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Report: Outbreak Of "Misinformed Fuckwit" Spreading 10K times Faster Than Coronavirus
by Razer 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

"TORONTO – Public health officials in Toronto have confirmed its first 50,000 cases of being a misinformed fuckwit as xenophobic conspiracy theories and tales of false cures continue to spread across social media. “Becoming a complete moron during an infectious disease outbreak is far more viral than we first thought,” said Dr. Jeanne Smith of Toronto Public Health. “Fact resistance is abnormally high especially among the dullard population, and the bottom 5% of your graduating high school class.” Tens of thousands of people were affected by a novel fake news claim that the Chinese government was developing coronavirus at Canada’s National Microbiology Lab leaving at least 10,000 people stupider. Patients are usually asymptomatic until they open their mouths or start tweeting. Aunts spreading rumours about 100% natural cures for the virus on Facebook have been quarantined while racist uncles at dinner tables were ball-gagged as a precaution. “Our epidemiologists are working hard to identify idiot zero, but there might be more sporadic outbreaks of coronavirus-related imbecility,” added Dr. Smith. Meanwhile, health officials are dreading teaching the population a complicated prevention technique: washing your hands." https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/01/report-outbreak-of-idiocy-spreading-10…

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Cyberattack Changes Monitor Brightness to Share Data Stolen From Air-Gapped PCs | Tom's Hardware
by jim bell 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/air-gapped-computers-pcs-cybersecurity-mo…

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U.S. deploys 'more survivable' submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon | Article [AMP] | Reuters
by jim bell 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-pentagon-idUSKBN1ZY2EQ Jim Bell's comment:. So, the Russians are complaining about low-yield nuclear missiles. So, what should we do? I know, call them and reassure them:. "Okay, we've replaced the micros with 1 megaton babies. Feel better now, Ivan?".

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Netflix Government Censored Movie Dump
by grarpamp 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

https://www.axios.com/netflix-reveals-9-government-takedown-requests-cf39c4… infohash:890ED509D9E42B9DB07224F612F0C7F26F2A99D0 bridge 2006 infohash:B5B9F6F964AA2DC43DE5FB7EC1E76E2B14B06DFB full metal jacket 1987 infohash:F17FB68CE756227FCE325D0513157915F5634985 night living dead 1969 infohash:8FE9810A37A77E9ED6F0CBF768A8C7BFE2C22AFA night living dead 1990 infohash:93F4A03194F33A311DE5BD4FDDE7F247C6465613 cooking on high 2018 infohash:B79C3DF5387D08EBC3F6BC4129A7D161294D9CAB legend of 420 2017 infohash:4A322D8ED650145EA8C9F3BBF0CE39AAB97D7181 disjointed 2017 infohash:19643014A29CD120C17858DC6B7317C0537AE370 patriot act 2019 s1e2 infohash:EC8A751CA5D6C145820FA8A9C2ABDBC40E4F70B1 patriot act 2019 all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUhbZdvtzcw patriot act 2019 s1e2 infohash:2CC6080821F1837B233F872895022D8D4E7EC59A last temptation christ 1988 infohash:F25011843FA3C5DA4B90C0CB0BE53E58808ADC7E last hangover 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN7OEFyNUkQ sheikha latifa

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Blockchain: RFC
by other.arkitech 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

Dear friends, Request For Criticism about what I've written: Current blockchains are all genesis-block based, which means they are ever-growing structures. Aside of being under the effects of an elastic-gum force that complicates their scalability in size, there exist problems scaling on addresses or scaling on bandwith. What touches to cryptography comes straight when dealing of ever-growing structures. Such a buried pile of layers of information requires consideration because it contains cryptography of past times. There are two problems with that. 1.- can expire secrets. 2.- The runtime software must be equiped with all cypher-suites used in the past, including those too old to rely on who were already cracked, broken. A challenge is the to design a platform that does not depend on cypher-suites that were needed in the past. Once a new encryption technology deprecates another, the platform must be able to replace the cypher-suite and forget about the previous one. Thanks, Regards : ) -- OA

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Allen v. United States, 588 F. Supp. 247 – CourtListener.com
by jim bell 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1679598/allen-v-united-states/ I found this legal decision about 15 years ago. A Physics education disguised as a court case.

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Reporters - Women and snakes? - Snake Literally Teaches Female Reporter A Lesson
by Zig the N.g 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

Chad snake literally tries to stop female Aussie reporter from reporting. What it is with women and snakes? A female reporter in this instance was sent an incredible, and unmistakable message as it quite literally wrapped itself around a deadly Australian snake as the snake tried desperately to stop it from speaking into the microphone, which the snake valiantly and repeatedly attacked. Unsure yet if Australian reporter Sarah Cawte caught the message the snake diligently tried to send. Astounding that a snake should have such wisdom about reporters - female reporters inparticurary! The truth of the depravity of its public "reporting" shall undoubtedly be discovered over the coming hours as citizen twitter sleuths do their work. Stay tuned. Watch Snake Attack Reporter's Microphone https://sputniknews.com/viral/202002061078244061-watch-snake-attack-reporte…

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"The Iowa voting app, by the sounds of it, wasn't even using https"
by Razer 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

From Eugen (@gargron) the person who leads the development team for Mastodon (It's his baby...) "The Iowa voting app, by the sounds of it, wasn't even using https https://www.propublica.org/article/the-iowa-caucuses-app-had-another-proble…; The article doesn't state it explicitly but that's exactly what it sounds like" Gargron @ Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/103609174395243622

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Hydroacoustics: Sonar Processing, Blind Bluff, Crazy Ivan, SLBMs
by grarpamp 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

On 2/6/20, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-pentagon-idUSKBN1ZY2EQ > Jim Bell's comment:. So, the Russians are complaining about low-yield > nuclear missiles. So, what should we do? I know, call them and reassure > them:. "Okay, we've replaced the micros with 1 megaton babies. Feel better > now, Ivan?". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroacoustics infohash:60B3EC5EE26FCA234DA34EC7153444E876F3C29A No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent subs wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, with all hands lost, 30 years ago. It tells the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start. And it reveals how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. infohash:F7FB23B6CCB1BF5CBCC28D49E3B4956B64A73638 It would sound like whales humping or a seismic anomaly. Anything but a submarine... What is the turn radius of an SR-71 going at full speed? Montana.

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Coronavirus: Martial Law Expansion and General Power Grab Push via Quarantine Festival of Fear (PapersPlease, etc)
by grarpamp 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/01/31/can-quarantine-orders-restrict-trave… https://papersplease.org/wp/2016/10/14/cdc-proposes-martial-law-in-the-guis… http://www.scscourt.org/self_help/probate/quarantine.shtml https://ktla.com/2020/01/30/quarantine-ordered-for-passenger-who-tried-to-l… https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2017/06/01/emergency-preparedness-i… https://ktla.com/2020/01/28/flight-from-wuhan-china-to-land-at-ontario-inte… https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/coronavirus-quarantine-cruise-i… https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/t0129-cdc-telebriefing-2019-novel-c… https://www.courthousenews.com/us-says-dont-go-to-china-as-virus-deaths-top… https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-woman-avoided-airport-tes… https://www.pe.com/2020/01/30/coronavirus-evacuee-quarantined-at-march-air-… https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338900711_6_Rejecting_Quarantine_A… https://www.rivcoph.org/Portals/0/Coronavirus%20update%201.30.20.pdf https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/they-can-leave-cdc-wont-quarantine-… How might the coronavirus change our world? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22251388 " In Shanghai (pop. 24M), IR scanning is also required to drive into the city and to enter the subway. The paper says that anyone with a high temperature is held in a quarantine area for hospital pickup. In my district at least, an IR scan is also required to enter shopping malls, and at least some apartment complexes (including mine). This morning the nearest Starbucks started requiring IR scan. You have to register with the pharmacy in order to buy fever medicine. " " Can “quarantine” orders restrict travel and movement? Imagine that you are a US citizen living or traveling overseas, and find yourself in a place of possible danger. The US government, as part of its “services” to US citizens abroad, offers to charter a plane to evacuate US citizens and repatriate them to the US, and you agree to pay a pro-rated share of the cost of the flight back to a US gateway airport, from which you are told you will be free to proceed to your home or to wherever else you choose to go. But the flight, which was scheduled to take you to San Francisco International Airport, is diverted first to Ontario [CA] Airport and then to an Air Force Reserve Base in the Mojave Desert, where passengers are confined in a cordoned-off section of the base. When one of you tries to leave, they are detained by the authorities. This is what has happened to 195 US citizens “evacuated” from Wuhan, China. Have they been “rescued” by their government? Or have they been kidnapped? Questions are already being raised about this and other incidents of individual and mass “quarantines”. Some have questioned the medical argument for quarantine orders, while others have suggested that the current panic reflects ethnic and national bigotry. Our particular concern is — as it has been for many years, and as it has been for other legal experts who have criticized the Federal quarantine regulations — with the legal basis and procedures for restricting the right to freedom of movement, extrajudicially, on ostensibly medical grounds, rather than relying on existing legal mechanisms for the issuance by judges of temporary restraining orders or injunctions restricting individuals’ movements. Unfortunately, US authorities, especially the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have tried to avoid acknowledging the scope of the authority they claim, or giving either the public or specifically affected individuals clear notice of their rights. Instead, as in other recent incidents of quarantine orders, they have tried to avoid any judicial review of their actions by persuading individuals to waive their rights, just as police avoid judicial review of other types of detentions, searches, and interrogations by intimidating members of the public into giving “consent”. KTLA television reports that “None of the passengers showed signs of the illness after being evacuated from the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. However, they agreed to stay voluntarily, according to Dr. Chris Braden of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” The CDC claim that passengers “agreed to stay voluntarily” seems to be contradicted by other facts reported in the same news story: One of the Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China… has been placed under quarantine after trying to leave March Air Reserve Base, where a chartered flight landed the previous day, Riverside County health officials said Thursday. As a result, the traveler will be required to “stay for the entire incubation period or until otherwise cleared,” according to a statement from the agency. The incubation period is two weeks. According to the Associated Press: After the plane chartered by the U.S. government arrived at the base Wednesday with the evacuees from the Chinese city of Wuhan, federal officials dodged questions from reporters on whether people would be allowed to leave before a three-day testing and monitoring period was up. And the Washington Examiner reported that: When pressed, Rear Adm. Dr. Nancy Knight, the director of the CDC’s Division of Global Health Protection, confirmed the passengers could leave at their own will, as they are not being quarantined. “They can leave, however, they are sitting in the middle of a military base,” Knight said. “Any discussion around departure would be just that.” The actual scope of the powers claimed by the CDC is spelled out in regulations that were issued in January 2017, which we described at the time they were proposed as giving CDC employees “sweeping martial-law powers of warrantless search, interrogation, tracking of movements, arrest, and extrajudicial mass detention (at the detainees’ own expense!) of individuals or entire groups of unlimited numbers of people for unlimited periods of time.” According to the formal comments we submitted to the CDC: The CDC’s proposal completely ignores existing medical and legal procedures for involuntary commitment of individuals determined to constitute a danger to themselves or others…. The proposed rules would allow any designated CDC “official” to issue, “A Federal order authorizing quarantine, isolation, or conditional release” of an “individual or group”. Violation of such an order would be subject to criminal penalties. The proposed rules would place no limits on: the size of the group subject to such an order; the duration of such “quarantine or isolation” (detention) or “conditional release” (restrictions on movement, assembly, and/or other liberties); or which CDC officials could be designated as authorized to issue such orders, or the medical, legal, or adjudicatory qualifications of such officials. The only review of such an order provided by the proposed rules would be a “medical review” by a single “physician, nurse practitioner, or similar medical professional”. This review would be limited to “ascertaining whether the CDC has a reasonable belief that the individual is infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage,” and would exclude any consideration of legal or other objections to the order. An unlimited number of such reviews could be consolidated in a single proceeding before a single reviewer. An indigent detainee could be “represented” before the reviewer by a “medical representative”, but that “representative” would be appointed by the CDC, and would be a “physician, nurse practitioner, or similar medical professional”, not an attorney. There are no provisions in the proposed rules for access of detainees to legal counsel, representation of detainees by retained or appointed counsel, confrontation or cross-examination of witnesses, compulsory process for obtaining evidence or testimony, independence of the reviewer from the initial decision-maker, judicial review, or any other aspect of due process. So the lowliest single CDC employee, subject only to review on an exclusively medical basis by a single reviewer employed by the same agency and with qualifications “similar” to those of a nurse practitioner, could order the extrajudicial arrest and detention for an unlimited duration of a “group” defined in any manner and including an unlimited number of individuals. The CDC brushed off our objections and more than 15,000 other comments from members of the public including public health organizations and unions representing airline flight attendants. The proposed rules were finalized with only minimal changes. The final rule was modified slightly, in response to our objections, to allow a detainee to be represented by a lawyer at the kangaroo-court CDC “medical review”, but the final rules promulgated in 2017 and in force today still make no provision for consideration of legal objections in the “medical review”, or for judicial review of CDC “quarantine” orders. This is in notable contrast to quarantine orders issued by state and local authorities under California law, or the laws of other states, which are subject to explicit procedures for judicial review. The CDC regulations also entirely ignore and bypass existing legal procedures for involuntary commitment and/or involuntary treatment of persons determined to pose a danger to themselves or others, which are also subject to judicial review. The CDC rules also require airlines to provide passenger information to the CDC on demand, and allow the CDC to enter lists of individual names, categories, and/or algorithmic criteria into the “no-fly” rule set used by the TSA and CBP to decide on issuance of Boarding Pass Printing Results sent to airlines to determine who is, and who is not, allowed to fly. It appears that the CDC is eager to avoid judicial review of these rules, and has avoided issuing Federal quarantine orders in favor of getting local officials to order the detention of individuals who don’t “voluntarily” agree to Federal “requests”. Whatever the legitimacy of current concerns about coronavirus, the potential for abuse of such sweeping, extrajudicial CDC powers appears great. Please let us know if you hear of any legal challenges to Federal “quarantine” restrictions or “no board” orders. "

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