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Criminal Speech (He's Going To Say It!)
A video caught white students saying the n-word. Amid outcry, they’ve been criminally charged. (archive)
The three people walking through a dimly lit parking lot near a University of Connecticut student apartment complex probably didn’t know they were being watched. But as the trio crossed in front of an open window repeatedly saying the n-word louder and louder, a person inside wasn’t just observing — they were recording.
Now, university officials say an investigation into the 11-second video, which started to widely circulate on social media earlier this month, has prompted campus police to arrest and charge two students Monday night with violating a Connecticut hate crime statute.
Jarred Karal and Ryan Mucaj, both 21 and described by police as white, were charged with ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race. The misdemeanor charge is punishable by a maximum of 30 days in jail, a fine of up to $50 or both, according to state law.
[...] David Embrick, another sociology professor, also called on the university to take responsibility, delivering an impassioned speech during Monday’s demonstration, the Daily Campus reported.
“Injustice anywhere is injustice,” said Embrick, who donned a shirt bearing the words, “White Supremacy is Terrorism.” He continued, “We should do something about it.”
You want to talk to a law professor, not a sociology professor. You can ask them about the unconstitutional law, or how two students were arrested weeks after quietly saying the N-WORD to nobody in particular.
The sociology prof should be asked to perform a qualitative analysis of how white the two criminal perpetrators were.
Also at NBC.
Ambassador testifies he was ordered to quid pro quo Ukraine
On Tuesday, Bill Taylor told the House Intelligence Committee in unambiguous terms that the White House — and its emissaries he described as conducting a shadow foreign policy — had made military aid to Ukraine conditional on the Ukrainian president announcing investigations into the 2020 US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter and into a conspiracy theory involving the 2016 US election.
Taylor described in detailed terms a quid pro quo arrangement that Trump and Republicans have denied ever took place. The Latin phrase describes a favor granted explicitly in return for something else.
Could polygyny be the answer to Russia's problems?
Could polygyny be the answer to Russia's problems?
What one thing could prevent depravity and fornication in Russia?
Well according to one legal advisor in Islamic law - or mufti - in Moscow, Ildar Alyautdinov, the answer is polygyny (where the practice of polygamy only applies to men).
He told state-owned news agency RIA Novosti men having more than one wife at the same time would not only "ensure the enforcement of women's rights" but there would also be "much less depravity and fornication, which is spreading so rapidly nowadays".
The mufti also pointed out polygyny would help the demographic situation in Russia, as there are many more women than men in the country.
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El Chapo's Son Released by Outgunned Mexican Forces
Remarkable escape of El Chapo's son: 'It's like a bad Netflix show'
Escape, it seems, is a trait shared in the Guzman family.
So is embarrassing the government of Mexico.
Joaquin Guzman Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, eluded the grasp of the government numerous times – in tunnels, behind closets, beneath bathtubs and through steep ravines in the remote mountains of Sinaloa. He even managed to escape prison, twice.
The latest family member to escape apprehension – El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzman Lopez – managed his own feat of government humiliation this week, when cartel henchmen forced a patrol of at least 30 members of government forces to release him after he had been captured.
The stunning surrender – with Mexican forces badly outmatched, taken hostage by outlaws and forced to let loose a prominent suspect in their custody – began with a siege on the city of Culiacan on Thursday by members of the Sinaloa Cartel, once headed by El Chapo. Videos of fierce gun battles in the street, armed men blocking roads, residents fleeing to safety and clouds of black smoke rising from burning vehicles swamped social media.
Donald Trump gives a no-bid contract to Donald Trump
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced Thursday that next year's Group of Seven summit of world leaders will be held at President Donald Trump's private Miami-area resort, drawing immediate criticism that Trump is seeking to personally profit from the presidency.
Trump chooses his own Florida resort as site of G-7 gathering of world leaders
One Day's Rejected submissions. See what Soylent Eds ban!
Why Doesn’t Steve Bannon Matter in Europe? [subs on Bannon always banned: why?] Thursday October 17, @12:51AM Rejected
Andrew Yang’s Appeal To White Supremacists Reveals His Own Racism Thursday October 17, @12:43AM Rejected
The far-right ‘Barbies’ luring Brit girls into the far right with the promise of luxury lifestyles, Thursday October 17, @12:12AM Rejected
The Far Right's Murderous Bible [this one is interesting] Thursday October 17, @12:02AM Rejected
I always knew Mark Zuckerberg was a far-right incel [Silly, but, ] Wednesday October 16, @11:41PM Rejected
The social-media war, reclaiming classics from the alt-right, and a fusion of physics and dance. Wednesday October 16, @11:34PM Rejected
Ist "4Chan" eine Plattform für Mörder und Rassisten? [Yavohl?] Wednesday October 16, @11:17PM Rejected
Die neue Bedrohung – wer sind die Incels und woher kommen sie? Wednesday October 16, @11:05PM Rejected
Die Bestseller eines Kanons für Rassisten und Völkische Wednesday October 16, @11:00PM Rejected
PewDiePie, troll ultime ou cheval de Troie de l'alt-right? [très intéressant!] Wednesday October 16, @02:37PM Rejected
In Sri Lanka, Cartoonists Take on the Alt-Right [C'mon! It's Sri Lanka!] Wednesday October 16, @02:31PM Rejected
Alt-Right Activist Joey Gibson Caught Raising Funds Through Untraceable Church Saturday October 12, @10:31PM Rejected
Sulla was supposed to be doing a "Today with aristarchus" feature. Why am I having to do it my self? Or was he told to "stand down"? In any case, this is a whole lot of censorship on SoylentNews for one day!
Postscriptum: Turns out Sulla was in Alaska, which explains the fishy smell. But there is more! A few more rejects, some deserved, some outright alt-right sympathizing censorship. Be your own judge, since that is what free speech is all about.
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More sub rejections. The most recent three are not completely serious, although censorship is not something one should joke about. Enjoy.
We're sorry, your submission "aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes: Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Tuesday October 29, @12:58AM Rejected
aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes: Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Monday October 28, @11:18PM Rejected
Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Alt-right Monday October 28, @10:42AM Rejected
The Intellectual Dark Web is more liberal than you’d think Monday October 28, @12:48AM Rejected
Alleged White Supremacist Indicted, Accused Of Lying To Feds on Hate Group Membership For Navy Job Monday October 28, @12:16AM Rejected
Former alt-right member on how hate groups get people to join: 'It was presented as wholesome' Sunday October 27, @09:58PM Rejected
Facebook included far-right Breitbart News in its new ‘high quality’ news tab Saturday October 26, @04:02PM Rejected
House Republicans Literally Storm the Impeachment Hearings Saturday October 26, @12:41AM Rejected
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) led a crowd of Freedom Caucus members to storm a secure room where Democrats Thursday October 24, @10:11PM Rejected
How the alt-right co-opted the OK hand sign to fool the media Thursday October 24, @06:24PM Rejected
Down the Alt-Right Rabbit Hole Thursday October 24, @04:44PM Rejected
Desecration of sacred images demands bolder action from Vatican Thursday October 24, @01:15PM Rejected
White Nationalist Activists Fume Over Accusations of ‘Plagiarism’ Thursday October 24, @12:55PM Rejected
Study: YouTube's Fringe Video Viewers Aren't Passive Zombies Thursday October 24, @12:35PM Rejected
Boston cops clocked 9,000 hours of overtime at the "Straight Pride" parade Thursday October 24, @12:21PM Rejected
Aleksandr Dugin’s Ideology Echoes Through the Alt-Right Wednesday October 23, @03:57PM Rejected
Former alt-right group member tells how she was lured in by ex-boyfriend Wednesday October 23, @03:42PM Rejected
Proud Boys members sentenced to four years in prison for violent clash with antifa Tuesday October 22, @01:14PM Rejected
H «κλεμμένη» φωτογραφία του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ και η «Alt - Right» ΝΔ Monday October 21, @02:12PM Rejected
'White Power Barbies' a powerful alt-right recruiting tool Sunday October 20, @10:56PM Rejected
The New York Times Wonders Aloud If Tulsi Gabbard's Anti-War Message Makes Her a Stooge for Nazis Saturday October 19, @06:24PM Rejected
The elite Metropolitan Republican Club is turning into a GOP fight club Saturday October 19, @06:19PM Rejected
‘Nu het politiek zo uitkomt streeft aarts-ironicus Pfeijffer ineens naar oprechtheid’ Saturday October 19, @02:04AM Rejected
PewDiePie et l'alt-right, une arnaque à un milliard, des pizzas sous surveillance, à lire sur korii. Thursday October 17, @10:53PM Rejected
Today's Birthday 18/10! Guess Who!
That's all, folks! Stay tuned for the inevitable more rejections of aristarchus submissions. Comments welcome!
#Freearistarchus!!!!
Renoir Laptop APUs and Threadripper 3
AMD 4th Gen Ryzen APU 'Renoir' Family - 7nm Zen 2 CPU + Navi GPU Cores Combined
Coming to the details, the 4th Gen Ryzen APU lineup would be replacing the 3rd Gen APU lineup which is based on the Zen+ core architecture and Vega graphics architecture. The 4th Gen lineup, codenamed Renoir, would feature support on FP6 (Notebook) and AM4 (Desktop) platforms. The current AMD Ryzen notebook lineup is based around the FP5 socket and since FP6 is a whole new socket change, we can expect a drastic change to the feature set of the Renoir generation of CPUs. There's a large list of FP6 Ryzen 'Renoir' APUs listed which include the following:
AMD Ryzen 9 B12 (45W)
AMD Ryzen 7 B10 (45W)
AMD Ryzen 5 B8 (45W)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO B12 (15W)
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO B10 (15W)
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO B8 (15W)
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO B6 (15W)From the looks of it, AMD would be segmenting their 4th Gen Ryzen notebook lineup into regular consumer and PRO consumer variants. The regular variants would feature a 45W TDP which is a bump from the existing 35W TDP while the PRO variants will feature a 15W TDP. What's interesting here is that AMD is planning to go up to Ryzen 9 on their notebooks as AMD wants to take the fight to Intel's 45W Core i9 parts.
I cannot say for sure what the "B**" notifier stands for but it could be telling us the core count for each specific processor. If that is the case, then AMD would be offering up to 12 cores on their flagship notebook processor compared to Intel's current Core i9-9980HK which comes with 8 cores and 16 threads. AMD Ryzen 7 APUs would feature 10 cores, Ryzen 5 would feature 8 cores and Ryzen 3 series would feature 6 cores. There may be some entry-level quad-core variants but they aren't mentioned in this particular list. We recently covered how AMD wants to disrupt the note-book sector now that they are completely dominating Intel in the desktop market.
I don't know if I believe this one. There could be more variants than what's listed, but 6-12 cores (which is speculation based on the B12/B10/B8/B6 code) seems aggressive. I expect a low-end 4-core somewhere in the Renoir notebook lineup, and I would be surprised to see 10 or 12 cores. But there's probably nothing stopping them from doing it. The Picasso monolithic chips have about a 210 mm2 die size. Inside Zen 2 chiplets, 4 cores with 16 MB of L3 cache is about 31.3 mm2. Maybe there is enough room to throw in 12 cores, a memory controller, multimedia engine, GPU cores, etc. It's possible that 10 or 12 core versions could ditch the integrated GPU in favor of an RX 5500 discrete GPU, as seen here.
Previous leaks have suggested Vega instead of Navi graphics. Which would be a little dumb if true. Now we're back to Navi.
A 45W TDP is a little high but this can just be configured lower by the manufacturer. See Intel's TDP-up and TDP-down. There are gaming laptops that have Ryzen desktop chips in them with sufficient cooling and/or lower clocks.
Moving on to the desktop parts, we know that AMD will be offering their HEDT 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs starting with a 24 core and 48 thread SKU. The list includes a 16 core / 32 thread and 32 core / 64 thread models too.
16-core Threadripper could be useful for more memory channels or PCIe lanes, but it does encroach on Ryzen 9 3950X.
Now coming to the WRX80 series, we are looking at a pure workstation lineup. Even the processors built around this platform are spec'd similar to the EPYC 7002 variants, featuring 8-channel DDR4-3200 support in UDIMM, RDIMM, LRDIMM flavors. The platform would support 1 DIMM/channel featuring support for up to 2 TB of memory. There wouldn't be any OC support like the TRX40 series but you get 96-128 Gen4 PCIe lanes with 32 switchable lanes to SATA. The Group 'B' series processors which are the workstation lineup for the WRX80 platform will also feature a 280W TDP but different temperature range of Tcase Max temperature of 81C and Tctl Max of 100C.
Threadripper 3 could top out at 48 or 64 cores, but you might not see them in 2019.
Trump increased oversea troop deployments then muzzled stats
Half a Phone
True RNG for the Orange Pi Zero, Part 3
The next circuit I've begun experimenting on is Aaron Logue's circuit. The annoying thing about this and many other circuits of its type based on PN junction breakdown noise is the requirement for a 12V supply, which I've been using a power brick and a 7812 regulator to obtain. Because at one point I had a brain fart, I managed to fry my Orange Pi Zero. I missed one stupid wire that connected the 12V supply I was using to the 5V rails on the breadboard... to which the Orange Pi was also connected, and then the magic smoke left my poor Orange Pi... $20 up in smoke. Rest in peace.
So I ordered a new Orange Pi Zero, which I received today, and resumed my experiments as soon as I managed to solder the GPIO headers onto it. This time making VERY sure that there were no stray wires to the breadboard that would send higher voltages to the 5V supply rails, I hooked the OPi up to the breadboard again, and damn if it didn't give a lot of very good randomness. It's far more effective than the LM393 circuit that is used by the XR232-USB, as it only requires a single level of von Neumann debiasing to obtain randomness that is good enough for all the statistical tests I've been using to validate its performance.
The only problem is that I now need a place to get 12V. Either I use a boost converter to get 12V out of the 5V that I can get off the OPi, or keep using the 12V supply brick from my experiments but also use it to power the OPi with a 12V to 5V buck converter. I thought the latter would be easier, but the problem is that the trusty old 7805 linear converter I use for my TTL circuits will melt if I attempt to down-convert 12V to 5V at 500 mA, unless I use a heat sink that is probably going to be too big to fit inside the case. So I also managed to get a few small 12V to 5V switching converters (smaller than a TO-220 package), but alas the ones I got can't handle the current drawn by the OPi either. Seems that a buck converter that can actually handle the OPi's current draw might be rather larger than can fit as well.
So now I have to find a small boost converter that can boost 5V to 12V. The rated current needed here is far more modest (of the order of µA), so such a module might be smaller, but one that might suit is hard to find. I have a boost converter module based on the LM2577 but it is much too big to fit in the case. The circuits involving the MAX232 that I've used before to get 18V are also too large. I've found one possible boost converter module that might suit but it is a bit more expensive, but we'll see how this goes.
