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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

4coder Website Downloader Script, Random Stuff, and More

- found some code on 4coder website that looked useful. Decided to download it using the following script:
- description is as follows:
# Found some code on 4coder website which I thought was useful. The
# more I looked the more useful code I found so I built this script
# to download all relevant content.
#
# If you're wondering why I didn't use a website downloader or mass
# downloader they aren't as quick/efficient as this and aren't as
# flexible when it comes to parsing pages and automation of downloads.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy. 
# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.
- you may also be interested in the following custom downloader blog posts as well:

Random Stuff:
- as usual thanks to all of the individuals and groups who purchase and use my goods and services
- latest in science and technology
block video playback extension
The hypebeasts of Russia, popular at what cost?
Google once again changed things.
The most recent change would mean a lot of work to get it back the way it was, so we are shutting down permanently.
Thank you to all our supporters, it has been a fun ride. If anyone wants to take up this project, please contact theoldgnews@gmail.com.
old google news
rss chrome
old google news
theoldgnews alternative
android pentration testing
- latest in finance and politics
What shares do you like for 2019?
Protesters Gather in Caracas for Anti-US "Imperialism" March
US capitalism is fairer than you think
- latest in defense and intelligence
- latest in animal news
- latest in music and entertainment

Random Quotes:
- Harvard University has more money in its endowment than 109 countries have wealth, a recent report said, and it's not the only school with more cash than most nations. For the rich, maintaining the status quo doesn't come cheap.

"America's public schooling system may be in trouble, but its top universities are anything but," said a story by Stacker,  which compared the multibillion endowments of 50 American colleges to the "total wealth" of world nations as estimated by Credit Suisse. The list saw five universities – including Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and the University of Texas System – beat over half of world's 195 economies. Topping the list with its massive $38.3 billion endowment came Harvard.

Perhaps more than even the other Ivy League colleges, Harvard sells more than just a degree. A Harvard education provides entrée into exclusive circles populated by the very wealthy and very influential, and the school puts a lot of effort into nurturing this reputation. The quality of a Harvard education has somewhat dipped over the past decade, now occupying the sixth spot according to The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, but the same firm has invariably ranked the institution's reputation as pristine, scoring a perfect 100 on both research and teaching.
...
Data from the International Social Survey Programme show that as a country's economy becomes less equal, its people perceive it as more of a meritocracy – the kind of place where, if you study hard and show up on time, you, too, can become a Master of the Universe. The kind of place where even a kid who grew up on the streets can go to Harvard. Doling out conspicuous scholarships helps Harvard perpetuate this illusion.

One of the most powerful and enduring founding myths of the US is that of the land of opportunity, where anyone with enough grit and tenacity can 'make it'. This may once have been the case.

But when these schools have war chests larger than most countries, it becomes impossible to ignore the fact that the system does not work for everyone. With homeless populations in many cities reaching record highs, even as colleges in those cities greedily snatch up more real estate, the inequality has never been so stark.
- North Korea has called on "all Koreans at home and abroad" to make a "breakthrough" for unification without foreign assistance.

The rare announcement, which was made via the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Thursday morning, called on all Koreans to "promote contact, travel and cooperation between North and South Korea."

It added that the North will "smash" all obstacles on the path towards the reunification of the Korean Peninsula, while stressing that military tensions on the peninsula were the "fundamental obstacle" for the better ties with the South.

Joint military drills with "outside forces" were also hindering the progression of ties between the two Koreas, it added.
- Last week, PAX, a Netherlands-based NGO, released a report on the extent to which major tech companies from around the world are engaged in the creation of artificial intelligence systems which could be used for deadly military applications, surveying fifty companies. PAX found that 21 companies were engaged in projects deemed of ‘high concern’, with 22 more listed as ‘medium’ concern. 13 of the ‘high concern’ companies were said to be based in the US, and include Amazon, Intel, Microsoft, Palantir and Oracle. The UK’s Blue Bear Systems, Canada’s AerialX, France’s EarthCube, China’s Yitu and Israel’s Roboteam also made the list.
- Hemke emphasizes, however, that the tendency the dollar is witnessing should not come as a surprise, as its days as the world’s reserve currency have been numbered from the start.

“The privilege the US had since the end of WW2 is a transitory thing – before the US the British pound was the reserve currency […] The world has switched that mantel every hundred years or so for centuries and soon it is going to be the US’ turn to switch,” Hemke claims.

He notes that speculation as to what will replace the dollar as the global reserve currency has been going on for some time, with many, like the bank of England head Mark Carney, betting on crypto currencies to take the baton. However, Hemke states that crypto coins need to evolve significantly in order to do it, as “in terms of market cap bitcoin is just a fraction of what even gold is [and] its price would have to be considerably higher than what it is now.”
- As adversarial as Washington would want its relationship with Beijing to be, there is too much evidence that the relationship between China and the rest of the world is too intertwined to expect anything but a disaster from the current road ahead. A newly released report by the think tank China Matters just concluded that if China’s economic growth only shrunk by a few percent, Australia would potentially lose $140 billion in income and more than half a million jobs.

And it could be that if Beijing opens up this conflict on too many fronts, the Indo-Pacific region will only the tip of the iceberg. As part of its Silk Road Project, Beijing has begun snagging up states in the Balkans which will only further irk Washington, and might lead the US to do something painfully catastrophic in response.

All empires come to an end. That is an indisputable aspect of our history. Whether or not all empires will continue to fall in future of course remains to be seen, but generally speaking we base all future predictions on the back of previous experiences. How far an empire wants to bring the house down in order to avoid being overtaken by a rising power is also something which we would need to account for. 

The US has nukes – a lot of them – and is slowly but surely propagating the notion that they might use them. And not just in situations when a nuclear strike is necessary to defend against another nuclear strike – just because, hey, if we are going down, we will take down the rest of the planet with us.
- Most of these spacecraft are tiny cubesats called Doves, which are about the size of a loaf of bread and can capture photos with a resolution of 10 feet to 16.5 feet (3 to 5 meters). But the imagery of today's failed launch was taken by one of Planet's minifridge-size SkySat satellites, which can resolve features as small as 3 feet (0.9 m), a company representative told Space.com. 
https://www.space.com/iran-rocket-launch-failure-satellite-photo.html
In 2013, a study of Chinese medicinal herbs revealed pesticide residues classified by the WHO as dangerous or extremely dangerous in in 17 out of 36 samples. Twenty-six of them showed residues above the maximum levels permitted in the EU.

Despite the many irreconcilable positions, though, both camps have realized that both methods can complement each other meaningfully.

Acupuncture, for example, is now established in Western medicine.

And in today's China, Western medicine and TCM are mostly used in conjunction with one other.
- SEOUL: An international trade fair in North Korea this week may be the largest such event on record, analysts said on Tuesday, with hundreds of Chinese and other foreign vendors taking part despite sanctions pressure.
The 22nd Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair opened on Monday with a ceremony hosted by top economic officials, North Korean state news agency KCNA reported.
More than 450 companies from North Korea, China, Russia, Pakistan, Poland and “other countries and regions” showcased a range of products at the fair, KCNA said.
That number would make it the largest trade fair hosted by North Korea, according to an analysis of state media announcements from 2007 to 2019 conducted by NK News, a website that tracks North Korean issues.
Last year, 260 companies reportedly participated in the spring fair, for example.
Among those taking part this year were at least 216 Chinese companies, NK News said in an analysis.
“The numbers tie into a lot of what we’ve seen recently demonstrating real Chinese interest in pushing ahead with business opportunities in North Korea, even though technically not much can go ahead under the current sanctions regime,” said Oliver Hotham, managing editor of NK News.
North Korean officials opened the event by saying it was a chance to expedite trade, economic cooperation, and science and technology exchanges with the participating countries, state media reported.
Companies exploring doing business in North Korea walk a fine line.
Sanctions imposed over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs would prohibit all joint ventures and most business with North Korea, analysts said, while some foreign business operations have previously said they were only preparing the ground for when sanctions are lifted.
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Monday, May 14, 2018

Book Downloader Script, Random Stuff, and More

- had to do some research recently. Wrote a script to mass download stuff based on links via Google search engine. You can download it here:
- details are as follows:
# From time to time you just want to download a bunch of documentation
# on a particular topic. This script automates that process by scraping
# relevant links via Google and then downloading it.
#
# To use it just alter the "keyword" variable in the script and then 
# run it. Else, modify the relevant part to take first argument
# as part of keyword search to use things from command line. I like
# to keep it in a script to keep a track of what I've already 
# looked up and downloaded.
#
# Use it in combination with my whitepage_examine.sh script to compare
# and summarise documents quickly. This script obviously uses large
# amounts of code from my compare_social_media.sh and email_harvester.sh
# scripts. Very useful for training and/or study and much easier
# then looking up educational websites. You may be surprised at how
# much good free stuff is out there.
#
# I obviously considered using links obtained from alternate search
# engines but I found out from email_harvester.sh that the level of
# indexing by Google seems to be much better then the others. Hence,
# I've left the code out. If you want those results it's obviously
# not too difficult to port. Ironically, you'll discover that while
# search engines are good in some areas they're very weak in others.
# You're best bet is to use specialised search engines if you want
# to hone in on a particular area. Testing hasn't been easy because
# of the way replication, caching, networks, etc... works. You can't
# get consistent data even if the same requests have been made within
# seconds of one another.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy. 
# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.
- as an aside, above script can be easily modified for other purposes such as searches for music, pictures, videos, etc... 
music search engine
face search engine
security search engine
alternative to shodan

Random Stuff:
- as usual thanks to all of the individuals and groups who purchase and use my goods and services
- latest in science and technology
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- latest in finance and politics
- latest in defense and intelligence
- latest in animal news
- latest in music and entertainment
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Random Quotes:
- ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A man was injured north of Anchorage after a moose that he had just kicked stomped his foot in return, state officials said.

KTVA-TV reported the man escaped major injuries in the encounter Thursday with the moose and her calf.

"It sounds like the moose were on a trail and in this case, it sounds like the guy was trying to go through them," State Department of Fish and Game spokesman Ken Marsh said. "That's never a good idea."

The two moose left the area after the man had his foot stomped, said Alaska Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters.

"I am not a biologist, but as a lifelong Alaskan I would advise people not to go around kicking moose," Peters said.

Moose have vast leg strength, Marsh said.

"If you get into a kicking contest with a moose, guess who's going to win?" he said.
- According to The Times, they ‘found’ a British nuclear-powered Astute-class attack submarine.

This sparked a deadly, days-long dance.

“This is interesting, considering the Astute class are arguably fitted with the finest sonar suite ever to go to sea and are equivalents to the US Seawolf class in terms of their ‘stealthy underwater ninja-ness’,” Dr Clarke says. “The odds of one being found if it didn’t want to be, seem very remote or very unlikely ... yes they do make more noise than a diesel-electric submarine running on batteries, but its not a lot of noise and again it comes back to the sonar suite, they’d have known the Russians were there a long time before the Russians knew where they might be ...”

According to The Times, the Russian forces strove to keep the pressure up on the British sub day after day. Meanwhile, it sought to lose itself among the currents and temperature layers of the Mediterranean to get within firing range of Syria.

Dodging the Russian ships and aircraft was the easy part.

But the Project 638 Improved Kilo-class submarines, which Russian media calls “Black Holes”, was likely another matter. One, named Krasnodar, last year demonstrated their ability to run silent and evade Western trackers.

They also trailed Britain’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth as it undertook its first sea trials. Later, another watched NATO naval drills off Scotland.

Last week, Russia’s submarines appear to have been involved in an attempt to interfere with preparations for the strikes on Syria.
- “The central concept of liberalism is that under the enforcement of universal rules of just conduct, protecting a recognizable private domain of individuals, a spontaneous order of human activities of much greater complexity will form itself than could ever be produced by deliberate arrangement, and that in consequence the coercive activities of government should be limited to the enforcement of such rules, whatever other services government may at the same time render by administering those particular resources which have been placed at its disposal for those purposes”
- Do not control the people with laws,
Nor violence nor espionage,
But conquer them with inaction.

For:
The more morals and taboos there are,
The more cruelty afflicts people;
The more guns and knives there are,
The more factions divide people;
The more arts and skills there are,
The more change obsoletes people;
The more laws and taxes there are,
The more theft corrupts people.

Yet take no action, and the people nurture each other;
Make no laws, and the people deal fairly with each other;
Own no interest, and the people cooperate with each other;
Express no desire, and the people harmonize with each other.
-  Wil Allsopp, principal consultant with Verizon Business and a veteran penetration tester, says the abilities of a pen tester is best learnt by reading their CV. “My opinion is that certs for pen testing are pretty worthless all round for experienced testers; you should be able to look at someone's CV and within a short time interviewing them have a pretty good idea of where they are.”

Allsopp has taken the CHECK test, equivalent to senior CREST infrastructure certificate and run by CREST in Britain. His criticisms came despite having hired and been hired based on the certificate. His criticisms about the technical relevance of the exam are shared by others contacted by SC Magazine Australia.

“CREST … assumes that pen testing is a single discipline that can be baseline evaluated,” he says. “It isn't and you can't. To be a good pen tester takes time and experience because you need a very broad knowledge of operating systems, databases, languages and so on.” That broad experience doesn’t translate well in an exam, Allsopp says, arguing that a question asking ‘what stored procedure would you use to compromise an MS SQL 2005 server’ is unfair when examiners accept only one answer (xp_cmdshell) of dozens.
- Almost three quarters of school leavers who enrol at university get in using their ATAR, and its calculation is a frequently misunderstood science. The ATAR is not a mark out of 100 but a rank - a ranking of 80 means the student has performed better than 80 per cent of their year 7 cohort.
- Gordon: [looks back at Blake, offended by what he said] There's a point far out there, when the structures fail you. When the rules aren't weapons anymore, they're shackles, letting the bad guy get ahead... One day, you may face such a moment of crisis. And in that moment, [agitated] I hope you have a friend like I did! To plunge their hands into the filth, so that you can keep yours clean!!!
- Bane: Home, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has rotted here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clambering over each other to stay in the sun. You can watch me torture an entire city and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny... We will destroy Gotham and then, when it is done and Gotham is...ashes... then you have my permission to die.
- Bane: You don't fear death. You welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.
- "...No ordinary child. A child born in hell. Forged from suffering. Hardened by pain."
―Prisoner[src]
- Miranda Tate: You see, it's the slow knife, the knife that takes it's time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips quietly between the bones, that's the knife, that cuts deepest.
- Ra's al Ghul: Oh, there are many forms of immortality.
- Innocence cannot flower underground. It has to be stamped out.
- Aslan was born into a Shia Muslim family.[19] He converted to evangelical Christianity at the age of 15,[20] and converted back to Islam the summer before attending Harvard.[21] In 2005 The Guardian called him "a Shia by persuasion".[22] In a 2013 interview with WNYC host Brian Lehrer, Aslan said: "I'm definitely a Muslim and Sufism is the tradition within Islam that I most closely adhere to."[23] He also proclaims himself a "genuinely committed disciple of Jesus of Nazareth."[19] In a 2013 article in the Washington Post, Aslan states: "It's not [that] I think Islam is correct and Christianity is incorrect. It's that all religions are nothing more than a language made up of symbols and metaphors to help an individual explain faith."[24] In 2014, in an interview with Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, Aslan described Islam as:

    a man-made institution. It's a set of symbols and metaphors that provides a language for which to express what is inexpressible, and that is faith. It's symbols and metaphors that I prefer, but it's not more right or more wrong than any other symbols and metaphors. It's a language, that's all it is.[25]

Aslan states that he follows the Sufi movement.[26]
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