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Some Pokémon Go information
This turned out a little long so I’ve bolded main points for TL;DR skim readers.
This post covers some current issues and some beginner tips.
As of typing (7/7/16), Pokemon Go has been released in Aus, NZ, US, and JP.
- The game does not work on Windows OS, or Android versions older than Lollipop.
- You need GPS location tracking enabled on your phone, as well as a constant stable internet connection. The GPS is a major battery drain.
- The AR cam decimated my Samsung Note 4′s battery in minutes, disable it for more play time.
- Data usage is minimal, but more Data is used when battling Gyms from my observance.
- You can sign up with either a Google Account (or whatever Apple use) or a Pokemon Trainer Club account. Right now Trainer Club is having periodic connectivity issues. (“Unable to Authenticate.”)
- When starting the game, you’re offered a “starter Pokémon”, its 100% preference as you can catch starter Pokémon later.
- After capturing your “starter”, you enter your username. Alphabetical/Numeral Characters only, no spaces, Names must be Unique. They cannot be changed, currently, if ever.
- The game must be actively open for it to find Pokemon, but you do not need to be staring at the phone. Stay safe and be alert of your surroundings, your phone will vibrate if something pops up near you.
- The “Nearby Pokemon” tab seems to double up as a tracker, tap a “nearby pokemon” in the list, Footprints indicate its distance, and the tab pulses more as you approach the nearest/targeted Pokemon.
- Small towns have no shortage of Pokestops and Gyms, but residential areas understandably have very few.
- Catching Pokemon is simple, you start with ~50 Pokeballs, you gain many more from Pokestops, you can carry a limited number of combined items (350) without bag upgrades. Do not buy Pokeballs from the cash shop, they are essentially an infinite free resource.
- Pokestops go Purple when used, the cooldown is incredibly short but the cooldown does not reduce if you stay near the stop.
- Battles are not explained, at all. Tap the opponent Pokémon to launch a “Fast Attack”, and accumulate charge for your Strong “Hold” attack. Swiping your Pokémon to dodge attacks is very important.
- Teams are “Instinct” Yellow, “Mystic” Blue, and “Valor” Red. There is no benefit to joining a specific team, just pick the one you want/agree with.
- A Grey Gym is unclaimed, simply deposit a Pokemon to defend it and claim it as your own. Warning: Deposited Pokemon cannot be withdrawn from the Gym until it is defeated by the opposing team, avoid depositing your strongest Pokémon when defending Gyms.
- At a Friendly Gym, you can battle your own defending Pokémon (and the Pokémon fellow teammates have deposited) and give your Gym more Prestige. Prestige is essentially the “health” of your Gym, and if the opponent teams reduce it to 0, the Gym becomes unclaimed. You may struggle to train if you deposited your strongest Pokémon.
- At a Rival Gym, your goal is to defeat as many of the Rival Pokemon as possible. Your 6 Selected Pokemon will be allowed to assist you in battle, but only two may faint. You may switch at any time.
- Pokémon defeated in a training session are reduced to 1 hp and can be healed with a Potion, however Pokémon defeated while battling an rival gym become fainted, and a Revive must be used. These items can be obtained at Pokestops from level 5 onwards.
- You can challenge a Gym as many times as you are able.
- The Strongest Pokemon in the Gym is the one sat atop the tower on the Map.
I do not know if Eggs are Pedometer related or distance related, but you should get off your lazy ass and walk because its good for you.Some lovely Tumblr users have informed me that it has been said Egg counter is Distance calculated with a speed cap, which is great for accessibility! Still, if able, walking is good for you. It took me approximately 7000 steps to hatch a 5km Egg.- YOU MUST INCUBATE AN EGG IN ORDER FOR IT TO HATCH. You are given one Incubator to start with unlimited uses. You can buy more, but they break after hatching 3 eggs.
- Evolution is not level/CP based. They use Candy to evolve.
Candy Evolution requirements vary. Pidgey needs 12, Spearow needs 50.
- Eevee Evolve Randomly, according to screenshots.
- Each Pokemon gives 3 candy of its species upon being caught, 6 if hatched. You can power up a Pokémon’s CP using its candy and “stardust.”
- Magikarp makes me cry.
hope one day Lena Dunham realizes that people don’t hate her because of her body shape but because of her nasty white feminism, racism, and the fact that she literally molested her little sister. I could go on and on but tl;dr she needs stop chalking up valid criticisms of her ugly personality to “they don’t like me bc I don’t conform to beauty standards!!” it’s so pathetic
Is that…, josh peck…
If I don’t see this somewhere on my tl every Friday, I’m gonna be very upset
oh… she can sing
Why didn’t she release this version originally??
because she was 13 and had no control over it and now shes in her 20s lol
TL;DR on the latest round of Wikileaks:
Literally nothing you do is safe from the CIA. There are numerous full-on spyware suites developed by them, mostly for iOS and Windows, but also targeting Android, Linux, OS X, and Solaris. Apps thought to be secure (Telegram with encryption enabled, WhatsApp, Signal) were compromised as well, as were a host of other devices (ie smart TVs).
THIS DOES NOT PERTAIN ONLY TO AMERICANS.
If you live in a Shengen area country, your country likely hosts several CIA backed cyberwar experts. They came in via the US consulate in Frankfurt. If you don’t, you likely do as well, but I can’t find anything without sifting through the files myself.
“I have nothing to hide, why does this matter?”: Because there are now multiple thousand “zero hour”- ie “developers get zero hours to fix”- vulnerabilities floating around that no one had any idea existed. The vulnerabilities themselves weren’t leaked, but it’s the fact that someone knew about these and didn’t say.
I hate to make this kinda clickbait-y thing, but this is honest to God one of the most important leaks in history. Our response to this is pretty much going to be life or death for privacy in the developed world. Be loud about this, be annoying about this, and do not shut up about this. Please reblog this and other posts relating to it.
Not just any someone, this is one of the U.S. federal government’s foremost intelligence agencies, the CIA, which even mainstream media has reported operates on a black (off the record) budget, infamous for handing over “full” reports that are almost entirely redacted.
It’s a wonder that anyone out there could believe they are not the subject of surveillance—everyone has something to hide.
- The USA can access personal email, chat, and web browsing history. (Source)
- The USA tracks the numbers of both parties on phone calls, their locations, as well as time and duration of the call. (Source)
- The USA can monitor text messages. (Source)
- The USA can monitor the data in smartphone applications. (Source)
- The USA can crack cellphone encryption codes. (Source)
- The USA can identify individuals’ friends, companions, and social networks. (Source)
- The USA monitors financial transactions. (Source)
- The USA monitors credit card purchases. (Source)
- The USA intercepts troves of personal webcam video from innocent people. (Source)
- The USA is working to crack all types of sophisticated computer encryption. (Source)
- The USA monitors communications between online gamers. (Source)
- The USA can set up fake Internet cafes to spy on unsuspecting users. (Source)
- The USA can remotely access computers by setting up a fake wireless connection. (Source)
- The USA can use radio waves to hack computers that aren’t connected to the internet. (Source)
- The USA can set up fake social networking profiles on LinkedIn for spying purposes. (Source)
- The USA undermines secure networks [Tor] by diverting users to non-secure channels. (Source)
- The USA can intercept phone calls by setting up fake mobile telephony base stations. (Source)
- The USA can install a fake SIM card in a cell phone to secretly control it. (Source)
- The USA can physically intercept packages, open them, and alter electronic devices. (Source)
- The USA makes a USB thumb drive that provides a wireless backdoor into the host computer. (Source)
- The USA can set up stations on rooftops to monitor local cell phone communications. (Source)
- The USA spies on text messages in China and can hack Chinese cell phones. (Source)
- The USA spies on foreign leaders’ cell phones. (Source)
- The USA intercepts meeting notes from foreign dignitaries. (Source)
- The USA has hacked into the United Nations’ video conferencing system. (Source)
- The USA can spy on ambassadors within embassies. (Source)
- The USA can track hotel reservations to monitor lodging arrangements. (Source)
- The USA can track communications within media organizations. (Source)
- The USA can tap transoceanic fiber-optic cables. (Source)
- The USA can intercept communications between aircraft and airports. (Source)
And this leak shows that the CIA has all of these technologies and proliferates them to other entities who want this information all the time. You need your privacy to protect yourself and your information. If you have nothing to hide, you have plenty to hide:
The line “if you’ve got nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about” is used all too often in defending surveillance overreach. It’s been debunked countless times in the past, but with the line being trotted out frequently in response to the NSA revelations, it’s time for yet another debunking, and there are two good ones that were recently published. First up, we’ve got Moxie Marlinspike at Wired, who points out that, you’re wrong if you think you’ve got nothing to hide, because our criminal laws are so crazy, that anyone sifting through your data would likely be able to pin quite a few crimes on you if they just wanted to.
Julian Sanchez points out:
Some of the potentially sensitive facts those records expose becomes obvious after giving it some thought: Who has called a substance abuse counselor, a suicide hotline, a divorce lawyer or an abortion provider? What websites do you read daily? What porn turns you on? What religious and political groups are you a member of?
Some are less obvious. Because your cellphone’s “routing information” typically includes information about the nearest cell tower, those records are also a kind of virtual map showing where you spend your time — and, when aggregated with others, who you like to spend it with.
We simply cannot possibly know when something is going to incriminate us and the State is not above scapegoating individuals or coercing them into submission. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and former defense attorney, notes:
Estimates of the current size of the body of federal criminal law vary. It has been reported that the Congressional Research Service cannot even count the current number of federal crimes. These laws are scattered in over 50 titles of the United States Code, encompassing roughly 27,000 pages. Worse yet, the statutory code sections often incorporate, by reference, the provisions and sanctions of administrative regulations promulgated by various regulatory agencies under congressional authorization. Estimates of how many such regulations exist are even less well settled, but the ABA thinks there are ”nearly 10,000.”
Supreme Court Justice Breyer elaborates:
The complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.
Not just the State, but anyone could draw suspicion against you if they had the right information with the right circumstances. We are entitled to our privacy, and these institutions must be held to account.
tl;dr the actual business of infowars is going to be handed over immediately to a trustee that works for the department of justice, who is going to take over handling where money goes for day-to-day operations while also auditing the business and possibly reversing prior fraudulent transactions. alex jones can no longer send himself money while insisting he's broke because he owes himself so much money. the trustee will be able to see exactly how much money he's making, and will be able to send it where it's actually supposed to go while also reporting the exact state of infowars' finances to the court, something jones literally defaulted to avoid doing.
lmao
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