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Re: NSA Cyber Command Authorized to Implant Malicious Software
by John Young 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

So true. Began when a bow-tie shaped plaza was misnamed Times Square. At 06:10 PM 9/23/2019, you wrote: >Hi Mr Young. You no as well as I that the New York times is all >propaganda and fake news and enemy of the people >

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NSA Cyber Command Authorized to Implant Malicious Software
by John Young 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

"In his first 18 months in office, General Nakasone has raced to bolster Cyber Commands authority to act preemptively and its preparations to respond to attacks. New, classified directives given to him by Mr. Trump, and built upon by Congress, allow Cyber Command to place 'implants' of malicious software inside foreign networks without lengthy approval processes that run up to the president. Congress has called such efforts part of 'traditional military authority.' Iran has reportedly been a major target no surprise, since General Nakasone was a key player in designing a plan called Nitro Zeus to shut down Tehran and other Iranian cities in the event of a war. The idea was to put together an attack so devastating that Iran might surrender without a shot being fired. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/world/middleeast/iran-cyberattack-us.html

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An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature
by coderman 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614259/an-important-quantum-algorithm-ma… An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature Evidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology. by [Emerging Technology from the arXiv](https://www.technologyreview.com/profile/emerging-technology-from-th… Sep 12, 2019 Sign up for The Download — your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology Back in 1996, a quantum physicist at Bell Labs in New Jersey published a new recipe for searching through a database of N entries. Computer scientists have long known that this process takes around N steps because in the worst case, the last item on the list could be the one of interest. However, this physicist, Lov Grover, showed how the strange rules of quantum mechanics allowed the search to be done in a number of steps equal to the square root of N. That was a big deal. Searching databases is a foundational task in computer science, used for everything from finding telephone numbers to breaking cryptographic codes. So any speed-up is a significant advance. Quantum mechanics provided an additional twist. At the time, Grover’s recipe was only the second quantum algorithm that had been proved faster than its classical counterpart. (The first was Peter Shor’s algorithm for factoring numbers, which he discovered in 1994.) Grover’s work was an important factor in preparing the way for the quantum computing revolution that is still ongoing today. But despite the interest, implementing Grover’s algorithm has taken time because of the significant technical challenges involved. The first quantum computer capable of implementing it appeared in 1998, but the first scalable version didn’t appear until 2017, and even then it worked with only three qubits. So new ways to implement the algorithm are desperately needed. Today Stéphane Guillet and colleagues at the University of Toulon in France say this may be easier than anybody expected. They say they have evidence that Grover’s search algorithm is a naturally occurring phenomenon. “We provide the first evidence that under certain conditions, electrons may naturally behave like a Grover search, looking for defects in a material,” they say. That has obvious implications for quantum computing, but its real import may be much more profound. For some time, theorists have debated whether quantum search could explain one of the greatest mysteries about the origin of life. The idea that Grover searches occur in nature could finally solve the conundrum. First some background. Because it is so fundamental, Grover’s search algorithm can be reformulated in a variety of ways. One of these is as a quantum walk across a surface—the way a quantum particle would move randomly from one point to another. Clearly, this process is a kind of search of two-dimensional space. But because a quantum particle can explore many paths at the same time, it is much faster than a classical search. The nature of the surface has an important influence on the search. For example, one type of surface consists of a square grid where the quantum particle has four possible moves at each vertex. But there are many other possible grids; a triangular one, for example, where the quantum particle has three choices at each vertex. “The triangular grid is of particular interest because of its resemblance to several naturally occurring crystal-like materials,” say Guillet and co. The team focused on simulating the way a Grover search works for electrons exploring triangular and square grids, but they also included other physically realistic effects, such as defects in the grid in the form of holes, and quantum properties such as interference effects. [Quantum walk] The results are eye-opening. The question they ask is how quickly an electron can find the hole in a grid. And the team’s big breakthrough is to show that these simulations reproduce the way real electrons behave in real materials. In other words, this is evidence that free electrons naturally implement the Grover search algorithm when moving across the surface of certain crystals. That has immediate implications for quantum computing. “[This work] may be the path to a serious technological leap, whereby experimentalist would bypass the need for a full-fledged scalable and error-correcting Quantum Computer, and take the shortcut of looking for ‘natural occurrences’ of the Grover search instead,” say the team. The work also has implications for our thinking about the genetic code and the origin of life. Every living creature on Earth uses the same code, in which DNA stores information using four nucleotide bases. The sequences of nucleotides encode information for constructing proteins from an alphabet of 20 amino acids. But why these numbers—four and 20—and not some others? Back in 2000, just a few years after Grover published his work, [Apoorva Patel at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore showed how Grover’s algorithm could explain these numbers](https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0002037). Patel’s idea is related to the way DNA is assembled inside cells. In this situation, the molecular machinery inside a cell must search through the molecular soup of nucleotide bases to find the right one. If there are four choices, a classical search takes four steps on average. So the machinery would have to try four different bases during each assembly step. But a quantum search using Grover’s algorithm is much quicker: Patel showed that when there are four choices, a quantum search can distinguish between four alternatives in a single step. Indeed, four is optimal number. This thinking also explains why there are 20 amino acids. In DNA, each set of three nucleotides defines a single amino acid. So the sequence of triplets in DNA defines the sequence of amino acids in a protein. But during protein assembly, each amino acid must be chosen from a soup of 20 different options. Grover’s algorithm explains these numbers: a three-step quantum search can find an object in a database containing up to 20 kinds of entry. Again, 20 is the optimal number. In other words, if the search processes involved in assembling DNA and proteins is to be as efficient as possible, the number of bases should be four and the number of amino acids should to be 20—exactly as is found. The only caveat is that the searches must be quantum in nature. When Patel published his idea, quantum physicists immediately pooh-poohed it. At the time, they were bogged down in their own attempts to control quantum processes, which they could do only by isolating quantum particles in extreme environments such as at temperatures close to absolute zero. The obvious problem, they said, was that living things operate in a warm, messy environment in which quantum states would be immediately destroyed. Biologists were equally dismissive, saying that quantum processes couldn’t possibly be at work inside living things. Since then, an increasing body of evidence has emerged that quantum processes play an important role in a number of biological mechanisms. Photosynthesis, for example, is now thought to be an essentially quantum process. The work of Guillet and co throws a new perspective on all this. It suggests that Grover’s algorithm is not only possible in certain materials; it seems to be a property of nature. And if that’s true, then the objections to Patel’s ideas start to crumble. It may be that life is just an example of Grover’s quantum search at work, and that this algorithm is itself a fundamental property of nature. That’s a Big Idea if ever there was one. Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1908.11213 : The Grover search as a naturally occurring phenomenon

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IBM Publishes Power9 Instruction Set Architecture
by grarpamp 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-in… https://www.eejournal.com/article/ibm-gives-away-powerpc-goes-open-source/ https://openpowerfoundation.org/?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0 https://ibm.box.com/s/1hzcwkwf8rbju5h9iyf44wm94amnlcrv https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20824713 https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

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Caitlin Johnstone ponders the misnomer "Defense"
by Razer 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

"A lot of delusional, unpatriotic democracy haters like to argue that the US military doesn’t actually defend the freedom of the American people, and that it isn’t really used to defend freedom at all, and that it isn’t even really used to defend any rules-based international order as sometimes claimed, and that even to use the word “defend” to describe anything the US military does is inaccurate since it is consistently on the attacking and aggressing side of any given conflict, and that actually the US military functions as nothing other than a blunt object wielded by the rich and powerful for the advancement of plutocratic interests and the geostrategic dominance of opaque and unaccountable government agencies, and that it can in fact be accurately said that the only difference between the US military and any other band of armed thugs is funding… I forget where I was going with this. Ah, yes. Defending your freedoms. If sending a platoon of Paul Blarts to act as mall security for foreign oil corporations isn’t enough to get you saluting every American flag flying over every McDonald’s you see, then you should know that the US military’s freedom fighting doesn’t end at mere corporate asset protection. They’re also defending your freedom by killing Afghan farmers in their sleep. Why did the armed forces of the United States kill dozens of civilian farmers in Afghanistan while they rested in the field after a hard day’s work? That’s a good question. But an even better question is, what were those Afghan farmers doing lying on top of your freedom? Obviously the compassionate US military would never dream of killing non-combatants under any circumstances whatsoever, but the unfortunate fact of the matter is that you can’t make an omelet without cracking a few civilians." More: https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/us-defends-your-freedom-by-using-troops-… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Climate Change Imploding
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 09:57:09 +1000 Subject: Climate Change Imploding Climate Change Imploding As New Science Discovers Human Activity Has Zero Impact On Global Temperatures <https://www.teaparty247.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/07/climate-chan…> New science is delivering some fatal blows to one of the left’s pet causes, climate change, as it’s become more and more clear that human activity has basically no impact at all in the fluctuation of global temperatures. The left has been using the whole climate change angle as a means of attempting to justify a little socialistic wealth redistribution by regulating companies for their emissions and “fining” them for breaking these standards. Of course, in reality, the fines are just taxes designed to pull in more revenue for the government. Hopefully, this new science is given an opportunity to be heard and shared with the masses as an example of just how unsettled the debate on this topic really is. Via DC Clothesline: A devastating series of research papers has just been published, revealing that human activity can account for no more than a .01°C rise in global temperatures, meaning that all the human activity targeted by radical climate change alarmists — combustion engines, airplane flights, diesel tractors — has virtually no measurable impact on the temperature of the planet. Finnish scientists spearheaded the research, releasing a paper entitled, “No Experimental Evidence for the Significant Anthropogenic Climate Change <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00165.pdf>.” The paper explains that IPCC analysis of global temperatures suffers from a glaring error — namely, failure to account for “influences of low cloud cover” and how it impacts global temperatures. Natural variations in low cloud cover, which are strongly influenced by cosmic radiation’s ability to penetrate Earth’s atmosphere due to variations in the strength of our planet’s magnetosphere, account for nearly all changes in global temperature, the researchers explain. As this chart reveals, more cloud cover is inversely related to temperature. In other words, clouds shield the surface of the Earth from the sun, providing shade cover cooling, while a lack of clouds results in more warming: This is further supported by researchers at Kobe University in Japan who published a nearly simultaneous paper that reveals how changes in our planet’s magnetic field govern the intensity of solar radiation that reaches the lower atmosphere, causing cloud formation that alters global temperatures. That study, published in Nature, is called, “Intensified East Asian winter monsoon during the last geomagnetic reversal transition <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45466-8>.” It states: Records of suborbital-scale climate variation during the last glacial and Holocene periods can be used to elucidate the mechanisms of rapid climate changes… At least one event was associated with a decrease in the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field. Thus, climate records from the MIS 19 interglacial can be used to elucidate the mechanisms of a variety of climate changes, including testing the effect of changes in geomagnetic dipole field strength on climate through galactic cosmic ray (GCR)-induced cloud formation… The basic gist of all this is that we could burn all the oil and fossil fuels we want to and it have a miniscule effect on the climate temperatures here on earth in comparison to that of the sun and additional cosmic influences. If you listen closely, you can hear Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s head exploding as we speak. Carbon dioxide isn’t the pollutant that so man of these climate change alarmists claim it is. It’s not laying waste to our planet and it barely has any effect whatsoever on the temperatures here. In fact, NASA recently admitted that carbon dioxide was causing massive re-greening here on earth, which means that there’s going to be more oxygen. This is why you can’t just jump on board some issue because it sounds good. Many individuals have used climate change to tick off the “angry activist” box so they can appear “woke” without having to worry about being called out for their beliefs or doing anything of substance to make the world a better place. It’s time to drop the theatrics on this issue and call it what it is: a total waste of time. Source: dcclothesline.com/2019/07/13/climate-change-hoax-collapses-as-new-science-f… ----- End forwarded message -----

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Libertarian Economic Logic (chart attached)
by Razer 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

This... Just this. Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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snowflake aka snowden and the cunts from the tor-pentagon project
by Punk 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

OK - here's some interesting bit of gossip. Snowflake says he hosted a 'crpyto party' in hawaii with a literal cunt from the tor project - runa sandvik. So one wonders how on earth a norwegian agent from the tor project and agent snowden happened to meet in hawaii? "All in all, I’d say about twenty people showed up that December night to learn from me and my co-lecturer, Runa Sandvik, a bright young Norwegian woman from the Tor Project. (Runa would go on to work as the senior director of information security for the New York Times, " whoa, the sandvik cunt went from agent of the US military to the jew york times. Priceless. hmm - I guess I haven't been keeping up with military gossip. Here's a 2015 article talking about agents sandvik, snowden and appelbaum... https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/jacob-appelbaum-wikileaks-insider-tor-d…

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NSA formidable infiltration of gov/com/edu
by John Young 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

NSA - Did You Know https://nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/p… Formidable infiltration of gov/com/edu, maybe only spy agency so pervasive, secret, unaccountable to public.

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A good mark of a free and independent people...
by Ryan Carboni 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

A good mark of a free and independent people is a refusal to yield under unequal terms.

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