{"id":181451,"date":"2016-06-23T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/23\/linkage-284\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T05:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T10:40:00","slug":"linkage-284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/23\/linkage-284\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/07\/09\/how-spyware-peddler-hacking-team-was-publicly-dismantled\/#\/\">How spyware peddler Hacking Team was publicly dismantled<\/a> (<i>Endgadget<\/i>) These folks sold hacking software to tyants, and they got their just desserts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/political-capital\/what-ancient-history-has-say-about-near-future-doom-2354723\">What Ancient History Has To Say About Near-Future Doom<\/a> (<i>International Business Times<\/i>) Senator Incitatus, Republican nominee Donald Trump.  &#8216;Nuff Said.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/conspiracy\/comments\/3rncq9\/confession_of_hillary_shill_from\/\">Confession of Hillary Shill from \/r\/SandersForPresident &#8211; thread is now gone but someone saved the content.<\/a> (<i>Reddit<\/i>) Some detail about the professional trolls Hillary&#8217;s campaign.  Money quote, &#8220;When even the scum of 4chan think that your candidate is too scummy for their tastes, you need to take a good hard look at your life.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2016\/06\/13\/aq-to-cia-you-are-the-empire-and-we-are-luke-and-han\/\">AQ to CIA: You Are the Empire, and We Are Luke and Han<\/a> (<i>Emptywheel<\/i>)  Yes, the similarities between the Jedi and al Qaeda are striking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3641386\/Cats-understand-physics-Cats-use-noise-cues-cause-effect-understanding-detect-hidden-prey.html\">Kyoto University researchers suggests cats &#8216;use&#8217; physics to hunt prey |<\/a> (<i>Daily Mail Online<\/i>) They are biding their time until they can take over.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@mortenjust\/i-doomed-mankind-with-a-free-text-editor-ba6003319681#.de3gi573g\">I doomed mankind with a free text editor<\/a> (<i>Medium<\/i>) He created an editor that uses only the most 1000 words in the English language.  It was inspired by xkcd.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/06\/15\/intel-x86-processors-ship-with.html\">Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can&#8217;t audit it)<\/a> (<i>Boing Boing<\/i>) And when (and it is when) a black hat creates an exploit, you will never know.  Buy AMD.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/digital-currency-ethereum-nose-dives-after-40-million-hack-2016-06-17\">Digital currency Ethereum nose-dives after $50 million hack<\/a> (<i>MarketWatch<\/i>) There has now been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/2016\/06\/19\/second-assailant-drains-ethereum-funds-dao\/\">a second hack<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2016\/06\/curbing-monopolies-promotes-growth-lowers-inequality.html\">Curbing Monopolies Promotes Growth, Lowers Inequality<\/a> (<i>naked capitalism<\/i>) As Yves frequently Smith notes, Qu&#8217;elle Surprize.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who amongst us does not like to listen to Richard Feynman:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hTRVlUT665U?rel=0\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How spyware peddler Hacking Team was publicly dismantled (Endgadget) These folks sold hacking software to tyants, and they got their just desserts. What Ancient History Has To Say About Near-Future Doom (International Business Times) Senator Incitatus, Republican nominee Donald Trump. &#8216;Nuff Said. Confession of Hillary Shill from \/r\/SandersForPresident &#8211; thread is now gone but someone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181451"}],"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=181451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}