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Bitcoin: Coinbase and Users vs IRS
by grarpamp 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-user-irs-bitcoin-subpoena/ Berns originally filed a motion on December 13th asking the U.S. District Court for Northern California to stop the IRS' subpoena of Coinbase records. The IRS believes that its request, filed in November, is justified because Bitcoin owners "may fail, or may have failed, to comply with one or more provisions of the internal revenue laws." Berns is represented by his own law firm, Berns Weiss, whose motion argues that the IRS data search is "an abuse of process" and "overbroad." Berns has said his motion is intended to defend not only himself, but all targeted users. But according to a December 28th court filing by the IRS, Berns is no longer a target of its records request because he identified himself in his own filing, and the request is only for unidentified users. Therefore, the IRS argues, Berns is not a party to proceedings and his request to block the data grab should be thrown out of court. In response, Berns Weiss had its own spin, telling Coindesk that "The IRS's willingness to withdraw the summons as to Mr. Berns only because it is now aware of his identity," and without the additional information they're seeking about many other Coinbase users, "Makes it clear that the IRS does not have a legitimate purpose in seeking substantial personal and financial information concerning approximately 3 million Americans." https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/01/02/208239/legal-sparring-continues-in…

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Scientific Progress
by coresamples＠sigaint.org 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

> Juan: > Your climate 'scientists' are highly paid university parasites, > pandering to 'progressive' eco fascists. The church of "progress" is the religion of the emotionally defective, the spiritually dyslexic, and the philosophically depraved. To put it into other terms: If you want happiness in this crazy world, you do not talk sex to eunuchs. These "scientists" are emotional, spiritual, and philisophical eunuchs.

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Snitch Nation
by James Timothy Holland 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

Snitch Nation You're listening to us You're listen to us right now So we'll tell you right now We don't got no keys up in this house Put the guns down We're not building bombs in the basement To the NSA, say "Turn them fucking cameras on yourself." Mark of the beast in my pocket It's an invasion They built the cages They own the block They digitized the block And gave us bigger cages 3-D printed humans With sudo expressions Call it freedom Pale mothafuckaz In data collection centers Who can't tell if I'm kidding When I say I'm a overthrow the Government Put ice cream machines in place of ATMs And empty all the prisons They made us into spies Snitching on ourselves For the eater of time The co-opter of our souls We throw death threats at a dead world I've got everything to hide from folks like you Why you wanna watch me naked Screaming "Fuck the police" in my living room How you gonna stop me >From pissing on every electric fence You're invisible armies couldn't even find sand on a fucking beach ------- Line us up Shoot us all Family portraits taken from a satellite abroad So smile and wink up at the cameras For the snitches in the sky Google mapping all our bloody insides Microchip in my passport Got my WEP encrypted password So it still feels like I'm in a prison And a pig is searching in my asshole Freedom is a concept we will never know Every time I breath, every time I sleep I've seen the devil's face Drawn in ASCII patterns Plastered across the heavens Are binary masters On the planet God knows every path we're on Dammit omnipotent digital deities Listening to every word that we're speaking So every time that I scream "Fuck You" On a track there is a transcript on a computer in real-time Fuck you Better put a bullet in my head for me to trust you I'm an ant on a hill dodging magnifying glass reflections Still it's Fuck You ------- What you think We got all these eyes for All I see is secret agents Marching up and down my spine Trying to copywrite my DNA While I learn to walk We don't talk much any more Talk is dead, like privacy Toxic oceans are coming To swallow every city And when I'm gone I leave it all To the cockroaches But I can't forget the drones Can't forget the drones No I can't forget the drones Can't forget the drones No I can't forget the drones Can't forget the drones No I can't forget the drones Can't forget the drones No I can't forget the drones Can't forget the drones No I can't forget the drones Can't forget the drones -- Sole & Ceschi

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[OT] [song] Seasons of Love + Samba da Benção
by Cecilia Tanaka 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

Wish you all a happy 2017 and a lovely life! Lots and lots of happy new years, full of love, good life projects and happy endings... <3 I know some people here will think "Seasons Of Love" is 'cheesy' or it sucks, but this is one of my favorite songs and I think it has a good message about measuring the years of our lives. Live long and prosper. And sincerely try to be happy. I am not asking to ignore all the fuckups in the whole world, it's impossible, but to manage them and their effects in the best possible way, trying to live well, with serenity, with less hate, anger, bad feelings in your heart... :) There is a lovely Brazilian song, a beautiful musical poem named 'Samba da Benção' ('Blessing Samba' or 'Blessed Samba? I don't know the best translation in this case, sorry!) which begins with the verses "É melhor ser alegre que ser triste / Alegria é a melhor coisa que existe / É assim como a luz no coração" ("It's better to be happy than to be sad / Happiness is the best thing that exists / It's like a light in the heart"). It's true! :) https://youtu.be/BH4hKPlcDkE https://lyricalbrazil.com/2011/12/16/samba-da-bencao/ (Lyrics in English, it isn't a "wow, the best translation in the whole world!", but it's better than my translation, obviously, haha!! ;) This version by Vinicius de Moraes is pretty sweet. I love Vinicius. As he says in the poem, he was "the blackest white man in the Brazil" and talks about happyness, sadness, love, "saudade", and pay tribute to the African Gods and the black origins of samba, one of most famous Brazilian musical styles. Happy New Year!!! :D Ceci ===== Seasons Of Love - 'Rent' movie https://youtu.be/UvyHuse6buY Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets In midnights, in cups of coffee In inches, in miles In laughter, in strife In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes How do you measure a year in the life How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love Seasons of love Seasons of love Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty-five thousand Journeys to plan Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes How do you measure the life Of a woman or a man? In truths that she learned Or in times that he cried In bridges he burned Or the way that she died It's time now to sing out Tho' the story never ends Let's celebrate Remember a year in the life of friends Remember the love Remember the love Remember the love Measure in love Measure, measure your life in love Seasons of love Seasons of love

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Internet Trolls Win The US Elections
by Ryan Good 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

Belieb it or not: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/The_Great_Meme_War https://encyclopediadramatica.se/2016_Presidential_Election

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Happy New Year everyone.
by b0z0＠SDF.ORG 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

Happy new year everyone. from the number one list lurker : ) b0z0(a)sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

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Major fuckups in the year of 2016?
by rooty 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

brrr... :-/ -------- Original Message -------- On Dec 30, 2016, 4:02 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: Because historic perspective, like black lives, matters. All Lives Matter ...until you multiply them by the speed of light squared. Then all lives energy! :)

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Major fuckup: USA
by grarpamp 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5krjxm/tsa_to_notify_travelers_of_up… https://papersplease.org/wp/2016/11/21/tsa-proposes-to-require-id-to-fly/ https://papersplease.org/wp/2016/10/24/is-it-suspicious-to-avoid-the-police… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBtlRxIo6Q http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sd-police-20161227-story.html https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5krdij/arkansans_hoping_to_grow_medi… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-28/as-populists-won-2016-ba… https://theintercept.com/2016/12/27/19-states-passed-60-new-abortion-restri… https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5kucwk/los_angeles_considers_banning… Do not go to the US, anyplace but the US, its govt and corp and shit all gone fucked up and isn't worth it. Seriously. You could list links on every day for a year and still not run out of examples of them intentionally fucking up shit.

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Bitcoin In 2017: Fixin Ta Blow Up
by grarpamp 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5l5plv/today_bitflyer_took_out_a_full… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5l5xk3/bitflyers_big_ad_campaign_for_… https://twitter.com/mojeyuka/status/814646893309358080 https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5l459i/bitcoin_120_vs_beat_every_… https://cointelegraph.com/news/roger-ver-2017-will-be-the-best-year-for-bit… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOBNi3gFKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWC954YcgvI https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5l66a7/satoshis_lesson/

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Re: [Crypto-practicum] Open-source cooperative security using low-cost HSMs?
by grarpamp 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek(a)gmail.com> wrote: > One problem is shills. IIUC, TOR has a problem where an attacker can create > a ton of nodes that collude. > TOR could be > 50% shills and we would not know. Is this something that could > be implemented effectively with the dreaded web of trust? Yes. It has been repeatedly brought up among tor that relay operators, being globally spread and relatively physically mobile for the purpose of keysigning, can cross sign their node keys with gpg keys, have their gpg keys signed in person under proof of relay ownership as usual, dump the fingerprints into the consensus and sks, then build relay selection algorithms that download and verify the wot into user run tools that then build their circuits in the controller. Users can elect to use variant levels of trust present in the wot, anon / nym / context signing, ID signing, photo signing, multisig assertions, etc. Beyond just the wot, all sorts of other external metrics, even subscriptions to third party metrics services, could be applied to such a relay selection process. 7000 relays, even at low 10% shill and 1:1 would require 700 unique persons of the adversary that pass the smell test of other operators and principals, that has real costs. Or your allies just supply the number of validated nodes needed to prevent network saturation and users simply decline to route anything but CNN and gerbil pr0n through the 700 unvalidated nodes. Pretty simple really, needs nothing more than one structured comment field in the consensus and some external tools, but nobody has rolled it out or even developed concept further yet.

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