asciilifeform: (more complicated story, with tank. diesel motor was an unambiguous win, as all tank makers eventually came to know.)
asciilifeform: i see the proceedings of that court as similar to those of all modern courts: a continuation of the basic lie of 'rule of law', where 'it is not the sultan who condemns you to impalement, but the majesty of the law'
asciilifeform: proceeding from a mandated assumption that it was written by human hand
asciilifeform: mod6: these look superficially correct, but need to be 1) compared mechanically and 2) rebased as i spoke of earlier
asciilifeform only learned how to make proper 'манная каша' (english, approx, 'cream of wheat') as an adult; and is still tempted to try doing it in a chemist's double boiler with magnetic stir bar
asciilifeform: mod6: see, for example, if you can bitwise-reconstitute REL1.
asciilifeform: but it is a handy means of mechanically computing whom to negrate.
asciilifeform: it would be easily 50x the complexity of the whole shebang put together.
asciilifeform: (new set should have no timestamps.)
asciilifeform: mod6: diff with the old set, and see that nothing but timestamps is at variance
asciilifeform: fluffypony: the 'fun' on mac begins when you diverge from traditional bsd utils and try using items like perl, python, or - satan forbid - attempt to work with init scripts or other customary denizens of /etc/
asciilifeform: less so today, in digital circuits, than in the old days of analogue amps in everything
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-08-2015#1248408 << my understanding is that individually-measured and selected components are still sop in Machines Which Must Work
asciilifeform: a 'release' can simply be a deedbotted manifest.
asciilifeform: importantly, these need to be detached (own file) signatures. specifically ~not~ like this: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000150.html
asciilifeform: it is important that everyone who works on therealbitcoin sign 'genesis' and distribute said signature.
asciilifeform: to further work the example, the 'antipatch' is only necessary if ben_vulpes's chain builds on any of asciilifeform's patches which have the unwanted patch as antecedent.
asciilifeform: i am emphatically ~not~ recreating 'git' or the like.
asciilifeform: trinque: i did the genesis.vpatch thing solely to simplify 'v' build system, which i was working on; such that there is no longer any shenanigans with tarballs, copying of crud, etc
asciilifeform: which left the timestamps. then experimented with abolishing timestamps in diffs entirely. this works
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-08-2015#1248271 << compare this crock of shit to the algo for authenticating a bitcoin !
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-08-2015#1248273 << in my eyes, a ~skilled~ art forger is a hero second only to a hypothetical fella who puts an actual bullet through a bilderberger. why, exactly, should i have any sympathy for the folks hitching a ride in the only 100% effective inflation shelter known, at the expense of literally everybody else ?
asciilifeform: btw i am still trying to figure out why the existing 'padding' algos are so asininely complex
asciilifeform: the purpose of 'padding' is to a) never have transform of known input deterministically give same output b) prevent arbitrarily flipped bits of ciphertext from yielding a valid (attempt to eat) message
asciilifeform: he says 'long messages' on account of the impossibility of signing an integer longer than the public modulus
asciilifeform: it isn't 'compare' though
asciilifeform: what would a counterexample to hypothesis http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-08-2015#1247994 look like ?
asciilifeform: but for cryptoanalyst, it is actually not useless to 'have' a paper-and-pen unimplementable algo
asciilifeform: can't rule out that even 20 yrs ago hitler knew that factoring is np-complete.
asciilifeform: i would like an asymmetric transform whose complexity were provably unknowable. that would be spiffy.
asciilifeform: how does this beat 'proven np-complete and the lowliest amoebic scum knows' ?
asciilifeform: does mircea_popescu remember what means 'np-complete' ?
asciilifeform: while also proving that none of the 'practical' aspects of employing the transform, leak key.
asciilifeform: to round off the thread, imho the 'holy grail' of asymmetric crypto is to demonstrate ~provably measurable strength~ - that is, prove np-completeness of inverting the transform.
asciilifeform: to complete this story, i will add a diode on each antifuse and a collective rail to blow'em all
asciilifeform reminds mircea_popescu that factoring has not been proven np-hard much less np-complete
asciilifeform: rfc4480 sayeth, '5.2.3. Version 4 Signature Packet Format.... [buncha crud snipped] ... Two-octet field holding the left 16 bits of the signed hash value. One or more multiprecision integers comprising the signature. ...'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-08-2015#1247703 << court did not impose peine forte et dure ?! that's how it used to work..
asciilifeform: incidentally there is an implication of this, which ought to be obvious
asciilifeform: (it lacks the complete hash!)
asciilifeform: the only way to sign without imposing structure on the matter signed, is detach.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-08-2015#1247726 << it's concept-broken, not implementation-broken
ascii_field: on this topic as on any other, is absolutely indubitable. The proposition that the sum total of what came before can be compared with this particular advance is strictly ridiculous.' << mega-summary, quoted here for logz readers
ascii_field: change the V-genesis introduced is exactly like the move from understanding and controlling movement in terms of mass and somewhat velocity, such as it occurs in the mind of a monkey throwing rocks, to understanding and controlling movement in terms of mass, impulse and energy, such as it occurs in the launching of satellites. The proposition that there is still room for improvement in the endless march of human thought,
ascii_field: 'For the first time in the century or so of history of this particular human endeavour, text was deliberately structured with due consideration given not only to its meaning, but also to its source, and to its context. Prior attempts at structuring software, at first consisting of a naive approach focused on meaning only, over time added a half-hearted consideration of context, very unequally and rather haphazardly. The
ascii_field: the one with timestamps
ascii_field: so it is quite impossible to verify that it is valid per se, without having the payload
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the importance of the thing i intended, roughly, is that ~everything is either a vdiff or a sig~
ascii_field: to EMPTY dir
ascii_field: then compare result with 'chicken'
ascii_field: now make an empty space and fire the diff
ascii_field: (which won't match because it has timestamps, but ~order~ will match)
ascii_field: 'The absence of evidence shouldn’t be viewed as proof of guilt, but tell that to the U.S. federal court—where Khairullozhon Matanov received a 30-month sentence in mid-June, in part for deleting his browser history. Though he wasn’t an accomplice in the Boston bombing, the FBI charged that the friend of the Tsarnaev brothers with obstructing justice by destroying evidence in the case. That evidence inc
ascii_field: mod6, ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, et al: here is an experiment: change ' print $0 " " o ' in vdiff.sh to ' print $1 " " $2 " " o '. this results in timestamp amputation. the patches work fine, except that gnupatch is no longer aware of preexisting files and will happily create the same file twice, if so run, glomming on top of itself.
ascii_field: 'I don't have a preference (LTC/BTC/ETC). A company in Uraguay has improperly used my name....' (mcaffee)
asciilifeform: 'We describe three new occurrences of the sexual coercion of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) by Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. These recurrent observations follow a common pattern where the seal chases, captures and mounts the penguin, followed by copulation attempts. These observations are similar to a previously published observation from the same island, and we suggest th
asciilifeform: complain to them, not me, l0l
asciilifeform: most importantly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have been deliberately dancing around the spitoon-drinking that reimplementing 'diff' and 'patch' would be.
asciilifeform: though iirc diff will complain whenever a file on the local filesystem is being replaced with 'older'
asciilifeform: but all non-0 stamps could be replaced with some arbitrary.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they are not ~entirely~ meaningless, in that they impose an ordering. BUT my antecedent hashes do that now.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: basic boojum here is that no two diffs ever diff cleanly on account of timestamps.
asciilifeform: basic choices reduce to a) let'em live and pollute diffs b) tear'em out c) copy from filesystem timestamps of originals somehow
asciilifeform: of what to do with timestamps.
asciilifeform: mod6: your diff is correct (only timestamps at variance)
asciilifeform: 'More important, I looked through some of the Gnulib and GNU utilities code that deals with working around bugs in GCC's diagnostics generation, and -Wmaybe-uninitialized in particular has caused us so much grief that we typically silence it in a different way, which I should mention. We use a macro definition like this:' << holy fuq.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i never got the impression that o had pretences to 'great'. he wrote for the archaeologist. as i do.
asciilifeform: to me game on computer is fucking ~synonymous~ with dos.
ascii_field: done umpteen times
ascii_field: because proscribing the blocks later won't un-stampede the sell-panickers
ascii_field: (dump sc4mf0rk coins)
ascii_field: wouldn't a complete picture include satoshi ?
ascii_field: felipelalli: why not simply rate'em if they ever show up.
ascii_field: 'When the head of US Southern Command testified before Congress in March 2014, he said that due to asset shortfalls Southcom couldn’t pursue 74 percent of suspected maritime drug-smuggling vessels. “I simply sit and watch it go by,” the general said.' << disinfo !
ascii_field: because it is ~so~ useful to have something like msdos but less compatible.
ascii_field: mod6: i viewed the diffs in 'meld', came to same conclusion as you: 1) timestamps 2) ordering of files
ascii_field: mod6: didja ever post your complete diff ?
ascii_field: another possibility is some odd misbehaviour re: timestamps
ascii_field: mod6: just grep the diff for '+++' and compare the hashes with sha512sum of directory (your local manifest)
asciilifeform: and makes it damn near impossible to link to an individual piece
asciilifeform: http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-is-coming-to-the-mainframe << complete with systemd!
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu entomological sample, http://www.benzinga.com/news/15/08/5779058/bitcoin-flash-crashed-this-week << approximately a complete collection of ~everything but the actual truth~
asciilifeform: which did not match mod6's (who i mistakenly thought was 'extemporized')
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000150.html << FOR FUCKS SAKE which one of you is 'pub@extemporized' ?
asciilifeform: the question of which monkey in the forest produced a particular stool sample, is perhaps interesting to ~someone~
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the chumpers, one might suppose, thought this
asciilifeform spent an unhealthily large chunk of today crawling the dump
asciilifeform: perhaps this is sop. if so, one can wonder why the chumpers signed up to begin with
asciilifeform: mod6: interesting. sort, compare.
asciilifeform: at any rate, diff it with mine, nothing but timestamps must differ.
asciilifeform: you should get same thing i did, possibly excepting the timestamps
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo might be anti-impressed when he realizes what it consists of
asciilifeform: ument panel falling off in flight. The weapons also dealt extensive collateral damage, as the sheer numbers of fragments from detonating shells was sufficient to damage aircraft flying within a 200 meter radius from the impact center, including the aircraft firing.' << l0l
asciilifeform: 'Meanwhile in a cattle herd inhabiting an endless plain, the strictures of speech as a regulator of human activity do not exist per se. Argentines do not speak like you and me, Argentines bleat and bark like your sheep and dogs. They appreciate the loudness, the sudden quality, the melodicity, the formal "propriety" of speech much like a parrot judges another parrot's noises. They do not however comprehend, nor do they have an
asciilifeform: example ?
asciilifeform: derp with full battery vs empty
asciilifeform: i don't ask for the impossible! merely the 'romanov gold standard' of cleansing
asciilifeform: how many rothchilds in the camps ?
asciilifeform: when their current host dies, they will decamp to wherever it is they have a welcome party
asciilifeform: it is interesting to read the jp rationale for not attempting invasion or even saboteur ops on the u.s. continent in ww2
ascii_field: the CLMUL instruction set is to improve the performance of
ascii_field: integer quad word (2 – 64 bit integers). This is complemented
ascii_field: and is part of the overall 'diddled crypto' campaign since clinton
ascii_field: it also means, depending on circumstances, 'can't be bombed with slow-moving pilotless planes with impunity' or even 'might fire back if bombarded navally'
ascii_field: eventually the chumps notice that the cheap and expensive psychics 'tell the future' exactly equally
ascii_field: thing about 'prestige market' is that 'art college of art' can make fraudulent claims of graduate employability just as well as, e.g., harvard
ascii_field: other thing is, the 'art college of art' chumpatronic sector has been edging into competition with the officially-blessed prestige-sellers
ascii_field: now try getting similarly compact description in a cpp proggy re: e.g., the map issue.
ascii_field: and when a situation like this does come up, a civilized compiler (there is ONLY ONE known, gcc) ~will~ give you useful info re: types
ascii_field: i'd love to borrow jurov's compiler
asciilifeform: that is, to discover whether there are non-mempool-related leaks
asciilifeform: 'As each fiber optic company sought a new undersea cable landing license from the FCC they were required by the NSA to enter into a classified contract with the NSA for TWO access point for each undersea cable. The first access point had to be right at the optical multiplexer which duplicated the optical pulse into the undersea cable, and then a second into a fiber optic cable that fed NSA gear. Then, behind the multiplexer an
asciilifeform: 'Due to the ECI relationship, the technicians for AT&T had to possess a Top Secret security clearance to actually just access the fiber, because they might "accidentally" discover the tap, or discover data being diverted out of the fiber optic multiplexers. By the way, "ECI" means that the company is given a code name to conceal their involvement in illegal activities. For example, AT&T has a code name, MCI has a code name, Sp
asciilifeform: nor is the firm where i work deluged with argentinian inquiries re: samples of virii
asciilifeform: trinque: as far as is publicly known, erdos took dextroamphetamine rather than meth
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu perhaps did not think that usg could be any moar retarded than it looks already, but here is a mega-secret: a great many (most?) u.s. laboratories have personnel empowered to purchase materiel (e.g., spectrometer) but not ever hire anyone.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and pay to have sane computer produced ?
asciilifeform: let's work this gedankenexample?
asciilifeform: that does not work with gimp.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is actually the best example. of a proggy which naive folks suggest 'will do all the same things'
asciilifeform: srsly this is ~loathesome~ habit of open source folks, linking to a gimp when i need to take a photoshit
ascii_field: http://mpetroff.net/2015/05/amazon-dash-button-teardown << very lulzy. contains princely mircocontroller, multiple MB of eeprom, and... a microphone.
ascii_field believes that hypertext, at least as presently implemented 'in-band', ~is~ wrong
ascii_field: then - straight to dumpster
ascii_field: (not impossible, and i can't rule it out)
ascii_field: but yes, one burned/flooded factory can double price of $component
ascii_field: even before electric lamp.
asciilifeform: '"We feel that our tests might prove to be the catalyst that propels the core devs and miners to implement the required hard fork that is desperately needed," Coinwallet told BitBeat.'
asciilifeform: if you're cn-compatible, buy ticket, sail.
asciilifeform: then again, a back door may be found for it to safely walk through, like google's employment not-iq-really-fuck-you-not-iq tests
asciilifeform: was more or less superior in every way to the linked example.
asciilifeform: http://web.archive.org/web/20080704193847/http://www.bsdg.org/SWAG/STRINGS/0096.PAS.html << example
asciilifeform looks for the copy of 'gold bug' virus that some derp threw into swag and claimed as 'universal decompilator'
asciilifeform: prolly one of those things that will never entirely disappear for so long as there are 'immunocompromised' decaying civilizations, etc
asciilifeform: not quite comparable
ascii_field: thestringpuller: try building on a computer ..?
ascii_field: this is not a usable dump
ascii_field: as the one previously checked in mempool
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: no, room temp
ascii_field: thing is, i don't get the whole concept of having any sympathy whatsoever for 'needs moar room' when 100% of everyone making this argument is either usg shill or their useful idiots
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i get it. but i was trying to illustrate how allowing anyone to make the sphincter permanently dilate by spending a fixed cost gets you into 'amplification vulnerability'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: if objective is 'make a river of meat' then sure. if trying to accomplish something more interesting? not so much
ascii_field: and we want to reimplement this ?
ascii_field: it is but one example.
ascii_field: so it is an 'amplification' situation
ascii_field: (iirc, turing-complete, even!)
asciilifeform: try to remember the basic reason why we're using 0.5.3 as foundation rather than starting from empty.
asciilifeform: 'What you can infer here (since Ubiquiti wont comment) is that the scammers spoofed an employee communication from a fake email account, instructing an employee to wire funds to a vendor. In its laziest form, its an attack that anyone could mount with an Internet connection and about 5 minutes the B2B version of the old Nigerian prince email fraud, except the prince purports to be your boss.'
asciilifeform: 'A hacker posed as one of its employees online and stole $46.7 million from the company's accounts.'
asciilifeform: and, as perpetuum mobile, all attempts at doing the fundamentally impossible are bound to end in tears
asciilifeform: naggum has umpteen threads where he fights with various folks over xml attributes
asciilifeform: ascii is retarded. complain to the central committee, or who was it.
asciilifeform: whereas the alternative is only even contemplated because pgp is retarded.
asciilifeform: ok back to the example
asciilifeform: throwing garbage into a vt100-compatible terminal breaks things for reasons that are not mysterious at all. rtfm?
asciilifeform: if i want to embed hashes next to their payload, i get an explosion of complexity. because,
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-08-2015#1239163 << i read that piece not long ago, while contemplating buying one.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: prolly better comparison is hot fusion
asciilifeform: in 'lectures on computation' (r. f.)
asciilifeform: hard to say, reads like the output of five separate monkeys who did not have any kind of complete picture each, other than a checklist of 'agenda items' to address
asciilifeform: s they have a long history of security evaluation and time tested implementation that newer proposals do not yet have.'
asciilifeform: 'It is important to note that we arent asking vendors to stop implementing the Suite B algorithms and we arent asking our national security customers to stop using these algorithms. Rather, we want to give more flexibility to vendors and our customers in the present as we prepare for a quantum safe future. Where elliptic curve protocols are to be used, we prefer Suite B standards be used to the fullest extent possible a
asciilifeform: tandards bodies to ensure there is a clear plan for getting a new suite of algorithms that are developed in an open and transparent manner that will form the foundation of our next Suite of cryptographic algorithms. Until this new suite is developed and products are available implementing the quantum resistant suite, we will rely on current algorithms. For those partners and vendors that have not yet made the transition to Sui
asciilifeform: 'IAD recognizes that there will be a move, in the not distant future, to a quantum resistant algorithm suite. Based on experience in deploying Suite B, we have determined to start planning and communicating early about the upcoming transition to quantum resistant algorithms. Our ultimate goal is to provide cost effective security against a potential quantum computer. We are working with partners across the USG, vendors, and s
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: still i find it interesting how impenetrable the usg 'never happened because we say so' shield is
asciilifeform: unix utils work as depicted in, e.g., vdiff.sh, deadly-simple, BECAUSE file is a solid abstraction
asciilifeform: 'Congratulations Gavin and Mike on completing the patch to support larger block sizes. Although we all have ideological disagreements from time to time, two fundamental values of the Bitcoin community are freedom of choice and transparency of communication. Your work represents a big step in returning the power over Bitcoin's future back to the community where it belongs.' << l0l!!
asciilifeform: patch must be accompanied with sig
asciilifeform: and 'The impulse to cling to youth at all costs, to attempt to preserve your sexual attraction, to see even in middle age a future for yourself and not merely for your children, is a thing of recent growth and has only precariously established itself. It will probably disappear again when our standard of living drops and our birth-rate rises.'
asciilifeform: see mr.o, 'The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery. But there is also the minority of gifted, willful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end'
asciilifeform: mod6: it is very very simple, really
asciilifeform: compared to yours truly
ascii_field: (many examples in comments)
ascii_field: 'My favourite is Retrievor – small GPS tracker. First version promised solar charging. They first stole photos from completely other products (mobile phone app was from real Chinese GPS tracker, while the schematic was from a completely different product). Then they skipped to Indiegogo, and had two additional campaigns, with slightly changed description. Almost 2 years later, no real product.'
ascii_field: and that virtually every major american uni has dozens of faculty, heavily overlapping with the set of most serious money-bringers, who are criminally impeachable
ascii_field: 'Naturally all the documentation is keep secret, but a quick Google search would reveal that one can't simultaneously work at place x, and give lectures at place y, while x and y are hours of travel away. But again the people who control the grant money only check the paperwork they are provided. Is there a bogus employment contract in my name? I don't know but I have reasons to believe so.'
ascii_field: (i had the complete worx)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-08-2015#1237700 << get an 'hp16c'. handily beats computer for this purpose.
asciilifeform: '...redefining "bitcoin user" so that less than 1% of bitcoin holders are anointed as 'Real Users'. Enough already. It smells like tyranny, it looks like tyranny - it IS tyranny. And Bitcoin, more than any other community, should overthrow these flawed attempts at governance. Where a minority holds the rest hostage.'
asciilifeform: i can't wait for one of these tards to accidentally publish his madlibs template
asciilifeform: the attempts of folks who tried to 'kill mem corruption in c' are a lulzmine of their own.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-08-2015#1237496 << not without turning your 'c' into a 'half-finished bug-ridden reimplementation of ada'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-08-2015#1237481 << this is more difficult than mircea_popescu might appreciate. for one thing, i do hardware, where merely the ~fact of~ a usable hole existing is half the secret - once you say, credibly, folks know precisely where to look; the other half of it is that i am in the wot neither of folks buying nor of folks brokering; and the third 'half' is that any attempt at this will hav
asciilifeform: (don't leave it floating, pull the stump to the supply rail (it is typically active-low. consult data sheet!))
asciilifeform: (complete with ncurses menuconfig)
asciilifeform: (mircea_popescu's eternal question re: why do we have imbeciles programming computers is a valid but separate question)
asciilifeform: 'For example, if a malicious MP4 is crafted with a chunk_size of 0x1ffffffff (notice this is larger than a 32-bit value) the faulty overflow check will be bypassed because chunk_size > SIZE_MAX. Next, chunk_size is added to size. If size is any value greater than 0, an integer overflow will occur. If, for instance, size is 1, the addition will result in a value of 0x200000000, which is larger than a 32-bit value. The following
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> well, specifically what triggered me was the proposition that "this man that is doing a bad job would do a better job weith better tools" << now, if it were simply a matter of strength and weakness, one could argue that 'more folks could dig well with bulldozer than with spade'
asciilifeform: and runs msdos, even. complete with xmm!
asciilifeform: did mats just use great wall of cn as example of 'secure' !
asciilifeform: a simple calculation shows that - unless one is extraordinarily lucky - the effort which goes into finding a typical vuln, vs the typical 'bug bounty' offered by, e.g., microshit, works out to approximately u.s. minimum wage.
asciilifeform: also fewer 'eiffel towers built of matchsticks' - elaborately labyrinthine 'rube goldberg' machines, like the last third of that slide deck, which ultimately sum to 'i read a 486 manual taken from a dumpster'
asciilifeform: but simply because scorched earth.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-08-2015#1237135 << so, i read the slides. 1) 20MB powerpoint pdf turd?!!! wtf, people. 2) the picture which implies priv escalation is disingenuous. there is, just as i said earlier, no esclation. you gotta be in ring0 to move the apic window. NONE OF THIS SHIT WAS SECRET, how did they even get a talking slot at 'blackhat' ?
asciilifeform: '"For secret assassination, either simple or chase, the contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated."'
asciilifeform: no, really. almost complete with the mandatory balls-in-a-jar token of office
asciilifeform: proper implementations (e.g. mine) are fixed-time.
ascii_field: btw this is precisely how the well-known 'computrace' works.
ascii_field: (for n00bz: 'remote attestation' is this crackpot concept where usg has permanent root (yes) on 'your' computer, and uses it to verify that you aren't, e.g., running illegal linux)
ascii_field: see log, also, for why the approach where the whole computer is not inside the fritz is laughable on its face
ascii_field: i mean, it's one thing to consider a whole computer in a safe which sets off built-in nuke if anyone so much as scratches the door
ascii_field: the best scam is the kind where the scammitude is implicit
ascii_field: but the saving grace is that in 100% of such cases, the 'intellectual propertyyyyy!111!' holder is a twerp, and cheaper to give one of his employees a candy bar
ascii_field: (typically malware folks try to detect emulators by looking for well-known imperfections - if operator is an idiot, these will be found - or for external time base, which can set off a trap if machine appears to be uncommonly slow by wall clock time.)
ascii_field: i'm not mpoe-pr and don't engage with sc4mz0rz recreationally
ascii_field: trivial example being paillier's algo
asciilifeform: 'the folks whose daughters are exempt from paki' are as good an approximation as any
asciilifeform: the way 'yi yi zhi yi' works is that a usg fiefdom controls its lower classes, which might otherwise have some vitality left, by importing orcs
asciilifeform: they're stuck competing (for usg trough) with noblis et al
asciilifeform: not to mention the fact that au is a kind of proving ground for fresh usg idiocies, with simplified bureaucracy, desaparecido without so much as a squeak
asciilifeform: (there is also the 'impenetrably obscure' flavour of 'uncontroversy')
asciilifeform: " ... ... Lots of emphasis on stereotyping, how we construct reality, and so on. Nothing that challenges the basic assumptions of social scientists at all. And that's really how he got away with it. He reported what his colleagues expected to see. ... There are probably tons of articles in the scientific literature based on faked data, and undetected because the results were uncontroversial. There are many more where data were
asciilifeform: 'You eat food you didn't grow and in many cases have no idea where it came from or what it looks like in nature. You rely on elaborate machines to get you places, but have no idea how they work. If your car stops, you have no idea what went wrong or what to do to fix it. In many cases, there is nothing you personally can do. To travel long distances you get into a big flying tube that leaves you completely at the mercy of othe
asciilifeform: 'SABR is seeking engineers with deep interest and experience in blockchain-based technologies who are prepared to devote their career to making a positive impact while being continuously intellectually challenged.' << am i the only one who sees a second parse for this sentence ??
ascii_field: the announcements, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission complaint.'
ascii_field: 'Over five years, two computer hackers living in Ukraine broke into U.S. newswire services including Business Wire and PRNewswire and stole more than 100,000 press releases for publicly traded companies before their release. Those documents, which included earnings data, were distributed to a network of traders who used the advance knowledge to buy or sell securities based on how they anticipated the market would react to
ascii_field: the scene where the robotic cockroach is implanted
ascii_field: see the pogotron one for example
ascii_field: 'Congress passed the Protect Act after the Supreme Court struck down a broader law prohibiting any visual depictions of minors engaged in sexual activity, including computer-generated imagery and other fakes. The high court ruled that the ban was too broad, and could cover legitimate speech, including Hollywood productions.
ascii_field: the rest of the idiocy - typical, like the sample
ascii_field: objdump -d
ascii_field: ^ the paste is incomplete
asciilifeform: from the l0ltrons: http://web.tampabay.com/news/business/tampa-man-accused-of-illegal-bitcoin-exchange-getting-attention-in-new-york/2240829
asciilifeform: i object to it on account of being among the designated chumps who will have to starve to pay for the 'phree'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see, i've always been sympathetic to 'sure let's warehouse people while energy is cheap and we don't need to plow by hand' - because i always fukcinghated work.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the original story with these is that they were simply a group of officers who... took an oath
asciilifeform: shinohai: you somehow botched the buildroot. i do not yet know how. when i post mine you can compare
asciilifeform: needs two things, 1) hard mempool limiter 2) block index cache moved to disk
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1234132 << mozart did have a sister. who, iirc, did not compose, but played passably
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1234169 << when i was in timis., my brain melted upon seeing what looked very much like my childhood dumpsters
asciilifeform: prolly most famous example in the world is nyc flats
asciilifeform: 'ONE way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary. Looking back through the diary I kept in 1940 and 1941 I find that I was usually wrong when it was possible to be wrong. Yet I was not so wrong as the Military Experts. Experts of various schools were telling us in 1939 that the Maginot Line was impregnable, and that the Russo-German Pact had put an end to Hitlers eastwards expansion; in early 1940 they were telling us
asciilifeform: (improvement over the skinnerists, who thought it was... 4 if-statements)
asciilifeform: but more importantly, assume that this is the only possible way anything could be done.
asciilifeform: more commonly given example is shoes
asciilifeform: just like the 'deoxygenated copper audiophile cable' and the monumental 'green marker for improving cd audio'
ascii_field: kinda like a medieval reenactment party ~complete with black death~
ascii_field: e.g., http://wholesale.buysku.com/Electronics-image/2013-12/Mooc-M33-One-SIM-Quad-band-Ultra-thin-Mini-Credit-Card-sized-GSM-Cell-Phone-with-Bluetooth-MP3-FM-TF-Slot-White-6352177396313517551.JPG
ascii_field: 'The stuff I worked on in that job was complete horseshit. It provided absolutely zero value to anybody. It existed and was expressly optimized for the sole purpose of exploiting non-tech-savvy computer users to generate undeserved profits.'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: also because the relevant tech simply did not mature
ascii_field: or get a real computer
ascii_field: (from sks, for example)
ascii_field: i posted a working example of this months ago
asciilifeform: but not a patching guide, rather, patches were applied. but it tells you which, and you can obtain previous release tarball, apply them yourself, and compare the result.