CERN's LHC Wants Your CPU Cycles

CERN is at it again.

1. CERN has updated their LHC@home program to LHC@home 2.0
2. This is a program designed to let the scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider use the computers of regular people to do their work.
3. This 2.0 version is designed to run particle collision simulations on "volunteer" computers in their quest to find the Higgs boson (aka God Particle)
4. CERN already pointed other researchers away from particular energy ranges in order to reserve those for their own investigation.

Once again, CERN has tipped its hand regarding the Higgs boson. It's clear that they have no regard for the ethical conduct of science, as they have repeatedly attempted to throw their colleagues off the track by dropping red herrings in the midst of their releases. Now they're busy using the computers of unsuspecting volunteers to further outpace their colleagues.
In order to do the distributed processing entailed by LHC@home 2.0, they've gotten those volunteers to allow the installation of "simulation" software on their computers, thus granting CERN - and its European Union rulers - access to the contents of those machines. It remains to be seen just what tracking capabilities are included in that software, as well as just how deeply the scientists and bureaucrats at CERN are willing to probe.
I'll report here as I uncover more information, but suffice it to say that I'm concerned - very concerned.

Posted by Procrustes 17

Update:
CERN seems to be having a problem, or they're blowing another smoke-screen. Their system gives a message blaming a "ROGUE" system or systems for keeping new users from signing up for the program. It may be nothing more than a ploy to make it look more popular than it is, or it may be the result of poor programming resulting in an overload of data being "returned" to them from the computers they've already compromised through their software.

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Securing the Border

The other day I was reading that former UN Ambassador John Bolton was saying that the Obama administration had ATF agents being complicit in letting Mexican drug cartels smuggle guns across the border into Mexico so they could cause as much gun-related violence as possible so that Americans would be frightened into letting the government take everyone's guns away in order to keep us all safe from all the Mexicans that the ATF had armed with American guns that shouldn't have been allowed to go across the border into Mexico in the first place anyway.

While that might seem too hard to believe of any group of people that doesn't seem able to be smart enough to not wreck the economy and that thinks that using the emergency gas pumps would be a good idea when there's not an emergency except in their poll numbers and not in the actual supply of gasoline and petroleum instead of drilling to get more, it's really not that hard to believe when you think about how sneaky they've all been in getting Commies and such and other assorted Socialists and pinkos and Com-Symps into positions of power with no need for hearings and approvals and such.

In short, they're a sneaky bunch, and crafty in a not very pleasant kind of way, and so it's pretty clear that these guys mean business, and their business is taking away your guns and my guns and everybody's guns except their own and the Mexican criminals who are selling drugs to idiots on both sides of the border and are smuggling more guns back down there so they can continue to take the war to their own government and police and such because that will make the people that much easier to control.

After all, when we don't even know that the Constitution is the final law of the land and that the Supreme Court is supposed to decide if other laws are OK by the constitution, not by what they think or by what polls say or by what the French or Belgians or other Eurotrash might think or say, then it's easy for them to tell us that we need to turn in our guns or not be able to buy ammunition or have to be on a list of potential terrorists if we want to have a gun or some bullets and that it's all for our own good and for our own safety.

Well, I say it all a bunch of hooey, and that if they want my guns taken away from me so much, then there must be a pretty good reason that I really should have one, and not just for defending my home against criminals from Mexico or Omaha or [insert your own city here] or wherever, but it's important to keep our government from forgetting that they work for us and that our stuff is ours, not theirs that they let us keep as long as it's not too much trouble to them, and that they only have the limited powers that are listed in the Constitution and not just whatever they think they can get away with and not get voted out or put in jail for doing it.

Remember this Independence Day that it was a bunch of regular guys who had guns that were the reason the British had to stop oppressing us and admit that we were a real country now too, even if they did try again with the War of 1812 to impress us and burn us out of our homes and all that jazz, but we won that one too because we're Americans and we have rights that no one can take away from us as long as we're not stupid and a bunch of cowards.

Stand Up, America!
Posted by Lewis Cannon

Parsing the Prez

"America, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home," said president 0bama in his address regarding pulling troops out of Afghanistan.

A few points might be helpful in translating this for normal people:

• No, this doesn't mean that he doesn't realize that we already have a nation here; it means he doesn't like the nation that we already have here.
• Remember that he promised to "fundamentally transform" America when running for President; this is likely his realization that he isn't likely to get reelected, so this next year and a half will be all the time he has to pull down the current structures and rebuild America in his own image.
• Europe hasn't fully imploded yet, so he can still point to his friends as examples of mature folks who don't treat rich people as well as poor people. Once Greece defaults and takes Italy with it, he knows he's going to have an even tougher time convincing anyone that his new way forward is anything but a rabbit-hole to insolvency and serfdom.

So what he said is, if you like these United States of America, too bad for you.

Posted by Pygmalion 56

Sony is about to Smurf us all

1. Smurfs have been linked to all the major flavors of socialism, from Marxist/Leninist communism to Fascism.
2. Sony has planted rootkits on their customers' PCs to track their media activity.
3. Sony is planning worldwide Smurf day to plug their 3D Smurf movie.
4. Smurfs were created by some Belgian guy.
5. Brussels is where the EU has its HQ, steadily dismantling any semblance of democracy and local self-rule across Europe.
   

Is there some kind of mind control project is under way at Sony HQ? They want people to dress as those frigging blue creatures on June 25.
It seems clear that there is something sinister going on here, and no amount of corporate denials will suffice to clear Sony's name.

I'd rather scratch glass than turn blue!

Posted by Listener 43