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
Chinese Businesses Scavenge US Industry For Brands
Today United States regulators from the "Justice" department gave China based Haier permission to buy General Electric's appliance unit. General Electric's efforts to escape the low margin appliance business have become public knowledge twice before. The first effort failed to find any credible buyers. Following that, last year "Justice" Department regulators refused permission for Swedish firm Electrolux's to unburden General Electric of this line of business by acquiring it for 3.3 billion United States dollars. They expressed concern about the poverty of suppliers for wall mounted ovens and cooktops for commerical use in the United States. Now Haier, which already markets appliances for sale in the United States, has received approval to acquire this business line from General Electric for 5.4 billion United States dollars. Continue reading
Government Accountability Office Declines To Offer Opinion On Worthless USG Finances
As has happened every year since 1997 during the height of the first1 Clinton presidency the United States Government Accountability Office has declined to offer an opinion on the United States Goverment's consolidated finances (archived). This is due to the impossibility of rendering an opinion with the financial statements from numerous department being so broken as to lack all meaning whatsoever. In other words the finances of the United States Government are in the same shape they have been since Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II, and Obama managed to lose the Cold War years after the Soviet Union collapsed.
At this point BitBet odds presume either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Donald Trump Clinton will usher in a second Clinton presidency. ↩
Anti Music Piracy Advocate Pirates Music Production Software
Kanye West, most famous for his strong stance against music piracy and marrying the hobbit, has outed himself as a software pirate in screen shots he posted to Twitter (archived). This does not materially affect the poverty of sanity in the US driven copyrast regime.
A Miner Problem
As announced in #bitcoin-assets, BitBet was attacked earlier today through a transaction withholding mechanism. The attack unfolded as follows : Continue reading
Qntra (S.QNTR) February 2016 Report
Google At Fault In Motor Vehicle Collision
A vehicle driven by Google software has been determined to be responsible for a motor vehicle collision in Mountain View, California (archived). Google's car was derping along at 2 miles per hour when it struck a bus travelling at 15 miles per hour. Google attempted to justify itself with the excuse that it thought the cumbersome bus would yield when Google's smaller vehicle was travelling the speed of a particularly slow pedestrian. Google's car sustained damage in the incident.
Foscam Internet Of Shit "Seekoority" Camera Phones Home, Peers With Other Cameras
Brian Krebs reports that "security cameras" and digital video recorders manufactured by Foscam and marked under Foscam's own brand and others have a peer to peer networking unfeature that phones home enabled by default (archived). In his post Krebs neglected to make the low hanging joke about SCAM already being a part of the firm's name.