{"id":180036,"date":"2017-08-02T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/02\/linkage-190\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T10:05:00","slug":"linkage-190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/02\/linkage-190\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/07\/28\/black_hat_pwnie_awards\/\">Systemd wins top gong for &#8216;lamest vendor&#8217; in Pwnie security awards<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) Amusing compilation of the lamest fails and the most ingenious hacks at a rather unique award show, frequently involving root access.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-neuroscientist-just-tricked-4-journals-into-accepting-a-fake-paper-on-midi-chlorians?utm_content=buffer046b7&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">A neuroscientist just tricked 4 dodgy journals into accepting a fake paper on &#8216;Midi-Chlorians&#8217;<\/a> (<i>ScienceAlert<\/i>) A natural consequence of the for profit academic journal industry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hatewatch\/2017\/07\/27\/bunkerville-militia-defendant-gets-68-years-prison\">Bunkerville Militia Defendant Gets 68-Years in Prison<\/a> (<i>SPLC<\/i>) One of the terrorists threatening federal agents at the Bundy ranch just got sentenced.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/07\/28\/strange-fruit-venezuela-has-an-opposition-that-nobody-should-support\/\">Strange Fruit: Venezuela has an Opposition that Nobody Should Support<\/a> (<i>Counterpunch<\/i>) The opposition in Venezuela has taken to lynching people it disagrees with.  Fire is their preferred method.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/these-five-countries-are-conduits-for-the-worlds-biggest-tax-havens-79555\">These five countries are conduits for the world&#8217;s biggest tax havens<\/a> (<i>The Conversation<\/i>) A study applied network analysis to find the nexus of tax evasion: &#8220;The Netherlands, the UK, Switzerland, Singapore and Ireland.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/07\/31\/buy-the-book-how-i-made-290.html\">Buy the book &#8220;How I Made $290,000 Selling Books,&#8221; only $290,000 on Amazon<\/a> (<i>Boing Boing<\/i>) Epic troll.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\/status\/891660131188060161\">Ok, let&#8217;s talk about the Democratic Party&#8217;s deep state. Not the politicians, not the consultants, but BigLaw. That&#8217;s where power lives.<\/a> (<i>Matt Stoller in a Twitter Storm<\/i>) By &#8220;BigLaw&#8221;, he means white show firms serving the financial industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Getting my engineering geek on with the Maltese Cross\/Geneva mechanism:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Le-PVXUCl0M\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Systemd wins top gong for &#8216;lamest vendor&#8217; in Pwnie security awards (The Register) Amusing compilation of the lamest fails and the most ingenious hacks at a rather unique award show, frequently involving root access. A neuroscientist just tricked 4 dodgy journals into accepting a fake paper on &#8216;Midi-Chlorians&#8217; (ScienceAlert) A natural consequence of the for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-180036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}