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asciilifeform: but given example wasn't so bad, 'molten slag' is also a metastable state.
asciilifeform: think of a sheet of rubber with two dimples
asciilifeform: i often ask folks to contemplate, when they soak up 64g, what that number really means
asciilifeform: 'why no compressor for the jazz band?'
asciilifeform wonders if his entire life is alive somewhere in old mpex material.
asciilifeform: who the hell cares if it's simple
asciilifeform: one of the sad prices we paid when switched to digital computers is the inevitable forgetting that we are playing with physical machines, and not mathematical platonic forms.
asciilifeform: the notes will remain extremely easy for some, entirely impossible for others - to get.
asciilifeform: i had the rules of, e.g., baseball, explained to me - on more than one occasion - and promptly forgot the next day.
asciilifeform: 'They are not the first to blame Ebola for an ancient plague. Scientists and classicists in San Diego reported in 1996 that the symptoms of the plague of Athens around 430 BC, described by Thucydides, are remarkably similar to Ebola, including a distinctive retching or hiccupping. Apart from that, many of the symptoms of that plague- – and one in Constantinople in AD 540 – -were similar to the Black Death.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it would be, if it were simple to mirror. and every post signed.
asciilifeform: cross-compilation for linux/x86
asciilifeform: the only way to emphasize the gravity of submitting a change to bitcoind.
asciilifeform: git etc. is very tempting, sweet, yes
asciilifeform: static www hosting latest stable result of composition of gpg-signed patches from mailing list - yes, more yoga, but ultimately the Right Thing.
asciilifeform: it was still swamped, against rules, and the people who did the swamping accounted for a large fraction of the bums which appeared during collapse
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naive idea. they unplugged this, to avoid ru proper being swamped with the entire contents of kazahstan, ua, baltics, all the provinces
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but you were born in odessa ? then you do have ru citizenship no? << lol! the whole city would've emptied in '92 or even earlier, if this were so.
asciilifeform: (how did i make this inference? simply from the fact of the actual die not being a copy. which would have been the obvious explanation.
asciilifeform: they fake it because even if you implement a standard device class (e.g. HID) you have to fake someone's. or you fork over ~4k usd to parasite scum for a 'legit' id.
asciilifeform: start at temperature, e.g., 500K. then 'cooling'. theoretically 0K means it will -never- be reasonable to change it. ever.
asciilifeform: if you can get a signed gibblet in, by land, by sea, by pigeon - and signature is one of the chosen - message is in next broadcast. 'cheap and angry' - like 'mpex' et al.
asciilifeform: i dare suggest a simple antisp4mz0r filter for mailing list - only messages signed from +v #b-a folks accepted.
asciilifeform: i suggest going with whoever had the mailing list idea. emphasize the 'we sign things and so mechanism doesn't matter' aspect.
asciilifeform: hard as shit to filter << rigorously provably impossible.
asciilifeform: even contemplating basic auditability requires a 'capsule' that does not need to milk anything (save mains current) from the outside world, during build setup
asciilifeform: eveveryone please try to grasp why i suggest emulator. this gives a complete self-contained block of bits which reliably builds the apparatus. no external anything, ever.
asciilifeform: 'qemu' is simply a machine emulator (x86, mips, sparc, a few others) - we can use another if someone has a good reason to dislike qemu
asciilifeform: forget maps - if someone actually wants this, no joke, i'll simply crap it out. just say where we'll keep it.
asciilifeform: no, that's braindamaged. qemu image - complete minimal bsd with all components, boots up (emulated) on any arch from any culture.
asciilifeform reads the actual ad and notices it's simply generic derp, nothing to do with operating systems in the conventional sense of the word
asciilifeform: jurov: i almost think that scamatron was built as a deliberate attempt at personal insult for me
asciilifeform: othernubs`: picture if you were sending the damn thing back in time, to blaise p. for implementation on a gigantic Pascaline, or herr babbage, etc
asciilifeform: 1.20 dollars a day << ehehehe - no. not comparable figure with usa 1.20/diem. ro didn't have to pay rent, had no ruinous tax, cheap non-synthetic food even in the depths of collapse
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but i have about the same amount of use for the information as a chimp does for pentium
asciilifeform: organisms with simple nervous systems, they are; while on the correct side of the tinted glass, will continue to think they are 'someone.'
asciilifeform would do it himself but lazy, hence the impetus for the whole proposal
asciilifeform: not that an electromagnetic shock absorber is impossible - it exists, and has for years - but no magic here.
asciilifeform: hat spoiled by these surly, scowling, raspy-voiced ogres and their flabby, overmedicated wives with voices like an unoiled hinge. When not aimlessly driving around, they sit in upscale restaurants, toying with their food and gossiping menacingly. They have long forgotten what it means to be happy and carefree, and their labored attempts at feigning enjoyment are painful to watch. You can be sure that the sight o
asciilifeform: 'This time of year, this part of Massachusetts is overrun by stampedes of shiny late-model SUVs with New York and New Jersey license plates. They are driven by various subspecies of the middle-aged well-to-do American Office Ogre—the lawyer, the doctor, the dentist, the banker, the lobbyist and the corporate businessman—the people who are attempting to run off with all the loot. The majestic scenery is somew
asciilifeform: ll be issued by a computer program, in absentia. In keeping with current practice, both the charge and the evidence will be kept secret. The newly minted felons will be dropped from voter rolls, their passports cancelled, their bank accounts confiscated, and their employment (if any) terminated. They will receive form letters informing them of their sentence but most of them will be unable to read it because fun
asciilifeform: 'With small businesses and private enterprise made illegal, most people will be forced to resort to illegal activities, under the watchful eye of the NSA. But since putting even more people in jail will be prohibitively expensive, a new, streamlined process of dispensing justice will be put into place: the NSA and the Justice Department will link computer systems, and verdicts of fraud and suspended sentences wi
asciilifeform: decimation: it's laundry / merit-washing. we simply don't know the details.
asciilifeform: decimation: in a same computing environment, nothing about 'downloading and executing arbitrary code' is frightening.
asciilifeform: 'As progressively dumber programmers build progressively more complex systems we will see more of this kind of attempt to paper over coding mistakes with lawyers, sanctions, policies, and laws. Hollywood and the RIAA are usually the most successful at getting the government to do their bidding. Thus I predict that one day Disney will have a Web site where you can buy access to any of their movies. Because all
asciilifeform: microshit still not razed and employees not publicly impaled, news at 11.
asciilifeform: if you're a very special customer, they'll pump in sarin/vx.
asciilifeform: doesn't actually fix anything, contrary to the implication in the url.
asciilifeform not entirely surprised to discover poetteringisms in: 'mplayer', 'firefox', a number of other packages
asciilifeform: not enough to simply vote at debian, its tendrils will have to be painfully and surgically excised from 1000 places.
asciilifeform: undata: the idea, as described on my site, is deadly-simple - no need for server, you 'speak' by sending btc to an address. others 'hear' by seeing what was sent. if the channel owner (owner of privkey to address) decides that you are persona non grata, you never see your coin again. otherwise, it is sent back after a while.
asciilifeform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8478427 << gotta love the shitgnomes repeating their mantras of 'it was an accident111!11', 'security is impossibly hard!', 'never roll your own crypto', and other tiresome disinfo.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: are these 'bitcoin atm' or simply usg meatprint collectors ?
asciilifeform still waiting for an actual computer offered for btc to which to move 'phuctor'
asciilifeform: the coals, red iron, lie detector - actually measure parasympathetic nervous response to stress etc
asciilifeform: decimation: much of the effect can be accomplished through lower-tech 'human' methods instead.
asciilifeform: incidentally, 'trial by ordeal' - in particular, methods which involve functions of the parasympathetic nervous system, e.g., hot coals or modern 'lie detector' - are ancient.
asciilifeform: the 'method' idea is possibly lifted from the jewish tradition (where you are not, in fact, asked to believe in god, but to simply carry out the program, as i understand.)
asciilifeform: (see mp's piece on 'methodism')
asciilifeform: and not simply a device for fooling jury (not all jurisdictions have jury trials) but for eliciting confession through intimidation (as 'lie detector' was once used for)
asciilifeform: and actual trials where this fact was brought in - and always the crown's side would proclaim - 'this is not a fact because simply inconceivable, law and order would collapse.'
asciilifeform: chetty: the whole purpose of 'biometric' crap is to administratively fix the designated chump as the permanently-designated chump.
asciilifeform: burden of proof (to impossible degree) will be on the chump, to show that his fingerprint was lifted.
asciilifeform: that is, the chump can once again be presumed guilty of fraud if he dares to contest a charge, just like in the 'bad old days.'
asciilifeform: good symbol of american degradation incidentally. afaik all examples produced in past 20 years or so - have 'zamac' parts.
asciilifeform: 'if i get 8 inches of crystalline unobtainium armour, i must be important'
asciilifeform: i'd say, half of it is 'the boot stamping on the human face forever' - sheer pleasure in herding the peasants, sticking finger into their anthills,
asciilifeform: just 'this area is temporarily restricted'
asciilifeform: in usa, most locales will impose serious fines or even yank cremation license for this.
asciilifeform: just like soviet partisans did (this aspect, naturally, was not emphasized in the children's books.)
asciilifeform: usg employs enormous numbers of these wretches. usually through subcontractors.
asciilifeform: fivezerotwo: though these folks aren't necessarily clinically stupid, any more than microshit employees are. just managed by the 'differently abled' with particular objectives that don't include elegance.
asciilifeform: fivezerotwo: why not take the time to grow your 5k into 500k with an improved virulent payload?
asciilifeform: whether or not nero actually fiddled while rome burned - here we have an entire symphonic orchestra.
asciilifeform: ru sp4mz0r steals cc #, charges 10k usd. on, e.g., 'amazon'; chumper reads his bill, complains, bank magically vacuums 10k+C (positive constant C, chargeback penalty) from 'amazon', plasma tv is nowhere to be found (drop house, magicked away)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they decided to "stop criminality" << not exactly. one set of criminals profits from every single penny of cc theft (bank) while another set (the sp4mz0r) gets to be made example of.
asciilifeform: the basic fact is, unless you have the infrastructure for reprocessing hot fiat into purified chumpatronium, botnet is not of particularly much use today.
asciilifeform: decimation: almost all turdware is plain trojan. only exploit is between the chumper's ears.
asciilifeform: many turdmeisters throttle the chump engines
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it has to be vulnerable to something, right ? << hate to disappoint, but 99% of the chumps are accounted for by perfectly lame trojans.
asciilifeform: luck + informational asymmetry == chumpatron.
asciilifeform: and in the case of the latter - they compare notes, throw the 'malefactors' out
asciilifeform: what casino wouldn't love to know if some fellow blessed by the gods to win $maxint that day (or simply a card counter) walks in?
asciilifeform: 'I would like to sell you some hunger insurance. Are you insured against hunger? Perhaps you should be! Without this coverage, you may find it impossible to continue to afford feeding yourself and your family. With this coverage, not only will you be assured of continuing to get at least some food, but so will I. In fact, thanks to this plan, I will get to eat very, very well indeed.'
asciilifeform: what i was suggesting is, that it is very difficult (not impossible, but close to it) to get people to shake off design-space constraints when it jumps costs by orders of magnitude.
asciilifeform: death ray becomes a byword for implausible fictional tech.
asciilifeform: as in, complete blueprints, drawn up b/w tractor runs
asciilifeform: decomposes beautifully.
asciilifeform: what if it takes actual resources, for example.
asciilifeform: and it might be important to ask, what qualifies as 'having' the better solution
asciilifeform: one does not take flight by ordering every horse, ox, pig in the empire, assessed for suitability for flight
asciilifeform: this - doesn't decompose.
asciilifeform: in that it decomposes into work for an army of people
asciilifeform: moon, incidentally, is trivial in comparison.
asciilifeform: somebody has an otherwise-idle chumpnet, clearly.
asciilifeform: (cough up some example where trilema and nontrilema links share the top box)
asciilifeform: 'Wolf went on, "The weight of a wasp is under half an ounce. Compared with a human being its size is minute, its strength negligible. Its sole armament is a tiny syringe holding a drop of irritant, formic acid, and in this case it didn't even use it. Nevertheless it killed four big men and converted a large, powerful car into a heap of scrap." "I see the point," agreed Mowry, "but where do I come in?" "Right h
asciilifeform: above the level of the folks who are merely practicing, there's someone who is making a point. same point as every king ever. public impalement to show he still 'has it.'
asciilifeform: someone could probably make a 'thinking man's Doom' (a la 'Thief') based on the premise of intelligent saboteur/terrorist, who plants limpets, burns reichstags, etc. -- but the author is likely to end up having problems.
asciilifeform: is in fact about a prison planet modelled very closely on russian prison (by a former employee, and well-loved blogger Goblin)
asciilifeform: not at all conspiratorially competent.
asciilifeform: then he's caught, pleads that he's simply very forgetful
asciilifeform: sufficiently advanced incompetence is equivalent to malice, or how did it go.
asciilifeform: re: chumps << witness the number of 'what did he do wrong111?!!?' imbeciles in the anonabox reddit thread.
asciilifeform: 'a messenger from the courts, who handed him a stack of legal documents—three inches thick. Somewhere in that stack—buried in all the legalese—was the news that Microsoft had taken control of his company, but Durrer didn’t have time to read it. Almost immediately, his pager lit up with messages saying the company’s internet services had stopped working.'
asciilifeform: or if the chumps pull out in the ~month they have left to do so
asciilifeform: interestingly, if you load the 'kickstarter' page, you can see the chump counter dropping. very slowly.
asciilifeform: Azelphur: because elaborate public lie, complete with doctored photos and claims of openable source that physically cannot be fulfilled?
asciilifeform: apparently complete with backdoor.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's the basic unified theory for all the sc4mz0rz who don't simply take the money&amp;run, never to be heard of again
asciilifeform: only so many basic mechanics for running chumpatron.
asciilifeform: where chumpwheel operator offers a chance to 'win back' loss for $smallint
asciilifeform: perhaps the chumps can be fleeced yet more?
asciilifeform: probe reaction? see if sympathetic idiots appear?
asciilifeform: by virtue of powerful cock-suction compressor
asciilifeform: aka, very roughly, turncoat, but with the implication of being a stinking little chameleon who never wants for anything regardless of who's on the throne
ascii_on_tour: 5210 x 2880 << that's one of the mac-with-lcd combo boxes, so extra $1k for comp that i haven't any use for. but i'm told that one can plug in an external cable.
asciilifeform: let's picture that these are all chumps who own asic coffee pot warmers or the like.
asciilifeform: say you have 500,000 chumpers. what'll you do.
asciilifeform: because actually monetizing all but the most astonishingly large chumpnet for btc has become virtually impossible.
asciilifeform: ^atypically long example
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: degradation of metal goods proceeded by a similar, if not entirely identical way as organics - not impurities as such (modern alloys are chemically superior to those of the past) but through using tech that ought not be used
asciilifeform: 100 percent machined parts, nothing stamped, nothing made of shitmetal (e.g. 'zamac')
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: employees hadn't machines so armed << employees owned the shirts on their backs
asciilifeform: american chumps, as i understand, are worth most
asciilifeform: i.e., the chumpers need to be busied somehow
asciilifeform: worth his time << chumpnet is like a truck - most of the cost of ownership, assuming you own it, is a fixed cost
asciilifeform: ddos is a basic attribute of any system where strangers can impose a cost on you at little to no cost to themselves.
asciilifeform: just can't help spotting symptoms of delusion
asciilifeform was under the impression that some of the people here intended to make this item happen
asciilifeform: just example.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu objected to the examples i gave as 'scientific journal'
asciilifeform: once q transforms into the kind of thing which is presently lucrative, it will cease to be distinguishable from the despised competition.
asciilifeform: these things probably do electrical impedance / and/or acoustic profile.
asciilifeform: various sec flaws being 'hangout' leaks is a hypothesis compatible with their continued active exploitation by their authors (usg)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ted nelson wanted to accomplish something like this, in his '60s-present concept
asciilifeform: one of my first experiences playing with btc was an attempt to make my ddosers... mine.
asciilifeform: jurov: better in the sense that there was a contemporary translation that is still largely readable to modern germans without an archaeological bent.
asciilifeform: go find the 'broadside ballads' of the time, for example.
asciilifeform still puzzled on how adding a trilema post to qntra fixes the broken concept of 'news.' but perhaps is simply not the target audience ?
asciilifeform: 'literacy' as understood by extant managerial civilization (usa, friends, imitators) is simply the ability to fill out forms and perform other simple mechanics of the giant meat computer of bureaucracy.
asciilifeform: yes, in the popular imagination, 'exposing' something is as simple as printing a few words.
asciilifeform: example,
asciilifeform: hard to emphasize this enough.
asciilifeform: see the tomatoes example.
asciilifeform realized that he simply regards william randolph hearst's basic invention (mass news) as fundamentally pernicious, and not something that 'good folks can do right because they're good and hearst is evil'
asciilifeform: qntra reads just like ordinary newspaper! 'company c now selling turd t.' 'company s having supply chain problems with their shit.' 'politician p derps on topic t.'
asciilifeform: picture a blog where some chap analyzes latest crapware, and posts reverse engineer autopsies of samples which somehow concern btc.
asciilifeform: here are some imaginary examples of actual 'bitcoin news'
asciilifeform: 'It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.'
asciilifeform: perhaps i simply don't like the dish, and should not bash the cook.
asciilifeform: example of -interesting- and genuine news - mp's piece. but he can't cough up the actual intel to substantiate the piece, that would aid the enemy.
asciilifeform: i'll give example
asciilifeform: thickasthieves: i'd argue that it isn't simply too new, or done improperly in some way. but - does wrong job.
asciilifeform: the shitmongers are not interested in competing with their grandfathers.
asciilifeform: in what company, think.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: according to the box contract in all extant u.s. banks, they can simply 'lose' the contents, and max liability is a joke number
asciilifeform: it's a temple.
asciilifeform: the chumpers line up to get boxes, etc. not out of legally-enforceable promise of correct function, but - from faith.
asciilifeform: and time/pressure dispensers drool (literally.) and suckback hose does not help - if set to a backpressure that actually has any effect, the contents of the syringe end up slowly sliding up, and eventually into the vacuum pump. schlurp.
asciilifeform: jurov: i have made inquiries. they know about it. but no one, readily, yet works for coin. or, more importantly, can be trusted to carry out a contract with the white man without the strings attached to using fiat/usd.
asciilifeform: jurov: i'm not part of the 'cash economy' in any way, shape, or form. but even if i had the skills and social connections to house and feed myself using paper benjamins, it is quite impossible to obtain industrial equipment and parts from overseas in that way.
asciilifeform: ... to think and work (no day job in the ugandan salt mines, for example) is not a cheap proposition. if i knew of a magical pill against this, i'd have swallowed it already.
asciilifeform: thickasthieves: doesn't matter if the shareholders all wished this (in what hallucinogenic fantasy land?) - 300btc is simply nowhere near sufficient for this, considering esp. that most of it is direly necessary for the first mass production run.
asciilifeform: but i refuse to take pre-orders for equipment not yet produced and tested, and i think mp agrees with my reasoning.
asciilifeform: disks didn't really have on-board controllers as such. just an analogue amp.
asciilifeform: no computer needed.
asciilifeform: no historical example of this, afaik, but the totalitarian state is a rather young thing
asciilifeform: i suspect that quarantine on certain people will be enforced very honestly, while on others (as above example) - not quite.
asciilifeform: basic case master recipe from both sides of cold war - pretend to be an unrelated animal that nevertheless merits close access to the chumper's personal guts.
asciilifeform: my favourite hypothesis re mr. spam is that he is a scammer masquerading as an incompetent usg case officer.
asciilifeform: on every 'real' computer i own, i do it
asciilifeform: (and yes, i intend to write a post re: 'technolordosis.' for the lack of a better term, my current mental name for the deer/hunter symbiosis of voluntary chumpitude previously discussed on many occasions)
asciilifeform: Adlai: better impedance matching - smoother function of nervous system, both central and peripheral, all else equal
asciilifeform: Adlai: if i recall, hypothesis involves impedance matching - same reason folks with damaged myelin sheaths lose theirs.
asciilifeform: Adlai: now go and see reaction time vs. intelligence (take your pick of any known simple test for either of the two)
asciilifeform: in usa, we know how to get trampled even without fire
asciilifeform: after how many nurses do we conclude that they are all simply tired of living?
asciilifeform: so far, 50% (sample of... 6 ?)
asciilifeform: any chumper can fork over the hundy and get the 'precleared' thing.
asciilifeform: psychologically unemployable << waitwat, what do you eat...?
asciilifeform: 'Perhaps even more disturbing, evidence suggests that policymakers—from cadets at West Point to senators on the Intelligence Committee to Supreme Court Justices—are referencing fake spies to formulate and implement real intelligence policies...'
asciilifeform admits he expected an honest, traditional firing squad, like a chump.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if so, the simplest device is... a bank. the infected cash is brought to the bank, and given to the hapless devil inside. afterwards, one walks six metres to the cash machine and withdraws clean cash (generally, where i live, only newly-printed money is ever placed into the cassette, to avoid jamming rollers.)
asciilifeform finds it quite impossible to imagine anything other than a mutilated corpse following 'won't believe what happens next' phrase.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes. for the exponent example specifically, see coppersmith's attack.
asciilifeform: 'map is not territory, but the territory does not fit in your glove compartment.'
asciilifeform: for purposes of chumpatronic engineering, it does indeed matter whether the chump needs a leash, coaxing, or mere suggestion to jump into the hopper.
asciilifeform: last version i read, disk i/o was implemented via 'pio' vs dma, so not optimal. but ought to suffice for just about any practical use.
asciilifeform: afaik nobody actually cares how many pictures of ben franklin one can get for 1 btc. but if 1 btc buys, say, computer, or tractor, or half a year of food, etc.
asciilifeform: when read the news, had the idea that ljr was trying to accomplish something like the above.
asciilifeform: not actually hard if you've discovered electromagnetism (electric tuning fork clock, considerably simpler than harrison's chronometer, is quite easy to construct)
asciilifeform: not the same machines as sold to consumers/chumps, yes
asciilifeform: because it is quite impossible to carry out the proof while day job.
asciilifeform: but virtually impossible, last i tried, to actually run
asciilifeform: the kind of machine that absolutely requires an fpga - simply has not been designed yet.
asciilifeform: you'd have to buy 'xilinx' or 'altera' - the company - to go with the chip. and publicly gut it.
asciilifeform: you can read an sdram spec by, e.g., 'micron' (i did) and implement a ddr2 sdram controller.
asciilifeform: example.
asciilifeform: basically, fpga works, but all existing high-density examples are sold by scammers of a kind - who absolutely could not abide the buyer using these items as the schoolbook promised - 'reconfigurable computer'
asciilifeform: (x86 is rather too complex to actually implement in any extant fpga and still leave room for something useful on top)
asciilifeform: again with the lisp lumping.
asciilifeform: !s templeos
asciilifeform: (short version of 'the camel' - prospective 'comp sci' students were given tests on basic things, e.g., 'a = 1, b = 2, a + b = ?' - and they separated into 2 groups, ones who had correct answrs. or at least consistent misconceptions - and ones who did not. the latter - turned out, unsurprisingly, to be unteachable.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: c is just the way average people abstract << if only. invited to reread the infamous 'the camel has two humps.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo will appreciate how it is entirely impossible to use a mac os 9 (or prior) box for a daily machine today.
asciilifeform: somebody gets fucked, regardless, just like something had to burn to power my computer to write this (precious little fission or hydro where i live)
asciilifeform: yes. but it didn't happen in empty space, but from the 'tower of babel' situation
asciilifeform: moral3: it is contagious. because it is impossible to implement a sane os which handles this insane device and adds up to sanity.
asciilifeform: and incidentally, i know just how the author arrived at this - he probably used the 'watchdog' feature of the micro which implements the device
asciilifeform: why i even mention it? because it's an example of a device that loudly, proudly, pisses on the usb spec (spirit and letter thereof) but is tolerated because for most people - it appears harmless.
asciilifeform: <ninjashogun> I think you can improve your device by communicating with the host in any other way (LED and webcam, speaker and microphone, whatever), other than as a USB device, which I don't think is the most secure interface for your usage case. No, I didn't have anyone else tell me to tell you this!
asciilifeform: i sympathize with any poor sod who grunts in a salt mine doing something bloody ludicrous and humiliating, but this has to break some sort of record.
asciilifeform: trivial example: sha(sha(sha..............
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: given that tcp/ip lets you fuck with ordering, that trivially parallelizes. at least, as fast as you can physically clock the bits off the wire to individual comparison registers, and then back on
asciilifeform: some jobs simply do not parallelize.
asciilifeform: chetty: in usa we fear unemployment literally more than bloody death of obola.
asciilifeform: these folks are pro at exactly one thing: keeping the cattle from stampede.
asciilifeform has only a simple four-bit feelings register (sloth, avarice, lust, wrath)
asciilifeform: so i imagine there's an implication of incitement of lynch mob, not merely 'mr x lives on 123 fuckme street, ny.' etc ?
asciilifeform: if you stay out of the buildings (not everyone can resist temptation to teleport into a nearly intact soviet childhood) it's clean. cleaner than a good chunk of the 'civilized' world.
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: in exactly the same way amputation is good weight control
asciilifeform is not impressed with current shot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: before you freeze something, first have to make sure it isn't a turd. (unless stool sample...)
asciilifeform: von neumann's basic problem is a terrifically bad implementation of the ordinary pipe concept.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the pipe - is everything. (hence my crackpot pushing of dataflow as replacement for von neumann computation, etc)
asciilifeform: and i suspect usg also gets it. they're banking on just one hope, killing btc somehow through stampede
asciilifeform suspects that, as with soviet bureaucrats, salary is only small part of the compensation package.
asciilifeform: *clamp-collar
asciilifeform regressed mostly to 18th c., at least temporarily
asciilifeform: t. dalrymple (alias, former british prison doctor, many great bookz) had a neato piece on opiates.
asciilifeform: exploitable bugs in all known implementations. <- and you can take that to the bank.
asciilifeform: you get to pay extra 'self employment' tax rate.
asciilifeform: other reasons include - folks who play in the real-estate chumpatron get a good deal of tax break.
asciilifeform: decimation: manually computing the tax, alone, is almost a job.
asciilifeform: phun phact. old russian unit of measure, 'вершок' (vershok) ~= 'lengthling' - approximately was equal to length of upper half of index finger. and it lives today! in every server room. last imperial вершок is precisely 1U of cabinet.
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