October 2018 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Crypto Crackdown: Ross Ulbricht's Life Sentence
by juan 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn85-am_JCU hey, call 911

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Fake Music, New Issues, What's Real Head?
by grarpamp 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

>> Basically, after the Soviet Union collapsed ...there was a brief window in history where some say there was a chance. Many legendary world class bands strongly political around then too. An example... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzEwCc4WVKs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Gap_by_Skyring.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures > the world burns now Many new issues now, yet bands hardly found a voice / platform, and the top grossers... crickets, fake, programmed entertainment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_videos But hey, it's fun, and hawt, right? Fuck that! Homework: Plug in any of today's issues / yours, post results... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=surveillance+music+video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hciiZbJph1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcACvjXuclA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEAqLf8-_Es https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiu-7Ij6CWI

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[MINISTRY] “Downies being empowered” - where we are, today, in the public convo - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

This is not funny. NOT FUNNY. Like, at all! Might be on the edge of uspporting the censorship of TDS now... TFW, like, traumatized! Trigger warning. No, not powerful enough --- TRIGGER FIRETRUCKING WARNING. YO‼ https://dailystormer.name/im-a-drag-queen-with-downs-syndrome/ …These people aren’t exploiting and mocking these Downies, they’re empowering them.

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Re: Personal Black Box
by jim bell 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

On Monday, October 1, 2018, 8:09:12 AM PDT, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: >Why have gadgets become black boxes when pistols are superior? I'm certainly not excluding guns. If anything, I'm a Second Amendment absolutist: I think that the only limitation on what a person should be able to own (and carry) is what he can afford. And today, that is not much of a limitation. The 2008 Heller and 2010 McDonald decision should be read for the principle that the 2nd Amended didn't "grant" rights, it guaranteed rights. And what the Founding Fathers wanted was that no weapons laws were to become stricter than they were in 1789/1791, when the 2nd Amendment was written and later ratified. (no "infringement" on such ability, where the root word is "fringe": Cannot be reduced, even at the edges.) When that Amendment was written, the only people who were not allowed guns were criminals while in prison, or criminals already sentenced to death-penalty offenses. (And they weren't getting out...) At that time, the latter were called "felons": All crimes less than death-penalty offenses were called "misdemeanors. As far as I know, all people who were released from prison automatically got back their RTKBA rights immediately. So, we can assume that the Founders were okay with taking away the RTKBA only from people sentenced to death. One problem is, in the subsequent 200+ years, the definition of "felony" changed to any crime punishable by over one year in prison. But the Founders never bought into the idea of denying RTKBA to anybody who had merely ever been convicted of a 1-year-penalty crime. Indeed, around 1900, before and later, many western American states had laws which actually required the prison to give the prisoner, upon release: A saddle, a $20 gold piece (to buy a horse), and a rifle. Only in 1933 did Federal law prohibit "violent felons" from possessing guns, and only in 1968 did the Feds prohibit all "felons" from owning guns. Problem was, one of the majority justices in Heller and McDonald (i'm assuming it was that fool Anthony Kennedy) insisted that they write into the decision the same piece of wording: "Although we do not undertake anexhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of theSecond Amendment, nothing in our opinion should betaken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on thepossession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, orlaws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive placessuch as schools and government buildings..." However, that is dicta, short and plural for "Obiter Dictum", a statement made in a legal opinion that is not necessary for that decision itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obiter_dictum "Obiter dictum (usually used in the plural, obiter dicta) is Latin phrase meaning "by the way",[1] that is, a remark in a judgment that is "said in passing". It is a concept derived from English common law, whereby a judgment comprises only two elements: ratio decidendi and obiter dicta. For the purposes of judicial precedent, ratio decidendi is binding, whereas obiter dicta are persuasive only. Significance of obiter dicta[edit] A judicial statement can be ratio decidendi only if it refers to the crucial facts and law of the case. Statements that are not crucial, or which refer to hypothetical facts or to unrelated law issues, are obiter dicta. Obiter dicta(often simply dicta, or obiter) are remarks or observations made by a judge that, although included in the body of the court's opinion, do not form a necessary part of the court's decision. In a court opinion, obiter dictainclude, but are not limited to, words "introduced by way of illustration, or analogy or argument".[2] Unlike ratio decidendi, obiter dicta are not the subject of the judicial decision, even if they happen to be correct statements of law. The so-called Wambaugh's Inversion Test provides that to determine whether a judicial statement is ratio or obiter, you should invert the argument, that is to say, ask whether the decision would have been different, had the statement been omitted. If so, the statement is crucial and is ratio; whereas if it is not crucial, it is obiter." Unfortunately, and sadly predictably, courts (including appeal courts) have opportunistically taken this wording as an excuse to not apply the Heller/McDonald reasoning to those categories: "longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill". Had they done so, they would have discovered that such prohibitions regarding "felons" were not actually "longstanding" at all, and certainly not as compared to the last 228 years, the life of the Bill of Rights. There was simply no basis to believe that adding those restrictions in 1933 or 1968 was constitutional. And one problem with relying on guns alone is that it's too easy to overcome a person, let's say merely by shooting him. Consider the case of Seth Rich, that DNC staffer who was killed before the 2016 election. He might have been saved if he'd had a gun with him, but that is by no means certain. If a record had been made of that incident, whether or not Rich had been armed, the murder would probably have been solved by now. And so, it might have been deterred. Jim Bell

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Re: Personal Black Box
by John Young 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Thanks for the TCM solace info. Tim may be in love with another person wiser than himself. So, too, Trump's bromantic trim Kim who out hair-doed the shaggy dude. At 12:05 PM 10/1/2018, you wrote: >I listened to the fresh interview with Tmothy C. May that was linked >to on this list not so long ago. Truly fascinating. He seemed to be >a calm, nice person nowadays. He didn't get any questions about the >1990's rants about "sandniggers" etc. > >MoB > >2018-10-01 17:12, John Young wrote: >>Why have gadgets become black boxes when pistols are superior? Best >>if only women have open carry pistols, or more powerful hurt tools, >>to balance men's physical advantage (strength, money, weaponry, >>crime, betrayal, treachery, band of brotherhoods). >> >>Gun control for men, enforced by hanging or castration if caught >>with a gun, especially military weaponry and WMD, would reduce >>predation on women and weaker peoples. >> >>Wilson, Assange, Trump and randy dog cult stud-flaunting sex >>entrapment is way too slow, rigged by male lawyers to exculpt their kind. >> >>Gadgets which instantly killed violators of male gun control and >>sexual exploitation would clear out a lot of useless vermin. >> >>Tim May's legendary urge to eliminate of useless breeders should >>begin at home, by his own loaded, maga-enlarged penile tools. Same >>for warmaking POTUSes. >> >> >

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Personal Black Box
by John Young 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Why have gadgets become black boxes when pistols are superior? Best if only women have open carry pistols, or more powerful hurt tools, to balance men's physical advantage (strength, money, weaponry, crime, betrayal, treachery, band of brotherhoods). Gun control for men, enforced by hanging or castration if caught with a gun, especially military weaponry and WMD, would reduce predation on women and weaker peoples. Wilson, Assange, Trump and randy dog cult stud-flaunting sex entrapment is way too slow, rigged by male lawyers to exculpt their kind. Gadgets which instantly killed violators of male gun control and sexual exploitation would clear out a lot of useless vermin. Tim May's legendary urge to eliminate of useless breeders should begin at home, by his own loaded, maga-enlarged penile tools. Same for warmaking POTUSes.

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Solid/ Inrupt: “Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet”
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

“Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet” proclaims Zerowedgie: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-30/father-world-wide-web-launching-p… "For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told Vanity Fair last month. "I was devastated" he said while going through a litany of harmful and dangerous developments of the past three decades of the web. That's why "the Father of the World Wide Web" has launched a start-up that intends to end the dominance of Facebook, Google, and Amazon, while in the process letting individuals take back control of their own data. Berners-Lee's new online platform and company Inrupt is being described as a "personal online data store," or pod, where everything from messages, music, contacts or other personal data will be stored in one place overseen by the user instead of an array of platforms and apps run by corporations seeking to profit off personal information. The project seeks “personal empowerment through data” and aims to "take back" the web, according to company statements. The man who created the world wide web by implementing the first ever successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in 1989 lamented that his creation has been abused by powerful entities for everything mass surveillance to fake news to psychological manipulation to corporations commodifying individuals' information. … Well, this is diversity I could get behind. The principle sounds right/ "solid", MIT license is just fine, let's see what the algo's are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project) https://solid.mit.edu/ https://www.inrupt.com/ https://solid.inrupt.com/ https://github.com/timbl https://github.com/solid/solid https://github.com/solid/solid-ui/commits/master https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his… If all goes as planned, Inrupt will be to Solid what Netscape once was for many first-time users of the web: an easy way in. And like with Netscape, Berners-Lee hopes Inrupt will be just the first of many companies to emerge from Solid. “I have been imagining this for a very long time,” says Berners-Lee. Choose your 'news' vendor: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tim-berners-lee-reveals-vision-alternati… https://qz.com/1407428/tim-berners-lees-solid-and-inrupt-let-people-control… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/30/1122238/tim-berners-lee-announces-… https://www.techspot.com/news/76691-inventor-internet-has-unveiled-plan-new… https://fossbytes.com/tim-berners-lee-open-source-project-solid-new-interne… https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9k3ufp/tim_bernerslees_solid_… https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9k4ekx/inrupt_tim_bernerslee_… https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/duplicates/9k2r4l/tim_bernerslee_presen… https://www.quora.com/In-laymans-terms-what-is-the-essence-of-Sir-Tim-Berne… https://safenetforum.org/t/solid-social-decentralised-social-network-using-… https://www.npmjs.com/package/solid-server https://solid.github.io/dweb-summit-2018/

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Linux Torvalds finally hits the bag time - TDS Torvalds Centreford [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

OK so it's pure trolling, but this is actually anti-trolling since Linus apologized for trolling - didn't even grab anyone by the pussy and he's all "I'm so sorry I can't believe how sorry I am. So sad!" <literal Trump^BLinus quote :)> What is the world coming to? A nice soft cotton wool safe space for all? One where cp is the final frontier for those who would hammer and tongue one another to pieces - aka making duelling great again, Juan and Razer style¿ So sad... Linus Run Out of Linux for Being Mean – Wat? https://dailystormer.name/linus-run-out-of-linux-for-being-mean-wat/ …On Sunday, the benevolent dictator announced that he would be stepping down temporarily, to “get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately.” Truly shocked I tell ya, truly shocked.

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Planetary Protection
by grarpamp 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection Rubber up.

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