[Breitbart] A Pennsylvania inmate who tried to convince the court that the drugs in his rear end did not belong to him lost his appeal last week.
The Pennsylvania judicial panel remained unphased when they ruled that the bag of drugs in Edwin Wylie-Biggs’ buttocks were his, upholding a court ruling that sentenced him to three to six additional years behind bars for the incident, the New York Daily News reported.
Wylie-Biggs argued that the state did not have enough evidence to convict him of smuggling contraband in prison.
A corrections officer testified that he ordered Wylie-Biggs to bend over for a strip search after witnessing another inmate pass him an unknown object.
When the inmate bent over to be searched for contraband, the corrections officer found "a clear plastic bag containing a small blue balloon could be seen sticking out of his rectum," according to the court document.
Once Wylie-Biggs took the bag out of his anus, the officers tested the substance. Lab tests showed that the substance tested positive for K2, a form of synthetic marijuana.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) ‐ A strong 4.5 magnitude earthquake has rattled the Bay Area shortly before 3 a.m.
Then USGS is reporting the quake was centered in Berkeley. On KRON4’s real time earthquake map it shows the epicenter.
KRON4 has been flooded with viewer calls and emails that it was felt across the Bay Area.
Here is what USGS is reporting:
Region: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIF.
Geographic coordinates: 37.861N, 122.242W
Magnitude: 4.5
Depth: 12 km
Universal Time (UTC): 4 Jan 2018 10:39:38
Time near the Epicenter: 4 Jan 2018 02:39:38
Local standard time in your area: 4 Jan 2018 10:39:38
Location with respect to nearby cities:
3 km (2 miles) ESE (113 degrees) of Berkeley, CA
4 km (3 miles) NNW (348 degrees) of Piedmont, CA
5 km (3 miles) NE (55 degrees) of Emeryville, CA
18 km (11 miles) ENE (58 degrees) of San Francisco City Hall, CA
[Al Jazeera] Æthiopia has announced plans to release political prisoners and shut an infamous prison in the capital, Addis Ababa, in a surprise move the government says aims to "foster national reconciliation".
The office of the Æthiopian prime minister said charges would be dropped against politicians currently being prosecuted, while political prisoners who are imprisoned will receive pardons, the Addis Standard magazine reported.
"Politicians currently under prosecution and those previously sentenced will either have their cases annulled or be pardoned," AFP news agency quoted Hailemariam Desalegn as saying on Wednesday.
Desalegn made the announcement alongside other leaders in the Æthiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front, the country's ruling political coalition.
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[All Africa] VIOLENCE rocked the MDC-T's Harvest House headquarters in Harare Tuesday evening with the opposition party immediately blaming ruling Zanu PF party youths for the festivities.
The attackers allegedly fired live bullets and reportedly smashed windows at the building, causing panic as passers-by ran for cover. Shops along Nelson Mandela and Angwa streets were also forced to close earlier than usual because of the violence.
Police front man Chief Superintended Paul Nyathi however professed ignorance over the festivities.
"I am far away. I can only give full details of what transpired tomorrow (Wednesday) morning; so, get in touch with me," he said.
Still, MDC-T youth leaders blamed Zanu PF rival Godwin Gomwe for the violence.
According to MDC-T activist Denford Ngadziore, Gomwe teamed up with dozens of ruling party youths and stormed the opposition party's offices armed with pistols and other missiles.
"Yes, we have been attacked by Zanu PF youths who were being led by Godwin Gomwe," Ngadziore told NewZim-bob-we.com.
"I am not so sure yet what the motive of the attack was but, I heard something happened at Zimex Mall a few days ago which we are yet to establish."
Gomwe however, distanced himself from the violence.
"I would like to categorically state that I was neither involved nor associated with the MDC headquarters violent disturbances, whether directly or indirectly," he said in a statement.
"I got the shock of my life when I came across a message on social media suggesting I was gun totting and leading in the violent acts. Whatever happened, not only was I not present, but I do not know anyone that sells phones at Zimex."
The Zanu PF Harare youth leader claimed that the fight was between vendors at Zimex Mall and MDC-T youths who allegedly looted mobile phones from the traders.
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Notice how very little of this unpleasantness is reported in our media? The African 'report card' comes up missing again.
[Townhall] Well, you can now add Southwest Airlines to the list of companies who are doling out bonuses to workers and increasing philanthropic donations thanks to the new tax bill. Gary Kelly, the chairman and CEO of Southwest, said his company would not waste another minute capitalizing on the most extensive tax reform in 30 years to give their 55,000+ employees a $1,000 bonus, which will be doled out on January 8. Here’s the statement from Mr. Kelly:
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Those who are in competition already have by keeping their prices in line with supply and demand. Think of a Obama central government 'managed' gas supply system regulated to discourage auto usage (for your own good). Think fracking would be running the Arabs out of their old cat seat under the Prog authoritarian rule? Many are already enjoying a 1000 dollar bonus right there.
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Well, they're just doing it to cover up the huge salary increases they'll pay management. We warned you about that; this is just a scam to hide it! Trump tax breaks favor the rich! Say it LOUDER!
-San Fran Nan
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[DAWN] A girl who was allegedly paraded naked in a Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... village in October last year appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday, where she was asked to recount the distressing details of abuse she had suffered.
The 16-year-old told the committee, chaired by Senator Nasreen Jalil, that she had been stripped and humiliated and a video was also recorded of her abuse.
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[DAWN] With Washington and Islamabad engaged in a worsening war of words over United States (US) President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's recent tweets in the backdrop, Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... on Wednesday took the opportunity to claim that a civilian government would never have "sold itself" to the US in the post-9/11 scenario.
The former premier also threatened to lift the curtain on "what has been happening in Islamabad for the past four years" if "they" do not stop their "propaganda".
Addressing a presser in Islamabad upon his return from a much-speculated visit to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ‐ during which he met brass hats, including powerful crown prince Muhammad bin Salman ‐ Nawaz claimed that: "If in 2001 a democratic government had been in place in Pakistain instead of a dictatorship, it [the state] would never have sold its expertise to the US. It would neither have sold our expertise, nor our self-respect."
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This work was supported in part by NSF awards #1514261 and #1652259, financial assistance award 70NANB15H328 from the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, the 2017-2018 Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
Basically it uses speculative execution to read an arbitrary address
Basically it does this via a side effect.
The execution doesn't stall when it reads from private memory, but continues until the processor separately decides if that location was allowed, (which is slow) so to stop a stall it AssUMes it works.
Now it uses the value it got from the memory multiplies it by the internal block size(4096) and that will request it.
Now before the exploit the 256 blocks of 4096 are made to be non-cached.
After the processor catches up with the non-allowed address (page fault) and reverts the speculative execution it will have un-cached a 4096 byte block of memory which will be at an offset representing the value of the byte at that (ARBITRARY!) address!
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Wait until we have dice and a teapot in the circuit (quantum entangled quantum computing). Then adding Schrodinger's Cat to a calculation has to open up all sorts of strange outcomes.
typically, when one switches tasks one does cache invalidation in SW,.
Basically, you need Translation Lookaside buffers in multi-core architectures, to allow flexibility in CPU processor core allocation. otherwise moving a task from one core to the other will take a big penalty, you have to re-load the cache..
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No idea what effects it has on virtual computers. Perhaps a solution is to fix it in virtualization and only have the new virtualization code running in ring 0 not an OS or program in anything but virtualization.
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Meltdown is also, short term, a very good argument for massive caches on the processor die. They would reduce the potential of a cache miss which opens these options. So if you are buying a new processor or machine optimize for the cpu with more massive on chip cache. (Intel top of the line of any design usually have much larger on chip cache)
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Good gosh. I only retired a few years ago and while what you say sounds reasonable the gray cells just aren't cooperating. I cut my teeth on Knuth in '79 and it served me well for 30 years, but...............................8^(
Much, much less than Intel chips. All modern CPUs are vulnerable to Spectre attacks, but AMD says that its CPUs have “near zero” risk to one variant due to the way they’re constructed. The performance impact of Spectre patches are expected to be “negligible.”
There is “zero AMD vulnerability” to Meltdown thanks to chip design, AMD says. If operating system patches exclude AMD CPUs from the new Meltdown restrictions, the performance war between Intel’s chips and AMD’s new Ryzen CPUs may get even tighter. - cite.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Breitbart] A Pennsylvania inmate who tried to convince the court that the drugs in his rear end did not belong to him lost his appeal last week.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) ‐ A strong 4.5 magnitude earthquake has rattled the Bay Area shortly before 3 a.m.
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
