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Re: Pirate Bay, Showtime caught forcing visitors to mine cryptocurrency for them
by Cecilia Tanaka 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

"Ask HN: Funding websites with CPU-based cryptocurrency mining?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356324 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356324>

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FYK
by Cecilia Tanaka 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

On Sep 27, 2017 10:41 AM, "Cecilia Tanaka" <cecilia.tanaka(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Greg! :D Confirmed again, now with more attention: - ZH really posted on CP list _after_ sending that dramatic message for you. The message was received and, obviously, ignored. :) So, be happy and don't worry, la la la... ;) My dear Greg, I did not read none of them, but (s)he sent a lot of messages to Cypherpunks List yesterday. All received and, sorry, deleted without reading, because my inbox is not a toilet and I have more interesting things to do. Maybe manicure, games or reading comics? Hahaha!! ;D You asked me to follow up the messages, not for reading them, dear. Thank you for it. :) I don't know why (s)he is always mentioning this kind of victivism, pretending to be special, a new leader, blah-blah-blah. Maybe to get attention? Since I begin on this list, it's the fourth time. Not much original, ugh! :P But, well, one of them was very funny, because (s)he was sending his/her messages to the wrong address - d'oh! - and made a real Carnival, telling everybody (s)he was being "censured" on this list, hahaha!! #palmface #slowww ;D Riad had much patience and you too. Thank you both for keeping the list working well! <3 Now my filters will return to the usual configuration, my dear. No more Yawwn Zzzzz messages in my inbox and I will take a nap. (- _ -)zzzz Tender kisses and hugs. Take care, be happy and thank you again! <3 Ceci, la la la... :D

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Thank you, someone!
by jim bell 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Just received this message from Coinbase: You just received 0.0025 BTC (worth $10.58 USD) from an external Bitcoin account. It may take up to 6 network confirmations before your Bitcoin is available to trade. Thank you very much, so the BTC address is working. Jim Bell

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Master Plan for Saving the World
by grarpamp 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

http://my.pages.de/superhero http://secushare.org/broken-internet http://youbroketheinternet.org/ http://www.donellameadows.org/archives/a-synopsis-limits-to-growth-the-30-y… http://harperwall.com/2014/03/21/nasa-funded-study-on-patterns-of-civilizat… http://my.pages.de/unconditional http://my.pages.de/cargo http://my.pages.de/convivenza http://my.pages.de/activerts Master Plan for Saving the World --lynX Fix the foundations of democracy by establishing an Internet that actually works. Use democracy to establish a rule of reason and scientific evidence based on tools like liquid democracy, and thus cut out corruption and special interest rule. Looks like a redistribution of wealth is inevitable to stop the unsustainable growth of humanity. A worldwide introduction of a cumulative unconditional basic income could turn out to be a suitable method. Fix capitalism by putting all the ignored "externalities" into the equation of the free market model, like the absurd environmental damage caused by shipping goods across the globe because heavy fuel oil is so cheap. A worldwide ban on heavy fuel oil would abruptly stop the absurdity of globalization. That's it. World is saved. Now think carefully next time you have a chance to vote for a political party or movement. Don't waste your vote on folks that do not understand the basics of the problem and still indoctrinate you to believe in a return of economic growth and jobs for everyone. Growth is not the solution. It's the problem. The world dependency on growth and jobs is like a drug addiction. Get clean. Get sustainable. Give humanity a sense of security and participation. Words won't do. We need action as described above. And what about terrorism? Nothing. It's a symptom of broken capitalism. It will go away by itself if we fix the original causes. And besides, truck drivers falling asleep because of bad working conditions are a bigger problem than all of terrorism combined.

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World University and School
by grarpamp 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ Some creative commons thing. Who says who can be accredited by who, who can deliver, consume, and practice knowledge, who can earn and be awarded degree, and be recognized on fair and level field...

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EFF, ACLU: Sues Warrantless Border Search, Stop SESTA, Etc
by grarpamp 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-aclu-media-conference-call-today-ann… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/protect-privacy-cross-border-data-sto… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/defend-our-online-communities-stop-se… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/google-will-survive-sesta-your-startu… https://www.reddit.com/r/KeepOurNetFree/comments/6zv5fv/hey_reddit_internet… https://act.eff.org/action/pull-the-plug-on-internet-spying-programs https://ssd.eff.org/ https://events.battleforthenet.com/ https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

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[WAR] The USA - your friendly chemical weapons depot
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Warning: graphic. Skin melting off bone kinda graphic. US using illegal chemical weapons in Deir ez-Zor http://theduran.com/breaking-us-using-illegal-chemical-weapons-deir-ez-zor/

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[RUS] "Inosmi" website, translating Western news Eng→Ru, inoculating Russkies against parochial nationalism and conservative Russian claptrap since many a yearski
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Yep, you guessed it ... "or something" :D Anyone who still has pride in "the Western MSM press" is surely rather shamed at this point in time, since even those paid to "spread the great Western propaganda machine" to our Russkie patriots have had to acknowledge that their efforts have had the opposite effect ... the typical non-English/ only-Russian reading Russkie, is absolutely convinced that "The West" is out to get them. Yep, "we"'re definitely spreading the Western "message"... One can quite rationally and seriously say that (from the cynical Western perspective), the Western MSM is literally doing the Kremlin's job for them. And of course, that warm hearted, peace loving movie star, Morgan Freeman, has only added to Russkie "trust" of the West, just as the Western MSM has been doing for years. You could barely script such satyrically improbable humour - except this is all -actually- happening, in real time, year after year, before our very eyes!! <mumbles under his embarrassed breath>Damn I wish I was Russian, this is so bloody embarrassing it's just, not, funny!<‼> ** Morgan Freeman's Russia-Hating Video Has Gone Viral - But Not the Way He Hoped http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Paul Robinson on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 I once read that the founders of the website Inosmi.ru, which translates articles from the Western mass media into Russia, had hoped that by giving Russians access to Western journalism they would be able to convince them of the rightness of Western ways and of the values of liberal-democracy more generally, and thus rid them of their nationalist and anti-democratic urges. Unfortunately, said the article, Inosmi had had the opposite effect. Once non-English speaking Russians finally got the opportunity to read the over-the-top nonsense about Russia that passes for journalism in the Western press, they became more convinced than ever that the Western world was out to get them. Given such "comedy" if one can even call it that, it's just as well "The West's" "leading corporate lights" continue upholding "Western values" for the rest of the world to learn from - especially those "uneducated Russkies": ** Land of the Free? - Amazon Bans Book Critical of Hyper-Russophobe Bill Browder in US http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Alex Krainer on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 Update: the book is still available on Amazon.fr (The Killing of William Browder) It is ironic that just today I posted an article about the paramount importance of free speech, which numerous government bureaucracies and large corporations in the West seek to suppress in their purported endeavor to police “hate speech.” (I assure you there’s not even a trace of hate speech in my book). Tick tock ... ** What Saudi King Salman’s Visit Means for Russia http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by M K Bhadrakumar on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 The forthcoming visit by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz to Russia(October 4-7) carries great symbolism. Such poignancy is for several reasons – not merely because this is the first-ever visit by a Saudi monarch to Russia. The Soviet Union was the first country in 1926 to establish diplomatic relations with the Kingdom (which was known at that time as the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd) but under heavy western influence, the Saudi side froze the relationship a decade later, and it remained so till the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Thankfully, looks like we might just not be all about to die: ** US and Russian Generals Met in Unprecedented Face-To-Face Syria Deconfliction Meeting http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Marko Marjanović on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 The US military has disclosed it has held the first ever meeting with Russian generals directing Russia’s military intervention in Syria last week. The meeting was held to try and ease the US-Russian rivalry in eastern Syria which threatens to turn into a military confrontation. “They had a face-to-face discussion, laid down maps and graphics,” in the first meeting of its kind, U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman in Baghdad for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the IS extremist group, told a Pentagon briefing.

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While China Bans Bitcoin Exchanges, Japanese Government Embraces Them
by Cecilia Tanaka 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

"While China Bans Bitcoin Exchanges, Japanese Government Embraces Them" https://cointelegraph.com/news/while-china-bans-bitcoin-exchanges-japanese-… ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Re: [tor-talk] Is there any societal use in Bitcoin?
by grarpamp 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Le 04/09/2017 à 18:04, grarpamp a écrit : >> Instead of whining about volatility, understand that >> cryptos are not centrally manipulated like fiat > > Unfortunately I think they are for now, for reasons already explained > and I believe that prices are manipulated too I mean not in the traditional way, such as literally printing or burning money... if a central government and banks were buying up 10's of $Billions of coin and sending them to the digital bitbucket, that (futile due to divisibility) expense would hit the news before long. Disruptive whaling has similar identifiability, and later diminishing returns under greater adoption. And they can't economically print it. They might be able to hold or bond it out as investment, but that's normal expectation and not innately evil. They could attack the networks and protocols, but at least so far maybe there is not much news there. They could regulate, but eventually if the coin is private anonymous overlay and so forth, it will overpower regulations. > maybe this is linked to > http://www.peersm.com/fractals/ > "Then we can now easily forecast the > price of Bitcoin and become rich", this if for fun right now and I > should continue it but the answer at the end is that the very same thing > did reproduce again, and does reproduce whatever external event occurs, > always the same thing... Yes pattern has been seen often. Maybe the network is actually more or less free running and the pattern is simply the human response curve to external events.

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