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autisticcurio··on What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]
As someone who was mining bitcoins in the very early days, like one every few hours, bitcoins has many flaws. The biggest issue is when you lose your password, you cant get your money back, over time there will be an increasing number of bitcoins that dont go anywhere, just like Satoshi doesnt spend theirs. When looking at it from a different perspective of watching network traffic at 5 eyes level, I also think of the makers of Tor, these "tools" may have the popular misconception for being secure, but now I just look at them as a 5+x eyes intelligence tool.

Here is a challenge to test this theory, computer hacking is illegal right, but satoshi's identity remains a mystery, they cant prove their identity in a court of law, so hack "his" bitcoin account and move his bitcoins to another bitcoin account. "He" will have to come forward to garner the help of the authorities to get his bitcoins back, ergo we will get to find out who Satoshi really is!

Put it like this, as an exercise, it will be interesting to see in court how "he" proves his identity. Do you see the problem?

Whats that Thomas Pynchon quote?

autisticcurio··on FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona
Do any of you ever think the spooks are engaged in a slow deliberate release of information to employ the concept discussed here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Kii-P7vwQ How easy is it for an intelligence service to inject packets and extract packets from their telecom network to do the real hacking whilst simultaneously trying to find a Patsy?

I really do wonder how many Patsy's have had their ego's exploited and got tricked into doing things so the spooks can control, manipulate, & exploit their targets for their own means.

Think about it, there are so many ways to control people and its been going on for tens of thousands of years when looking at religions putting the fear of god into people who dared to step out of line.

autisticcurio··on The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19
I got my D3 levels up to 478nmol/L according to the UK NHS Vit D blood spot service. Supplemented up to starting point of around 200-240nmol/L and then spent the summer outside with top off working on laptop. Never felt so good. Bought some Lizard flo tubes after that to bask under after I was craving a suntan one winter. Odd feeling, but I was also doing alot of magnesium sulphate (Mag oil) topically which helps and some zinc orally. The Mag oil stings the skin much like Deep Heat, so be warned and thinner skinned individuals will experience more pain.

400mg = 400000mcg = 16000000ui https://www.azcalculator.com/calc/vitamin-d-mcg-iu-converter...

autisticcurio··on Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
The security services have to do some unpleasant stuff in order to attempt some control over people. Whats the oldest profession in the book, then ask yourself what is the second oldest profession in the book? Would that be blackmail?
autisticcurio··on Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
Dont under estimate what the military get up to. The MK1 Lynx helicopter (Westland Lynx) didnt have a black box flight recorder, and as it had the world speed record, many pilots when entertaining new recruits would attempt to scare the wotsit out of them by flying over the mountain tops of Wales before nose diving the chopper towards the valley floor to see how fast they could get it to go. Noisy! On a par with flying with The Blades who are ex Red Arrow pilots.
autisticcurio··on Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom
Re down votes: Either spook manipulation or people dont want to believe they get up to such chicanery. Youre safe guys, you know I dont have a driving licence, a mobile phone, no money, no bank account, no passport, no job, put out of business, in isolation in the countryside where I dont speak to anyone other than strangers who might want to stop whilst I walk the dog, I can see why the Police get called Plod now.
autisticcurio··on Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom
I tried finding some of the old news stories in the online media which gave me the impression before posting here, in fact I think I even commented on a couple of them, but the search engines control so much of what we know today I simply cant find those old articles.

Edit: I should add, circa 2004/2005 I used to be able to cut and paste conversational posts from online chat forums like pistonheads and others, paste the post into Google and it would give me a list of other websites where the exact same conversation was taking place albeit with different avatars. Fast forward to 2011 and all becomes clear. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op... You cant do that now, Google has been updated.

The forum I used to post on, used techniques like using the image of a full stop (period) at the end of the sentence, which I spotted because broadband was slow so the placeholder for the image appeared before it got pulled down from a Canadian webserver. The 5 eyes are very real and they even have oversight of Tor contrary to popular belief.

autisticcurio··on Convicted of sex crimes, but with no victims
Some people get off on power, just look at what is said about politicians. How many people know women breastfeeding can orgasm? https://www.nct.org.uk/life-parent/sex-after-baby/breastfeed... https://www.todaysparent.com/family/womens-health/i-was-turn... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1468181420003018...

Either way, whether its hormonal or not, it could explain why some usually older women get really nasty towards other mothers breastfeeding in public. Maybe these older women have difficulty reconciling the feelings and/or knowledge of breastfeeding with social norms?

Question is, is this orgasming when breastfeeding paedophilic and if so why the bias in the law enforcement, legal system and society in general? Is it simply to reduce penetrative harm and/or the mental harm that occurs when stepping outside social norms?

Such a massive controversial subject.

autisticcurio··on Convicted of sex crimes, but with no victims
There is a lot I can say about this subject, half of me is torn between keeping quiet to not harm the scientific discovery, the other half of me doesnt agree with Winston Churchill when he said "the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few", and what I mean by that is should someone suffer for some scientific experiments and discovery masquerading as law. I'll refer you to the sexual habits of the Bonobo monkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Sociosexual_behaviour When David Attenborough/BBC filmed them in the 50's or 60's, it was decided that certain elements of their behaviour would be hidden from the British viewing public, instead remaining as knowledge only within academic circles.

I will also say that what you do in your life, what you say, read and reply to can be highly illuminating for some academics especially psychologists and the god like security services, but as always there is not always consensus, think Freud and his Oedipus complex etc. Another example is the Hare psychopathic test. https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_ronson_strange_answers_to_the_... Now it should be noted that Jon is not qualified, but bad science exists in all areas, very few subjects are pure like maths. Some theory's gain popularity over time and others fall into disrepute. I'm also reminded of the fact we are a complex real-time (electro) chemical reaction and this also shapes our conscious and unconscious decisions.

Also I wouldnt under estimate the security services, who in my opinion carry out operations that would never get past the ethics board of a Uni and also engage in phishing attempts amongst many other things; Bitcoins is in my opinion a security services invention for reasons I wont go into here. Tor is also an obvious US Navy example although the popular reasons for existence may not be true, I guess we will never know the truth either! The Military with the police have engaged in many undercover operations for scientific discovery, because firstly if the subjects knew what was going on, you cant be sure the subjects would be acting up for the experiment or not. For a decent scientific study to take place, subjects can not be aware of the real experiment. Some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhqnUTOkpuQ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/apr/21/uk.medicals... And it goes on elsewhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

I wonder how many academics will pour over these posts and others for their own research?

The Tea Room Trade also known as the Tea Room Study is an interesting book to read on the subject of human sexuality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tearoom_Trade and also an unethical study.

But before you get up in arms about unethical studies remember this, criminals and war are unethical so you need to prepare for the worst, but its also why you should let the police handle it first and not go all vigilante.

Cognitive Dissonance is also a powerful force sometimes controllable sometimes not which can literally destroy people in variety of ways and arguably something the religions learnt thousands of years ago by putting the fear of god into people in order to maintain some semblance of law and order when oral tradition was the main form of education. Technological surveillance like we have today didnt exist so other methods had to be developed with the knowledge and toolset of the day and whilst mainly forgotten in the mists of time are still relevant today as part of the toolset.

Manipulation of an individual can take place in many shapes and forms. Derren Brown's recent C4 program 20 years of Mind Control showed some, not all of the methods used to control peoples decision making. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/derren-brown-20-years-of...

When watching this TV program I was reminded of some of Boris Johnsons strange interviews, initially thought to be search engine manipulation, but may have been more involved with the UK Nudge unit than we will ever find out about because unless you were in London, you wont know what else was going on in the area regarding advertising, search engine results and news stories appearing in your news feed if you lived or commuted into London. Yes its more big brother than you think in my opinion.

The biggest issue with kids and sex is its a highly volatile and emotive subject just like Religion, most people want the best for them like they do most people but our society is also setup to make us compete which means some people will stop at nothing to get one over some other people and how exactly do you interpret words written or spoken? There is an element of projection of our own desires in all communication imo. And as others have said here, where do you draw the line? Is someone like this person safer in prison or in the community. I dont think Julian Assange feels safe in Prison, but I would considering his circumstances, never underestimate the innovation of some prisoners. In many ways we are still living the failings of Religion seen as the olde worlde law and order using oral tradition because they probably never envisaged our technological developments today and acquisition of knowledge.

Every country shows the lack of foresight and influence of power throughout time, for example, many roads in the UK follow land owners boundary's unlike the US where you have blocks (avenues and streets) like in New York. Obviously geographical and economical constraints also influence decision making purposes in this road example, but the point is still relevant in all walks of life, including how best to send a message to the wider public about the rights and wrongs of life. Sting/entrap a few people and get the message out via the media perhaps?

Considering what is known today about sexual abuse with minors, education is also a massively controversial subject, do you educate primary school kids or not. The UK Stranger Danger in the 70's & 80's didnt really alert kids to family abuse, so a failing in the state, but kids are also alot like AI, in that they learn from data, which in the case of kids, is from activities going on around them, but manipulation of their curiosity, the omission to present all the facts to educate kids can also lead kids (and people) in general into drawing the wrong conclusion, reminding me of the saying curiosity killed the cat. I'm also reminded that despite being educated in something, we do sometimes forget to remember when we need it most, and its this bit which also intrigues me. The Govt knows the virtue of training, especially the security services like SAS, SBS, Navy seal, yet seeks to punish the public when they forget? Seem hypocritical to me, but lifes lessons can be harsh. The reactions of people is also illuminating, do strong views in situations like this actually give more of an insight into the authors psyche, level of education, and/or emotional stability? Its hard to quantify the level of influence beliefs and age of exposure and repeated exposure have over someone's views and decision making processes, but I whether we like it or not, our parents should take some of the blame something the legal system fails to address considering its virtue signalling and supposed adherence to following the science.

autisticcurio··on Rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel
So can bacteria, in this case gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJkQbKvkNo 1m 17secs long.
autisticcurio··on Not the 'Beowulf' You Think You Know
Dats sick bro!
autisticcurio··on Not the 'Beowulf' You Think You Know
I sometimes wonder if some of the references to the mythical beasts like fire breathing dragons are simply, some now extinct species of animal with embellishments like fire breathing. Lets face it, oral tradition came with a certain degree of embellishment and we know dinosaurs used to exist, but what's the chances of finding the remains of an extinct animal if we tried to look for it? Perhaps the Dodo would be an exception as, iirc, they last lived on an island somewhere killed by sailors for food, but hopefully you get my point. I doubt many skeletal remains would be found with Anglo-Saxon remains because none have been found so far, but do archaeologists looking for Anglo-Saxon remains ignore animal remains during the dig process? Its not something I'm familiar with.
autisticcurio··on Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom
The technology exists for small scale nuclear power stations, like those developed in submarines. Based on old news reports it would appear the new glass cube US Embassy in London is nuclear powered and the embassy has enough spare to power surrounding buildings, the moat has more than a medieval defensive purpose.
autisticcurio··on Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors warn
My understanding based on an expert here in the UK is that Phages only replicate as long as there is the bacteria around that they were bred to infect and replicate in. As soon as the bacteria levels drop, phages die as there is essentially no food for them to consume. Considering the timescales to develop phages for a strain of bacteria (2 weeks), the ideal treatment is antibiotics, then phages to complete the job, because even Flemming stated when he discovered Penicillin, you need to keep taking these antibiotics until the infection is gone, but today many doctors just prescribe a course for 7-14days, and then you have to go back to get another course if they will prescribe another course, at least on the NHS its like that, and thats when you can get an appointment in my experience. Also bacteria can go into dormancy developing biofilms in different parts of the body and creatinine wont work then. As the immune system attacks the food we eat bar some exceptions like starch as the only sugar not attacked, when we do a water only fast the number of immune cells drop as the numbers are not needed to attack the food. So the lower number of immune cells concentrate on attacking pathogens and faulty cells. Considering Lent used to be 40days of water only fasting, and there was no modern medicine back then, it seems observation and trial and error over thousands of years highlighted a suitable way to keep religious followers healthy, a necessary requirement for religions back then. Today science can explain why water only fasting works for so many illnesses. It seems Herbet Shelton was good at observing considering what we know about Vit D https://web.archive.org/web/20110222200902/http://www.soilan...

However, one of the reasons why his Hygienist methods ie water only fasting were not popular is because some undiagnosed health conditions caused sudden deaths when on a water only fast, so this is why water only fasting is not popular in the medical industry, but Socrates called water only fasting the physician from within, so even the ancient Greeks had made their own observations of what worked way back then with their limited toolset.

autisticcurio··on Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors warn
Many antibiotics dont actually kill gram negative/positive bacteria, they merely prevent them from reproducing. Now if you want to kill bacteria, look to Russian phages, or swallow some sea water where a 1ml sample will contain billions of phages but its pot luck if any of them are right one's you need for your bacterial infection. One other little know fact about antibiotics, is the penicillin based one's get metabolised in the liver into penicillamine which is used to reduce copper levels in the body and ironically copper also helps to kill bacteria. https://www.nature.com/articles/151107a0 Considering what Penicillamine does to the body and how it affects Vit B6, you can see why you get pain in different parts of the body when you take too much Vit B6, however its also a good way to find out where bacterial levels are high in the body, dental fillings can be a common area. Creatine gets broken down into creatinine and happens to be one of the few things that can kill both gram negative and gram positive bacteria, of course you need to consume a lot of it though, but havent worked out why we get told to not consume creatine for more than a few weeks though. Anyone know?
autisticcurio··on The magic of ion channels in the neurons
I sometimes wonder if the phrase "they are an egg head" is not so much to do with baldness but more to do with knowledge and intelligence. Phosphatidylcholine (aka Lecithin found in Egg Yolk and elsewhere - 4 egg yolks a day to meet RDA levels) can do wonders for your cell membranes and Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) does wonders for your myelin sheaths. I'd be surprised if F1 drivers & fighter pilots werent supplementing above RDA levels with these. Using Potassium Chloride (sometimes called the good salt) helps one to relax in the evening, and sodium chloride as a pick me up in the morning. I wonder if this neuronal ion exchange is anything like the Sodium - Potassium ATPase pump found in other cells as they seem similar. Life is just a complex real-time chemical reaction.
autisticcurio··on Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy
Because everyone is biased due to the data they are exposed to as they live through lifes experiences. Even Judges are biased, so you would be advised to seek parole after lunch if I was you. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/apr/11/judges-lenient-b... Besides The Register has always been that way, I dont see them preaching violence despite its efficiency, they are just telling the world how they and others see the IT world. As they say, biting the hand that feeds them.
autisticcurio··on Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy
Well Facebook make their money from advertising, marketing is advertising so it seems like Apple are taking cues from some laws and customer demand. https://www.gov.uk/marketing-advertising-law/direct-marketin...
autisticcurio··on How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin
You have no authority with your opinion though if you are not qualified. The exam process doesnt give your papers back to check your results against the text books and what the teachers have stated, so using science and previous observations going back at least 12,000years namely the various religions invented over time, people in authority can reinforce their positions by making sure trouble makers fail even as kids.
autisticcurio··on How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin
You are making excuses for teacher's & parents failings to teach so that someone understands the lesson. You are also by definition accepting that discrimination is essential for a successful society. My issue is where the state, parents want authority over someone but dont perform their basic requirements properly. Alot of people are stupid for even accepting the failings and accepting of the authority these entities have over people.
autisticcurio··on How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin
If the system was honest, everyone would be taught at least the basics about law, medicine and finance, but you dont, you get taught enough to be a slave.
autisticcurio··on Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government
One incident, lane 2 of an unlit section of dual carriageway around 22:00 hrs coming out of Cambridge. Travelling in lane 2, closest to the central reservation which had armco barriers. No cars in front, passed some cars few seconds before hand, saw a bloke crouched down between the two armco barriers and he released a Muntjac deer in front of car in order to cause collision. Cars I had passed earlier, two of them had slowed down in both lanes slowing up traffic behind them. On the surface, if I wasnt vigilant, I'd never have seen the bloke crouched down in the central reservation, but my headlights spreading out to the side gave me a momentary glimpse. Had an accident ensued it would have been passed off and reported as just a wild animal collision, in this case a deer. The fact I saw the bloke crouched down though gave the game away, reported to Norfolk constabulary, they were not interested.
autisticcurio··on Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe
Small amounts of mercury vapour gets released when abrasion takes place on the filling surface and teeth will absorb some into the pulp. https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/090/671/2065a5b089e6...
autisticcurio··on Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe
Its possibly also why mercury is still used in dental fillings white porcelain as well as the more commonly known amalgam fillings. In the US, men used to dip their fingers in lemon juice before insertion into an orifice as the lemon juice could make sores painful. An outbreak in Venice forced the Catholic church to commission some white marble statues and paintings for the public to aspire to, like Michelangelo and Da Vinci during the Renaissance. Bella Donna eye drops were commonly used in the US during the 1930's great depression to dilate their pupils making them look more attractive, but this could also have been to hide Argyll Robertson pupil, pupils that dont dilate due to being a good indicator of neurosyphilis. Sidenote. In medieval times, when testing out couriers for trustworthiness, Bella Donna was mixed into wax seals, the courier would be required to deliver said sealed parchment to a destination where travel time was known and usually to a dark location where the recipient would hold a lantern up to the couriers eyes to see if they constricted or not. If the courier had copied and forged the seal before melting the wax, the bella donna vapours would be inhaled when melting the wax, so it was a secret test or initiation. Secret societys still employ the old ways and the security services also have many tricks up their sleeves as well which have learnt over the years.
autisticcurio··on FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
> * Some form of port knocking

Variable port knocking ie a different sequence tied to rules can help expose compromised networks making up the internet. Say you port knock from your mobile phone, use one port knocking sequence, if port knocking from a different internet connection use a different port knocking sequence. This can help highlight those networks with taps, but the identity of who is behind the tap can still remain a mystery, unless you set other traps. You also need to trust your devices, which no one can legally do as copyright prevents people from examining the code on their chips and some OS'es like Windows. NSA still provide the tools for examining code for free https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/ but as always Resource Burning is something to take seriously when trying to secure your systems. Sometimes its best to view servers as disposable, so automation can be your friend even simple PXE boots can be useful. Its also worth noting you can run at least two different ADSL connections down the same copper wire, they do here in the UK at least, most people dont know this, but the TV & film streaming services use this, some ISP supplied routers can give this away if you examine the backup config files.

autisticcurio··on Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes
Firstly you were born on a patch of land that imposes its own laws on you. Did you sign a contract to say you would adhere to those laws? This is all about power and control over less powerful innocent people being treated like sleepy idiots. So to answer your question, out smart them to win, and then you will find they play dirty and illegally, against the spirit of the law they claim to uphold. 5 Eyes best demonstrates this by circumventing domestic laws, they dont have the intelligence to win the argument in their own courts. This also tells you that you can out smart them so get thinking, this is an intelligence game.
autisticcurio··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
If you put in a request to DDG to have entries linked to phrases removed from their search engine under EU GDPR or EU Right to be Forgotten, they will have an external law firm write back and tell you they get their results from Yahoo, Bing and other search engines and you need to contact those search engines direct. Google have actually been the fastest at getting my data out of their system, Microsoft never got back to me despite repeated requests, Facebook would rather believe Norfolk Constabulary instead of me despite being the copyright owner. So many criminals control your life, most of you dont realise it.
autisticcurio··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
It isnt just Google you need to cut out of your life, all the global corps are complicit in building the surveillance state. Copyright laws means you cant check your chips on your devices have not become persistent backdoors into your system. You simply can not check the code. Goal posts will always be moved as you are Resource Burned fighting the system. Welcome to the Matrix Mr Anderson.
autisticcurio··on Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors
Violence is efficient though, otherwise why was Saddam Hussein deposed? If Country's cant settle their differences with politics, what else do you have left? At least our leaders show us what is acceptable behaviours in their books but it also demonstrates their hypocrisy when ordinary members of the public meter out their own violence, although I do acknowledge some violence is just plain mindless eg drug and alcohol fuelled.
autisticcurio··on Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government
>but enrichment is a nation-state level project Thats what this man of science said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69UpMhUnEeY

>is unlikely to escape the notice of the world's intelligence and energy agencies Thats how Iran and Stuxnet came together.

Some history https://www.miningreview.com/uranium/avoiding-covid-fatigue-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_Namibia#Back...

Teflon as mentioned in the Youtube vid at the beginning also demonstrates another way to enrich uranium. Are those the only two? I think not.

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