Insiders are reporting a shift in the hierarchy are being proposed such as allowing Satan to step down as CEO and having a board of directors take his place with possible suggested applicants being Lucifer, called the Lord of Light by some for his personality and ability mediate conflicts effectively, Babylon The Great Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth...a possibly good PR move to appeal to women in the field and a relative newcomer named Nyarlathotep who is unknown in many circles and seen as charismatic Middle-Eastern troubleshooter that "gets things done with everybody happy".

The application of railgun-type weaponry has always fascinated me in the amount of destruction that can be accomplished with deceptively simple applications, it only depends on the tradeoff that is acceptable between the amount of money and tech one wants to pour into the system and the mitigation that needs or wants to be exercised on the focus or level of annihilation that is wanted out of the weapons. The proposed weapon systems that come to mind are (I'm not totally sure on the titles or wording of these) the "rods from god" and "brilliant teardrop" kinetic bombing satellites that merely use tremendous heights instead of complex magnetic fields, the Earth's gravity, and extremely massive metal projectiles that can survive burnup passing through the atmosphere at speed. While not really related to railgun tech, the concept is the same but with less reliance on complex technology that may or may not be perfected or understood. Also without the dangers of ionizing radiation.

It's all about the Cumberbatch Test now. Something to do with perfect hair and a square jaw...and AI...or something...

This is the exact point I was trying to make in my earlier posts, the prosecution claims to have this blockchain evidence yet does not follow through by showing the corroborating receipt evidence that has to be present on every other computer with a Bitcoin wallet on it...they could just grab any random mobile phone off the street until they find one with Bitcoins. Only then does the evidence they say they have mean squat. The blockchain by itself on his laptop means nothing. Saying they have "evidence" like that is like saying they have a round fired from a gun barrel with unique rifling marks without needing to even prove that Ulbricht owns that gun...whats even more laughable is they aren't even saying that gun exists much less him possibly having it in his possession. The capper is what the fuck do they even show the jury as the evidence of the blockchain info? Since they obviously don't know any better, they could show a PC Rickrolling the court in a loop and what the hell would they know...FEED HIM TO THE SHARKTICONS

I prefer "privateer". Now close with her amidships!

Some NSA Stooges Unknowingly Gathering Intel For Hackers

10 PRINT "WTF"
20 GOTO 10

...just man up already.

Wow, from Excellent to Normal karma in a few posts. Flamebaited even, lol Might I suggest you try Silk Road IV or whichever its up to and perhaps find some Alprazolam or Diazepam? Gotta be some parallels between those opinions and burying a nobody's opinions like mine so they won't be seen. Hopefully I can get to Bad karma with this post....batter up.

Since the prosecution accused him of these "murders for hire" were paid for by his personal Bitcoins, citing his laptop contents as proof, I think understanding how a blockchain operates and how they did not enter into evidence matching transactions from the drive that corresponded to persistent and openly public blocks which Bitcoin, by it's very nature is available to every single person who has a Bitcoin wallet, would have been easy to establish extremely reasonable doubt of the veracity of the Fed's claims in that accusation. That doesn't mean he didn't do all that, but it would have at least shown that how they knew what they did submit as "evidence" could have been shown definitively and damningly yet was not. Add that to the refusal of a person who is very reputable in the banking and security fields and advises governments to testify on his behalf on how stuff works, which he does to laypeople as his job very effectively (many times as an expert witness like he would have here) it seems massively shady that such a person would be denied as a witness to state facts that would have possibly been beneficial to the defense.

Ulbricht created a marketplace that was free from government interference to facilitate free and open transactions with anonymity, what was bought and sold were entirely the choices of the individual vendors and buyers. With "Free" and "Anonymous" being the cruxes of that concept, by definition he did not control the content. I think you are conflating two entirely different concepts.

I've been following this trial for the last few weeks reading Ars, Wired, TechDirt and listening to Free Talk Live. The Judge basically hamstringed the defense ruling that they should only receive the prosecution's evidence against him...the weekend before the trial began. That right there is such a fundamental insult to the basic rights of any accused that should horrify and enrage anyone who believed in our justice system's impartiality. Add that to the fact that the judge allowed the the prosecution to use the accusations that Ulbricht hired assassins to be considered by the jury even though none of that has been proven or even competently investigated, that is a massive miscarriage of justice on stupendous levels that should frighten anyone living in the US. Evidence such as screenshots implicating his guilt that could have easily been forged were accepted without question....the list goes on. They also disallowed Andreas Antonopoulos, an expert witness on understanding how BitCoin and it's blockchain works to help the jury understand what they were hearing so to form a basis on how to poke holes in the Fed's story....this is almost a blatant showing of the corruption of our justice system and it's subservience to US intelligence services as the Snowden revelations. I'm not saying Ulbricht was innocent...I don't know that...but what happened in this trial was in no way anything but a kangaroo court on display in full form. Ulbricht's guilt is still up in the air, but our government was guilty of far worse crimes merely in that Manhattan courtroom the last 4 weeks.

http://xkcd.com/504/

Not just time but distance as well...IE Spacetime.

Lighten up, John Titor.