asciilifeform implodes.
asciilifeform: eh the 'steampunk' folk mostly 'work' in broken clocks and epoxy
asciilifeform: 1,001 vendors, 1,000,001 interchangeable and often incompatible and often quasi-disposable widgets.
asciilifeform: or shot , so he could not implicate untouchables.
asciilifeform: 'For custom block pages where the more information link is not available, edit the URL in the address bar to access the hidden view source information. For example, you will see an URL similar to the following for all your custom block pages. http://<ipaddress>:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=687865868 '
asciilifeform: whereas now chumper will have to pre-load the acct.
asciilifeform: 'FIG. 4 provides the solution to the problem of homelessness by providing free housing or low cost housing to anyone who wants it. Free houses are given away or loaned subject to certain Terms and Conditions. For example, the houses have surveillance and safety systems built in, and the Terms and Conditions include not tampering with these devices. Homeless persons can trade their privacy and autonomy for housing in which they become
asciilifeform: the only notch to go to after that will be chastity belt that physically prevents bladder from emptying until paid.
asciilifeform: gmail is a very characteristically american chumpatron - 'we will fart and fart and encourage others, and then sell you bottle of clean air'
asciilifeform: 'Each Google Apps for Work user can store up to 30 GB of content for free (compared to 15 GB with Google Apps free edition or individual consumer accounts). This storage is shared between Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. If you’re approaching the limit or if you've run out of storage, you can purchase additional storage or reduce your storage usage.'
asciilifeform: so, via this heathen pit, http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide : 'Dr. McAfee, I have spent the past thirty years perfecting an unbreakable encryption algorithm. My algorithm is not just unbreakable for all practical purposes it is theoretically unbreakable. The advent of quantum computers will not change this. The mathematics confirming my claim is indisputable. You no doubt have sufficient knowledge of mathematics and program
asciilifeform: 'Either that company was running a scam (and I do not actually accuse them of that) or they were retaining backup copies of the private keys they generated (which they never should have done) and they were stolen by either a hacker or an employee.'
asciilifeform: and where 'the computer' is what we see in this www.
asciilifeform: i wish to move to the planet where ~that~ : https://i.sli.mg/ikoT6o.jpg is how one is introduced to 'the computer'
asciilifeform: (which is to say, a length ??? binturd with NO symptoms of it being packed jpeg or html from mircea_popescu's zip)
asciilifeform: dump'em out, see.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: is there an existing widget that emulates a 'typical' wwwtron and allows dump of the rendered material ?
asciilifeform: were it not for these folks, where would usg even get any bitcoin to dump.
asciilifeform: 'you have 1 computer'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508255 << gold: 'Our recent generation of Makers, hackers, and entrepreneurs have developed under the shadow of Section 1201... Our children deserve better. I can no longer stand by as a passive witness to this situation. I was born into a 1201-free world, and our future generations deserve that same freedom of thought and expression. I am but one instrument in a large orchestra performing the symph
asciilifeform: ftr i have 0 sympathy for folks who ~sell~ warez. i dun care if they are eaten by usg, or by crocodiles, or martians.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508246 << lulzy: 'The deadlock between competing corners of the Bitcoin community when it comes to hard forking, in contrast, spells doom for the currency, according to Tual. “As long as that’s true, Bitcoin will never evolve, and it will die, because what doesn't evolve dies.”' << 'we've failed to stick in the proboscis and so let's declare it dead, neverhappened'
asciilifeform: it will be like building computer in su
asciilifeform: it is 1920s and armies are interested in aviation! except for mircea_popescu's army. he instead ordered all conscripts who can't jump 10,000 metres in the air and stay up by flapping their wings, shot !
asciilifeform: (can even use ~analogue~ optical comparator! ever seen one? they used to exist in machine shops.)
asciilifeform: thing is, computer rides on 'promise', not protocol, because there is no way of inspecting the dies.
asciilifeform: when you solder 1 dud to 99 working components you paid for.
asciilifeform: it would not be so hard to implement, just put antifuse link in the relevant circuit
asciilifeform: incidentally, ~every piece of silicon on the board has a debug port of some form, the cpu jtag thing is simply the handiest one, and the closest to being in some form documented.
asciilifeform: it isn't 'exploit', that was idiot media spin, it is simply a handy place to plant a widget.
asciilifeform: eotech makes a thing that comes with eyes you can implant in your ballsack ?
asciilifeform: link to example ?
asciilifeform: and wtf, first time i hear the complaint about the spring
asciilifeform: 'the goal of Snowden and Huang’s research, according to their post, is to “provide field-ready tools that enable a reporter to observe and investigate the status of the phone’s radios directly and independently of the phone’s native hardware.” In other words, they want to build an entirely separate tiny computer that users can attach to a smartphone to alert them if it’s being dishonest about its radio emissions.' << and
asciilifeform: cue mircea_popescu 'all computers are portable!1111 mount on flatbed truck'
asciilifeform: gui was for lamers since lamers were issued - by mistake - computer.
asciilifeform: discussing idempotence of the parts.
asciilifeform: they are not different, just emplaced differently.
asciilifeform: the idempotence of items like electron is whole basis of chemistry.
asciilifeform: it is not meant for human consumption!1111
asciilifeform: this has implications beyond gc.
asciilifeform: incidentally i might not even ~know~ all of the assumptions which some luser somewhere might read into the text. mircea_popescu reminds me that most of'em probably think 'he has 1 computer, and 1 lan'
asciilifeform: neh simply forgot to explain that i 'redefined number 2'
asciilifeform: i suppose my assumption that ~everyone~ has distinct 'circles of hell' for running proggies, is baseless
asciilifeform: ida is the example of 'sole inhabitant of niche'
asciilifeform: ida is ~the~ example
asciilifeform: http://www.winamp.com << whatddayaknow
asciilifeform: its continuation as whatever going concern is incompatible with their presence
asciilifeform: the muppets who 'i Just Want just like itunes...' must be expelled from civilized computing.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: please don't assume that folks read reddit unprompted. i don't
asciilifeform: (most weren't, simply ignored the news)
asciilifeform: will mircea_popescu barf when a boojum turns up in the massive iupac rule set this imports ?
asciilifeform: 'Fri, 5 Feb 88... The astonishing baroqueness of X is the greatest threat to the general sucess of UNIX to have come along since System V hit the streets. If you try to give an X system to a real human being, not a computer hacker masquerading as a normal person, they will croak. If X doesn't instantly burn out their eyes and brain, causing them to throw their UNIX box out the nearest high window, it will drive them straight into the
asciilifeform: the simpler, braindead x11, survived.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1506889 << he wanted a repl that can shit graphics. which is something that to this very day is ~monopoly of a gargantuan closed commercial item, 'mathematica'. except that most 'i want a graphical repl' folks don't know this, and think that their imitations (which are roughly what glbse was to mpex) are the real thing.
asciilifeform: '“I vote Trump! free Internet”. Approximately 1.6 Gb's of data was exposed, with the report stating that 68.3% of users had their identities or other sensitive information exposed upon connection. Nearly 25% of the users browsed porn sites, while only a little over 5% used the connections to play Pokemon Go' << such brilliance!111
asciilifeform: perhaps half of that number ever had so much a ~thought~ of being employed.
asciilifeform: lafonde's 'dindus', unsurprisingly, also do not count as 'unemployed'
asciilifeform: quite likely not 1 in 10 laid off folk, ever appear in the 'unemployed' column.
asciilifeform: mats: one obvious example - a great many folks never figure in the score at all, because they are 'contractor'
asciilifeform: mats: usg 'employment' figures make 'climate science' look honest.
asciilifeform: mats: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/rnimparticles.htm << which of these is the current monkey not guilty of ?
asciilifeform: consider the act for which, supposedly, nixon was deposed. can you picture president impeached for tapping phones today ?
asciilifeform: it was a very strange experience, like having a contract killer sent for you who worked his whole life in a slaughterhouse and literally expects you to behave EXACTLY like cow, to simply walk up to where he has the ~stationary~ stun hammer
asciilifeform: entertaining-stupid is a self-limiting thing. eventually it turns into simply stupid.
asciilifeform: if he had been found in afghan, would have been shot on the cheap, but instead was used as feedstock for the quite important 'we caught a domestic вредитель !1111' ritual.
asciilifeform: the new york death ray fella, being the prime example.
asciilifeform: folks raised without a warm place to shit, much less trust fund, with ~correct picture of self-worth and ready to meet with allah at age 17, are a natural resource like any other. and it simply does not grow in north america.
asciilifeform: in the contemplated picture, you need precisely 1 casualty.
asciilifeform: or it simply finds you based on the jammer output.
asciilifeform: picture a frag that, launched, spends a week or so hopping between treetops until it is told (via whatever custom radio) that your position is nearby, at which point it simply falls on you.
asciilifeform: mats: this is sorta the appeal of munitions that don't travel in straight lines or simple parabola or whatever other geometric figure
asciilifeform: aha, or simply jammed
asciilifeform: vendor's www: 'Boomerang pinpoints the shooter’s location of incoming small arms fire. Boomerang uses passive acoustic detection and computer-based signal processing to locate a shooter in less than a second.'
asciilifeform: the irish had an interesting mortar, made wholly from old compressed gas bottles
asciilifeform: 'On 12 August, at 0558 local time, a van comes to a halt on the vast empty parking lot in front of a supermarket in Washington. Three men open the doors of the van, roll out the fuselage of a light aircraft and attach its wings. A minute later its motor bursts into life. The plane takes off and disappears into the sky. It has no pilot. It is controlled by radio with the aid of very simple instruments, only slightly more complicated t
asciilifeform: there are machines where ret (or similar) takes an operand, and you can make a jump table that way
asciilifeform: lel that does not sound like a trick of the competent
asciilifeform: likewise 'scientific computing' is many things to many people - it is not always 'trillion long divisions before tuesday'
asciilifeform: diana_coman, mircea_popescu : this is an interesting question, with a depressing answer - common lisp standard is nearing, arguably, it's 'lincoln war' moment, because the necessary general-purpose computer is growing thin on the ground.
asciilifeform: well then the only 'thing' is empty space. everything else (even proton may decay...) dun last.
asciilifeform: but mass was not under contemplation.
asciilifeform: i never saw it as 'empty'
asciilifeform: i dun know of anybody camping out in orbit to save on rent either.
asciilifeform: almost enough to make me contemplate.
asciilifeform: (which is why microshit lusers pay and pay and still get 'embrace & extinguish' implementations of everything)
asciilifeform: and it is not sufficient to ~have~ the money, you must also ~withhold~ it from the non-compliant vendors.
asciilifeform: the unfortunate bit is that standards-compliance costs money.
asciilifeform: jurov: this is because the standard was incomplete, and it is nearly impossible to write a program today wholly using only the standard.
asciilifeform: this is quite impossible in a properly-specified multivendor environment.
asciilifeform: and multi-vendor implementations.
asciilifeform: heterogeneous computing is liquishit.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506153 << single-user computing in a wwwtron is braindamaged.
asciilifeform: https://ctmprojectsblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/hawaii-pearl-harbor-machine-shops << moar picturesque examples
asciilifeform: lel u.s. navy, 'During the past six months, our surveyors have uncovered a number of submarines not complying with a requirement for a chip shield on the lathe or drill press. To aid the fleet in a decision process for procuring a solution, I found three of numerous possible companies which supply equipment...'
asciilifeform: where there is ample space to swing a torch
asciilifeform: pex really seems like one of those plastics specially-designed for american chumps, to annihilate the intrinsic advantages of using plastic
asciilifeform: can't say that i have. simply that 800/h is not titanically selective of customers.
asciilifeform: cheap universal digital radio drives snooping costs to astronomical heights, and threatens to de-emphasize centralized telco antennae
asciilifeform: temporarily
asciilifeform: 'gl' was simply when they added the snipped upper 2MB of ram back in
asciilifeform: cn will churn out STRICTLY what can be sold to the chumps and no more.
asciilifeform: (i suppose they do, if you're chingis khan, or mircea_popescu , etc. but not for the contemplated poorfag use case.)
asciilifeform: ergo it is simply a small flat that happens to - temporarily - float. not a machine for surviving 2000km from nearest man.
asciilifeform: in port, it is an expensive kind of camper truck, yes.
asciilifeform: imho we can skip the menschkeit 'everett's device is the only working device' mega-thread, subj is amply worked in the l0gz...
asciilifeform: so what would a sane approach to 'i wish to live with the company of other bipeds being wholly SELECTABLE', if not boat ? or mircea_popescu sees entire question as nuttery.
asciilifeform: is this simply variation on familiar mircea_popescu program 'i am demigod and if somebody has a motivation i don't grasp, they are inconsequential sea slug and stfu' ?
asciilifeform: so next question is, can improve this ?
asciilifeform: let's take a living example, the nuke sub
asciilifeform: there is a distinction between the ~physically~ and ~economically~ impossible machine.
asciilifeform: as i picture it, 'orlov's boat' is simply a lower-tech variation of the theme of 'mars dome'
asciilifeform: no confirmed examples prior.
asciilifeform: that was simply answer to 'why interest in subj'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu simply doesn't grok the depth of asciilifeform's misanthropy.
asciilifeform: trinque: i would prefer to select simply by moving my house into international water and submerging.
asciilifeform: it is a qualitative jump, in cost AND repairability, and i have nfi why orlov ignored it.
asciilifeform: and arithmetic is arithmetic and what is this steam computer nonsense.
asciilifeform: again the 'expensive' thing is rather like observing that f-16 parts are costly. yes, because golden toilet buyers. compare instead with mig.
asciilifeform: it is quite conceivable that there is item, which is recognizably a computer, but not one of the items for which ibm correctly assessed a market sized 5 units in '52.
asciilifeform: this is rather like that ibm fella who wrote 'there is a market for five computers'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they are not made for this purpose, but he is attempting to design one which is..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes but did you attempt to ~live~ in them.
asciilifeform: (for the impatient, last section, grep for 'blow the tanks')
asciilifeform: just the way we set them jumpers.
asciilifeform: at the core is a buncha very arbitrary jumper settings.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: this may very well turn out to be an ai-complete program, because most gigantic db have various optimizations for speed, that do not map in a straightforward way to display.
asciilifeform: anyone ever tempted to revive gopher ?
asciilifeform: it is probably the ~least~ complicated piece, actually.
asciilifeform: afaik reiser is the champ.
asciilifeform: 'moral' of this thread is - phuctor stretches the limits of disk, fs, db, various shoddy duct tape that makes up modern kompyooooting shitsoup
asciilifeform: which is an order of magnitude slower than simply 'from hd'
asciilifeform: it has a tremendous qty of ram, without which whole experiment would be quite impossible
asciilifeform: Framedragger: not only would an api take up more complexity than phuctor at present in its entirety, but the thing barely keeps up as it is.
asciilifeform: note, all of this is from not even one complete parcel from Framedragger .
asciilifeform: having ANY new fields would make the thing 100x more complex.
asciilifeform: there isn't much further to push the dupe thing, other than cataloguing the champs
asciilifeform: we had this thread: unmasking is only effective when there IS somebody interesting to unmask. at other times, you gotta emplace that cocaine into the toilet tank.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'unmask', turns out, isn't nearly 'user-friendly' enough for nsa, they would also like arbitrary ram r/w into the chumpers
asciilifeform: and, interestingly, won't even make the 'receiver' from aluminum billet, you need a '80% complete' one
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: chumps are almost biologically drawn to 'musical chairs' game
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-18#1504568 << the impalement is inescapable. i simply object to the notion of sparing the hardware they built - it is every bit as insidiously and infectiously idiotic as all of their software creations.
asciilifeform whistles the impalement theme from 'ogniem i mieczem'...
asciilifeform: complete with driver babel.
asciilifeform: they ALL have turing-complete thing inside, and update (typically nonpersistent, but not always) blobs inside the vendor's binary drivers.
asciilifeform: worse yet, there are at least a dozen incompatible arms.
asciilifeform: not pointless, but important to understand that result will eventually be the same pile of shit as everyone else's pile of shit.
asciilifeform: 'Mr Vancel said the men were shooting at each other before the officers arrived. "This was not a 'come at police' situation they weren't targeting the police at first - I don't assume so - because these were men out here shooting at each other in an empty parking lot until the police showed up and it turned into a gun battle," he added.' << lel
asciilifeform: 'Stanley Quayle, a computer emulation consultant, has seen contractors desperate to find the parts they need. "I have a prospective customer supporting a U.S. missile defense system that is buying parts on eBay," says Quayle. "Any parts they do find are as old or older than their system," meaning they’re sometimes no more reliable than the pieces they replace.'
asciilifeform: 'Sparkler Filters of Conroe, Texas, prides itself on being a leader in the world of chemical process filtration. If you buy an automatic nutsche filter from them, though, they’ll enter your transaction on a “computer” that dates from 1948.'
asciilifeform: http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/computers/if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it-ancient-computers-in-use-today.html << some lulz re earlier.
asciilifeform: for the record, the only direction with real promise in small arms field is 'gyrojet', where the rifled and tempered barrel is unnecessary, given a self-rotating projectile, small and quite easily-made rocket
asciilifeform: 'i will sell machine that makes banned rifle part X' but no contemplation of 'so they'll ban part Y which my machine cannot make', or 'why not design a Z which can be made by hand' etc.
asciilifeform: or why he collects megabux of donation simply to give to lawyers;
asciilifeform: or why wilson is convinced that usg will not answer simply by changing the rules so that ~barrel~, rather than magazine holder, is regulated;
asciilifeform: e.g., why make the complex ar15 receiver, when one could design a much simpler stamped (or waterjet-cut, etc) item that would take the same barrels;
asciilifeform: ibm never quite made the conceptual transition from 'calculator' to 'computer'
asciilifeform: the ~STABILITY~ implied in an alt-world where software ~actually works correctly~ is Ur-terrifying to the typical maggot, whether of the microshit or 'open sores' variety
asciilifeform: the c-machine pointer mechanism, and its non-boundchecked array access in general, is quite similar to mains wiring prior to the invention of the fuse, where mains socket has nfi that it oughtn't source 300 amps and melt itself, igniting the entire wall
asciilifeform: stack is shit on a ~conceptual~ rather than ~implementation~ level.
asciilifeform: this is a broad subject and i will not attempt to further summarize here, i have an entire www devoted to it.
asciilifeform: and, secondarily, about the proliferation and endless half-hearted reimplementation of essentials like allocators, gc, bignumatron, for the lack of standard hardware-provided faculties
asciilifeform: but, most importantly, the replacement of the foundations.
asciilifeform: contemplated strictly here. and nowhere else. because, while various folks made noises about 'throw away openssl', 100% of heathens are dead-set on re-creating the very same culture that resulted in it.
asciilifeform: whereas folks willing to contemplate 'throw away openssl et al' are uncommon, and 'throw away von neumann machine' rarer still.
asciilifeform: this is very much not my impression of linked item though.
asciilifeform: when i tell usian folk about my elder brother's chemistry youth, they 'bluescreen', it 'dun compute'
asciilifeform: goes off, as ~everyone probably knows by now, on its own, when it feels like it, but this is a minor detail to room temperature iq 'l33337 jihad d00dz'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i neither agree nor disagree, i did not know for a fact whether the fella on the bus was 'math bum' or not. simply that the thought came to me, 'erdos'
asciilifeform: hey, when i worked at the godforsaken shithole with the homomorphic crud, nearby there was a furniture shop where you could buy a $30 lamp on layaway.
asciilifeform: but the nixon impersonator!! he was pure genius.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1503939 << gloves suck donkey cock, for same reason as laser keyboard etc. -- no mechanical resistance, no damper.
asciilifeform: np-complete.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503652 << i use, for the most part, my head. but my schedule is not very complicated.
asciilifeform: and if yet not aryan enough, they'll simply swallow the goodz and pay 0
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all i could find is 'sheriff concludes that only bomber died' and 'attempted revenge on boss'
asciilifeform: pretty much all amateur attempts at portable computer are comically clunky.
asciilifeform: and before anyone asks, yes i have the latest example made.
asciilifeform: i've been reading plain text off epaper for years now. but only because it is IMPOSSIBLE to get device with decent b&w reflective lcd.
asciilifeform: without a mechanical dampener, it is same as banging against the wall.
asciilifeform: in all likelihood, the crock of shit was concocted with the aim of making us waste some cycles attempting to answer said q's.
asciilifeform: from my reading of the src, mp-wp does not materially differ from stock wp in this respect
asciilifeform: even 'deluxe paint II' for amiga (!) beats the shit out of gimp.
asciilifeform: (anyone who brings up gimp immediately reveals himself as someone who never drew anything more complex than 'rageface')
asciilifeform: 'Adoption of Xtreme Thinblocks (Xthin) such that all implementations have interoperable fast block propagation. Results from recent testing involving nodes both inside and outside Mainland China indicates that blocks up to 20MB are manageable for the network.' << 'crock of shit will collapse overnight if clients actually try to validate mega-blox, so forget about it'
asciilifeform: long ago, i tried my hand at 'sane blogging engine' and barfed; simply can't stand wwwtronic idiocy, e.g,. 'logging in', 'browser state', https crapolade tower, css, etc.
asciilifeform: probably even needs thermal compensation, if you want the pixels-to-pen-nib relation to stay just-so
asciilifeform: matchbox computer !
asciilifeform: it is an almost inevitable thing, per the familiar chumpatronic model (consider fiatola 'middle class' fella trying to evaluate his net worth, sitting in a pile of bezzles of 1,001 types)
asciilifeform: or possibly this is rather like complaining that cargo cult straw airplane lacks real hydraulics
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, when digging into eth etc in light of 'turing-complete!111 programmable!1111' scamatronics, i was somewhat surprised that they did not add the flourish of 'algebraic coin'
asciilifeform: we do not yet have a modern example of roman-style collapse to work with.
asciilifeform: looks like a maidanism/tiananmenism, colourful revolution attempt ?
asciilifeform: than anybody but a million-man army could stomp.
asciilifeform: anthill can birth them faster than you can stomp.
asciilifeform: stomping individual ants is dumb.
asciilifeform: (fella who held a plane for ransom in '71, and jumped from parachute)
asciilifeform: 'In a related case, authorities nearly 100 miles away in Lancaster County arrested the parents of the 18-year-old, with police saying the couple had “gifted” their daughter to Kaplan for helping them out of financial difficulties. She was 14 when her first child was conceived, the criminal complaint said.'
asciilifeform: http://ktla.com/2016/06/20/pennsylvania-man-impregnated-girl-gifted-to-him-when-she-was-14-criminal-complaint << lel, harem usa-style
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: depending on whether you want to implement a useful sat-solver, it could easily take years.
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: 'Updated the price to 100 USD. It's really not a complicated task, everything is outlined in the paper. An average C++ programmer knowing operator overloading should be able to do it in 2-3 hours.' << ahahahahaha
asciilifeform: how would you implement irc client in
asciilifeform: definitely improvement over 'calls curl on my box with no nic'
asciilifeform: and in many cases, in particular the one now contemplated, is wholly unnecessary: fetching the trb deps is a once-per-machine thing
asciilifeform: but in usg implementation, even ordinary rifle, recall, needs 50x the servicing anybody would expect.
asciilifeform: most targets (e.g., sampans) weren't worth a torpedo.
asciilifeform: actually it is because of the Hochdruckpumpe problem (ain't no barrel thick enough for icbm 'bullet') but also limit on g-force for complicated mechanism like nuke.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu unlike any type of cannon, railgun imposes no limit on projectile energy. that is the whole reason for it.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-13#1502353 << efficiency has 0 to do with it! calculate, for lulz, the efficiency of making gunpowder and then launching a projectile with it. (it is in single-digit %, at best.) big fat whoop that the gunpowder-making happens on land. the real reason for railgun is illustrated by the failure of the german Hochdruckpumpe cannon.
asciilifeform: there is no actual problem that warrants a system of that complexity.
asciilifeform: Framedragger et al: consider, there is no concept of a 'repo' in v. nor of pulling, nor pushing, nor merging. in fact the thing (as properly implemented) doesn't make any use of network at all.
asciilifeform: american law is sufficiently complicated, but - more importantly - arbitrary in its application, that there exists an entire subculture of sc4mz0rz peddling 'legal miracle cures' to idiots
asciilifeform: can peter pan all you like, but i had distinct impression that pokemon was a thing among ~very young~ chillunz
asciilifeform: even vodka is improvement over reddit.
asciilifeform: 'Twitter declined to address why the symbol is unsearchable on its platform, if a hate-speech filter would detect it or if the company plans to categorize the symbol as hate speech at all.'
asciilifeform: now for the gold, 'How have these trolls been able to hide harassment in plain sight? Partially because the ((())) symbol is difficult, if not impossible, for ordinary users to search for... If you try to search for "(((Last Name)))," Twitter's search engine strips the results of the parentheses'
asciilifeform: unique in being the sole 20th c. example.
asciilifeform: (because orcs are simple folk and this was the easiest thing to do)
asciilifeform: schwartz had a very plausible recipe for room-temperature supercon, for instance.
asciilifeform: emphasis on the ~. there are 45 y.o. theorists worth mention, just as there may have been 45 y.o. whores who were fuckable, or gymnasts still winning gold
asciilifeform: asciilifeform simply never met these folk !
asciilifeform: moon is terrible example, for that reason.
asciilifeform: space vehicles were a comparatively harmless waste
asciilifeform: it is not land, but a statue of idiot emperor, with little wings.
asciilifeform: md law, for those interested: 'Federal and Maryland State or local law enforcement officers generally are exempt from the permit requirement. However, sheriffs and their deputies are exempted only while on active assignment engaged in law enforcement and only with respect to handguns which they are duly authorized to wear, carry or transport as part of their official equipment. Law enforcement officers from other states are exempt on
asciilifeform: hence the 'empty holster' people on trains i mentioned earlier
asciilifeform: incompetence on the scale of hitler's.
asciilifeform: not 'shortage of low-hanging fruit' or 'increasing complexity' or any other idiot derp fiction.
asciilifeform: fundamental reason being, a gigantic machine employs and merit-washes 1,000,001 mediocrities
asciilifeform: http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/04/28/election-company-in-ny-primary-has-arm-long-rap-sheet
asciilifeform: meanwhile, 'More than 600,000 of the 1.8 million votes in last week’s New York Democratic primary were cast and counted on voting machines belonging to an “election services” company with a long criminal history and a rap sheet an arm long. Today it’s called Dominion Voting Systems. In last week’s primary in New York, Dominion controlled one-third of all votes cast in the state ... The company controls roughly the same perc
asciilifeform: quite the example from mircea_popescu's article where 'butcher who MOSTLY kills cows'
asciilifeform: they are ~already~ employed, no? why not put them at the door?
asciilifeform: what we ~do~ have is 'private security' schmucks who take the train (!) home from work with ~empty~ holster every night.
asciilifeform: 'The Commission has today adopted a proposal to further reinforce EU rules on anti-money laundering to counter terrorist financing and increase transparency about who really owns companies and trusts.... Tackling terrorist financing risks linked to virtual currencies: to prevent misuse of virtual currencies for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes, the Commission proposes to bring virtual currency exchange platforms and
asciilifeform: 'This collaboration will produce a model for bitcoin and blockchain-based companies that also addresses the concerns of regulatory entities.' << l0l!!
asciilifeform: 'Investigators were digging into Johnson’s military history and are seeking to corroborate reports that he was sent home from Afghanistan after a woman lodged a complaint of sexual harassment against him in 2014, another federal law enforcement official said.'
asciilifeform: out a bumper
asciilifeform: why not i simply take all of my possessions and put in a pyre, pour petrol, light
asciilifeform: 'The GRU's tactics toward terrorists are simple: never give them any orders, never tell them what to do. They are destroying Western civilisation: they know how to do it, the argument goes, so let them get on with it unfettered by petty supervision. Among them there are idealists ready to die for their own ideas. So let them die for them. The most important thing is to preserve their illusion that they are completely free and indepen
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i saw a 'forrest gump'-themed restaurant in bmore.
asciilifeform: it would have to be atzlan's death camps.
asciilifeform: ^ much more convenient grip than modern examples. why was it abandoned ?
asciilifeform: http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/attachments/f12/3138-old-power-tool-recommendations-b-ddrill.jpg << example.
asciilifeform: because if it isn't, or if enemy can somehow compromise its reliability...
asciilifeform: transmit using 'thumper', as seen in 'dune' (and every pipe-laying crew on earth)
asciilifeform: why do you suppose the 'internashinl komyoooooniti' campaigns against mines ?
asciilifeform: and at any rate it is not very good example, didn't we learn that derp's mother was co-borrowing ?
asciilifeform: there are other problems, but the logz seem to be missing the main thread, so i will summarize a few: it is physically impossible to fit a serious rng in the thing, regardless of how constructed; the pc knows that a dedicated crypto hardware item is connected, and if attacker controls it he can sign/decrypt whatever the hell he wants with your card; and a bunch more.
asciilifeform: (unless you own an electron microscope and have a few year's worth of free time. in which case you can inspect YOUR PARTICULAR example.)