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It was the perfect storm, really, one we likely won"t see again until-er, maybe next summer. The best (regular season) team in NBA history, the 73-9 Warriors, with an open roster spot, the salary cap shooting up from $70 to $94 million, and the perfect Warriors-style player, a 6"11" sharpshooter by the name of Kevin Durant, entering free agency at the peak of his prime. (Complex News)
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Oct 21st 2016 3:53PM
Scottie Pippen and wife Larsa Pippen are calling it quits.
The 51-year-old former NBA star filed for divorce from Larsa on Tuesday, Oct. 18, in Florida, ET can confirm. The two have been married since 1997 and have four children together -- Sophia, Justin, Preston, and Scottie Jr. The Hall of Famer also has three children from previous relationships.
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"After careful consideration and 19 years together, Larsa and Scottie have each filed for dissolution of their marriage," Larsa"s rep tells ET. "Although they are no longer to be married, Larsa remains hopeful that she and Scottie will always do what is best for their four beautiful children and jointly raise them with love and respect. She would like to thank everyone for their understanding and kindly ask for privacy from the media during this difficult time of transition for her family."
The split is surprising given they were last seen together just last month at a New York City Fashion Week event, walking the red carpet with daughter Sophia.
They also appeared to happily celebrate their anniversary earlier this year.
"Happy anniversary baby!!" Larsa, 42, Instagrammed alongside a pic of the two embracing. "Loved you from day one."
Larsa, a former Real Housewives of Miami cast member, is also a super close friend of the Kardashian family. The mother of four often appears on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, was at Khloe Kardashian"s 32nd birthday party in June, and vacationed with Kourtney Kardashian in the Bahamas in July.
Larsa has made no mention of the split on social media, posting this selfie on Thursday.
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DENVER --The Denver Broncos ruined Brock Osweiler"s homecoming Monday night, incessantly hurrying, hitting and harassing their former teammate in a 27-9 win over his Houston Texans.
Coach Gary Kubiak returned to the sideline following his second health scare in three years, and he had to like what he saw as the Broncos (5-2) snapped a two-game skid in sending the overwhelmed Texans home at 4-3.
C.J. Anderson and Devontae Booker energized Denver"s sputtering ground game, both running for a touchdown. Anderson gained 107 yards on 16 carries and Booker had 83 on 17 hand-offs.
But the big story was Trevor Siemian, Peyton Manning"s surprise successor, outplaying Osweiler, who was groomed to be Denver"s next QB but instead bolted to Houston in free agency.
Osweiler left for bigger numbers in Texas - both in his bank account and his stat sheet - but he spent this night quickly getting rid of the ball, constantly overthrowing DeAndre Hopkins in double coverage and otherwise running for his life from Von Miller & Co.
Although he avoided sacks, Osweiler was just 22 for 41 for 131 yards with no TDs and no interceptions. Siemian was 14 of 25 for 157 yards, a TD and no interceptions.
Osweiler"s fumble at his own 25-yard line was scooped up by Chris Harris Jr. on the first play of the fourth quarter. That led to Brandon McManus" chip-shot field goal that made it 24-9 and snuffed out Houston"s hopes of a comeback.
Anderson scored on a 7-yard run and Siemian hit Demaryius Thomas from 4 yards out as the Broncos took a 14-6 halftime lead.
Osweiler took a couple of big shots from safeties Darian Stewart and T.J. Ward in the first quarter but the Texans led 6-0 on a pair of 43-yard field goals by Nick Novak.
Novak"s 29-yarder made it 14-9, but Stewart punched the ball from running back Alfred Blue"s grasp and linebacker Todd Davis plucked it out of the air. That led to Booker"s 1-yard TD run.
Kubiak missed Denver"s last game when doctors ordered him to take a week off after he was transported via ambulance to the hospital following Denver"s last home game, on Oct. 9, with a complex migraine condition, which can mimic a stroke. Kubiak had a mini-stroke in 2013 while coaching the Texans.
Like Osweiler, this was his first game against his former team.
STREAK BREAKER: Denver"s dazzling defense is a real dawdler , having allowed scores on five of six opening drives coming into the game. That didn"t stop them from deferring when they won the toss. The Texans went three and out on their first two possessions, the first time all season the Broncos hadn"t allowed points on their first two defensive series.
OH NO, OKUNG: Broncos left tackle Russell Okung cleared concussion protocol to make the start. But he was rusty a week after his pair of penalties resulted in a nullified touchdown and a safety in a 21-13 loss at San Diego. This time, he was whistled for a pair of holds that negated a nifty first-down run by Booker and a 28-yard grab by Thomas.
INJURIES: Texans right tackle Derek Newton was carted off the field with what looked like serious injuries to both knees in the first half. He crumpled to the grass while blocking Miller. Newton was dropping back to pass block midway through the first quarter when his left knee buckled first and then his right knee gave way. For Denver, linebackers Brandon Marshall (leg) and Dekoda Watson (head) left in the second half.
RING OF FAME: The Broncos honored former safety John Lynch, linebacker Simon Fletcher and kicker Jason Elam by inducting them into their Ring of Fame during halftime ceremonies. Lynch, who played in Denver from 2004-07 after 11 seasons in Tampa Bay, will be inducted into the Buccaneers" Ring of Honor next month.
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This segment originally aired Oct. 17, 2016, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt again yesterday as the national anthem played before his team faced off against theTampa Bay Buccaneers, continuing hisprotest against injustices toward minorities and inspiring others to follow.
MiamiDolphins running back Arian Foster began kneeling during the pregame anthem on Sept.11 and has beena vocal supporter of Kaepernick ever since. I dont even think the song should be our national anthem, because its a racist song, if you look at the other verses of it, he toldVICE News correspondentJay Caspian Kang.
Even some high school football players have participated in the protest. I think its a beautiful thing,Foster said.
The movementshows no signs of slowing down, as similar protests have recently been made by cheerleaders, marching bands, and basketball teams. What would have to happen for me to stand for the national anthem? Foster asked himself. Honestly, man, Im not sure I will stand again.
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Student protesters dressed in cap and gown at a Dream Act protest in Tijuana, Mexico. (Reuters / Sandy Huffake)
By now James OKeefes heavily edited video alleging to show Democratic operatives planning voter fraud has orbited around the social-media universe. I am one of the people in the film and, like many viewers who have common sense, I found it less of an investigative report and more of a soap-opera drama.Ad Policy
To set the record straight: I am not an operative for the Democratic Party. I did not agree that I would drive a busload of people to commit voter fraud, nor did I agree that I would help anyone commit voter fraud. I met with the group only once, for less than an hourcontrary to their claim that this was a year-long operation.
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In real life, I was explaining what the outcome of the presidential election will mean for the future of voter-ID laws, which have prevented thousands of Americans from voting; the role of civil disobedience in politics; and the role of activists in planning those protests.
I find it amusing to learn that the people who were interviewing me were fake representatives of an invented donor who supposedly wanted to give money to the immigrant-rights movement. Pretty clever.
During our short conversation, I explained a few times the effective work that my organization, the DREAM Action Coalition, has done and that has been covered by the medianamely, our successful tactic of having people who are directly affected by a broken immigration system confront elected leaders, to obtain answers to the issues that matter to the country.
I myself have confronted Republican and Democratic presidential candidates to get answers that matter to my family; I have even been arrested while speaking out against anti-immigrant politicians.
Throughout the conversation, the two conservative operatives said that their fake donor wanted to go beyond this kind of activism and help people vote twice, as a way to enfranchise those who cant vote. Several times, I informed them that voting twice is illegal, but I told them we could go another route to give people who dont have a vote a voice in the election.
In light of Tea Party efforts around the country to make it harder for minorities to vote, I told them, their donor could immediately support a campaign that would elevate the voices of American citizens who want to commit their vote on behalf of their undocumented loved ones. Another option was to support initiatives like the NYC ID program, which allows anyone, regardless of immigration status, to obtain a much-needed identification card and thus gain more access to civil society. Despite these options, the operatives were pushy in their donors desire to help people to vote twice all over the country.
I assured them my confidence and allowed them to talk about their schemes as a way to humor a potential supporter. Needless to say, never would I have participated in any voter-fraud scheme. The unedited video tells the complete story.
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While OKeefes tactics are sloppy and distastefulnot to mention possible grounds for defamationwhat is clear is that OKeefe is, like any activist, battling it out for political relevance. Indeed, we have organized daring actions where we have sneaked into hotel fundraisers, sometimes disguised as waiters or passionate groupies, in order to gain access to a politician.
American history is filled with stories in which activists organized campaigns with elements of theatrics to rally the people into action. Take, for example, the Boston Tea Party. On the night of December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Native Americans, boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This pushed a reluctant public closer to war and independence from the British Crown.
During the 1960s, young African-American students at a segregated Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked a carefully planned sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout the country. Though many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct, or disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, forcing establishments to change their segregationist policies.
I certainly dont hold grudges against OKeefe or the operatives, because what these videos demonstrate is the ever-present gladiatorial nature of American politics. He is an activist of the far right who is serving, albeit with deception and lies, the interest of his conservative, mostly white constituency.
The videos got their media hits and successfully deluged my social-media accounts with hate messages, death threats, and even a funny remark that, in addition to being guilty of voter fraud, I would next claim that Donald Trump fondled me. However, this political gladiator is still standing, and I am ready for the next battle on behalf of my family and my community.
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It is done. The creator of FastPokeMap just announced that the final piece of the new encryption Niantic released on October 7 has been cracked. It was not developer of FastPokeMap himself who succeeded to reverse engineer the final hash algorithm. A developer identified as elfin did it.
Update: The FastPokeMap team is making good progress and the Pokemon Go tracker is still on track to go online somewhen late Sunday. The team is getting ready to slowly bring back the web service once a closed beta test is successful.
"elfin got a successful scan, i head home and i start integrating his solution to FPM. so now it"s not about bypassing security, it"s about applying the new algorithm to FPM"s old code. which can be a bit tricky. which is why i"m not saying tonight, I actually have to repay for all the servers and bring everything back online too, zzzzzzzzzzz my wallet gonna hurt haha so now it"s just captcha left and that is "easy" to bypass," posted the developer of FastPokeMap on Discord. Below is the moment of the first successful Pokemon scan. It was a Rattata.
The new security hack will be shared with the 3rd party developer community. The FastPokeMap developer announced to share the solution a couple days ago when other developers started to support the effort of reverse engineering the new security.
There is though a big caveat. The current way the encryption is circumvented requires to run Pokemon Go app binaries. The FastPokeMap creator warns on reddit that running a Pokemon Go map scanner based on his crack is 100% not legal.
"You didn"t break any law before for hosting a map, because you used a reverse engineered code that was there for interoperability which was 100% legal. The current way we did the ping is 100% not legal, we"re using PoGO"s binary to do the hashing for us because it still isn"t reversed. Think of it as PSX emulators and BIOS, the BIOS part can"t be distributed freely. So be warned that the current solution is not really elegant," writes whitelist_ip on reddit.
This time the cracking of Niantic"s encryption took at least two weeks. The first time around it took only a couple of days for the 3rd party developer community to connect again to Niantic"s servers.
FastPokeMap will be working again first. The most popular Pokemon Go scanner could be online by Sunday.Soon millions of Pokemon Go trainers will be able to find Pokemon again in real-time. FastPokeMap will be more popular than ever when it comes back online as no other real-time Pokemon scanner will be working yet. The latest update by the creator of FastPokeMap says that the implementation takes 24 hours minimum and 48 hours maximum.
The breaking of the new encryption is not removing the Captcha security measure. Google"s reCaptcha is still something FastPokeMap has to deal with. There are two ways to solve the Captcha issue. It is not clear yet how FastPokeMap will implement it. Either they pay a service like 2Captcha to solve the reCaptcha or users of FastPokeMap will be prompted to solve captchas while using the scanner. It is also not clear yet if the new speed limit is an issue for FastPokeMap.
Running 3rd party Pokemon Go apps has become rather elaborate. There will be less apps and services going forward despite the demand from trainers.
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Pokemon Go launched July 6 amidst unprecedented hype. Pokemon Go has dropped dramatically in the number of players, but the games was so popular that the remaining user base is still huge and bigger than other popular mobile games. Pokemon Go had 15.4 million weekly active users according to a report early October. This is 4 times as many as Clash of Clans. Pokemon Go is also by far the fastest gaming app reach $600m in revenues. There is maybe a special Halloween Pokemon Go event.
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The person behind FastPokeMap, a third-party Pokmon GOmap tracker, has released a series of tweets confirming that reverse-engineering the API was successful, and FastPokeMap will be live once again next week or over the weekend.
The series of tweets also included an essay penned by the developer behind the map tracker, lashing a stream of light opprobrium directed at Pokmon GOdeveloper Niantic.
"I understand about a company trying to keep the integrity of its game. As long as it doesn"t hurt their user base that is," readsthe post.
The FastPokeMap developer opines that Niantic is trying to out-maneuver third-party Pokmon GOsoftware in an attempt to gain full control over the growth of Pokmon GO, even claiming Niantic to be "self-sabotaging" the app to do so.
For the developer, Niantic"s security measures are the real problematic aspect of the app, preventing people from getting creative with the codebase. Further along the essay, the developer lists a couple more issues, which the developer claims to be the cause of Pokmon GO"s diminishing user base.
When Pokmon GOfirst launched, it was hit with an overwhelming maelstrom of users, the sheer number of which even compromised Niantic"s servers to a degree where the app briefly stopped functioning properly. When the issues were ironed out not too long after, hardcore fans began coming up with their own machinations in order to get ahead in the game. Several cheaters were even banned by Niantic, much to the uproar of affected players.
Soon after, map tracks sprung forth, helping users track available Pokmon in their given geography. However, Niantic responded negatively to the presence of these trackers, telling users that the existence of these, while aiding the gameplay to a certain extent, still broke the rules of the game. Niantic shut down a large number of them as a result, to the dismay of many Pokmon GOplayers.
FastPokeMap was one the trackers that were shut down by Niantic. The site, pre-shut down, had been enjoying over 10 million daily site visits. It was one of the most popular map trackers available for the app until Niantic shut it down.
The developer behind the map tracker alongside volunteers got to work following the shutdown, managing to crack the API in just three days out of the planned two-week timetable. Pokmon GOfans should expect FastPokeMap to return once again next week or this weekend, as previously mentioned. Although the developer has found a stopgap fix, it"s highly likely Niantic will manage to shut it down once more.
"[D]on"t be surprised if your user base is tanking and don"t be surprised about the huge backslash from the community," reads the post.
Pokmon GO"s daily active users have significantly diminished overtime, though the app remains to be highly profitable for the developers. Niantic has recently updated the app to primarily improve gym training, alongside a under-the-hood update that brings slight tweaksto users" Pokedex.
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