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Comment The tokens are Non-transferrable. (Score 4, Informative) 136

According to the terms page, you can only use them to vote on the WLF Protocol. And "All $WLFI will be Non-transferable and locked indefinitely in a wallet or smart contract, until such time, if ever, $WLFI are unlocked through protocol governance procedures in a fashion that does not contravene applicable law." Anyone who buys these tokens are highly unlikely to ever be able to sell them. You'd have a better chance of making money by throwing dollar bills out the window and hoping someone gives you two back.

Comment Re:war, volcanic eruption, flood, famine, disease (Score 2) 302

by allaunjsilverfox2 (#64752664) Attached to: 'Is It Ethical to Have Children in the Face of Climate Change?'

Looking only at current climate change is tunnel vision. I can name ancestors who moved from one place to another because of war, volcano, epidemic. Obviously they did not give up on children.In fact, I can name ancestors from whom I am a product of a third marriage after the demise of earlier spouses.

Difference is, you literally can't escape microplastics pollution. From the Marianas Trench to the top of the Himalayas, from fish to fowl, its everywhere. And we are already seeing endocrine disruption (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/) . If you want to have children, that is fine. But you should also be aware they are living in a literally unprecedented event in the planets history. And they will suffer in ways previously not seen. And as you will be their creator, you will have to bear some of the responsibility for their suffering.

Comment One of the reasons for the rise of "stable coins" (Score 1) 50

by allaunjsilverfox2 (#61874329) Attached to: White House Weighs Wide-Ranging Push For Crypto Oversight
Is the interest rates you can get. USDC (coinbases stable coin) can be seen to be getting about 12% APY interest in some places. Compare that to banks 0.55% APY. Some countries are even considering negative interest rates. Even the more "modest" interest rate of 8% APY (seen in many more places) nukes traditional savings account rates. And that is just ONE stable coin. There are many more that get varying amounts of return. Some are even backed by precious metals such as Gold.

Comment They don't address the future DNS collisions. (Score 1) 25

Right now, they are considered a "rouge" registrar. If ICANN decided to, they could start selling .crypto domains and that would be a headache for everyone. Imagine if I typed in pepe.crypto and both addresses existed. One on the ICANN registrar and Unstoppable Domains? What does the browser do? While possible, it seems unlikely the browser would open two different tabs to the same address. Not to mention, that just opens a surface area for attack.
Government

Trump Administration, In Late Push, Moves To Sell Oil Rights In Arctic Refuge (nytimes.com) 373

Posted by BeauHD from the one-more-box-to-check-for-Trump dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to oil companies in a last-minute push to achieve its long-sought goal of allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. That sets up a potential sale of leases just before Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, leaving the new administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has opposed drilling in the refuge, to try to reverse them after the fact.

The Arctic refuge is one of the last vast expanses of wilderness in the United States, 19 million acres that for the most part are untouched by people, home instead to wandering herds of caribou, polar bears and migrating waterfowl. It has long been prized, and protected, by environmentalists, but President Trump has boasted that opening part of it to oil development was among the most significant of his efforts to expand domestic fossil fuel production. The Federal Register on Monday posted a "call for nominations" from the Bureau of Land Management, to be officially published Tuesday, relating to lease sales in about 1.5 million acres of the refuge along the coast of the Arctic Ocean. A call for nominations is essentially a request to oil companies to specify which tracts of land they would be interested in exploring and potentially drilling for oil and gas.

The administration's announcement establishes a tight timeline for lease sales, with the earliest they could occur being on or about Jan. 17. The call for nominations will allow for comments until Dec. 17, after which the bureau, part of the Interior Department, could issue a final notice of sales to occur as soon as 30 days later. Normally the bureau would take time to review the comments and determine which tracts to sell before issuing the final notice of sale, a process that can take several months. In this case, however, the bureau could decide to make the entire coastal plain available and issue the notice immediately. Any sales would be subject to review by agencies in the Biden administration, including the bureau and the Justice Department, a process that could take a month or two. That could allow the Biden White House to refuse to issue the leases, perhaps by claiming that the scientific underpinnings of the plan to allow drilling in the refuge were flawed, as environmental groups have claimed.
Education

New Free Software Foundation Video Mocks Proprietary Remote-Learning Software (fsf.org) 50

Posted by EditorDavid from the live-free-or-teleconference dept.
"Computer user freedom is a matter of justice," argues a new video released Friday by the Free Software Foundation: The University of Costumed Heroes is an animated video telling the story of a group of heroes falling prey to the powers of proprietary software in education. The university board acquires cutting-edge remote learning software that enables them to continue their operations online, but -- [SPOILER ALERT] -- it may sow the seeds of their downfall.

This video is the second in a series of animated videos created by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and this one is themed around our campaign against the use of proprietary remote education software. We must reverse the trend of forsaking young people's freedom, which has been accelerating as corporations try to capitalize on the need to establish new remote education practices. Free software not only protects the freedoms of your child or grandchild by allowing people to study the source code for any malicious functionalities, it also communicates important values like autonomy, sharing, social responsibility, and collaboration.
"Help give students #UserFreedom," reads a tagline below the video, which shows what happens when the university forsakes an ethical remote-learning platform that safeguards computer user freedom for a proprietary AI-powered alternative. But don't worry, the bad guys eventually learn their lesson.

"Noo!! Defeated by the Free Software Foundation once again!"

Comment Re:Once Infected By The CCP (Score 1) 41

by allaunjsilverfox2 (#60287318) Attached to: TikTok Pulls Out of Hong Kong

Always infected by the CCP. Only fucking self-absorbed idiots would see through this attempt to save their business. TikTok is part of the commuist regime, plain and simple. Using it is basically supporting communism as well as giving in to those pieces of shit. It should be outright banned. Blocked on all networks, removed from all devices.

That might work in some countries, but I'm (rather parochially) assuming that you are referring to the United States, Since this site is mostly america. How would you suggest this would work in the United States? Short of sanctions of the company, I can't see any way for the United States to mandate a ban. Unless there was a law that implemented a "National Security Concern" on digital applications, which would be MASSIVELY Orwellian.
Security

20 Years Later, Creator of World's First Major Computer Virus Located in Manila (bbc.com) 100

Posted by EditorDavid from the spreading-the-love dept.
"The man behind the world's first major computer virus outbreak has admitted his guilt, 20 years after his software infected millions of machines worldwide," reports the BBC: Filipino Onel de Guzman, now 44, says he unleashed the Love Bug computer worm to steal passwords so he could access the internet without paying. He claims he never intended it to spread globally.

And he says he regrets the damage his code caused. "I didn't expect it would get to the US and Europe. I was surprised," he said in an interview for Crime Dot Com, a forthcoming book on cyber-crime.

The Love Bug pandemic began on 4 May, 2000. Victims received an email attachment entitled LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU. It contained malicious code that would overwrite files, steal passwords, and automatically send copies of itself to all contacts in the victim's Microsoft Outlook address book. Within 24 hours, it was causing major problems across the globe, reportedly infecting 45 million machines...

He claims he initially sent the virus only to Philippine victims, with whom he communicated in chat rooms, because he only wanted to steal internet access passwords that worked in his local area. However, in spring 2000 he tweaked the code, adding an auto-spreading feature that would send copies of the virus to victims' Outlook contacts using a flaw in Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system.
"It's not really a virus," wrote CmdrTaco back on May 4, 2000. "It's a trojan that proclaims its love for the recipient and requests that you open its attachment. On a first date even! It then loves you so much that it sends copies of itself to everyone in your address book and starts destroying files on your drive...

"Pine/Elm/Mutt users as always laugh maniacally as the trojan shuffles countless wasted packets over saturated backbones filling overworked SMTP servers everywhere. Sysadmins are seen weeping in the alleys."

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