ascii_field: pampas cat.
ascii_field: '...The Secretary of the Authors' Union / Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee / Which said that the people / Had forfeited the government's confidence / ... ... / Wouldn't it Be simpler in that case if the government / Dissolved the people and / Elected another?' (tm) (r) (brecht)
ascii_field: europe is simply yi yi zhi yi-ing itself into proper hierarchical segments again.
ascii_field: it is more like pumping water from a ship's bilge
ascii_field: '10th Annual Homeland Security Week.' '...Top 10 Priorities Guiding DHS into the Next 10 Years. Improving the Unity of Effort Initiative. Securing the Cyber Ecosystem. [moar crud snipped]'
ascii_field: 'I am member of a 7 pumping groups that entering costed me 15BTC+.' << ahahahaha
asciilifeform: the 'planet' thing, as with most american neologisms, leaves little to the imagination. it refers not to obesity even but to a qualitative jump in the progression of the disease where the afflicted begins to lose 'human form' - what a child might draw when asked to 'draw person' - and converge to... a sphere. hence 'planet.'
asciilifeform: just about nobody, outside of p.t. barnum's circus, was 'hamplanet' in 1880. not rich people, either.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-10-2015#1289392 << this is why 'fastfood-fat' is, to the trained eye, a thing; and is what i thought the term 'hamplanet' referred to, customarily.
asciilifeform: this is the Right Thing for ~very few~ items. and yes, a game is a textbook example of where it is ~not~.
asciilifeform: 'hamplanet' as i understand is a mark of rancid, unrepentant, irremediable... spiritual poverty - rather than lack of physical exercise as such
asciilifeform: nor does football or not have anything causal to do with 'becoming hamplanet' (it is virtually impossible without 'fast food')
ascii_field: the designated zoo of impotence is a dead end.
ascii_field: similarly, it is made clear that if you wish to oppose some particular usgism, you can do so in the company of impotent flat-earther twerps to your heart's content
ascii_field: this is at least partly engineered for the purpose of reminding the more uppity members of the public that 'if you want to oppose transgendered studies scholarships, fine, but you will do so in the company of people who believe that cancer is caused by demons'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the depth of the contempt that the herders show for this particular variety of sheep is astonishing imho
ascii_field was under the impression that this is a waste of time
ascii_field: just the man for a 'Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.'
ascii_field: 2) the new cards are BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE for www purchases and equally scammable
ascii_field: 'Starting Thursday, merchants will be held fully liable for any losses due to credit card fraud if they are not geared up for the new, more secure, chip cards. And consumers will need to change their habit of swiping their credit cards to pay: Instead, they "dip" their new cards into terminals and leave them there until the transaction is complete. That is, if the retailer they're shopping at has the necessary equipment.'
ascii_field: i confess, i lack the full vocabulary to describe adequately a scamatron of this complexity.
ascii_field: (what is it called when honest folks end up doing this duty for a chumpatron..)
ascii_field: there are a few indie computer games etc. sprinkled in for legitimacy
ascii_field: just when some may have thought that it is impossible for 'kickstarter' users to get any dumber: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skarp/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving
ascii_field: 'My recommendations are to follow The Making of the Atomic Bomb and The Los Alamos Primer (see "Books", below) with a few nuclear engineering and physics texts, at which point you'll be well-equipped to daydream about your own neutron initiator ideas and radical implosion symmetries. ' << without exception engl. language material is crawling with deliberate and potentially lethal disinfo, on this and many other subjects.
ascii_field: 'The police major—perhaps in mind of the nationwide spate of police killings by thugs—decided to speak to this loitering person. The content of the conversation is not yet known. The cop did tell the idiot to show his hands. The idiot refused to show his empty hands. The cop shot him in the leg—I bet that shit hurt! The major then took off his own belt and used it as a tourniquet and the last I heard the boy bl
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it was the very textbook example of usg powershow modus operandi - pick on the borderline retarded, preferably ones who practice voodoo to a degree repugnant to the tvtronic public
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: for my enlightenment, formulate example of 'usable' hypothesis here ?
ascii_field: there is sludge being pumped, yes
ascii_field: short version, proto-usg squeezed out poor white catholics, who were slow to 'get with the program', from urban centers, with 'population replacement' gambit where 'housing projects' were built and filled with lumpens
ascii_field: i was speaking of overall neg-pr campaign against municipal police in all if usa
asciilifeform: '...'I'm happy to say,' said Arpad, 'that fourteen S.S. men were shot on our recommendation. Adolf Eichmann himself congratulated us. 'You met him, did you?' I said. 'Yes' said Arpad, 'and I'm sorry I didn't know at the time how important he was.' 'Why?' I said. 'I would have killed him,' said Arpad.'
ascii_field: it is important to remember why we came up with the whole shebang of 'fits-in-head 1-page' patches, 'v', the lot
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-09-2015#1287947 << this is, virtually by definition, an impossibility.
ascii_field: (10,000 'openings advertised on www' has something to do with actual employment? and 8.6B spent on 'research' has something to do with r&d ? not on my planet...)
ascii_field: ' It's still hiring like crazy, with nearly 10,000 open jobs listed on its website, for instance, and it has ratcheted up research and development a bit, spending $8.7 billion in its last fiscal year — which ended in August — compared to $8.6 billion in fiscal 2014.' << does anyone else feel brain melting from the sheer density of flimflam packed into this paragraph ?
ascii_field: 'Lots of tech companies do that, but in Oracle's case, it is mandating that all employees pay for this furlough with four days of their paid time off/vacation time, according to several sources we spoke to.' << l0l
ascii_field: the way these items are implemented is ~inherently~ retarded
ascii_field: the most pedestrian hypothesis here is that rsa is considerably easier to implement.
ascii_field: this makes it more like 'nintendo' than computer.
ascii_field: any attempt to patch kernel that is detected (and the traps move around) hangs the box
asciilifeform: 'the address for Cryptome is listed to be the location of a fiber optic cable junction in Sterling, VA (next to an Amusement Machine company)... which is quite some distance away from your location in NYC, and a considerable distance from your ISP who hosts your file, and it is located away from any signal switching systems use in the area, but it is virtually next door to fiber that goes to a large NSA listening post nearby.
asciilifeform: when i worked in usg, they had xp boxes, yes. i simply requisitioned 'vmware' and cooked up a gentoo vm.
asciilifeform: it does it just as well by being empty and decaying.
asciilifeform: just keep prices at 400-500K for the remaining chumpers
asciilifeform: an empty house, from usg's standpoint, still does 90% of its job - keeping 'property values!111!!111!!1' sky-high.
asciilifeform: pretty basic chumpatronics, i think. why spend more effort than is required to fool the mark ?
asciilifeform: for their part, the squatters are fooled. the buildings, stay empty.
asciilifeform: laugh but this is not entirely fiction. i discovered recently that it is customary where i live for the city to continue to cut the grass in the yards of empty houses
asciilifeform: perhaps only in the dc swamps.
asciilifeform: gotta appreciate the pure genius of the chumpatronics here
asciilifeform: incidentally all this was, afaik, ~before~ self-destructing printer cartridges and other mundane implementations of this crud became common
asciilifeform: 'KeepKey is actually a fork of the Trezor project. We have maintained compatibility through development, and are compatible with Trezor v1.3.3.' << l0l
asciilifeform: but this way, a release is simply a vpatch that adds a 'this is part of such-and-such release' comment to a set of files in such a way that the desired leaves are brought into the release.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mod6 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285169 << the way i suggested doing it is to avoid having multiple classes of signed objects. manifest for a release would be merely another kind of patch - one that simply takes every leaf that is to form part of the release head, and add a comment to the top of the file, 'REL-xxx.' this auto-gloms the leaves into a single patch 'handle', think about it.
asciilifeform: (chumpatronic engineering)
asciilifeform: rsync would need a pre-write hook so that it only accepts 'push' attempts that end up sig-verifying
asciilifeform: more importantly, authenticated.
asciilifeform: (the set of mathematical operations used in crypto is quite limited, well-defined, and does not require a turing-complete interpreter to fully encompass.)
asciilifeform: it CAN be implemented correctly.
ascii_field: the other important question is whether the node being synced was also accessing the net at the time
ascii_field: how much time spent on the dumps ?
ascii_field: the correct way to use eatblock is with dumpblock coming from an already synced LOCAL node.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu once alluded to a dirty ad-hoc implementation of this by chinese operators, where nodes had vpn links to one another
ascii_field: and, importantly, wasted time
ascii_field: get a real computer somewhere ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1284966 << headers-only sync is not sync. the phoundation client is not a bitcoin implementation and hasn't been for ages. on the other hand, a box that takes 3 weeks to sync FROM EATBLOCK ON DISK has something seriously wrong with it.
ascii_field: pogo is something quite like an actual computer
asciilifeform: (not only in the added complexity of a zlib decoder, but in the fact that a message's actual length remains unknown until your start shitting it out)
asciilifeform: traditional whizzzdum is that it somehow improves seek00rity by making the plaintext less structured.
asciilifeform: the third and all-encompassing atrocity of rfc2440/4880 is the idiot cruft pertaining to 'new' vs 'old' packet formats, the magical constants specifying largely antiquated block ciphers and hash algos, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one example of something which Must Die is 'subkeys'
asciilifeform: it is possible in principle to write a provably-correct implementation of a subset of rfc4880, but the result is still horrendously ugly.
asciilifeform: btw, for anyone else contemplating pgp, the retardation really flows from the protocol
asciilifeform: enemy only needs to supply a temporary burst to kill you.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is every bit the archetypical example of a sucker's game.
asciilifeform: 'complete meal' is not the best description here.
asciilifeform: very occasionally (at least for white usians) - meagre payola from state ('food stamps', etc)
asciilifeform: i.e. people who have never shown any symptoms of earning one's keep
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they are proper lumpens
asciilifeform: recall tlp's piece re: how a history of normal employment is more or less a kiss of death in consideration for 'disability' pension
asciilifeform: folks outside of usadom rarely know just how much the handouts, 'safety nets', and other socialisms ~strictly~ exclude the non-lumpens.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: by the time it is 'for me', it will consist of a complimentary cyanide
asciilifeform: it is strictly, strictly for registered members of the lumpen castes.
asciilifeform: often this process takes the form of 'we will pay, but for amputation rather than treatment'
asciilifeform: or at the very least leave the diseased chump with $maxint bill
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: correctly-implemented gossipd is intrinsically ddosproof.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: gossipd is a computationally very lightweight thing, and also does not suffer from network effect
ascii_field: r loads a lot of DLLs from the executable directory first, so by copying the vpndownloader.exe file from Program Files to a temporary directory and dropping an appropriately named DLL you can get code execution as SYSTEM.'
ascii_field: may live in comparative harmony without fear or threats or intimidation.'
ascii_field: of his time. It is important that each inmate follow the rules of the institution in order that all
ascii_field: 'Confinement in any institution such as Lewisburg is never a pleasant experience. Every attempt is
ascii_field: wywialm: pope has ~actions~ !?! who else, queen of denmark ? emperor of jp ?
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: he's a vat.-II-compliant pope
asciilifeform: https://www.realitykeys.com << atrocity, linked from earlier atrocity. apparently there is no shortage of attempted schemes to build this perpetuum mobile, the 'decentralized fact verifier machine'
asciilifeform: earch / auto-complete ("pre-processing"), we don't yet have a "central" nervous system to advise our decisions...'
asciilifeform: project for months, Peter Todd is actively reviewing it. Unlike 100% of all Bitcoin 2.0 projects, there have (so far) been no standing complaints from these elite-skeptics. Roger Ver, who has famously invested-in and donated-to some of the most promising organizations and experiments in the Bitcoin space (from original Ripple, to BitPay, to Purse.io), and ignored many others, has endorsed this project financially.'
asciilifeform observes that 'bugs' like this (if gaping hole in the chest of an idea can still be referred to as a 'bug'...) can live almost indefinitely long when there is a 'play money only' system such as ones mentioned earlier. simply because the 'unreasonable!11!!!11!!' folk with serious dough don't show up to clean their clocks.
asciilifeform: know what the crowning glory here is? no drug whatsoever in an ~actual free market~ could ever cost $100/pill. it costs less than this to pay ukraininan chemists to make $arbitrarycompound.
asciilifeform: rather than 'nuke intellectualpropertyism, dekulakize and publicly behead everyone who profited from its imposition'
asciilifeform: my current understanding re: the firm from the link is that it specialized in ultra-low-demand items for which there is unlikely to be competition from foreign generics. clever.
asciilifeform: consider, where other than pharma does cost have no impact whatsoever on demand ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1282871 << the basic textbook example is mujahedeen in afghan.
ascii_field: important difference.
ascii_field: they ~are~ 'bitcoin companies' in the 'roach motel' sense
ascii_field: 'At DEC’s founding, the US Congress decided that the US government had bought too many computers, and decreed that no more would be bought until those machines already acquired were fully loaded. So DEC sold PDPs, not computers.'
ascii_field: fat compresses.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1282504 << people complain about pharmaceutically-polluted chickens and now we are to eat ~THIS~ ?!! l0l!
asciilifeform: ^example
asciilifeform: this is true. but think of modern pharma, where one really ~does~ 'pick direction' in the sense that there are, say, 100M synthesizable compounds you can work with
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1282294 << selective breeding works, but is the exact opposite of what i meant - which was something more like a (hypothetical) electric implant that gives you iron determination at the push of a button
asciilifeform: i was about to say 'balls cannot be grown from empty space' but it is conceivable that the biological foundation of what we think of as 'willpower' could be discovered and played with
asciilifeform: 'the pie' implied some harvestable resource, no ?
asciilifeform: the really galling thing, to me, re: the 200mil sc4mz0rz, is that for prolly less than half of that, a sane man could build a perfectly serviceable chip fab in the pampas or the like
asciilifeform: 'We'd paid nearly $1 million in income tax on our profits for calendar year 1999. Not so bad considering that we built everything from a $10,000 investment.' << at the risk of cribbing from obama's 'you didn't make that company', greenspun... did not make that idiot dotcom gold rush!
asciilifeform: 'During the spring of 1999, for example, recruiting 5 hires would earn the employee a Honda S2000. Recruiting 10 employees would net a Ferrari F355. A trophy F355 in bright yellow was kept parked outside of the Prospect Street office in Cambridge to entice employees into recruiting. Later in the summer of 1999, as new management was brought on board, the policy was quietly changed to a lease of the cars, not outright ownership
asciilifeform: likewise, the most egregious retardation is shat forth by one specific consideration - backwards compatibility.
asciilifeform: for example.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1281874 << the absolute worst risk category for this kind of disease is to be involved in computing. because there, it is largely ACTUALLY TRUE that everyone is retarded.
asciilifeform: is life of a soldier, for example, a fail ?
asciilifeform: simply how it works.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1281876 >> http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3185426046243327@naggum.net.html >> 'There is much less intellectual dishonesty among people who aren't smart enough to make up a sufficiently large part of the world that they can live in it, and the bigger part of the world you can create inside your own head, the more important it is that you don't move into your own mind, but keep
asciilifeform: with couches, escritoir, tiffany lamps, etc.
asciilifeform: i see the point here, i think. the (private) 'crime and punishment museum' in d.c. - the one with the famous electric chairs - has an example of mafia don's cell
asciilifeform: this simply leads to a new trial.
asciilifeform: and if the judge catches a juror actively persuading others to nullify, he can try him for 'contempt'
asciilifeform: jury nullification is, contrary to popular belief, not really a thing in usa. not in the sense that it is impossible - it is certainly possible, on paper. but in practice verdict (in criminal cases) must be unanimous, and it never happens.
asciilifeform: all cp prosecutions are, without exception, exercises of 'lettre du cachet' powers. on account of the impossibility of proving otherwise, plus the lack of anyone giving half a rat's arse re: said proof.
asciilifeform: tions and so on and so forth. Specifically excluded from all this - what the code actually says and does. Particularly "criminal" - using a computer in the manner it itself allows to be used.'
asciilifeform: t be used and so on and so forth. Specifically excluded from all this - the woman in question. Particularly "criminal" at the time - using a woman in the manner she herself wishes to be used. Times have changed, women are now worthless, but computers aren't, and these same dead hand fictions propose anew : that they own all computers, that if you own a computer it's only a sublease from them, subject to furthering their regula
asciilifeform: and a separate tank for compressed air.
asciilifeform: 'computer' had stopped being a job title, but was still very much a ~place~
asciilifeform: *improvement over
asciilifeform: the micropayment thing has to be taken in context. it was 1960s and his vision was arguably an improvement of 'if you want to make money from thinking, have a job in usg academia'
ascii_field: (useless for any other purpose, and, importantly, specifically nonfunctional for conventional bitcoin)
ascii_field: now ~that~ was a quality chumpatron
ascii_field: 'your margins on bitcoin earned by selling digital goods and services with the 21 Bitcoin Computer are likely going to be much better than your margins from bitcoin mined with the 21 Bitcoin Computer. That is because the 21 Bitcoin Computer allows you to use bitcoin as a true digital currency for taking worldwide payment for your APIs. The mined bitcoin just provides continuous liquidity into the system. '
ascii_field: 'Yes, you can indeed make a profit with the 21 Bitcoin Computer. However, you would do so not by directly selling bitcoin, but by selling digital goods for bitcoin. That is, you are not going to get rich by immediately selling the bitcoin mined by the device for offline currency, but you can potentially do very well by selling digital goods and services to others for their bitcoin. ' << hilarious. worth a read, for the lulz
ascii_field: take compulsory remote updates from usg ?
ascii_field: i followed the project for years largely on account of NOBODY-else-is-pissing-on-backwards-compat
ascii_field: 'In February 2003, the FBI assigned a team of FBI personnel --- "Team 10" -- to work full-time at the NSA to manage the FBI's participation in the program. Team 10's primary responsiblity was to disseminate PSP information through [censored] ECs to FBI field offices for investigative or other purposes. However, over time, Team 10 began to participate in the PSP in other ways. For example, Team 10 occasionally submitted
ascii_field: i just think it is grimly hilarious how everything we've spoken of here ~will~ be implemented in bastardized usg versions
ascii_field: 'For instance, bitcoin prevents double-spending with global mining costs in multiple dollars per transaction (as of 2015). Trusted transaction intermediation is an easily implemented service whose cost is a tiny fraction of this. And the transaction velocity of money is high; transactions in land are far more rare.'
ascii_field: 'A sufficiently smart optimizer doesn't need to optimize every Nock formula that could calculate a decrement function. It only needs to optimize one: the one we actually run. The only one we run is the one compiled from the decrement function ++dec in the Hoon standard library. So there's no sense in which our sufficiently smart optimizer needs to analyze Nock formulas to see if they're decrement formulas. It only needs
asciilifeform: 'This is not the first time the 32-year-old Mr. Shkreli, who has a reputation for both brilliance and brashness, has been the center of controversy. He started MSMB Capital, a hedge fund company, in his 20s and drew attention for urging the Food and Drug Administration not to approve certain drugs made by companies whose stock he was shorting.' << mega-l0l
asciilifeform: i assume it is an olympiad of one kind or another ?
asciilifeform: under (3) i also include that native compiler must support unix threading
asciilifeform: 1) type safety 2) MULTIPLE independent implementations 3) at least two NATIVE compilers exist 4) written international standard, preferably published on dead tree
asciilifeform: punkman: later i created a mechanism to measure only consumption from within the process proper, but i did not have time to turn this into a plot.
asciilifeform: btw there are misleading figures circulating re: 'size of the mempool today is 5MB' etc.
asciilifeform: 1) hard-limited, value-weighted tx mempool
asciilifeform: (and so simply ends up wasting time spent on reconnecting)
asciilifeform: ne who isn't relevant and knows it has an automatic grudge against you. Since CS research is quite competitive, evolution has its way, and relevance goes the way of the snake's legs.'
asciilifeform: st, by turning it into a form of mathematics. Math outcompetes creative programming in the funding process, simply because it appears to be more rigorous. It is more rigorous, and it generates a longer, deeper river of more impressive publications. And, because its area is nominally applied, it doesn't have to compete with the real mathematicians over in "algorithms," who would clean the bureaucrats' clocks in five minutes.'
asciilifeform: and what the fuck do people smoke that makes them release a compiler without tree shaking?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279879 << actually as far as i can tell it is ~worse~. the 'small binaries' are bytecode-compiled that runs SLOW AS FUCK ~and~ REQUIRED RUNTIME INSTALLED
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279842 << lulzy. for comparison, i picked up a (turned out, virginal (!!!)) ti-92plus for 25 usd.
asciilifeform: as in, the thing usg universities, 'ngo' complex, etc. finance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it suddenly makes sense when you realize that they are not competing with bitcoin, but with 'bitcoin'
asciilifeform: aha, never saw those before in any sort of numbers outside university campus
asciilifeform: and yes, incompetence. i do not have the competences of mircea_popescu, this is not a seekrit.
asciilifeform: incidentally, usg imploded libya by vaguely promising 'mansions' - 'your crown-owned official mercedes will become yours! as will your crown-issued chicks!' etc
asciilifeform: i.e. exempt from all reg
asciilifeform: and, more importantly, why ?
asciilifeform: because i don't see the improvement.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278952 << is this meant as some kind of improvement on good ol' yacc ?
asciilifeform: fuck if i know of what. fingerprints, perhaps, or stool samples, or what.
asciilifeform: 'Foreign financial institutions require ex-US individuals to show them a CLN (or provide a "reasonable explanation" of why they do not have one) to comply with the exchange of information provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the various intergovernmental agreements the US has signed with foreign jurisdictions.' << ahahahahaha l0l!! pay $3k to get the privilege of using this other set of usg banks in
asciilifeform: phf: if you compile standalone that is
asciilifeform: mozart's sister, iirc, was a very passable player but never composed.
asciilifeform: and you get a kind of temporary storage tank
asciilifeform: the champ in re: fitsinhead appears to be, mega-unsurprisingly,
asciilifeform: for instance, i've been surveying implementations of standard ml
asciilifeform: my other objection is that the ~implementation~ usually ends up being ludicrously complex and not-at-all fitsinheady
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278910 << there is a good chunk that can be thrown out (things not implemented in classical gpg) but after this you still have a steaming pile of shit.
ascii_field: but never seriously contemplated by 'standards body' (no prized for saying why)
ascii_field: and the ultimate litmus test for whether a proposed security mechanism is usgistic: 'does this item INCREASE - or DECREASE - the amount of complexity present in the system, for which i must defer to someone's authority to determine whether it does what was promised ?'
ascii_field: anyone who proposes one, directly or by implication, is (whether he knows it or not) committing pseudointellectual flimflammery in the service of hitler.
ascii_field: understand, i have no objection to tools such as computerized theorem-proving, data flow analysis, etc. except in that these are put forward as ~substitutes for fits-in-head simplicity~.
ascii_field: and yes, i guess, being concerned with the number of intellectual 'cpu cycles' needed to fully grasp the ~implementation~ of the language and the machine under it - makes me a t3rr0r1st11111
ascii_field: my other problem is that i have not yet found an implementation of ml language that fits-in-head.
ascii_field: this is fundamentally an example of what i was talking about.
ascii_field: accompanied by unsubstantiated claims of 'equivalence' between long rsa and short ecc key 'hardnesses'
ascii_field: program verification is 1) provably unsolvable in the general case 2) to the extent it adds complexity and overall logical mass and subtracts from fit-in-head-ability, it is ~an evil~
ascii_field: no but the basic idea of turning a high-level message into incomprehensible ground beef
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278246 << this ~has~ to be some kind of disinfo. it seems impossible, like hearing about a demolished skyscraper un-exploding, an egg un-breaking and picking itself up from the kitchen floor and sliding back into the chicken
ascii_field: 'Still, when a complete, condemnable dump is on the market for a third of a million dollars, it’s clear that money has lost all meaning.'
ascii_field: (xerox is the true unsung hero-to-zero story of usa - for fucks sake they had the interactive graphical computer before anyone else)
asciilifeform: Each and every time someone in the Computer Science field has a Bright Idea, the world had better be prepared to adapt, because Here Comes Genius and everything everybody has done needs to be done differently from now on, because This Genius Knows Best. Gratuitous re-invention is very appealing to some people. It means that they do not have to cope with anybody else's ideas. They may hope to garner support behind them, but th
asciilifeform: this will happen, for example, when we finally... add a file
asciilifeform: a good chunk of these is, likely, attempts at massage
asciilifeform: fwiw, my brother, who did not see a computer until adulthood, has perfect vision.
asciilifeform: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/09/16/a-clock-is-not-a-bomb-ahmeds-arrest-and-why-we-cant-have-nice-things
ascii_field: comparing the options available to capone or even tito, to the meagre existence of random schmuck, is also disingenuous.
ascii_field: and comparing the equivalent of shooting yourself in the head to cleaning a car is disingenuous, at least.
ascii_field: no implication, even, of normal service for more $
asciilifeform: one would have to either steal the datasheet somewhere, or empirically (!) reverse the thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a compromised key generator would've been classier
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276226 << anyone else puzzled re: the total lack of mention of the author of the implant (usg) ?
asciilifeform: actually that korean piece of shit is ~the~ implementation of 'respeto por el trabajador'
asciilifeform: and the proof is an impossibility.
asciilifeform: recoil-dampener aha
asciilifeform: what, evil empire can't afford 100GB/s forever ?
asciilifeform: -- 'jump up twenty metres and scatter yourself around.'
asciilifeform: sure. let's see who if anyone complains.
asciilifeform: thing is, imho world is not made of us and of derps, or rather it ~is~ but rather like a mountain of lamproite
ascii_field: sometimes, not then, either (how many people are publicly hosting the hackteam dump ?)
ascii_field: i had the thought once that gossipd would make this item quite trivial to implement
ascii_field: srsly, is it an impossibility to have a 'cryptome'-like site run by thinking folks ?
ascii_field: where is the evidence that the author of this message ever possessed the keys claimed as compromised ?
ascii_field: and as i stand in the impalement queue, yes, i might agree
ascii_field: only forward flow, for example
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: np-complete does not mean unsolvable ! just means that not solvable efficiently if the data set is at all large
ascii_field: mats: how often do your friends get physically replaced with impostors ?
ascii_field: in this example, i'm just an earthworm. watching.
ascii_field: williamdunne: thread in question was about the impossibility of selling exploits
ascii_field: they are rescued by the complete lack of any consequences for story which does not hang together (e.g., '9/11' details, or the 'how they found ulbricht' story, etc)
ascii_field: he set the mega-example for others to follow.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: biology is terrible example here
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274711 << naggum ~had~ something like #b-a - comp.lang.lisp. very similar mix of brain.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274669 << see old thread where i compared chipmaking to satellite launch. they are very similar activities, in having unpredictable, largely unpreventable, and very high failure rate.
asciilifeform: ram is deadly simple.
asciilifeform: buttocks to join in holy matrimony. But the Supreme Court seems game for such tweaks, and, as an added benefit, when time comes for Mr. Trump to divorce (as it invariably has), the Pope would be only too happy to annul such a union.'
asciilifeform: oesn't amount to muchbut, more specifically, her amazing ass. She has a stunning derrière that I am sure will make America feel proud again. Further, I propose that Trump marry her ass, and make a sort of national royal ass-family. She'd be the Vice-Prezz and the First Lady-Asskilling two birds with one ass, if you will! Yes, it would require another tweak to the marriage laws to make it possible for a man and a woman's
asciilifeform: ''So here are five perfectly good reasons why Trump would make one fine Prezz. But he needs a running mate. Now, wouldn't it be a fine thing to have a woman Vice-Prezz? It's been two election cycles since a spectacularly dumb bimboSarah Palincame within a few percentage points of the Vice-Prezzidency; maybe it's time to try again. And so I propose Kim Kardashian as Trump's running mate. Not Kim Kardashian herselfshe d
asciilifeform: let's work a small example
asciilifeform: the hard part is to make something that is a meaningful improvement in more than a strictly-hygienic sense
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mod6 therealbitcoin www points out, correctly, that certain patches (e.g., asciilifeform_tx-orphanage_amputation.patch) are considered experimental; but asciilifeform_maxint_locks_corrected.patch is pretty much mandatory - node will not sync without it, afaik.
ascii_field: 'nocrypto uses bits of C, similarly to other cryptographic libraries written in high-level languages. This was actually less of a performance concern, and more of a security one: for the low-level primitives which are tricky to implement and for which known, compact and widely used code already exists, the implementation is probably better reused. The major pitfall we hoped to avoid that way are side-channel attacks.' <<
ascii_field: if you can't verify a block in <10min GUARANTEED you don't have a computer.
ascii_field: 'He continued: “I know of two instances where people on metered connections went over their data cap for August because of this unwanted download. My own internet (slow DSL) was crawling for a week or so until I discovered this problem. In fact, that’s what led me to it. Not only does it download, it tries to install every time the computer is booted.”'
ascii_field: MICROSOFT HAS CONFIRMED that Windows 10 is being downloaded to computers whether or not users have opted in.
ascii_field: 'MICROSOFT HAS CONFIRMED that Windows 10 is being downloaded to computers whether or not users have opted in.
ascii_field: to be completed some time 20 years from now, if things go well.
ascii_field: attempting to address the kernel bloat without somehow magicking this away, is idiocy.
ascii_field: trinque: if it cannot compile emacs without building 'dbus', then it can GO TO HELL
ascii_field: HENCE my almost life-long interest in 'computer algebra' machinery.
ascii_field: this, incidentally, is ~the~ bar for formalization. IFF you can do it on a computer, then ~possibly~ you really have a formal handle on the mechanics. but NOT before then.
ascii_field: and it wasn't usg in particular, but industrial slave empires in general
ascii_field: kakobrekla: mircea_popescu's implication was that it ought to be a sane continuation of what gentoo once was (a linux for literate folks to use)
ascii_field: why would anyone use 'symphony' chat thing after this... ?
ascii_field: '"To address cyber-security concerns, we ensure that all your conversations are transmitted in encrypted form," he wrote. "The key is that we do this without compromising ease of use and content discovery." As we now know, at least part of that "content discovery" now includes investitgators' searching for evidence of malfeasance.'
asciilifeform: trinque: it isn't really a computer until this is so.
asciilifeform: this is the difference between the typesetter component in 'concordia' and latex
asciilifeform: n encryption (to use stronger encryption in many areas, such as AES-loop, you needed to compile your own kernel and go to great lengths to manually bypass barriers they put in place to the use of genuinely strong encryption)....'
asciilifeform: actually i'd prefer ~no~ employment and just a dirigible full of money.
asciilifeform: the implication is that man does not live by bread alone (tm)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1273136 << the implication, unless i am mistaken, is that i ought to go to tanzania, mongolia, wherever, to avoid being shot in the head. but what do i need not-being-shot-in-the-head for, in tanzania ?
asciilifeform: 'Pick your favorite expression that is zero but not easily simplified to zero by the CAS. Then divide by this zero and deduce all kinds of absurdities.'