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US Trump Budget: Kills Science, Plumps Military/DHS, Sinks US Prospects Further
by grarpamp 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-… The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has released a budget "blueprint" which outlines substantial cuts in both basic research and applied technology funding. The proposal includes a whopping 18% reduction in National Institutes of Health medical research. NIH does get a new $500 million fund to track emerging infectious agents like Zika in the U.S., but loses its funding to monitor those agents overseas. The Department of Energy's research programs also get an 18% cut in research, potentially affecting basic physics research, high energy physics, fusion research, and supercomputing. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) gets the ax, as does the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, which enabled Tesla to manufacture its Model S sedan. EPA loses all climate research funding, and about half the research funding targeted at human health impacts of pollution. The Energy Star program is eliminated; Superfund funding is drastically reduced. The Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes cleanup programs are also eliminated, as is all screening of pesticides for endocrine disruption. In the Department of Commerce, Sea Grant is eliminated, along with all coastal zone research funding. Existing weather satellites GOES and JPSS continue funding, but JPSS-3 and -4 appear to be getting the ax. Support for transfer of federally funded research and technology to small and mid-sized manufacturers is eliminated. NASA gets a slight trim, and a new focus on deep space exploration paid for by an elimination of Earth Science programs. You can read more about this "blueprint" in Nature, Science, and the Washington Post, which broke the story. The Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and Agriculture Department took the hardest hits, while the Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Veterans Affairs have seen their budgets grow.

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Rojava - Kurdistan - Assyrians - Neo-colonial use of "alien forefathers" conspiracies
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net > Sat Mar 11 02:22:01 PST 2017 > > Relying on senders to break their links for you The archives are for the children. List MVP like you shuud know this. The Referer request header contains the address of the previous web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed."" -Modzilla

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Fwd: [Cryptography] NSA says China's supercomputing advances put US at risk
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> Date: Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [Cryptography] NSA says China's supercomputing advances put US at risk To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com On 2017-03-17 21:28, Jerry Leichter wrote: > > But just outright dismissing the whole issue as > "more pandering for a bigger place at the government trough" > just doesn't cut it. 99% of politics is more pandering for a bigger place at the government trough. If you look at any government program up close, it is almost entirely waste and corruption. Sometimes, often, the waste and corruption is inextricably linked to vital government programs that really need to be done, like war, road building, and law enforcement, and it is easy to say that these programs should be done more efficiently (compare the cost of roads built by the private sector for internal use, with roads built by the government) but hard to do actually do them more efficiently. (Though I have long argued that logistics should be in the hands of contractors and subcontractors classified as camp followers and directly employed by the regimental commander and by soldiers, rather than hands of people classified as soldiers but who do no actual fighting, because if the regimental commander could fire and hire logistic support, logistics would be enormously cheaper and better) In other cases, many cases, the program serves no very obvious urgent need, in which case it should not be done by government. If people need supercomputers for floating point type problems, they will build them. Indeed, they already are building them. What is a GPU? Answer: A GPU is a supercomputer that solves a kind of problem very similar to those that government supercomputers are supposed to solve at about one ten millionth the cost. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Ethereum: Now Owned by The Alliance
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> Darrell Duane, DC Blockchain darrell at bitcoindc.com > Fri Mar 17 07:42:07 PDT 2017 > > what you want [Blockchains] to do? He want to honeypot people into prison or execution for conspiring to commit murder, using the public record as evidence; blockchain = kill list. The cypherpunks list, being mostly legal and letter heads, support your killer currency, of course.

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God Emperor
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

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Ethereum: Now Owned by The Alliance
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

http://entethalliance.org/

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McDonalds Twitter Account Hacked (sans image)
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> Razer g2s at riseup.net > Thu Mar 16 10:01:17 PDT 2017 > > Perhaps, like 9/11 wasn't, this is an inside job. Of course, (((Rayzer))) defends the terrorist scum like himself. Prolblybly wets dream about doing the shit himself. Whishes he was Madonna or Snoop d o double g so peepol will listen. You must go back ! >>>/USSR/

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What progressive women think about progressive men
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com > Sat Mar 11 23:32:27 PST 2017 > > link TL;DR fucker. Maybe you could include a snip or something ◖|◔◡◉|◗

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LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act. We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for free via LBRY. Is this legal? Almost certainly. The vast majority of the lectures are licensed under a Creative Commons license that allows attributed, non-commercial redistribution. The price for this content has been set to free and all LBRY metadata attributes it to UC Berkeley. Additionally, we believe that this content is legal under the First Amendment.

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ReinProject: Freelance Work Pseudonymous Cryptocurrency
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

https://reinproject.org/ Github: ReinProject IRC: #Rein on Freenode Reddit: r/Rein Twitter: @ReinProject https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1232915 QbePdupwP-A kvfriW7vLA8 http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-only-decentralized-marketplace-rein-ta…

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