Show Idle (> d.) Chans
← | Results 11251 ... 11500 found in trilema for 'f:ascii mp_' | →
asciilifeform: it's why the americans made hollow walls to begin with! simple place to shove the wires.
asciilifeform: and there is ample room for it.
asciilifeform: anyway mircea_popescu is mistaken: http://www.first-hand.info/image/fig(1.1-9).png << 2stroke diesel motor does not use the crankcase for compression.
asciilifeform: largely forced compromise in small petrol 2cycles
asciilifeform: bitcoin is moved between holders by issuing a tx. attempting any other method, under the guise of 'transacting in bitcoin', is fraudulent of the sender, and idiotic of the receiver.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: understand, 'physical btc' is dumb because it makes promises that are physically impossible to keep. if you simply shove sheet of paper with privkey at someone, you at least have no illusions about possible pitfalls of doing it.
asciilifeform: eh this here's a high-class latrine, with imperial human pigwimminz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when, e.g., mod6 goes into the forest to teach woman how to shoot a turkey, he presumably does not do it because the individual turkey was important.
asciilifeform: emble or convert into human readable form any part of the Product or Software or create derivative works based on, or any competitive or emulating software, service or solution using, any Product or Software; ' << moar lel
asciilifeform: 'Restrictions. You shall not: (a) except as expressly permitted herein, reproduce, duplicate, copy, disclose, sell, resell, sublicense, distribute, assign, transfer, give away, loan, lend, lease, publish, pledge or create a security interest in the Software or use the Software other than in connection with the Product on which it is included; (b) modify, port, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, unbundle, repackage, decompile, disass
asciilifeform: it is not especially hard to make physically-indistinguishable device where i know privkey in advance before giving the 'uncopyable' item to a chump.
asciilifeform: gotta love the neverending attempt to make water non-wet.
asciilifeform: i even offered to dks to make formal commercial partnership to build clone, and he gave impression that he was interested but unfree to agree
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: lulzy pinoy campaign. appears to promote the idea that there is such a thing as being successfully double-spent against as a user of actual bitcoin.
asciilifeform: mod6: i simply followed trinque's recipes verbatim, one after the other.
asciilifeform: mod6: i'm thick. point finger to the important bit plox
asciilifeform: rather than my attempt to summarize.
asciilifeform: it simply will not necessarily line up with anyone else's.
asciilifeform: it is quite untrue that logging is impossible in a gossipnet
asciilifeform: 'Recently, some of the major companies that provide the basic infrastructure that makes the Internet work have seen an increase in DDoS attacks against them.' << taking this at face value would mean what ? how does one ddos a backbone router ? or lemme guess, he paints dns as 'essential infrastructure'.
asciilifeform: a slightly clever mpbot would be guided by what is actually said to it (grep the from:mircea_popescu lines for words or even fragments of the query and return shannonization of immediately subsequent from: s)
asciilifeform: ^ example that is probably on your machine already.
asciilifeform: 'German chemicals giant Bayer has confirmed its record-breaking $66bn takeover of GM seeds business Monsanto - a deal that would create the world's biggest seeds and pesticides company.'
asciilifeform: mptron!
asciilifeform: hell knows i fight the temptation to also go every day.
asciilifeform: perhaps it's just the usual rc6'd control packet from ftmeade for the implant in my left arsecheek. etc
asciilifeform: what, some dude fucking a ??? behind a dumpster ?
asciilifeform: 31333333337 terrorist even though broke no written law? now explain this comp full of cp.
asciilifeform: however a rocket is a considerably simpler device than a recoilless rifle, with the vortex tube, and is the correct solution to 'fire from a floating turd'
asciilifeform: synchronicity is incompatible with long-term sanity.
asciilifeform: aha. and so it looks like this is a replay of the iq thread - it is quite impossible to specify 'smart', but trivial to specify stupid; impossible - good fuck, easy to describe a useless one; the list of horrible food is easy to make (start with, say, asphalt) but not so of tasties; etc
asciilifeform: which presumption ?
asciilifeform: the only computer program that qualifies to be thought of as an ideal object is one which fitsinhead.
asciilifeform: the fundamental mistake of 'spec by gcc' is to consider a large computer program as an ideal object.
asciilifeform: if it turns out that it is impractical for one man to wrap his head around a cpp compiler, it is cpp that will have to vanish
asciilifeform: ( you do not, in point of fact, even need a digital computer; there were ODE solvers before the computer, and before the transistor. )
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i know 0 about it, it was simply mentioned in thread.
asciilifeform: rather than from same impracticality as 'the 10-34 thread is this here screw in washington'
asciilifeform: the impracticality of 'code as specification' is wholly from the nonexistence of sane programming systems
asciilifeform: k into that voting booth and out of spite pull the trigger for Trump. '
asciilifeform: 'One thing I've observed which is interesting which is that a lot of people will not admit that they're going to vote for Trump but you see it in their eyes. ... they're just keeping mum about it because their own family members will turn on them if they announced the fact that they're about to vote for Trump. There's going to be a huge number of men, specifically, angry ones who keep their anger hidden most of the time, who will wal
asciilifeform: in other orlols, 'In terms of where the Soviet Union stood beside the United States for instance, in the '70s during the oil embargo and all of the troubles that the US was going through, the economic troubles at the time, the Soviet Union was looking pretty good. In fact, that's when we left the Soviet Union thinking we were going to this dreamy place. We got there and it's a dump. It was just an unbelievably sad sight.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: aha, anything! but impaling thieves.
asciilifeform: and i have reason to suspect that mpb is catastrophically defective and fails to pass tx to trb (which, recall, is a reference, one does not get to say that it is broken in vs the unpublished mpb) under certain circumstances.
asciilifeform: half the time i do not even know if he is speaking of a trb -- or mpb! node.
asciilifeform: at any rate, aside from the 300byte/block index, the rest of the load depends on mempool , and in particular mempool fragging.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540897 << sounds like a ~complete spec right here where it stands
asciilifeform: well given as ben_vulpes was likely connecting to my boxes, he is seeing a quite similar mempool landscape to mine.
asciilifeform: 'The Libtiff library, which has been a reference implementation of TIFF for many years, has disappeared from the Internet. It was located at remotesensing.org, a domain whose owner apparently was willing to host it without having any close connection to the project. The domain fell into someone else’s hands, and the content changed completely, breaking all links to Libtiff material.'
asciilifeform: so simple cunt harvest ?
asciilifeform: phf: it was a mindfuck a year or two ago reading about burningman's internal usg camp.
asciilifeform: desolder the old one with copper wick, do NOT simply cut it off !
asciilifeform: (the fw is not complicated either.)
asciilifeform: you can also make own, if you like, it is not complicated.
asciilifeform: i know of no example with anything but plastic props, incidentally.
asciilifeform: that's the other thing - impedance mismatch between weapon and airframe.
asciilifeform: very simple to manufacture, also.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you cannot compensate for dynamic instability (roll, spin) 'over time'
asciilifeform: the motors are too small to adequately compensate for the 'jerk'.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu : more 'bang for the buck' if parasitically ovipositing on rooftop chimneys, lights, street lamps, similar.
asciilifeform: (he had - and afaik still has - a 'drop sealed champaigne bottles from airplanes, with messages, track currents' project)
asciilifeform: trinque: no especially good reason. plane with well-programmed comp can probably just as well keep station.
asciilifeform: it would significantly complicate enemy triangulation, if you had a great many.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this presupposes a 100% landing rate, and a time 0 to encipher and fill the stick, and then to empty it
asciilifeform: all emphasis re wings is on ~not falling off~.
asciilifeform: but yes, it is 'freeform' in the sense where no algebraicism (as in rivest's, or the popular OAEP) is imposed, and the output can be as long and entropic as one likes.
asciilifeform: it is a brain-meltingly simple algo, somewhat like 'v'; and inverting the transform with partial info is provably equivalent to halting problem.
asciilifeform: -- an 'all or nothing transform' (term of art) that, unlike, e.g., rivest's, does not rely on the strength of any hash, nor symmetric cipher, nor imposes algebraic structure.
asciilifeform: i will add that, despite the ~total impasse, this has been the most enjoyable public dialogue i've partaken in, in quite some time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i drop this here in attempt to coax the lazy folk to join us on your www.
asciilifeform: for anyone who, like phf, has been 'waiting for dust to settle', here's (imho) ~impartial summary: mircea_popescu demands one particular aspect of correct gossiptron: repudiability; and is willing to newjersyize ('best-effort') everything else. asciilifeform demands that the entire thing have strength on par with the basis crypto. mircea_popescu points out that this building demands an escherian, if you will, brick. asciilifeform - d
asciilifeform: as with my 5btc leesedol bet a while back, and 1,000,001 folks' other examples.
asciilifeform: researchers. But it also represents an approach that bypasses the sort of legal maneuverings and threats, suppression of information, and inaction that have been experienced by researchers who have discovered vulnerabilities in other products. Researchers who discovered a vulnerability in Volkswagen electronic engine locks, for example, were forced to withhold a paper for two years through a court injunction filed by the automaker in
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/faRIr << and somehow we missed this gem. 'Trading in the stock of medical device manufacturer St. Jude Medical was halted Friday afternoon after a dramatic drop in its value. That drop was triggered by news of alleged vulnerabilities in the company's cardiac care devices. The vulnerability was disclosed not in a report by the company, but by security researchers partnered with Muddy Waters Capital, an investment fi
asciilifeform: vs modern american engineer who gets 28 flavours of ice cream in company cafe.
asciilifeform: why do folks force compression into bignumatron ?
asciilifeform: even THERE ordinary run-length compressor would solve same problem
asciilifeform: 'I do not know why Satoshi did not decide to include a transaction time stamp. It's only 4 bytes, and it is a valuable piece of information that people really need access to. For now, all you can do is use the timestamp of the block and hope that's close enough for government work. And by government work, I mean close enough for tax and accounting purposes. Since the value of bitcoin is very volatile and can go up and down by mas
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes gives a marvelous example of binary-types usage in subj link.
asciilifeform: 'CoinTelegraph author Rebecca Campbell asked "If Bitcoin Had Sex, Could It Be Female?"' << wat
asciilifeform: so all else equal, they want chump to pay N times, vs 1.
asciilifeform: attempting to bill the gym per-minute, with a 0.1 fee tx every minute, would be braindamaged though.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-10#1539002 << i must point out that this is a strictly temporary situation. miners have ZERO incentive to mine 'old coinbase tx' for 0fee.
asciilifeform: trinque, ben_vulpes : the first tipoff that one can immunologically zap own spermatozoids came not from alzheimer's patients, but from folks attempting to have vasectomy reversed
asciilifeform: or do these, also, do something exciting and unexpected in the land of the pampas cat.
asciilifeform: begs the question, why not simply communicate over this magical submarine cable to begin with ?
asciilifeform: just like the idiot 'tamper seals' that are trivially broken every day, not only by usg but by turd world pissant secret services, merely by penetrating the ENVELOPE.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: there is nothing simple about it.
asciilifeform: what i've referred to as 'station key' is simply a nonspoofable substitute for the ip address.
asciilifeform: simply because something was said in the castle of mod6 , does not mean that it was he who said it.
asciilifeform: dunno, when folks post pr0nz i generally picture that it exemplifies what gets them going. or at least isnt wholly unappetizing. then again we also have BingoBoingo's material.
asciilifeform: 'Lastly, it must be noted that there hasn't been any significant amount of these specimens on the market in approximately 25 years, and they are often only found in old collections. Recently I was informed that a Korean mining company has started a large commercial operation at Corocoro, specifically mining for Copper, leaving little possibility that more of these specimens will available in the future, or at least until the mining op
asciilifeform: evidently there was something more to it than cranking the pump.
asciilifeform: reimplement in what sense ?
asciilifeform: deedbot and mircea_popescu in this example.
asciilifeform: i fully grasp what mircea_popescu wants to accomplish here, but it does not work with his stated mechanism.
asciilifeform: is that a 100amp mains cable feeding into the cow skull ?
asciilifeform: said to weigh between 10 and 30 kilograms and be able to “spray radioactive material”, possibly uranium, on the enemy. It was impossible to verify the account given to Radio Free Asia, which is funded by the US government.'
asciilifeform: epidemiology is not canceled simply on account of inability to point finger to a physical agent.
asciilifeform: trinque: there was no 'merit' implied in 'anointed poodle'
asciilifeform: and resist any attempt at a cure.
asciilifeform: we have here an arguable case of 'что русскому хорошо, то немцу — смерть' -- they cannot risk to import sanity.
asciilifeform: and also: 'The beauty of the headphone cable is just like the beauty of a tampon string: it is there to help you keep track of a very important item, and help you fish it out of whatever nook and cranny it might have fallen into.'
asciilifeform: heads, leucrota, manticores, vultures, paranders, weasels, dragons, hoopoes, owls, basilisks, hypnales, presters, spectafici, scorpions, saurians, whales, scitales, amphisbenae, iaculi, dipsases, green lizards, pilot fish, octopi, morays, and sea turtles.' -- eco's 'name of the rose'
asciilifeform: c (but more importantly, the c ~machine~, with its single hardware stack) encourages, and just about mandates the 'crashing is acceptable because there is NO practical way to handle ALL error conditions sanely' idiocy.
asciilifeform: i'd simply colour brazil brown on the big map in the map room and move on...
asciilifeform: and so even a simple c proggy by a competent pair of hands is a MASSIVE ball of check-and-fail-as-such-or-such-or-such...
asciilifeform: complicated mechanisms breed cockroaches.
asciilifeform: the old cryptolib, by this token, was gmp. as seen here, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1533
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-08#1537040 << you don't need automatics. separate v trees are simply kept in separate dirs, etc.
asciilifeform: and we had this entire test where my node ate a total dumpblock of mircea_popescu's
asciilifeform: $s dumpblock
ascii_zimbabwe: 'dumpblock' it.
asciilifeform: about same % as in, e.g., mining camp ?
asciilifeform: (i ~wish~ i were making this up... but: the 'rationalists' have this... sacrament? where they sit around in infinitely recursive stupour, contemplating 'future self')
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/9BsSX << in other lulz. 'A classified U.S. document, dated from 2005, cautioned spy agency employees against revealing the truth. “It is important to know the established cover story for MHS [Menwith Hill Station] and to protect the fact that MHS is an intelligence collection facility,” the document stated. “Any reference to satellites being operated or any connection to intelligence gathering is strictly pro
asciilifeform: n00bz are slowly disassembled into component atoms and - on occasion - reassemble themselves into something that is interesting to have conversation with.
asciilifeform: alice_: think of it as a kind of boot camp.
asciilifeform: 'Yegge accidentally made an internal Google memo public on Google+ in October 2011. His 3,700-word comment garnered major media and blogger attention for Yegge's pointed commentary criticizing the leanings of the company's technological culture (such as labeling Google+'s minimalist and, in his view, lackluster public platform "a pathetic afterthought") as well as for his comments about his former employer, Amazon (such as calling Am
asciilifeform: i had this mike, and a modern one, as a boy, and compared.
asciilifeform: ah so no ampoule phone yet.
asciilifeform: $s ampoule phone
asciilifeform: !!s ampoule phone
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: largely by familiarity with the process. i personally grew up doing it. and this is 3rd example i run into publicly to date (others being mr mold and terry davis.)
asciilifeform: trinque: 'nothing for showing up' is quite physically impossible with tcp.
asciilifeform: 'GB-OS has standard UTM features which can be augmented with subscription options that enhance the firewall capabilities. ' << can chump buy a working rng??
asciilifeform: i can picture some nut in a jail cell, to whom they gave a computer. for 20 years. and we get this.
asciilifeform: quite like what, elsewhere, a well-written compressor does.
asciilifeform: 'Christopher Alexander is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for his seminal works on architecture including A Pattern Language, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, and The Nature of Order, Volumes I-IV. He is the father of the Pattern Language movement in computer science, and A Pattern Language was perhaps the first complete book ever written in hypertext fashion.'
asciilifeform: 'Really, I think it’s too late for mainstream “Linux”. It’s gone. It’s done. Geeks of the world were easily fooled by a shiny new toy and a corporate propaganda campaign to match, without considering the engineering implications. You can still use a real (systemd-free) version of Linux, or move toward the BSDs, but if you stay with the easy-to-use, polished distros, you’re no longer really using Linux. You’re just fooli
asciilifeform: hoose to use corporate-maintained tools like OpenSSL, which are deeply compromised. Do you think the people responsible for HeartBleed were held accountable, and fundamental changes were made? Guess again. It’s simply ignored by most of Linux. (You’ll notice real UNIXes like OpenBSD did not ignore it and have begun serious changes. Yet even there, it took such a serious, obvious exploit for them to see the engineering problem.)'
asciilifeform: 'Remember Heartbleed? Don’t let that example escape your attention. OpenSSL is open, yet it is so large and poorly designed that it’s a dark mystery. Heartbleed was easily shown to be a deliberate hack, and was even deliberately coded to hide itself from tools that would otherwise have shown the leak. And it was sitting there in ‘open’ sight. Instead of using small, well-reviewed crypto libraries, corporate Linux developers c
asciilifeform: litism, simply put. The 1%. ... It’s much like politics – one wants to throw out the lot of them and start from scratch with real people. I know for a fact I don’t want either of these people working on security-related code in MY OS. Get lost, permanently!'
asciilifeform: ' Anyone who doesn’t know what he knows or who doesn’t behave/speak in the conventional way these developers speak is merely a troll, not worthy to partake in a discussion among the priests. And in his view Henson is simply too big to fail, too big to be held accountable for his actions, in this or any case, because he is part of the crypto establishment. We see these same patterns in politics and banking for example – it’s e
asciilifeform: 'While the Data Protection Commissioner was examining the BND in Bad Aibling, the secret service ramped up its equipment for 300 million Euros. And while the Commissioner waited for an answer to her report from the Chancellery, the government drafted a reform bill for the BND that not only legalizes the organization’s actions, but even increases its powers. This legislative package is scheduled to be adopted this year and will pres
asciilifeform: 'The Data Protection Commissioner is convinced, her supervision authority also extends „to SUSLAG and its staff members“. Therefore, she wanted to inspect this core area of BND-NSA collaboration. But the BND also blocked these attempts. The Commissioner and her staff are not allowed to enter the building and not even allowed to know how many people work there...'
asciilifeform: example of an actual dead end that i had to explore the hard way.
asciilifeform: it was example.
asciilifeform: etwork router product line. By impersonating the device, an attacker can obtain the credentials of administrative users and perform a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack. Tropos has validated the vulnerability and produced an embedded operating software update that mitigates the reported vulnerability. According to Tropos, products are deployed across several sectors including the transportation, energy, water, emergency services, and cr
asciilifeform: 'This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts Tropos Wireless Mesh Routers. An independent research group composed of Nadia Heninger (University of California at San Diego), Zakir Durumeric (University of Michigan), Eric Wustrow (University of Michigan), and J. Alex Halderman (University of Michigan) identified an insufficient entropy vulnerabilitya in SSH key generation in Tropos Networks’s wireless n
asciilifeform: tropos is part of the 'vertical and horizontal' thing, in the sense where it is one of two dozen or so 'partners' for making sure that usg knows daily output, in millilitres, of oil well in venezuela, or that if texas breaks away from the ussa, it will not have working sewage pumps, etc.
asciilifeform: these are transformer farms, water pumps, security cams, etc.
asciilifeform: 'Memphis, Tennessee is known for rock ‘n roll and slow-cooked barbeque, but those aren’t the only good things coming out of Bluff City. Soon, residents will enjoy the perks of a successful smart grid rollout, too. In an effort to modernize the grid and enhance internal operations and customer service, Memphis Light, Gas and Water is deploying 1 million smart meters within its 784 square mile service area. ABB has been selected to
asciilifeform: http://187.72.155.221 << typical example of the 'audiocodes' item.
asciilifeform: trinque: the compiler thing deserves its own thread.
asciilifeform: and not simply a matter of 'no one tried hard enough to piss in our particular soup'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't grasp the need for a global 'humanity filter.' working wotronics implies that folks will assortively peer by degree of muppetry, and this imho suffices.
asciilifeform: incidentally, less time than it takes to tell man from muppet by playing go (how many folks even play above 1995 computer level ? does mircea_popescu ? )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now there is a 'complicated' 'let's talk for five minutes'.
asciilifeform: i have nfi, trinque , but 'read and understood the complete c stack' is a proposition on the scale of 'built undersea cities and no one noticed.'
asciilifeform: and if you have not read and understood every single page on it, you are unfit to even contemplate subj.
asciilifeform: trinque: c machine is physically incompatible with understood software stack.
asciilifeform: there is also the fact that making wholly new arch , on new model of computation, is lunacy, of the precise kind that no respectable confucian would contemplate.
asciilifeform: the last thread had a quite complete summary of the history.
asciilifeform: i have 0 interest in using or improving facebook, either.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2016/there-is-no-difference-between-the-byzantine-generals-problem-and-the-prisoner-dilemma/#comment-118811 << thing has 0 to do with socialists, communists, fascists, americans, the great zimbabwe, etc. it is wholly about hard limits on gluing ~reliable machine from unreliable components.
asciilifeform: well i could link to the original lamport
asciilifeform: well, there ~is~ the usual ~impractical~ use
asciilifeform: https://www.igolder.com/kyc << incredibly lulzy attempt to spin the compliance with usgism as a 'voluntary' and 'freedom-enabling' act
asciilifeform: eh, here chump must generate key somewhere..
asciilifeform: it isn't complicated.
asciilifeform: 'don't go there' is very simple algo when you have another 'there' to which to do.
asciilifeform: or, more pointedly, the long and quite unpleasant surgery involved in undoing the idiocies of 'satoshi' derp, by no means complete even now
asciilifeform: before stomping a scorpion, i do not need to buy a new scorpion. but before shooting horse, i gotta buy a new horse.
asciilifeform: 'Last week, a defense lawyer argued that the FBI drastically improved the performance of a dark web child pornography site in the process of investigating it. On Thursday, the Department of Justice responded, denying those claims.'
asciilifeform: and could potentially blow considerably (say, 100,000x) moar, if we knew the mechanism (e.g. 'marsaglia rng seeded with last 16 bits of time stamp at first boot) which produced them.
asciilifeform: impedance mismatch!11111
asciilifeform: 90% of chineseness is simply from bizarre expectations
asciilifeform: ^ from the 'trump as ru spy' thing.
asciilifeform: aaaaaand how long has http://www.mpex.ws been a spam farm ?
asciilifeform: 'Cutting edge security. No need to deal with complicated crypto-wallets or be afraid of losing your assets forever because you can’t find your private keys. We employ state-of-the-art security technology for you, with the storage of fiat and digital assets embedded into an Ethereum contract!'
asciilifeform: https://ico.iconomi.net << hot! nyooo! ethertronic chumpatron: 'ICONOMI provides an opportunity for investors looking for high profits, not possible in the old economy. With newly developed financial instruments, ICONOMI will drive new investors and fresh capital into decentralised economy.'
asciilifeform: so why is that campaign run by some bozo, and not g_l ?
asciilifeform: they aren't flocking to trb, or mpex, etc.
asciilifeform: and they all ended with 'if all other hope is lost, close compartment'
asciilifeform: (compartments, naturally, existed, as they still do on any war ship)
asciilifeform: incidentally the traditional interpretation -- 'wage slave will exam-optimize and do the bare minimal job' is imho woefully incomplete:
asciilifeform: saying originally referred to the comparatively laughable output of wage slaves, vs folk who do ~same thing out of actual interest
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3199109843356887@naggum.net.html << inevitably comes to mind, re chump bait etc
asciilifeform: what i meant was, mircea_popescu's observations about service industries and chumps are entirely, afaik, uncontroversially true, but i dun see how they connect to poor old gabriel_laddel's thing
asciilifeform: where did laddel offer chump bait ?
asciilifeform: well yes, chump bait
asciilifeform: do i understand the term correctly ? whitelabel is something one does with a turnkey (e.g., air compressor) item
asciilifeform: n weighed the pros and cons and decided it was worth it. Then he took the time to Photoshop in each of his 17 employees’ names ...'
asciilifeform: 'What you are seeing is a Photoshopped Google search image that was posed as a real Wells Fargo wire transfer sent to 17 employees via email by the CEO. ... Whoever photoshopped these documents has the intelligence of a 5th grader, but even worse is the person who thought this was a good idea. Think about it. The scam artist sat there and concocted this in his head instead of telling us the truth that the money wasn’t there. He the
asciilifeform: in the company. Bruce said that Michael had his offshore money tied up with the IRS because of unpaid taxes and essentially his assets were frozen until he went to court. '
asciilifeform: 'Around this time, Bruce and I were sharing personal concerns and he confided in me that he had let Michael borrow $50,000 from his personal savings. Did you read that? A startup employee gave his life savings to our CEO. He wasn’t the only one. Another biz dev team bro who was crashing on the CEO’s couch, Bobby, apparently lent Michael five figures too. In disbelief, I asked why he needed money when he has $2M already committed
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: <pete_dushenski> no kaunus, but not a bad place << my father, apparently, also liked kaunus. (he went to boot camp there.)
asciilifeform: i've contemplated attempting an openwatcom build of trb.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wasn't speaking of anything complicated, just something to prevent the routine police chopper from taking him out from above like sitting duck.
asciilifeform: self-driving killdozer is a much simpler mathematical problem than self-driving passenger auto.
asciilifeform: 'Heemeyer took about a year and a half to prepare for his rampage. In notes found by investigators after the incident, Heemeyer wrote "It's interesting how I never got caught. This was a part-time project over a 1 1/2 year time period." In the notes, Heemeyer expressed surprise that three men who visited the shed last fall did not discover the bulldozer work, "especially with the 2,000 lb. lift fully exposed." "Somehow their vision w
asciilifeform: 'Marvin Heemeyer was a professional welder living in the quiet Colorado town of Granby, just trying to make a living for himself running a small muffler repair shop. Unfortunately, he was also in the business of getting royally fucked over by everyone in town, ranging from the paperboy to the asshats in City Hall who wouldn't compromise with him on some crazy fucking wacky zoning issues he was trying to work out. Eventually, after
asciilifeform: and anglo impudence - quite continuous for 200+ yrs
asciilifeform: or simple tradition
asciilifeform: well it is, iirc, not uncommon symptom of terminal rodgeritis
asciilifeform: 'The bigger problem for China is its workforce. Even though China is graduating far more than 1 million engineers every year, the quality of their education is so poor that they are not employable in technical professions. This was documented by my research teams at Duke and Harvard. ' << gold.
asciilifeform: text contains multiple 'and then i went to this empty street because saw girl there once'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the tampons?! how?
asciilifeform: the 'great plague of 2001' is factual but wholly incomplete picture.
asciilifeform: 'We can sometimes see decades-old capacitors (such as ones made in the USSR) still working. They are bigger and heavier, but durable and not desiccating. Modern aluminium capacitors serve for about 11 years, if you are lucky, then become dry and quietly fail. I remember early 2000s devices where capacitors failed after 3–4 years of service, and not necessarily low-end devices (one example is E-TECH ICE-200 cable modem worth ∼ 240
asciilifeform: moar recent völkischer beobachter lulz, https://archive.is/Y7pfH >> 'Federal agents searched the home of a former employee-turned-outspoken critic of the College Board, the standardized testing giant, as part of an investigation into the breach of hundreds of questions from the SAT college entrance exam.'
asciilifeform: ( i do not have an mpex acct. )
asciilifeform: i dunno that it even makes sense to attempt rigorous def of this 'identity', at least in any more detail than we define 'earth's crust' -- 'the layer we can drill without the drill melting'
asciilifeform: typically 'prefer death', for soldier who won't retreat, or whoever, is simply a fallthrough case in a switch(), if you will
asciilifeform: rather than ask machinist to cut a complex length of steel
asciilifeform: is it simply that engineer, at the end of the day, puts the complex nums back into their drawers ?
asciilifeform: everybody who builds, e.g., 3phase motor, 'sits down for tea with complex numbers'
asciilifeform: incidentally, does mircea_popescu also object to manipulations on, e.g., complex numbers ?
asciilifeform: i don't partake in the 'aristotelian' notion of correctness - 'do this because fella with a beard 3 metres long said it to be correct'. gotta show example of the kind of disaster one might arrive at via the incorrectness.
asciilifeform: nothing i said imports this nonsense.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what'd be an example of a 'dressed call' ?
asciilifeform: if you run a sufficiently tight imperium in imperio, usg gets to bite its elbows and you can get away with pretty much anything, so long as the wall is tall enough.
asciilifeform: can 'half-competent' estate atty explain why billionaire owes moar of it than pauper ?
asciilifeform is simply not at all fond of ninjashotguns, ain't no seeekrit
asciilifeform: it was written by the fella whose diesel-powered cock you were considering to encompass, covertress . i recommend reading attentively.
asciilifeform: or is it empty carcass of motel, with a lock on it, and thestringpuller has the key.
asciilifeform: mpex proxies are a reasonably good analogy for this.
asciilifeform: this is instructive example of what i was speaking of earlier.
asciilifeform: if this happens, interval is bumped up.
asciilifeform: and where i go off to find some reference implementation of c-s, and discover, later, that none exists
asciilifeform: but they ought not to complain when 'my tcp connections are blackholing' or 'someone derived my rsa privkey using known-ciphertext attacks' etc.
asciilifeform: a great many x11 proggies i use run on remote machines. and i have NO intention of partaking in the 'own one computer' horseshit.
asciilifeform: bad parenting enlarges natural fissures, if you will, often to some quite impressive dr. mengele results.
asciilifeform: (or worse yet, they encrypt a transmission ~to~ a key without any attempt at climbing to it in their actual wot)
asciilifeform: adlai: currently there is a very comical situation where chumps download a pubkey, from ?????, and then try to authenticate published material (found on mitmable www sites, naturally) ~TO~ it, rather than the reverse (found signed material, then determined matching pubkey)
asciilifeform: adlai: the entire notion of pubkeys posted publicly in a way that implies that strangers can take and use'em for something, is probably going away.
asciilifeform: 'My laptop was getting slower and slower. It wasn’t a very powerful laptop, but it was the only computer I had to play WoW on. This was really frustrating me, because eventually it became so slow that it ruined my gaming experience. I kept pestering my mother and father to get me a faster laptop that was more efficient for gaming.' (from rodger part 4)
asciilifeform: when you attempt the thing the ffi does, but using bare hands
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Unless, of course, the text is the product of an unrelated adult, whose involvement with the whole thing is not emotional nor personal, and who therefore simply forgot about that detail.' << sorta like the fire-proof, bomb-proof, smudge-proof passports invariably found on corpse of every 'dead terrorist' in usa.
asciilifeform: and i suspect that there is a journatard bootcamp somewhere, where they make this haircut. why have i seen 1,001 turdmeisters with it..?
asciilifeform: habitually sending (and more importantly, acting on) unsigned pgpgrams has own set of risks.
asciilifeform: i read phf's thing as simply 'you are counting on other side not to simply lose the plaintext, and not to shoot out both of your feet by sending an intended signed ciphrogram in the clear'
asciilifeform: (which gets inserted into the comp every morning to log in, and no, the card does not light up when signing)
asciilifeform: ^ complete with non-pasteable screenshit-of-pdf abstract.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: which is why games like civ1 had braindead computer opponent, and certain others - e.g., galciv - were famous for 'interesting ai'
asciilifeform: historically successful partizan organizations assumed betrayal, blackmail, and torture, as facts of life, and routed around the damage on best-effort basis (e.g., cell compartmentalization.)
asciilifeform: e.g., are you willing to compose and read messages using something with the ergonomics of a pocket calculator ?
asciilifeform: (there are schemes for public signatures using an otp-like system - lamport's signatures - but they rely on the strength of a hash and do not have the absolute guarantee associated with an ordinary otptron.)
asciilifeform: it is important to remember that otp is not a replacement for public key crypto.
asciilifeform: well yes, deliberately picked it as example of humbly-clever opponent
← | →
Random(trilema) | Download hourly DB snapshot | Get Source Code