Linkage

• Systemd wins top gong for 'lamest vendor' in Pwnie security awards (The Register) Amusing compilation of the lamest fails and the most ingenious hacks at a rather unique award show, frequently involving root access.
• A neuroscientist just tricked 4 dodgy journals into accepting a fake paper on 'Midi-Chlorians' (ScienceAlert) A natural consequence of the for profit academic journal industry.
• Bunkerville Militia Defendant Gets 68-Years in Prison (SPLC) One of the terrorists threatening federal agents at the Bundy ranch just got sentenced.
• Strange Fruit: Venezuela has an Opposition that Nobody Should Support (Counterpunch) The opposition in Venezuela has taken to lynching people it disagrees with. Fire is their preferred method.
• These five countries are conduits for the world's biggest tax havens (The Conversation) A study applied network analysis to find the nexus of tax evasion: "The Netherlands, the UK, Switzerland, Singapore and Ireland."
• Buy the book "How I Made $290,000 Selling Books," only $290,000 on Amazon (Boing Boing) Epic troll.
• Ok, let's talk about the Democratic Party's deep state. Not the politicians, not the consultants, but BigLaw. That's where power lives. (Matt Stoller in a Twitter Storm) By "BigLaw", he means white show firms serving the financial industry.

Getting my engineering geek on with the Maltese Cross/Geneva mechanism: