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Tim Berners Lee: The Pedo Spending W3C $$$ on CP.
by Cecilia Tanaka 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi Hi ! END OF THE WEB: Private Elite Club W3C Controls Future of Internet; Wants DRM for All Web Content. TL;DR: Web standards being developed by the W3C will make it difficult, and legally dangerous for you to use any content (just video for now, but it will expand to all web content) without the permission of the owners, i.e., you want to make a commentary, redpill, meme, joke, etc., video containing literally any piece of data generated by someone else (especially a corporation), e.g., part of an advertisement, news broadcast, movie, tv show, jootube show, web article etc.? Too bad. Internet’s over. Go home. --- BACKGROUND: >From the W3C website "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee (the pedofile who """invented the internet""") and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe…" Members include hundreds of major corporations, Universities, private individuals etc. CONTROVERSY: Early today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body publicly announced its intention to publish Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) - a DRM standard for web video - with no safeguards whatsoever for accessibility, security research or competition, despite an unprecedented internal controversy among its staff and members over this issue. EME is a standardized way for web video platforms to control users' browsers, so that we can only watch the videos under rules they set. This kind of technology, commonly called Digital Rights Management (DRM), is backed up by laws like the United States DMCA Section 1201 (most other countries also have laws like this). Under these laws, people who bypass DRM to do legal things (like investigate code defects that create dangerous security vulnerabilities) can face civil and criminal penalties. Practically speaking, bypassing DRM isn't hard (Google's version of DRM was broken for six years before anyone noticed), but that doesn't matter. Even low-quality DRM gets the copyright owner the extremely profitable right to stop their customers and competitors from using their products except in the ways that the rightsholder specifies. This will break people, companies, and projects, and it will be technologists and their lawyers, including the EFF, who will be the ones who'll have to pick up the pieces. We've seen what happens when people and small startups face the wrath of giant corporations whose ire they've aroused. We've seen those people bankrupted, jailed, and personally destroyed. At root is the way that DRM interacts with the law. Take security: the W3C's specification says that users' computers should be protected from privacy-invading activities by DRM vendors, but without a covenant, it's impossible to check whether this is happening. Recall that GETflix, one of the principal advocates for DRM at W3C, categorically rejected the narrowest of covenants, one that would protect solely the activity of revealing DRM flaws that compromised user privacy. On the question of accessibility, the W3C has simply ignored the substantial formal and informal objections raised by its members, including members with deep expertise in accessibility, such as Vision Australia, Media Access Australia, Benetech, and the RNIB. These organizations pointed out that having a place for assistive data was nice, but to make video accessible, it was necessary to use computers to generate that data. It's great to say that if you know where all the strobe effects are in 10,000,000 hours of videos, you could add warnings to the timelines of those videos to help people with photosensitive epilepsy. But unless you have an unimaginable army of people who can watch all that video, the practical way to find all those strobes is to feed the video to a computer, after bypassing the DRM. Otherwise, most video will never, ever be made safe for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Multiply that by the unimaginable armies of people needed to write subtitles, translate audio, and generate descriptive audio tracks, and you've exceeded the entire human race's video-annotating capacity several times over—but barely scratched the surface of what computers can (and will be able to) do. SOURCE: https://eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-controversy-w3c-greenl… https://archive.is/h26nk --- So what exactly is this W3C, how do they operate, and who has a say in what they’re doing? This jootube tech journalist guy (seems like a typical, but earnest, nu male tech guy on jootube, not red pilled or anything. Very normie audience I assume. But doing the only good journalism on this topic outside the EFF.) uncovered something remarkable: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S97TCpuBvnc Vid summary: The W3C does not appear to be a legal entity of any kind. It’s not an LLC, not a non-profit, not anything. It appears to be a completely unofficial private club administered by MIT (http://csail.mit.edu/) the European Research Consortium for Informatics (https://ercim.eu/) Keio University in Tokyo (https://keio.ac.jp/en/) and Beihang University in Beijing (http://ev.buaa.edu.cn/) This unofficial private club collects tens of millions of dollars annually from members (as can be calculated from the member list and annual fees), who pay these fees in order to take part in secret votes (the W3C does not publish vote records, meeting minutes, or take any other measures to make it’s activities acceptable to the public) that will shape the future of the internet. The W3C being an apparently completely unofficial private club, there is no way to know where this money goes. Tim Berners Lee (pedofile) could be spending it all on *cheese pizza* for all anybody knows. Furthermore, because the W3C is a legal non-entity, there’s no way for members of the public to influence this organization, that controls the future of the web, other than paying the fees and participating in the secret votes. W3C member fees by country: https://w3.org/Consortium/fees W3C member list: https://w3.org/Consortium/Member/List W3C page describing what their organization is: https://w3.org/Consortium/facts.html Previous video from the tech journalist summarizing the W3C DRM vote. He attended a press event and has had some emails going back and forth with the W3C trying to get more information: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h94ZKGVg-B8 Dig, punkanons. Dig for the only home we have left. For the internet! Destroy this beast or be destroyed. --- Also, we're organizing Internet users to meet with members of Congress, in DC or locally, and we're helping to cover travel costs. Are you in? https://battleforthenet.com/dc/ aff... :P c. "It's okay to run-over space aliens." -Terry A. Davis

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Re: Ezekiel 23: 19-20.
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 01:21:15PM +1000, Gil May wrote: > Feeling the stress of life and need for salvation of my sole I randomly > opened the Bible believing divine guidance will place the needed script > before my sight. As I opened the Bible it slipped out of my hand and > landed in my lap with my hand clasped so that my finger was on Ezekiel 23: > 19-20. > > > Taking that as divine guidance I started to read: > > *19* Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the > days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. > > *20* There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like > those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. > > OK, own up and confess have you ever been to Egypt? Well, those who have could probably start a religion or something :) Seems the thang to do according to L Ron Haggard :D

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Re: [tor-relays] OS diversity of tor relays (was Re: Relay uptime versus outdated Tor version)
by grarpamp 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

> Learning these OS can have other, peripheral benefits Very true. For reference, Solaris has been more or less dead ever since Oracle killed Sun and re-closed it. Now it's officially dead beyond "support" contracts, subject only to any benevolent and heroic zombie efforts, which are extremely unlikely due to its [line]age and license... https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-sun/ Still, it presents a different attack surface, at least beyond the network application itself, if you can compile on it. Run a few nodes for fun if you want (fun being half the point of running nodes), you can still get the i386/amd64 binaries here... https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/index.html But as a formal production OS, especially for the non-corporate opensource community since ever, Solaris proper is deader than long decayed and untouchable dead. If you want the Sun family lineage, go with https://www.openindiana.org/ or maybe if you're stuck in the GNU toolchain, https://www.osdyson.org/ or if you want something that's actively maintained with at least some actual "Unix" heritage and unique feel https://www.freebsd.org/ or any other BSD like Open or Dragon or Net. Every Linux / Windows / Apple user owes it to themselves to try something in the BSD family for at least a few months or so. Don't forget Plan9, Open/Free VMS, MINIX, GNU HURD, HP-UX, AIX, FreeDOS, Android, iOS, OSX, etc. Regardless of which overlay network you're using, or plugging nodes into, have fun gettin jiggy wit it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JcmQONgXJM

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Apple just open sourced every iOS and macOS kernel to date
by Razer 01 Oct '17

01 Oct '17

https://opensource.apple.com/ H/t: https://twitter.com/dubstrike/status/913965740620963841

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Money and Monetary Policy Shall Not Be Discussed In Schools
by grarpamp 30 Sep '17

30 Sep '17

Monetary Policy Airdrop... https://i.imgur.com/U62HABS.jpg https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/business-old/billions-of-dollars-le… http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/01/AR200902010…

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U.S. Regulator Says Banks Might Run Entirely On Crypto
by grarpamp 30 Sep '17

30 Sep '17

http://www.cryptoanalyst.co/2017/09/30/banks-conduct-business-crypto/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/73e9ce/bitcoin_banks_us_regulator… https://twitter.com/DelRayMan/status/913536972605542400 https://www.coindesk.com/us-currency-boss-opens-door-licensed-bitcoin-banks/ http://www.cryptoanalyst.co/2017/09/29/blockchain-in-the-usa-trump-admin-de… https://www.coindesk.com/occ-charter-bitcoin-exchanges-special-national-ban… Keith Noreika—a major U.S. regulator—just laid out his vision for how, one day, a new class of banks could arise in America that conduct business in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Noreika, who currently serves as the acting comptroller of the currency at the U.S. Treasury Department, is the definition of a big-wig in the U.S. finance world. He oversees all national banks in America. Indeed, then, the fact that someone as prominent as Noreika is envisioning “Bitcoin Banks” means we might be seeing one of these banks sooner rather than later in America and beyond. Giving at talk at the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia on Thursday, Noreika laid out his vision for giving crypto companies specialized fintech charters, charters that would make starting a Bitcoin exchange, for example, extraordinarily easier in the U.S. “I wouldn’t be adverse to those people coming in and talking to the [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] about how a charter could make sense for them,” Noreika declared. “I don’t think it’s my position as a government official to ever say ‘no’ to anything, or any idea, of any American who wants to come in and petition the government for a benefit from the government.” Noreika’s public and libertarian approach to crypto will have a major legitimizing effect on the industry as a whole. With these fintech charters, crypto companies will be able to start easier than ever in America. That means established players on Wall Street will start entering and investing in the crypto space like never before. This is an astoundingly bullish development. Noreika’s regulatory influence has the power to boost Bitcoin beyond $5,000 and Ethereum beyond $420 in the mid-term, easily. TLDR: An important regulator at the U.S. Treasury Department says Bitcoin Banks are almost here, meaning crypto could soon rule the finance world and explode even further in price.

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[RUS] China understands the game
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

This is literally depressing - China definitely understands the game, and "the West's" ongoing self immolation: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/chinese-see-us-russia-conflict-decade…

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amazon cards
by Marina Brown 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Hi All: I have a couple $25 amazon cards that were given to me. I'm willing to trade for BTC - later today i should have wallets set up for other currencies. Just contact me offlist and we can deal. Thanks --- Marina

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Bill Gates is an Android user
by Georgi Guninski 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/26/bill_gates_android_user/ | Microsoft founder Bill Gates has admitted to switching to an Android | phone The Chinese have a proverb, something like: If you stand by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy flowing down.

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Blockchain and Questions on Anarchy with Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com
by grarpamp 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Blockchain and Questions on Anarchy with Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxBGf5qzhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1keIAmmdTgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eaIVy9e23U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCU6jX9OBiI http://www.mediciventures.com/ https://overstock.com/ Blockchain: The Greatest Paradigm Shift Of Our Generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qZdRm8eH00 https://cryptoiscurrency.com/

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