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Facebook censorship
by jim bell 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

Facebook's secret rulebook to police users' politics revealed https://mol.im/a/6535529 via http://dailym.ai/android

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Advocating the HHPC calendar - Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

Zerowedgie puts in perhaps the most likely possibility for replacing Pope Gregory's taxation calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar https://www.history.com/news/6-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-gregorian-… 12 months of 30 + 30 + 31 day months (JFM, AMJ, JAS, OND), for a 364 day year, and an extra 7 day week ~ every 6 years, at the end of the 'year'. Benefits include no leap days/months, each month is the same number of days every year, New Year's day is always the same day of the week, as is every other holiday - and so the time spent planning which days of the year are holidays, and which days of the week they should fall on, can be reduced to "decide once and be happy thereafter" and with the concomitant benefit of only every having to print one calendar once, reusing it every year. It's Time to Change the Calendar, Once And For All https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-27/its-time-change-calendar-once-and…

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massive media outrage (as in literally) over Trump signing MAGA hats in Iraq - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

As funny as it gets, CNNPC putting in the hard yards here to keep us all chuckling away at their stupidity as the USA continues occupying foreign lands and murdering brown people. Jew Media Attacks Trump for Signing the Troops MAGA Hats https://dailystormer.name/jew-media-attacks-trump-for-signing-the-troops-ma…

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Phys.org: Hybrid qubits solve key hurdle to quantum computing
by jim bell 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

Phys.org: Hybrid qubits solve key hurdle to quantum computing. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-hybrid-qubits-key-hurdle-quantum.html

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Wardialing Modems Guerrilla Network Opensource Cyberspace [re: Tim May]
by grarpamp 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

[Now using proper Subject tech...] If you have a line, you can still dial each other and negotiate up to 33.8kbps v.34bis, add better software compression (zstd) instead of depending on v.44, and add encryption algos on each end. v.92 56k needed an ISP end to work. Companies like US Robotics and Zoom might still make v.34bis hardware modems... see USR5637. Lots of modems on used market. Full hardware modem with PCM DSP is needed to do elite first pass random phone scanning that analyzes the analog instead of depending on successful second stage "V." negotiation. Plus you get as bonus all the WAV recordings of: "Hello... Helloooooo?! WTF!!!" ;-) Anyone still have that analysis software? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ITU-T_V-series_recommendations You could probably do just as well creating your own modems with today's DIY hardware platforms in your local Makerspace. Opensource it on Github. On 12/23/18, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > You forgot that in 1992, typical dialup modems worked at 9600 bps. Now, > most people have access to 25 megabits/sec Internet. > I occasionally see people in discussion areas claim that "the U.S. > Government" was responsible for making "The Internet".I shut that talk down, > by pointing out "Do you think that The Internet would have 'worked' if a > person, at home, had to connect up to his ISP at with a 300 bps modem? 1200 > bps? 2400 bps?"I counter by pointing out that the people REALLY responsible > for a usable Internet were those who developed the 9600 bps, 14,400 bps, and > 28,800 bps modems. Rockwell, USR (US Robotics), Hayes, Telebit, and a few > others. Had that not existed, it would have been hard to make the Internet > available to most people. > From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem > "V.32 modems operating at 9600 bit/s were expensive and were only starting > to enter the market in the early 1990s when V.32bis was > standardized. Rockwell International's chip division developed a new driver > chip set incorporating the standard and aggressively priced it. Supra, > Inc. arranged a short-term exclusivity arrangement with Rockwell, and > developed the SupraFAXModem 14400based on it. Introduced in January 1992 at > $399 (or less), it was half the price of the slower V.32 modems already on > the market. This led to a price war, and by the end of the year V.32 was > dead, never having been really established, and V.32bis modems were widely > available for $250.V.32bis was so successful that the older high-speed > standards had little to recommend them. USR fought back with a 16,800 bit/s > version of HST, while AT&T introduced a one-off 19,200 bit/s method they > referred to as V.32ter, but neither non-standard modem sold well." > > And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem > > V.34/28.8 kbit/s and 33.6 kbit/s > > × > > × > > > "Any interest in these proprietary improvements was destroyed during the > lengthy introduction of the 28,800 bit/s V.34 standard. While waiting, > several companies decided to release hardware and introduced modems they > referred to as V.FAST. In order to guarantee compatibility with V.34 modems > once the standard was ratified (1994), the manufacturers were forced to use > more flexible parts, generally a DSP and microcontroller, as opposed to > purpose-designed ASIC modem chips. > "The ITU standard V.34 represents the culmination of the joint efforts. It > employs the most powerful coding techniques including channel encoding and > shape encoding. From the mere four bits per symbol (9.6 kbit/s), the new > standards used the functional equivalent of 6 to 10 bits per symbol, plus > increasing baud rates from 2,400 to 3,429, to create 14.4, 28.8, and > 33.6 kbit/s modems. This rate is near the theoretical Shannon limit. When > calculated, the Shannon capacity of a narrowband line is {\displaystyle > {\text{bandwidth}}\times \log _{2}(1+P_{u}/P_{n})}, with {\displaystyle > P_{u}/P_{n}} the (linear) signal-to-noise ratio. Narrowband phone lines have > a bandwidth of 3,000 Hz so using {\displaystyle P_{u}/P_{n}=1000} (SNR = > 30 dB), the capacity is approximately 30 kbit/s.[7]

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CenturyLink and 911 National Downtime [was: ATT Crash]
by grarpamp 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/search?q=centurylink&sort=relevance&t=w… https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/a9z6tb/centurylink_outage_west… https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/aa030y/centurylink_customers_r… https://www.reddit.com/r/centurylink/comments/a9zwkx/centurylink_down_all_o… https://downdetector.com/status/centurylink https://status.ctl.io/ https://i.redd.it/dsd0r48tnw621.png " Spoke to CenturyLink this morning about a downed 10G LAN PHY in WA, the guy I talked to said they had a major DWDM outage causing problems all over the west side of the country. Their own internal ticketing system is currently down, ControlCenter is unreachable from various locations on the west side, all kinds of problems. They were working with their DWDM vendor, weren't able to give me an ETR. 6:30pm Eastern, I've repeatedly tried to reach 3rd level escalation lines xxxxxxxxx or xxxxxxxx however both numbers were flooded and indicated all services are unavailable upon each attempt and ultimately was unable to get through. Called the 4th level escalation lines xxxxxxxx or xxxxxxxx and spoke with Director of operations - who indicated that they still do not have an ETA, however assured me that they have engaged onsite hardware vendor support on all fronts to solve the problem and restore service. Efforts to regain visibility to sites in Atlanta, GA and Chicago, IL remain ongoing. Once visibility has been restored the filter will be applied to limit communication traffic between sites which was causing CPU spikes that in turn prevented the devices from functioning properly. From the call I'm on, I've been told they had lost complete management access due to these issues and had to wait for someone to be on site to resolve it. That's pretty extreme. "

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Bitcoin Private Denies Fraud Allegations and Calls for Halt to BTCP Trading
by jim bell 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-private-denies-fraud-allegations-and-calls-for-…

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The Economist (1988): One world currency in 2018 - not on track
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

The globalists sought to usher in a one world currency system by 2018. Iraq and Libya were flattened, Syria flattening began, with Iran and North Korea intended on the tail end. Russia stepped in to support its long time ally Syria, and the one world government, one world currency, and one world carbon tax, is a project receding rather than rolling out. And some still wonder why Russia is so maligned? The Psychological Warfare Behind Economic Collapse https://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/the-psychological-warfar… …The globalist magazine The Economist announced in 1988 the coming of a one-world currency system, one that would be launched in 2018 and that would require the decline of the U.S. economy and the dollar to open the door to the reset. …

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Timothy C. May tribute - TDS “#1 Timothy C. May Fan Site”
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

True Neons shine brightly, ready to rock the boat if a jolly ole boat rocking be needed. At some times technology is called for. At others, grass roots or other action is needed. True punks know the difference. Stormer, Volume 70: A Death March For Timothy C. May dailystormer.name/stormer-volume-70-a-death-march-for-timothy-c-may/ PS, Merry Christmas to you and those you care for.

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L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department (The Great Bitcoin Heist)
by Razer 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

The NewYorker, from 2014 "I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief. “Bad news, detective. We got a situation.” “What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?” “Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.” The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that?" https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-depar… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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