As New Zealand Police struggle to control an increasing undisciplined population of obeasts and transmayo gendered individuals they have been pushed to adapt their equipment to the problem. The New Zealand Herald reports that the country's police are trading in their perfectly serviceable cuffs that work to restrain human sized individuals and getting new cuffs that are big enough to restrain Obeasts that ate themselves to the point they lost visible wrists (archived). A spokesman for national headquarters claims the new cuffs adjust sufficiently to continue being effective on more mobile human sized law enforcement prey, but this remains to be seen.
John Kasich Is America
With the American electoral season heating up and a Clinton threatening to steal the GOP nomination, it is time to lay out the real narrative this campaign season. John Kasich is the United States of America and voters are turning their backs on their country. Continue reading
Miner Problem Pushes BitBet Into Recievership
Following the incident where BitBet ended up paying out the winners of the Jeb Bush nomination bet twice due to probably miner cartel action, BitBet is now seeking a receiver. The full announcement is reproduced below: Continue reading
'Anybody Can Learn' Gets It In The Breech
Hadi Partovi, (archived) Code.org CEO, reports on ANYBODY CAN LEARN (archived) that his site has been compromised. He regretfully informs us that twelve thousand volunteer email addresses were captured in the attack. A technical freelancing firm based in Singapore took credit for the breach in an unsolicited email sent to one of the effected volunteer engineers. Continue reading
Counterpoint: Fuck Them All To Death – Complete Mosquito Eradication Overdue
This is a response to a news item by danielpbarron
It is time for the flying syringes to die. Continue reading
Point: Washington Thugs Testing GM Mosquitos
This Editor in Chief has filed an Op-Ed in response to piece of news.
The assembly of hoodrats headed by Hussein Bahamas in Washington D.C. requests public comment regarding a field trial of genetically modified mosquitoes (archived) in Key Haven, Florida. Such trials have already been conducted in Brazil, the Cayman Islands, Panama, and Malaysia. The variation of Aedes aegypti engineered by Oxitec, Ltd. (archived) is supposed to breed with existing populations, and pass on a fatal alteration its genetic code. Notably this fatal alteration merely has a suppressive effect on populations creating a need to continually shell out for more bezzle bugs. Continue reading
Bug In libotr Threatens To Compromise Systems
A memory corruption vulnerability in libotr, a c implementation of off the record encryption commonly used in chat clients, allows for remotely executing code on vulnerable machines and crashing applications using libotr (archived). Large messages sent to libotr can cause an integer overflow which then spills into the heap.
Bharara And Goons Move Artifacts From Unsanctioned To Sanctioned Looters
In a press release federal goons reporting to Preet Bharara announced that through shenanigans surrounding the provenance of two artifacts they created cover for seizing them. This scheme is a common means by which agents of various governments transfer art and relics from unfavored looters to favored looters. Through this magic rare items are able to be auctioned more than once laundering the wealth and creating more opportunities for taxing the transactions.
"Honest" Soap Scandal Deepens: A Chemist Speaks
Personal care products manufacturer Honest Co. has recently been exposed as dishonestly labelling their products, as reported in The Wall Street Journal (paywall) (archived). Qntra's chemistry correspondent is here to set the deception straight. Continue reading
F-35 Software Requiring Hard Reboots While Airborne
Jane's reports that the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Developed by and for the armed forces of the United States and its allies has a new quirk gathering public attention (archived). Well, several quirks but the most notable is a software glitch that interferes with the aircraft's mission readiness by requiring hard reboots during flight to restore functionality to the radar. So far the F-35's ability to hemorrhage funds printed for the United States Department of Defense has lead to the early end of production for the more capable F-22 fighter, threatened the end of life for the more capable A-10 ground attack aircraft, and ended or hindered an uncountable other number of other things which may have been less embarrassing ends to direct the United States Government's money printing machine than the F-35. Sorry for your loss and peace in our time.