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so crazy!
why dey do dat?

>>103464
>goes to an extremely violent and dangerous place
>gets mad when their shit is broken

sure its trump's fault, I'm sure he personally told the policemen to break their shit

The question I make is were they able to be officially identified on the site as reporters? Because if they weren't, it's their own fault for being stupid. You can't hope police lets you go just by shouting "journalist here".
Otoh, if they had their work IDs with them, things might get messy.

>Truman said Mnuchin's hardest job would be managing a sprawling tax reform effort with Congress that seeks to slash business tax rates and enact a new border tax adjustment system aimed at boosting U.S. exports. He noted that was a longer-term project.

>Mnuchin, 54, will quickly need to build a core management team to handle such challenges.

>Treasury and White House representatives did not respond to requests for comment on Monday on reports that Trump would soon nominate David Malpass, a former economist at failed Wall Street bank Bear Stearns, as Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, the agency's top economic diplomacy job.

>Malpass, a Trump campaign adviser who had been leading Treasury transition efforts, was seen as a leading candidate for the job, with experience from international economic posts in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.

>Other names that have been floated for senior posts include Goldman Sachs banker Jim Donovan for deputy Treasury secretary and Justin Muzinich, a former Morgan Stanley banker, for undersecretary of domestic finance.

>The Senate on Monday also unanimously confirmed David Shulkin as secretary of veterans affairs, putting the only holdover from the Obama administration in charge of the second largest federal agency. Shulkin had been in charge of the VA's sprawling health system for the past 18 months.

'The Wrong Man"

>Mnuchin, a second-generation Goldman Sachs banker who led the firm's mortgage bond trading but left the bank in 2002, has come under fire over his investor group's 2009 acquisition of another failed lender, IndyMac Bank, in a deal in which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp agreed to absorb most of the losses on IndyMac foreclosures.

>The bank, rebranded as OneWest, subsequently foreclosed on more than 36,000 homeowners, drawing charges from Democrats and housing advocates that it was a "foreclosure machine."

>Mnuchin grew OneWest into Southern California's largest lender and sold it for $3.4 billion in 2015. He has also helped finance Hollywood blockbusters such as "Avatar," "American Sniper" and this past weekend's box office champion, "The Lego Batman Movie," which took in $55.6 million.

Yay?

>► An executive order targeting the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — and especially the so-called Volcker rule prohibiting banks from making speculative investments. The order would direct the secretary of the Treasury to review regulations on financial institutions and report back specific recommendations to the president.

>Among the actions being considered are "personnel actions," the White House official said. While he did not identify those actions, the most vulnerable financial regulator is Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A federal appeals court ruled last year that the bureau's structure was unconstitutional he exercises "massive, unchecked power" independent of the president. As a remedy, the court said, the president ought to be able to fire.

>It could also include a dismantling of "orderly liquidation" authority for too-big-to-fail banks. Last week, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel released a 2010 legal opinion raising constitutional questions about the authority of bankruptcy courts to seize those banks, suggesting that the Trump administration was prepared to rely on the previously undisclosed legal advice.

>► A presidential memorandum to the secretary of Labor ordering a delay in implementing a rule requiring financial advisers to act in their clients' best interests. The regulation, known as the fiduciary rule, is scheduled to go into effect April 10. Opponents argue that it would discourage financial advisers from working with low-net worth clients.

>The secretary of Labor could delay implementation of the rule, but repealing it would require starting the rulemaking process over from the beginning. That's because the rule was already finalized last year, with a one-year grace period for compliance. President Barack Obama already vetoed an attempt by congressional Republicans to kill the rule outright.

>>108020
This is getting cartoonish.

ahahaha. African-level corruption in 3.. 2.. 1...

>>111490
One coder who goes by Tek ran into a wall trying to download multi-satellite precipitation data from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Starting in August, access to Goddard Earth Science Data required a login. But with a bit of totally legal digging around the site (DataRefuge prohibits outright hacking), Tek found a buried link to the old FTP server. He clicked and started downloading. By the end of the day he had data for all of 2016 and some of 2015. It would take at least another 24 hours to finish.

The non-coders hit dead-ends too. Throughout the morning they racked up “404 Page not found” errors across NASA’s Earth Observing System website. And they more than once ran across databases that had already been emptied out, like the Global Change Data Center’s reports archive and one of NASA’s atmospheric CO2datasets.

And this is where the real problem lies. They can’t be sure when this data disappeared (or if anyone backed it up first). Scientists who understand it better will have to go back and take a look. But meantime, DataRefuge and EDGI understand that they need to be monitoring those changes and deletions. That’s more work than a human could do.

So they’re building software that can do it automatically.

Future Farming

Later that afternoon, two dozen or so of the most advanced software builders gathered around whiteboards, sketching out tools they’ll need. They worked out filters to separate mundane updates from major shake-ups, and explored blockchain-like systems to build auditable ledgers of alterations. Basically it’s an issue of what engineers call version control—how do you know if something has changed? How do you know if you have the latest? How do you keep track of the old stuff?

<cont...>

>>111493
There wasn’t enough time for anyone to start actually writing code, but a handful of volunteers signed on to build out tools. That’s where DataRefuge and EDGI organizers really envision their movement going—a vast decentralized network from all 50 states and Canada. Some volunteers can code tracking software from home. And others can simply archive a little bit every day.

By the end of the day, the group had collectively loaded 8,404 NASA and DOE webpages onto the Internet Archive, effectively covering the entirety of NASA’s earth science efforts. They’d also built backdoors in to download 25 gigabytes from 101 public datasets, and were expecting even more to come in as scripts on some of the larger datasets (like Tek’s) finished running. But even as they celebrated over pints of beer at a pub on Euclid Street, the mood was somber.

There was still so much work to do. “Climate change data is just the tip of the iceberg,” says Eric Kansa, an anthropologist who manages archaeological data archiving for the non-profit group Open Context. “There are a huge number of other datasets being threatened with cultural, historical, sociological information.” A panicked friend at the National Parks Service had tipped him off to a huge data portal that contains everything from park visitation stats to GIS boundaries to inventories of species. While he sat at the bar, his computer ran scripts to pull out a list of everything in the portal. When it’s done, he’ll start working his way through each quirky dataset.

>>111490
>The pruning has begun.....

The Truth must be making certain people nervous. Department Of Truth (Orwell) anyone?

>According to the Verge , which first reported the story, these pornographic sites contained gigabytes of data - despite Freedom Hosting II officially only allowing 256MB per site.

>That not only alerted the hacker that these websites were breaching the conditions, but also that the hosting company itself was implicit - because it would be aware of customers paying (and using) the extra hosting space.

>"Initially I didn't want to take down FH2, just look through it," the hacker said in an email to Motherboard , before indicating that child porn changed his mind.

>"This suggests they paid for hosting and the admin knew of those sites. That's when I decided to take it down instead," the hacker wrote. According to the Verge , which first reported the story, these pornographic sites contained gigabytes of data - despite Freedom Hosting II officially only allowing 256MB per site.

>That not only alerted the hacker that these websites were breaching the conditions, but also that the hosting company itself was implicit - because it would be aware of customers paying (and using) the extra hosting space.

>"Initially I didn't want to take down FH2, just look through it," the hacker said in an email to Motherboard , before indicating that child porn changed his mind.

>"This suggests they paid for hosting and the admin knew of those sites. That's when I decided to take it down instead," the hacker wrote.

>As well as taking down the sites, the hacker managed to capture a lot of data relating to content and the site owners. Apparently, the information will be passed on to security researchers who could in turn hand it over to law enforcement.
...

>The initial statement that greeted any visitors to the affected sites included a line saying the hacker would sell the data back to Freedom Hosting II. A copy of the statement was captured and posted on Twitter.

>It states that the hacker will return the stolen data for 0.1 Bitcoin - about £82.

>The hack ends with a message typical of hacktivist group Anonymous .

>"We are Anonymous. We do not forgive. We do not forget. You should have expected us."

>>108636
>It states that the hacker will return the stolen data for 0.1 Bitcoin - about £82.
I see he is a real altruist, this hacker man.

I'm sure his hack will change nothing

>>112148
Like the big wall they just put around the Eiffel Tower?

Also
>rt.com
two pence for you Vladdy boy

Really, that's what spies do? Thanks for letting us know.

>le russian hacker boogeyman

>>112071
Thank you for your contribution, Alexei.
Of course, it was not the Russians.
Vladimir dindu nuffin

>>111967
Trump is one wretched, devious whore. Stupid americans.

>>111967
This is actually a bad strategy.

If journalists are prevented from asking the government questions, opposition politicians typically swoop in to secure that time.

It's just better to let them ask questions and then give vague non-answers.

>>112124
>i hate America

WE GET IT

EVERY FUCKING THREAD

tl; dr

>>112079
Good for you

http://archive.is/at4fl
this isn't news

>>110172
>Former maths student

what degree is that?

>>110217
the 'maths is hard and i should have taken gender studies' degree

>>110172
>>Wants to be part of a force of "women with strength"
>>said she sometimes "feels a bit stupid" when filming the fighting
if she doesn't want to feel stupid she should pick up a rifle and fight with the other women fighting isis instead of being a dumb cunt that will get captured and gang raped to death

>>110069
Things may be changing. Leftism has peaked.

Hopefully we get 50 years of sanity, before we forget what the left's goals are again.

>>110070
Yeah but Vimeo still has it up and even approved it. The fuckers who created it even set up a website to keep it up. It needs to be shut down.

>>110074
>>110070
>>110069
Spotted the prudes

These things that you say are terrible (greed, lust, violence) are the very things that allow you to type on your computer. These instincts are what drove evolution in our favor. In addition to that if anyone takes out their lust or violence out on a machine then it will be less crime. And as for the ingenuity of man, our ingenuity isn't based on our industry, it's our ability to adapt. Take off your, no doubt, black sunglasses, open the blinds to your basement and get some fresh air.

>>101879
>>101886
Holy fucking shit OP, your such a fucking faggot sperglord. Have ever considered what is means to be human and what even is consciousness. We don't even know if what consider free choice is really a choice that's defined by past experiences. social structures. What stops me or even you to kill people randomly. I would sage but that article is generally interesting.

>>101892
>consciousness
now you're really overthinking it

>>111788
>Cant copy-paste the article
>7 people get punished because some pta member heard they played a game of mfk
This article is bad and the website is bad.

>>111792
Who are you quoting, bad boy?

Six southwestern Michigan teachers have been reprimanded and a school secretary has resigned after they were secretly videoed joking about which co-workers they would marry, have sex with or kill.

Robert Huber, an attorney for the Bangor Public Schools, told The Associated Press Tuesday that a staffer whose name came up under the "kill" portion of the game complained to the police.

No criminal charges have been filed.

Huber says three students' names also came up in chatter heard on the video, but that the teachers didn't name them in their crude game.

The cellphone video was recorded in January at a tavern in Bangor.

The woman who posted the video on YouTube told WOOD-TV she didn't record it. Her connection to the district is unclear.

———

This story has been corrected to show that the teachers only joked about which co-workers they would marry, have sex with, or kill, not which co-workers and students.

Why was it ever taken out? I mean, most mags are already filled with half naked women. So it's not like there was demand for it.

>>111712
Pretty much this. What a stupid move to take out the one unique thing that magazine had against all the other magazines that feature 'deep' in-depth interviews and lifestyle pieces.

>>111698
I just read it for the articles. I wont even notice the change.

>>111688
Why do all of Kim Jong-il's sons look like neets?

>"South Korean government sources"

>According to a report from TV Chosun, a cable television network in South Korea, Mr Kim was poisoned at the airport by two women, believed to be North Korean operatives.

Interesting how south korea have all the details. Reminds me of JFK - when the press had a cover story before any of the details had been confirmed.

>>111692
Because they were basically NEETs? It's not like they were out running around all day.