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The Lies that Powered the Invention of Pong - IEEE Spectrum
by jim bell 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

https://spectrum.ieee.org/pong In 1971 video games were played in computer science laboratories when the professors were not looking—and in very few other places. In 1973 millions of people in the United States and millions of others around the world had seen at least one video game in action. That game was Pong. Two electrical engineers were responsible for putting this game in the hands of the public—Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn, both of whom, with Ted Dabney, started Atari Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif. Mr. Bushnell told Mr. Alcorn that Atari had a contract from General Electric Co. to design a consumer product. Mr. Bushnell suggested a Ping-Pong game with a ball, two paddles, and a score, that could be played on a television. “There was no big contract,” Mr. Alcorn said recently. “Nolan just wanted to motivate me to do a good job. It was really a design exercise; he was giving me the simplest game he could think of to get me to play with the technology.” The key piece of technology he had to toy with, he explained, was a motion circuit designed by Mr. Bushnell a year earlier as an employee of Nutting Associates. Mr. Bushnell first used the circuit in an arcade game called Computer Space, which he produced after forming Atari. It sold 2000 units but was never a hit.

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vaccine nazis - who they work for
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

"Hill, PhD, is a senior visiting Research Fellow in Pharmacology at Liverpool University. He is also an advisor for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation." "Hill had previously authored a analysis of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 that found the drug overwhelmingly effective" "Hill testified enthusiastically before the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidlelines Panel in support of ivermectin’s use. Within a month, however, Hill found himself in what he describes as a “tricky situation.” Under pressure from his funding sponsors, Hill then published an unfavorable study. " Now, no drug is 'effective' against covaids because covaids *does* *not* *exist* - HOWEVER, the point here is that anything that competes with vaccine nazis gets destroyed. " advisor for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation." And isn't that funny? I mean, look at motherfucking piece of shit jim bell who happens to be a right wing asshole...while at the same time being an agent of the gate-clinton 'foundation'. https://www.worldtribune.com/researcher-andrew-hills-conflict-a-40-million-…

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Preaching to the choir: (Was: "The spectacle of Jim Bell's recent behavior")
by professor rat 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

I told you to stop - now its too late

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The spectacle of Jim Bell's recent behavior
by professor rat 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Jim Bell made a spectacle of himself hobnobbing with Jeff " Anarchopulco " Berwick. Berwick was probably behind the death of cryptoanarchist John Galt btw. Certainly Berwick is the type of antivax, lunar-right, mincing gold-bug Paultard that actively tries to disgrace the good name of anarchism. Then - as if this wasn't bad enough now the Dumbell is chatting here with one-man-Russian-Troll-Farm, Batshit-Crazy - as though he is just some good-faith member of this list! Bell had already exposed his anarchist pretentions with some ludicrous ' Natural Rights " nonsense about violence. NAP nonsense of the sort indulged in only by the most depraved Randite Paultard imbeciles over on the Lunar-Right. Jesus Fucking Christie . The spectacle of Jim Bell's recent behavior opens us to attack here just when c-punks is coming under increased scrutiny due to the explosive growth of cryptoanarchy via crypto-currencies. We don't need this type hanging around here stinking-up the brand. Self-defense is a defense against any murder charge and we will also be putting a dumb animal out of its misery. He can go on the Death List with his beloved Kamaraden, Batshit, Garbage-Scow Gramps and the German Noise machine that is Karl Semich. And killing these four will send a message to potential trolls ( Hi Zeynep ) Your days here are numbered. Bitches fucking leave.

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Re: The spectacle of Jim Bell's recent behavior
by professor rat 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Zeynep On the question of talking nonsense I shall always defer to you, deer

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CoinDesk: Intel to Unveil 'Ultra Low-Voltage Bitcoin Mining ASIC' in February
by jim bell 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

CoinDesk: Intel to Unveil 'Ultra Low-Voltage Bitcoin Mining ASIC' in February. https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/01/18/intel-to-unveil-ultra-low-voltage-… Intel, one of the world's largest chip makers, is likely to unveil a specialized crypto-mining chip at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in February, according to the conference's agenda. - One of Intel's "highlighted chip releases" at the conference is entitled "Bonanza Mine: An Ultra-Low-Voltage Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining ASIC." The session is scheduled for Feb. 23. - This brings the company into direct competition with the likes of Bitmain and MicroBT in the market for bitcoin mining ASICs, or application-specific integrated circuits, for the first time. - Crypto mining has in the past driven up demand and prices for graphics processing units, including Intel's, so much so that it attracted the ire of gamers. Unlike its competitor Nvidia, Intel has said it doesn't plan to add ether mining limits on its graphics cards. Read more: Bitmain Adds Liquid Cooling Technology to Its Latest Bitcoin Mining Rigs

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Journalism under fire
by professor rat 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

theguardian.com - Two journalists exposing Mexico’s corruption and drug violence murdered within one week Margarito Martínez Esquivel and José Luis Gamboa are the latest casualties in the world’s most dangerous country for reporters. And in related news the president of Mexico renewed his offer to host enemy of journalism, Julian Rand Paul Assmange in his shithole country. WikiLeaks hasn’t spread a word of support for the Hong Kong protesters or for ANY of the lands and countries oppressed by nowadays Chinese government, including Chinese citizens. They just highlight "ooh the US govt is supporting the protests!" http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/-wikileaks-related-news/23/no-comment-wikile…

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Litigating Universal Cognitive Liberty
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Check out my new article: Freedom of thought is recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Interestingly,, cognitive liberty is not recognized as an international human right. Some want to change that, making the argument that humanity has the right to be free to think whatever they want (freedom of thought). The Ottawa Citizen reports <https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-leaders-saw-…> that the Canadian armed forces have launched ‘psychological operations’ as an experiment in government propaganda to counter civil disobedience. International human rights scholars are quick to point out that the lack of protection of cognitive liberty in such instances is due to the relative lack of technology capable of directly interfering with mental autonomy at the time the core human rights treaties were created. Similar to a ransomware attack, the technology behind such operations can be abused. Canada is said to have exploited advanced technologies without the authority to do so. Even worse, it is alleged that Canada forcefully abused technology in the unsanctioned production of reports that appeared to be aimed at cognitive activities of Canadians. - Other reports highlight similar technologies being explored by the New York City Police Department. - In 2021 <https://gothamist.com/news/city-settles-lawsuit-protesters-who-accused-nypd…>, members of the National Lawyers Guild won $650,000 in litigation financed fees from abuse of the technology in New York. The semantics empowering freedom of thought as a human right hold new opportunities for modern international recognition of the right to cognitive liberty. https://litigationfinancejournal.com/litigating-universal-cognitive-liberty… -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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vaccine nazis and consent
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

It seems that the Emperors of TrumpoNazism, sorry, I mean the Libertarian Kings 'grarpamp' and bell do not understand the most basic elements of consent. So here are a couple : 1) consent and FRAUD are mutually exclusive. When people do something because they are being lied to, as in the case of taking covaids 'vaccines', they are not consenting to being poisoned. They are being manipulated into accepting poisons by means of lies and fraud. There is no consent in sight. 2) consent and EXTORTION are mutually exclusive. When people are fired from their jobs, put under house arrest, prevented from freely traveling or even entering a fucking bar, they are being victims of serious crimes, and are being EXTORTED when offered their freedoms back if they accept the poison. EXTORTION is the opposite of voluntarism. 3) "age of consent" is the sort of mental vomit that only the worst kind of statist totalitarian can pretend to defend. Consent is wholly depedent on what the agents want to do, not on their age.

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Returning travellers made to hand over phones and passcodes to Australian Border Force
by jim bell 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Returning travellers made to hand over phones and passcodes to Australian Border Force https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/18/returning-travellers-made-to-… "A man who was forced to hand over his phone and passcode to Australian Border Force after returning to Sydney from holiday has labelled the tactic “an absolute gross violation of privacy”, as tech advocates call for transparency and stronger privacy protections for people’s devices as they enter the country. "Software developer James and his partner returned from a 10-day holiday in Fiji earlier this month and were stopped by border force officials at Sydney airport. They were taken aside, and after emptying their suitcases, an official asked them to write their phone passcodes on a piece of paper, before taking their phones into another room. "It was half an hour before their phones were returned, and they were allowed to leave. James initially posted about his ordeal on Reddit. “We weren’t informed why they wanted to look at the phones. We were told nothing,” he told Guardian Australia. “Who knows what they’re taking out of it? With your phone and your passcode they have everything, access to your entire email history, saved passwords, banking, Medicare, myGov. There’s just so much scope.” (End of partial quote) Jim Bell's comment: Yet another good argument for a functional and easy-to-use AP system.

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