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asciilifeform: it can be implemented without unusual effort or mathematical education.
asciilifeform: artifexd: a good compromise, probably, would be the Luby transform.
asciilifeform: this is one of the very few mathematical/computation subfields where there was real progress in the past twenty years.
asciilifeform: there's also the interesting fact (i shall offer no attempt at proof here) that a significant chunk of fleanode traffic is botnet c&c
asciilifeform: one time, isaac asimov (iirc ?) got tired of idiots badgering him with questions re: subjects in which he could not possibly give informed answer, and some of these even retorted with 'please just give me your gut feeling!' to which he answered that he does not think with his gut, and the questioner is welcome to keep the company of those who do - elsewhere.
asciilifeform: 'PARASTOO IS INFORMING THAT "CPLD AND FPGA BITSTREAMS" RUNNING THE SECURITY MODULES IN BOTH GROUND STATIONS AND MANY OF THE HOVERING ACTUAL SATELLITES THAT ARE LINKED TO SOME TARGETED NOCs ARE FULLY DECRYPTED ..AND WE FOUND -- WHILE DOING SATANIC LAUGHS -- SOME OF THESE UGLY CODES ARE NOT EVEN COMPATIBLE WITH BASIC NIST'S FIPS SECURITY GRADE GIVEN TO THESE PRODUCTS WITH $+APPLAUSE .'
asciilifeform makes small 'public service announcement' that, with gribble dead, any one of us present company could be hitler.
asciilifeform: say, by engineering a continuous double-spend attempt into normal operation of 'usgcoin' miners
asciilifeform: box that will compile and run an unpretentious posix demon without major handholding
asciilifeform: minimal standard of computer for purpose of this thread
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: they will succumb to the temptation of running the entire demon, and not merely a proxy, on the 'bouncer.'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: there are folks about (some even in #b-a) who have a habit of using something other than an actual computer for their daily work (i won't point fingers)
asciilifeform: on the contrary, synthetic chumpfracking fluid is a usg product.
asciilifeform: it has to be chump fracking.
asciilifeform: and bring in the naturally-occurring but recalcitrant chumpers.
asciilifeform: not only to drive waterfall directly, but to create an appearance of a 'happening', 'hot' chumpatron
asciilifeform: synthetic chumps (btc stolen by usg organs) is pumped into eth
asciilifeform: just as in hydraulic fracturing, foreign substance is pumped into the earth to liberate the goods,
asciilifeform: i dare to suggest a possible term for another thing the ethereum folks do; 'chump fracking'
asciilifeform: these reply with N bytes for each spoofed byte sent, hence term 'amplification'
asciilifeform: svetlana: not familiar with term 'amplification attack' ?
asciilifeform: svetlana: standard ntp and ssdp 'amplification' attack
asciilifeform: svetlana: i got a massive packet dump, and so has kakobrekla
asciilifeform wrestles with dilemma of whether he should open up his 90 or so percent implementation of mircea_popescu's RFP
asciilifeform: punkman: but back to original question, mips is vastly easier to implement in programmable logic of whatever kind than x86. this ought to be obvious to anyone with even an evening's familiarity with both.
asciilifeform: punkman: one can attempt to work with just the synthesis toolchain (no escape from it) and use netlists of 'raw' logic - i.e. simple universal constructs like 'nand gate'. the result - go try it - a very simple kindergarten-level circuit fills up the entire chip, with glacial performance (gate delays measured in msec!)
ascii_modem: bitstamp... confirm... <<< do we even know of a published pubkey for them
ascii_modem: folks who bring up fpga as a solution - straight to ebay, pick up a board, see if you can bake so much as an i386 compatible, with at least the original's performance, -without- the fpga vendor's closed libraries
ascii_modem: arguments have never stood between any one at all becoming a lampshade.
ascii_modem: i don't comprehend this "have to decrypt disk" bs. <<< again we can apply above principle. everybody complaining about the disk arse search - stop imagining that you have 'rights' and start apprehending the fact that you are being pursued by maniacs who will eventually like to turn you into a lampshade.
ascii_modem: punkman: mpeg2 license key <<< afaik -all- extant arm cpu include sub-cores running mystery turds, such as that one.
ascii_modem: http://libv.livejournal.com <<< tremendously important ( and tremendously wrongheaded ) piece. points to the folly of continuing to see the world in the enemy's framing.
ascii_modem: ben_vulpes:oh! and subject of ratpoison, did you evaluate and reject stumpwm at some point? << yes. rejected because heavy.
ascii_modem: bad example? think of every 'intellectual narcotic' or whatever folks call it now
ascii_modem: part of a balanced ( empire-building ) diet.
ascii_modem: meanwhile, something is standing between these folks and the lampposts
ascii_modem: these are not convertible to btc except via humiliating pederast temples
ascii_modem: lol! i can't even readily distinguish this incident from the ordinary background radiation of perverse chumpatronicity that surrounds everything sport-related at all times...
ascii_modem: the silent, tedious corrosion of everything even vaguely computerized, on account of winblows - that's a modern usg win.
ascii_modem: perhaps simply the inside of two different prisons
ascii_modem: and devil knows what other mutations will be - attempted
ascii_modem: how come the fbi is this impotent ? << because it is slated for replacement with a new gendarmerie. i thought we went over this
ascii_modem: notice how more or less full docs for 15+ y.o. pc components can usually be had (perhaps minus the backdoors & easter eggs, but sufficient for kernel devs)
ascii_modem: else simply sony-ing it << only question is how to make the buggers keep the 'sony-d' chip in print.
ascii_modem: more important is configable p2p seeds
ascii_modem: not computer.
ascii_modem: ( for ram-rich / something one could use as actual computer kind of affair)
ascii_modem: because 'no www flash games - not computer' or similarly imbecilic formula
ascii_modem: can't buy low-power (battery life measured in weeks/months) interactive computer. at any pricepoint.
ascii_modem: if i had a satoshi for every academtard who went 'this thing diesn't implement lamport's byzantine consensus...'
asciilifeform just about emptied wallet paying mr. p for conference-3 ticket. invites #b-a folks to laugh.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://www.computerra.ru/112660/mcst-and-micron-releases-monokub-mb-with-elbrus-2cm-cpu << i don't feel like translating, but - first ru-designed cpu, afaik, this century - hits the press.
asciilifeform: it's a mind-blowingly complex piece of shit.
asciilifeform: just like ussr stamped out single-crystal pdp-11 clones by the millions.
asciilifeform: ' quietly cornered the market in applications where 1) no winblows legacy 2) computation/watt ratio actually matters
asciilifeform: the latter isn't simply a non-reprogrammable fpga; it has the LUTs of fpga, but with 'wiring' baked into the metallization layers, rather than fpga-style switching fabric
asciilifeform: 'The bonus question is, what sort of anti-America will these parasites set up inside America before they abandon their host and scatter to their fortified compounds in undisclosed locations around the world? Or will they not even bother, and just provoke a war of all against all?'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: current king probably weighed his chances of ending up as an example, like hussein, milosevich, others who dared to stand up to anglo.
asciilifeform: to borrow mircea's analogy re: french empire, 'at this point atmosphere there is quite like that in hitler's bunker'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: impossible << lamport ?
asciilifeform: (how? see the old thread re: saddam hussein's gps jammers. for example.)
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: you don't need 30 of those. no existing company is equipped to fully utilize the output of 3, much less 30.
asciilifeform: what he meant was human compilers.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: when you said 'vomit forth blocks' - sorta implied that one must delve into the protocol docs to make use of said vomit.
asciilifeform: classical bitcoind behaves very poorly if the assumption of always-on high speed net connection is violated.
asciilifeform: customary workarounds like importing a private key and then 'losing' it are idiotic.
asciilifeform: 'it is _never_ politeness and courtesy these lunatics want. (If it were, they would simply prove the superiority of being polite and courteous.) They want _other_ people to be polite and courteous because _they_ do not want to feel humiliated or threatened, but who can tell what makes a deranged lunatic feel humiliated or threatened by just and proper criticism, especially by proxy as the worst of these outcasts do? These pe
asciilifeform: the physical components of a mega-chumpatron have to be made somewhere.
asciilifeform: (an undergrad can throw a mips-compatible fpga core together in a day)
asciilifeform: arm is sufficiently complex that folks were stuck licensing it verbatim, rather than reimplementing
asciilifeform: despite being a steaming crock of shit compared to mips
asciilifeform: every day i wonder why the 'arm' architecture so thoroughly beat 'mips' (closest competitor in the 'risc' world) in the markets
asciilifeform: i'll point out that the complexity of the designs, which makes straight plagiarism so irresistible to the asians, doesn't happen in a vacuum.
asciilifeform: for which, i will point out, no practical substitutes are known or, afaik, even contemplated anywhere.
asciilifeform: what does it mean if asia has all of the factories, but is utterly dependant on winblows and a stack of monopoly turdware as tall as empire state building ?
asciilifeform: most of the more complicated ones being unusable in practice (e.g. ethernet controller that 'expires' after N frames)
asciilifeform: virtually impossible to do well from scratch (vs vendor turdware) without the unobtainable internal docs
asciilifeform: i experimented with using a 'refresh-starved' dram for computation.
asciilifeform: 'slur' << i love how these nitwits show no symptoms whatsoever of having bothered to study how secrets were sold historically, from babylon to cold war, etc
asciilifeform: because they (correctly!) believed that it simply does not matter.
asciilifeform: the principal thing-not-to-do is complexity that prevents fits-in-head
asciilifeform: we're speaking of 'secure computing' as if it were an actual technology, like +ev fusion or whatnot
asciilifeform: decimation: but my sources believe they're under continuous bureaucratic siege to go 'standards compliant'
asciilifeform: decimation: usg did have a few 'parallel universes' of computing. there is, afaik, still a lab or two that use symbolics boxes, for example
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: he has a good chance. just needs a few sympathetic apparatchik judges.
asciilifeform: carpal tunnel brick << in russian work camps, inmates found many creative ways to self-mutilate in effort to avoid work
asciilifeform: check out where the fuckers say 'grub [bootloader] should detect an impending fsck' - because it is the responsibility of the entire planet, they think, to compensate for their idiocy
asciilifeform: 'Please could we stick to the technical aspects of this problem. Attempts to apportion responsibilty rarely lead anywhere.'
asciilifeform: the best place to hide a little malice is a gigantic pile of incompetence.
asciilifeform: dignork: nah, the linked board is at least useful for something around the house (it's a generic arm-based microcomputer)
asciilifeform: (for those unfamiliar with the subject, 'microcode' is best imagined as a kind of 'piano roll' of toggles which get flipped when a particular instruction is encountered by cpu. this in turn actually cranks the ALUs, pipeline stages, all the other familiar components.)
asciilifeform: there'll be a new! improved! honeypot (almost certainly consisting of a tor 'altcoin' - original with a few knobs turned)
asciilifeform: decimation: there's a saying, 'свято место пусто не бывает' - 'the holy place is never long empty'
asciilifeform: now if there were a computer answering these - then i would buy.
asciilifeform: its very existence presumes that people program on paper, far from a computer
asciilifeform: i actually like the simplicity of it
asciilifeform misplaced both of his, is contemplating getting another
asciilifeform: 'His team aims to complete an operating system designed for The Machine, called Linux++...'
asciilifeform: decimation: i can't picture forgoing a cockroach repellent simply because it may move the roaches to your neighbour
asciilifeform: nanotube: we were contemplating ways to expel the ddos idler from the channel in a permanent and generic way.
asciilifeform: there was also a mass compromise of freenode boxes in sept. and who knows when else, and on what scale.
asciilifeform: nanotube: it points a ddosnet consisting of ntp and ssdp 'amplification' bots (misconfigured routers, typically) at the victim.
asciilifeform: with the signature encompassing the full text of said command
asciilifeform: PeterL: simply define a canonical wot as consisting of gpg-signed 'rate' commands
asciilifeform: and likewise timestamps
asciilifeform: 'However, the door doesn’t automatically unlock when the interior handle is pulled—and therein lay the problem for the Smiths. According to the Times, the couple had been led to believe by their Mazda dealership that the key fob was the only way to unlock the doors; this mistaken impression, coupled with the fact that the vehicle was parked in their garage and that it was apparently too dark to clearly see the interior swi
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if mp likes n00bs, then let's see if he agrees that this should make their ordeal more rational (if not lighter) than it is currently.
asciilifeform: n00b should be expected to say at least a complete sentence re: why he should be let in to talk
asciilifeform: wants less contempt? must become less contemptible.
asciilifeform: the idlers who 'i'll join a hundred bitcoin-related channels, they're all the same to me!' are contemptible.
asciilifeform: 'amplification' idiocy is trivially tested for, and any isp which doesn't yank the offending lusers ought by all rights to be killed upstream
asciilifeform: of course, this is largely a waste of time when one can simply walk away with the chumpnet (entirely unsecured, as discussed in past thread on subject)
asciilifeform: i don't own any serious quantity of any kind of thing one might wake up in the morning and compulsively check the 'worth' of.
asciilifeform: remaining empires ?
asciilifeform: for instance, the unemployment rate for what i do, everywhere other than where i live, is 100%.
asciilifeform: and why on earth would you care about 'unemployment rate' ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: you left out an important bit - how much you (for particular value of 'you') even make sense there as a foreign devil
asciilifeform: thing is, reprieves are temporary
asciilifeform: 'Some immediately apparent disadvantages are: ... ... I cannot read in bed. The book-size portable terminal will come later. A household may require several terminals or perhaps we may have to compromise with sin and provide a hard copy terminal after all.'
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: will, for example, traverse most known (and, with minor fiddling, unknown) types of archive as if they were dirs
asciilifeform: i own computers that do not run emacs,slime,cl.
asciilifeform: Luke-Jr: i dare guess that much of the hostility to your 'spam filter' mod comes from the expectation that it is a 'camel's nose in the tent' for a dynamic, centrally-controlled censor mechanism. because anything short of that would simply dissipate like a fart in the wind in the face of any kind of organized resistence whatsoever.
asciilifeform: we've neither on this campus
asciilifeform: it is why single-vendor (how else) 'implementation as standard' is fundamentally retarded.
asciilifeform: if budget allows, use 'smart' mines that can be temporarily switched off by those having private key
asciilifeform: employed by the university << where i live, it gets you (above a certain rank) free tuition. so plenty of takers. but this is a different animal from earlier picture.
asciilifeform: the important takeaway from the earlier thread is that 'democracy is mistake, hierarchy is useful concept' is a testable hypothesis with immediate engineering applications.
asciilifeform: who was it who compared wot to semiconductor? mircea_popescu ?
asciilifeform: decimation: i deliberately oversimplified things here.
asciilifeform: to finish the earlier thread: machine on the other end of the link (destination) decides whether to keep packet and attempt payload reassembly based on simple criteria: 1) is it a hello from a wot-blessed (from his pov) key 2) is it signed by an ephemeral key from one such 'hello' received recently.
asciilifeform: perfectly feasible simply using bots
asciilifeform: remember that ddos does not necessarily require 'amplification'
asciilifeform: the problem with 'amplification attack' isn't that i can send b bytes and get K*b back. failing this - tremendous waste! problem in actuality is spoofed packets getting routed, which at this point is always and without exception the result of idiot network designers and admins
asciilifeform: spoofing allows y to impersonate x.
asciilifeform: all of the 'amplification' tricks rely on the ability to send (and see them routed) packets with spoofed origin ip.
asciilifeform: from the department of nyooz yoo can yooze - kakobrekla provided data from which we learn that ddos man has switched from ssdp to ntp 'amplification' attack (see literature.)
asciilifeform: once posted in the open, the chumps begin to get 'overgrazed'
asciilifeform: ddos aficionados scan the net for these boxes, and then sell (or sometimes simply post) the resulting chump list
asciilifeform: for the impatient: the way this particular type of ddos works is called 'amplification.' certain kinds of misconfigured consumer routers will send several packets to victim ip for every packet received from the diddler's. hence amp.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if you can be bothered, try the experiment again, with tcpdump log. and post or send privately (i only need packet payloads and originator ip)
asciilifeform: the basic idea being that a computer's owner should be able -and expected- to understand every aspect of every part in the machine (whether physical or logical) - and that everything about the design should be thought of with the purpose, above all others, of making this possible.
asciilifeform: actually, my most complete attempt at explanation was here: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284
asciilifeform: it is not anything like a complete identification of the retardation of the past 25 years of computer.
asciilifeform: and many (most?) journals no longer demand simply an ip within 'blessed' ranges, but actual login
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and if you're going to, wait for the fuhrer to rubber-stamp it. as i understand, they can still screw with the contents until this is done.
asciilifeform: chemically-powered emp bomb is one of those weapons that really fails basic physics, for almost any scenario, but the brass can't ever fall out of love with it
asciilifeform: one wag asked why they did not drop an ordinary bomb, with same amount of trotyl as the emp vircator bomb, on the station
asciilifeform: emp arms powered by chemical explosives are 'sexy', suck in grant money like nothing else, even deployed (!) by usa in gulf war 1 - taking a tv broadcast antenna out of action for a few hours (they had to change an amp)
asciilifeform: ^ text descibes not only what is physically-possible on the subject, but the author's struggles to convince management that it is entirely infeasible to set up a nuke-style 'emp' using anything other than a nuke
asciilifeform: 'describe the actions the United States is taking to support implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, including the eventual establishment of a tribunal to hold individuals accountable for abuses' << sovereignty, what's that
asciilifeform: implicit message: 'there were only a few torturers! and they've retired! go back to sleep'
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, attempt above proof
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but anything which merely appears impossibly difficult, rather than provable waste of time, is a matter for folks who think it worth trying
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: understand correctly. actual 'impossibility proofs' - are valuable. (consider laws of thermodynamics; or, more fundamentally, mathematical concepts - e.g., irrationality of sqrt(2))
asciilifeform: soviet prison camp where uranium was mined.
asciilifeform: (see also orwell's essay re: how the telegraph was the ultimate doom of british empire)
asciilifeform: other thing is, these people only exist as merely one symptom of a long series of catastrophes
asciilifeform: but today he would probably be inextricably imprisoned in reddit or, worse, anglo academe.
asciilifeform: should not have had access to any technology more complex than pitchfork.
asciilifeform: it is a profound tragedy that these 'people' ever saw a computer.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: idle rich << point was, there are still plenty of arbitrarily rich and arbitrarily idle folks. they simply happen to be retarded. afaik - 100% of them, rather than 99 or whatever the historic norm was.
asciilifeform: 'It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited
asciilifeform: undata, ben_vulpes: aside from the titanic effort involved in using mac for serious work, that machine is far too large and heavy for the kind of bed computing contemplated earlier.
asciilifeform: pen + paper << i end up doing a great bit of work with pen and paper, even though ink is not executable and my hands are in agony after ten minutes - simply because it works in places and positions where no computer
asciilifeform: usg has more-or-less 'sat' upon the idle rich << the 'idle' (what does this mean? presumably, not occupied with directing a megacorp?) rich still exist. they spend on coke and orbital flights with hookers, not rebuilding of computing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think nearly as well when walking, and spent many years trying to construct something like a 'walking computer.'
asciilifeform finds that he thinks better horizontally (in all possible orientations) but has never come across a computer that he could actually put to use in that position.
asciilifeform: ideally, i would teach it only to those who had never programmed a computer previously.
asciilifeform: the way i understand it, a 100% open fpga, produced in a thousand factories of mutually-antagonistic owners, is the one and only way to 'open computer.'
asciilifeform: ideally, a from-scratch rational reimplementation (that ignores patents on best-known algos, yes)
asciilifeform: *reimplement
asciilifeform: otherwise it would be a simple matter to learn how the mystery meat module works and remplement.
asciilifeform: (where!? see, e.g, the 'rio pmp' early mp3 player.)
asciilifeform: this is because it is quite impossible, as i understand, to really make serious money selling the chips
asciilifeform: it is simply wasteful for any extant mass application - does a dildo need general-purpose switching matrix logic ?
asciilifeform: incidentally, there once lived upon the good earth a group of people who carried on development of entirely open computer hardware, prying open closed turds whenever they felt necessary without even breaking a sweat
asciilifeform: would have to give enough of a shit to fund, but not enough to attempt to direct. this will happen shortly after pigs fly.
asciilifeform: pci is a paragon of transparency compared with any extant fpga
asciilifeform: but this tale was not about a 'proper' laptop, but attempt to glue together a portable-with-keyboard that isn't x86 and therefore can actually achieve some serious runtime on battery
asciilifeform: bought that thing >1 yr ago, because could not resist an attempt at a laptop that is entirely solid state, can be carried in one hand, and runs 12+hrs on a charge
asciilifeform: 'one cannot safely just ignore the advice of the cryptographic community about the elliptic curves. Not taking these questions seriously is bad, potentially a gross professional misconduct, and one could in theory even go to prison for that on the basis of some existing laws, for example safeguards rule in the US Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...' << obey or gasenwagen!
asciilifeform: ecdsa curves, 'nothing up my sleeve' constants << think back to the legend with the 'randomly wired' neural net. if secp256k1 (or, another example, aes s-boxes) have sufficiently broad classes of 'weak key' - then all you need to do is find a simple, e.g., sqrt(2), whatever, 'sleeve constant' that impresses the fools.
asciilifeform: on one hand, old man feels old, envies young impotently, etc. on the other - has impulse for 'last hurrah.' word is that e. teller dreamed of presiding over a nukefest until the day he died.
asciilifeform: and 'computers'
asciilifeform: also some external work. ussr had two competing intelligence agencies
asciilifeform: (re: germans: there is ample evidence that fleeing nazis wanted for nothing, and were kept in plentiful supply of every conceivable necessity and luxury by u.s. cia. but 'traditional' narrative still has them living in what were essentially reservations in ar.)
asciilifeform: the pub is really the property of the freeloaders, or local chieftain, whoever; the 'owner' is simply a clown kept around for entertainment value and while he brings over friends to spend usd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite a few folks say 'well yes, criminal' but for some reason refuse to walk the logical implication, a -> b..
asciilifeform: 'Two important cipher suites, GOST and Camellia, have been reworked or reenabled, providing better interoperability with systems around the world.' << LOL!!
asciilifeform: - or rather, a minimum of what to expect. the main purpose of the report appears to be usg bashing itself for hiring incompetent torturers on 'favourite son' contracts. implication is, 'we need to recruit real pros' - and every reason to expect that it will be tried, at the very least. out with the amateur finger-choppers, in with the transcranial pain centre stimulators and 'fMRI' gizmos, etc.
asciilifeform: but what kind of 'ui components'
asciilifeform: the others - simply read nth-generation spew from him
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is interesting to see how apple corp. (the renamed 'next', not the original) put to use its total monopoly in portable computerized gadgets not immediately discardable as junk to push perverse anachronisms that would have been laughed off if from another (weird proprietary cabling, required closed-source 'sync' apps, etc.)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the company 'apple' died, in '99, replaced silently with 'next'. but you knew this.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as a boy, i often thought that i would grow up, 'have money', and buy an apple computer - at least to try it (the crippled machines at schools, etc. were an interesting diversion, and i imagined that mac is 'rich man's computer' somehow)
asciilifeform: perfectly-functioning household objects, not deserving of insult of comparison with bitcoind
asciilifeform: five minute research suggests that folks began to use 'teamviewer' and similar orifices for remote control of winblows/mac machines from toy computer
asciilifeform: (i've quite forgotten, mercifully, what precisely the thing was. large rack-mount apparatus, that drew ~20 amperes at 120 v.ac. mains.)
asciilifeform: incidentally, the one time i saw an asic miner of any sort alive, personally (it belonged to a colleague) its actual 'hash/watt' was quite impossible to ascertain - worked, let's put it charitably, rather inconsistently
asciilifeform: 'companies that go bankrupt are a danger to healthy competition. They are able to make their creditors and shareholders pay for their losses and bad management and then to start anew with assets that they essentially got for free, quite unlike the competition that has not gone bankrupt, who have to pay full price for their assets, but quite similar to how their customers have wanted their products, for too little money.'
asciilifeform: these have approximately the same relationship with 'proper' asic as 'visual basic' turdware has with traditional computer program by reasonably-competent student of 'c'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what is the skepter of lizard hitler worth? the 300mn is simply the figure usg saw fit to write into the work of fiction
asciilifeform: if fabless, they owned what? a set of masks, that an undergrad could easily cough up at this point? a list of peculiarly gullible chumps? - anyone with a net connection can regenerate that oen
asciilifeform: 'You can buy the assets of an ASIC miner company for the eminently NOT lowball offer of 20k' (from mircea_popescu's article) << let's guess. fabless asic co. ?
asciilifeform: 'reddit' used as example
asciilifeform always thought even a chimp could follow his recipes. what does he need to add, pictures? voices? music?
asciilifeform: nothing stops anyone reading this from firing up 'tcpdump', logging uncloaked into #b-a a few hundred times, grabbing a dump similar to my own but more complete, and pointing the idiot boxes at, e.g., 'reddit' 24/7/365.
asciilifeform: incidentally, if anyone bothered to read the packet dump i posted a while ago, they should know that the ddos bot uses misconfigured consumer routers (upnp reflection)
asciilifeform: 'land shrimp'
asciilifeform: ulterior << not even buying the 'they work precisely alike if you don't attempt to fuck'em' hypothesis
asciilifeform: i'll spill the beans, if somebody wants to reimplement. basic unit of transmission is 'raptor code' over udp. hence - connectionless.
asciilifeform: jurov: a 'wot-enabled' router will simply prioritize, say, udp packets signed with particular keys
ascii_in_bed: rather - switched off, toy computer
asciilifeform: (not because there had to be a mechanical defense against it. no mechanical pill against 'buy all the coins and throw into the sea.' but attempting this gambit, given a properly-designed coin, should cost above $maxint.)
asciilifeform: or one minute to think whether what they say makes any sense, that Henry Ford, the American entrepreneur whose worldview wouldn't probably stand much scrutiny from the modern perspective, gained his place in the canon of progressive feelgood policies for paying his workers the back then unheard-of high daily salary of $5, which made them wealthy enough to buy Ford automobiles, which in turn made the Ford company profitable.' (
asciilifeform: 'We laugh at that fable about the village of simpletons who, when their bed blankets became too short for their growing kids, extended these blankets by cutting off a piece from one end and sewing it to the other. Or the more modern tale of a drunkard who could afford to drink every day because he always took his empty bottles back for a deposit. And yet many otherwise intelligent people believe, apparently not stopping even f
asciilifeform: thing is, the degradation of computer industry was inevitable.
asciilifeform: honouring the 'lifetime warranty' for all the chumps put together - would this even add up to the cost of one lawyer-week ?
asciilifeform: '...empathy is a core engineering value—and that an engineer that has so little empathy as to not understand why the use of gendered pronouns is a concern almost certainly makes poor technical decisions as well.' << aryan physics is best physics!
asciilifeform: 'When victims attempt to connect to the WiFi network, they get a pop-up alert telling them their Adobe Flash player needs an update and offering them a file, digitally signed to make it look authentic, to download. If the victims accept they download, they get a Trojan delivered instead.' << run more winblows, 'high-profile executives,..., government agencies and NGOs and U.S. executives.'
asciilifeform: http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000500644.pdf << usg gloats (internally) at great length and detail re: soviet computer industry. circa 1989.
asciilifeform: decimation: will reflow in the equipment i have with very rough time curves and minimal damage to components.
asciilifeform also had springed clamps
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://www.ebay.com/itm/K1602RC2-Vintage-Quite-Rare-USSR-Soviet-Russian-Magnetic-Bubble-Domain-Memory-/151342346010 << to complete your project. yes, bubble memory. go find usa bubble memory.
asciilifeform: ^ example of another
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: indignant (spontaneously or compensated, either) foreigners asked, 'why didn't you tase them, use tear gas'
asciilifeform: i doubt that the openbsd devs were so direly impoverished that they agreed to serve enemy, knowing what he was
asciilifeform: his maniacal insistence on 'confidentiality' with every new would-be chump.
asciilifeform: emphasis on 'modernity', etc.
asciilifeform: cisions, they are now gone from OpenBSD. And now they miss it. So now, all these guys who work for the same company have started a fork. And it is directed by the guy who hired them in the first place. From where I stand, that is the truth. Yet none of that is in that article, because the truth hurts, doesn't it guys?"
asciilifeform: There was a discussion about this on the OpenBSD misc mailing archives back in 2012: http://marc.info/?t=133961305400003&r=1&w=2 Theo's initial response to the thread, which may help illuminate the situation, was: "Except for the fact that it is bullshit. They started the fork because they got kicked out because one developer (Marco) hired 5 other developers for his startup company, and attempted to hire around 10 other deve
asciilifeform: what other kind of communication is possible between chumpatron operator and the feedstock ?
asciilifeform: aha now we're not simply paying a psychotic terrorist not to kill us, but 'renting' something. legitimate commerce, aha.
asciilifeform: undata: but let's say you have a martian contraption that craps out complete horses on demand, at no cost, at the push of a button
asciilifeform: i don't even grasp why a wireless to ethernet bridge needs to be a computer, with stateful memory and an os
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was cancerous/amputated colon, if i recall, and this novel rerouting was tried.
asciilifeform: such quality! amazing company!
asciilifeform: decimation: 'ebay' bursting with chinese amps
asciilifeform: and, importantly, out of these how many are not actually in special-school-for-it << ding ding ding - winner
asciilifeform: well yes. you may have to devise a similarly peculiar example, if your friends read #b-a.
asciilifeform: if this is a 'muscle' that can be 'well trained' - this is not a 'margarine', but a 'real butter'. idempotent.
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