August, 2019

The "All-Directional Flying Object" is a proof of concept that's the result of more than two decades of engineering work...

Didn't know you could pack so much disappointment in such a small form.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed multiple federal criminal search warrants at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi Wednesday morning as part of an ongoing HSI worksite enforcement criminal investigation...

All the unlawfully present foreign nationals arrested Wednesday are being interviewed by ICE staff to record any potential mitigating humanitarian situations. Based on these interviews, and consideration of their criminality and prior immigration history, ICE is determining on a case-by-case basis based on the totality of the circumstances which individuals will be detained and which persons may be released from custody at present. In all cases, all the illegal aliens encountered as part of this operation are either being placed into removal proceedings before the federal immigration courts, and for those who already received due process and have been ordered removed, processed for removal from the U.S.

Richard Adam Schreiber, of Everett, was indicted Tuesday after federal agents seized about 100 guns, more than 1,300 gun components, and nearly 124,000 rounds of ammunition. Prosecutors say Schreiber plotted with a security guard who pilfered the weapons and ammunition from a gun-disposal facility operated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The guard, 52-year-old Christopher Lee Yates, of Martinsburg, has pleaded guilty in the case and is due to be sentenced in late August. Yates admitted taking firearms, parts, and ammunition from the Martinsburg disposal facility and was charged with possessing stolen firearms in Berkeley County.

This is the same ArsTechnica that employed (still employs and possibly paying for legal defenses) of Dr. Pizza.

Leslie Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret, said in a letter that his former money manager Jeffrey Epstein misappropriated more than $46 million of his fortune, revealing for the first time the financial fallout from his relationship with the disgraced financier. The founder and chief executive of L Brands Inc. told members of his Wexner Foundation that the missing funds were uncovered after Mr. Wexner decided in 2007 to sever ties with Mr. Epstein. Mr. Wexner began the separation process after allegations against Mr. Epstein surfaced involving sexual abuse of underage girls.

Did Wexner every really sever ties with Epstein. Epstein had a $1 million investment in MC2 Model Management (E=mc2 minus the "E"pstein). MC2 Model Management was working with Victoria Secret until at at least 2018, even after it was accused of supplying Epstein with underage girls. All Wexner did was try to distance himself from the heat so he wouldn't get burned, but now the fire has run wild and there is no where else to hide.

Huntsman’s resignation has sparked speculation that he will run for another term as governor of Utah. A source close to Huntsman told the Deseret News that he is “keeping an open mind” about entering the 2020 race, having served two terms previously as governor...

SpaceX is working to develop an ultra-low-cost launch system called Starship that could reach the moon and Mars. Company founder Elon Musk said progress on the system has been exponential in recent months. The company's first prototype of the rocket ship, called Starhopper, has served as an essential test-bed for the system. But after a big flight planned for mid-August, SpaceX will likely retire Starhopper. Its parts will be cannibalized to move the overall program forward. Musk said he'll present SpaceX's latest design and plan for Starship on August 24...

The Puerto Rico Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that last week's swearing in of Pedro Pierluisi as governor was unconstitutional and that he must leave office later in the day. In a unanimous decision, the nine-member high court nullified his governorship based on the fact his earlier appointment as secretary of state and next in line for governor had not been confirmed by both chambers of the legislature.

Instead of repetitive, mechanical motions, this "AI mode" promises to replicate the nuanced and unpredictable motions of a real, human blowjob. In order to do this, the company asked a team of six people to watch and annotate 109 hours of porn and hired machine learning engineers to create a model to take all that data and translate it into what the toy does. This entire process took three years.

The result of this research is the Blowjob Paper, a (definitely not peer-reviewed) study that’s full of sexy—or at least, sexually-themed—algorithmic research: “In this work, we seek to quantify the ‘common’ or ‘typical’ movements involved in oral sex performed on males,” the paper begins. “ To do so, we analyze a dataset containing over 108 hours of pornographic video, annotated at each frame with the position of the lips along the shaft of the penis. We use quantization techniques to discover sixteen distinct motions, and using these motions we design and evaluate a system that procedurally generates realistic movement sequences using deep learning. We quantitatively show that this system is superior to simple Markov Chain techniques.”...

The SpaceX CEO stated via Twitter that he’s “confident” moving to Mars will one day cost $500,000 for a return ticket, possibly dropping further to below $100,000. These figures, Musk explained, are “very dependent on volume.” It comes as SpaceX is working to complete the Starship, a fully reusable stainless steel vehicle designed to comfortably transport around 100 humans to Mars and even beyond. The Starship uses liquid oxygen and methane to power its Raptor engines, meaning humans can set up a propellant plant on Mars to create more fuel and return to Earth. Musk claimed on Monday that “there’s a path” to building the Starship for less than the Falcon 9 SpaceX currently uses to send satellites into space, estimated to cost $62 million...

Interesting to assume people would want to return :^ )

Twitter forced at least three accounts, including that of Mitch McConnell’s campaign, to remove video of protesters calling for violence outside the senator’s home. The social media site confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that it locked the three accounts, claiming the video violated the company’s “violent threats policy.” McConnell’s campaign chairman blasted Twitter for blocking video that showed “violent, real-world threats” against the Republican.

I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame.

— Rosanna Arquette (@RoArquette) August 7, 2019

Normally we wouldn't care about what these Hollyweirdos have to say but, did you know that while the Arquettes mother was Jewish, their father who was raised a Christian converted to Islam. Did you know that the Arquette children were raised on a "Subud" commune in Virginia. . This is the same Sabud cult that Obama's mother was involved in. Did you know that Loretta “Deliana” Fuddy, woman who “verified” Obama’s birth certificate, was chairwoman of Subud USA?

Watch David Arquette talk about being born on the commune and how his father converted to Islam:

Rosanna talking about the Arquette family's unusual upbringing:

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday poured cold water on "red flag" legislation that is gaining traction among some Senate Republicans in the wake of a pair of mass shootings over the weekend, calling the measure an "ineffective cop out."

"The notion that passing a tepid version of an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) bill—alone—is even close to getting the job done in addressing rampant gun violence in the U.S. is wrong and would be an ineffective cop out," Schumer said in a statement...

The notion that a tepid version of a 'Red Flag' bill—alone—is even close to getting the job done on gun violence is wrong & would be an ineffective cop out

We will seek to require that any 'Red Flag' bill is accompanied by a vote on the House-passed background checks legislation pic.twitter.com/oYD69zqlyh

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) August 7, 2019

So the reason he's 'pouring cold water' over the Red-Flag law is because he wants to include background checks legislation. Will it fly? Let's find out.

Researchers from BitDefender have uncovered a concerning security vulnerability present in all modern Intel processors. If executed, the flaw could permit an adversary to access the computer’s kernel memory, which could potentially result in them gaining access to sensitive information, like passwords, tokens, and private conversations.

The flaw affects all machines using Intel processors that support the SWAPGS system call, which allows the processor to swap between the kernel mode and user mode memory rings...

On August 7, 2019, Regan tweeted that Trump “has a major opportunity: he can BAN assault weapons and invoke strict gun laws and background checks in one executive order.”

Regan did not mention that expanding background checks would have done nothing to prevent the Dayton shooter, as he acquired his gun “legally.” Moreover, there was an “assault weapons” ban at the federal level from 1994-2004, and the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice reported that the ban resulted in “no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence,” according to the Washington Times...

Apparently has not read the Constitution.

WATCH: Chaos ensues in Times Square after crowd mistakes backfiring motorcycle for mass shooter Tuesday night https://t.co/vDxBrAHoJA pic.twitter.com/KUqiEeixyN

— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 7, 2019

Illegal crossing arrests along the southwest border have dropped about 45% from a peak of 132,000 in May, which was the highest total since 2006... Officials cited Mexico's stepped up enforcement efforts for preventing a portion of people from passing through the country on the way to the United States...

Illegal crossings hit a 17-year low in March 2017 when only 12,500 people were apprehended. That number began climbing in mid-2017 from 20,000 to 30,000 arrests each month. It surpassed an average of 40,000 arrests per month by the spring of 2018 and continued climbing to around 50,000 each month last fall. In February, arrests spiked to 66,000 before dramatically jumping to 92,000 in March and 99,000 in April before reaching May's 13-year high.