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Implications of AI: Spawn of the DAO... Non-Human VC's
by grarpamp 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

Regarding the DAO and so much yet to come with VC's... http://www.techworld.com/social-media/sir-tim-berners-lee-lays-out-nightmar… The architect of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has talked about some of his concerns for the internet over the coming years, including a nightmarish scenario where artificial intelligence (AI) could become the new 'masters of the universe' by creating and running their own companies. Masters of the universe is a reference to Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, regarding the men (and they were men) who started racking up multi-million dollar salaries and a great deal of influence from their finance roles on Wall Street and in London during the computerised trading boom pre-Black Monday. Berners-Lee said, "So when AI starts to make decisions such as who gets a mortgage, that's a big one. Or which companies to acquire and when AI starts creating its own companies, creating holding companies, generating new versions of itself to run these companies. So you have survival of the fittest going on between these AI companies until you reach the point where you wonder if it becomes possible to understand how to ensure they are being fair, and how do you describe to a computer what that means anyway?" https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-a… Last year an experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors. The car didn't follow a single instruction provided by an engineer or programmer. Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it. Getting a car to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it's also a bit unsettling, since it isn't completely clear how the car makes its decisions, argues an article on MIT Technology Review. The mysterious mind of this vehicle points to a looming issue with artificial intelligence. The car's underlying AI technology, known as deep learning, has proved very powerful at solving problems in recent years, and it has been widely deployed for tasks like image captioning, voice recognition, and language translation. There is now hope that the same techniques will be able to diagnose deadly diseases, make million-dollar trading decisions, and do countless other things to transform whole industries. But this won't happen -- or shouldn't happen -- unless we find ways of making techniques like deep learning more understandable to their creators and accountable to their users. Otherwise it will be hard to predict when failures might occur -- and it's inevitable they will. That's one reason Nvidia's car is still experimental.

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Skrymions: Data storage breakthough
by jim bell 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/04/11/scientists-tout-tout-data-storage-br… This reminds me of magnetic-bubble technology, which was relatively big in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Intel made magnetic bubble devices up to a capacity of 1 megabits/device, which was considered large in comparison with the then-64 kilobit RAMs then in common use. http://www.wylie.org.uk/technology/computer/bubblmem/bubblmem.htm In contrast, these "skrymions" are said to have a domain size as small as 2 nanometers. Jim Bell × ×

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by b0z0＠SDF.ORG 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

Been meaning to send out this reminder to everyone for a while now. If you have not tuned into the UKColumn livestream before, you can expect to find the best independant newscast with real investigative journalists contributing to the live broadcast Mon-Fri 1pm GMT. Check out their archive here:- https://www.youtube.com/user/ukcolumn/videos Best wishes. b0z0(a)sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

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[tor-dev] Contents of tor-dev digest...
by Kool Keith 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

> Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net > Tue Apr 11 04:49:22 PDT 2017 > > connections through Tor ought to be traceable They are, fucker: globe.rndm.de atlas.torproject.org torflow.uncharted.software collector.torproject.org And I am sure there are more ways to track the goyim: metrics.torproject.org blog.torproject.org/category/tags/metrics trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/MetricsTeam lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/ And the tool used to study their efforts guised as the opposite: ooni.torproject.org You wouldn't be trying to trick the children that read this list in the future, now, are you, vpnanon ?

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[RUS] UNSC: "Look at me when I'm talking to you!" - Russia continues firm parenting fo juvenile West
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

Ahh Russia, diplomats of our heart, the gift of communication to the world that keeps on giving. And the world sorely needs a firm parent ... few would deny this sad, sad fact. Yes indeed, 2017 is turning into the comedy year of the century, and Russia is centre stage (in a good way), delivering the whip crack of common sense and decency to many. One might expect this from ones parents, but no, this is Russia's deputy United Nations ambassador Vladimir Safronkov delivering a stern finger wag to UK ambassador Matthew Rycroft for his appalling lack of basic human decency during a UNSC meeting: > Look at me when I'm talking to you! Why are you looking away? Rycroft evidently missed that memo when he was dragged up by his parents. UK's Rycroft Avoids Eye Contact as Russia Shreds More Syria Lies at UN Security Council Meeting http://russia-insider.com/en/moscow-vows-veto-assad-witch-hunt-resolution/r… and Sergey "laying down parental law" Lavrov, as only he can do :) Sergey Lavrov tells shouting NBC reporter to mind her manners http://theduran.com/must-watch-sergey-lavrov-tells-shouting-nbc-reporter-to… > “Who was bringing you up? Who was giving you your manners?” > >> This is wild. The @StateDept press release from their meeting with >> Sergey Lavrov begins with a reprimand and continues to Outclass His American 'Guests', of course: http://russia-insider.com/en/capitulation-rex-tillerson-authorizes-us-hacki… At least the US is being a little more honest about its actions and intentions these days: NYT just comes out and says it: US should partner with “territorial ISIS” to overthrow Assad http://theduran.com/nyt-just-comes-out-and-says-it-us-should-partner-with-i… What a year.

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The Internet of Things will host devastating, unstoppable botnets
by Razer 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Bwahahahahahaaahackcoughgasp-wheeeeeze! > Bruce Schneier takes to the pages of Technology Review to remind us > all that while botnets have been around for a long time, the Internet > of Things is supercharging them, thanks to insecurity by design. > > Botnets are useful for denial of service attacks, but they're also an > indispensable part of the spam ecosystem, clickfraud, extortion, and > other bad news. > > Cheap IoT gadgets are manufactured by absentee proprietors and large, > respected companies who ignore urgent warnings about their defects (or > punish people who complain by remote-bricking their gadgets), leading > to nightmarish breaches. > > Worse, IoT manufacturers use antiquated DRM laws to threaten security > researchers who reveal the defects in their products with brutal > lawsuits and even jail-time (and this will be a risk for any device > controlled by a browser). > >> ..... Once you know a botnet exists, you can attack its >> command-and-control system. When botnets were rare, this tactic was >> effective. As they get more common, this piecemeal defense will >> become less so. You can also secure yourself against the effects of >> botnets. For example, several companies sell defenses against >> denial-of-service attacks. Their effectiveness varies, depending on >> the severity of the attack and the type of service. >> >> But overall, the trends favor the attacker. Expect more attacks >> like the one against Dyn in the coming year. > > > Botnets of Things [Bruce Schneier/MIT Technology Review] Clickthru boingx2 (some other links on-page): http://boingboing.net/2017/04/12/forever-day-bugs-2.html

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Crunch Medical Fund
by Kool Keith 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Physical strength balances mental strength. Reverse hyperextension. Inventor: Power lifter Louie Simmons westside-barbell.com/blogs/westside-barbell-workouts youtube.com/watch?v=U_qkB5905FU - - gofundme.com/crunch-medical-fund?r=41739 Captain Crunch will be facing some very difficult surgery on March 28, 2017 involving 3 incisions, 1 in his side after removal of one of his ribs. 1 in the front of his stomach where they have to move all of his vital organs aside and 1 in his back requiring an 8 inch incision to gain access to his spinal column."" They have to put a "cage" surrounding his discs and add 4 more screws to help support his spine.The surgery will last approximately 9 hours or more, and may involve a second surgery the following week if there isn't enough time to complete the entire surgery at once."" This extremely complex and dangerous surgery gives Crunch a 50/50 chance of a normal life. A 10% chance he may not recover at all and a 20% chance of becoming permantly paralyzed."" There is 4 to 6 months of recovery and requires significant homecare after he is discharged from the rehab center."" Without this funding, he will not be able to maintain a normal life or care for himself. He will be bedridden most of the time throughout the recovery process."" The Crunchman will have limited access to his computer and if the funding is successful, he will try to arrange a way to access his computer from his bed.""

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Fwd: The Internet of Things will host devastating, unstoppable botnets
by Kool Keith 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

> J.R. Jones mrjones2020 at gmail.com > Thu Apr 13 05:00:43 PDT 2017 > > so How many Mexican shills does it take to name the joo ? Only Juan ! I wonder who is behind all of these posts ? | |> | |3 |

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Pozzed Mozilla eats Gooogle's shit, and likes it !
by Kool Keith 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Faggots at Mozilla copying shits from the jooos, lol !!! Pic related. It is in the vital security interest of the Internet to prevent and deter the spread and use of customization."" - Mozilla

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Pirate Bay Peter Sunde "I Have Given Up"
by grarpamp 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-i… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14107262 The future of illegal torrent websites doesn't look good. As torrent websites continue to disappear, the founder of The Pirate Bay believes the trend is the just the beginning. While it might look like torrenters are are still fighting this battle, Sunde claims that the reality is more definitive: "We have already lost." [...] Take the net neutrality law in Europe. It's terrible, but people are happy and go like "it could be worse." That is absolutely not the right attitude. Facebook brings the internet to Africa and poor countries, but they're only giving limited access to their own services and make money off of poor people. [...] Well, I have given up the idea that we can win this fight for the internet. The situation is not going to be any different, because apparently that is something people are not interested in fixing. Or we can't get people to care enough. Maybe it's a mixture, but this is kind of the situation we are in, so its useless to do anything about it. We have become somehow the Black Knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail. We have maybe half of our head left and we are still fighting, we still think we have a chance of winning this battle. Peter Sunde recently on... Why we need to fight for both transparency and privacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMdv7R9aSU4 Film: "Snowden" https://blog.brokep.com/2016/09/19/snowden-filmtal/ How The Internet Broke Politics, AnCap, etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjgql0ie6g https://torrentfreak.com/

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