Bewarethewumpus

Author : Travis Gregg

The brightness was overwhelming at first and it took several minutes for his eyes to adjust. The dirt was warm under his bare feet, and the smell, the smell was like something from his childhood. The smell of dirt and wind and sun. He’d forgotten that smell.

All around him the wheat fields stretched from horizon to horizon, a sharp contrast against the deep blue of the cloudless sky. The only thing that broke the uniformity was a two story ramshackle building on top of a nearby hill. It looked about a hundred years old, all rotted wood and sagging porch. The roof had partially collapsed and it looked like a stiff breeze would send the whole structure crashing into a heap. He slowly rotated and it was all sky and wheat and the abandoned building.

“What is this?” he asked. “Another test?”

At first there had been many tests. Some painful, some beyond painful. Some he’d forgotten and some he’d probably never be able to. His hand rubbed the scars unconsciously. On at least three occasions he’d been led to believe he’d been freed only to have the illusion melt away after his captors ascertained whatever it was they were hoping to learn.

There had been fewer and fewer test though the longer they’d held him. He couldn’t even remember how long it’d been since the last one but certainly a while. He’d lost a sense of time almost immediately after his capture.

“No, no more tests. We’re done with that,” his captor replied.

“If not a test, then what is this?” he asked.

“Your home, or near enough to where we picked you up.”

“Look at this place, there’s nothing here!”

His captor had no shoulders but still managed to convey an indifferent shrug as it turned back to the portal. “A significant time has passed on your specie’s time scale. The rules are when we’re done the subjects must be returned to their original habitat.”

“How long has it been?”

Silence was the only response he got as the portal and his captor faded to nothingness. As he looked out at the empty expanse, truly alone for the first time in ages, he realized simply surviving might be the most difficult test.

Author : LB Benton

I am a simple watchmaker. Once I owned a watch repair shop on West 38th Street, near the jewelry district. The shop was very small and, now, I barely remember it—worn wooden floors that softened the footsteps of customers, the sweet smell of lubricating oil, a door that jingled when it opened. Many things about it I have forgotten. Now I sit at a worktable in a damp cement room and repair the inner workings of androids. Like a surgeon bent over an operating table, I hunch over the lifeless forms of one android after another and bring them back to life, so to speak. Only someone with the skills and knowledge of a watchmaker can repair their complex, finely tuned mechanisms and overhaul the labyrinth of intricate wheelworks.

The horrid creatures tell me I am the last human, the last watchmaker. I don’t know if it’s true. Surely they are capable of lying, but I haven’t seen another human in months, perhaps as long as a year. Our tragic and fatal mistake was programming reason into the droids, giving them thoughts and freedom of choice. We wondered if they were sentient and self-aware, but that ceased to matter once the killings began.

They believed in their rationality, but in their heated frenzy to eliminate every living person, they made a serious error. It was an error likely disastrous for them. Strangely they did not know exactly how they themselves worked internally. They had not grasped the concept of parallel drives, the interaction of rods and tensors, the oscillation of the escapement, any of it, even the blinking of their eyes. For at the center of every android is a powerful mainspring which drives all animation and motion. Too late, they realized they did not understand the mainspring, the precision machined gears, the linkages. They simply didn’t know.

But the killings had gone too far. I was saved at the last moment from the chemicals. I was pulled from line when they realized their mistake. But I was the only watchmaker saved, the others were exterminated. Through bad luck, the Swiss went early. Now, I am toiling 10-12 hours a day making repairs. Without my skills they would cease to move, some inner part would malfunction and stop. They could not be repaired and would, in effect, die. Eventually, all of them would cease to be.

I try but there is too much work. Broken androids are piling up. They tell me to work faster, threatening me, but I can’t keep up. In their desperation, they are forcing me to teach them to be watchmakers, to give them the tools and techniques to do the work themselves. But once I teach them, I will be superfluous, and they will certainly kill me. My knowledge is the only thing keeping me alive.

My knowledge is also the only thing keeping them alive. I have begun the training, but I will not finish it. I will not tell them everything. I will not teach them all I know. All I have left is my skill and my art. This they must not acquire for, with it, they can live forever, will live forever. So, I have decided on a bold step—a step more than a little frightening for a simple watchmaker. It will soon be over, for I have a plan. My knowledge must vanish; it must sink into the final darkness. May God forgive me.

My only regret is that I have no one to say goodbye to.

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Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., today blasted the secrecy shrouding the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.

“They said, well, it’s very transparent. Go down and look at it,” said Boxer on the floor of the Senate. “Let me tell you what you have to do to read this agreement. Follow this: you can only take a few of your staffers who happen to have a security clearance — because, God knows why, this is secure, this is classified. It has nothing to do with defense. It has nothing to do with going after ISIS.”

Boxer, who has served in the House and Senate for 33 years, then described the restrictions under which members of Congress can look at the current TPP text.

“The guard says, ‘you can’t take notes.’ I said, ‘I can’t take notes?’” Boxer recalled. “‘Well, you can take notes, but have to give them back to me, and I’ll put them in a file.’ So I said: ‘Wait a minute. I’m going to take notes and then you’re going to take my notes away from me and then you’re going to have them in a file, and you can read my notes? Not on your life.’”

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Boxer noted at the start of her speech that she hoped opponents of the trade promotion authority bill — the so-called fast-track legislation required to advance the TPP — would be able to block the bill via a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is expected to file a motion to invoke cloture on the measure later this afternoon.

“Instead of standing in a corner, trying to figure out a way to bring a trade bill to the floor that doesn’t do anything for the middle class — that is held so secretively that you need to go down there and hand over your electronics and give up your right to take notes and bring them back to your office — they ought to come over here and figure out how to help the middle class,” Boxer said.

In 2012, U.S. chief TPP negotiator Barbara Weisel said that “constantly evolving TPP chapter texts cannot be released to the public.” The same year, then-U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk claimed that secrecy was justified because openness and debate last decade killed talks surrounding the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

Sam Knight is a writer and reporter living in Washington, D.C. He is the co-founder of the watchdog news site The District Sentinel. 

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The post “You Can Read My Notes? Not on Your Life!”: Top Democratic Senator Blasts Obama’s TPP Secrecy appeared first on The Intercept.

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Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Tex., campaigned on a pledge to support the War on Terror and voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act in 2011.

But the conservative lawmaker changed his opinion due to Edward Snowden’s leak of government documents on surveillance. Explaining his about-face Tuesday evening during the House Rules Committee hearing on the USA Freedom Act, Burgess said that he remembered being told by intelligence officials that Section 215 of the Patriot Act would only be used to collect data on terrorists calling other terrorists in a foreign country.

“With the Snowden revelations,” Burgess said, he found out that Section 215 had been expanded by the NSA to include “every call everyone makes in this country,” a change that was only shared with congressional leadership, not rank-and-file members like himself.

Watch a clip of the congressman’s remarks below:

As The Intercept has reported, lawmakers have had extreme difficulty in receiving answers to simple questions about intelligence programs they have been asked to vote to approve.

Burgess noted that the Snowden documents caused a “visceral reaction” in his district. Today he voted against approval of the USA Freedom Act, a law that reauthorizes and modifies the Patriot Act. Critics say the bill does not go far enough in reining in NSA surveillance powers.

Photo: Oliver Douliery/Getty 

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Remember the security researcher who was pulled from a United flight and had his equipment taken (before its frequent flier miles-paying bug hunt) for tweeting about hacking into the plane via its entertainment system? In an application for a search warrant, FBI agents said he previously told them he's gone further than that. APTN National News obtained the document, which contains claims that Chris Roberts told them he connected his laptop to a plane via an Ethernet cable, hacked into a thrust management computer and briefly controlled one of the engines, causing the plane to change course. As reported previously by Wired, he has warned of vulnerabilities in planes for years -- manufacturers deny they exist -- and the conversations were apparently intended to get these problems fixed.

Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ? Shall we start playing with EICAS messages? "PASS OXYGEN ON" Anyone ? :)

- Chris Roberts (@Sidragon1) April 15, 2015

Irony: for FBI to make its case against Chris Roberts, they're going to have to seriously harm confidence in the aviation industry.

- Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) May 16, 2015

If you tell FBI agents you can control an airplane's engines with your laptop, you're gonna have a bad time. http://t.co/73qWvaxTvU

- Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) May 16, 2015

According to the application, Roberts traveled from Denver to Chicago via United flight 1474 on April 15th, and when agents checked it, they found damage and evidence of tampering to the electronic system under his seat. On Twitter, Roberts has since claimed that no systems were harmed during the trip, and more recently, that discussion is "out of context." He told Wired in an interview that he had only ever tapped in to watch data traffic on airplanes, and while he believed such hacks were possible, he has only done them in a simulated environment.

Last month's arrest spurred warnings from the TSA and FBI to watch out for passengers trying to access internal networks. Now, while law enforcement sorts out the difference between theoretical and actual hacking, it may be a good idea to tuck in any loose network cables while going through security.

[Image credit: Nicholas Burningham / Alamy]

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While big companies are known to quietly seek out the services of white-hat hackers to test for weaknesses in their networks and websites, it’s not every day that a major airline publicly offers a “bounty” to people who can diagnose vulnerabilities in its systems.

United’s Bug Bounty program rewards independent researchers with airline miles for discovering and reporting issues that affect United’s websites, mobile apps and online portals in a way that could put customer data at risk, Wired reports.

United said in an announcement on Thursday that the new program is an extension of its commitment to protecting customers’ privacy and the personal data they share with the airline.

“We believe that this program will further bolster our security and allow us to continue to provide excellent service,” the company said.

The airline offers three bounties (or mileage amounts awarded) depending on the type and severity of bug found.

High severity bugs, such as a vulnerability that would allow a hacker to execute code on a United property, result in a pay out of as many as 1 million miles.

Medium severity flaws, which the airline says includes the ability to identify information of customers or bypassing login requirements, can result in a reward of up to 250,000 miles.

Smaller vulnerabilities, like third-party issues that affect United, come with a bounty of up to 50,000 miles.

Of course the airline put in several stipulations and restrictions to the program.

For one, it’s first-come-first-serve, meaning only new discoveries qualify for rewards.

Bugs that only affect legacy or unsupported browsers, plugins and operating systems and bugs on the internal sites for United employees and agents are not eligible for submission. Additionally, employees and those living in their households are not permitted to take part in the program.

While the program is centered on finding vulnerabilities in United’s systems, it doesn’t cover all areas of the airline, such as an aircraft’s network.

In fact, participants are prohibited from testing on aircraft or aircraft systems such as inflight entertainment or inflight Wi-Fi.

According to the program’s rules, anyone who attempts to breach those systems will be permanently disqualified and could face criminal or legal action.

The susceptibility of those networks came to light back in April when the Government Accountability Office released a report that identified security weaknesses within the airline industry including the possibility that newer airplanes with interconnected WiFi systems could be hacked.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Transportation Security Administration quickly followed up the report by issuing an alert warning airlines to be vigilant about monitoring for such threats.

United Will Reward People Who Flag Security Flaws—Sort Of [Wired]

"Would you go to a toddler’s birthday party and kick over their cake to announce that you, too, have birthdays? The answer should be 'no.'"

Vlogger and comedian Akilah Hughes joined forces with teen-positive Rookie Magazine to pen an incredibly insightful article about activism and allyship. Hughes frames her piece around #BlackOutDay—a cool social media project that encouraged black people to share selfies as a way to challenge the ubiquity of European beauty standards and celebrate black beauty. As is the case with the #BlackLivesMatter movement, some white people took offense and tried to argue #BlackOutDay was exclusionary.

Hughes argues, however, that not every movement has to support everyone:

Blackout Day did not claim that non-black people are immune to body image issues, or that others don’t face societal pressures. But, without fail, any time a historically oppressed group asserts their equality by boldly denying any inferiority to someone outside their group, some member of the un-oppressed majority takes it personally. Well, when oppressed groups take the initiative to lift themselves up, it is not an invitation to victimize yourself. Would you go to a toddler’s birthday party and kick over their cake to announce that you, too, have birthdays? The answer should be “no.”

Hughes also readily admits that she is sometimes on the flip side of this conversation too. Although she’s an ally to the LGBT community, she was initially taken aback when she saw a post jokingly mocking straight relationships. But she eventually came to a big realization with the help of a friend who is a lesbian:

My friend was smart and patient. She simply asked, “Did you lose anything when they lifted themselves up?” and I thought really hard about it. The world hadn’t changed. I wasn’t somehow disadvantaged because queer people asserted their right to exist. I didn’t lose my right to marry, or suddenly have slurs hurled at me about my sexual orientation.

Realizing that their gay pride didn’t take away from or negate my lived experience helped me grow up so much in that moment. I saw the other side of the argument and they were right. And while I don’t condone making fun of anyone, I certainly do not think it makes much sense to equate my personal situation with the centuries-long history of oppression that anyone who isn’t heterosexual carries on their shoulders.

It. Wasn’t. About. Me.

Since that conversation, I’ve learned to listen before I follow my knee-jerk reaction and take offense at movements about which I’m not educated. It isn’t always easy to stop the instinct to be defensive, but it is necessary if things are ever going to get better. After really hearing the other side, ask yourself if anyone loses rights or status when that group gains theirs. John F. Kennedy said, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” It’s important to remember that sweeping progress benefits us all, so let others do what they must to finally achieve equality.

Read the full article over on Rookie.

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With Colombia's president Juan Manuel Santos banning use of controversial herbicides to eradicate coca crops, the president of the Quindio Botanical Garden proposed that an army of Cocaine Tussock Moths (Eloria noyesi) could be enlisted to destroy the coca by eating it.

"Cocaine-eating butterflies proposed to replace herbicides in Colombia" (AP)

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Astronaut Don Pettit, the unofficial Don of space photography, explains some of the space oddities of the International Space Station's design in this episode of the YouTube video series 'Smarter Every Day.'

It's all about about the cupola, and features a demo from Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.

"7 HOLES in the Space Station - Smarter Every Day 135" [youtube.com, HT: Mitch Youts]

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I remember the first time I went shoplifting.

The sun was shining, Marin was singing, and I needed a shovel. Two hundred Rupees was well outside my price range, but as I slipped into the village store I clocked my prize: back shelf, far left. The elderly shopkeeper rubbed his hands together at the thought of a sale, but I shamefully used his frailty against him as I snatched, grabbed, and ran behind his till. The clerk turned, but I turned quicker as I darted towards the door. He’d asked kindly that I pay, but the allure of acquiring something outside my means proved too much to resist. “Guess what?” read the caption above my head as I stepped outside. “You got it for free. Are you proud of yourself?”

(This article originally appeared on Kotaku UK.)

The question hung in the air like a bad smell. Was I proud of myself? I’d gotten used to being ushered around linear landscapes, being channelled towards foregone conclusions. Now, I was faced with a query that not only questioned my actions, but also my morals. I don’t think I quite appreciated how significant this little segment of Zelda: Link’s Awakening was when I first played it back in 1994.

But it didn’t stop there.

Thief. Hitman. The Elder Scrolls. Fallout. Assassin’s Creed. Dishonoured. Dragon Age. The Clue. The Sting. Broken Sword. Final Fantasy. Suikoden. Mafia. Saint’s Row. Grand Theft Auto. Mercenaries. Fable. The list of games wherein stealing became a fun distraction would grow and grow and grow. Why was I doing this? I wasn’t stealing in real life and have never felt the urge, so I was intrigued to explore the psychology behind why people steal in reality, in an attempt to understand the draw of virtual theft.

Professor Graham Scott of the University of the West of Scotland suggests that internal reasons, such as personality and lack of empathy, as well as external reasons, such as physically needing something or socio-economic factors, are the basis upon which people steal. The anonymity, or at least perceived anonymity, of the online spectrum drives this desire further still.

“There is a higher propensity of people who commit fraud and identity theft online as opposed to offline,” explains Scott. “One of the reasons for this is that within the online world you feel sort of isolated, and the consequences of your actions are much less apparent. If you steal from someone in the street, the risks of getting caught - the physical consequences - are greater. If you do something like that to someone online, they’re not likely to come after you, therefore you’re not going to see the damage it causes. You may be abstractly aware, but it probably won’t have the same impact.”

In the case of video games, Scott suggests that players might not actually be particularly bothered by how the act of theft directly affects others, but that they are scared of the consequences in reality. Games present an outlet. Another possibility, of course, is that certain games require the player commit theft in order to progress levels or storylines.

“Take Grand Theft Auto, for example,” says Scott. “The appeal of playing something like that wouldn’t be the actual act of stealing the car, it’d be driving the car and completing the mission. In that situation, you’re given a character with a personality and you’re given a script that you must follow.

“The player wouldn’t see stealing as being something bad - most adults in real life can tell the difference between fantasy and reality - they would just see it as following the script and completing it. The danger is that, even though it’s a game, repeated exposure to these types of behaviours could desensitise you to it and normalise it so that you’re more likely to do it in real life.”

Although I don’t necessarily agree with Scott’s concern about the transference of learned in-game behaviours to real life, I think considering the process in reverse perhaps best illustrates his points. As outlined in the Zelda shovel-thievery above, stealing in times of need within video games tends to be the most necessary and/or fulfilling time to do so.

If you bankrupt your bomb and rope stockpiles in the opening levels of Spelunky, for instance, you can always rob the shop - though you’d best be quick enough to escape the ricochet of the aggrieved shopkeeper’s shotgun blast as you scramble back into the depths of the caves. Hey, you’ve only got to worry about him and his relentless, bloodthirsty revenge-quest for the rest of your game, popping up in every single level thereafter - to the point where ‘wanted’ posters adorn his walls with your face.

But the rush of swiping a shotgun or teleporter of bomb box from the old-timer’s stash is pretty damn amazing, isn’t it?

“Most people will tell you that they fell in with the wrong crowd, but I never believe anyone who says that,” David tells me. David, a pseudonym decided upon before our conversation, is from Glasgow and served an eight-year prison sentence for armed robbery in the 1970s.

He asks me if I’ve ever stolen anything before. I tell him no, because I’m fairly certain swiping a shovel in Zelda doesn’t count. “Well, let me tell you, the buzz you get is second to none - no matter if your friends are idiots or otherwise. Even if you’re in a group, you’re not doing it for them, you’re doing it squarely for yourself.”

David begun stealing from a relatively young age, taking shoplifting on as his full-time job, before graduating to more aggressive acts of theft. When he was eventually sentenced to prison, he and a few others had been caught holding up a city centre bookmakers at knifepoint.

“I started shoplifting when I was younger, around my early twenties or so,” he continues. “Mostly clothes, sometimes aftershaves, perfumes, things you could always sell on at pubs or at the pawnie (pawn shop) or the football, really. This was long before the internet so you had to be creative with your audience. I’ve been in and out of employment all of my life, you see, so most of the time shoplifting was easier than holding down a shitey, boring job.

“I knew a lot of folk who could get me things too and I was really good at it on my [own], so I was making far more money than working for someone else would’ve given me. When we robbed the bookies it was like taking that buzz further. There was risk, sure - fuck I know that, and some, now - but the reward trumped the risk. Thinking back, it’s hard to put yourself in that mindset, I thought I was fucking invincible. I obviously wasn’t.”

David goes on to explain how his sentence was the maximum he could’ve received, due to his previous convictions. I ask David why I, as a player of games, might find stealing enjoyable if the act takes place in virtual reality, even though I have no desire, consciously at least, to steal in the real world.

“Well I know next to nothing about computer games,” he admits. “But my grandson is mad for that one that looks like it’s from the 80s. Minecraft, is it? Let me put it this way - you said before that you’d never stolen before, but you said there just now about games that allow you to steal?”

I nod.

“So you have stolen - at least in these games. Let me ask you then, why did you do it in one of your games? Because the game asked you to? Because it felt good? It’s the same thing, as far as I’m concerned. The only difference is the real police have more concern catching up with people like me [laughs].

“What I’m trying to say is that everyone would steal if they thought they could get away with it - just look at the rich and famous [people] who blag things. They’ve got enough money to buy things twice. As I say, I don’t really get computers, my phone is hard enough to work, but I suppose I could see how you could enjoy acting out crimes knowing there’s no real police to face up to.”

When I consider the amount of things I’ve swiped in digital spaces, I wonder if there’s any truth in what David suggests. Again, consciously, I have no desire to steal anything in the real world, but is that to do with social convention and rules and empathy? If I thought there were no repercussions, would I snatch a shovel from my local store? Am I a digital kleptomaniac?

David rightly points out that there are no real police officers chasing us down in our virtual playgrounds - but there are definitely angry shopkeepers. Lots and lots of angry shopkeepers.

“I wasn’t kidding when I said pay!” harked the elderly clerk as I returned to the Mabe Village store on Koholint Island. Finished with the shovel, I now needed a bow and arrow.

“Now, you’ll pay the ultimate price!!” he said, before unsheathing sort some of lightning wielding weapon and pulling the trigger.

Oh, bollocks.

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The last time we wrote about dinosaurs-versus-jetpacks multiplayer shooter Orion: Prelude [official site] it was 2012, after which I suspect we realised it was broken and rubbish and stopped paying attention. It’s three years later however and its developers haven’t stopped updating it in that time, and in canny fashion they’re now bragging about their support, noting their improved Steam user review rating, and making the game free to play all this week. Watch the trailer below.

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