asciilifeform: if you are itching to do this, either you are working under mistaken assumptions, or the author of the original code was
asciilifeform: 'However, the nLockTime field can't prove that it is impossible to spend a transaction output until some time in the future, as there is no way to know if a valid signature for a different transaction spending that output has been created.' (from the horse's mouth)
ascii_butugychag: guess what proprietary unix compiler ~doesn't~ build gpg1.4.10
ascii_butugychag: anyway i'm not even sure i need computer here
asciilifeform: with the specific chumpatronic purpose of distracting from the nature of the turd thereby.
asciilifeform: 'Admittedly such an approach would not be able to detect sophisticated attacks which replace the original laptop board with identically looking one ... ' << again, this odd presumption that the original ~needs~ to be surreptitiously replaced
asciilifeform: 'We thus see that, while we cannot fully eliminate the problem of subversion of the host OS security by potentially malicious processor, the construction of the stateless laptop allows us to force the adversary into a very dangerous territory, requiring them to take high risk and also making the attack very complex.' << mno.
asciilifeform: so the basic lie-by-implication baked into this paper, is that the firmware that ships with the box is 'trusted'
asciilifeform: it's cheap chumpatronics for rubes
asciilifeform: tell this to the contemporaries, who built many, many failed variations
asciilifeform: and no serious qualitative improvement was ever made, nor - likely - will be
asciilifeform: anyway the complete story was that chechens set up faux transfer, and immediately used the proceeds to buy us dollars
asciilifeform: it is simply the place you grab onto and pull out a sequence
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: 'Back in 1992 $200 billion were stolen from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation with the help of so-called fake letters of advice. Russia was on the brink of a financial collapse. The Central Bank was urgently equipped with more than 10 000 encoders manufactured at Russian plants. It helped to prevent thefts. It should be noted that there were no foreign electronic components in the encoders, even keyp
asciilifeform: the example i gave earlier (see logz) was if we were to have a documentation dir
asciilifeform: and make some temporary breathing room.
asciilifeform: 'It is about sending a strong message. I think we may need to start an accreditation scheme for Bitcoin-consensus compliant wallets and services. Through code signing and use of multisig, we can even distinguish transactions made by compliant wallets and non-compliant wallets, and have pools not mine them (or wallets refuse to send to known-non-compliant wallets).'
asciilifeform: e.g., a typewriter in an embassy, and enemy attached a precision ampermeter to your mains
asciilifeform: (and also i will add that trezor has a considerably simpler orifice, but we digress, folks who read the logz know what it is)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-12-2015#1354327 << dpa is not only not my idea, but it pre-dates the computer (see, e.g., https://fveydocs.org/document/learning-enemy-gunman concerning typewriters, or the soviet cipher machines that had ballast coils)
asciilifeform: http://qntra.net/2015/12/juniper-fiasco-greenwald-complicit-in-sustaining-mass-surveillance/#comment-33147 << lulzy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al: maslennikov has a lulzy chapter on how rng for key generation was done (late '80s, imported 'pc xt' in kgb, but no trng naturally). answer: chix playing 'tetris'
asciilifeform: 'And in this one, she complains of an imminent devaluation in January, which would leave workers poorer.' << ahahaha
asciilifeform: nah i don't expect anybody to implement it.
asciilifeform: hexdump most certainly worx.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you're dumping in native-endian word
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: post your hexdump -C plz
asciilifeform: use hexdump -C
asciilifeform: and phf's idea doesn't require any complex state
asciilifeform: e.g. a '90s xerox of the complete works of trofim denisovich lysenko.
asciilifeform: you still need a computer to read 'plain ascii'
asciilifeform: i don't want to need to imprint turds with a seal before flushing.
asciilifeform: don't take my word for it. go dump a tar of ascii text to console
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-12-2015#1353065 << 'v' lives and dies by detached signatures. and i'm not implementing payload mutilation in 'p.' and i won't be using anything that mutilates payloads if i can help it, ever.
asciilifeform: 'clearsign' kinda worked for documents intended to be STRICTLY human-readable, where newline crud doesn't have much of an impact
asciilifeform: 1) you can no longer transmit a file of unknown length through a signing widget and sign at arbitrary moment. gotta compute the length in advance
asciilifeform: troying the disk, importing a virus from a disk, or letting Word destroy your day's work.'
asciilifeform: '... A physical calculator (and not a touch-screen app on a tablet) has something that the surrogate doesn't. For one thing it does not require you to do GUI context switching. It does not compete for mouse (or keyboard) with the other tens of open programs. I find this invaluable. On the other hand, touch screens take away tactile feedback. This gives the same bland taste as the soft power-off switches.' << yes!
asciilifeform: 'For some reason, completely unknown to me, Xcode is ALSO tied to OSX version, For example Xcode 6.3 requires a OSX version more than Xcode 6.2, despite having no huge differentes between the two and Xcode 6.3 don't requiring any new OS capabilities that Xcode 6.2 didn't already used anyway. But every time you update OSX and Xcode, not only they sometimes explicitly require a new machine model, but they also get increasingly m
asciilifeform: client walks the fd's and sees if socket 'needs service' and gives itself over to it wholly until whatever operation (however long it takes) is complete
asciilifeform: but folks sign carelessly, because very few good public, bloody, examples of why not to
asciilifeform: !s from:mircea_popescu alf improved markedly
asciilifeform: 'Bezos runs a company, not a playground for millenials.' << actually the interesting thing is that he ~does~ run a playground for millenials
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'man strncmp' on your box
asciilifeform: (can be as simple as being a pedo, a la brock p)
asciilifeform: (and promptly jailed for 'insider trading')
asciilifeform: the legal logic behind 'canary' was always dodgy, 'usg cannot compel you to tell lies' - wanna bet ? ask juniper et al
asciilifeform: decentralized companies out there, you just have to find them.'
asciilifeform: does it merge into the existing bleeding edge without complaint ?
asciilifeform: incidentally, why was there never (afaik) an attempt at a laser-programmed fpga ?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell ben_vulpes http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/10/18_static-compilation-woes.html << is that... a chick's hand-writing ?!
asciilifeform: (equally incomprehensible imho)
asciilifeform: obamacares are a temporary thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many 'startup' schmucks actually plan to make a 'product' which lusers simply stumble into, like flies into a carnivorous plant
asciilifeform: 'i woke up in a ditch in drunken haze and with a company, i have no idea why i have it'
asciilifeform: 'The Internal Revenue Service levied taxes on some employees when their Good stock was still considered a valuable asset and worth multiples of what they actually received. One persons tax bill came to more than $80,000, while another paid more than $150,000....'
asciilifeform: '...a private company with a valuation of more than $1 billion. The high valuation increased the paper value of employee shares and thus the income tax bills levied on their stock when they received the stock grants, or when they bought and sold shares. To pay those taxes, some employees emptied savings accounts and borrowed money.'
asciilifeform: 'Investors and executives generally get protections in a start-up that employees do not. Many investors have preferred stock, a class of shares that can come with a guaranteed payout. Executives frequently get special bonuses so they will not leave during deal talks. ... In contrast, start-up employees generally own common stock, whose payout comes only after those who hold preferred shares get their money. In Goods case, t
asciilifeform: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/technology/when-a-unicorn-start-up-stumbles-its-employees-get-hurt.html << lulzy, nyt reads the logz and rips off mircea_popescu's summaries
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351837 << mega-b00k describes a kgb legend: the first man who explained to beria how otp is provably 'perfect'-secure, was allowed to leave lubyanka - but at the door they took his employee pass
asciilifeform: and incidentally c++ makes looking for this virtually impossible without elaborate automation
asciilifeform: 'science!!111111' has progressed since herr thompson, y'know
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the issues come from retarded compiler
asciilifeform: but yes, you could theoretically implement in whatever shell. my original attempt at 'v' (unpublished) was in awk & sed
asciilifeform: and compute paths
asciilifeform: must understand that 'patch' is simply one possible operation for a vtron
asciilifeform: sorta like a v press-to-hash (feature i never got around to implementing)
asciilifeform: the detectives were baffled because they only looked for the simple knobs - bag of money; or failing that, 'ideological rot'
asciilifeform: m and m blew the usg minds for the simple reason that, as far as anybody could tell, they weren't bribed
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351572 << i ~also~ like old newsprint. but not simply from the moire pattern in the photos, but because TEXT WAS BLACK
ascii_field: or if you have congenitally impaired sense organs - then perhaps also yes
ascii_field tried to buy 'nyooo! improooved!' tablet gadget and found that the pentile pixel scam is pestilentially universal
ascii_field: i'm currently not entirely satisfied with my (experimental) implementation of this
ascii_field: it pretty much has to be compiled in at the lowest possible level of abstractio
ascii_field: but imho the db thing needs to be a simple mechanism written specifically for bitcoin
ascii_field: without identity, anti-dos measures are simply buttons which usg can push to make you disconnect a friend.
ascii_field: but the way it is done is much simpler than i imagined
asciilifeform: also an arshin is an imperial ru measure
ascii_field: and compared to winblowz - tinier still
ascii_field: compact?!!!!
ascii_field: but doesn't look compact to me
ascii_field: (deallocate all tx, while throwing them into a fresh mempool)
ascii_field: http://habrahabr.ru/company/ua-hosting/blog/273137 >> while idiot west demolishes nuke plants, ru builds. and next to one - data centre promised to hold up to 10,000 full racks.
ascii_field: http://geektimes.ru/post/268128 << baikal electronics corp. claims $60 mips cpu to compete with 'elbrus' (which i have been unable to buy at any price on this side of the ocean)
asciilifeform: (much earlier us pharma triumphs, e.g., diazepam, did catch on - to a degree - in su, but not mega-hits)
asciilifeform: (the boxes that are simply out to hog sockets)
asciilifeform: sample from one of my boxes,
asciilifeform: anyway there is also an 'ourlibs' dir where all of the built crud will go. empty at the start.
asciilifeform: (rotor is a superset of stator that builds own compiler with - in my latest ver. - musl)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: see also http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349605 << libc. there are multiple usable implementations thereof
asciilifeform: jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349578 << this is not as simple as it sounds, there are machine and os braindamages baked in
asciilifeform: Closing technology leads to technical progress, which in this particular case disrupts the workings of an economic system, upsetting the balance of production and creating structural unemployment. From this point of view, closing technology is both a boon and an evil.'
asciilifeform: (by all accounts he never showed the slightest symptom of having read 'his' b00k)
asciilifeform: at least herr w. merely brags about ~own~ imaginary triumphs
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349134 << i like taleb's www and find it hard to disagree with his conclusions, but i simply cannot stomach his books. tried many times. reading his b00kz feels quite like having a titanic atomic cock shoved in your mouth; of such gargantuan proportions that it blots out the sun, moon, stars.
asciilifeform: wai wut, 'we won't comment on this impalement for regulatory reasons' ??
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349033 << 'programmers get off on complexity the way weight lifters get off on weight'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349020 << i'd like to actually press a cd. with the understanding that everything that will ever happen to the reference implementation, incl. compiler, asm, the whole toolchain shebang, all kernels worth looking at from the past, all trb dependencies, etc. WILL BE ON IT
asciilifeform: shinohai: build static for linux and use compat layer
asciilifeform: afaik the only implementation that barfed from these is... mine
asciilifeform: (you simply end up with a dead branch on the tree)
asciilifeform: v does not imply 'carved in stone for the ages'
asciilifeform: ;;later tell jurov http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/attachments/20151219/mempool_dev2_a654caa4f28ed6f78906fef28060c2f46470f067.patch << why not vpatch ?
asciilifeform: but it is also impossible ~with~ a wot, unless you are mircea_popescu and are in commerce with another mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: so it would appear to me that traffic in 0day is impossible without a wot
asciilifeform: they'd get swamped with disinfo
asciilifeform: but even then impossible:
asciilifeform: this is the kind of bind folks end up in because it is impossible (to a first approximation) to sell 0days.
asciilifeform: 'Vuvuzela assumes the existence of a PKI in which users can privately learn each others public keys. This implementation uses pki.conf as a placeholder until we integrate a real PKI.' << ahaha
asciilifeform: would be interesting (for a laugh) to see the actual code, but this is improbable
asciilifeform: !s empooren
asciilifeform: without recompiling.
asciilifeform: otherwise it simply happens to be the version string used by my nodez.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-12-2015#1348027 << this cost a good number of chumps their coin, aha
asciilifeform: http://www.retrogames.co.uk/040022/Sega/Sega-Dreamcast-Development-Console << example of item used then
asciilifeform: the up-side of slow and finicky comps was that there was a lower limit to the dev iq and a hard upper limit to code bloat.
asciilifeform: BUT nothing 'curl'ed during compile, no.
asciilifeform: docs were hastily-written and inaccurate, vendor support - spotty, compilers - buggy, architectures - quite 'turkish' and requiring serious asm massage just for acceptable performance.
asciilifeform: cannot compile on airplane?
asciilifeform: 'Also note that one of the key benefits of using this construction is that you need not worry about a weakness in your PRNG being exploited in the signing process. For example, signing different pieces of data with the same k value instantly leaks your private key. A similar attack can also be exploited if the PRNG is weak enough to determine the relationship between different k values used when signing the same piece of data.
asciilifeform: because in cpp a 'function' is a complicated notion
asciilifeform: except at the end you simply get a new aristocracy
asciilifeform: (the compiler demands it to have limitless tables, etc)
asciilifeform: phun phakt: a conforming ada implementation has ~internal bignum~ BUT won't let you use it for anything constructive.
asciilifeform: libressl is an atrocity in no important way distinguishable from the original.
asciilifeform: openssl stinks, plain and simple.
asciilifeform: the other side of this medal is that tx is simply too cheap today.
asciilifeform: but what you ~can~ do is 1) pick a tx which must move 2) declare it dead temporarily, copy to a cache 3) introduce it as if it were a new incoming tx.
asciilifeform: 'The noise at 42 hour mark is zapmempool call, which shows it's still not really working.' << waitasec am i missing something ?
asciilifeform: because these do not take massive nonpreemptible block of time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: complicated. i have a human (non-gmail) mailbox that can't use mircea_popescu's algorithm (has to be able to receive from strangers) and it costs me perhaps 20min/day of manual spam filtration
asciilifeform: if my pad had come with any, i'd have to find a place to safely stow it, or swallow the cost of dumping it
asciilifeform: and can anybody recall where i got the notion that ottomans had headless races? (two prisoners run past swordsmen, heads chopped, hot iron 'thumb tacks' inserted in stumps, bodies keep running)
asciilifeform: zombie-rampages to this very day
asciilifeform: i.e. quite like a gossipd designed at ft meade for chumpatronic purposes
asciilifeform: barfaliciously complicated protocol and uses ecc crypto
asciilifeform: incidentally, anybody ever succeed in getting a ~heap dump~ of a running trb ?
ascii_field: http://h2hassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/point-cloud-processing-CaptureMD11DS1.png << not mine. example
ascii_field: modern digital spectrum analyzer is very complex, largely to fight own interference
ascii_field: the parallel with the decay of computing is actually a pretty close one
ascii_field: supposing that you can orient it, it is simply a very slow means of taking a picture.
ascii_field: with su shuttered, nobody optimizes this kind of tool for cheap+simple+effective
ascii_field: why not simply a multitude of broad tuners attached to analogue lights.
ascii_field: from the dept of l0ltr0nics: https://forums.juniper.net/t5/Security-Incident-Response/Important-Announcement-about-ScreenOS/ba-p/285554
ascii_field: complete with stock fraud
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally a good bit of the 'startup' nonsense makes more sense when you realize that they weren't trying to get legit customers at all, but further chumps^H^H^H^H^Hinvestors
asciilifeform: the desired chart is where we get a ramp and an ~eternal~ mostly planar region
asciilifeform: and notice the implicit attempt to paint actual bitcoin as non-'theft-proof' and non-'fraud-proof'
asciilifeform: the 'multi-sig' idiocy is clinton's key escrow plain and simple
asciilifeform: and that his failure to do so - is complicity.
asciilifeform: see, everybody who expected that it'd be simply commissioned from 'lockheed' or similar, doesn't understand Phreeeeedom !1
asciilifeform: phreeeeee mark3t competition for candidacy to Offficial usgcoin (tm) (r) (c) !!111
asciilifeform: as in, not only did folks get $15k or whatever creditcard-level investment for, what, 20% cut, but had to ~live~ in the compound
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345478 << you forgot something quite important in there...
ascii_field: in other, glorious, lulz: https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/677550728529887232?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
ascii_field: this is simpler and automatable
ascii_field: classically, 'dumping' is supposed to have a ??? and then a 'profit!111'
ascii_field: (uncompetitive)
ascii_field: but it makes that other thing impossible
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345458 << implemented a simple and brutal kludge described in earlier thread
asciilifeform: 'A vulnerability in Grub2 has been found. Versions from 1.98 (December, 2009) to 2.02 (December, 2015) are affected. The vulnerability can be exploited under certain circumstances, allowing local attackers to bypass any kind of authentication (plain or hashed passwords). And so, the attacker may take control of the computer.'
asciilifeform: everything else was a pretty good olympiad puzzler
asciilifeform: lulzily, at a job interview i was actually asked to ~compile a c proggy by hand on paper
asciilifeform: 'That Google approves the javascript in AMP is a tradeoff. You want the javascript to be minified, secure, compact, and standardized. But you also want new things in AMP and theres an open process for that.' <<< ahahahahaha
ascii_field: with items like own literature, period of empire, scholarship, military wins
ascii_field: real strawberry is virtually impossible to get here
ascii_field implodes
ascii_field: future. Decred therefore improves with growth in a sustainable way and is accountable only to its users.'
ascii_field: 'Brawker is a Bitcoin buying service enabling consumer to purchase products with bitcoin. Company (Dead / Inactive)'
ascii_field: 'We wanted to make it so creating and selling hardware was as easy as writing and publishing a blog post. You shouldn’t need to be an electrical engineer or an industrial designer to create electronic devices. Nor should you have to worry about supply chain or distribution if you wanted to sell them. We believed it was possible to eliminate all of that complexity, so the average person could easily create highl
ascii_field: from earlier lul, 'Bitcoin remittance startup 37coins closes its doors... At the time of our launch, few bitcoin services actively catered to the underbanked and unbanked. Fortunately that is no longer the case. There are now many amazing bitcoin companies like BitGive Foundation...'
ascii_field: but the most basic thing, afaik, is simple capital control
ascii_field: (another tricky bit is that one of the things employers pay folks for is ~not working for competitor~ and this is difficult to monitor without on-site chair)
ascii_field: that marvel of precision engineering, the car that promptly falls apart after the last credit payment, is a fairly recent invention
asciilifeform: or does apple's compiler stop running when the southern cross is in the sky ?
asciilifeform: but what, compiler is going to insert an entropy gatherer in the build ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-12-2015#1343090 << sadly, pheatures like this are pretty much always implemented with pseudorandom garbage.
ascii_field: e.g., http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/ident?v=asciilifeform_maxint_locks_corrected&_i=AddToMemoryPoolUnchecked is empty
ascii_field: the question is simply 'how long do the bits stay flipped'
ascii_field: placed on it to inform me of said tampering.'
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: 'bastard block' is a subjective thing - it simply means that ~you~ in particular cannot find the antecedent for it
ascii_field: 'flammable' is a complex thing
asciilifeform: http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/improving-performance-with-custom-pool-a/184406243 << see also, from same.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell jurov http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4795/C-Standard-Allocator-An-Introduction-and-Implement << possibly relevant to the mega-pr0bl3m
asciilifeform: (and other, even more deservedly-obscure attempts at infixization of 'scheme')
asciilifeform: ;;later tell Bingoboingo 'The make a specify point of emphasizing' << ??!
asciilifeform: important diff
asciilifeform: but it was not very impressive, the condemned was doped with opium
asciilifeform: they simply print the bezzlars, and hire.
asciilifeform: why import ?
asciilifeform: adlai: http://www.adacore.com/knowledge/technical-papers/safe-secure << moar examples than you could possibly want (warning, pdf)
asciilifeform: if the implication of the nyooz piece is a 'gunpowder plot' involving propane bottles and gsm detonators, expect 'emergency powerz' in the near term
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1341008 << to round this off, fortunately there is no straight analogue of this in solid state physics. but there is 1) the various forms of intrinsic noise and 2) the failures of the lumped element model as a whole
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1341005 << i picked the analogy quite deliberately. because not only is digital electronics a simplified world riding on top of analogue, but the entire lumped-element model is likewise 'a lie'
asciilifeform: sane language is not a set of 'meat' with annotations re: compiler hints, but one homogeneous thing.
asciilifeform: the distinction b/w/ 'pure' and 'impure' fp presumes a von neumann processor
asciilifeform: imho if the thing at the core is still the ridiculous cpp turd (complete with openssl, bdb) then the effort is wasted.
asciilifeform: throwing out the userland entirely will simplify the build considerably.
ascii_field: moar mechanical complexity, more room (or so they hope) for mechanized fraud
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-12-2015#1340521 << now the other thing is: chumpatronic engineering
ascii_field: wake me up when i can buy a ticket to the impalements.
ascii_field: was it really so impossible to find a halfway-convincing actor ?
asciilifeform: made his richez young, and theoretically wants for nothing, but still was somehow tempted to join the usgification-of-bitcoin crowd. long ago.
asciilifeform: none of the idiot heresies are even in any sense new. 'multisig', for instance, is simply 1990s clinton key escrow, 'old wine in new bottle'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-12-2015#1340306 << this is the umpteenth attempt, but - iirc - the only one thus far to reference the ~actual~ wot, in the 'embrace&extinguish' sense
asciilifeform: simplicity!
asciilifeform: 'The primary design goal MUMPS was to create code that, once written, can never be maintained by anyone ever again. The syntax is somewhat reminiscent of FORTRAN and SNOBOL (no, not the toilet cleaner), only much, much worse. Ironically, being inflicted with mumps (the disease) is much more pleasant that actually working with MUMPS (the language). A more apt name for the language certainly would have been EXPLOSIVE-DIARRHEA; I
asciilifeform: as seen here, http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
asciilifeform: mumps.
asciilifeform: NOBODY USES INTEL'S COMPILER
asciilifeform: 'Permanently disabling AMD CPUs through compiler optimizations ensured AMD would not quickly retake this market share.' << wtf
asciilifeform: 'Intel does much more than just silicon. Hidden inside their design centers are the keepers of x86, and this includes the people who write the compilers for x86 processors.' << while there is in fact an intel compiler, the article is here revealed as catastrophically braindamaged
asciilifeform: 'From 2003 until 2006, Intel paid $1 Billion to Dell in exchange not to ship any computers using CPUs made by AMD. Intel held OEMs ransom, encouraging them to only ship Intel CPUs by way of volume discounts and threatening OEMs with low-priority during CPU shortages. Intel engaged in false advertising, and misrepresenting benchmark results. '
ascii_field: what happens when the address is posted? dump trucks full of shit show up ?
asciilifeform: 'PINE A64 includes a quad-core ARM Cortex A53 1.2GHz processor, dual-core Mali 400 MP2 graphics..' << aaaaaand dingdingdingding we get to the requires-closed-driver-turd-just-to-run item 10 seconds in.
asciilifeform: 'Craig Wright is not modest. On the website of Panopticrypt, one of his many companies, Wright describes himself as certifiably the worlds foremost IT security expert.'
asciilifeform: 'The first of those supercomputers he named Sukuriputo OkaneJapanese for script money. Another, named Co1n, holds the title of the worlds most powerful privately owned supercomputer. As Wright told the Bitcoin Investors conference, hes applying that second machine towards the mysterious task of modeling Bitcoins scalability, and meanwhile building an even more powerful supercomputing cluster in Icela
asciilifeform: 'All of it could be an elaborate hoaxperhaps orchestrated by Wright himself. The unverified leaked documents could be faked in whole or in part. And most inexplicably of all, comparisons of different archived versions of the three smoking gun posts from Wrights blog show that he did edit all threeto insert evidence of his bitcoin history. The PGP key associated with Nakamotos email address and references to an upco
asciilifeform: it is entirely possible for an old (to a point) man to shoot better, take more physical punishment, run faster, even - than disposable cannon fodder. to a point. but the one thing that doesn't grow back is... WANTING TO. i.e. thinking that, in greenspun's words, 'the group is worth impressing' via suicidal stupidity
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: (do you have a crash dump or the like ?)
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: 'fork so that no fork' is honest idiocy in the sense that nobody could possibly begin to process the sentence as something like a proper lie, vs. simple babble
ascii_field: it is 'replacement' in the same sense as a penny is a replacement for a 15 amp edison fuse
ascii_field: which makes it quite like every other example of this kind of thing we've dealt with.
asciilifeform: with anything like genuine otp, the 'prior after the fact' is really 'after the fact' plain and simple,
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-12-2015#1336661 << 'cause you can't implement the os without ?
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asciilifeform: i also can't help but appreciate the sheer magnitude of the 'fud' surrounding 'd-wave' - as if there could be any doubt whatsoever that the box is a work of charlatanry (doesn't run shor's algo and break rsa? not quantum comp. QED.)
asciilifeform: (demonstrating that 'd-wave' is simply a monstrously overpriced analogue calculator)
asciilifeform: re: yesterday's 'd-wave' thread: i often wonder what would happen if somebody were to demonstrate a machine, costing fiddybux instead of fiddymillion, that has the exact same performance on the exact same problems using... ordinary op-amps
asciilifeform: but compiler optimization retardation is not limited to the effects described therein
asciilifeform: her similar attacks already underway that we havn't detected yet. Put simply, attacks like these work.. Flame was a failure for the anti-virus industry. We really should have been able to do better. But we didn't. We were out of our league, in our own game."' << mega-l0l!!
asciilifeform: 'even die hards like the charismatic chief research officer of anti virus firm FSecure (Mikko Hypponen) have to concede their utility (or lack thereof). In a recent post he wrote: "What this means is that all of us had missed detecting this malware for two years, or more. That's a spectacular failure for our company, and for the antivirus industry in general.. This story does not end with Flame. It's highly likely there are ot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i get spam from folks like these, so my curiosity was temporarily piqued.
asciilifeform: ... limpet mines ?
asciilifeform: aaaand an honest-to-goodness snake oil chumpatron, https://redseal.co/content/how-it-works
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: please confirm if first paragraph makes ~exact~ sense, it is imho quite important.
asciilifeform: sorta lulzy, he pawned a 1950s-style analogue calculator off as a 'quantum comp'
asciilifeform: 'he wasnt going to make it in academia. I never was able to find a place in science, he says. But he felt he had the bullheaded tenacity, honed by years of wrestling, to be an entrepreneur. I was good at putting together things that were really ambitious, without thinking they were impossible. At a time when lots of smart people argued that quantum computers could never work, he fell in love with the idea of not
asciilifeform: re: dwave: obligatory turd - http://www.wired.com/2014/05/quantum-computing
ascii_field: its purpose, by this hypothesis, is to bedevil other folks working on shor's algo computer or any related item
ascii_field: 'd-wave' (the 'quantum comp.' sc4mz0rz!!1), 'tyfone inc', 'mocana corp.', 'lms', and 'sionyx inc' were the top inqt subcontractors.