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Re: Fundamentals of Anglophonic Common Law
by Ryan Carboni 24 May '19

24 May '19

To clarify, the worst injury that could occur if a prosecutor pursues a weak case is having a worse percentage win rate when he decides to talk up private practice. The idea that a prosecutor's self-gain overrides other considerations is heretical, but in terms of cause and effect, an unrelated party can be faulted for a prosecutor's timidity, and for the prosecutor's notion that they are representing the victims to whom they've so utterly lied to. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Craig Steven Wright's Bitcoin Copyright 5-20-2019
by John Young 24 May '19

24 May '19

Craig Steven Wright's Bitcoin Copyright 5-20-2019 Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Bitcoin%3A+A+Pee… Bitcoin https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=6&ti=1,6&Search_Arg=Bitc…

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Assange Hit With Espionage Act Violations As DoJ Unveils 17 New Charges
by jim bell 24 May '19

24 May '19

Assange Hit With Espionage Act Violations As DoJ Unveils 17 New Charges. https://tiny.iavian.net/t1xv

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Julian Assange Superseding Indictment. May 23, 2019
by John Young 23 May '19

23 May '19

Julian Assange Superseding Indictment, Warrant Issued, May 23, 2019 https://cryptome.org/2019/05/assange-031.pdf (37 pages)

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Fundamentals of Anglophonic Common Law
by Ryan Carboni 23 May '19

23 May '19

The government is made of institutions. The press is an institution. The government makes the law, but it doesn't do so in a commonly acknowledged fashion, it does so by prejudicing the result, if the law is weak in an area. This is how new laws are passed, this is how old laws are reinterpreted. Usually the press frames a situation as a moral issue, and either juries would see it as such, or legislators would. Perhaps the average Trump supporter doesn't understand why they support Trump, nor does the average Democrat, but one thing is clear, if the allegations against Trump are true, they would vote out the entire government. There is a certain ridiculousness to it all. The press is publishing leaks on tangentially related items to the Trump investigation, the Trump investigation seems political motivated because they haven't charged anyone with what Republicans would see as valid crimes, but even if it was focused.... Hyperbole like "hack the election", "Alfa bank data laundering", if true, would be incredible. This seems to be a systematic mishandling and inability to actually prosecute competently. If the honest truth was released, people would see it for what it is, not even a circus, but a clownshow.

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Bitcoin creator Craig S. Wright (Satoshi Nakamoto) granted US copyright registrations for Bitcoin white paper and code
by Cecilia Tanaka 22 May '19

22 May '19

Bitcoin creator Craig S. Wright (Satoshi Nakamoto) granted US copyright registrations for Bitcoin white paper and code. <https ://coingeek.com/bitcoin-creator-craig-s-wright-satoshi-nakamoto-granted-us-copyright-registrations-for-bitcoin-white-paper-and-code <https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-creator-craig-s-wright-satoshi-nakamoto-grante…> > (Via Telegram by Oda Nobunaga, haha!! ;) Very zzleepy kisses and all the best wishes, zzzzz... ( -_- )* zzz...

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I'm marketing my newly-patent-applied-for invention, isotppically-modified dielectrics for IC's.
by jim bell 22 May '19

22 May '19

MUCH Better than Hafnium, MUCH Better than Zirconium. Higher dielectric constant. From Daltonium Isotopics - Published on May 19, 2019 For years, your company has been making ICs using materials including an element, Hafnium, as a replacement for the silicon dioxide (SiO2) previously used. You did this because the SiO2 layer was getting too thin (1.2 nanometers), which led to manufacturability problems and quantum tunnelling problems. 1.2 nanometers is only six diameters of a silicon atom. And if the insulator gets too thin, the electons go right through it. Not good if you are trying to minimize a chip's power consumption. And that's what the customers want, because they are often running memory and microprocessors using limited-capacity batteries. Some smart guy figured out that if the dielectric was made employing compounds made with Hafnium, the dielectric constant (also called the "relative permittivity") could be increased from SiO2's 3.9 to about 24, a major improvement. This allowed you to increase the thickness of the gate insulator, reducing the quantum tunnelling. It also allowed you to maintain, and even increase gate authority over the current in the semiconductor channel: This means that changes in voltage of the gate have a bigger effect, changing the current through the semiconductor channel. That might allow a lower supply voltage, too. Might this drop power consumption even further? It worked very well. Over time, minimum feature sizes went from about 60 nanometers to today's 10 nanometers. But you want to go further. Yet, you are wondering where the next big material breakthrough is going to come from. Will you be able to maintain a semiconductor process down to 3 nanometers? How are you going to be able to "out-Hafnium" Hafnium? All the chemical elements that nature provides are shown in a Periodic Table of the Elements. There are 92 elements up to Uranium, and only 81 of them are stable. (The rest are radioactive, so we don't use them.) You might imagine that each and every one of them has been considered, at one time or another, for use in semiconductor and dielectric devices. And probably that's true. If an element existed that would help, somebody would have found it by now. You think. But they haven't. I believe you will succeed, but will do so with my help. I have just patented an improvement to dielectrics based on an easy-to-do substitution to the atoms within a Hafnium-containing dielectric, and quite possibility others as well. One that I believe will greatly increase the possible dielectric constant. It requires a simple, easy to describe change in the makeup of the chemicals used in a deposition machine. And a bit of redesign of your IC process, to take advantage of the better characteristics of the Hafnium-containing dielectric layer. I found something that your best scientists and engineers didn't even consider. Nobody expected to find an improvement, so nobody looked. The material I found was always there, but just well-hidden. Hidden in plain sight, you might say. Like a few trees, hidden in a forest. And your people didn't think they needed to enter that forest. Isotopes. By and large, your people didn't consider isotopes. Well, neither did the rest of the semiconductor industry. Most engineers and even scientists usually think of isotopes as being atoms with different numbers of particles called "neutrons", and that is quite true. But that's not the only difference there is with some isotopes. A few special ones. I would like to discuss this matter with some of your Semiconductor Process Scientists and Engineers, under an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement). Please talk to them, and have them contact us. daltoniumisotopics[at]geemail [dotcom] They, and you, need the improvements this invention can provide. Because if you don't use it, maybe your competitors will. Jim Bell

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CryptoAnarchy: 3D Gun Community Moves to the Distributed Underground
by grarpamp 21 May '19

21 May '19

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/3d-printed-guns-blueprints 3D-printed guns are back, and this time they are unstoppable A decentralised network of gun-printing advocates is mobilising online, they're anonymously sharing blueprints, advice and building a community. There's no easy way they can be halted A new network of 3D-printed gun advocates is growing in America – and this time things are different. Unlike previous attempts to popularise 3D-printed guns, this operation is entirely decentralised. There’s no headquarters, no trademarks, and no real leader. The people behind it reckon that this means they can’t be stopped by governments. “If they [the government] were to come after me, they’d first have to find my identity,” says Ivan the Troll, a member of the group. “I’m one of many, many like-minded individuals who’re doing this sort of work.” Known only by his online moniker, Ivan the Troll is the de facto spokesman of an underground wave of 3D-printing gunsmiths. Ivan says he knows of at least 100 people who are actively developing 3D-printed gun technology, and he claims there are thousands taking part in the network. This loose-knit community spans across the whole world. They communicate across several digital platforms, including Signal, Twitter, IRC, and Discord. They critique each other's work, exchange 3D gun CAD files, offer advice, talk theory, and collaborate on future blueprints. These 3D-printed gun enthusiasts – who share similar ideas and political viewpoints on gun control – mostly found each other online via gun control subreddits and forums. Ivan is just one small part of this network. He says he is from Illinois, and is of “college age”, but otherwise he remains mostly anonymous, to lie low. At the same time though, he’s launched bombastic PR videos demonstrating the new 3D-printed gun parts he’s created in his garage, including a Glock 17 handgun frame. One of his most recent videos shows the polymer Glock 17 frame in various stages of production in his workshop. The footage is set to fast-paced synthwave music and is run through a trendy VHS filter – the aesthetics are important. Toward the end, Ivan fires several rounds with the fully built handgun, as text flashes up saying “ANYONE CAN MAKE IT”, “LIVE FREE OR DIE”, and “GO AHEAD TRY TO STOP THIS YOU FILTHY STATISTS”. He’s also uploaded the complete CAD reference model designs for a 3D-printed AR-15 assault rifle to his file-sharing space online. It’s clear Ivan is trying to provoke his detractors as much as possible. In February of this year, Ivan and his group decided to name themselves “Deterrence Dispensed”, which is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the notorious Defence Distributed – a 3D-printing gun company formerly run by Texan crypto-anarchist Cody Wilson. They’re uploading these files individually on services such as Spee.ch, a media-hosting site underpinned by the LBRY blockchain, and they aren’t waiting for anyone to give them permission. They’ve made their own 3D-printed gun designs, modified old ones, and are keeping all the Defence Distributed ones available for free too. “Even if there was no government telling me I couldn’t do this, I think that I would still do it,” Ivan says. “Some people get a kick out of video games, I like spending hours and hours drawing stuff on CAD.” Ivan isn’t just “drawing stuff on CAD” though. He’s providing free files to help anyone with a half-decent FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) 3D printer and some hand tools to make a workable handgun. Once the CAD file is downloaded, it’s opened in a “slicer” program that translates the CAD files into instructions that the 3D printer can understand. Once the 3D-printed gun parts are ready, they can be assembled into a fully workable gun. The CAD gun designs put out by Deterrence Dispensed are so well-made, according to Ivan, that they’re not just “workable”, but superior. “Our AR15 CAD model is the best in the public domain without a doubt,” says Ivan. Despite being overtly antagonistic Ivan has had no real run-ins with the authorities so far. His Twitter account was permanently suspended after New Jersey state senator Bob Menendez lobbied for it to be taken down, but as far as the government and law enforcement goes, things have been mostly quiet. Ivan sees himself, and other radical 3D-printing gun groups such as FOSSCAD (another decentralised group of 3D-printing enthusiasts who focus on firearms), simply as hobbyists who’ve chosen the “wrong” thing to build. He sees 3D-printed guns as somewhat of a paper tiger. He points out that while 3D-printed gun parts can be built to kill people, zip guns (homemade firearms built from crude materials) have been around for decades and are arguably more deadly. The hysteria and backlash, to Ivan at least, is completely misplaced. “Take it from me as someone who’s printed a gun. Making a slam-fire shotgun is 100 times easier, 100 times quicker, and about 100 times cheaper than printing a [regular] gun. For eight dollars I can pop down to Home Depot and build a shotgun.” “The cops killed more people alone last year than all active shooter incidents in the last ten years,” he says. “We live in a society, in America, where you run the risk of a cop blowing your ass up for no specific reason. You don’t even have to present a threat to them. A cop can kill you and get away with it just because he really wanted to do it.” He then went on to cite the many police shootings of unarmed black men in American, specifically mentioning Stephon Clark. Clark, 22, was shot to death by police in his own back garden while holding nothing but a mobile phone. “I believe it is inherently important that … you should be able to own a gun,” Ivan continued. “You should be able to own the same legal force that the cops are using to control you.” A mix of a libertarian attitude and the rewarding hobby aspect of designing and creating something is often what drives members of these decentralised 3D-printed gun networks to do what they do – that is, uploading schematics, sharing them, improving designs, and making 3D-printed gun work more easily accessible while remaining largely under the radar. Ivan claims he does this for a love of freedom and “radical” belief in the US first and second amendment: free speech and the right to bear arms. He takes this to such a radical degree though, that he even theorises he should technically be able to have his own Tomahawk Missiles, saying that they would be safer in his hands than in those of the US Military and its allies – given the country's track record for accidentally targeting civilians, including a wedding party in Afghanistan and a school bus in Yemen. Referring to the mounting list of civilian killings carried about by US forces in foreign wars, Ivan sounds at times more like a radical leftist than the right wing “gun nut” many in America label him as. He claims not to have any specific ideology though, saying: “I get to be my own special snowflake.” As of now, Ivan the Troll, Deterrence Dispensed, and the thousands many more 3D-printed gun enthusiasts connected to each other worldwide, have essentially let the cat out the bag. There is no way to stop the anonymous file sharing of 3D-printed guns online. Whether they’re just pretending to be doing this for reasons of liberty or otherwise, their message is clear: it’s already too late to stop.

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Cryptocurrency: SEC Seeks Your Input On ETF's
by grarpamp 21 May '19

21 May '19

https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/cboebzx/2019/34-85896.pdf Variety of ETF's, Trusts, Futures in the pipeline. US SEC and other agencies seek and accept input from users. Responses are also published. III. Procedure: Request for Written Comments The Commission requests that interested persons provide written submissions of their views, data, and arguments with respect to the issues identified above, as well as any other Use the Commission's Internet comment form http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml Send an e-mail to rule-comments(a)sec.gov. Please include File Number SR-CboeBZX- 2019-004 on the subject line. Send paper comments in triplicate to Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549-1090. Comments on the proposed rule change can be found at: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-cboebzx-2019-004/srcboebzx2019004.htm Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and arguments regarding whether the proposal should be approved or disapproved [by 20 days from today]. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (Release No. 34-85896; File No. SR-CboeBZX-2019-004) May 20, 2019 Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.; Order Instituting Proceedings to Determine Whether to Approve or Disapprove a Proposed Rule Change to List and Trade Shares of the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust On January 30, 2019, Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. ("BZX" or "Exchange") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission"), pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act")1 and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,2 a proposed rule change to list and trade shares of SolidX Bitcoin Shares ("Shares") issued by the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust ("Trust") under BZX Rule 14.11(e)(4), Commodity-Based Trust Shares. The proposed rule change was published for comment in the Federal Register on February 20, 2019.3

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Goro Shimura, 89, Mathematician RIP
by John Young 21 May '19

21 May '19

Goro Shimura, 89, Mathematician With Broad Impact, Is Dead https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/obituaries/goro-shimura-dead.html "His insights led to tools widely used in modern cryptography." "A proof of a form of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture would also prove Fermat's Last Theorem. In the 1990s, Andrew Wiles, then also at Princeton, figured out how to do just that, and Fermat's Last Theorem had finally been proved true. Dr. Wiles, now at the University of Oxford in England, wrote in an email that the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture was "a fundamental pivot in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem." The proof also employed other key results of Dr. Shimura's research, he said."

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