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The American Pariah State
by Ryan Carboni 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

https://www.reddit.com/r/IntelligenceNews/comments/efbflo/theyre_beefing_up… 'They’re Beefing Up': FBI Takes Expanded Role in 'Foreign Agent' Reviews “We’ve gone from 30 mph not to 60 mph but to 90 mph in the last 18 months to two years,” Thomas Spulak, a partner at King & Spalding, said in an interview. Amid the greater scrutiny of foreign influence in the United States, the FBI has taken an expanded role in efforts to ensure lawyers, lobbyists and political consultants are fully revealing their advocacy for government clients, a move that observers said brings a new intensity to compliance reviews that have traditionally been handled by Justice Department staff.

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Wyze cctv cam data leak may have exposed personal data for millions of users
by Razer 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

Wyze data leak may have exposed personal data for millions of users Security camera maker Wyze said it left personal information for 2.4 million customers exposed on the internet for weeks Tyler Lizenby/CNET Security camera startup Wyze has confirmed it suffered a data leak earlier this month that may have left the personal information for millions of its customers exposed on the internet. No passwords or financial information was exposed, but email addresses, Wi-Fi network IDs and body metrics were left unprotected from Dec. 4 through Dec. 26, the company said Friday. More than 2.4 million Wyze customers were affected by the leak, according to cyber-security firm Twelve Security, which first reported on the leak The data was accidentally left exposed when it was transferred to a new database to make the data easier to query, but a company employee failed to maintain previous security protocols during the process, Wyze co-founder Dongsheng Song wrote in a forum post. "We are still looking into this event to figure out why and how this happened," he wrote. Keeping sensitive information private continues to be a challenge for database managers. Among this year's more high-profile data leaks were the names, addresses and demographic data of 80 million US households, as well as the expected salaries of more than a million job seekers and thousands of Facebook passwords. Among the data exposed in the Wyze leak was the height, weight, gender and other health information for about 140 beta users participating in testing of new hardware, Wyze said. The company said there was no evidence that login tokens had been exposed but signed out all users to generate new tokens. Customers can also expect their cameras to automatically reboot in the coming days due to an additional security action. Wyze said it takes its product security seriously and will reexamine its procedures. "This is a clear signal that we need to totally revisit all Wyze security guidelines in all aspects, better communicate those protocols to Wyze employees, and bump up priority for user-requested security features beyond 2-factor authentication," Wyze said. Wyze representatives didn't immediately respond to a request for additional information and comment. https://www.cnet.com/news/wyze-data-leak-may-have-exposed-personal-data-for…

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Dylann Roof
by Ryan Carboni 29 Dec '19

29 Dec '19

His website, lastrhodesian.com, was registered to a Russian registrar, and the registrar's website had no easy way to switch to English. No one mentioned it at the time however. Everything is very strange. I cannot easily prove or disprove anything, but there are reasons why various legal norms were created: to save time, to reduce strife, and to encourage the common good. There is insufficient honesty. There have been past cases where the government has lied without consequence, which is in excess of how mobsters are usually treated.

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The Great Gatsby
by Ryan Carboni 29 Dec '19

29 Dec '19

Ordinarily no one would condemn the existence of spoiled children (of which the majority are middle aged), but then one must also remember what their ancestors were capable of. (bafflingly our oppressors could only dumb down our education, it has yet to make our reading lists diverse) The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend. Michaelis wasn't even sure of its color--he told the first policeman that it was light green. The other car, the one going toward New York, came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and its driver hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust. Michaelis and this man reached her first but when they had torn open her shirtwaist still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long. ... And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning----

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The New York Times: Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age
by jim bell 29 Dec '19

29 Dec '19

The New York Times: Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/technology/chuck-peddle-dead.html 6502 microprocessor.

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Jeffrey Epstein is now my hero
by Ryan Carboni 29 Dec '19

29 Dec '19

Jeffrey Epstein is now my hero, he dared go against the current of modern ideas. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/what-kind-researcher-did-sex-offend… “Now, I’m all for diversity, but I’m for diversity of excellent ideas, not for diversity in the people who receive grants,” Epstein continued. He seemed to view science as something done by a self-perpetuating scientific priesthood that ignored anyone not like themselves.

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Conforming to the standards of women - important - [PEACE]
by Zigger the N.gger 28 Dec '19

28 Dec '19

It is important that men conform to the standards of women. Women are the ones who choose their sexual partners, and men at best may exercise their right to say no. So women make choices based on their hormonal profile, and birth control pills change the hormonal profile of women, resulting in women choosing more effeminate/feminine men as sexual partners, also as there are no real threats in the modern West and so traditional masculinity is not needed and the state (and/or a career) provide all the material needs of a woman. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intimately-connected/201901/do-cont… The Amblin Memer: Seduction is a Myth http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/seduction-is-a-myth/ There is a very simple concept surrounding the dynamics of sexual relations that no one appears to actually be talking about, and this is: seduction is a myth. There is nothing that a man can do to trick a woman into having sex with him. If a man pursues a woman, unless he grabs her and rapes her, or drugs her and rapes her, then the decision to have sex with a man is made entirely by the woman. This means that any form of “seduction” is simply seeking the approval of the woman. This is the way it is with most animal species, as we can read about in the Wikipedia page on sexual selection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection ... The process of “seduction” is simply based on the ability of the male to perform in such a way as pleases the female. As such, if we judge masculinity based on the ability of a man to be chosen by females, then we are allowing masculinity itself to be defined by women. ...

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MIT Technology Review: If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?
by Ryan Carboni 28 Dec '19

28 Dec '19

It is because you never attended the right orgy. Maybe chance goes into it, but it isn't like there is a civil service exam for CEOs. Computer models are useless, they only take into account success but never optimize against failure. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-r… The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/the-computer-that-pr… “There’s the old apocryphal story that in 1967, they went to the basement of the Pentagon, when the mainframe computers took up the whole basement, and they put on the old punch cards everything you could quantify. Numbers of ships, numbers of tanks, numbers of helicopters, artillery, machine gun, ammo—everything you could quantify,” says James Willbanks, the chair of military history at U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. “They put it in the hopper and said, ‘When will we win in Vietnam?’ They went away on Friday and the thing ground away all weekend. [They] came back on Monday and there was one card in the output tray. And it said, 'You won in 1965.’”

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the Zigger strikes
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Dec '19

27 Dec '19

Now how about that :D

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Chuck Peddle Passes
by Razer 27 Dec '19

27 Dec '19

Like Tim May, a Santa Cruzer who really didn't give fux for moneygrubbing techie libertards infesting the industry. "Chuck Peddle, the engineer and entrepreneur who helped launch the age of the personal computer after designing a microprocessor that sold for a mere $25, died on Dec. 15 at his home in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was 82. His partner, Kathleen Shaeffer, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. In 1974, Mr. Peddle and several other engineers were designing a new silicon chip at the Motorola Corporation in Phoenix when the company sent him a letter demanding that he shut the project down. Mr. Peddle envisioned an ultra-low-cost chip that could bring digital technology to a new breed of consumer devices, from cash registers to personal computers. But his bosses saw it as unwanted in-house competition for the $300 processor Motorola had unveiled that year. So Mr. Peddle moved the project to MOS Technology, a rival chip maker near Valley Forge, Pa., taking seven other Motorola engineers with him. There they built a processor called the 6502. Priced at $25 — the cost of a dinner for four, and the equivalent of about $130 today — this chip soon powered the first big wave of personal computers in both the United States and Britain, including the Apple II and the Commodore PET. “The market needed a cheap one,” Mr. Peddle said in a 2014 interview with the Computer History Museum. In later years Intel, the Northern California chip giant, would come to dominate the personal computer business. But the market was seeded in Valley Forge, not Silicon Valley. “Chuck Peddle is one of the great unsung heroes of the personal computer age,” said Doug Fairbairn, a director at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. “Virtually all of the early, successful, mass-market personal computers were built around the 6502, not chips from Intel or anyone else.” More: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/technology/chuck-peddle-dead.html

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