After previously reporting satisfaction their IPO came 70% under their goal, the "Bitcoin Group" fiat mining venture has withdrawn their IPO under regulatory pressure according to numerous sources.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
FBI Agents Investigated For Misconduct In Lavoy Finicum's Murder While Insisting Slaying Was Justified
The United States Department of "Justice" whose loyal FBI soldiers murdered Lavoy Finicum is continuing to insist the murder of this American hero was justified, even though it has been compelled to open a criminal investigation into several of the FBI Agents who unleashed the fatal hail of bullets on Finicum (archived). The alleged criminal behavior happened as the triggers were being pulled to fire bullets at Finicum, concerns the triggermen firing bullets at Finicum, and involves a conspiracy of the triggermen's FBI comrades in covering up facts about the events of Lavoy Finicum's martyrdom. Naturally the Preets at the Department of "Justice" continue insist the shooting was justified as their own enforcers go feral.
Elon Musk Venture Remotely Diddles Attentive Owner's Vehicle
Elon Musk's Tesla Motors remotely downgraded the firmware on a vehicle owned by attentive owner Jason Hughes. As an attentive vehicle owner Hughes had earlier investigated a firmware update and found information suggesting a new Tesla Model S variant with a larger battery and shared the results of his investigation with the world. In what appears to be a retaliatory move Musk's firm downgraded his vehicle firmware remotely, a move that was subsequently noticed by the attentive Hughes.
New Cross Platform Malware Depends on JVM
Reports are emerging of new cross platform malware that has the potential to affect Windows, OSX, Linux, and Android machines using a single executable (archived). The catch is only machines with a Java runtime are vulnerable to the attacks. The simplest mitigation measure is simply not having a Java execution environment on your computing machine. Java has long been a dubious proposition, for the increased attack surface it presents as well as a portion of the programmers it attracts.
Google Tries Juicing Ad Sales WIth Appeal To Vanity
Advertising giant Google is testing a new ad format to embed in search engine results sold for "self promotion" purposes (archived). Advertising revenue is the fuel that enables Google's adventures in launching small cars at the broad side of city buses at two miles per hour.
Ransomware Comes To OSX Bittorrent Client
Ransomware has come to Apple's OSX through a doctored binary for the Transmission bittorrent client (archived). This is reminiscent of a similar failure by Linux Mint to secure their software distribution pipeline, with the only substantial added step in this case being the ~100 United States dollar expense to register a key with Apple to bypass their "Gatekeeper" check for signed code. Once again pseudo security theater fails to provide actual security.
Leaked Voicemails Show Donald Trump-Clinton Cozy With Liberal Media
A number of leaked voicemails show New York con artist and politician Donald Trump-Clinton's warm, cozy relationship with members of the leftist media. Despite the character Trump-Clinton plays on television presenting an adversarial relationship with the mainstream media, the leaked messages show affection for Trump demonstrated by NBC personalities as diverse as Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Tamron Hall (archived). Continue reading
Frontier County Prosecutor Alleges Circle Jerk iPhone Carries "Cyber Pathogens"
District Attorney Michael Ramos of San Bernadino County in California's desert frontier is now alleging the famous circle jerk iPhone 5c is now carrying a "cyber pathogen" (archived). With this latest wankery the podunk attorney is attempting to seriously allege a couple with a dangerous cyber pathogen would get themselves killed in a mundane shooting spree before they could deploy it. It's like suggesting a bio terrorist with Zika or Dengue would similarly get themselves killed in a boring normal shooting before spreading it to as many flying syringes as possible.
Correction Takes Bitcoin Network Difficulty Down 3.1%
After an eight month streak of hashrate increases, raising difficulty by a total of 231%, the mining difficulty has dropped to 158,427,203,767.3917 (3.1% below the previous adjustment, placing total network hashrate estimates around 1.2 EH/s). During this adjustment period, unknown actors flooded memory pools with several dozen megabytes of spam. Unlike last time, when the spammers made grand claims from behind meaningless pseudonyms, they have remained anonymous this time around; and unlike previous attacks, which merely contributed to demand for block space, this one caused immediate economic consequences, as disclosed previously. The transaction fee total climbed to 726.63690949 Bitcoins, comprising 1.42% of total miner income.
Hold on to your butts – Argentina is going on sale.
This year Argentina has a new president, one Mauricio Macri. The fellow stands very strongly on the side of capital and against labour, with daily pronouncements drawing the ire of the grobian-socialistoid Argentine (("Hay que reducir los gastos, y el salario es un gasto mas" (Macri) – "El salario es un derecho [umano]!11" (the G-S A). Continue reading