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steve2470
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October 14, 2017
Sketchy websites are increasingly using cryptocurrency mining as a source of income.
CoinHive – the most prevalent cryptocurrency mining code provider – and its clones are becoming an alternative to dodgy advertising affiliate programs and survey scams in many cases.
More than 220 websites – mostly porn sites and torrent trackers – silently launch mining threads when surfers visit their sites, according to a new study by Adguard. The consumer-focused security firm reckons at least $43K was mined in Monero, as of October 10, based on the average time spent on website. Cryptocurrency mining code contaminated websites with an aggregated audience of 500 million people.
Cryptojacking scripts sometimes turn up on mainstream websites. For example, TV channel Showtime and the official website of Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo were both caught harbouring CoinHive code recently. Pirate Bay admitted that it had experimented with the technology, something that happened without telling users beforehand.
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More and more websites are mining crypto-coins in your browser to pay their bills, line pockets
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/13/cryypto_mining/Sketchy websites are increasingly using cryptocurrency mining as a source of income.
CoinHive – the most prevalent cryptocurrency mining code provider – and its clones are becoming an alternative to dodgy advertising affiliate programs and survey scams in many cases.
More than 220 websites – mostly porn sites and torrent trackers – silently launch mining threads when surfers visit their sites, according to a new study by Adguard. The consumer-focused security firm reckons at least $43K was mined in Monero, as of October 10, based on the average time spent on website. Cryptocurrency mining code contaminated websites with an aggregated audience of 500 million people.
Cryptojacking scripts sometimes turn up on mainstream websites. For example, TV channel Showtime and the official website of Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo were both caught harbouring CoinHive code recently. Pirate Bay admitted that it had experimented with the technology, something that happened without telling users beforehand.
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October 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/cadenzza_/status/919171341223452672
Had to look it up
"Totes not right" my new slang of the day
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Toteshttps://twitter.com/cadenzza_/status/919171341223452672
Had to look it up
October 14, 2017
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INDIANA REP. JIM LUCAS LISTENS TO OPENING REMARKS AT A BALANCED BUDGET PLANNING CONVENTION AT THE ARIZONA CAPITOL IN PHOENIX ON SEPT. 12, 2017. (CREDIT: AP PHOTO/BOB CHRISTIE)
If Indiana state Rep. Jim Lucas had his way, journalists would be required to register with state police in order to report the news.
Lucas, a Republican who has represented Indiana House District 69 since 2012, has officially drafted a bill that would require journalists to become licensed by registering with Indiana State Police, prior to entering their field. According to The Indianapolis Star, “Journalists would be fingerprinted as part of the process and would have to pay a $75 fee for a lifetime license.”
Anyone with a record of domestic battery or felony convictions would be barred from receiving a permit. The Star noted that the draft is essentially identical to the state’s handgun permit laws. In an interview with ThinkProgress on Friday, Lucas noted that he had drafted it that way intentionally.
“If you’re okay licensing my Second Amendment right, what’s wrong with licensing your First Amendment right?” Lucas asked in a statement to the Star. “If I was as irresponsible with my handgun as the media has been with their keyboard, I’d probably be in jail.”
I only have two words: fascist bastard.
I (am) a year ahead of Trump on this: Indiana Republican wants journalists to register with police
https://thinkprogress.org/indiana-lawmaker-journalists-permit-be239c9e6e7b/?resize=1280%2C720px&ssl=1
INDIANA REP. JIM LUCAS LISTENS TO OPENING REMARKS AT A BALANCED BUDGET PLANNING CONVENTION AT THE ARIZONA CAPITOL IN PHOENIX ON SEPT. 12, 2017. (CREDIT: AP PHOTO/BOB CHRISTIE)
If Indiana state Rep. Jim Lucas had his way, journalists would be required to register with state police in order to report the news.
Lucas, a Republican who has represented Indiana House District 69 since 2012, has officially drafted a bill that would require journalists to become licensed by registering with Indiana State Police, prior to entering their field. According to The Indianapolis Star, “Journalists would be fingerprinted as part of the process and would have to pay a $75 fee for a lifetime license.”
Anyone with a record of domestic battery or felony convictions would be barred from receiving a permit. The Star noted that the draft is essentially identical to the state’s handgun permit laws. In an interview with ThinkProgress on Friday, Lucas noted that he had drafted it that way intentionally.
“If you’re okay licensing my Second Amendment right, what’s wrong with licensing your First Amendment right?” Lucas asked in a statement to the Star. “If I was as irresponsible with my handgun as the media has been with their keyboard, I’d probably be in jail.”
I only have two words: fascist bastard.
October 13, 2017
Donald Trump is a fascist and a racial authoritarian. For several years, I have tried to warn the readers of my essays here at Salon and those who listen to my podcast of this fact. Trump has revealed his core values to the world at almost every opportunity. Yet somehow, too many Americans appear stuck on a treadmill of daily shock at his behavior. It is sad to watch. Why is any of this a surprise? Trump is a crude man. He has never been subtle in terms of sharing his values and beliefs.
For example, Trump signaled his presidential aspirations by accusing Barack Obama of being a black usurper born secretly in another country. Perhaps even more insulting to Barack Obama -- and by implication to Black America -- Trump even dared to suggest that the first black president of the United States was a fraud whose accomplishments and intelligence were the result of imagined unfair advantages somehow (against all empirical evidence to the contrary) granted to black people in the United States. In essence Donald Trump told a black man in the 21st century to "show me your papers," as though the latter were a slave and Trump a paddyroller on some dusty road in the antebellum South during the early 19th century.
During the 2016 campaign and now as president, Donald Trump has met almost every criteria of a fascist leader adapted to fit American society.
He has contempt for democratic norms and procedures, and has repeated undermined them;
He has threatened violence against his political enemies;
He espouses militant nationalism;
He is patriarchal, hyper-masculine and misogynist;
He uses racism, ethnocentrism and bigotry to advance his political goals;
He lies compulsively in order to twist reality to his will and keep supporters enthralled;
He stokes a sense of racial grievance and victimhood among his voters;
He acts with contempt and utter disregard for the law;
He uses his position as president to personally enrich himself, his family and his political allies;
He openly admires authoritarian leaders from other countries;
Through voter purges and other means, he is trying to ensure a permanent Republican majority and de facto one-party state;
He believes in "blood and soil" racism;
He is trying to remove any regulations or other types of restrictions on corporations;
He appears to be a malignant narcissist who believes he is above the law;
He grants pardons to his political allies;
He has utter contempt for freedom of the press and the concept of "checks and balances";
He views intellectuals and artists as his enemies;
He is trying to destroy labor unions;
He encourages police and other paramilitary forces to abuse racial and ethnic minorities;
He has been acclaimed by white supremacist and other right-wing fascist groups as their leader.
The new F-word: Why are we still afraid to call Trump a fascist?
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/13/the-new-f-word-why-are-we-still-afraid-to-call-trump-a-fascist/Donald Trump is a fascist and a racial authoritarian. For several years, I have tried to warn the readers of my essays here at Salon and those who listen to my podcast of this fact. Trump has revealed his core values to the world at almost every opportunity. Yet somehow, too many Americans appear stuck on a treadmill of daily shock at his behavior. It is sad to watch. Why is any of this a surprise? Trump is a crude man. He has never been subtle in terms of sharing his values and beliefs.
For example, Trump signaled his presidential aspirations by accusing Barack Obama of being a black usurper born secretly in another country. Perhaps even more insulting to Barack Obama -- and by implication to Black America -- Trump even dared to suggest that the first black president of the United States was a fraud whose accomplishments and intelligence were the result of imagined unfair advantages somehow (against all empirical evidence to the contrary) granted to black people in the United States. In essence Donald Trump told a black man in the 21st century to "show me your papers," as though the latter were a slave and Trump a paddyroller on some dusty road in the antebellum South during the early 19th century.
During the 2016 campaign and now as president, Donald Trump has met almost every criteria of a fascist leader adapted to fit American society.
He has contempt for democratic norms and procedures, and has repeated undermined them;
He has threatened violence against his political enemies;
He espouses militant nationalism;
He is patriarchal, hyper-masculine and misogynist;
He uses racism, ethnocentrism and bigotry to advance his political goals;
He lies compulsively in order to twist reality to his will and keep supporters enthralled;
He stokes a sense of racial grievance and victimhood among his voters;
He acts with contempt and utter disregard for the law;
He uses his position as president to personally enrich himself, his family and his political allies;
He openly admires authoritarian leaders from other countries;
Through voter purges and other means, he is trying to ensure a permanent Republican majority and de facto one-party state;
He believes in "blood and soil" racism;
He is trying to remove any regulations or other types of restrictions on corporations;
He appears to be a malignant narcissist who believes he is above the law;
He grants pardons to his political allies;
He has utter contempt for freedom of the press and the concept of "checks and balances";
He views intellectuals and artists as his enemies;
He is trying to destroy labor unions;
He encourages police and other paramilitary forces to abuse racial and ethnic minorities;
He has been acclaimed by white supremacist and other right-wing fascist groups as their leader.
October 13, 2017
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/en/overview/
Interesting how the North Koreans see us. I've never heard of that incident.
It is the official North Korean Ministry of Foriegn Affairs website.
See here: http://www.mfa.gov.kp.ipaddress.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/northkorea/comments/6italt/ministry_of_foreign_affairs_website_has_opened/
"The Korean people burnt down the US aggression ship General Sherman which intruded into Pyongyang"
The Korean people burnt down the US aggression ship General Sherman which intruded into Pyongyang along the Taedong River in 1866.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/en/overview/
Interesting how the North Koreans see us. I've never heard of that incident.
It is the official North Korean Ministry of Foriegn Affairs website.
See here: http://www.mfa.gov.kp.ipaddress.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/northkorea/comments/6italt/ministry_of_foreign_affairs_website_has_opened/
October 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/WZorNET/status/918894824828399616
cute Halloween kitty
https://twitter.com/JenMsft/status/918885102817390592https://twitter.com/WZorNET/status/918894824828399616
October 13, 2017
A sheriff in Louisiana has been railing against the state’s new prisoner release program, saying many of those “good” inmates need to stay behind bars for the free labor they provide.
Last week, Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator blasted the state’s Justice Reinvestment Package, a series of bills passed in June that could reduce Louisiana’s prison population by 10 percent and save more than $260 million over the next decade by slowly releasing nonviolent offenders. The legislation is set to go into effect on Nov. 1 and would authorize the early release of 1,400 prisoners across 21 parishes in the state.
Just 35 prisoners would be immediately released in Caddo Parish, but that seems to be too many for Prator, who said the state needs them to “wash cars.”
“In addition to the bad ones ... they’re releasing some good ones that we use every day to wash cars, to change oil in the cars, to cook in the kitchen, to do all that where we save money,” he continued. “Well, they’re going to let them out ― the ones that we use in work release programs.”
Louisiana Sheriff Wants Good Prisoners To Stay Jailed For Their Free Labor
https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana-sheriff-wants-good-prisoners-175836590.htmlA sheriff in Louisiana has been railing against the state’s new prisoner release program, saying many of those “good” inmates need to stay behind bars for the free labor they provide.
Last week, Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator blasted the state’s Justice Reinvestment Package, a series of bills passed in June that could reduce Louisiana’s prison population by 10 percent and save more than $260 million over the next decade by slowly releasing nonviolent offenders. The legislation is set to go into effect on Nov. 1 and would authorize the early release of 1,400 prisoners across 21 parishes in the state.
Just 35 prisoners would be immediately released in Caddo Parish, but that seems to be too many for Prator, who said the state needs them to “wash cars.”
“In addition to the bad ones ... they’re releasing some good ones that we use every day to wash cars, to change oil in the cars, to cook in the kitchen, to do all that where we save money,” he continued. “Well, they’re going to let them out ― the ones that we use in work release programs.”
October 13, 2017
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October 13, 2017
Let's compare Trump and Mussolini, shall we ?
I don't know much about Il Duce, so I'll need help here.
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
The quote by Mussolini, of course.
Ok, your turn, please.
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