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tdcbfdct3··on Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison
> Wikileaks has a faultless record.

How about this bullshit Steve Jobs AIDS diagnosis?

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/steve-jobs-hiv/steve-jobs-hi...

tdcbfdct3··on Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents
> I think the key issue is that these machines are internet or network connected. If we're really concerned about this - get rid of the network connectivity.

They (generally) aren't.

(Almost) every demo of voting machine hacking involves physical access to the machine, tools, and keys/lockpicks.

tdcbfdct3··on Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered
Psalms 119:

I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

Versus the NIV's

I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.

Would be a good candidate

tdcbfdct3··on Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players
This article is about how "tinderization" has reduced the need for players to go out and stay out late at night clubs when on the road, and attempts to map that to a measurable decrease in home field advantage

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/presents18969358/tinde...

tdcbfdct3··on SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips
This guy ported wolf3d to the Gameboy Color more or less that way (looks like all the game logic is still on the Game it's CPU and just the ray-casting is done on the co-processor)

http://www.happydaze.se/wolf/

tdcbfdct3··on Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
Yes you will be.

https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/

tdcbfdct3··on 16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
Nearly every demonstration of voting machine hacking has required unrestricted physical access to the machine and tools/keys.

Paper ballot boxes are just as hackable at scale with those requirements.

tdcbfdct3··on New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux
> Both Le Roux and Satoshi did significant cryptography projects

The article says (emphasis mine):

"Le Roux is highly suspected to have been a part of a team of anonymous developers called the “TrueCrypt Team.”"

It also gives the fact that Le Roux has been in jail since 2012 as a possible explanation for why Satisfied Satoshi's Bitcoin fortune has gone untouched, but doesn't attempt to reconcile that with why he was able to make a forum post two years later: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/03/07/real-bitcoin-creator-i-am-no...

tdcbfdct3··on Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition
Who's politicized the rape charges other than Assange himself continuously calling them a government conspiracy against him?

The Swedish government doesn't discuss them (which is what's allowed Assange's version of events to get so popular). The US hasn't mentioned it. The UK gave him a fair trial based on them.

tdcbfdct3··on Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition
He'd tried to get her to have sex without a condom all night. She continually rejected it. He (allegedly) knew fully that she did not consent to unprotected sex and waited for her to fall asleep to do it.
tdcbfdct3··on Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition
The prosecutor dropped the case because the alleged rape victim didn't want to press charges, because she was overwhelmed in the immediate aftermath. Then she hired a lawyer to advocate for her who got the charges re-opened.

The other woman, who alleged lesser offenses, never dropped charges, though the statute of limitations have since expired on them.

Assange was told early on in the investigation that he was not restricted from traveling, but as the investigation developed further and it became clear they wanted to prosecute him, he went missing.

After multiple failed attempts to schedule another police interview, the prosecutor told his attorney she'd be filing an arrest warrant that day. Five hours later, Assange arrived at the airport and bought the next available ticket to Berlin.

Assange claims that's just a coincidence. That he was avoiding contact with his lawyer because he was afraid of "threatening statements made by politicians in the U.S"

tdcbfdct3··on Julian Assange Appears in Court for U.S. Extradition Hearing
I'm having trouble finding any on The Hague's website

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/cases.aspx

tdcbfdct3··on Julian Assange arrested in London
> claiming his condom fell off and he didn't stop having sex with them.

One woman claims he intentionally tore a condom. That was a lesser charge whose statute of limitations expired a while ago.

The other claims that, after insisting reportedly they use a condom, he waited for her to fall asleep and then started having unprotected see with her -- something he knew she would not consent to. That's the rape charge.

> Then a couple months later, based on no additional information, they reopened the investigation.

The alleged rape victim was initially overwhelmed (not uncommon for a rape victim) and didn't want to press charges. A few days (not months) later, she hired an attorney to represent her who got the case reopened.

Almost all the information the public knows about the case has come directly from Assange (and thus supports his conspiracy theory explanation), since the Swedish protecting authority doesn't comment on pending cases.

tdcbfdct3··on DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
More information about the idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
tdcbfdct3··on Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good
"#pragma once" used to cause GCC to launch a game of Tetris instead of compiling your code. Not super relevant today, but a fun fact.
tdcbfdct3··on International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
The US measurements system is defined in SI units. So one pound is now defined by Planck's constant.
tdcbfdct3··on The US Is Preparing to Prosecute Julian Assange
I know that's Assange's line, but that's basically just how all TV is made. Nobody would claim Saturday Night Live isn't an NBC show because it's actually produced by Broadway Video.

RT's logo has a producer's credit in his show's credits. It's an RT show.

Wikileaks isn't a news organization. They don't do reporting. They are a publisher, which still has first amendment protections.