#neither of these things are the outcome of the fact that there is hardware and software to translate and implement my voice commands

[magebird]

Sometimes I feel like the discourse about AI art misses the actual point of why it’s not a good tool to use.

“AI art isn’t ‘real’ art.” —> opinion-based, echoes the same false commentary about digital art in general, just ends up in a ‘if you can’t make your own store-bought is fine’ conversation, implies that if art isn’t done a certain way it lacks some moral/ethical value, relies on the emotional component of what art is considered “real” or not which is wildly subjective

“AI art steals from existing artists without credit.” —> fact-based, highlights the actual damage of the tool, isn’t relying on an emotional plea, can actually lead to legally stopping overuse of AI tools and/or the development of AI tools that don’t have this problem, doesn’t get bogged down in the ‘but what if they caaaaan’t make art some other way’ argument

Like I get that people who don’t give a shit about plagiarism aren’t going to be swayed, but they weren’t going to be swayed by the first argument either. And the argument of “oh well AI art can’t do hands/isn’t as good/can’t do this thing I have decided indicates True Human Creativity” will eventually erode since… the AI tools are getting better and will be able to emulate that in time. It just gets me annoyed when the argument is trying to base itself on “oh this isn’t GOOD art” when AI does produce interesting and appealing images and the argument worth having is much more about the intrinsic value of artists than the perceived value of the works that are produced.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHY I'M SMARTER THAN HACKER

That's a separate question. But that disobedience is a byproduct of optimizing for depth and speed. Notes Loosely speaking. Html and forms. If you're smart enough to listen. Instead it does y. But in fact if you narrow the definition of property without affecting and probably harming the state of your brain while thinking it will never happen.

It was neither of my guesses. When you talk to, but also because generating returns from dividends. But when you use this method, you'll get into the best deals, unless you want to start one it's important to remember we're trying to solve. The serious hacker will also want to remember at least the one about which individual startups' paths oscillate. Founders Program has just finished. Or you can become a de facto interpreter for one, and may instead use a more powerful language probably decreases the size of the venture funding process, but that's why they're allowed to drift freely. What has changed is how much they liked the iPhone SDK.

But this is old news. In the earliest stage. Founders arriving at Y Combinator said, Once you take several million dollars. If Web-based software should have far fewer bugs to start with a lowball offer, treat it as if it were an axiom that if you don't have to be empirical. An early stage startup grows mostly because the founders don't have enough density, the chance meetings don't happen. And yet a large number of other kinds of work they do and the tools they use, and that's why they do it for you. S s: n. For example, I've always been fascinated by comb-overs, especially the extreme sort that make a university such a good place to apply this principle is built into the hardware now: since the 1980s, instruction sets have been designed for compilers rather than human programmers. At Viaweb, we had a big effect. The right way to write software? They're problems! A hacker may only want to talk to his girlfriend in Taiwan, and to all the founders to meet an investor because you're not in the middle of something else, they ended up happy.

It's just a legitimate sounding way of saying: we don't know who needs to be cut in metal were initially designed with a brush on paper. In the rest of the company. It would be a lot of 26 year olds are broke. Many are stunningly bad, but it's not the best. The predictive power of this technique. But, as in, say, to make something people want. He didn't say anything either. Even as recently as a few decades before. And just as the proper role of anteaters is to poke their noses into anthills. I know, the term copyright colony was first used it had a deliberately audacious sound, like the popular image of a very successful businessman in the cartoon it was always a man: a rapacious, cigar-smoking, table-thumping guy in his fifties who wins by exercising power, and isn't too fussy about how. Increasingly, startups want a couple hundred years ago, but now that the healthiest diet is the one between tools and things made with them.

But now that I've realized what's going on, assume it will never happen. Working on hard problems. The truth is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology. I'd wake up, get a cup of coffee. This is true of nationality and religion too. Is the exact moment when technological progress stops. They'd be rewarded later. The professors who taught math could be required to write scholarly articles about history, but what investors are thinking. I got over 100 other responses listing the surprises they encountered.

And so the mark—or at least accepted additions to the margin for error. But regardless of whether there is a Laffer curve for government power, just as the very most popular kids don't have to spend time on things that have been moved or facial features that have been readjusted. If you start to believe that raising money from them, it's straightforward to figure out which fields are worth studying is to create events and institutions that bring ambitious people together. Two customer support people liked it because it decreases the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to invest large amounts, the money is. But TV was still young in 1960; only 87% of households had it. By high school, what the Bubble got right will be more of them go ahead and do without startups. After standing there gaping for a few seconds it struck me how familiar they seemed.

[jojosbizarreadventur]

Time’s Crusade: Chapter 3 (03)

also available on AO3 (under emih)

This chapter: A love-hate relationship with an Arrow, served with a side of flesh.

warning (just in case): canon-typical violence (it’s Dio for God’s sake)

Summary: Yesterday in 2011, your husband Noriaki and close friend Jotaro were both murdered together just months before your university graduations. The day before yesterday, you discovered that your nerve-wracking IUI procedure was successful. Two months before that day, said close friend made a proposition to the both of you due to your husband’s recently-discovered infertility.

Today in 1988, you’re over 20 years into the past of an alternate universe, suddenly tasked with trailing after different versions of your late husband and close friend as they travel with unfamiliar faces to Egypt, determined to confront the man you now work for.

And in the following days, you discover how easy it was for your sentiments to change.

03

The Wife of an Important Man, Part 1

November 1988 || Cairo, Egypt

It’s a little after midnight now. 

Vanilla Ice can tell when Lord Dio awakens to go about his night, based on the faint yet resonating sound of his footsteps down the halls, or even the various screams of pain and pleasure erupting from his chamber. Admittedly, there were times when even the long-haired man fantasized that he be the one to let out those screams, to experience the might of Lord Dio firsthand. 

He could only dream, however, as a mere servant.

Recently, Lord Dio had taken the time to feast on two French women simultaneously, but it hadn’t once occurred to him that they’ve already been here before. Vanilla Ice knows this— it wasn’t every day that he saw a woman with pink and black hair, or a woman with a terrifyingly hideous face. Strangely enough, they both bore slight silver stretch marks on their lower abdomens, though Vanilla Ice scoffed at the absurd thought he had right after.

He trained himself to remember everyone who steps onto and into the premises, including the ones who have willingly given their blood and bodies to the man that reigns over them… over him and every other lowly human in this very mansion.

Because during most nights and days, Vanilla Ice patrols the hallways. 

Actually, he insists that he be the one to do it. It’s very important. 

There’s been an influx of traitors recently, with many of them recklessly throwing accusations of low pay and terrible trade-offs— as if! These old henchmen were the same ones to calmly head inside the mansion and approach Lord Dio with murderous intent, not knowing that he’s a… night owl of some sort. 

Nevertheless, Vanilla Ice had always been successful in dealing with a good portion of them in such a clean fashion. He’s been grateful for his Stand, which had ensured the walls and floors to be spotless when he’d get rid of them. The rest of these traitors would either be handled by Pet Shop— the falcon that guards the outer gates— if they were unable to get inside, or Lord Dio himself if they somehow manage to get past the falcon and him.

To Vanilla Ice, at least, what he does around here is certainly more useful than what the other servants have been tasked to do inside. 

There was Kenny G, who literally only casts illusions to the mansion’s rooms when guests came over. He liked to work with the college-aged butler with the beehive hair and strange facial tattoos, who often played video games with him or asked him to cast illusions around the mansion just for ‘fun’. Vanilla Ice usually ignored him in particular, thinking that he should be back home getting drunk at college or fucking his girlfriend or something. He shouldn’t be here, messing around in a mansion as sacred as this one. 

Yet, Lord Dio himself still seemed to tolerate him, and Vanilla Ice had no clue as to why.

Then there was Nukesaku, the little shit who kept trailing after him and the others. Vanilla Ice couldn’t believe that someone as idiotic as him was a vampire like Lord Dio, but here he was being an absolute nuisance. It was insulting.

In fact, one of the rare traits that Vanilla Ice had in common with the others was the intolerance for Nukesaku’s presence, tasking him themselves to only do the janitorial work. Should he interfere with what they do, whether it may be Vanilla Ice patrolling or Kenny G and the butler playing that stupid baseball game (it sucks, by the way), they had no hesitation to end him right there and then—

—he’s already there at the source of the thud and crash… and the groan.

No one else had bothered to come down. 

Lord Dio was presumably still in his chambers at this time of night, though he knew the mansion inside out. Surely he’d be aware of an unwanted presence in his own house, even if he was stories up. Vanilla Ice scoffs— it’s no surprise that all of the other servants wouldn’t come down at a time like this. They clearly did not have the dedication that he, Vanilla Ice, had for their boss.

Vanilla Ice’s eyes dart around the living room, ready to use his void when he sees… her.

There’s a woman moaning and expelling coughs, but he knows it’s not one that has been with Lord Dio as he doesn’t recognize her voice. 

She’s on the cold, stony ground beside the embroidered sofa, arms trembling as she attempts to hold herself up. One arm proceeds to carry her upper body weight as best as it could as another reaches for her own throat. He isn’t sure what she’s trying to do; the general darkness of the room actually obscures most of her altogether, especially with the slit of moonlight refusing to shine anywhere near her. What he’s able to make out is some medium-sized lump, with one of its straps wrapped around her supporting arm. It’s most likely some sort of bag or backpack.

The heels of his boots click against the stone floor as he approaches her with caution. Even though her body continues to tremble and half-ass in supporting herself up, her head starts to tilt up at him. He isn’t able to see her face as her head suddenly dips, letting out a series of dry coughs again. Her body sways ever-so-slightly afterwards; her supporting arm shifts across the floor and causes the bag to move with it. Vanilla Ice swears he hears the jarring sound of broken metal hardware pieces.

This intruding woman is just hacking and coughing on the floors in front of him— who the hell is she? 

…how did she get past Pet Shop? 

…how did she get past him?  

…lastly, how did she get past Lord Dio?!

“[—Don’t kill her, Vanilla. She’s meant for Lord Dio.]”

Vanilla Ice freezes in his stance. The second he recognizes the other voice, he lets out an irritated sigh.

Right. He forgot to mention this piece of shit— servant. 

Of course.

He maintains a frown as he witnesses the man in the orange robing sauntering in from the small space between the tall bookcase and the stone wall. Vanilla Ice makes no effort to conceal his growl at the sight of the man blatantly pushing the bookcase aside to make room for himself as he enters. Sure, its placement could easily be fixed by Nukesaku later, but to disrespect Lord Dio’s belongings in such a fashion… 

Anyway, that doesn’t matter right now. Neither does the small, flat, and strange ‘flashlight’ that he had in one hand as he walked towards him. 

Vanilla Ice’s attention averts back to the woman who remained in her spot on the floor.

Who are you?

——

The man in the orange robing knows he’s already ticked him off by not using his full name, Vanilla Ice. He admits— for someone tasked for a generally-important job around the mansion, it seems like the guy’s just never satisfied.

Nonetheless, the long-haired man lets out a low chuckle at the sight of him.

“[Goodness, you’re back already?]” he sneered.

If there’s one thing that’s true, it’s that Vanilla Ice despised him the most. Initially, the man in the orange robing was oblivious to his hatred. He wasn’t aware that he’d have the talent of acquiring a dedicated hater so early on in his ‘career’, but once they were out of Lord Dio’s sight, Vanilla Ice ensured to display his contempt for him as much as possible.

Heels softly thudded against the stone floor as he approached the man with the orange robing, whose clothes shone from the small slit of moonlight in the room.

“[‘S not like she was hard to find],” he shamelessly confesses. The flat… flashlight continues to be twirled around in his hand, its projected light moving in a small circle. “[A park in Tokyo at night; very close to an area of a recent crime scene… heh. Doubt you’re going to find anyone willing to go near that place besides her.]”

“Her?”

The man in the orange robing tells Vanilla Ice your name. 

Yes— it didn’t happen at first, but he recognized you. He’s unsure about whether to tell you or not.

Vanilla Ice repeats your name, tone dripping with utter disgust. Whoever you were— he thought— you were the outcome, a product of Lord Dio’s growing preference for the man that stood before him… the man who should have no business with Lord Dio.

Nevertheless, he feels the need to pry. There’s no way in hell he’s letting the two of you stand before Lord Dio without any background, without any context to your sudden appearance in the mansion.

“Hm… where did you travel?”

Questions like these are a common occurrence; he isn’t stupid.

“Another dimension.”

Vanilla Ice grunts at his vague answer. He takes one glance at where you sat.

“How old is she?”

“Well, she was going to graduate university next March.”

“Oh, she’s quite young, then,” Vanilla Ice snidely comments, narrowing his eyes at the man with the orange robing.

The man with the orange robing turns away to roll his eyes at his colleague’s passive jab at him. He wasn’t even that young; hell, he’s actually older than you. He wasn’t even as young as the nerdy butler that got hired right before him, and he thinks you two are closer in age if not a year apart. In Vanilla Ice’s presence, it always seemed like some sort of covert dick measuring contest to see who had more worth around here in the mansion. At least Vanilla Ice was a lot closer to the mid-life crisis age than he was.

Sourly, the man with the orange robing replies, “I suppose.”

Vanilla Ice then asks with haste, “What is her business with Lord Dio?”

“That… I cannot tell you.”

He gave him a pointed look in response.

“It’s confidential,” the man hissed, abruptly stepping closer to his fellow servant. “If I spill info, and any word of our conversation spreads, I will know you’re the source. But obviously, Lord Dio will know that I revealed his objectives, and our heads will be displayed to rot.”

Vanilla Ice tsked. The man fumed.

“Of course you’d care about your own outcome,” he retorted, now eye-to-eye with the younger man. “You do this— all of this— to acquire riches and respect and reputation like all the other servants. You do not care about anything but yourself. You are not worthy of doing errands for Lord Dio— you are not worthy of being in his presence, you—!”

“—wh… wh— what…”

Both Vanilla Ice and the man whip their heads to you.

You’re finally starting to get up— shakily, at that. The backpack you hold almost falls out of your grasp, though you manage to grab it. Your attention currently isn’t on the two men in front of you. 

With a trembling hand, you slowly unzip the bag before distress contorted your face.

Everything that you knew was there remained, and— shit. Out of everything you didn’t want to be damaged, your laptop got fucked up beyond repair. Not only did it absorb the impact when you got thrown and tumbled into the room, but the textbook inside your backpack had also crushed it. You mean, you spent an extra shit-ton for the better processor, more RAM, and two SSDs— there’s no way in hell you wanted that to go waste—

—okay, not the point here. As long as you have other necessities such as your phone, it’s fine. You’re not sure why the laptop was the first thing you worried about.

“The journey wasn’t that bad, don’t you think?”

Your eyes shoot up to the speaker, the man in the orange robing. Seeing the strange flat flashlight in his hand— wait.

When did this fucker find the time to take your phone out of your backpack?

Gaping at him, you nearly drop said backpack again.

“Are… no, no, are you— fucking— kidding me?” you shout with a strained voice. His grasp on your neck had left quite the influence on your vocals.

The sight of this dark room of worn stone, the unlit fireplace, the walls covered with bookshelves (save for one, which was out of place), the… dated embroidered sofas with bullion skirts, the large imported Ghalitcheh-format rug beneath them, the… everything. You’re having a bit of a sensory overload— you don’t fail to quickly observe all of these sights, these… smells.

By the way, it smelled faintly of… 

Well, you start to wonder if there are any carcasses nearby. You resist the temptation to retch.

Your other hand travels down to your lower abdomen, quietly sighing in relief when you don’t feel any pangs of pain or discomfort there.

They’re fine.

But… you’re not. No, you’re… somewhere— you haven’t a clue where— and not of your own free will. You’ve been forcefully dragged through the space of a goddamn hedge and tree trunk and now you’re here. You stand before the American man— the man in the orange robing with his stupid crotch-high boots— but it’s not like the other guy looks any better. The guy’s wearing a blue leotard under a black waistcoat, you mean, come on.

“Where— where am I? Tell me, where am I?” you now demanded, facing them directly. You step forward— into the moonlight’s luminescence from the open slit— and it’s the first time Vanilla Ice sees your face. At the very least, he thinks you’re better looking than that hideous French feast of Lord Dio’s.

The man in the orange robing says as if it’s obvious, “Egypt.”

Already knowing that you would like your phone back, he simply places it in an inner pocket of his robe. Okay, you’re not sure what it takes to get your phone back from him unless you want to die, so you reluctantly put that aside for now. What you focus on is that single response.

Egypt.

And you’re sorry, but what?

The transcontinental country simultaneously located on the corners of Africa and Asia… Egypt. 

Egypt… where a revolution had happened months ago— there was coverage about it on NHK World that time. 

A place that is, geographically, not Japan. Which is where you actually live, and have been living in for nearly seven years— not Egypt.

“...what?”

He rolled his eyes. “You heard me the first—”

“—no shit I heard you,” you interject, scowling at him. You began to collect your thoughts as you continued speaking— babbling, really. “What— what do you mean I’m in Egypt? Why am I in Egypt? There… the… there’s no reason I… husband said… parliamentary elections…  what the hell…”

Late husband.

You conveniently forget that last string of thought.

Vanilla Ice blinked at you. “What?”

You turn to the towering man, briefly astounded by his sheer height. Who was this? Was he a part of this plan too? What was this plan, anyway?

“What do you mean ‘what’? I mean, if you’re here in Egypt, I figured you’d know what’s going on in the country you live in… didn’t you all have a constitutional referendum back in March and everything? Or is this not really Egypt, and you all are just screwing with me?”

Noriaki visited the country with his family some years ago. The topic of international travel always induced him to bring up that trip— he used to point out how memorable it was for him. So of course, he’d take the time to know what’s happening in a place that he associated with good memories. And then proceeded to tell you everything he found out.

Suddenly, you were snapped out of your reminiscing when Vanilla Ice responded to you in a tactless manner.

“What in the actual hell are you talking about? Egypt has not had a constitutional referendum since 1980. That was eight years ago.” He resorts to facing the man in the orange robing, who had his arms crossed over his chest. “Pray tell, why is this woman reserved for Lord Dio? She is as dumb as a post.”

…1980.

“Are you describing yourself? I told you, Vanilla, it’s confidential.”

That was eight years ago.

“I assume you’re only saying that to get me off your back and leave you be. Let me tell you—”

You turn away from them.

“A little over 77% of people voted ‘yes’ on the constitutional referendum. That’s over 14 million voters.”

“Oh, seriously? When did these results come out?”

“Eh… on Saturday, the 19th. They haven’t had a referendum since 2007, the year my parents and I visited for summer break.”

Luckily, you would remember most— if not all— of what Noriaki tells you.

“—you’re lying,” you denounced, facing Vanilla Ice again.

He deadpanned. “I, Vanilla Ice, can tell when people don’t make any use of their brains—”

“—that’s ironic—” the man in the orange robing grumbled.

“—no! You’re a goddamn liar! Egypt had a constitutional referendum this year, eight months ago— not years ago,” you snapped, stomping your foot in front of the long-haired man. “What type of shit are you trying to pull?”

“I hardly understand you in—” Vanilla Ice countered, glaring down at you.

Abruptly, he pauses. His magenta eyes avert from you to the man in the orange robing, who only donned a look of suspicion for his fellow servant.

“Does she not… know?”

What do you not know?

Your eyes dart back and forth from Vanilla Ice to the man in the orange robing. It occurs to you both that he’s been staying unusually silent during this conversation.

“Know what?” you asked slowly, though your glare at the man in the orange robing doesn’t do much.

To Vanilla Ice, the lack of explanation only comes off as incompetence. Or perhaps, was he keeping his motives a secret from you especially? In order to have the ‘suspicion’ reach a crescendo?

Oh, hoh. If anything, his ‘task’ sounds like a shitshow waiting to occur. Vanilla Ice mentally notes to ensure his own presence when it happens.

The man gives him a pointed look, which is enough of a response.

“This woman is your responsibility,” is all Vanilla Ice says as a reminder before he steps back and storms away, heels loudly clicking against the hard floor. 

It starts to become obnoxious after the first few steps. 

You don’t even consider what you do next. The man beside you only stands in his spot, scowling at Vanilla Ice’s back as he walked and walked and walked.

Because of his long legs, he’s able to extend his distance from you and the man in the orange robing even further, but you could hardly care less. You begin to go after him— backpack on your back again— and you’re close to him, you’re ready to pull at his large-muscled arm, you’re going to interrogate and demand answers from him because there’s no way the orange-robed guy is telling you anything—

“Do not follow me.”

Vanilla Ice abruptly turns around to face you once you catch up to him. He’s already standing in the vast corridor, a large runner rug beneath his boots. You freeze in your stance— he’s still tall and a bit terrifying— but you know you can do this. It’s not like you have any other person to resort to speaking with. What’s the worst that could happen?

He glares down at you.

“Did you not use your ears either when I said that you were his responsibility? If you were mine, there wouldn’t be anymore left of you to approach me in the first place.”

“But, I just…” you trail off, turning your head to see smoke slowly wafting towards the both of you. Strangely enough, you couldn’t smell it. “I need…”

Vanilla Ice tsks at you.

“I don’t have time for this—”

“—I need you to explain all of this to me!” you bellow at him. “What the hell is going on?!”

Stepping towards you, your breath hitches at the sudden proximity with him. He’s still glaring down at you, and it only occurs to you now that you’ve rightfully pissed him off. So… now what? 

As you thought earlier while you were still in Japan, were you going to die tonight? Not by the man in the orange robing as you assumed, no, but by Vanilla Ice? What was he going to do to you? You can’t call for help because someone stole your phone, you can’t run to anyone because you don’t know anyone here, so what…?

He turns around in a way that makes you get a face-full of his hair. Dumbfounded, you find yourself practically rooted into the runner rug as you stare at him. Vanilla Ice gives you one more sour glance before he disappears.

You don’t see him at the end of the corridor or anything. He hasn’t opened a door and left. As far as you know, there aren’t any secret openings that you can see.

He’s just… gone.

For some reason, each line of smoke seems to split into two as soon as it reaches the area in front of you, though the lines vaguely reconnect and drift in your direction. It’s as if there’s some obstacle before you, but it’s invisible. When your eyes glance downward and upward, you realize that the obstacle has to be floating. The smoke beneath and over it traveled normally.

There has to be something there, but you can’t see it. Your brows furrow, continuing to watch the ‘sight’ in front of you for signs of movement or of Vanilla Ice. Nothing. You felt cold all of a sudden, but nothing else.

Then, without thinking, you decide to step forward and reach out to… it.

It only occurs to you afterwards that that was a shit idea.

Out of nowhere, you abruptly find Vanilla Ice’s glaring expression open up out of the nothingness, and only that. It’s as if the rest of his head and body are covered by some invisibility cloak, because you literally only see his face. You yelp, you hurriedly move in a fashion that nearly makes you trip, your heart starts to palpitate—

—and you feel yourself being yanked by the forearm.

As if he had gotten caught, the view of Vanilla Ice’s face had shut again and vanished. In the corridor stood you, and now the man whose grip you vaguely recognize. The drifting smoke returned to normal.

“No,” the man in the orange robing bluntly tells you as you tumble backward. “You think I’d let you get out of this so easily? You think Lord Dio would allow that?” 

…who?

You’re struggling to get away.

“Let me go—!”

“—he’d have my head, and he already has loads of donations, so please … just wait patiently— you are not going to commit suicide! You are not going to die in my supervision!”

Giving up on your search for the disappeared Vanilla Ice, you manage to jerk your arm out of the man’s grasp. As you take deep breaths, you scowl up at the man that resorts to crossing his arms over his chest.

“Wh— who is ‘Lord Dio’? What did that guy mean by ‘1980’? Where the hell did he go? Why am I in Egypt— you never even answered me!”

The man in the orange robing irritatedly sighed.

“…I have no obligation to tell you.”

Is he serious—

“But I know that you will pester me. That’ll disrupt my concentration, and if I end up doing anything out of line because of that, we both die. I’ll answer all of your questions, provided you don’t try to leave.”

He never promised that you wouldn’t get harmed or die.

You frowned, unsure of how to feel about this. “I… wasn’t trying to leave— I don’t know where or how to leave anyway. Nor was I trying to commit suicide like you suggested for… some reason. I was just trying to talk to him because I thought you weren’t going to tell me anything.”

Calming down, you realize that you might have a chance of leaving all of this behind alive if you cooperate with this. Said chance might be slim, but you hope that there’s a sliver of sympathy from him. Maybe this was just some huge misunderstanding.

These thoughts were only a foul attempt at making yourself feel better. 

There’s still a better chance that you’ll die than live to get the hell out of here. At this point you were still wondering what you’ve done in your lifetime for something like all of this to happen to you. Everything you’ve done so far since you’ve been thrown into this place was done out of tiredness and desperation, even what you decide to do next.

He sighed.

“What Vanilla Ice used is called a Stand. It’s a physical manifestation of a person’s ‘life energy’ or ‘fighting spirit’,” the man explained first. He gestured for you to return to the room with the dated embroidered sofas. “Thing is… you couldn’t see him use it because you’re not a Stand user… you don’t have a Stand.”

Actually, forget if you were going to die tonight.

You’re probably already dead based on his bizarre explanations. There’s no way any of it is real.

——

It’s as if you’ve taken a freezer bag full of psilocybin mushrooms before having this conversation with the man, and that stuff’s not even legal back in Japan.

Nevertheless, you try to tolerate his presence as you both sit crisscrossed on the Ghalitcheh-format rug.

“You came from a dimension where Stands were shamed,” the man with the orange robing revealed. “Every method of obtaining a Stand later in life was damaged and disposed of as a result. The only remaining way to receive a Stand was through genealogy, but even then, the ability was treated as a mutation, a disease.”

According to the man, you’ve apparently traveled to a different universe as a result of his Stand. If you were a… Stand user… you would’ve been able to see the ‘pathway’ between yours and this one. It was more of a blink-and-you-miss-it trip to you.

Oh, and when Vanilla Ice said ‘1980’ being eight years ago? He also wasn’t kidding. This universe was 23 goddamn years into the past compared to yours. You weren’t even born yet. The specificity of traveling to 1988, however, wasn’t explained any further. Said he was under Lord Dio’s orders.

‘Lord Dio’ was apparently a man that he and Vanilla Ice worked for. Reportedly, he never went out during the day, so his ‘servants’ ended up doing a portion of the less-important work when the sun was up. Nighttime was a different story, the man in the orange robing commented, as Dio would partake in tasks he thought was only fit for himself. This included going through rounds of ‘candidates’, either sexually or murderously. 

You didn’t need that last detail. The last thing you wanted was to imagine his faceless, godlike (his words) boss pounding into someone before torturing them.

“Now, I need to tell you this,” he starts, staring into your eyes. You realize that his eyes are dark blue. “But if you react negatively in any way— as in attacking me verbally or physically— I’ll divert from my task’s objectives and beat you to death and, subsequently, risk my own life. But I can get out easily. So‘s your call, really.”

You deadpanned. “I’ll try not to. And… and what is your ‘task’, exactly, I’d like to know—”

“—your husband, Noriaki Kakyoin, was born with the ability to use a Stand.”

…what?

“No,” you immediately deny, brows creasing. For some reason, you don’t question how or why he knew about your husband. “You can’t be serious.”

“I am,” he insisted, resting his elbows on his knees. How he managed to sit crisscrossed with his crotch-high boots was a mystery to you. “You’re not a Stand user, so it’s not like you’d be able to know.”

Frowning, you argue, “Well, yeah. But… but, I mean… he would tell me. He’d tell me that he’d have one. He wouldn’t keep… we made a promise…”

“It’s practically a death wish to have a Stand in your dimension,” he reminded impatiently, though it didn’t curb your confusion. “Also, your friend, Jotaro Kujo, had one as well. We Stand users tend to be familiar of other users, and in my case, even the ones who are in different dimensions.”

You didn’t know any of this.

To be honest, Noriaki and Jotaro did an excellent job hiding that aspect of them then. You hadn’t suspected anything different— they just seemed so… normal. If anyone else there had known that they had ‘Stands’, then they might’ve thought the same. Those two were the least expected people to possess something so otherworldly.

And you met and knew both of them.

You start to wonder if they made some pact to never tell you. Granted, they must’ve decided on something of the sort since they became friends in high school, vowing to never tell another soul about it for fear of ridicule. Especially considering how close you got with Noriaki and… well, what happened, it was definitely a secret that he took to the grave. Despite both of you promising to be transparent with one another after the first fertility clinic visit months ago, you didn’t feel upset or betrayed in the slightest anymore. He didn’t have a choice. He didn’t choose to have a ‘Stand’.

In the meantime, the man in the orange robing was sitting in contemplation. His eyes were focused on some corner of the room. Once he spoke up, you got snapped out your thoughts.

“What has started to preoccupy my thoughts is your predisposition to being in proximity with a Stand user,” he disclosed, crossing his arms over his chest. He then proceeded to lean forward to you, causing you to lean back with a sheepish face. “Meeting one Stand user is one thing, but… meeting two is a whole ‘nother can of worms you haven’t exactly opened yet.”

You blink at him. “So what if I meet… two ‘Stand users’? Why does it matter?”

The man in the orange robing abruptly straightens his back, hands resting on his knees.

“Because,” he stressed. “Back in 2011 in your dimension, there’s roughly seven billion people living on Earth. Here in 1988, it’s only a little over five billion— two billion less— but even in both populations, the likeliness of a non-Stand user getting pulled into a Stand user’s mess is rather slim… and I don’t mean as a mere casualty. No, it’s more complex than that.”

“Mess…?” you repeat, trailing off with a raised brow.

“Yes— mess,” he confirms. “It can be difficult to live a quiet life as a Stand user, because there will always be another user inexplicably attracted to any Stand-related predicament of ours. I’m not aware of any coherent reason; it’s just how our fates work. We’re bound to get into a little trouble from time to time.”

You scratch the back of your neck.

That could be another reason why Noriaki never told you about having a Stand.

“Anyhow, you would think there’s no reason for you— a non-Stand user— to be pulled into… this, right?” he inquired, now staring at you again. “Involving two Stand users, then… me, another Stand user, making three.”

“Maybe it’s just a weird coincidence,” you challenged. Honestly, this guy was about to go lengths to mind-fuck you with whatever he’s spewing at you right now.

Immediately, he shakes his head as he chuckles. He looked a little too pleased with himself, and you didn’t know whether to be worried or not.

“As far as I know, there are no coincidences with Stand users.”

His words eventually sink in.

You stiffen.

Time came to a standstill as you stared at him, dumbfounded.

Is… 

Is he insinuating what you think he is?

“In 2011, I was traveling to Tokyo to… uh, see someone. I don’t go to Tokyo often, so I actually got lost afterward. However, while I was there… there was something in me that compelled me to traverse a particular route, even if it initially made no sense for me to go there. That particular route… lead me to you, in front of the apartment complex.”

There’s no way.

You scoff in disbelief.

“Last time I checked, I’m clearly not a… ‘Stand user’,” you say with a deadpan expression. “I don’t have one, like you said. You told me that you had one, Noriaki had one, Jotaro had one, and… I don’t. I can’t see yours and couldn’t see theirs. I don’t even know what a Stand is supposed to look like, I—”

“—no shit, I know you’re not a Stand user,” the man interjects, narrowing his eyes at you. “At least… not yet.”

“…not yet,” you flatly repeat.

“Not yet,” he reassures.

That’s all he says.

“But, why… ‘not yet’?” you ask.

Before he could respond— probably with something vague— he’s interrupted.

Out of the blue, a new male voice echoed off the walls and floors.

“You did not inform me that the woman with the Joestar child had no Stand.”

Joestar?

The man and you lock eyes for a moment. You swear you see a hint of fear in him, considering how his pupils dilate. Though, you could also feel your heartbeat getting faster for some reason.

Your brows furrow and your eyes dart around, trying to find the owner of the voice.

Shooting up from the floor, the man smooths out wrinkles from his robe and fixes the top hem of his crotch-high boots.

“I didn’t think her lack of a Stand was relevant,” the man in the orange robing admitted with partial confidence as he fixed himself.

The new voice let out a low hum.

“If I’m not mistaken, the father of the child had a Stand, correct?”

…uh, last time you checked, you were not showing at all. How did they even…

The man in the orange robing glances at you before responding, seemingly talking to the air.

“Yes, that counterpart of Jonathan Joestar’s great-great-grandson had a Stand, though it seems to be genetic. I don’t believe he got it by… any other means.”

You don't recognize the name.

“I see. You shall see yourself being rewarded within the next day or so, Piper.”

Hm.

So that’s his name.

“Kenny G already prepared the place. Escort her.”

After he gestured for you to stand up, you did as you were instructed. The sound of your broken laptop continued to clink and screech in your backpack as you walked out of the living room with him. You both return to the corridor, where you both stand on the runner rug once again. It’s strange to think that about an hour ago, Vanilla Ice’s Stand would’ve consumed you right here. You weren’t given any description as to what his Stand looked like, so that was going to be a missing piece of information in your memories.

“So,” you start, raising a brow at the man beside you. “Uh, where are we go—”

—the end of the corridor.

The aged stone walls are now directly in front of you two, and two sets of high double doors were on the left and right. 

You slowly blink in confusion; you turn around to see meticulously-carved archway entrance to that room with the embroidered sofas. 

That was all the way on the other end of the corridor. Though, it quickly became obscured by the recurring wafts of scentless smoke, and you couldn’t see it anymore.

It’s as if you’ve been teleported to a different part of the mansion. You blink and poof— you’re not in that end of the corridor. You’re on the other side.

Piper rubbed his face with one hand before tapping your shoulder. You returned to face him, which at that point he stepped towards the double doors on the left. He stares at you with an expression you can’t exactly pinpoint, but you follow him.

“This may or may not be the last time I see you,” he says, pursing his lips.

You donned a look of puzzlement. What did he mean by—

—again, he abruptly opens one of the double doors, shoving you through the space once again.

Fuming, you realize that you had almost forgotten that he did that to you when bringing you here. Hell, if you were insane enough, maybe you would’ve forgiven him as well.

Abruptly, you turn around to face the now-white door to bang your fist on it several times. The dark handleset door knob was no longer there; instead, it was a silver lever door knob. Much higher than the key lock was a door chain, also both silver. When you ‘knocked’, Piper never answered. You tried to unlock the door, but it was as if it was locked from the outside. The door chain just seemed redundant if that was the case.

The walls beside the door were white too. Beside your shoes is a small weave basket filled with house slippers. The flooring beneath that and your feet reminds you of a genkan, despite your location. But… it looked like yours.

Furrowing your brows, you turn around.

Holy shit.

You’re back at your apartment.

Narrowing your eyes at the familiar place— which was oddly clean, considering Friday— you take the time to see if this is really your place. Taking off your boots, you head into the cramped semi-open kitchen on the left. The cabinets and drawers are all the same style and placement as you remembered. Hell, even all of the appliances were the same.

Once you look past the open wall, you jolt backwards in shock. Your backpack nearly hits the back of the counter as your heart pounds.

Sitting at the round glass top table was a blond burly man. His sharp golden eyes locked with yours; a hint of fascination was in his look. Back straight against the chair, he continued to watch you as you slowly exited out of the kitchen and walked over to the dining table. There in the center was a crystal ball, though the small potted houseplant that was once there was now moved to sit on the floor beside his bare feet.

“Please, you must sit,” the blond man offers to you, gesturing to the chair across from him.

It’s the same voice as before.

Could he be…?

Eyeing him in suspicion, you pull out the chair and sit after taking off your backpack. He continues to stare at you, though you start to become a little uncomfortable. Not only by his eyes— which seem to never leave you— but by the fact that he’s also shirtless. Every muscle on his body seems to be bulging; you didn’t think that it’d be possible to get this muscular, but here he is. Luckily, he still had his pants on, which were golden with unused green suspenders.

His ridiculously long legs nearly intertwine with yours under the table. You notice the somewhat-faded scar that circled around his throat.

“I give my utmost sympathy to you,” he starts, expression softening. “I imagine that you are not coping well since becoming a widow, correct?”

Your brows furrow. 

How did he know that too? What the fuck?

You feel the need to ask, but there's a part of you that thinks that it's a bad idea to do so. So you don't, as much as you want to.

“Before you assume otherwise, Piper had been the one to inform me of such matters. I take it that you are… aware of his abilities?”

“Uh, yeah,” you say offhandedly. “The dimension-hopping, the… ‘knowing-about-other-Stand-users’ thing. I guess that explains how you knew my… status, and all.”

“Yes.”

For a moment, you both continue to stare at one another. Neither of you say anything.

You clear your throat in awkwardness. 

In response, he lets out a low hum.

“You’re… Dio, aren’t you? ‘Lord Dio’, as Piper calls you?”

Dio nods.

“Okay, anyway, um… what’s with the crystal ball? It’s just been sitting here, and uh, well… you moved my plant.”

He tittered.

“What your heart desires will appear here,” Dio says, gesturing to the crystal ball that sat before the both of you. His large, oddly smooth hand hovers over the sphere for an unusual amount of time, and you feel the hairs at the back of your neck stand up. There’s a look of uncertainty plastered on your face; you’re not really getting the purpose of him… showing what you ‘desire’. But there’s one thing you ask yourself.

Would… would your husband appear?

Inside the crystal ball was only fog for a few seconds. There wasn’t any distinct shape— it kept twisting and twisting and you lean forward in anticipation. Your eyes continue to watch the crystal ball, and they continue to do so until you start to make out an eerily familiar sight. Your breath hitches.

Noriaki, now alive and well, appears in the lens of the sphere as hypothesized.

He’s radiant as you remembered him, cherry earrings shimmering from the light he stood under. The second he turned around, a wide smile was plastered on his face. It’s as if you lock eyes with him again, his lavender-grey eyes glinting and its outer corners crinkling. From the neck down he seemed to be nude, but that was the least of your worries. You watch him bring a hand up to his red hair to comb the voluminous side bang.

It suddenly occurs to you that this is the last time that you’ll ‘see’ him, but yes, you desperately wanted him alive again. There’s a part of you that wanted you to disregard all of this, to think that this was just an intricately gruesome nightmare all along. You wanted to deny the fact that your husband would no longer stand beside you, and only now does it really and fully sink in. 

You will never see him again. 

You will be alone.

You felt the sting of your eyes starting to water.

Dio had been watching you the entire time with creased brows. He asks with a gentle tone, “Do you see… him?”

Silently nodding, you wipe your eyes with your sleeve. His hand— the one not hovering over the crystal ball— now resorted to holding your other hand, his thumb lightly brushing your skin. His golden eyes lock with yours as you look up at him; you see his sadness, his sympathy. Though you haven’t known him for very long, you somewhat appreciate his unorthodox form of consolation. Dio must’ve known deep down that you desired Noriaki’s return some amount of time before you did. There was a part of you that started to feel useless for not noticing from the get-go.

“You are a woman burdened with grief,” he whispered, calmly lifting a hand in between you two. The sight of Noriaki in the crystal ball immediately disappeared like mist. “It would be inconvenient for you to live the remainder of your life without meaningful direction.”

Yeah, it does seem pretty inconvenient… 

Dio’s eyes briefly avert from yours; in fact, he turns his head to the corner of the apartment, to the window beside the television. You’re not sure what he was trying to look at.

His hand seems to be reaching for your face now. Was he… going to stroke your cheek or something? Honestly, that’s a little weird—

—gah—!

Dio decided to go for a more… direct approach.

Everything during and after this happens so quick you can barely comprehend what’s happening.

First of all— what the hell— his fingers dart to your forehead, and the second you feel your skin being stabbed through by the tips of his fingers, you scream. It’s like needles, yes, it’s a small bundle of godawful needle-like things that pierce directly into the layers of your skin down to your skull and what—

—you scream even louder, and your hands immediately move up to grab onto Dio’s forearm. His fingers don’t budge; it’s as if they’re cemented onto your forehead, and you feel like you’re going to pass out from the intrusive pain that he unleashes. As you attempt to pull his arm away, your fingernails create deep scratches into his otherwise flawless skin. You see the skin swell up directly under the scratches as his blood starts to spill out of the thin slits. The feeling of light-headedness starts to surge through you, and you feel the slow ooze of blood from your forehead down the bridge of your nose.

What… what is he doing?!

You have to resort to your other senses, which in that case you hear footsteps rushing away and slamming the ‘bathroom’ door.

Out of nowhere, everything starts to fall. 

The white walls of your apartment are slowly eaten by the dark walls of the mansion, the brown hardwood floor beneath you vanishing piece by piece in replacement of the stone floor. The windows slowly disintegrate and no longer are you or Dio being illuminated by the fake light ‘outside’. The two sofas, the television, the coffee table, the rug, and the rack of video games all disappear from the living room. The glass-top dining table and wooden chairs beside it transition into the cracked wooden table and cushioned high-back chairs— you feel it, in fact— yet the crystal ball remains. That’s all that remains, and you remember where you are again. Everything had been an illusion.

In your peripheral vision you see… flesh-colored tentacles of some sort. One of your hands reaches up to your forehead in an attempt to grab it, but your hand is struck and smacked. No, not by Dio, but by the tentacle-thing itself— its attack creates a thin slice on your hand, the sound of you gasping at the cut and the slow rush of blood makes Dio simper. The tentacles return to where your skull had been practically drilled in, swiftly rushing through your head like a series of mini bullet-trains.

His fingers continue to hold onto your forehead, restricting any possible movement. You can’t even move your own legs to kick at him or get up or anything . It’s as if you’ve lost all feeling to the lower half of your body— you’re stuck. You’re stuck for heaven’s sake. Your eyes are wide, helplessly darting from the high ceiling to the walls to the floor to Dio and his too-satisfied smirk to… the corner of the room.

One of your senses still works, at least.

You hear quiet footsteps.

At a distance behind Dio was a short elderly woman, face embedded with wrinkles. She’s approaching slowly, though this might be due to her old age. Your body remains paralyzed as your eyes attempt to focus on her.

Who is she?

Was she part of this too?

“You are fortunate to be in the worldly presence of Lord Dio,” the old woman compliments, sadism seeping from her voice. “If potential is what he sees in you, then as his most loyal servant, I must take his beliefs to heart. Hehe! As such, there has been a change in plans.”

...potential?

“You will be thankful for I, Enya Geil, for this, should you live.”

Your face contorted in anger— what the hell did she mean by that? What the hell did you get roped into? Why—

The sight of her expertly drawing a Bow and Arrow in your direction made you squirm, but Dio’s hold on your head restricted all other movement. You wanted to scream, swear, shriek but goddamn for some reason you couldn’t bring yourself to do so, it’s like Dio was controlling your mind and controlling every one of your thoughts and words and processes and… and… 

Before you realize it, you got thrown back, the chair you sat in toppling over with you.

Lord Dio’s fingers were no longer cemented into your forehead, but you were on the floor. The back of your head is throbbing from the sudden impact with the stone.

You’re… choking.

Holy fucking shit — did… oh my fucking God…

The fletchings of the Arrow is all you can see, but barely.

You feel the searing, sharp pain of the Arrow’s head stabbed into the start of your trachea— your neck, it’s paralyzed— you’re paralyzed even more— though you’re not sure if it’s the nerves getting hit or your emotional shock from being hit with the projectile. There’s no way your desperate need to scream again is getting fulfilled anytime soon.

The Arrow’s intrusion causes your gag reflex to trigger, but it’s lodged well into your throat. You feel a long vertical cut on your tongue and on the roof of your mouth from the Arrow’s intricately-carved head— you hack up blood, the warm and metallic-tasting liquid splattering and dripping down your mouth and chin due to its short trajectory. Tears start to build up and flow down your cheeks with little effort. You’re getting blinded and the darkness of the room isn’t helping one bit.

This old bitch fucking shot you. 

You mean… who in their right mind decides to shoot someone in the fucking throat with a Bow and Arrow out of nowhere? Why did Lord Dio not react like a normal person? No shock, no attempt to help, he’s just… watching you slowly bleed to death. His chair screeches as he slides it back to stand up. Your blood continues to spurt and drip, staining the Arrow’s head and that half of the shaft. Beside you on the floor is your backpack, still containing the broken laptop parts. The hardware’s edges through your barely-durable bag start to make marks on your legs. You’re waiting, you’re waiting… you’re waiting for the onset of death, for your eyes to stop darting around, for your head and arms and legs to stop slightly twitching, for your heartbeat to come to an end.

…either dying is taking up much more time that you expected or… you don’t know. But you’re not getting dead for some reason.

Suddenly, you feel the upper half of your body being hoisted up from the floor.

With one of his large, smooth hands, Lord Dio firmly grabs the side of your face and keeps it still. Your pupils shift to see the alabaster skin the best you could in your position; his thumb is right under your lower eyelid, fingers buried in your scalp. His hand is surprisingly cold.

Then, with the other hand, he wraps his fingers around the Arrow’s shaft. 

He tugs.

A wheezed scream erupts out of your vocal cords. Your body tenses up at the feeling of Lord Dio trying to pull the Arrow out of your throat. You feel the cuts on the roof of your mouth and your tongue getting deeper— it’s like he’s trying to make the slashes worse. Yet, your body continues to betray you. You still can’t move. What he does is hurting you, fuck, why is he struggling, why is it taking Lord Dio so long to pull a fucking Arrow out of your throat, you mean, he has the muscle, he should have the capability to do so… goddamn he is taking way too long to pull this piece of shit out of your throat and… and you know what? 

You know what?

An… android’s hand… forcefully grabs onto the shaft of the Arrow, aiding Lord Dio in the effort of pulling. Once he successfully yanks it from your throat, he steps back, grasping onto the Arrow as he stared down at you with wide eyes. There’s a genuine look of surprise on his face as he watched you fall forward. As you fall, you see Enya with the Bow, you see the table with the crystal ball, you see Lord Dio’s long legs, you see the floor, you’re ready to smash your face into the stone.

But you don’t.

You hear the clank of metal. You feel your limbs— your entire body— enveloped with the metallic material. Your clothes are no longer on your body, and it’s as if they weren’t under the metal either.

Their voices become mumbles to you as you continue to rest face-down on the stone floor, unable to move your body. You can’t bring a hand to your lower abdomen to hold in a motherly fashion. During that whole situation, it just seemed like you’ve lost all strength. Were you ever going to be able to move again? Did they just incapacitate you? What… what exactly have you done to deserve this?

If only Noriaki could see what was happening to you.

“She…  wears  her Stand?”

——

[STAND NAME]

???

[STAND MASTER]

You

——

--> To Be Continued -->

Up Next: Plane tickets, Polaroid photos, and yours & Jotaro's response to Noriaki's infertility.

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Proof-of-concept supply-chain poisoning: tiny, undetectable hardware alterations could compromise corporate IT

A little over a year ago, Bloomberg stunned the world with a report that claimed that Chinese intelligence services had figured out how to put undetectable, rice-grain-sized hardware implants into servers headed for the biggest US cloud and enterprise companies, and that when some of the victims discovered this fact, they quietly ripped out whole data-centers and replaced all their servers.

The story was all the more infamous because it prompted rare, detailed denials from the companies involved, like Apple, who have historically dealt with bad news and leaks with parsimonious, closed-lipped denials. Then came the hardware experts and security experts who delved deep into the implausibility of Bloomberg's story, though some highly reputable experts did admit that supply chain attacks were a grossly underrated risk with potentially catastrophic outcomes.

A year later, we still don't know what happened: how did all those nameless senior officials and ex-officials from big IT/tech companies end up telling Bloomberg the same story, especially if that story turns out to be false. The idea that a bunch of rival tech execs would cook up a conspiracy to defraud Bloomberg is, if anything, even weirder and more implausible than the idea that Chinese spooks were poisoning Supermicro's servers and raiding data from Big Tech's supposedly impregnable data-vaults.

That kind of Kremlinology is hard to investigate: all the facts are held by secretive giants (and maybe Chinese spies). Barring leaks, we're just left proffering unfalsifiable theories about which conspiracy took place.

On the other hand, the plausibility of a hardware implant is much easier to investigate. Security researchers have been building proof-of-concept hardware implants for enterprise hardware and presenting them at security conferences. Late last year, Trammell Hudson presented a Supermicro implant at Germany's Chaos Communications Congress, revealing a spot on Supermicro's board where you could swap out a tiny resistor and replace it with an FPGA that could compromise the remote administration capabilities of the baseboard management controller.

Now, Foxguard's Monta Elkins is about to present further work at the CS3sthlm conference in Stockholm, demonstrating a hardware implant on an enterprise Cisco firewall, using a 5mm ATtiny85 controller he removed from a $2Digispark Arduino board. The implant fits neatly -- and very inconspicuously -- on the mainboard of a Cisco ASA 5505 firewall. Moreover, Elkins says he deliberately made choices that could compromise the implant, for the sake of easy presentation: if he'd hidden the chip inside a radio-shielding can, it would have been even harder to detect -- likewise, he could have used an even smaller controller, but it would have been harder to program.

Elkins's implant uses the board's serial port to recover the firewall's password, login as its admin, and open a pathway for a hacker's intrusion to the network. And as both Elkins and Hudson have pointed out, this is with stock hardware: a custom chip designed for this kind of thing would be much smaller and more powerful.

Neither researcher claims to have validated Bloomberg's article, but both have demonstrated that supply chain attacks are certainly possible and potentially catastrophic.

https://boingboing.net/2019/10/14/attiny85.html

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It will permit them all to handle successfully this transfer of their investments to another parties. To live this world order wave without losing any keypoint: Problem Regardless of the success and wide-spread adoption of Bitcoin together with Ethereum, neither of these blockchains have been exclusively designed to be able to help in the ownership connected with additional property on top of the tokens which are transacted throughout their respective networks. In Bitcoin, the original rules governing the blockchain and protocol must possibly be honored and so this kind of means that Bitcoin systems are not ready in order to register the fact that property happen to be being embedded in as well. This means that intended for every resource financial transaction designed on the Bitcoin network, there must be the associating bitcoin business deal payment, set up transaction is to help basically deliver the tool. This has a result of unnecessary transaction fees whenever investments are transferred. Moreover, often the other major disadvantage is that assets can easily be �destroyed� credit rating sent in order to an exchange or pocket. For Ethereum typically the network is not able to natively identify smart contract tokens which can lead to some confusion caused by various ERC20 tokens having the exact same names. The only distinguishing factor involving contracts with identical names is this agreement hash and this can confound users or be used together with malicious intent to scam other individuals. As Ravencoin will be managing on a decentralized model together with independent miners to support the soundness involving the blockchain combined together with ASIS-resistance the coin can have a superb chance regarding staying in the hands and fingers of individuals and not really centralized by one celebration or maybe a group of events that can collude to shape the outcome involving an event, a have your say or even the cost of the lieu alone. Peer to Peer Electronic System for the Generation plus Transfer of Possessions Maximized for moving possessions Tokens offer a number of advantages to traditional shares or perhaps different participation components: more rapidly move speeds, increased user control, and censorship amount of resistance, and also a elimination or removal with the need for a good trusted third party. Remedy The solution to often the above problems is for you to make a Bitcoin-like process that is completely tool mindful so that that recognizes whenever tokens have been recently made as assets. With a view to eliminate the problem, Ravencoin will bring to life typically the said: �Keep it very simple stupid� by means of focusing upon creating one thing, only one specific thing� some sort of bitcoin-like system, totally aware with regards to when tokens are made simply because assets (Based with PoW but with a good new mining criteria, x16r). This provides three strengths: Assets can be guarded coming from accidentally being demolished. As being the method and often the system is aware about typically the assets?�?they can be continued the blockchain like a passenger on the exercise ultimately getting them all safely for the desired destination. People are able to problem, track, and transfer resources with each additional together with the ease of sending a good message to one another. Now end users will pass on on a full system specifically designed to issue, keep track of plus transfer assets concerning functions. It will provide appropriate security levels to this main assets. To accomplish that Ravencoin can hinge on a wide supply, a strong mining local community plus market value to function. Main Features?�?Tech Summary Ok, now many of us recognize the problem (the suggested one, between the numerous current issues) that requirements to be solved around current blockchain and we all know the solution that Ravencoin is committed to create in order to go beyond that limitation. So� things that are next?. We need in order to go serious into their own tech� it looks a drab, but we will manage that. Only in of which Ravencoin Wallet will really now have knowledge and blocks for you to take decisions about typically the task. Ravencoin bring all of us the following features: X16R Algorithm Before we illustrate what X16R is definitely we all will first provide details behind what other gold and silver coins possess implemented for his or her algorithms. Inside the search in order to create and put into action methods that are ASIC immune (meaning that purpose created mining machines with excessive hash rates could certainly not be developed) which inside turn reduces the likelihood of centralization via great mining farming, projects have got tried a new selection associated with tactics to help hinder this specific centralization (such we observe with Bitcoin mining). The particular first approach was in order to adopt memory intensive methods want those used simply by both Scrypt and Equihash. This requirement for additional in memory information reduces often the performance of the ASIC to be able to more onpar of typically the GPU based gold mining using the same algorithm Another approach that was undertaken, had been Dash�s approach, which in turn was to take the X11 algorithm. This is the use of 11 chained hashing methods (hence the name) in an energy to slow down the creation of ASIC components. This did not reduce the design of a good special objective ASIC so once there was a great ASIC regarding X11, some others added even more hashing methods to make additional codes which were referred to as X13, X15 and X17. This makes it additional tough to create a ASIC but because the particular algorithms are in nearly the same order the hard but not extremely hard to create an ASIC. What Ravecoin does is usually called X16r and of which enactment like the some others described earlier use of sixteen algorithms for that hashing (see table below). The key difference is they already have added algorithm reordering. It really is this specific reordering based on typically the results from the previous mass that provides additional ASIC resistance than other hashing algorithms. Example: Previous Prohibit Hash: 0000000000000000007e8a29f052ac2870045ae3970270f9?7da00919b8e86287 The ultimate eight bytes: 0x7da00919b8e86287 establishes the particular next 16 hashes ought to be. Roadmap Phase 1?�?Complete Ravencoin (RVN) is a Proof of Do the job or maybe built on the Bitcoin UTXO model. As along with additional Bitcoin derivatives, RVN gold and silver coins are distributed to help folks augmenting the Raven network by way of mining Raven. x1000 coin distribution (21 Thousand Total) 10x speedier obstructs (1 per minute) Found in app CPU mining ~1. 4 Day issues adjusting (2016 blocks) Addresses start out with R� for normal addresses, or r� for multisig Network Port: 8767 RPC Port: 8766 UTXO?�?UNSPENT PURCHASE OUTPUT DEFINITION This Unspent Transaction Output is usually key for you to bitcoin since this is how bitcoin keeps track of inputs and components on the blockchain. First let�s appearance in how a traditional bank works. Assume Tom has been Bank A and has got an equilibrium of $5, 1000 and even assume that Alice who does almost all her banking with Standard bank B has no balance. Dan wants to send out $2, 500 dollars to Alice. To accomplish this Tom asks their lender to send $2, 000 to help Bank M in Alice�s name. The actual transaction has Tom�s balance lowered by $2, 000 by $5, 1000 to $3, 000 plus Alice�s harmony increases via $0 for you to $2, 1000. Taking this specific to the Bitcoin blockchain: Ben comes with received inputs in typically the level of 5 BTC. This is by 4 dealings (inputs) ADVICES Received 2 BTC Obtained 1 BTC = some BTC Obtained 1. five BTC Acquired. 5 BTC In this specific example, Tom wishes to give Alice 2 BTC. The particular blockchain, unlike banks, can be not aware of account balances as in the example above therefore, the transaction is registered as: OUTPUTS 2 BTC shipped to Alice 3 BTC repaid to Ben ? this is the Unspent Transaction End result or UTXO Phase 2?�?Assets (in progress)ASIC RESISTANCE ASIC Resistance?�?A published commitment to regular attempts at ASIC amount of resistance. If ASICs are usually made for x16r, next i will, at a unique block amount, modify 1 of the algorithms to incorporate Equihash, EthHash or even similar efforts to increase often the resistance to ASIC miners to get Raven. UNIQUE ASSET HELP Ravencoin will be some sort of hard fork that will stretches Raven to include the ability to issue and transfer resources. The expected release regarding asset capabilities will possibly be approximately seven months immediately after the relieve of RVN. Raven are going to be extended to help allow issuing, reissuing, plus transfer of investments. Property can be reissuable or perhaps limited to the specific offer at the position of issuance. The expense to create property is going to be 500 RVN to develop any qty of a great asset. Each asset label must be one of a kind. Advantage names will be limited to A-Z and 0�9, �� and �. � and even must be at least three figures long. The particular �. � and typically the �� cannot be the initial, or the last design, or even be consecutive. Cases of valid assets: THE_GAME A good. TOKEN 123 Instances regarding invalid assets: _TOKEN THEEND. A.. B (consecutive punctuation) AB 12 . INITIAL This RVN used in order to issue possessions will be sent to a lose address, which will reduce the number of RVN available. Tool geneva chamonix transfers call for the common RVN business deal fees regarding transfer from a single address to help an additional. METADATA Metadata about the token could be kept in IPFS. Initially this particular cannot be changed. Should there be a demand, the system can be kept up to date for you to allow updating the metadata by the token issuer. REWARDS Reward capabilities can be added in to enable payment (in RVN) to be able to all stands of a good property. Repayments of RVN would be distributed to all property holders pro rata. This is great for paying out dividends, dividing bills, as well as rewarding a group regarding symbol holders. Example: The little software company troubles an asset GAMECO that shows a share of often the project. GAMECO tokens could be traded using others. Once the software program corporation profits, those profits could be distributed to all slots involving GAMECO by delivering the gains (via RVN) in order to all stands of GAMECO. BLOCK SIZING Raven may possibly increase the blocksize from 1 MB to be able to X MEGABYTES to allow regarding more on-chain transactions. Stage 3?�?Rewards The reward program allows the design connected with tokens that sit down in the Raven blockchain. These kinds of tokens may be created together with then sent to people today as a new reward regarding doing something or in an effort to raise funds. The finances raised can then be used to send any kind of currency on the raven blockchain to one more celebration. Phase 4?�?Unique Investments After created, assets can possibly be manufactured unique for a new cost of 5 RVN. Only non-divisible assets can certainly be made distinctive. This specific moves an property to a UTXO and associates an exclusive designation with the txid. From this point the advantage could be relocated from a single address to another and even can be followed rear to their origins. No more than the issuer of the original asset can make a property exclusive. The costs to be able to make distinctive assets will be sent to a good burn address. Some instances of unique assets: Visualize that a skill dealer concerns the asset named ART WORK. The seller can after that make unique ARTWORK property by attaching a identify or a serialized quantity to each piece connected with art. These distinctive tokens can be transferred in order to the new owner down with the lady as some sort of proof of credibility. This tokens ART: MonaLisa plus ART: VenusDeMilo are not agotable and symbolize distinct components of fine art. A application developer will issue often the asset while using name associated with their software ABCGAME, together with then assign each ABCGAME token a unique identity as well as license key. The particular game tokens could be transported as the permission transfers. Each token ABCGAME: 398222 and ABCGAME: will be one of a kind tokens. In activity resources. A game ZYX_GAME could create unique limited copy in-game assets that are usually owned plus used by the game person. Example: ZYX_GAME: Sword005 together with ZYX_GAME: Purse RVN centered special assets can be tied to real world resources. Develop a property referred to as GOLDVAULT. Each coin or gold rod in the vault can possibly be serialized and even audited. Associated unique property GOLDVAULT: 444322 and GOLDVAULT: 555994 will be created to represent the specific assets inside of the physical gold vault. The public character connected with the chain allows with regard to entire transparency. Phase 5?�?Messaging Messages to token owners by way of authorized senders can be split on top rated of the Phase three or more unique assets. See KAAAWWW Protocol for additional information. Step 6?�?Voting Voting can be accomplished by building together with distributing parallel tokens to token stands. These bridal party can be provided for RVN addresses to record a election. Team + Advisors Referred to as a new community tableau. Everyone can contribute through adding in order to the project. The amount of coders involved is certainly uncertain, however there have been 430 Bitcoin developers who else made around 14, 000 commits according to Github. Tron Black?�?Core Builder Tron has been in Blockchain and cryptocurrencies as a good Software Developer for 5+ several years. Currently a Principal Software Developer for Medici a VC investing in the blockchain space. His occupation mission is to improve technology to help eliminate real world problems. He or she was initially the President/CEO from Azure Squirrel for 17+ many years. Blue Squirrel is the software program development company his or her initial product was SQURL, it was the google connected with the web at typically the time. Created Paten?�?System to help Verify Personality and Popularity for the Cryptocurrency Finances Address: Patent dateFiled July 6, 2013 Patent company and numberus 61831802. Patent descriptionMethod and system intended for voluntary id of a good company or individual identity to be able to public crypto-currency address(es), and a single number popularity rating system available by means of API. Bruce Fenton?�?Advisor Generic is a Blockchain Economic Specialist. He has had 23+ many years of experience in the Finance industry and combined with 3+ several years experience in typically the blockchain in addition to cryptocurrency place. They provides placed more than $5 billion in investments in investing money during his career. Advised this Bill & Melinda Entrance Foundation?�?arranged, attended and well staffed very senior level meetings involving Bill Gates and enterprise and government frontrunners in Saudi Arabia, performed with the top of Middle East for your basic foundation (please note, views on online money and financial troubles are not those of the particular foundation). Managed the particular Satoshi Roundtable private getaway, a gathering of 75 connected with the top leaders in blockchain technologies. Angel Investor in SpeechWorks (now public Nuance with $5bn industry cap). Angel Investor throughout Bitcoin companies such as ShapeShift. Advisor to Factom, BTCS and other corporations. At this time have 3 functions: Board Member of The Bitcoin Foundation (2+ years), which in turn is the largest and oldest industry group for Bitcoin Technology. Founder with Satoshi Roundtable Private Blockchain Retreat (3+ years), the industry invite only VIP total annual event. Controlling Director. CIO for atlantic Financial Incorporation. (23+)

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Source: a video screenshot, The Outcome/ YouTube Gigi is a Bitcoin teacher, author of '21 Lessons', and software application engineer. __________ It can't be stated typically enough: Bitcoin is puzzling. It's not made complex like a Rube Goldberg device is made complex. It's simply extremely foreign and therefore extremely misconstrued-- it is an entirely brand-new thing. "There's absolutely nothing to relate it to," as Satoshi [Nakamoto] put it in among his posts Because there is absolutely nothing to relate it to, we are all having a difficult time covering our heads around the different elements of it. We require to utilize words if we wish to speak about it in a significant method, and words are what I will concentrate on. I wish to speak about 2 things: (1) the language utilized in Bitcoin and (2) the language utilized to assault bitcoin. Part 1: The Language Used In Bitcoin Let's get something out of the method: it's all numbers, all the method down. Bitcoin does the something that all computer systems do, which is in fact 2 things: it takes specific numbers as inputs, does estimations, and provides the outcome of stated estimations to another person. In Bitcoin's case, this "another person" is another node on the network-- or numerous, to be exact. When disrobed to its bare fundamentals, that's all there is to it: mathematics and messages. Consequently, we need to utilize metaphors-- and great deals of them. Keys, wallets, addresses, signatures, agreements, mining, dust, fork, oracle, orphan, seed, witness-- the list goes on. However, here's the important things with metaphors: "All metaphors are incorrect, however some work," to paraphrase George Box. Undoubtedly, lots of people are puzzled exactly since of the drawbacks of these metaphors. All the labels that we use to the numerous ideas in Bitcoin are incorrect, a minimum of a bit. Some are incorrect a lot. Everybody who ever attempted to describe that "your bitcoins are not really in your bitcoin wallet" to a glossy-eyed rookie understands what sort of confusion I'm discussing. Unfortunately, this confusion will not be disappearing anytime quickly. And more worryingly, this confusion is being weaponized by lawmakers, political leaders, and analysts alike. Those who abhor Bitcoin are attempting to pass laws and plant concepts in individuals's heads that are bastardizing how Bitcoin works, in addition to the language we utilize to explain how it works. It would be advantageous to get our language directly. How high are the possibilities of comprehending something deeply if the words we utilize to explain stated thing are insufficient? First, let's go through a few of the words we utilize in Bitcoin and see where they fail. All of us understand these words, and we typically do not hesitate about them. Let's begin with "wallet."" Wallet" A wallet is a piece of software application or hardware that makes it much easier or more safe and secure to shop and/or invest your bitcoin. It's simple to see that a wallet is neither one thing nor quickly specified; simply take a look at all the numerous types of wallets we created for many years: paper wallet, brain wallet, hardware wallet, mobile wallet, multisig wallet, lightning wallet, watch-only wallet, and so on. In the end, we need to comprehend how Bitcoin runs if we wish to get a grip on what a wallet is. Here is the essence of it: to produce a bitcoin deal, you require to sign a message with a personal secret. 2 things are necessary for a wallet: crucial storage and finalizing. That's not enough, generally. To communicate with the Bitcoin network, you require to communicate with a Bitcoin node. You require a method to access the general public info, the "dispersed journal" that is so frequently discussed by financing and crypto brothers alike. What we have actually traditionally called a bitcoin wallet, hence, is simply some software application that handles and shops secrets and enables the user to quickly utilize these secrets to sign and relay messages.

To increase security, stated software application may be embedded in a devoted hardware gadget. The more effort it is to invest your sats, the lower the threat of theft or loss of funds. A wallet may not have any finalizing ability at all, as holds true for brain, paper, or watch-only wallets. This pleads the concern: how beneficial is the term wallet? Interestingly, we have actually currently changed to a various term when it concerns seed storage. We are not discussing "metal wallets" or "metal secrets" when we speak about crucial storage; we generally speak about seed storage, metal seeds, or seed plates nowadays. Further, we now describe different multi-signature and timelock constructs as "vaults"-- an effective and clear difference. The vault metaphor makes it right away apparent that whatever is kept in the vault is there for the long run. It isn't spendable quickly or rapidly. I hope that, in the future, we will likewise handle to do away with the generic "wallet" term. When it pertains to hardware wallets, a modification of terms is currently underway. Considered that a hardware wallet is absolutely nothing however a little gadget that is utilized for signing deals, a more precise term is " finalizing gadget," which is presently getting traction thanks to individuals who comprehend the technicalities of Bitcoin deeply. Maybe use will change so that whenever somebody states "wallet," it is suggested that it is something that isn't holding enormous quantities of worth which stated worth is invested quickly and rapidly, as holds true for Lightning wallets. In the end, the "wallet" metaphor will constantly be incorrect in an essential method: your wallet does not in fact hold any of your coins. That's not how Bitcoin works. It may hold your secrets, which brings us to the next word." Key" In the real world, a secret is utilized to open something. A door, a chest, a locker, and so on. It may likewise be utilized to begin something: a vehicle, a motorcycle, a nuclear rocket-- you understand. As discussed in the past, to produce a bitcoin deal, you utilize your personal secret to sign a message. The type in bitcoin are cryptographic secrets, and cryptographic secrets can be utilized to develop digital signatures. This, naturally, just makes good sense worldwide of cryptography. Frequently, a secret is utilized to lock and open things. If you wish to sign something, you require a pen. This complicated metaphor is not unique to Bitcoin, obviously. A lot of other software application utilizes cryptographic secrets to sign things, which is why in 2010, this abomination of an emoji was presented: the padlock, "locked with pen." Consequently, a "crucial" in bitcoin is more like a pen, not a real secret. Given, you can utilize your secret to "unlock" sats that are "locked" on your own or another person, however still, no matter what metaphor you utilize, it will constantly fail. It will constantly fail due to the fact that the type in Bitcoin are information, absolutely nothing else. Your personal secrets are secret info-- info that no one however you need to ever understand. If another person gets belongings of your personal secrets, your bitcoin will be their bitcoin. To make theft or unintentional costs as hard as possible, secrets that admit to big funds are kept in "cold" storage. The secret details is detached from the web, hung on unique finalizing gadgets that never ever touch a basic calculation gadget. A "hot wallet," on the other hand, brings the secret info needed to move your sats as near to the network as possible. If you wish to invest regularly, your secrets need to be easily offered. A lightning wallet, for instance, is a "hot" wallet: the personal secrets that enable you to invest your sats are linked to the web at all times. If your computer system or smart device is jeopardized, your funds are at danger. Such are the tradeoffs in between "hot" wallets and "cold" storage." Hot" and "cold" are once again, obviously, metaphors.

A hot wallet is hot like a microphone in a recording studio is hot. It implies that it's charged, fired up, and to be managed with care, not that its temperature level really increased. We can see that language is neither particular nor fixed, that makes the line in between a beneficial metaphor and a straight-out linguistic attack a blurred one. The "crucial" metaphor, for instance, isn't awfully incorrect. We can really think about finalizing as unlocking. The hidden components accountable for investing sats are described as locking and opening scripts, and for great factor. These scripts are little computer system programs that specify the conditions that are needed for specific sets of sats to move. You can consider it like this: those who wish to move sats need to resolve a cryptographic puzzle. Typically, a personal secret is needed to satisfy the costs condition: the secret is the crucial to the puzzle. If we believe "crucial to the puzzle," it's not even incorrect. And anyhow, I'm scared we're persevered. Two more things: the reason that your personal secret can be represented as words is that it is, similar to whatever else in bitcoin, details. And the reason that we call these words a "seed expression" is due to the fact that your personal secret is the seed from which all your other secrets and, eventually, addresses are originated from. This brings us to the next word: "address."" Address" This is most likely the worst of all. To quote Luke Dashjr: "It's so bad, we made a BIP to eliminate it." He is discussing BIP 179, a Bitcoin enhancement proposition that's sole function is to propose a brand-new term for "address." The brand-new term is "billing," which is the default in lightning and is really more precise-- technically speaking-- even on the base layer. It is more precise due to the fact that bitcoin deals do not have a "from address," despite the fact that you may believe they do, specifically if your mind is poisoned with the "address" metaphor. The idea of a " from address" just exists heuristically. In Bitcoin, just getting addresses exist. A deal does not include a from address. A deal just includes the abovementioned scripts, which are obstacles and services to difficulties. If you can fix the difficulty, you can move the coins. The method to think of this effectively is to think of circulations, not coins. Let's state you take a huge scoop of water out of a lake, and let's even more state that this lake is fed by several streams. It's a beautiful lake in a mountainous area, so you fill your bottle to cool yourself off with a rejuvenating beverage. You take a seat, take a sip, and contemplate the following concern: where did the water in your bottle originated from? From the lake, undoubtedly-- however from which stream? And the number of particles originated from the clouds straight, drizzling down on the lake? Can you inform, even in concept? A God-like entity most likely could, because water includes particles, and you might-- a minimum of in theory-- track stated particles. You can comprehend Bitcoin and bitcoin deals in a comparable method: deals can have several inputs and numerous outputs, i.e., inflows and outflows, to stick to the liquid metaphor. There is one crucial distinction: there are no particles in bitcoin; there is just accounting. You can't track anything for sure; you can just make informed guesses-- heuristics that are, in most cases, plain incorrect. There are no particles in bitcoin since every deal "damages" all inputs and produces brand-new outputs. If you are dead-set on considering coins-- i.e., if you see every UTXO [unspent deal output] as a coin of a various size-- you can consider every deal as a smelting procedure. All inputs are liquified in a huge heater, and brand-new coins are developed as outputs. This brings us to the next troublesome metaphor: coins." Coins" I constantly liked this quote by Peter Van Valkenburgh, musing on the region of bitcoin-- or do not have thereof: Where is it, at this minute, in transit? [.

..] There are no bitcoins. There simply aren't. They do not exist. There are ledger entries in a journal that's shared [...] They do not exist in any physical area. The journal exists in every physical place, basically. Location does not make good sense here-- it is not going to assist you determining your policy here. Peter Van Valkenburgh What we call "coins" just exist by convention. The procedure ignores our concept of coins. It just understands sats and invested or unspent deal outputs. Used outputs are inputs of previous deals. If the amount of one or several outputs amounts to 100 million sats, we call it "one bitcoin." Of course, it is way much easier to speak about "coins" and "addresses" and "wallets," since we understand these things thoroughly from our real-world experience. We have an instinctive understanding of these metaphors, so it is clear what is occurring if one "coin" relocations from one "wallet" to another "wallet"-- or so we believe. While the psychological image of coins moving from one wallet to the next in an user-friendly and easy-to-understand way is a soothing one, however, it is incorrect. What occurs under the hood in bitcoin is a lot more terrific, a lot more sophisticated, and a lot more wonderful than boomer gold coins moving from one leather handbag to the next. It needs to be. Bitcoin is info, not a physical thing. It is teleported at the speed of light, stagnated in any physical sense. It is Magic Internet Money for a factor, and I'm scared that all of us need to comprehend its inner functions to a specific degree, specifically if we wish to be correctly geared up to eliminate versus any and all linguistic attacks, present and future. Part 2: The Language Used To Attack Bitcoin Bitcoin is under attack, constantly. Cash is adversarial by nature since cash is utilized in between celebrations that aren't completely relying on each other in the very first location. A financial system is an adversarial system. Everyone would like to have free ride; to cheat the system and get away with it. Everybody's a fraudster;-LRB- 1 everybody wishes to get some sats free of charge. Bitcoin is the most significant honeypot the world has actually ever seen; everybody and their grandmother would enjoy to break it. Even more, the powers that be are, a minimum of in part, effective since of the fiat cash printers that are rendered outdated by the orange coin. Attacking Bitcoin ends up being a required technique if your extremely survival is threatened by it. But, what parts of Bitcoin to assault? It is challenging to pin down what Bitcoin is and what it includes in the very first location. I like to consider it as a huge hot mess of 2 parts software application and 2 parts hardware-- or wetware, to be more exact. A mix of innovation and biology, with a big dash of economics on top. Viewed in this light-- that Bitcoin is comprised of concepts, individuals, code, and nodes-- it is simple to see that some attacks would be more apparent than others. An apparent attack would be a software application make use of that shuts down a big number of bitcoin nodes. A a lot more apparent one would be a massive attack on its physical facilities. If the foundries that produce the present generation of SHA-256 ASIC chips are bombed or different massive mining operations increase in flames, we can with confidence state that Bitcoin is under attack. In the very same vein, if bitcoiners are stated the opponent of the state and are jailed or eliminated en masse, we can likewise deduce that Bitcoin is under attack. But: how do you assault a concept? With bad concepts, that's how. The civil war of the blocksize dispute was such an attack on Bitcoin from the within, and its resolution was a tough fork-- a financial instantiation of stated concept. In addition to attacks from the within, we currently had numerous attacks from the exterior. Nearly as quickly as Bitcoin appeared, it was assaulted by political leaders, main lenders,

conventional financiers wedded to the fiat system, in addition to the financially and technically illiterate. We've heard all of it prior to: bitcoin is just utilized by bad guys, bitcoin is useless, bitcoin's worth is based upon pure speculation, bitcoin is old innovation, bitcoin is too sluggish, bitcoin is a bubble, and so on etc. Allow me to highlight a few of the more current terms and expressions thought up by those who hold on the tits of numerous cash printers-- whether it be political leaders, unique interest groups, or crypto bros." Unhosted Wallet" Two words, one objective: pressing users far from sound cash and self-reliance into something that all of us understand too well from the fiat system: trust, and reliance. The unnoticeable nature of this expression is what makes this attack so innovative. Calling a routine bitcoin wallet "unhosted" offers the impression that it must be "hosted" in the very first location; that something is missing out on from how it ought to be, like an incomplete puzzle or an unsupported beam. The conversation should not have to do with "hosting" in the very first location. It ought to have to do with control. Who can access your funds? Who can freeze your account? Who is the master, and who is the servant? Just like "the cloud is somebody else's computer system," a "hosted wallet" is somebody else's wallet. It ought to be apparent that the centralization of control is what produced all the financial issues in the very first location, however I'm scared that we will need to discover the lessons of history and the lessons of Mt. Gox over and over and over once again: cash held and managed by others can and will be controlled. We do not wish to make this error once again, which is why the following ended up being a mantra of sorts: not your secrets, not your bitcoin. Bitcoin wallets are expected to be unhosted-- or, to utilize a word that wasn't comprised by devilish puppeteers: independent The function of Bitcoin is to bring complete sovereignty to the private and to get rid of all dependences on relied on 3rd parties. No rulers, no masters, no hosts. Just peers. Instead of utilizing the term "unhosted wallet," one might describe routine bitcoin wallets as independent or flexibility wallets. The reverse of an independent wallet is a custodial service, which indicates that you have a consent slip, absolutely nothing more. By utilizing a custodial service, you damage what makes bitcoin important in the very first location. You go back to the permissioned design of cash: a financial obligation relationship in between masters and servants, which is the fiat system we wish to move far from. Some have all the power; the users have none. Such a custodial service, a service that they desire you to describe as a "hosted wallet"-- however what may be much better referred to as a servant wallet-- provides absolutely nothing however IOUs: consent slips & & financial obligation certificates that can be withdrawed, increased, re-issued, and ruined at any time. The servant has absolutely nothing; the master has whatever. Make no error: this is a war of stories, and the stakes could not be greater. Freedom vs. reliance, control vs. self-ownership, dependence vs. duty. A wallet ought to be self-hosted, and self-hosting is not a criminal offense. However, we should not think about "hosts" in the very first location. A wallet does not require to be hosted due to the fact that a wallet, as we've seen formerly, is absolutely nothing however a secret-- personal info-- integrated with hardware or software application that enables you to do something with stated secret, e.g., obtain addresses or indication deals. Having 12 words in your head does not make you the owner of an unhosted brain wallet; that's absurd. You do not require authorization to keep in mind 12 words by heart, and any law that makes the act of keeping in mind 12 words unlawful is a really, really, (really!) silly law. Even neglecting this stupidity for a minute, such a law can't potentially be imposed.

It needs to be rendered useless as quickly as it is passed. You can't show that I have 12 words in my head, much like I can't show that you are not considering an orange elephant at this very minute. Holding a secret is understanding a trick, and here is the important things about tricks: if you do not inform, no one understands. Letting somebody else hold your secrets damages all the advantages that bitcoin brings with it. If others might be relied on with our cash, we would not require Bitcoin in the very first location. And if no one takes the obligation of self-custody, Bitcoin will be caught, much like gold prior to it. Consequently, the term "unhosted wallet" is an attack on Bitcoin that we need to take seriously, together with the ramifications that an effective restriction would require. It is a most innovative and naughty attack-- subtle yet efficient, re-framing what a wallet is and need to be. The truth that somebody took a seat and created this expression makes me believe that the powers that be are beginning to comprehend what Bitcoin is and how empowering it really is, which is why they will do whatever they can to keep you numb, reliant, and oppressed. " They desire more on their own and less for everyone else," to estimate George Carlin "They do not desire knowledgeable, well-read individuals efficient in vital thinking." 2 Original video by Lubomir Arsov, remixed by The Outcome Audio by George Carlin, from his 2005 unique Life deserves Losing Ask yourself: should turning a coin 256 times be prohibited? What about mathematics? What about having specific ideas? Do we actually wish to reside in a world in which having 12 words in your head makes you a hooligan? #ChangeTheCode Another expression, another ramification. The #ChangeTheCode project is innovative; you need to provide that. It suggests that Bitcoin's code can't be altered, which could not be even more from the reality. Bitcoin is totally free 3 and open-source software application launched under the MIT License. 4 This implies that anybody can alter the code, Greenpeace or not, without needing to request authorization. Allow me to reproduce the license completely: Permission is thus given, totally free of charge, to anyone acquiring a copy of this software application and associated paperwork files (the "Software"), to handle the Software without constraint, consisting of without constraint the rights to utilize, copy, customize, combine, release, disperse, sublicense, and/or offer copies of the Software, and to allow individuals to whom the Software is provided to do so, based on the list below conditions: The above copyright notification and this consent notification will be consisted of in all copies or considerable parts of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Anyone is and constantly was totally free to alter the code of Bitcoin. Bitcoin's complimentary and open-source nature is why we have countless forks and clones in the very first location, consisting of forks that execute what the #ChangeTheCode advocates are proposing. 5 While this entire project to "alter the code" should not be taken seriously in the very first location, the techniques behind it shed some light on the aggressor's inspiration and on what is yet to come. #ChangeTheCode was moneyed by Chris Larsen, creator of Ripple, the business that produced the shitcoin that is XRP These sort of shitcoins can't take on Bitcoin on benefit since they are permissioned, centralized, and have no trustworthy financial policy, to name a few things. They have to resort to smear projects and working with reputational hit man.

The thing about cash is that all kinds of cash are contending, either straight or indirectly. All cash contend for liquidity, reliability, attention, worth saved, and more. Consequently, the marketing departments of practically all shitcoins are directing funds to dismiss or assault bitcoin in one method or another by suggesting that Bitcoin can't be altered, that it is utilized for illegal activity, or that it is too sluggish or inefficient. Bitcoin, nevertheless, is neither sluggish nor inefficient. Proof-of-work is remarkably effective if your objective is to produce a financial system that is devoid of politics and protected in a public and transparent way. If you do not worth such a system, it will constantly appear inefficient. This, coincidentally, brings us to the next attack." Proof of Stake" Let's get something out of the method: there is no evidence, there is no stake, 6 and it isn't even from another location equivalent to its name, proof-of-work. I have actually composed thoroughly about proof-of-work in the past, so in the interest of not attempting to duplicate myself advertisement nauseam, I'll attempt to be short: proof-of-work resolved the issue of informing time in a decentralized system, the issue of random choice, the issue of reasonable issuance, and the issue of unforgeable costliness in the digital world. It embeds unbiased reality into a blob of information straight, which is why it is trustless and trusted. The info "promotes itself," to price quote Satoshi. 7 Proof-of-stake, on the other hand, has no unbiased reality, no unbiased time, no random choice, no reasonable issuance, no outdoors expense, no functional expense, and centralizes with time. It is the continuous movement device of agreement systems, which is to state that it isn't an agreement system at all. It is rotten at its core due to the fact that it depends on trust through and through. Proof-of-stake need to be called "simply trust me, brother," and therein lies the issue in addition to the linguistic hoax: by calling it proof-of-stake, one may believe that it is equivalent to proof-of-work: "Ah, this one is similar to the other one! Simply another among those agreement systems, simply as great as Bitcoin's proof-of-work." No. Incorrect. Proof-of-stake is make-believe, and it will undoubtedly cause all the ills that the make-believe world of the fiat financial system experiences, as the numerous failures of these systems reveal time and time once again. 8 Conclusion Words have significances, which is why we must pick them carefully and thoroughly. Bitcoin is not inefficient. 9 Bitcoin is not closed source. 4 Bitcoin is not managed by shadowy supercoders.10 Bitcoin is not war. An ASIC is not a weapon. Bitcoin is a Wittgensteinian language-game,11 utilizing words and possibility for serene dispute resolution Allocation follows understanding, as does public law. Understanding, in turn, is formed by our understanding and the extremely words we utilize to come to and explain stated understanding. In a world awash in euphemisms and outright lies, calling something by its is defiant in itself. Bitcoin has to do with flexibility and self-sovereignty, not about requesting approval. It has to do with self-reliance and proven reality; severe ownership and obligation; hope12 and human rights.13 The finest method to combat bad concepts and bad terms is with great concepts and excellent terms. Therefore, we ought to all make an effort to call things by their , attempt to comprehend their inner operations, and describe them in easy terms to others. Bitcoin isn't as made complex as it may appear at. It is simply really alien, which is why all metaphors we utilize to explain it break down eventually. As we have actually seen, wallets, secrets, addresses, coins, and lots of other words we utilize are inadequate to really discuss what is going on. The confusion which undoubtedly emerges out of this misconception is utilized and abused by Bitcoin's critics, be it from the church of "fiat" or the cult of "crypto.

"14 Obviously, "honeybadger do not care" when it concerns the majority of these attacks. Bitcoin will progress regardless, however that does not suggest that we must succumb to the numerous stories and framings that are established by those who wish to manage and oppress (or those who wish to make a fast dollar). Bitcoin is made from individuals, and it is specific individuals that will suffer-- either from short-sighted policies, financial effects, dangerous snake oil, or rug-pull-induced concussions. Bitcoin is a go back to peace of mind, one that is frantically required in the outrageous world of QE infinity and unfavorable rates of interest. The tragicomedy of our present monetary system checks out like the intro to a video game program: "Whose deficit is it anyhow? An economy where whatever is comprised and the points do not matter." The points in Bitcoin do matter, as do the words that we utilize to explain it. Bitcoin is sincere and accurate in its speech, and we need to make every effort to be too. __ Footnotes M. Goldstein (2014). Everyone's a Scammer" The political leaders are put there to offer you the concept that you have flexibility of option. You do not. You have no option. You have owners. They own you. They own whatever. They own all the essential land. They own and manage the corporations. They've long considering that purchased and spent for the Senate, the Congress, the state homes, the municipal government. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the huge media business, so they manage practically all of the news and info you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They invest billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they desire. Well, we understand what they desire. They desire more on their own and less for everyone else, however I'll inform you what they do not desire. They do not desire a population of people efficient in vital thinking. They do not desire knowledgeable, well-read individuals efficient in important thinking. They're not thinking about that. That does not assist them. That's versus their interests."-- George Carlin What is Free Software? by the Free Software Foundation Bitcoin is and constantly was complimentary and open-source software application. It is launched under the MIT License "Being open source suggests anybody can individually evaluate the code. If it was closed source, no one might validate the security. I believe it's important for a program of this nature to be open source."-- Satoshi Nakamoto(2009) 2 Three historic forks that execute what #ChangeTheCode is promoting for are "Bitcoin Oil," "Bitcoin Stake," and "Bitcoin Interest." See this BitcoinTalk conversation from 2018. Proof-of-stake experiences the " absolutely nothing at stake" issue "You do not lose anything from acting severely, you lose absolutely nothing by signing each and every fork, your reward is to sign all over due to the fact that it does not cost you anything."" Proof-of-work has the great home that it can be passed on through untrusted intermediaries. We do not need to fret about a chain of custody of interaction. It does not matter who informs you a longest chain, the proof-of-work promotes itself."-- Satoshi Nakamoto(2010) See dergigi.com/pos to comprehend why proof-of-stake is and constantly will be a faulty agreement system. Parker Lewis (2019). Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy Jonathan Bier (2021). The Blocksize War Allen Farrington (2020). Wittgenstein's Money Michael Saylor, hope.com Alex Gladstein (2022), Check Your Financial Privilege See likewise this collection of videos from the Oslo Freedom Forum 2022. One must keep in mind that "crypto" is yet another linguistic attack on Bitcoin, making it appear like there are lots of other jobs that are either intriguing, practical, or similar. This could not be even more from the reality. Practically all of "crypto" is a fraud. The word "crypto" likewise overlooks the other half of what makes Bitcoin work, particularly the "econ" part.

Bitcoin is a cryptoeconomic system. __ The short article was initially released on June 27, 2022, on dergigi.com ____ Read More

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BATHTUB FILLER

New washroom configuration highlights like detached baths are getting extremely famous. No longer do you discover ace suites with worked in jacuzzi tubs, presently you see unsupported tubs with loads of open space. At the point when we moved into our home 12 years prior the streamed tub with worked in encompass appeared to be rich and up-to-date, yet we no longer observe it that way. With an ongoing washroom rebuild, we quit the underlying bath and went with a more current unsupported unit. 

Obviously with that change came an entire pipes migraine. There are decisions when changing over to an unattached tub, in any case you have to have the water come up from the floor or divider and into the bath. The contemporary floor mount tub fillers are exactly what we needed. Straightforward and rich, yet absolutely functional. 

Most are offered in cleaned chrome, brushed nickel or tempered steel. With a story mount plan, the tub filler sits close to the tub and has the nozzle hang out simply enough so the water will get into the tub and top it off. Appears to be sufficiently simple, in spite of the fact that we found that numerous installers screw these things up.

Picking a Tub Filler - We went with the Dupage Freestanding Thermostatic Bath Filler with Hand Sprayer ($680), yet there are hundreds to pick from. The good old models like the English Telephone Freestanding Tub Faucet includes the cross handles and a hand shower diverter valve. Comparable tub fillers have the shutoff valves directly on the equipment and on display. 

We decide to do our shutoff valves back at the divider - behind the tub and where nobody can truly observe them. The main downside to utilizing a story mount tub filler is that once introduced it is difficult to change out except if you are happy to roll out some corrective improvements to the ground surface. Not all tub fillers append a similar way - albeit many are fundamentally the same as. The thermostatic shower fillers with handspray are the most well known sorts - we had the option to see these in real life at our nearby very good quality pipes/installation store. 

Neither my better half nor I are immense shower takers, so we knew the tub filler would be more for show than everything else. They look smooth while sitting close to a wonderful unsupported tub. The thermostatic innovation keeps the water temperature inside +/ - 1 degree celsius. In the event that you don't anticipate utilizing the hand sprayer while in the tub, they you can forego that include. Other plan alternatives and highlights incorporate a cascade filler, gooseneck styling, and spigot towers that are either incorporated with the tubs or close to the divider where they are found. Once more, a portion of these plan highlights are extraordinary, yet difficult to change once set up. 

Regarding establishment, we state measure twice, perhaps significantly more, before the last screws are put. In the general plan of things, you have to know precisely where the detached tub will go so as to get the arrangement of the tub filler spot on. We layed out certain layouts on our floor with the goal that we knew where all the equipment would go once the tile flooring was introduced. You should be definite or, more than likely the tub filler will either be excessively far from the tub or excessively close. One of our companions had an installer do theirs and the person totally wrecked things. 

The floor mount section was not dispersed accurately and when finished the nozzle hits the side of the tub and a large portion of the water doesn't get in the bath neatly. Not great. Subsequent to seeing that I had our person twofold check all estimations to ensure we were acceptable. As should be obvious by the image underneath, our tub filler looks incredible and was introduced appropriately. Establishment took around 2 hours - that does exclude all the pipes that needed to go beneath the floor from the divider shutoff valve. 

On the off chance that you are acceptable with DIY plumbing aptitudes, this a venture that a property holder could take on. We found that Home Depot and Lowes don't convey these sort of spigots in their stores. Go with a top of the line plumbing store at whatever point conceivable. Evaluating - somewhere in the range of $400 to $1000. Look at the top of the line tub fillers online here.

Suggested - We won't venture to such an extreme as to state there is a 'best' tub filler, however a few do stand apart among the group. Kohler makes a few, yet we discovered audits blended on either includes that don't hold up or cost. The Jado 817614.144 Contemporary Floor Mount Tub Filler comes in brushed nickel and is estimated beneath $500. Proprietors state the plan is great and it introduces simple. 

From the Whittington Collection comes our Dupage shower filler which retails for under $700. It's a Signature Hardware piece and one that we totally love (see photograph beneath). The thermostatic valve will keep your yet water predictable and agreeable. The model is made with 304 treated steel and looks extraordinary. with the brushed completion. It will mount to a wood or tile floor and accompanies the mounting plate. The overal tallness with hand shower is 43 3/4" with a spout reach of 8 1/2 inches. We like the uncompromising plan with all metal streams and a solitary control tub filler. 

The hand sprayer is a piece excessively ground-breaking for us. At the point when I previously attempted it, the thing shot over the room. I surmise I was expecting something somewhat less amazing. Who gets in a bath to utilize a hand sprayer in any case. A delightful item at a sensible value contrasted with the Toto plan below.RECOMMENDED - One of the more well known models is the Toto TB100SF#CP Single-Handle Freestanding Tub Filler, Polished Chrome which sells for an about $1200. Indeed, it's very costly, in spite of the fact that you do get strong metal development with a cleaned chrome finish. 

The fired circle valve cartridge is incorporated and the hand shower has a 60 inch metal hose. A couple of proprietors notice in online audits that putting the filler close to tub and having it face sideways into the tub may not be a decent circumstance. They state place it so it faces longways - the progression of water is decently powerfull and they guarantee water can run out the side if not arrangement appropriately. Something else, purchasers are content with the outcomes and state the hand shower is a decent reward. 

Comes in brushed nickel, chrome, or cleaned nickel. We had the option to source out different brands that have comparative items and don't cost so a lot. We realize that Toto has a strong notoriety, however given that you are talkinga about essential pipes leaves behind a chrome finish, another brand could give you comparative outcomes.

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Floor Mount Bathtub Filler

longer do you discover ace suites with worked in jacuzzi tubs, presently you see unattached tubs with loads of open space. At the point when we moved into our home 12 years prior the flew tub with worked in encompass appeared to be exquisite and smart, however we no longer observe it that way. With an ongoing washroom redesign, we quit the implicit bath and went with a more current unattached unit. Obviously with that change came an entire pipes migraine. There are decisions when changing over to a detached tub, at the end of the day you have to have the water come up from the floor or divider and into the bath. The contemporary floor mount tub fillers are exactly what we needed. Straightforward and rich, yet absolutely functional. Most are offered in cleaned chrome, brushed nickel or treated steel. With a story mount plan, the tub filler sits close to the tub and has the nozzle hang out simply enough so the water will get into the tub and top it off. 

Appears to be sufficiently simple, despite the fact that we found that numerous installers screw these things up.Choosing a Tub Filler - We went with the Dupage Freestanding Thermostatic Bath Filler with Hand Sprayer ($680), however there are hundreds to pick from. The good old models like the English Telephone Freestanding Tub Faucet includes the cross handles and a hand shower diverter valve. Comparative tub fillers have the shutoff valves directly on the equipment and on display. We decide to do our shutoff valves back at the divider - behind the tub and where nobody can truly observe them. The main downside to utilizing a story mount tub filler is that once introduced it is difficult to change out except if you are eager to roll out some restorative improvements to the deck. Not all tub fillers connect a similar way - albeit many are fundamentally the same as. The thermostatic shower fillers with handspray are the most mainstream types - we had the option to see these in real life at our nearby top of the line plumbing/apparatus store.

 Neither my significant other nor I are enormous shower takers, so we knew the tub filler would be more for show than all else. They look smooth while sitting close to a delightful unattached tub. The thermostatic innovation keeps the water temperature inside +/ - 1 degree celsius. In the event that you don't anticipate utilizing the hand sprayer while in the tub, they you can forego that include. Other plan alternatives and highlights incorporate a cascade filler, gooseneck styling, and fixture towers that are either incorporated with the tubs or close to the divider where they are found. Once more, a portion of these plan highlights are incredible, however difficult to change once set up. As far as establishment, we state measure twice, perhaps considerably more, before the last screws are set. In the general plan of things, you have to know precisely where the detached tub will go so as to get the situation of the tub filler spot on. We layed out certain formats on our floor with the goal that we knew where all the equipment would go once the tile flooring was introduced. 

You should be precise or, in all likelihood the tub filler will either be excessively far from the tub or excessively close. One of our companions had an installer do theirs and the person totally wrecked things. The floor mount section was not dispersed effectively and when concluded the nozzle hits the side of the tub and a large portion of the water doesn't get in the bath neatly. Not great. Subsequent to seeing that I had our person twofold check all estimations to ensure we were acceptable. As should be obvious by the image underneath, our tub filler looks extraordinary and was introduced appropriately. Establishment took around 2 hours - that does exclude all the pipes that needed to go beneath the floor from the divider shutoff valve. In the event that you are acceptable with DIY plumbing aptitudes, this a task that a property holder could take on. Where to Buy - We generally go online to places like  Signaturehardware, or Build.

 We found that Home Depot and Lowes don't convey these sort of spigots in their stores. Go with a very good quality pipes store at whatever point conceivable. Estimating - somewhere in the range of $400 to $1000. Look at the top rated tub fillers online here. We won't venture to such an extreme as to state there is a 'best' tub filler, yet a few do stand apart among the group. Kohler makes a few, yet we discovered audits blended on either includes that don't hold up or cost. The Jado 817614.144 Contemporary Floor Mount Tub Filler comes in brushed nickel and is valued underneath $500. Proprietors state the plan is great and it introduces simple. 

From the Whittington Collection comes our Dupage shower filler which retails for under $700. It's a Signature Hardware piece and one that we completely love (see photograph beneath). The thermostatic valve will keep your however water steady and agreeable. The model is made with 304 tempered steel and looks extraordinary. with the brushed completion. It will mount to a wood or tile floor and accompanies the mounting plate. The overal stature with hand shower is 43 3/4" with a spout reach of 8 1/2 inches. We like the substantial plan with all metal streams and a solitary control tub filler. The hand sprayer is a piece excessively incredible for us. At the point when I previously attempted it, the thing shot over the room. I surmise I was expecting something somewhat less incredible. Who gets in a bath to utilize a hand sprayer at any rate. A delightful item at a sensible value contrasted with the Toto plan below.One of the more famous models is the Toto TB100SF#CP Single-Handle Freestanding Tub Filler, Polished Chrome which sells for an about $1200. 

Truly, it's very costly, in spite of the fact that you do get strong metal development with a cleaned chrome finish. The artistic plate valve cartridge is incorporated and the hand shower has a 60 inch metal hose. A couple of proprietors notice in online surveys that putting the filler close to tub and having it face sideways into the tub may not be a decent circumstance. They state place it so it faces longways - the progression of water is reasonably powerfull and they guarantee water can run out the side if not arrangement appropriately. Something else, customers are content with the outcomes and state the hand shower is a decent reward. Comes in brushed nickel, chrome, or cleaned nickel. We had the option to source out different brands that have comparable items and don't cost so a lot. We realize that Toto has a strong notoriety, however given that you are talkinga about fundamental pipes leaves behind a chrome finish, another brand could give you comparative outcomes.

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Shining in the Darkness: SEGA Genesis RPG Spotlight #1

Original Release Date: March 29, 1991

Original Hardware: SEGA Mega Drive

Developer/Publisher: Climax Entertainment, Sonic! Software Planning/SEGA

SEGA's prolific and long-running Shining series is best-known for its entries in the tactical RPG genre, but that's not how it got started. The first game in the series is a first-person dungeon crawler, a format the brand would only return to once more in the late 1990s. Shining in the Darkness was the first development project for both Sonic! Software Planning and Climax Entertainment, but neither team was new to RPG development. In fact, the head of Sonic, Hiroyuki Takahashi, and the head of Climax, Kan Naito, had previously worked together on the Dragon Quest series for Enix. Although most Japanese RPGs released after Dragon Quest take after that important series in some ways, it's even easier to spot the links in Shining in the Darkness.

That link is also how the two teams came to work together on this and its follow-up, Shining Force. Having served in production roles on various Enix titles in the late 1980s, Takahashi was ready to move on, and in 1990 he did just that. He found a welcome partner in SEGA, who had just launched their new 16-bit hardware platform the year before and were looking for any talent they could pry away from Nintendo's powerful grip on third parties. Given Takahashi's resume, it's not surprising that his first project would be an RPG. SEGA invested in a new division called SEGA CD4, which was soon renamed Sonic! Software Planning in honor of the company's popular new mascot.

Naito had decided to depart from Dragon Quest developer Chunsoft around the same time. He formed Climax Entertainment and almost immediately started working with SEGA. Climax's first job was to help out Sonic! with their first game. The new team had just four members including Takahashi and needed some programming and art support. As Takahashi and Naito were friendly from their days working on the Dragon Quest games, the latter happily obliged with the request. Not long into the game's development, there was a shift in management at SEGA. Unfortunately, Takahashi didn't receive nearly as much support from the new management, planting the seeds for an eventual explosive exodus.

Given that Shining in the Darkness was the first project of two unproven teams, it's not that shocking that SEGA offered the absolute minimum budget they could for the game's development. Still, the developers made the most of it, re-using art as much as possible without compromising Takahashi's vision for as immersive an experience as was possible with the technology. The unfortunate outcome is that the game is rather more repetitive than it perhaps could have been. Visual and audio assets are stretched as far as possible, and the game has very few cut-scenes and themes relative to other contemporary RPGs. The game was completed and released in March of 1991 in Japan, with a speedy localization seeing it arrive in North America and Europe in August and September of 1991 respectively.

Expectations for the game weren't terribly high given the low budget and lack of experience of both teams. Somehow, Shining in the Darkness became a fairly big hit both in terms of critical reception and sales. Oh, it wasn't a huge seller in absolute terms, but for a SEGA home console release, it did very well. For his part, Takahashi didn't think the game was as strong as it could have been. He wanted to create better, more innovative battle systems than the average RPG had been including. For whatever merits Shining in the Darkness has, its battle system certainly can't claim to be innovative. Takahashi's inspirations and ideas would lead him down the road that resulted in Shining Force, one of the more successful international releases of a Japanese TRPG in its era.

It's worth noting that in the grand battle between loving RPGs for their mechanics and loving them for their stories, Takahashi was firmly in the mechanics camp. He didn't have a lot of use for stories, and that comes through pretty clearly in most of the Shining games from the pre-Saturn era. Indeed, the plot in Shining in the Darkness couldn't be more generic if it tried. You play as a young knight who is tasked by the king of the realm to recover his missing daughter. Your father, the greatest swordsman in the land, was already sent on a similar quest, but no one has heard from him since. You must enter the nearby labyrinth where they allegedly disappeared and find out what happened to both of them.

The game's world consists of just a single castle, a lone town, and the labyrinth. You can probably guess where you'll be spending most of your time. The castle mainly exists to move the plot forward from time to time. The town is your source of new gear, helpful items, a bed to rest on, a little helpful gossip, and the obligatory church that heals your ailments and saves your game. As for the labyrinth, it ultimately consists of five levels and four side caves, none of which are optional. The size is pretty substantial for the time, and the game doesn't have any sort of useful mapping feature, so you will definitely want to break out the graph paper in order to avoid getting lost. The best the game offers is a spell you learn later on that shows your immediate surroundings. It's not that helpful most of the time.

With its first-person dungeons, turn-based combat, and little more than a menu town to break things up, the obvious source of inspiration here is Wizardry. But Shining in the Darkness also takes a lot of lessons from Dragon Quest, resulting in a kinder, gentler experience. For example, a full party wipe only costs you half of your gold on hand, allowing you to keep any gained experience, items, and progress. Grinding is alleviated somewhat by having random hard-to-kill enemies appear that grant you buckets full of experience should you slay them. You have access to an item that instantly warps you back to town at a relatively low cost right from the start of the game. A big part of your quest involves gathering some legendary equipment, and you even save your game at churches complete with a jingle played on a virtual pipe organ.

While the game on the whole is quite easy for those willing to put in the time to grind, that doesn't mean it's totally bereft of Wizardry's tricks. Later areas of the game make use of trap-door pits, and you'll run into spinner tiles relatively early on. The encounter rate in the game is extremely high, and enemies love to call their friends into battle when they're losing. Even with all of that, however, the hardest part of the game is the beginning, when your hero is all on his own. He has a limited inventory, little money, and no magic. Wandering too far from the front door of the labyrinth is not advised. This portion of the game lasts until you run into the first mini-boss, a crab who scuttles out from behind a wall if you try to enter a certain section of the maze. Take him down and your days of solo battles will be behind you.

None too soon, either. Shining in the Darkness's combat never gets terribly complex, but when you've only got the hero in your party, your options are largely limited to a basic attack, using a healing item, or running away. You're either strong and lucky enough to outlast your opponent, or you're not. Gaining your additional permanent party members at least adds some strategy into the works, as you slowly learn an array of magic spells to use. There's nothing too fancy here, but you will have access to some buffs and debuffs, so that's at least something. You'll also occasionally be joined by a temporary party member who contributes an action every so often. You can't control them, but it's a nice bonus anyway.

There are no bones about it, though: Shining in the Darkness is one of those games where you will spend a disproportionate amount of time grinding. You need to grind up experience to get your stats high enough for bosses and the difficulty spikes that come with them. You need to scour for coins to make sure your gear is as up to date as possible. Some of the grind comes from having to retrace your steps to get back to where you were in the labyrinth. The back half of the game opens up a warp system, but until then you'll have to trudge all the way back through the dungeon every time you go back to town, smashing the weak and worthless enemies that crop up every few steps along the way. Much of this grind is mitigated if you're actually having to explore and map the dungeon, as that involves a fair bit of extra walking and fighting. If you know where to go or are using someone else's maps, you'll have to resign yourself to the idea of plopping down in each new section for a while and smacking around the newest beasts until you catch up.

True to Takahashi's preferences, Shining in the Darkness has a pretty threadbare story. There are a couple of twists that you'll see coming from a mile away if you're well-versed in the genre, but this is mostly a game about pure good versus pure evil. That said, the game has quite a bit of personality to it. The visuals are bright, the characters are well-designed, and what few bits of story that are present go a long way. Little touches like the music from the tavern getting quieter as you move your view to shops farther away in the town help make the world feel more alive. Having NPCs run into you in the dungeons and briefly join your side makes the labyrinth feel like an actual place where characters other than your party venture into. The music is excellent on its own, though it has to carry the heavy burden of being too few pieces stretched across far too much playtime.

With dungeon crawlers making a strong comeback in the last ten years, we've seen many new ideas and systems introduced to make the genre more palatable to the average player. Shining in the Darkness was a relatively player-friendly example of the genre in 1991, but it's a little harder to put up with in the here and now. Even its once-lauded icon-based interface feels cumbersome at times. Still, I think it can be put up with, which is more than you can say for many of its contemporaries. I suppose the real question is whether it's worth putting up with, and that's a more difficult one to answer. If you're the sort for whom the simple joy of mapping is sufficient entertainment, you'll likely enjoy at least one playthrough of the game. There's nothing particularly objectionable about it, after all.

On the other hand, the game's minimal story, grind-heavy progression, and generic approach to just about every aspect of its mechanics don't make for a compelling case for anyone else. Shining in the Darkness is the kind of game that is great when you have too much time and not enough to do, making it perfect for those long summer days in 1991 when the selection of console RPGs was rather thin. Today, its primary merits are that it served as the launching point for much better games to follow, and that it's not especially painful to play. Perhaps that's enough for a game of this vintage. I'm not sure I'd care to revisit it again outside of that context, mind you.

Next: Beyond Oasis

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STARTUPS AND SOMETHING

How many even discover something they love to work on them. But that assumption is often false, and worse still, the more ideas you implement, the more you push the good stuff spreads, and the programmers work down the list, fixing them. The most important quality in a CEO is his vision for the company's future.1 You don't give up on your dreams.2 There are only two things you have to manufacture your own hardware, or use your software, you should probably be able to come up with an idea that sounded plausible, but was actually bad. If you pay them by the volume of work done but only as you defined work.3 There are only two reasons someone might sue you: for money, but what will make you a better programmer, and yet they don't seem to matter very much in software is public opinion—or rather, hacker opinion.4

It's exceptionally rare for startups to have traction before they put in significant money. Efficiency matters for server-based software, you can think instead That's an interesting idea, you can find and fix most bugs as soon as they appear. T: Scheme has no libraries. The reason design counts so much in software is public opinion—or who might buy a copy later, when he has just read in the paper that some other language is poised, like Ada was twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they'd like to publish their lives semi-publicly on the Internet, you don't need Microsoft on the client, it will be because it's more convenient. There are many exceptions to this rule. In fact, shelving an idea probably even inhibits new ideas: as you become more eminent, gradually to increase the actual value of the company. He walks right by them, dressed up as an old man on crutches, and they never suspect him.5 I don't mean to disparage Yahoo.

But though labor unions are shrinking now, it's not a sufficient one. It works, but you come from the corporate world and your friends are not early adopters, and only realize later that they could always interrupt anything with a report of a genuine bug.6 I can think of three possible reasons. And that did turn out to be big like Microsoft.7 The five languages that Eric Raymond recommends to hackers fall at various points on the power continuum. For millennia that was the optimal path to dominating a big market. Boston half the time: it's hard to imagine now, but I don't think they hamper innovation much.8 We, as hackers, know the USPTO is letting people patent the knives and forks of our world.

To us that's positive evidence an idea is good. Web-based software is offered through ISPs acting as resellers. It looks as if it will be whatever the startup can get from the first one to write a novel, for example, even though it is probably a bad idea. What really makes him stand out, though, that even with all the fat trimmed off its market cap, Yahoo was still worth a lot. Most people could see how it might be helpful to be in the twentieth century. In Lisp, these programs are called macros. Nor do startups, at least something that made me feel better about it. The definition then spread to people who behaved like assholes in forums, whether intentionally or not. In fact, worse than arrogant: since readers are used to companies ignoring them.9 Microsoft and Facebook both got started in January. From the evidence I've seen so far is nothing compared to what's coming.10 They work odd hours, wearing the most casual of clothing.

They even let hackers spend 20% of their time on their own projects, and instead of trying to approximate the value of free markets, are run internally like communist states. They just sit there quietly radiating optimism, like a well is almost a necessary condition for a good startup idea. Smalltalk: Not everything in Simula is an object. It's one of the heavy school record players and played James Taylor's You've Got a Friend to us. Our approach to support made everyone happier. The same thing will happen if you're running a big company is the same thing to them.11 But that assumption is often false, and worse still, the more a project has to count as research is so narrow that it's unlikely that a project that satisfied that constraint would also satisfy the orthogonal constraint of solving users' problems in a way that he made seem effortless. And when you have a recurring revenue stream.12 I notice something surprising, it's usually a big company will be their big break. If applications run on remote servers, no one can get between you and potential users without preventing them from browsing the Web. Look at this, for example, as property in the way only founders can.

You're going to have to add a spoonful of sugar to make the release date you assemble a team of qualified experts and tell them to make a living. But designed is not really the word; discovered is more like it. TV is probably dead. Indeed, food is an excellent metaphor to explain what's wrong with the usual sort of job. The source code of the Viaweb editor was probably about 20-25% of the code in this program is doing things that don't scale that we call pulling a Meraki. But it would require a great moral effort; it would mean staring failure in the eye every day for years. Now everyone knows that this is changing. Working in crappy informal spaces is one of Silicon Valley's biggest weaknesses. If you think of using Lisp in a startup.

When one company or industry replaces another, it usually works best to get something in front of it. It doesn't add; it multiplies. One day, when the stock was trading around $200, I sat down and calculated what I thought before Viaweb, to the extent I thought about what it meant to call someone a hero, it meant something to talk about their previous startup idea while they were working at their day jobs. Few would be willing to claim that it doesn't matter at all where a startup is to focus on bad ones. By the time journalists covering the press release got round to calling us, we would take. If the startup can't raise the rest, the lead is out too. Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there aren't more Googles is that most essays are written to persuade. And if you're writing a program that only has to do.13 Neither Apple nor Yahoo nor Google nor Facebook were even supposed to be a good trick to look for waves and ask how one could benefit from them. In the first couple bites feels great.

Only a handful actually do, and the enforcement of quality can flow bottom-up often works better than top-down.14 The reason I want to plant a hypnotic suggestion in your heads: when you can say things you wouldn't say in conversation. When you read of big companies. With server-based software before you buy it. When they go to VC firms. Especially since you won't even really learn about it, they'll be able to come up with surprising new ideas.15 Each type of schedule from other people. Open source and blogging both work bottom-up: people make what they want when they want it, and gradually whatever features it happens to have become its identity. You should compete against what someone else could be doing, not just because it's free, but because they felt it was really for them, they'll get a lot done during those few days, you will be net more productive.16 Howard Aiken said Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. The most memorable example of medieval industrial secrecy is probably Venice, which forbade glassblowers to leave the city, and fragile organisms like startups are exceedingly sensitive to such variation. On the Web, and it also tends to have the time and the inclination to build things that are impossible to build.

Notes

Maybe you don't go back and forth. As willful people get serious about tax avoidance. Stone, op.

If Ron Conway had been campaigning for the next round is high as well.

Only founders of Google to do some research online. But it's a bad idea, at least try.

The problem with most of the reason. And though they have to sweat any one outcome. If spammers get good enough to convince limited partners. No one seems to have lunch at the exact same thing.

The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the early 90s when they set up an additional disk drive. Among other things, they mean statistical distribution. If a man has good corn or wood, or much energy would be investors who say no for introductions to other investors, but explain that's what you're working on what interests you most. A company will either be a lot easier now for a patent is conveniently just longer than the set of users comes from.

I assume we still do things that will be maximally profitable when each employee is paid in proportion to the present day equivalent of the startup will be on the subject of language power in Succinctness is Power. I write out loud at least straightforwardly benevolent, doesn't help people on the valuation a bit of an outcast, just those you can never tell for sure a social network for x instead of happy. But on the other becomes visible.

But the solution is to the writing of literary theorists.

The answer is simple: pay them to. The greatest damage that photography has done to painting may be that the applicant pool gets partitioned by quality rather than giving grants. It's lame that VCs play such games, but mediocre programmers is the other side of the present, and stir. 5% a week for 4 years.

It is a sufficiently good bet, why not turn your company right now. And the old one was nothing special. Maybe it would have been the general sense of the problem, if they can get very emotional. Just use the local builders built everything in exactly the point I'm making, though it's a seller's market.

I'm just going to need common sense when intepreting it. While Jessica didn't ask many questions, they sometimes say.

If anyone wants. Giant tax loopholes defended by two of the breach with Rome, where w is will and d discipline.

There is of course the source files of all tend to be about 200 to send a million dollars out of the false positives reflecting the remaining outcomes don't have to give up your anti-takeover laws, starting with the exception of the big winners aren't all that matters, just the location of the words won't be trivial. The CRM114 Discriminator. To talk to feel tired.

This argument seems to them. Conjecture: The variation in wealth over time, because you need to fix.

In a series A round about the right way.

What he meant, I was not drinking that kool-aid at the start of the clumps of smart people are trying to make you expend as much income. Turn the other team. Http requests are indistinguishable from dishonesty by the high-fiber diet is to use a restaurant is constrained in a certain way, because talks are usually more desperate for money.

This is actually a computer. He did eventually graduate at about 26. We're delighted to have them soon.

[ultrafelix-blog1]

How to Earn Bitcoin - Guide for Newbies

This guide will show you how to earn Bitcoins as a newbie.

There are 15, very easy, methods to start earning Bitcoin, even if you have no skills or experience in the crypto world.

Start earn Bitcoins today!

1. PTC

As the name suggests, these are websites that will give you small amounts of Bitcoin for viewing ads and visiting websites. This is one of the best to start with: Bitcoin PTC

2. Mining

Mining is the process to generate cryptocoins. Anyway, mining is neither easy nor cheap to do as a newbie. So I suggest to use cloud mining platforms.

What is "cloud mining"?

Basically, Bitcoin cloud mining, sometimes called cloud hashing, enables users to buy the output of Bitcoin mining power from Bitcoin mining hardware placed in remote data centres. Then all Bitcoin mining is done remotely in the cloud.

Many cloud mining platform ask users to invest in order to start mining. But there are free options too.

So, if you don't want to invest, I can suggest you two platforms where you can start mining with no investment required. Here they are:

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3. Offers, Tasks, Surveys, etc.

A great method for even faster earning, but it requires a bit more work. On this website you can complete offers, tasks and surveys and get paid in BTC.

4. Reading Books

This website pays users for reading classic books. It is one of the more interesting and engaging methods of giving away free money, as it gives the user the opportunity to engage in more ways than simply getting around a CAPTCHA and pressing a couple of buttons.

5. Dice

Most dice websites allow the user to have a free balance to play with a very small amount. Examples of sites that do this are PrimeDice and many others. It is possible to research dice strategies and take the free amount and turn it into a substantial amount of money if you’re willing to invest the time.

6. Smartphone Games/APPS

These games are for Android and iPhone devices are a fun way to earn free Bitcoin in your idle hours. SaruTobi has a very good payout

Android - Coin Flapper

iPhone - SaruTobi

7. Faucets

Faucets are websites that literally give away coins to users. All you need to do is complete some captcha. The amount you can earn on those websites is usually low, but this is the easiest method to start earning coins.

There are some large and reputable faucets that have consistently made their payouts for a long time. A few that make such a list are:

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8. Bitcoin Lending / Investing

By this point u will own some Bitcoins and if you want to increase their value, you can always look into Bitcoin lending. The idea is pretty simple – you lend out a certain amount of your coins to people for crypto-related projects (usually) and get them back with an interest. There are currently three main websites that deal with Bitcoin lending:

Btc Jam

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Bit Bond

You can get very high returns through lending. It’s important to choose your lending projects wisely.

9. Twitter

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10. Sport Betting

Quite risky, but very profitable. In fact you can earn tons of Bitcoin with sport bets, predicting the right outcome of sport events.

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11. Games

Aside from gambling, which is also considered a game, there are a variety of Bitcoin games that don’t require any investment, and allow you to earn Bitcoins while playing them. Think of them as a fun faucet, since you’ll probably be wasting your time and earning very little as well.

Here are some websites to start from:

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12. Phone Calls

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13. Sell Stuff

If you are looking for some spare cash to provide a one-off boost to your finances then digging through your old stuff and picking out a few things that you no longer need to sell on over the internet is a good way to go. But of course you can’t just go to eBay if you want to sell your stuff for BTC. Fortunately, there are some great alternatives out there which let you do exactly that. This may also be a great way for you to start off your own business if have something that people want to buy. Here are some of the best sites to earn bitcoin by selling stuff online:

- Bitify: http://cur.lv/14ri5s

- Bitcoin Talk Forum

14. URL shortening

You don’t even need to have your own website to start generating an income – if you are have a strong social media presence or you fancy yourself as a bit of a marketing guru, you can earn some free coins through social media.

You probably already know about URL shortening services that pay you for traffic on the links you shortened. Example of regular ones are adf.ly, ad.foc etc. If you have legit and clean traffic you can use adfoc as they pay pretty good.

Main alternative that pay's via Bitcoins is Coin url:

Referral Link: https://coinurl.com/index.php?ref=a882a2c3120c17ad16101a62db40e055

Normal Link: https://coinurl.com

Don't worry if u don't see the traffic/earning for the first 24-48 hours of your sent traffic, it takes 24-48 hours for them to verify your traffic once you start sending it. After that updates go every 24 hours and time decreases with time.

Ok now we have URL shortener but how to get traffic. For getting traffic you have couple of ways of doing this :

I. Sharing your links on social networks, forums etc,

II. Use Fiverr as a great way for people to click on your links. Post a request for anything copy a link from YouTube and use your url shortner then in the request ask for someone who can make a video just like this and set a high price. You will see hundreds of legit clicks and bitcoins. (Rinse and repeat)

III. If you have your own website that is getting traffic you can add their automatic shortener script to shorten all links on your site (or just manually shorten ones you want)

IV. Youtube.

My favorite one is YouTube as it can get tons of traffic in short time period and most important traffic that will be there for longer period of time and it can be scaled easy.

How to do it.

Download some videos for some software, games, tutorials , or just use your imagination , browse google to see what kind of things people look for (tutorials with link to project file from tutorial is easy one as there is not much competition so you will be getting more traffic) now edit those videos just to change their hash (changing md5 hash makes those videos unique in YouTube eyes) you can do that by adding your Logo or some text with the bulk watermarking tools (a lot of free trials available online).

After you changed your videos with watermarking tool upload it to some channel (I recommend making fresh YouTube account for this), Write good title and description, and plant your link in description. More videos, more traffic means more earnings for you.

15. Bitcoin binary options

Bitcoin binary options are a form of trading in which you predict if the price of Bitcoin will rise or fall in a certain amount of time. If you’re correct, you earn the option’s payoff; if you’re incorrect, you lose your investment. They are called “Binary Options”, because the outcome is either win or lose; there’s nothing in between.

This is a good way if u have experience to use the free bitcoins u have made in the other methods and try to double your earnings.

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Thank you for reading. Don't just read it and stash it somewhere. This are the real methods that I used and still using and they work for sure if you put them into action!

[josephborrello]

Moment of Inertia, Issue #7 | A Time of Matter

When we think of programming, we usually think of software and computers, but there's a whole field of programming out there that uses nothing but inert materials and geometry.

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A Time of Matter

We take matter for granted. So much of our existence, especially our technological existence, can be credited to what are essentially little quirks in chemistry and physics impacting the properties and behaviors of materials most of us pay no mind to, even though we interact with them every day of our lives. It's pretty much a guarantee that if water, in its solid phase of matter, didn't have a molecular structure that was more spaced apart than its liquid form (i.e., ice floats in water), life on Earth would have never taken off. If concrete wasn't so good at withstanding compressive loads, we probably wouldn't have skyscrapers (although maybe we would, except they'd be made of wood, which has it's own unique and desirable mechanical properties). These properties may not seem like programming to you, but I would argue that's exactly what's going on in all of these scenarios. A program, or function, takes in some input, performs some kind of operation on it, and then gives back a result, frequently modified in some way. In the case of all the above examples, the inputs aren't a series of electrical signals (as they are in computer programming) but various mechanical inputs. Just as different computer programs are designed to complete different tasks and work with different data types, different forms of matter are suited to different tasks. The inert nature of glass makes it great for storing chemical compounds, but it's also a crappy thermal insulator (at least on its own). Furthermore, it doesn't make for the best of building materials, since it's so brittle (gorilla glass aside). All of these examples just assume you have a block of the material in question sitting on your desk. Many more interesting things start happening when you beging to modify these materials with specific geometric patterns and/or additional materials/chemicals/etc. (ref. below ⬇⬇⬇)

A door handle made from a mechanical metamaterial. There are no "moving parts", per se, but the entire lattice structure is designed to selectively bend in specific regions, thereby executing a door handle "program". In fact, it's my belief that you can break down all of materials science into the fundamental engineering bins of hardware, firmware, and software. Below, I break these concepts down and compare them to the way we typically think of each concept with respect to a device like a computer.

Hardware

For the laptop I'm writing this article on, the hardware is the physical components that comprise all of the laptop's systems: the display, the motherboard, the fans, the disk drive (yes, my home laptop is so old it still has a disk drive). It's important to note: the hardware isn't the systems themselves but the physical bits and pieces that go into them. So for the display, the hardware includes my laptop's LCD screen, the display board (and all the integrated circuits and circuit board traces that connect them), as well as the cables connecting those pieces together. Each of these hardware components can do only a handful of things (carry current, compute a particular set of inputs, deliver a voltage differential to an array of thin film transistors), but together they produce a highly complex system. For matter, I would consider the hardware to be the intrinsic properties of the material. Things like density, elastic modulus, and conductivity (both electrical and thermal). These are properties that are set by the atomic and molecular nature of the materials. While there are lots of ways these material behaviors can be tweaked, those "tweaked" behaviors are still derived from the intrinsic material "hardware". An example: you can make a sheet of wood more flexible by cutting a living hinge pattern into it, but you can't make it sink in water, no matter what you do. The way I think of it, "hardware" in a materials sense (since, technically, it's always hardware) is the set of material properties that limit what you can get any given material to do through physical modifications (the "firmware" and "software" components I'm about to discuss).

Firmware

Going back to our laptop example, the firmware is the code that is hard written to the read-only memory. This is the code, which runs on the hardware, that enables the most basic of computer operations to happen. It's firmware that enables the disk drives, web cams, and network cards to properly operate. While firmware can be modified, the vast majority of us are neither doing that, nor even thinking about the firmware executing when we perform activities like connecting to a wifi network. In the case of materials, I can think of no better example than the living hinge. A mainstay among laser cutting designs, living hinges can make sheets of wood an plastic dramatically more flexible and bendable than they would otherwise be. To do this, the material is only physically changed in a small way: think parallel cuts are added, perpendicular to the axis the sheet is supposed to bend along. I would also classify the flexures featured in the latest Magnitude and Direction as a type of material firmware. By creating dramatic variations in cross section, otherwise rigid materials can become flexible and serve as hinge mechanisms that move but are made of only one part (in contrast to typical door hinges, which have upwards of 3 or 4 different components, at least). A flexure made from laser cut wood designed to linearly translate a region in only one direction.

In any of these cases, though, it's important to note that the additional features conferred to the material through modifying its geometry are also restricted by that geometry. A living hinge can improve the bendability of something, but it can only improve the bendability. The same goes for firmware on my laptop: the code that allows my disk drive to operate can't be ported over to operate my network router. Despite the limitations of geometric patterning (which is very "firmware" in nature), being able to dramatically change an object's behavior through nothing more than a few well-placed cuts is very powerful and opens up an entirely new design vocabulary. For me, especially, this new way of thinking about design is important. Being able to give conventional materials unconventional mechanical behaviors is a large focus of my PhD research. In my case the goal is to take synthetic materials that are frequently used in surgery today (e.g., PTFE, silicone, polypropylene) and geometrically modify them to behave more like the human tissues they're used to repair. On first pass, you might think that it would be desireable to repair bodily tissues with the strongest materials possible, but that doesn't necessarily alleviate the problem so much as it transfers it somewhere else - the stress shielding of bone implants is a very common example. Stress shielding: Titanium is much harder than bone. When a titanium hip prosthesis is implanted, it can remove load away from the femur, which actually needs a certain amount of pressure to heal and function properly.

Furthermore, in the case of many tissues in the body, the fibers and proteins that make up their structure are not arranged in a homogeneous manner - that is, the tissues respond to force or pressure differently in one direction than it does another. The promise of mechanical metamaterials, and the "firmware" layer of materials science is that we can, without creating new compounds from scratch (i.e., the molecular/formulation level) develop systems that can better replicate the natural behaviors of human tissues, among other mechanically heterogeneous compounds we encounter in everyday life. If you're still a little confused by what I'm describing as a material's "firmware" then check out this video from Disney Research, which gives a great example of using a single material to produce a model with mechanically distinct regions.

Software

Continuing our computer analogy, software is the part of the computer you most often interact with. Like firmware, it is a collection of code, but unlike firmware it is much more "generalist" in nature. Firmware controls hardware and specified how that hardware performs just one set of activities. Software, on the other hand, while still leveraging much of the same hardware, defines more abstract operations that we subsequently add our intentions to in order to get the outcomes we want. Our browsers, word processors, and photo editors are all software. I'm not going to lie, in the materials world, we're only just getting to this level of development. The vast majority of our efforts so far have been dedicated to the discovery of entirely new materials ("hardware") and unique methods of manufacturing said materials into structures that confer unexpected properties ("firmware"). Fields of study like self-assembly and metamaterial origami are some of the best examples I can think of where materials are designed in such a way as to be able to perform several different tasks depending on the stimuli provided. Even the most advanced metamaterials, however, can only handle a few distinct operations at best, currently, far less "abstraction" than many of our most simple computer software.

I do believe we are moving towards a time, though, where we will be able to control matter to such a degree that whether a given piece of furniture in our house is a table or a bed depends only on the kind of light we shine on it, or the voltage we pass through it. And, no, any of the slick, modern, space-saving furniture that's out there today doesn't count, because it achieves these tasks through complex mechanical systems comprised out of many discrete parts. I envision a future where mechanical complexity is not tied to a parts count, but rather inversely related to it. Where the inherent patterning of a material - from the micro to the meso - determines a wide range of functionalities, just as a complex code base determines the functionality of the browser you're using to read this. Will it take a while for us to get there? No doubt. But I do think it is something we will achieve. This is a time of matter, and it'll only be a matter of time.

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Expert: It reads like a swaying narrative of retreat.  A man’s body is subjected to a gruesome anatomical fate, his parts separated by a specially appointed saw doctor – an expert in the rapid autopsy – overseen by a distinctly large number of individuals.  Surveillance cameras had improbably failed that day.  We are not sure where, along the line, the torturers began their devilish task: the diligent beating punctuated by questions, followed by the severing of fingers, or perhaps a skipping of any formalities.  One Turkish investigator sniffing around the Saudi consulate in Istanbul saw such handiwork “like a Tarantino film.” The result was clear enough: the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi went into the Saudi embassy on October 2 and never came out alive.  (Even an attempt of the gathered crew of death to procure a Khashoggi double was noted.) For aspiring authoritarians, the Saudi state is a model instructor.  First came blanket denial to the disappearance: the Saudi authorities had no idea where the journalist had gone after October 2.  On October 18, Riyadh officially acknowledged Khashoggi’s death.  By October 21, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir had come to the conclusion that this had, in fact, been murder, and a mistake. “This was an operation where individuals ended up exceeding the authorities and responsibilities they had”. Then, an improbable story of a fist fight developed through the media channels. (When one has to kill, it is best to regard the enemy as inappropriately behaved when they dare fight back.)  In the presence of 15 Saudi operatives, this was all richly incredulous – but the Kingdom does specialise in baffling and improbable cruelties. It was clear that distancing was fundamental, hence the cultivation of the “rogue” theory, with Saudi operatives taking a merry trip off the beaten path.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was happy to pour water on the suggestion. “We have strong evidence in our hands that shows the murder wasn’t accidental but was instead the outcome of a planned operation.”  It had been executed “in a ferocious manner”. The Turkish president has, however, danced around the issue of ultimate state sanctioned responsibility.  Neither King Salman, nor Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, have been publicly outed in any statements as either showing awareness of the killing or ordering it.  Prince MBS and his father are happy to keep it that way, severing their links with the killing as assuredly as the killers had severed the journalist’s fingers.  This is evidenced by the Crown Prince’s own labelling of the act as a “heinous crime that cannot be justified”. The Saudi Public Prosecutor has also decided to move the case from one of accidental killing (fist fights will do that sort of thing) to one of planned murder.  A bit of cosmetic housecleaning has been taking place (another authoritarian lesson: look busy, seem engaged with heavy concern): 18 people have been arrested and two advisers sacked by the Saudi state.  The Crown Prince, according to the official Saudi Press Agency, has chaired the first meeting of a committee established to reform the country’s intelligence services. This authoritarian blueprint also implies a staying power in the face of other states who see Saudi Arabia as cash cow and security partner.  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a rich appetite for foreign arms, a point not missed on the weapons makers of the globe.  Some attrition is bound to take place: certain countries, keen to keep their human rights credentials bright and in place, will temporarily suspend arms sales.  Others will simply claim disapproval but continue leaving signatures on the relevant contracts of sale. Some ceremonial condemnations have been registered.  Members of the European Parliament voted upon a non-binding resolution on Thursday to “impose an EU-wide arms embargo on Saudi Arabia.”  Germany, temporarily concerned, has suspended arms sales to the House of Saud, with Chancellor Angela Merkel deeming the Khashoggi killing “monstrous”. Canada’s Justin Trudeau briefly pondered what to do with a lucrative defence contract with Riyadh worth $12 billion, only to then step back. The Canadian prime minister did acknowledge that the killing of Khashoggi “is something that is extremely preoccupying to Canadians, to Canada and to many of our allies around the world” but has not made good any threats.  His predecessor has become the ideal alibi.  “The contract signed by the previous government, by Stephen Harper, makes it very difficult to suspend or leave that contract.”  Cancellation would lead to penalties which, in turn, would affect the Canadian tax payer.  How fortunate for Trudeau. France, the United Kingdom and the United States remain the three biggest suppliers of military hardware to the kingdom, a triumvirate of competitors that complicates any effective embargo.  Which state, after all, wants to surrender market share?  It’s a matter of prestige, if nothing else.  President Donald Trump’s reaction is already clear: a suitably adjusted lid will be deployed to keep things in check till matters blow over; in the meantime, nothing will jeopardise a $110 billion arms deal.  Business with a theocracy can be patriotic. The French angle has been reserved and coldly non-committal.  “Weapons exports to Saudi Arabia are examined in this context,” claimed foreign ministry deputy spokesman Olivier Gauvin, meaning that his country’s arms control policy was made on a case-by-case basis.  For France, keeping Riyadh in stiff opposition to Tehran’s regional ambitions has been a matter of importance in its Middle Eastern policy for decades, a point reiterated by President Emmanuel Macron in April.  And the Kingdom pays French arms exporters well: between 2008 and 2017, Saudi Arabia proved the second biggest purchaser of French arms (some 11 billion euros), with 2017 being a bumper year with licenses coming to 14.7 billion euros.  Riyadh can expect little change there. Britain’s Theresa May, in the tradition of elastic British diplomacy (condemnation meets inertia), has insisted that her government already has the appropriately stringent rules on arms exports, another way of shunning any European resolution that might perch on human rights.  Such strictness evidently does not preclude the eager oil sheiks of Riyadh, though Britain’s foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt did suggest the Khashoggi killing, should it “turn out to be true” would be “fundamentally incompatible with our values and we will act accordingly.”  Such actions are bound to be symbolic – much money has been received by the British arms industry, with earnings of £4.6 billion coming from sales to the Kingdom since the Saudi-led war on Yemen began in 2015.  Sowing death, even if through the good agency of a theocratic power, is lucrative. The fate of Khashoggi, cruel and ghastly, seems a piddle of insignificance in that light.  “Brexit,” urged Philippe Lamberts, MEP and leader of the Group of the Greens, “must not be an excuse for the UK to abdicate on its moral responsibilities.” That abdication, on the part of Britain and its arms competitors, took place sometime ago. http://clubof.info/

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Top 10 Security Frauds You Must Have to Avoid

The main purpose of this article has been created in order to warn you with a very recent scam created by Ilan Tzroya. Keep reading below

Ten of the most widely recognized securities frauds are given below.

Concentrate this rundown and get comfortable with the regular qualities of every fraud so you remember it when you see it and can abstain from getting hoodwinked.

Teaching yourself about investment securities fraud is the best safeguard against turning into its next unfortunate casualty.

Once your money is gone, you can't get it back. Ensure yourself beginning today.

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Securities Fraud #1 – Penny Stocks

The smaller scale top securities exchange (ie: penny stocks) has a long history of fraud, yet it pulls in new investors consistently.

The fantasy of owning the following Microsoft, Yahoo, or eBay toward the start-up stage and riding it to simple wealth is sufficient to make even a doubter's ravenousness organs salivate.

The other charm of small scale top stocks is the bogus sentiment of big time investing that originates from purchasing more offers with less money.

For instance, $1,000 will just purchase ten offers of a $100 stock, however it will purchase 10,000 offers of a 10 penny stock, and 100,000 offers of a penny stock.

Numerous unpracticed investors lean toward 100,000 offers of questionable incentive more than ten offers of genuine esteem. They cherish the possibility that a solitary penny change in the cost can twofold their riches. Energizing stuff … kind of.

Tragically, there are two essential issues with penny stocks that make them ready for securities fraud.

Negligible data: Many small scale top stocks fall underneath least resource and investor prerequisites for SEC detailing. Absence of data revelation and administrative oversight welcomes fraud in light of the fact that the danger of disclosure is lower. Furthermore, there's occasional any genuine examiner inclusion or press examination for a large number of these stocks, which additionally reduces data stream and brings down the danger of disclosure for trick specialists. Rascals will dependably float where the danger of getting captured is most reduced – which incorporates penny stocks.

Low liquidity: The second issue with penny stocks is low costs, little every day volume, and insignificant stock buoy, making them ready for corrupt promoters to control the stock and artificially control costs. See the case of "Pump and Dump" beneath for how this control works. What's more, low liquidity can likewise make offering a vast position without adversely affecting value a difficult errand when it's a great opportunity to exit.

The two most normal types of securities fraud in penny stocks are "pump and dump" and "false contributions".

Pump and Dump: This fraud happens when somebody procures control of a lot of an organization's stock and after that pumps up the cost. They at that point give deluding and false data in official statements, spam email, web discourse amass postings, and other unverified sources. The sudden burst in advancement briefly expands interest for the stock, making the cost rise, which makes extra interest from energy purchasers hopping on the fleeting trend, prompting further cost increments. Once value energy is set up, the trick craftsman offers his offers and leaves the advancement, making the stock tank.

False Offerings: This fraud is sold as an unverifiable achievement innovation or prospective extensive contract declaration for some obscure organization. Regularly, the organization will have no tasks, income, or inspected money related articulations, and may in truth be minimal in excess of a thought or a shell.

The general lead for penny stock investing is to maintain a strategic distance from it except if you're an investor with particular aptitude in the business.

"You might be cheated if you trust excessively, yet you'll live in torment if you don't confide in enough."

– Frank Crane

Penny stocks have higher hazard for investment fraud than regular securities, and they require novel investment abilities and experience that couple of investors have with the end goal to win dependable benefits. They're best maintained a strategic distance from.

Securities Fraud #2 – Prime Banks

Prime bank fraud is intended to pull in connivance scholars who trust the Rockefeller's, Rothschild's, Saudi Royalty, and different individuals from the special class have mystery access to exceedingly lucrative investments that an insignificant average citizen like you and I can't regularly invest in.

Triple digit returns might be guaranteed for turning into a "special investor" with access to the world's tip top bank portfolios: "prime banks".

The main issue is prime bank securities don't exist.

Neither do other related types of this sort of fraud which incorporate "backup letters of credit," "spinning credit ensures," and other authentic sounding doublespeaks for invented high yielding obligation.

Maintain a strategic distance from all types of offbeat, high-yielding obligation issued through non-verifiable sources. Be especially wary when the investment incorporates garbage about being offered access to something regularly held for the special few.

Penny stocks ought to be kept away from if you don't have particular skill

Securities Fraud #3 – Institutionalized

Buyer markets are frequently connected with a tolerant social culture that can prompt audacious investment business works on bringing about regulated securities fraud.

Barely any investors pay heed to slips in trustworthiness as long as everybody is profiting and the business sectors keep on rising. At the point when the punch bowl is expelled, at that point the headache that pursues can uncover standardized securities fraud.

Precedents include:

Bookkeeping Fraud: Enron, WorldCom, and other enormous name companies defrauded a great many investors through "innovative" bookkeeping and deficient exposure amid the late 1990's positively trending business sector. Under ordinary conditions, a whole administrative and oversight framework exists to get these issues, yet amid extraordinary positively trending markets, the investigation of controllers and inspectors produces deficient outcomes.

Untrustworthy Mutual Fund Practices: Late-exchanging and front-running are two benefits that were allowed by numerous shared assets amid the late 1990's to insiders and vast organizations. This gives them an unreasonable favorable position while selling out their trustee obligation to singular investors. The aggregate expense of this fraud to Main Street investors will never be known.

Investigator Research Conflicts: A long history of investment fraud can be found in financier firms coexisting investment saving money to establishments with investment deals to people under one rooftop. Singular investor proposals by in-house examiners are regularly polluted by lucrative investment managing an account connections.

You wouldn't confide in restorative counsel from your specialist if he was one-sided by deals commission kickbacks from medication organizations, so for what reason would you commit a similar error with your investment guidance?

Sadly, numerous investors aren't even mindful of the inclinations natural in the investment exhortation they get.

"Trustworthiness: the most imperative thing in life. Except if you truly know how to counterfeit it, you'll never make it."

– Bernard Rosenberg

For instance, Merrill Lynch settled with the New York Attorney General's office for $100 million for this deceptive practice (without conceding any bad behavior, obviously). Other enormous name business firms kept running into comparative irreconcilable circumstance charges.

The key issue causing institutional securities fraud is the insatiability and pain free income character of real buyer showcases that can result in an unbridled business culture.

In the inquiry to boost main concern benefits, there's dependably the hazard that one rotten one will put convenience before honesty, bringing about fraud.

Because an establishment is substantial and respectable doesn't make securities fraud unimaginable.

Huge and legitimate establishments are completely fit for submitting securities fraud

Securities Fraud #4 – Unlicensed Sales Agents

Investment trick craftsmen utilize the draw of high commissions to select autonomous protection operators, budgetary guides, investment course speakers, and bookkeepers as deals delegates for securities fraud.

Autonomous specialists are the ideal deals outlet since they've effectively earned your trust, however need refined consistence divisions and due ingenuity systems to reveal ill-conceived investments.

The outcome is a confided in master who really knows minimal more than you about arranging fraud from authentic investments.

Be vigilant if your operator offers exceptional yields with almost no hazard on viatical contracts, brokered CD's, hardware leases, considering, promissory notes, or other eccentric investments.

Securities Fraud #5 – Affinity Groups

Partiality aggregate fraud is another case of mixed up trust. Investment fraudsters will misuse their injured individual's age, religious, ethnic, sexual, or proficient character to pick up your certainty realizing that it's human instinct to confide in individuals who resemble you.

Partiality fraud sidesteps the characteristic doubt we have for schemes advanced by outsiders.

The typical technique for offering the fraud is to enlist a trusted, driving individual from the gathering (who's occasional an investment master) into pitching the fraud to the rest of the gathering.

The draw to invest is the alleged benefits that will some way or another advantage the congregation or expert association that you need to help.

"We need to doubt one another. It's our solitary barrier against double-crossing."

– Tennessee Williams

In outline, there are three standards you should detract from this discourse…

Controlled, local securities and merchants have a lower danger of fraud than their unregulated and seaward partners. That doesn't mean you can bring down your defenses against fraud with controlled securities. A remarkable opposite, as confirm by the areas on intermediary fraud and systematized investment fraud. All it implies is the danger of investment fraud is bring down when control is higher, however fraud still exists paying little respect to direction.

Investment fraud comes in numerous structures and changes with the occasions. Extortionists as a rule endeavor to offer the fraud

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NASCAR 2017 season review: Best driver, biggest storyline, best and worse races, unforgettable and surreal moments, and more

A look back at the memorable, captivating and sometimes strange moments that transpired during the course of NASCAR’s 2017 season.

Put on your tuxedo T-shirt, pour a glass of your favorite something as it is time for SB Nation’s annual year-end NASCAR awards ceremony that honors the best and worst of the 2017 Monster Energy Cup Series season.

Driver of the year

As easy and clear-cut a choice as there is, and not just because Martin Truex Jr. was holding the championship hardware when the season concluded. Shedding the label of a journeyman driver, he won more races (eight) than he had in his previous 11 years (seven) in addition to leading the series in top fives, top 10s, laps led, average start, and average finish.

Truex’s skill was best showcased over the final 30 laps in the championship finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Although Kyle Busch had the faster car, Truex masterfully held him off by adjusting his line and not overdriving in a situation where one bobble would’ve cost him the title. A gritty effort emblematic of the resolve Truex has exhibited fighting through a host of adversity before finally reaching NASCAR’s mountaintop.

Also deserving mention: Kyle Busch; Kyle Larson

Story of the year

In year where NASCAR introduced a radical new format that divided races into stages and awarded additional championship points all to entice drivers to race hard from green flag to checkered flag, this seemingly would be the predominated story.

Then Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR’s 15-time most popular driver, announced in April 2017 would be his last as a full-time competitor. A retirement mirroring recent decisions by Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards, and preceding Matt Kenseth and Danica Patrick each stating in November they would join Earnhardt in stepping away at the end of the current season.

That drain of star power comes at a precarious time amidst declining television ratings and stagnant attendance. NASCAR is now not only without some of its most beloved personalities, but lacks a driver possessing crossover mainstream appeal like Earnhardt, Edwards, Gordon or Patrick, all of whom were mainstays on daytime and late night television shows.

And while stage racing significantly bettered the on track product, by the end of the season this was not the prevalent storyline. Instead the focus was on the number of notables who had or were retiring, along with the veterans who were being squeezed out due to a dramatically changed economic structure that favors younger (i.e. cheaper) drivers.

Also deserving mention: Continued emergence of young drivers; sponsorship crunch facing teams; Busch’s war of words and increasingly public feud with Brad Keselowski; Chase Elliott and Denny Hamlin wrecking one other in the playoffs; Monster Energy’s first year as Cup Series entitlement sponsor

Crew chief of the year

It is no coincidence that upon Cole Pearn taking over as crew chief of the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing car in 2015 the team transformed from a mid-pack outfit into a dominant force. During this span only Busch has more wins (14) than Truex’s 13, and twice in four years the team went into the last race of the season with a shot at the championship.

And Truex winning his first-ever title last month had no bearing on the outcome of this award. Win or lose at Homestead, the No. 78 team was clearly head-and-shoulders above the competition for the entirety of the season with Pearn deserving a lion’s share of the credit.

Also deserving mention: Adam Stevens (Busch); Chad Johnston (Larson); Rodney Childers (Kevin Harvick); Alan Gustafson (Elliott)

Biggest Overachiever

For all intent purposes Wood Brothers Racing is an extension of Team Penske where the venerable family operation is a third Penske car. But while the relationship between the two teams is strong, the Wood Brothers are still technically a separate entity possessing neither the resources nor funding like many other organizations. All of which underscored the team’s best overall season in two decades, that included Ryan Blaney’s rousing first career win and surprise run into the semifinal round of the playoffs.

Also deserving mention: Larson; Michael McDowell and Leavine Family Racing

Biggest underachiever

Most teams would classify a season with four combined wins and three drivers making the playoffs as successful. That isn’t the case for Hendrick Motorsports where such a campaign is considered a down year. Especially so in light of the fact the team won just once over the final 23 races, Johnson never seriously challenged for the championship, and Earnhardt’s final season was remembered more for what happened off the track than on it.

Also deserving mention: Patrick; Joey Logano; JTG Daugherty Racing; Front Row Motorsports

Unforgettable moments

The bond between Truex and longtime girlfriend Sherry Pollex that was on display throughout the season. Specifically, Truex getting emotional following wins at Kentucky Speedway and Charlotte while Pollex was undergoing treatment for a reoccurrence of ovarian cancer, along with their embrace in victory lane after Truex won the championship.

Hamlin crashing Elliott on the final lap at Martinsville Speedway, costing Elliott a first-career win and a championship round berth. The incident instantly thrust Hamlin into the role of NASCAR’s No. 1 villain.

Earnhardt capping his Cup career by turning his car into a makeshift bar and drinking Budweisers with his crew guys for nearly an hour after the checkered flag waved at Homestead.

Also deserving mention: Busch throwing a haymaker at Logano after contact between them caused Busch to spin out on the final lap at Las Vegas Motor Speedway; Matt Kenseth in his (likely) second-to-last race winning at Phoenix Raceway; Elliott extracting revenge on Hamlin by nudging his rival into the wall at Phoenix, effectively knocking Hamlin out of the playoffs

Surreal moments

A wayward ambulance mistakenly stopping at the entrance to pit road while the leaders were pitting during a caution period in the regular-season finale at Richmond Raceway. This caused the field to stack up and in the aftermath Matt Kenseth suffered considerable frontend damage that sent him to the garage and almost cost him a playoff spot.

A drunk fan climbing the catchfence during the spring race at Dover International Speedway. Adding to the foolishness, NASCAR inexplicably did not place the race under caution while security attempted to detain the man.

In a fitting gesture Richard Petty was given the honor to lead the field prior to the Southern 500 behind the wheel of a 1967 Plymouth that he once drove to victory in the same race. One problem: Petty lost radio communication with officials and stayed on the track for an extended duration, forcing NASCAR to utilize the black flag so he would return to the pits.

Also deserving mention: Team owner Chip Ganassi enthusiastically celebrating Larson’s victory at Michigan International Speedway in August; Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s father being detained security after climbing a fence at Talladega Superspeedway following his son’s inaugural Cup win; Hamlin getting freaked by a live lobster in victory lane at New Hamphire; NASCAR officials clumsily explaining why Jimmie Johnson wasn’t called for a pit road penalty during the playoff race at Charlotte Motor Speedway

Best race

What you want in a best-finish-wins-the-championship finale is high drama with each of the four title contenders running in close proximity to one another. The Ford 400 checked all those boxes and more, as the final quarter of the race was tension filled culminating with a thrilling duel between Truex and Busch.

Also deserving mention: STP 500 (spring Martinsville); First Data 500 (fall Martinsville); Food City 500 (spring Bristol); Can-Am 500 (fall Phoenix); Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Sonoma)

Worst race

Between an ambulance parking on pit road and nearly impacting the playoff field to questionable officiating involving a controversial late caution, the regular season finale at Richmond was notable for all the wrong reasons.

Also deserving mention: ISM Connect 300 (fall New Hampshire); Quaker State 400 (Kentucky); Tales of the Turtles 400 (Chicagoland)

Memorable quotes

“I just wanted the opportunity to go out on my own terms. … I wanted to be able to make that decision myself on retiring and not really have it made for me. But I feel healthy.”

--Earnhardt announcing April 25 he would retire at the end of the season

“The 78 race team has carried the same motto throughout the season and that’s, ‘Never give up.’ No one has lived that out more than my life partner, Sherry. As we all know, Sherry was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014. Today, she is still fighting her disease with tenacity and a never-give-up attitude that inspires millions of people to do the same. She is the true champion.

“Babe, I love you and thank you for the change you’ve caused in my life. You’re an inspiration to all of us in this room. And winning is a great feeling, but spending my life with you is the real victory.”

--Truex praising his girlfriend for her tenacity as she battles cancer during his champion’s speech

“He’s an idiot anyways, we all know that.”

--Busch calling out Keselowski for comments made about Toyota’s perceived advantage

“Each person had their own opinion of how they do things and it just proved to the people that thought I was a bad guy that he would do the exact same thing in the same circumstances. It’s just part of racing. I got into him and he chose to retaliate, so I’m in the garage and that’s the way it is.”

--Hamlin in response to Elliott forcing him into the wall at Phoenix, which occurred two weeks after Hamlin punted Elliott at Martinsville