhi Lockdown: Police to issue... | PINKVILLA
>
> https://www.pinkvilla.com/trending/india/covid-19-delhi-lockdown-police-issue-curfew-passes-essential-services-inter-state-borders-sealed-518438
> After imposing a lockdown in Delhi, the state police seals inter-state
> borders and will be issuing curfew ... According to media reports, after
> announcing the lockdown in Delhi, the government has decided to take strict
> actions against anyone violating the instructions.
>
>
> Doctor's plea to place Australia into lockdown due to...
>
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/coronavirus/video-2135832/Video-Doctors-plea-place-Australia-lockdown-COVID-19.html?ns_mchannel=rss=1490_campaign=1490
> Australia's top doctors come together to beg Scott Morrison to place
> Australia into total lockdown NOW and say they are 'terrified' of the
> coronavirus. ... Robot designed in China could help save lives amid COVID-19
> crises.
>
>
> endless articles/news/propaganda to this effect.
>
> "Is my house in order?"
>
> Good luck muh fellow Souls,
>
>
>
> - Forwarded message from Gil May -
>
> From: Gil May
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:07:47 +1000
> Subject: From a reliable friend
>
> *Just got a call from a friend works at Woolworths,they’ve been told
> that a military lockdown is in place in a fortnight,...only one individual
> per household can visit supermarket per day,...its all to be heavily
> policed*
>
> - End forwarded message -
Re: China flu a win win - Re: more flu propaganda to fuel global insanity
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 06:49:45PM -0300, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:15:07 +1100 > Zenaan Harkness vomited: > > > Trump's nationalist agenda appears to be in full swing. > > > > Sometimes, walls are good. > > cero a la izquierda Artists build paper mache walls. Which melt in the rain. This can be pretty, but not usually, although tears may be shed "for the sheer humanity of the ugly pile of wet newspaper". When a wall is needed, I'll take an engineered wall. Some Roman viaducts exist to this day - still streaming water from their various heads to their respective destinations. These are good, functional and useful "walls".
Researchers demonstrate the missing link for a quantum internet
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-link-quantum-internet.html
