asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are still 'few old guys.' they see the remaining many as impostors, but are not particularly afraid of them. they have pills for this ('obamacare' etc.)
asciilifeform: and at the same time, the digits can be spat out by a very simple mechanism.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: none of the claims, for whatever measure of 'complexity', amount to anything more than farts in the wind.
asciilifeform: undata: in fact, i recall that he had a character who is being marched to a mafia execution, and offered a magic pill before being shot. the pill wakes him up to the idea that his mind is already being simulated on a 'computer' made of space dust, somewhere, if only 'interpreted correctly'
asciilifeform: this is an ancient argument - 'the sea is very intelligent but we just aren't protocol compatible and can't see that it's even alive'
asciilifeform: or with an entirely non-interactive and ultimately easily described physical system that you simply don't grasp yet.
asciilifeform: this goes back to my complaint about the ai wishers. they aren't asking for 'intelligence', just a mechanical but recognizable version of themselves
asciilifeform: but experimentally no one has (yet) found counter-example.
asciilifeform: very simple rules (described on linked article)
asciilifeform: typically implemented using a counter
asciilifeform: what 'ai and stupidity' was about, was an actual pestilence of pseudoscience, where folks convinced themselves and others that they were accomplishing 'great things' while really pulling each other's dicks in a most stultifying way
asciilifeform: well, if i had to give an example of 'understanding', involving 'transformation', i'd offer the transformation of pebbles on a beach (original 'calculation') into well, calculation, and mathematics, and, ..., nukes.
asciilifeform: (not related to above, but a contemporary)
asciilifeform: 'programs to a great degree are problems rather than solutions. If a researcher tries to write an "understanding" program, it isn't because he has thought of a better way of implementing this well-understood task, but because he thinks he can come closer to writing the implementation. If he calls the main loop of his program "UNDERSTAND ', he is (until proven innocent) merely begging the question. He may mislea
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is why i mentioned schwartz example.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try to picture how bitcoin would have been treated, even in the embryonic stage, if the implications for the next xxx years from it, were entirely obvious to all.
asciilifeform: (just one example)
asciilifeform: re more important than experimental results. Lightoller, in effect, put traditions and customs ahead of the lives of passengers. To him, the experience of years and what we have always done outweighed all practical suggestions as to what we might do instead, to avoid killing thousands of people.'
asciilifeform: ^ very interestingly perverse comparison of the 'titanic' aftermath and that of 'cold fusion'
asciilifeform: 'This sort of illogic is rampant in debates about cold fusion, particularly when experts respond to irritating, unwelcome suggestions made by amateurs. They start out cautioning the amateur that instruments such as calorimeters have a margin of error, and calorimeters frequently malfunction with leaking cooling fluid and other problems. When the expert senses the message is not getting through, and the amateur
asciilifeform: incidentally, this document is a fine example of the kind of stereotypically-bureaucratic style of writing usg runs on.
asciilifeform: obligatory naggum: 'suppose you thought of the new millennium when you wrote your application back in 1972 -- not only wouldn't you be invited to the party, those who knew you had done it right from the start and who probably laughed at you at the time would positively hate you now, and they sure as hell wouldn't tell people about you. and the more stupid they are, the more important it would be to pretend tha
asciilifeform: i.e., borrowing $20m while broke and on food stamps? or fraudulently collecting food stamps while bathing in $20m bezzlars.
asciilifeform: i don't own a computer 'fast' enough to 'flip' a pdf the way a dead tree heap can be flipped, and not sure if such a machine even exists.
asciilifeform: (or more fantastic example - ice cream. i have it on good authority that many american units in iraq were supplied even with it.)
asciilifeform: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2826980/Winston-Churchill-s-bid-nuke-Russia-win-Cold-War-uncovered-secret-FBI-files.html << ideal example of 'crank bait' method. perfectly factual allegation, regarded as nearly hundred percent proven by ru historians for decades. 'smoking gun' finally out. what does lizard hitler do? orders it printed in 'daily mail.'
asciilifeform: jurov: this is not a working example
asciilifeform: in that, for example, all of the patches submitted so far will break if one is removed from the chain.
asciilifeform: in usa, they not only had better steel and semiconductors, back in the day, they also had better chumpatronics.
asciilifeform: very important and relevant - to the zookeper - he is quite interested in making sure that it stays as it traditionally tends to be, useless and irrelevant.
asciilifeform: inevitably modern discussions of 'freedom' reveal themselves as having the purpose of convincing a chump that the entire concept, but specifically his wishes to not be a zoo animal, is delusional and he 'is bad and should feel bad'
asciilifeform picked a uniquely bad example, and realized
asciilifeform: (which the turd in question was. in fact, quite likely it is even mostly posix-compliant.)
asciilifeform: jurov: in my very informal experiments, all extant browsers - without exception - mutilate line endings. so no point in 'paste box' apparatus, unless operated via something like mpex script.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: picture a zoologist encountering an alien equivalent of the scorpion for the first time. what will his most important, though scientifically 'fuzziest' observations be? that the animal is - venomous.
asciilifeform: crapware artists, generally, aren't focused on 'maximally pwning' a chump in the abstract sense, but in extracting whatever it is that he is worth - e.g., cc #s
asciilifeform: crapware written for intelligence-gathering purposes ( BingoBoingo's picture above ) rarely takes the shape of a 'botnet', usually there is some effort to target a narrow set of chumpers.
asciilifeform: virtually nobody dredges through a chumpnet's entire accessible data set, on account of this being very much like actual work.
asciilifeform: gotta love these idiots. when'll somebody edit, rather than simply wiping, the case files ?
asciilifeform: bip64, aside from complicating the protocol and giving relevance to the gavin shitgang, is also a jam-tomorrow chumpatronic engineering structural element
asciilifeform: let's work example
asciilifeform: at this point, the enemy is enemy not simply because of what he does or may do, but because of what he has done and what he is.
asciilifeform: but more generally, any and all 'improvements' from the enemy ought to be thought of as 'fruits of poison tree'
asciilifeform: in order to be studied in such a way as to be signable with good conscience, a given delta must exist as a purely human-readable document, of minimal length and formatting complexity.
asciilifeform: Adlai: let's backtrack. the purpose of the effort spoken of earlier is to go from a 'bitcoind' of known pedigree to something worth using as a reference for, possibly in the future, reimplementation (how and by whom, deliberately not said)
asciilifeform: way to lump the bulldog and the rhinoceros into one animal.
asciilifeform: king, as it was, sorta got off lightly - settled for mere beheading, no impalement, no boiling oil
asciilifeform: the lie is implicit in the 'progress' idea
asciilifeform: the real psychiatric root here is that the idiots actually buy into the notion of the past being a 'kingdom of simpletons'
asciilifeform: 'It shall be unlawful, except as provided in section 2121 of this title, for any person, inside or outside of the United States, to knowingly participate in the development of, manufacture, produce, transfer, acquire, receive, possess, import, export, or use, or possess and threaten to use, any atomic weapon.'
asciilifeform: they are paying in btc without computer ?
asciilifeform: at any rate, 'jeff of 1950' was not entirely wrong; computers have yet to really catch on...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that is still not how i read that one. it was more of a 'what is this martian trinary computer, where can i plug it in? with what sauce can i eat it'. and iirc that was your own initial reaction in '11.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: care to draw a simple picture of what you'd do in their place ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no one was asked to care, but trying to explain here that folks are sizzling in an electric chair not necessarily of their own making, rather than simple death through individual folly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been using that hoster since starting my site, >7yrs. ago. they're absolutely super. the cost is virtually unbeatable for low-traffic, simple sites. and, on top of this, almost wholly ddos-proof.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also must understand the 'good cop / bad cop' dynamic here. the buggers lure folks to their sugary 'imponade' (see naggum) by, among other things, sabotaging the rest of the universe
asciilifeform: my favourite 'sheep experiment' is at a place not far from where i live, where one can rent 'sea bicycles' - little boats that one can pedal around. usually folks cluster together, for no good reason. pedal to an empty part of the water, and dozens follow...
asciilifeform: (re: 'compile with posted patches individually' idea)
asciilifeform: simply abstain from something for a spell
asciilifeform: no civilian computer at all?
asciilifeform: 'Minutes later, Trooper Vanderwiel arrived with the dog, which alerted on the back area of the car. That gave Simmons and Vanderwiel probable cause to search the vehicle without a warrant or the drivers consent.' << lol re: the obvious implication, the beasts are trained to 'signal' on command rather than search
asciilifeform: simple, 'cheap and angry'
asciilifeform: the ru version was a very simple stapler-shaped gizmo that punched holes in old 35mm film
asciilifeform: namely - if you're operating using some other, incompatible abstraction - the result will be demonstrable nonsense.
asciilifeform: decided that it would be a particularly apt name for the ideal 'crucifix' against the vampires in question.
asciilifeform: ^ my ancient failed attempt at 'wot.' was to be used with another (never happened) apparatus, 'sollipse,' for running a 'multiverse' of wots.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: another example. want w4r3z copy of 'winblows' ? easy as fart. want the leaked microshit source? (why!?!? but that's another question) - harder.
asciilifeform: in fact, many folks arrived at 'proof of work' and something akin to our current concept of 'blockchain' by attempting to answer the 'who gets to add bits' question.
asciilifeform: not saying that this is an impossible picture.
asciilifeform: moscow: 'we need to park a http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2014#917246 within 10km of 'camp david.''
asciilifeform: stuxnet << as i described in my article 'don't blame the mice' - imho, iran doesn't really want to live. how we know this? if they wanted to live, there would have been a public impalement of whoever said 'everyone runs winblows, it's ok for us to'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in his words, approx., 'violent entrepreneurs are special and distinct in that they will work whether or not you pay them, whether they're paid simply determines whether they work with you or on you'
asciilifeform: with thermite limpets.
asciilifeform: who remembers the zoologist who tried, for years, to live on the chimps' fruits, and ended with nothing but very ill digestion?
asciilifeform: (can you see why important?)
asciilifeform not impressed
asciilifeform: pizza hut << this distinguishes it from every other cattle farm where the cattle get to use computers, precisely how?
asciilifeform: tor compromise through filled circuit ddos << this is a 'classic', described in academic papers. and i can say for a fact that the 'machine' is still turned on. just last night had a tor client fail to form a circuit, for the first time in many years of semi-regular use.
asciilifeform: and the basic premise was also a crock of shit (if no naked eyes nor naked hands, why not a compact binary format?)
asciilifeform: one possible argument here is that the complete system is not in the code.
asciilifeform: a greybeard once described the modern computer as 'apartment with plumbing but no sewer connection'
asciilifeform: (or simply inept players of 'underhanded c contest')
asciilifeform: and the ultimate champ in cementing ancient keys in place, or so i'm told, mircea_popescu's mpex
asciilifeform: actually it's much simpler
asciilifeform: i also wrote a few of the simple patches found on jurov's site right now
asciilifeform: (other than being the devil who led these folks into the temptation of trying to craft a 'reference implementation.')
asciilifeform: but unless i am mistaken, mircea_popescu is proceeding from an understanding that a quality reference implementation will require paid experts.
asciilifeform: the fact that no one here is willing to answer this question by attempting to read the source, says something about the latter.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from my first impression, it looked like some savage found a piece of our microscope left in the jungle
asciilifeform: no wot presence, no symptoms of actually working tech. what's the appeal then ?
asciilifeform: 1) book 2) comprehend 3) re-create sanely 4) nice things
asciilifeform: 'I am 95 percent certain that they performed a massive de-anonymization attack on Tor hidden servers and were able to shut down all their targeted servers in the U.S., Europe or anywhere else where U.S. law has meaning, said Nicholas Weaver, a computer science researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.'
asciilifeform: 2,987.8 BTC << that might buy a non-retarded implementation of 'onion routing' even.
asciilifeform: that photoshit was my attempt at 'explain like 5'
asciilifeform: at any rate, i doubt mr o entertains delusions of his gizmo being imposed from above
asciilifeform: 'One metaphor for monetization is that of a storage vessel, like a battery for electricity or a tank for compressed gas. When people buy into the currency, they are charging the battery and compressing the tank. When they sell out, they are discharging the battery. When new currency is created (perhaps by alchemists) without a buy-in, the tank has sprung a leak. Etc. The charge, or the pressure, is simply the m
asciilifeform: (a la the chinese imperial exams)
asciilifeform: something i can certainly sympathize with.
asciilifeform: aha, i for one reread when 'brain compiler' spews 'syntax error'
asciilifeform: ^ his attempt to address the question of gravitational collapse of maxint gold
asciilifeform: tether should clamp inductively on outside of bulb, rather than penetrating.
asciilifeform: also a bludgeon for those who fall out of favour (employers, that is)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: employers don't want to feed the mortgage, etc. bezzlatron. and this is perfectly logical.
asciilifeform: decimation: the original point was 'human compilers.'
asciilifeform: likewise, 'at the bottom' - on SR, SR2, idiot chumps' machines, etc
asciilifeform: those were dropped in simply as examples
asciilifeform: 'USG. (Bitstamp and Coinbase)' << might wanna fix
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: wanna chip in, chip in for my coffin, should i ever end up in a position where forced to attempt the above.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i 'could' under same logic become an internationally-renowned violinist. or olympic athlete. or wtf else.
asciilifeform: elgamal signature was removed on account of very simple fact of having been successfully broken.
asciilifeform: the attempted point is that the h1b folks are quite analogous to 'zamac'
asciilifeform: voluntary-compulsory.
asciilifeform: proverbial example of 'big hand, small bounty' - don knuth and his typo cheques.
asciilifeform: on-demand flooding is also a varied beast. canonical example: 'hermitage' art museaum in leningrad. fitted with co2 tanks in the '50s. bell rings, you have two minutes to get out. after that, doors seal and 100% co2 atmosphere.
asciilifeform: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2lexl2/here_is_why_the_hash_rate_jumped_and_took_a_dive << 'miners can also have problems' !
asciilifeform: in mr o's docs, he specifically highlights 'unspell' being designed for folks who aren't u.s. subjects, but rather random people from the outer landscapes of the empire who 'know english' as written hieroglyph, but can't actually speak to one another except in a highly-castrated pidgin when they chance to meet
asciilifeform peeked, not impressed. must not understand how the world works (tm).
asciilifeform: the key to a functioning computer isn't that "everything is on your screen at the same time" << this is how i ended up with 4 screens (and counting...)
asciilifeform: not like this isn't a fool's errand anyway, if it's gonna clam up at block 250k << i actually have most of a patch for purely configurable block pumping. but shelved it and everything else for this reason.
asciilifeform: ^ possibly shortest interesting academpaper ever.
asciilifeform: http://francis.naukas.com/files/2013/05/dibujo20130521-counterexample-to-euler-s-conjecture-on-sums-of-like-powers1.png?w=584 << good mathlol
asciilifeform: and an advance fuckyou to anyone who might bitch, 'you whine about modeline vs. mode-line but you even want to switch to trinary computer and no existing soft.'
asciilifeform: note that classical 'k&r' variant of the language used a now-archaic function declaration style. that extant compilers have less than perfect support for.
asciilifeform: (had to be treated with care, crushed in specially designed compactor)
asciilifeform: both of the above historic examples also featured gas seal (piston pushed out bullet) and therefore silent.
asciilifeform: but - not compatible.
asciilifeform: a few years later, the company tried selling what was, at the time, an 'actually nice' computer - 'amiga.'
asciilifeform: last i knew, commodore-64 still held the record for the greatest number of a particular design of computer ever built.
asciilifeform: chicoms could be stamping'em out by the megatonne this friday if they wished it.
asciilifeform: ^ not turd. why? didn't have to run on toy computer in paupers' bedrooms.
asciilifeform: 'Bitcoin interests me as an obvious example of a technological jewel tossed around aimlessly by the brutal hands of cave men. I cant help but picture a flashlight or a radio set, left behind in the wilderness by geologists, to be picked up later by some Stone Age aboriginals; to be fought over and worshiped. Until the batteries run out.' -- your truly
asciilifeform: to bother with own computers.
asciilifeform: there were computers once, among the people of the east.
asciilifeform: people age, and empires - and the 'computer we know' isn't really a separate animal from the u.s. empire.
asciilifeform: and increasingly, 'hysterical raisins' became primary justification for all engineering decisions re: computer.
asciilifeform: for instance, in the '70s, when there was an understanding that a computer is purchased and comes with own os, and your own men will write literally everything else (often including os) that will ever run on it, until it goes to the scrapyard -
asciilifeform: and it takes a supercomputer, of a kind not even yet built, to write a word processor where there are no palpable delays when entering a character. if you believe microshit.
asciilifeform: cargo-cult imitation of real computer.
asciilifeform: decimation: this sounds like top-grade batshit to 'civilians', who don't normally understand how simple (from algorithmic standpoint) everything they usually want out of the machine, really is
asciilifeform: it means that even 'competent' c programmers are playing.
asciilifeform: don't look for the 'incompetent c contest.' it's right there on your desk.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actual shovel, like actual computer, is not field-portable.
asciilifeform: re: maths wot << it is important to understand why this happens.
asciilifeform: (just one example)
asciilifeform: although, on second thought, not sure if it was pumping the full 14.4. there's auto-rate in there.
asciilifeform: why would someone with a computer use a phone << dial-up from phonebooth in $turdworldshithole ?
asciilifeform: he can also 'be you' to any moron who isn't asking for pgp sig, and impersonate, and summon gasenwagen, etc.
asciilifeform: chetty: the only exception, really, is the 'pwned phone listens at all times' and 'pwned phone dumps www/mail logins to pwner'
asciilifeform: johntraveller: afaik his stepfather, usg diplomat, dragged him to several places around the empire
asciilifeform: 'shuddup and oil the compressor'
asciilifeform: in that sense, perhaps. but know that i left with the distinct impression that most of the folks standing for the final exam were masters of cribbing.
asciilifeform: 'mortification of the flesh' via 'compilers 4xx' and 'operating systems 4xx'
asciilifeform: (it blew my mind the other week when i noticed that these were being paid, by many folks in the crowd, with... something quite like actual monopoly money. issued by the state, it turned out, 'vegetable food stamps.' presumably these are redeemable for usd in some dark cellar at city hall.)
asciilifeform: the 2k does not include other bezzles. e.g., auto, without which it is flatly impossible to buy edibles much less earn anything
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has it right re: the massive bezzle gifts, but notice that these aren't really handouts to the plebes - they only get to touch the money and feel warm inside for a few seconds, then they have to give it directly to real estate chumpmeisters or college racket
asciilifeform: the tax breaks mostly subsidize playing in chumpatrons like real estate
asciilifeform: mike_c: the current pNohe is entirely usable without a computer.
asciilifeform: what would, e.g., herr landau, have accomplished, if he had to occupy himself with teaching arithmetic.
asciilifeform: there is another 'secret' - and that is, that most folks who actually need 40+MP photographs in real life - astronomers, spies, biologists, weirdos like yours truly, etc. - own and operate own hardware. and don't actually need photographers.
asciilifeform: 'responsibility sink' is simply my shorthand for any apparatus which lets you 'make a decision' without putting your arse on the line as decision-maker.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: heroku << paulgrahamian vc chumpatron, iirc
asciilifeform: and not simply bureaucracy in the usual sense of the word.
asciilifeform: there is a reason why i say 'usaschwitz.' what's the actual problem, in most people's mind, with living in a concentration camp?
asciilifeform: 'inventor must be wealthy' works about as well as 'computer ought to be a cow.' wouldntitbenice.
asciilifeform: incidentally, this doesn't always work. witness the mindless regurgitators who shine in every academic chumpatron.
asciilifeform: undata: there, the implicit part is 'go reverse engineer'
asciilifeform: undata: glorious leader given the power... tends to turn it into a masturbation implement << straight to aristotle's 'politics' on what the pill here is.
asciilifeform: asking inventors to always 'independently wealthy' is like asking your computer to harvest all of its energy (and material to create additional parts) from the environment on its own accord. a 'would be nice' scenario, but there are good reasons why it is not practical. machines that can do this exist, they are called animals, and generally have their own problems that prompt people to invent less-general machin
asciilifeform: undata: just one specific example where devil is in the details.
asciilifeform: (in fact, specifically implied that it took place on a planet with slightly less retarded inhabitants than this one)
asciilifeform: i've spent most of a decade trying to extract some nugget of living matter from 'computer science'
asciilifeform: 'In most (though not all) cases, all a designer must do in order to implement an unfeature is to refrain from tying the users hands in a particular way.' - yours truly
asciilifeform: (linked earlier) feynman did some entertaining gedankenexperimentation re: how much energy must one actually piss away in order to compute something
asciilifeform: room for improvement.
asciilifeform: because mathematically impossible.
asciilifeform: you could use, for example, chinese ones
asciilifeform: one of the things pretty much no one (save possibly mircea_popescu) seems to comprehend is that bitcoin is, what old timers call - 'safety critical code'
asciilifeform: nic - similar. see example in 'bare metal os' (bsd license, iirc)
asciilifeform: disk - see example posted earlier (< 1 kb asm)
asciilifeform: the only devices a hypothetical bitcoin x86 os needs to comprehend is disk and nic
asciilifeform: ecc with amd cpu - almost impossible to obtain now. ecc on intel - on high-end 'xeon' boards.
asciilifeform: probably began by driving ancient hdd 'voice coils' directly with his amps...
asciilifeform: ('pio' - programmed i/o, mode of using standard 'ata' without dma. used by simple schoolboy operating systems for x86)
asciilifeform: sufficiently smart fs will compact runs.
asciilifeform: again, compress.
asciilifeform: can compress below fs layer, realize
asciilifeform: http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8kIGkSd5HlY/UFdBJkTZo-I/AAAAAAAAdLQ/oGTBToZyGR8/karni-mata-temple-6%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800
asciilifeform: http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pampered-rats-at-rat-temple.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crab bus << reminds me of my consulting partner's tale of the rat temple in his home town
asciilifeform: my grandfather worked on a hydraulic computer. memory literally leaked.
asciilifeform: he has something grunted together that works almost like real computer
asciilifeform: incidentally, turd exhausts ram even if left to suffer in its attempt to fetch blocks
asciilifeform: because good native compiler.
asciilifeform: (rampant memory leakage is not 'works')
asciilifeform: the mostly-empty wiki?
asciilifeform: undata: earliest (lightest-weight, least lines of gavin) version that is known to be compatible with the extant net.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: these die during initial blockchain pumping
asciilifeform: well, only catch, have to jump out.
asciilifeform: fellas, i know, i have sympathy, when i was a boy i wanted to buy an airplane for 100 rubles too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you want polished turd, buy a girl who knows cpp, 'valgrind', gdb, understands memory discipline, can implement bdb replacement ab initio, knows ecdsa mechanics, etc, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bdb locks initialisation issue << my current study suggests malformed txes in the mempool also.
asciilifeform: to finish off my 'sword into the stone' speech - yes, i can do this. (turd lathe.) but - if i were to put in the time required, the hour would soon come that i could not pay electric bill. and then s.nsa, and turdatron, will have to summon the gnome rumplestilskin to work in my stead. while i boil in whatever pot in hell moiety and pankkake are cooking in.
asciilifeform: and provided basic impetus for anyone who wishes, to take up the work
asciilifeform: presently i'm not getting the impression that anyone actually gives a sufficient fuck about this undertaking.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: '"Indirectly lost". This covers cases 4 and 9 (for the BBB blocks) above. This means that the block is lost, not because there are no pointers to it, but rather because all the blocks that point to it are themselves lost. For example, if you have a binary tree and the root node is lost, all its children nodes will be indirectly lost. Because the problem will disappear if the definitely lost block tha
asciilifeform: 'anyone important is always in a car' (tm) - remember
asciilifeform: important detail when you're in this type of 'funeral parade' every other day.
asciilifeform will however believe the noises of 'there cannot be just one great kingdom' when mr. p starts impaling anyone caught with winblows
asciilifeform: bounce: set up a cheap shop full of "coders" in pakistan, had them churn out cookie-cutter "apps" with other people's content << lemme guess, lost out competition to the fellow with same stolen appz, but plus malware
asciilifeform: gotta love modern spamatronic engineering terms like 'efficiency', 'reach.' they take arguments! but somehow always implicit - you can say 'reach' without saying 'reach what' ??! it's as if we were writing perl.
asciilifeform: 'but greater scams have greater scams, for their chumps to go on; and greater scams - yet greater scams, and greater ones, and so on...
asciilifeform: phone demo << http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest << ancient classic, no news
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'he turned off the light, so the room will be empty'
asciilifeform: 'any periodic noise that makes it through simply reduces the bits/byte number of the entropy and gets smeared out by subsequent whitening' << is he serious? gotta be trolling
asciilifeform: ^ important
asciilifeform: rather than simply assuming that i don't smoke crack
asciilifeform: who's the 'third leaker' who leaked the impalement of the second ?
asciilifeform: that or simply store hashes of msg
asciilifeform: and folks ask me wtf i mean when i say 'we don't have computers yet'
asciilifeform: iirc, chocolate plays important role in the lives of zoophiliacs...
asciilifeform: anyone willing to review patches - read, ponder, sign. jurov can dump it all in turdatron later.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: strauss is a (now very old) man who was involved with some of the '70s derpistans (actual attempts at island 'nations' by american jokers). worth reading if only for zoological purposes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i posted enough re: rng that any kid could bloody well copy it. but no, must have 'improvements.'
asciilifeform: punkman: it'd be all-throughhole now if the components were actually available in that package.
asciilifeform: undata: in case this was not clear, complete design documents -and- rationales will be published (including in dead-tree form).
asciilifeform: undata: the only formally published aspect so far is a set of high-res photos. but it, plus everything i have said about rng, is ten times more than enough to recreate it for a determined and impatient student.
asciilifeform for some reason thought there were serial numbers in mpex commands
asciilifeform: onerng << there are two possible explanations for the above. one is that the author simply did not stop to think. and, well - the other explanation.
asciilifeform: 3) the asinine RF noise sampler can be switched off. but does its tuning oscillator also switch off?
asciilifeform: 1) what kind of dope must one smoke to put a micro under the tin can with the analogue amp ?
asciilifeform: onerng.info << this gizmo is interesting to me because it uses exactly one sane design decision (rf shield); resembles mine from a distance. but inside - uses every single design mistake which i rejected. to avoid 'empty words,' i will name a few.
asciilifeform: incidentally, is there any alternate hypothesis re: bitpay that does not involve it being a btc intake valve for usg's 'waterfall' dumpatron?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i may have said this in the past, but this is rather like my 'elephant procurement company' (gedankenexperiment)
asciilifeform: unrelated: https://archive.org/details/HowToStartYourOwnCountry << a little riot of a book. no-bullshit guide to (failed) attempts at ab initio sovereignty. (i met the author in person, incidentally. fun fella.)
asciilifeform: 'Asked what had happened to the $8.8bn he replied: "I have no idea. I can't tell you whether or not the money went to the right things or didn't - nor do I actually think it's important."'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good question! answer: packing it in such a way as to guarantee safe shipping would be prohibitively expensive. the man i bought it from, david schmidt (last symbolics employee) refuses to ship his remaining stock, after a multitude of DOAs.
asciilifeform: or even showed symptoms of having so much as smelled the book gas in kiczales et al
asciilifeform: the 'we embezzled 40 years of grantola from usg to pretend our fourth-rate mathematics is relevant to computing' folks.
asciilifeform: 'A character and its encoding are different concepts. An encoding and its (external) representation are different concepts. An external representation and the numeric values of whatever unit it is made up of are different concepts. By conflating all four concepts into one, Unix has held text processing and computing in general back several decades. This is fairly ironic, since Unix started out as a text proce
asciilifeform: because 'that's just how computer works, didntcha stay awake in school'
asciilifeform is not pleased that these are presently more widely supported than the complete ascii set. but it's a fact.
asciilifeform will sign own code (cardano) with 'will die by this' seal. will not sign other folks' code, unless compensated to actually put in the time to play 'reverse underhanded c contest.' << not cheap
asciilifeform will not be able to resist the temptation to build and test for free, but cannot promise to do this on a usably-frequent basis without compensation. is already doing rather many time-consuming things, not all of which bring in food.
asciilifeform: (the 'ddos mitigation' stuff, for example)
asciilifeform: 'closeouts and de-accreditations shall comply with the following procedures... Reset safe combinations to 50-25-50 and lock the containers.' << ahaha, default pw.