date:20170301


An Coulter says:
> The only complicated part of fixing health care is figuring out how
> to take care of the other 10 percent of Americans — the poor, the
> irresponsible and the unlucky. And the only reason that is
> complicated is because of fraud.
>
> Needless to say, the modern nanny state already guarantees that no
> one will die on the street in America. The taxpayer spends more than
> a trillion dollars every year on Medicare, Medicaid and Social
> Security disability insurance so that everyone’s health is taken
> care of, from cradle to grave.

> Policing fraud is difficult because: (1) the bureaucrats dispensing
> government benefits believe there is no fraud and, if there is, it’s
> a good thing because it redistributes income; and (2) we keep
> bringing in immigrants for whom fraud is a way of life. (See “Adios,
> America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World
> Hellhole.”)

I can confirm this from my visit to Canadian hospital.  It appeared
that I was the only person there who was not a bum or a drug addict.
I guess that all normal Canadians who needed to go to hospital went
across the US border.

Re: After Action Report of the First Crypto War

2017-03-01 Thread Shawn K. Quinn

On 03/02/2017 01:24 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:50 AM, Shawn K. Quinn  wrote:
>> Plain ... eschewed
>> S ... "table stakes"
> 
>> Plaintext (non-SSL/TLS) SMTP
>> effectively dead.
> 
> Tell that to the operator of this list, whose service
> still mails out plaintext to servers that accept TLS ;)

All the more baffling, as encrypted connections appear to be accepted
just fine. Anyone know why this is the case?

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn 
http://www.rantroulette.com
http://www.skqrecordquest.com



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Re: After Action Report of the First Crypto War

2017-03-01 Thread grarpamp

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:50 AM, Shawn K. Quinn  wrote:
> Plain ... eschewed
> S ... "table stakes"

> Plaintext (non-SSL/TLS) SMTP
> effectively dead.

Tell that to the operator of this list, whose service
still mails out plaintext to servers that accept TLS ;)

Re: CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!

On 3/2/2017 5:11 PM, oshwm wrote:

I'd take someone with good imagination who has to look up fine

> details over someone who has a photographic memory and no
> imagination any day.

These are not tests of rote memorization.  Someone who passes them by 
rote memorization is cheating.  These are tests of ability to write a 
simple program.

You ask someone to write a bubble sort, not because anyone ever needs a 
bubble sort, but because the program you actually need someone to write 
cannot be looked up on the internet.

Re: CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!

2017-03-01 Thread oshwm

On 2 March 2017 04:22:34 GMT+00:00, "James A. Donald"  
wrote:
>On 3/2/2017 1:00 PM, Razer wrote:
>>> A number of programmers have taken it Twitter to bring it to
>>> everyone's, but particularly recruiter's, attention about the
>grueling
>>> interview process in their field that relies heavily on technical
>>> questions.
>>>
>>> David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of
>>> the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he
>>> tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort
>>> on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I
>don't
>>> do riddles." Another coder added, "Hello, my name is Tim. I'm a lead
>>> at Google with over 30 years coding experience and I need to look up
>>> how to get length of a python string." Another coder chimed in,
>"Hello
>>> my name is Mike, I'm a GDE and lead at NY Times, I don't know what
>np
>>> complete means. Should I?"
>>>
>>> A feature story on The Outline adds:
>>>
 This interview style, widely used by major tech companies including
 Google and Amazon, typically pits candidates against a whiteboard
 without access to reference material -- a scenario working
 programmers say is demoralizing and an unrealistic test of actual
 ability. People spend weeks preparing for this process, afraid that
 the interviewer will quiz them on the one obscure algorithm they
 haven't studied. "

>>> A cottage industry has emerged that reminds us uncomfortably of SAT
>>> prep," Karla Monterroso, VP of programs for Code2040, an
>organization
>>> for black and Latino techies, wrote in a critique of the whiteboard
>>> interview. [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer
>>> science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in
>>> other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older
>>> people, and people of color.
>>>
>>
>> With links:
>>
>https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/03/01/1643251/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process
>
>
>I have not studied any of these things since forever and a day, but I 
>can still pass all of them, and anyone who cannot, should not be hired.
>
>I think the last time I read what a bubble sort was, or had to think 
>about a bubble sort, was when I read Knuth, more decades ago than I
>care 
>to admit, and yet I can do a bubble sort off the top of my head on a 
>whiteboard.
>
>If companies have a lot of people who could not pass these tests, or 
>could not pass them without cramming, they should fire a lot of people.

I'd take someone with good imagination who has to look up fine details over 
someone who has a photographic memory and no imagination any day.

Re: Ann Coulter - libertarian? - "There shall be a free market in health insurance."

2017-03-01 Thread Shawn K. Quinn

On 03/02/2017 12:17 AM,

Re: After Action Report of the First Crypto War

2017-03-01 Thread grarpamp

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Ryan Carboni  wrote:
> Why is the world structured the way that it is, and to who does it serve?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLl0DVzRksk

Ann Coulter - libertarian? - "There shall be a free market in health insurance."

Removing protectionist monopolies?  Naaah, couldn't possibly work...



Ann Coulter: How to Provide Universal Health Care Using This
One Easy Trick
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/01/ann-coulter-provide-universal-health-care-using-one-easy-trick/

Re: CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 02:22:34PM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
> On 3/2/2017 1:00 PM, Razer wrote:
> >>A number of programmers have taken it Twitter to bring it to
> >>everyone's, but particularly recruiter's, attention about the grueling
> >>interview process in their field that relies heavily on technical
> >>questions.
> >>
> >>David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of
> >>the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he
> >>tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort
> >>on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't
> >>do riddles." Another coder added, "Hello, my name is Tim. I'm a lead
> >>at Google with over 30 years coding experience and I need to look up
> >>how to get length of a python string." Another coder chimed in, "Hello
> >>my name is Mike, I'm a GDE and lead at NY Times, I don't know what np
> >>complete means. Should I?"
> >>
> >>A feature story on The Outline adds:
> >>
> >>>This interview style, widely used by major tech companies including
> >>>Google and Amazon, typically pits candidates against a whiteboard
> >>>without access to reference material -- a scenario working
> >>>programmers say is demoralizing and an unrealistic test of actual
> >>>ability. People spend weeks preparing for this process, afraid that
> >>>the interviewer will quiz them on the one obscure algorithm they
> >>>haven't studied. "
> >>>
> >>A cottage industry has emerged that reminds us uncomfortably of SAT
> >>prep," Karla Monterroso, VP of programs for Code2040, an organization
> >>for black and Latino techies, wrote in a critique of the whiteboard
> >>interview. [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer
> >>science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in
> >>other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older
> >>people, and people of color.
> >>
> >
> >With links:
> >https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/03/01/1643251/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process
> 
> 
> I have not studied any of these things since forever and a day, but I can
> still pass all of them, and anyone who cannot, should not be hired.
> 
> I think the last time I read what a bubble sort was, or had to think about a
> bubble sort, was when I read Knuth, more decades ago than I care to admit,
> and yet I can do a bubble sort off the top of my head on a whiteboard.

Attempts to sidestep with (e.g.) "Oh, bubble sort's not a good example,
what I should have said was ..." in 3 .. 2 ..


> If companies have a lot of people who could not pass these tests, or could
> not pass them without cramming, they should fire a lot of people.

Now there's an idea! Snap computer science drills by your employer ...
Microsoft used to cull the bottom x% (20%?) of their workforce each year
or so, and this might be a way to be 'politically correct' about that
process of culling ...

"We might not have secure employees, but at least they all damn well
know their np- from their turing- completes :D

Re: [WAR] RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 02:15:39PM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
> On 3/2/2017 12:08 PM, Razer wrote:
> >Rebbe schmebee. Every nutjob on the streetcorner is a theologian now days.
> >
> >Besides. He's Donald Trump's "Token Jew"
> 
> 
> Is Trump's son in law also token?


Absolutely - the token snowflake appeasing Jewish son in law obtained
as a political prop. Ahem ... or something.

Re: CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:00:12PM -0800, Razer wrote:
> > A cottage industry has emerged that reminds us uncomfortably of SAT
> > prep," Karla Monterroso, VP of programs for Code2040, an organization
> > for black and Latino techies, wrote in a critique of the whiteboard
> > interview. [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer
> > science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in
> > other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older
> > people, and people of color.

Because "racially and genderly diversifying the the computer science
field is import because _ _ _ _ !"

Of course, that's a really easy question to answer.

"But ... PRIVILEGE MOFO!" is what then comes back.

Take notice:
 - holding first my duty to myself is not evil

 - holding first my duty to my family is not evil

 - holding first my duty to my principles is not evil

 - holding first my duty to my [ ethnic | racial | national ]
   preferences is not evil

 - holding that merit is more important than "geographically localised
   XYZ diversity", is not evil

Feel free to wallow in the evil of your so called privilege and your
so-called "evil" lack of geographically localised XYZ diversity!

Suck it up buttercup, I'm getting on with my life!

I joined this list to escape Snowflake Syndrome (also appearing in the
guise of Stockholm Syndrome and other miasmic myopias).

Sometimes I do wonder at humans ... amazing creatures.

ODNI posts previously withheld Snowden emails to Tumblr

Muckrock:

> From redacted to reblogged: ODNI posts previously withheld Snowden
> emails to Tumblr
>
> Security exemptions apparently don’t apply to social media presence
>
> Written by Michael Morisy
> Edited by JPat Brown
>
> In 2013 the National Security Agency rejected  a request for Edward
> Snowden’s emails to superiors, as well as his employee reviews.
>
> But a year later, after Snowden claimed he emailed his superiors with
> concerns, the Office of the Director of Intelligence posted one of
> those emails to its Tumblr...
>
In full with dox:
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/may/30/2013-nsa-snowden-emails-foia-proof-2014-nsa-post-e/

Re: [WAR] RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust



On 03/01/2017 08:49 PM, the un-namable curse on listservs everywhere
reiterated my point IOW:

>>> On 3/2/2017 12:08 PM, Razer vomited:
 Rebbe schmebee. Every nutjob on the streetcorner is a theologian
>
>   as if being a 'theologian' had any merit, value, or required
>   more intelligence than that of a dog's turd.
>
>

Thanks for that.

Rr

Re: [WAR] RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust

2017-03-01 Thread juan


> > On 3/2/2017 12:08 PM, Razer vomited:
> >> Rebbe schmebee. Every nutjob on the streetcorner is a theologian


as if being a 'theologian' had any merit, value, or required
more intelligence than that of a dog's turd.

Re: [WAR] RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust



On 03/01/2017 08:15 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
> On 3/2/2017 12:08 PM, Razer wrote:
>> Rebbe schmebee. Every nutjob on the streetcorner is a theologian now
>> days.
>>
>> Besides. He's Donald Trump's "Token Jew"
>
>
> Is Trump's son in law also token?


Son in law from which goyim schiksa?

Re: CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!

On 3/2/2017 1:00 PM, Razer wrote:

A number of programmers have taken it Twitter to bring it to
everyone's, but particularly recruiter's, attention about the grueling
interview process in their field that relies heavily on technical
questions.

David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of
the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he
tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort
on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't
do riddles." Another coder added, "Hello, my name is Tim. I'm a lead
at Google with over 30 years coding experience and I need to look up
how to get length of a python string." Another coder chimed in, "Hello
my name is Mike, I'm a GDE and lead at NY Times, I don't know what np
complete means. Should I?"

A feature story on The Outline adds:

This interview style, widely used by major tech companies including
Google and Amazon, typically pits candidates against a whiteboard
without access to reference material -- a scenario working
programmers say is demoralizing and an unrealistic test of actual
ability. People spend weeks preparing for this process, afraid that
the interviewer will quiz them on the one obscure algorithm they
haven't studied. "

A cottage industry has emerged that reminds us uncomfortably of SAT
prep," Karla Monterroso, VP of programs for Code2040, an organization
for black and Latino techies, wrote in a critique of the whiteboard
interview. [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer
science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in
other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older
people, and people of color.

With links:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/03/01/1643251/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process

I have not studied any of these things since forever and a day, but I
can still pass all of them, and anyone who cannot, should not be hired.

I think the last time I read what a bubble sort was, or had to think
about a bubble sort, was when I read Knuth, more decades ago than I care
to admit, and yet I can do a bubble sort off the top of my head on a
whiteboard.

If companies have a lot of people who could not pass these tests, or
could not pass them without cramming, they should fire a lot of people.

Re: [WAR] RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust


On 3/2/2017 12:08 PM, Razer wrote:

Rebbe schmebee. Every nutjob on the streetcorner is a theologian now days.

Besides. He's Donald Trump's "Token Jew"



Is Trump's son in law also token?

CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!

> A number of programmers have taken it Twitter to bring it to
> everyone's, but particularly recruiter's, attention about the grueling
> interview process in their field that relies heavily on technical
> questions.
>
> David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of
> the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he
> tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort
> on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't
> do riddles." Another coder added, "Hello, my name is Tim. I'm a lead
> at Google with over 30 years coding experience and I need to look up
> how to get length of a python string." Another coder chimed in, "Hello
> my name is Mike, I'm a GDE and lead at NY Times, I don't know what np
> complete means. Should I?"
>
> A feature story on The Outline adds:
>
>> This interview style, widely used by major tech companies including
>> Google and Amazon, typically pits candidates against a whiteboard
>> without access to reference material -- a scenario working
>> programmers say is demoralizing and an unrealistic test of actual
>> ability. People spend weeks preparing for this process, afraid that
>> the interviewer will quiz them on the one obscure algorithm they
>> haven't studied. "
>>
> A cottage industry has emerged that reminds us uncomfortably of SAT
> prep," Karla Monterroso, VP of programs for Code2040, an organization
> for black and Latino techies, wrote in a critique of the whiteboard
> interview. [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer
> science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in
> other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older
> people, and people of color.
>

With links:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/03/01/1643251/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process

Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer

> Celestine Omin, a software engineer at Andela -- a tech startup that
> connects developers in Africa with U.S employers -- had a particularly
> unwelcoming reception when he deplaned at John F. Kennedy Airport and
> was given a test to prove he was actually a software engineer.
>
> A LinkedIn post detailing Omin's challenging experience explained that
> upon landing in New York after spending 24 miserable hours on a Qatar
> Airways flight, he was given some trouble about the short-term visa he
> obtained for his trip. According to the post, an unprepared and
> exhausted Omin waited in the airport for approximately 20 minutes
> before being questioned by a Customs and Border Protection officer
> about his occupation.
>
> After several questions were asked, he was reportedly brought to a
> small room and told to sit down, where he was left for another hour
> before another customs officer entered and resumed grilling him. Omin
> was instructed to answer the following questions: "Write a function to
> check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced," and "What is an abstract
> class, and why do you need it."
>
More links:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/03/01/2114213/software-engineer-detained-at-jfk-given-test-to-prove-hes-an-engineer

Re: [WAR] RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust

Rebbe schmebee. Every nutjob on the streetcorner is a theologian now days.

Besides. He's Donald Trump's "Token Jew"

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/28/helene-mayer-nazi-germanys-jewish-champion-fencer

[WAR] Americans - crucified by a delicate Russian lass

Nope, nothing to see here folks ... move on please, to Russia where the
grizzlies are pets and fur hats are allowed in public :)



http://russia-insider.com/en/free-speech-free-healthcare-and-mayonnaise-everything-why-life-russia-far-superior-american-wage

[WAR] Russian military natural ability - Washington's Proposed 'Defense' Spending Increase Is More Than 80% of Russia's ENTIRE Military Budget

Putin, slaying the beast, single handedly establishing a new, multi
polar world order, infiltrating and deciding every election around the
planet, lifting the world's satellites into space, meddling in the
West's wars all over the planet and slaying every diplomatic affront
with applomb.

One could just possibly be lead to think, that just may be, there are
one, may be two, additional competent individuals inhabiting the nation
known as Russia.




** Washington's Proposed 'Defense' Spending Increase Is More Than 80% of
Russia's ENTIRE Military Budget
http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f=3909c1aac1=5110f4b440

by Paul Kaiser on Tue, Feb 28, 2017
At a meeting of U.S. governors on Monday, Donald "the F-35 is too
expensive" Trump described his proposed $54 billion boost in "defense"
spending as an integral part of “a public safety and national security
budget.” As our friends at the Intercept astutely observed:





Handling such power evidently requires a team effort:

‘Fake News’: BBC, AFP, Google, Facebook Collude to Tell Voters ‘Who to
Trust’ in French Election
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/01/fake-news-bbc-afp-google-facebook-collude-tell-voters-trust-french-election/





And the lame stream media is definitely onto it:

The mainstream media’s desperate effort to smear online alternative
media as “fake news”
http://theduran.com/cnn-terrified-growth-alternative-media/





And a reminder boys and girls, do NOT gloat!

4 amazing events where instant karma crushed those who mocked President
Donald Trump
http://theduran.com/4-amazing-instances-where-instant-karma-crushed-those-who-mocked-president-donald-trump/

Saker (one for the history books): Interesting week for Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

Prediction: 2017 gonna be one hellava year..

France, Germany, Poland, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Ukraine and more.
IMF and the Brussels EUrocrats are running out of leverage, and rarely
do power mongers give up "to the will of the people" without a fight.



Interesting week for Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
http://theduran.com/interesting-week-for-vladimir-putin-and-donald-trump/

Re: Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica

2017-03-01 Thread John Newman

> On Mar 1, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Cecilia Tanaka  wrote:
> 
> #  Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica
> 
> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/scientists-just-confirmed-the-hottest-day-in-antarctica
> 
> #  Maps Show Where Americans Care about Climate Change.
> 
> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/maps-show-where-americans-care-about-climate-change/

Russia and Canada will do well in the coming century, strictly from a weather 
point of view.
Siberia will be a bread basket by the 22nd century... start your planning early 
;)

Re: Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:49:27AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
> On 3/2/2017 9:41 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
> >#  Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica
> 
> 
> This result comes from thermometers located near human habitation, which has
> exposed steam pipes, and which has increasing human habitation, and thus
> increasing sources of heat.
> 
> Thermometers far from human habitation indicate that antarctic temperatures
> are falling, as is the fact that the antarctic icecap is growing.

But but ... anthropogenic END OF THE WORLD!!!

Re: [GUNS] Teach the children well

Two up, a safe way to play:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/28/report-armed-barber-opens-fire-stops-shotgun-wielding-suspect/

[WAR] RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust

Not sure what sort of [WAR] this is - a disinformation war? propaganda
war? Democrat under used adjectives and juxtapositions war?

Funny either which way when Rabbi Shmuley tells the democrats to
cut it :D

Now, although Shmuley and Breitbart proclaim such naming of "Trump is
Hitler" as "obscenity", what they don't seem to realise is that some
folk would consider such "loose" languaging to be a feather in Trump's
cap  ..  of course.



RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/01/rabbi-shmuley-comparing-trump-hitler-desecrates-holocaust/

Re: Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica


On 3/2/2017 9:41 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:

#  Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/scientists-just-confirmed-the-hottest-day-in-antarctica

#  Maps Show Where Americans Care about Climate Change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/maps-show-where-americans-care-about-climate-change/




Surface thermometers are not an accurate measure of global warming, 
because they tend to be close to human habitation, and therefore the 
*local* environment is getting warmer.


Also weather stations keep getting shut down from time to time, and new 
weather stations pop up from time to time, resulting in the need for 
guesswork and ad hoc corrections to stitch together results from 
different weather stations.


Also, somehow, not every weather station is included, and warmists have 
a notorious tendency to somehow leave out weather stations that are 
getting colder - which is pretty much every unmanned weather station in 
Antarctica.


Also, warmists have a notorious tendency to make ad hoc and unexplained 
"corrections" to weather stations that give inconvenient results, as for 
example:


https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/the-smoking-gun-at-darwin-zero/

Bottom line:  The people whose data you are relying on have been caught 
lying before.


In the case of Antarctica, they are not exactly lying, rather they are 
cherry picking their weather stations to get the result that they want.


But in the case of Australia, we caught them just plain lying barefaced.

Re: Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica


On 3/2/2017 9:41 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:

#  Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica



This result comes from thermometers located near human habitation, which 
has exposed steam pipes, and which has increasing human habitation, and 
thus increasing sources of heat.


Thermometers far from human habitation indicate that antarctic 
temperatures are falling, as is the fact that the antarctic icecap is 
growing.

Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica

2017-03-01 Thread Cecilia Tanaka

#  Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/scientists-just-confirmed-the-hottest-day-in-antarctica

#  Maps Show Where Americans Care about Climate Change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/maps-show-where-americans-care-about-climate-change/

Re: After Action Report of the First Crypto War

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 09:27:31AM -0800, Ryan Carboni wrote:
> And then a few academics found that there is a problem with the Clipper
> chip protocol, the 16-bit hash was insecure. Apparently the NSA cannot
> write good protocols. Should've been a bigger scandal, it'd be like a
> trillion dollar project to build airplanes that cannot fly.

Well at least -that-'s never happened...

Re: "Documenting Hate" Project

2017-03-01 Thread Cecilia Tanaka

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Razer  wrote:
>
> #Snowflake #Stormtroopers Must... have... #TacticalBacon, and clean
> socks.

And books, lots of weird books, woohoo!!  \o/ \o/ \o/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/anamariaglavan/books-that-are-too-weird-not-to-buy

Because all you need to be happy is learning how to talk to your cat
about gun safety and abstinence, drugs, satanism, and other dangers
that threaten their nine lives!  :D

PS:  - Unicorns are *not* jerks!  :P

After Action Report of the First Crypto War

2017-03-01 Thread Ryan Carboni

The ISDN standard was first defined in 1988.
Five years later the Clipper Chip was proposed.

The result of the First Crypto War was Status Quo Ante Bellum.

Everyone has celebrated the lack of encryption as a victory?

To who would this serve?

The ISDN standard itself is a curious thing, according to a /wikipedia/
article on caller ID spoofing, it is rumored that Paris Hilton hacked into
Lindsay Lohan's voicemail. Around the same time that the NSA began
warrantless wiretapping? The NSA did have input on the 2G cipher, so why
would they be okay with increasing the arbitrary nature of the world?

Afterall, privacy for the sake of privacy and freedom for the sake of
freedom is sort of pointless. Personally I'm against tyranny, as a result
of personal experiences, even thought about how Tor could be improved. But
all tyranny is simply the arbitary whims of a tyrant, nothing more.

The NSA seems to be achieving control for the sake of control... but seems
to be doing so in a way that would blind the other government organs to
crime?

Why is the world structured the way that it is, and to who does it serve?

The problem with writing an after action report of the First Crypto War is
that apparently everyone involved are idiots or shills, and the only
arguments that ever convinced me were by the academics who supported the
clipper chip.

And then a few academics found that there is a problem with the Clipper
chip protocol, the 16-bit hash was insecure. Apparently the NSA cannot
write good protocols. Should've been a bigger scandal, it'd be like a
trillion dollar project to build airplanes that cannot fly.

Thus no logical conclusion can be formed as of this time, unless one is
willing to entertain rumors about the Deep State.

Re: Anarchapulco Presentation



On 03/01/2017 08:24 AM, Sangy wrote:
> Talk about bougie shit. $245 dollars to listen to pseudolibertarians and
> share space kid-pissed pool. 
>
>> "How to find love in anarchapulco" 
> ROTFL
>
> How did it feel to share stage with Lauren Southern?
>
> Also, what'd you talk about?
>
> -S
>
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 03:05:22PM +, jim bell wrote:
>> Went very well.  My speech will probably be posted on their website in a few 
>> days.
>>Jim Bell


I'll bet she thinks Muslim society is a rape culture.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/11/reporter-trolls-slutwalk-saying-theres-no-rape-culture-in-the-west-5240499/




More proof North American usage of the monicker "Libertarian" is just a
way of hiding "AltRight" racism.

Rr

Re: Fwd: [Cryptography] Schneier's Internet Security Agency - bad idea because we don't know what it will do

2017-03-01 Thread Steve Kinney

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On 03/01/2017 04:06 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> What you quote not wrote by me.

Sorry, my bad.  Lost track of how many layers deep it was.
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Re: [Cryptography] jammers, nor not



On 03/01/2017 12:22 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Most problems are a capitalist's marketing opportunity :)

Turn the damn thing off first and take the battery out THEN wrap that
rascal. Wrapping a phone tightly in foil will drive the SWR of the
transmitter off-the-scale and one of two things will happen. The output
stage will fry, or IF there's SWR detection you're in good shape and the
transmitter simply won't operate.

The latter is highly unlikely...  because 'junk', or because design...
ie. 'capitalist's marketing opportunity' to sell you another phone.

Re: Anarchapulco Presentation

2017-03-01 Thread Sangy

Talk about bougie shit. $245 dollars to listen to pseudolibertarians and
share space kid-pissed pool. 

> "How to find love in anarchapulco" 
ROTFL

How did it feel to share stage with Lauren Southern?

Also, what'd you talk about?

-S

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 03:05:22PM +, jim bell wrote:
> Went very well.  My speech will probably be posted on their website in a few 
> days.
>                Jim Bell

Anarchapulco Presentation

2017-03-01 Thread jim bell

Went very well.  My speech will probably be posted on their website in a few 
days.
               Jim Bell

Re: "Documenting Hate" Project



On 02/28/2017 04:16 AM, John Newman wrote:
>
>> On Feb 28, 2017, at 1:44 AM, Shawn K. Quinn  wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/28/2017 12:13 AM, James A. Donald wrote:
 On 2/28/2017 3:09 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
 "Documenting Hate" Project:
>>> That you want there to be hate crimes so much, that you look so hard for
>>> hate crimes, and are so thrilled when you think you have found them,
>>> reveals your hatred, not ours.
>> I can't speak for others, but I certainly don't want there to be hate
>> crimes. Shining a spotlight on them is the first step to ending them.
>>
>> I personally would be overjoyed if there were no more hate crimes
>> tomorrow and every day for the rest of my life thereafter.
>>
>> -- 
>> Shawn K. Quinn 
>> http://www.rantroulette.com
>> http://www.skqrecordquest.com
> Donald loves to play the victim card. Poor white male, my god it
> must suck being the most privileged class in one of the most privileged
> countries in the world..
>
> Actually it just sucks being James Jim Donald because he's a 
> hate filled fuck with a shriveled little black heart who has no 
> comprehension of the need for diversity and would literally stomp 
> it under his jackboot. His only consolation is a bunch of parroting 
> sycophants (like that assclown Z*n) on his blog, all equally whiny 
> fascist assholes.
>
> Fuck JD and his "poor me" whining. What the is this, a new 
> "pussy fascist" movement?  


#Snowflake #Stormtroopers Must... have... #TacticalBacon, and clean
socks.

Rr

Re: rotorbrowser update?

2017-03-01 Thread Joshua

The project is sort of in hibernation mode right now as I have to spend time on 
some other projects temporarily. I'll probably pick things back up in a few 
months :)

Unfortunately there weren't many developers that have come forward to help with 
it.

-movrcx


Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in 
Switzerland.



 Original Message 
Subject: rotorbrowser update?
Local Time: March 1, 2017 3:16 AM
UTC Time: March 1, 2017 8:16 AM
From: z...@freedbms.net
To: CypherPunks 

rotorbrowser.com :
"The certificate expired on 20170128 22:37"


Any news? Is dev still happening? Was hopeful that the ALLCAPS browser
might make a release at some point...

Re: "Documenting Hate" Project

2017-03-01 Thread jim . sovereign

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 06:50:45PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> There's a misnomer here - diversity of peoples and their cultures 'given
...
> but a piss poor effort on your part!  Can we do better here?

Not sure you'll get a response, I believe he's filtered your emails...

FWIW I think its worth thinking about.

Re: Google are f'ing hypocrites

2017-03-01 Thread Marina Brown

On 02/25/2017 06:40 AM, John Newman wrote:
> 
> 
> On February 25, 2017 5:45:07 AM EST, ra...@freedbms.net wrote:
>> First they de-associate PewDiePie, then de-monetize Alex Jones, then
>> shadow ban Natural News from all search results after its founder
>> refuses to discredit Alex Jones, and finally they re-monetize
>> PewDiePie!
>>
>> Google - effing hypocritical money grubbing deceptive sluts, ignoring
>> their purported "ethics" except to maximise profit and grease the MSM
>> wheels!
>>
>> It's time to DEMAND that google kick-ban PewDiePie now!
>>
>> Messed up,
>> Rr.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Butthurt SJW PewDiePie Attempts to Stop Heroic WSJ Jew Burners
>> http://www.dailystormer.com/butthurt-sjw-pewdiepie-attempts-to-stop-heroic-wsj-jew-burners/
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTCDfE_sKnM
> 
> Hey Razer somehow morphed into Z*n! Strange things afoot! Must be a full 
> moon. Or Zzz is a fucking idiot :)
> 
> Don't send email as other people, it's lame, and it defeated my Z*n filter. I 
> guess I just plonk all of freedbms.net. 
> .
> 

Thanks for the filter suggestion. Added !

--- Marina



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Re: Fwd: [Cryptography] Schneier's Internet Security Agency - bad idea because we don't know what it will do

2017-03-01 Thread grarpamp

What you quote not wrote by me.

Re: "Documenting Hate" Project

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:59:56AM -0700, Mirimir wrote:
> On 02/28/2017 09:51 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
>  On 02/28/2017 12:13 AM, [hate filled fuck with a shriveled little black 
>  heart] wrote:
> > 
> > This observation made me smile, my love.  Thanks, Mirimir.  Some day,
> > hope Donald notices I am not searching for hate, but for hope.  I
> > still dream of a better world.  :)
> 
> :)
> 
> > Nobody knows how many hate crimes and bias incidents take place each
> > year in the USA.  They asked help to track them.
> 
> The SSS concept involves decoys to identify assholes, followed by
> assassins to eliminate them.
> 
> > The 'Documenting Hate' Project wants transparency about relevant data
> > that is *not* known because most of the times are ignored or receive
> > more make-up than all Hollywood actresses in Oscar's night.  If you
> > really think that happened a hate crime against a "straight white
> > man", OK, report it and justify the reasons of your convincement.  The
> > same to attacks to all the colors, races, ethnicities, genders,
> > religions, trans status, disabilities, and sexual orientations.  It
> > isn't about Trump and politics, it's about peace, about life, about
> > Justice and a fairer, more transparent world, where this kind of
> > hateful action is *not* tolerated or ignored.
> 
> There'll be peace after they're all dead :)

And ... then they came for me ..

Re: [Cryptography] jammers, nor not

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 01:39:26PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Thornburg
>  wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 05:21:12PM -0800, Ron Garret wrote:
> >> Wrapping your gadgets in aluminum foil should be pretty effective
> >> at (ahem) foiling their attempts to contact a wifi hub.
> >
> > Unless your entire home is wrapped in aluminum foil (including
> > rf-blocking coatings on all windows (permanently closed!)), it's hard
> > to *use* a {printer, refrigerator, washing mashine, coffee maker, ...}
> > while said object is wrapped in aluminum foil. :)
> 
> A single layer of do it yourself aluminum foil is inexpensive,
> perhaps about 1% at time of construction. Even if windows are
> skipped, perhaps it would mitigate some driveby attacks such as...?
> http://www.bing.com/search?q=wall+penetrating+radar
> Add in some cheap rolldown foil over cloth window shades or
> plywood shutters and maybe the residents would enjoy quite
> pre-industrial RF free sleeping hours?
> This seems easily pilot testable and marketable to both health
> and spy type of customers.

Most problems are a capitalist's marketing opportunity :)

rotorbrowser update?