asciilifeform: 'This extremely rare type of keyswitch actually presses a fake switch, similar to the Cherry MX Blue jumping bean mechanism... Underneath each row of keys is an isolated transfer bar, which the sliding beans strike. On each end of the bar, a transducer (i.e. microphone or piezo) picks up the sound of the strike transmitted through the bar. The difference in arrival time between the two transduc
asciilifeform: attached, stolen coin << i've long suspected that chumpatrons like eth are 'anmesty funnels' for such stashes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hard to see who else could have reanimated the corpse of the 2011-era human wave chump attacks
asciilifeform wonders if the dump wasn't the work of an impatient man, but of a thinking one - trying to induce 'stress fracture' (what's the correct term?) via stampede effects
asciilifeform: so isn't it rather like saying 'volcano was a major point of support for pompei until day x'
asciilifeform: impatience - an almost inescapable attribute of any dumb criminal
asciilifeform: whether you want to imitate - or diverge from - a sample corpus, depends naturally on application.
asciilifeform: http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPlaceToHide-Documents-Uncompressed.pdf << p. 145-147, list of embassies in nyc and wash. dc with type of bug used. betcha not one has been pulled.
asciilifeform: 'We have been forced to remove the SolidEdge 3D drawings due to a company in China attempting to copy our product line. We regret the inconvenience this may cause our legitimate customers, but we cannot allow the 30+ years worth of design invested in our parts to be used by unscrupulous knock-off artists who are trying to put us out of business.' - sherline products inc. (a machine tool maker)
asciilifeform: 'According to the Coreboot Wiki, most of the X200 components should be working except for the dock, digitizer, and the need to be using binary blobs for the VGA option ROM, CPU microcode, and ME/EC.'
asciilifeform: pankkake: trying to crack the enigma of why the chumpers bought eth by the truckload but not one of them took mp's 'short' delivery deal.
asciilifeform: they want in. on the cheap. hence, chumpatron enlisted to drive down price.
asciilifeform: 'They tend to show up late at parties because they figure they can always steal the cake anyway, so why bother go early ? Let the suckers figure out first - on their own dime - where the good cakes are, then just swoop in and collect... This means the only way they can get in is if you let them get in. Dont let them get in for cheap - they have no business here.' (mp's http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollar
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: very 'temperate' year here, as well.
asciilifeform: ad contents was heavily geared to the stuff aging 'imperial age' americans with intellectual inclinations might buy. primarily - whiskey.
asciilifeform: retardtalk is run by expert chumpatronic engineers.
asciilifeform: an improvement, even if genuine, will be condemned to grind out a meagre existence as an altchain.
asciilifeform: because the burden of proof on anybody pushing a 'pheature' to demonstrate that he isn't slipping in a semantic - or syntactic - pwnh0le - is just about impossible to meet.
asciilifeform: '...people who hate parts of the language, some of the people who created it, or some of the process that created it, who hold personal grudges they cannot let go of, or who think the best way to "improve" the language is to stay in the community and spread negativity and tear down everybody else's enthusiasm, do just that. No improvement at all will take place when such negativity rules because everybody is af
asciilifeform: (example of optical 'knapsack packer', posted here some time ago)
asciilifeform: nothing so spicy. just the notion that analogue computing could come back (it was a gloriously interesting field back in the day, dust off some books, fun)
ascii_at_beach: either this, or chumps are 'renewable resource' to the extent that we should literally stoke furnaces with them
ascii_at_beach: likewise 'index card plus btcd' is a more compact, and therefore intimately -understandable- system than a software package in the usual sense
ascii_at_beach does not like the idea of a 'library of alexandria' that has a burnable component
ascii_at_beach still favours the recipe of 'bitcoind 0.6 + no more than ten lines of perl' for complete scheme
ascii_at_beach likes the idea of system that can be brought into being simply by passing around an index card with some simple rules, for all time
ascii_at_beach: or at the very least, hierarchically increasing cost with Importance
ascii_at_beach: at any rate, for a registry of Important Things, you want highest cost possible short of making it a null set
ascii_at_beach: CINCOMPAC FUBAR SNAFU
ascii_at_beach: expensive, for a registry of Important Things™ is: good
ascii_at_beach: BingoBoingo: It can tolerate forms of data Bitcoin won't << you can stuff arbitrary octets in the blockchain. it will simply cost you.
ascii_at_beach: not like the next mega-empire that gets tired of living will study 'prior art.'
asciilifeform: 'What bothers me is that you are saying what the agency wants us to believe -- they used to be great, but these days they have trouble reading the newspaper, the Internet is too complicated for them, there is so much traffic and they can't find what they want. It may be true, but it is what they have been 'saying' for years. It's convenient for N.S.A. to have its targets believe it is in trouble.'
asciilifeform has pretty much the entire numpad programmed as emacs knobs of one kind or another
asciilifeform: (emphasis on 'obvious')
asciilifeform: fluffypony: no market implications if you sink the usd into mining vs. buying.
asciilifeform: (and possibly tempted to change professions)
asciilifeform: decimation: nitpick. usg-blessed safes are optimized for tamper-evidence, rather than absolute strength
asciilifeform: but would you assume burglars will line up to try, simply by virtue of you having wished it?
asciilifeform: RebeccaBitcoin: will it get stolen within 90 days << this is an uncommonly poor tactic (yes, popular in the 'computer insecurity' business, but it sucks still) - would you test, say, a door lock this way?
asciilifeform: also brings to mind another topic that never quite comes up - that 'cost of living' is not really a complete picture of things
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo surprised loper lacks adbox considering it competes with trilema as most read << wait wat. what'd be the point
asciilifeform: (no, won't happen in reality. i've seen modern crt dropped on concrete, no implosion)
asciilifeform does not practice divination with lamp, won't say when 'soon' is
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: her stretcher dildo << it's a 'lava lamp' (decorative gizmo, small electric lamp heats a vessel of wax mixed in such a way that colourful shapes float about inside)
asciilifeform: the odd thing here, the firing range folks are traditionally - empiricists.
asciilifeform: recall how mircea_popescu once posted some examples of spam where the spam-meister forgot to actually fill in the spam-generator 'mad libs' and posted raw form ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: re: 'broken hearted' article: what a psychiatric marvel. note where he bashes his gov. for not confiscating privately owned small arms quickly enough for his liking - and then goes on with some crap about 'rage is necessary component... stop being well-behaved'
asciilifeform: good example of the sort of people orlov associates with...
asciilifeform: in complete silence
asciilifeform: so there we sat, contemplating how, generally, the bigger calibre of cannon, the louder the report. and mircea_popescu woke up, reminded us how he vapourized enemies with old trusted Nd:Yag laser.
asciilifeform: not so simple re: 'wtf should poor wretch do'
asciilifeform: simple in that it succeeds in 'stretching the owl over the globe' and fitting observables to hypothesis
asciilifeform: mpex-sat launched?
asciilifeform: apparently our grasp of physics was correct in that it is impossible to communicate across parallel universes. and reddit is such a universe...
asciilifeform: one more method. find and disassemble a computer. inside, search for an ic with quad flatpack (e.g. TQFP-44) package. lay tube sideways across (unpowered) pins, count pins. look up their pitch (typically 0.5mm).
asciilifeform: '...Plaintiffs Proposed Complaint includes a letter directed to Edward Snowden, in which Plaintiff seeks damages for any and all actions that
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that's where the machines live now. not ideal, from standpoint of humidity & temperature, but practical.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: important question to answer before achieving world domination
asciilifeform: (99% facts, 1% 'anyone who demos a 'tempest' setup is both con artist and criminal, plug yer ears')
asciilifeform: http://www.tscm.com/TSCM101tempest.html << masterful propaganda.
asciilifeform: 'One glimpse at the following chart of Russian stocks today and one wonders if the West needed to arrest the gains that their "costs" had imposed...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: here's one gedanken-atm. it's inside a concrete block, cannot be repaired, etc. 50kg of thermite if disturbed. then, simply leave it somewhere reasonable. (network connectivity an exercise for alert reader.)
asciilifeform: thought being, not everything that's in obvious decomposition can be shorted
asciilifeform: is the presumption that the 'saecular authorities' will not prosecute the theft of a btc atm ?
asciilifeform: 'impression' ~= page load ?
asciilifeform: recently saw the very same ad on uni. campus. apparently they're still testing.
asciilifeform was once offered ~1k usd by employer to take ketamine, somehow never got around to it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: There once was a man named Ken Thompson / Who had a peculiar Johnson; / For park it he will / In no hole he 'adn't drilled; / Lest the hole tap a thread that's unwholesome.
asciilifeform: sheath, you have traded places with the *pederasti* - now you are sighted, and they are blind. Now you no longer struggle in the darkness with something foggy and omnipresent, which softly absorbs every blow - instead, you can now clearly make out a pathetic piece of shit, which has smeared itself over the most important part - the eyes - of a large and powerful man. You can now deal blows, directly seeing the
asciilifeform: 'Learn not to participate - to the point of utter impossibility of meeting the enemy 'half-way' - and you will see that inside there lay a very useful mindfuck: in learning to 'nonparticipate,' in fact you drew out your *will* from its scabbard - to which it seemed so securely riveted by your upbringing. The appearance of *your will* changes everything and forever. With your own will slipped into your boot knife
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: presumably your employees are in 'the black' though. otherwise you'd refer to them as volunteers...
asciilifeform: decimation: as with any professional-grade chumpatronic circuit.
asciilifeform: 7000 - that's grandmaster level chumpatronics
asciilifeform: i.e. were they plugged because they insisted on following the 'letter of the law' re: their duties, with complicity of their own brass
asciilifeform: any earnest attempted ban would presumably include all blockchain-based tech
asciilifeform: turns out, he writes, one of the most reliable ways to get bitten by such an animal is to give it the impression of attempting to feed it
asciilifeform: see mircea_popescu's skyscraper example.
asciilifeform: 'complexity is irreducible now, the only possible kind of man is now the stamp collector'
asciilifeform: DreadKnight: things are getting more and more complex now, it takes more work and time << the motto of the 20th c. intellectual impostor class, in a nutshell.
asciilifeform: plus 1980s computer.
asciilifeform: stamp collectors.
asciilifeform: cern, other 'strong force' shenanigans are a good example of 'chinese' scholastiwank. the people involved - entirely uninterested in systematization of knowledge, much less practical use
asciilifeform sees 20th c. physicists as largely imposters, who 'the good parts - not original, the original parts - not good'
asciilifeform: 'Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots in words.'
asciilifeform wonders if any american state has tried bumping off convicts with cocaine
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this was always a puzzle to me - why don't they simply shoot them ?
asciilifeform: http://kyristor.com << dumped my ancient derpage in there for archaeologists to derp on.
asciilifeform: and, in many (most?) states, adverse possession is virtually impossible to pull off (title holder must be aware of the squatter and do nothing for xx years)
asciilifeform: tourist noticed a puff of smoke coming from a tree stump.
asciilifeform: e.g. diplomats, military attaches, competitive athletes
asciilifeform: my understanding is, the most one can hope for, if you aren't chtulhu, assanger, mircea_popescu - when the wagen comes, is to die with honour, without implicating other partizans
asciilifeform: this is why i simply don't get people who continue to think of their relationship with the u.s. court system in legal, rather than military, terms.
asciilifeform: in my simple orkish minds, anything i have to switch off a filter to see is spam. but hey, who has never spammed.
asciilifeform: the original u.s. chumpatron.
asciilifeform: 'chromebook' can be turned into a perfectly normal machine (diassemble, remove eeprom write protect jumper, write in an ordinary linux, e.g. 'gentoo')
asciilifeform: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/07/24/nuanced-view-needed-to-understand-millennial-homebuying-behavior << mega-lol. chumpatron is sputtering, chumpatronic engineers desperate.
asciilifeform: 'Sector repair completed:port=0, LBA=0x0.'
asciilifeform: swamp land of dc << example. moved to new place recently. even the garden shed has... air conditioner.
asciilifeform: the whole dc region is a gigantic swamp.
asciilifeform: decimation: i occasionally etch simple 2-layer boards in kitchen, but only for quick experiments (e.g. studying particular smt component)
asciilifeform: decimation: what little (semi) automation i have in mind, is simply to eliminate problems with prototype assembly quality (vs design) from consideration during test.
asciilifeform: Rich fools are a resource to harvest like any other until the simply become fools << dollar in the hands of billionaire is not the same as dollar in the hands of a mere mortal. just like a gram of dirt in orbit is not the same as same gram in a moon. 'quantity has a quality of its own.'
asciilifeform: what rich fools built? example - today's usa.
asciilifeform: guy who moved to japan and got citizenship << contrary to popular belief, this is not impossible - but about same level of difficulty as getting tenured professorship at a big uni
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one shouldn't be able to spot a b2.0 node on the network << in that traffic should resemble a traditional bitcoin node? or simply point to point encryption?
asciilifeform: another, perhaps obvious temptation is to bake in the wot.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what would you wish to see improved in chaining?
asciilifeform: 'comes as a preemptive strike against ASICs' << this shit never gets old, does it
asciilifeform: 'q: what to do if a shell lands in your trench? a: jump twenty meters and scatter yourself around!' - ww1, british.
asciilifeform: whether he stayed awake in school math and had the sense to look at the actual waveform (perhaps wife was fond of jumping on the bed?) before divorcing, i do not know.
asciilifeform: no shortage of possible experiments to choose from (e.g. Lamportian 67% theoretical maximum threshold (see 'byzantine generals') instead of 51; programmable work functions; a hundred other things)
asciilifeform: if any of them took the trouble to write something interesting (e.g. system analogous to the original btc but of proper, rather than 'power ranger' quality) and resisted the temptation of premine shenanigans, etc. - but no.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell moiety further example, if you liked - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2UmkfixRH8
asciilifeform: benkay: smallest 'quantum' of pumpage ends up being rather large.
asciilifeform: benkay: which is a shame, because old medical pumps are a dime a dozen on 'ebay.'
asciilifeform now wonders if said paste conducts well enough to be propelled in 'MHD' pump.
asciilifeform: decimation: two reasons: air is a terrible working fluid (compressible!) making for very poor repeatability;
asciilifeform: 'Instead of obtaining petrol from coal by a complicated process, it's preferable to compel certain categories of users to employ vehicles equipped with gas-generators.' << incidentally this was what 'gasenwagen' originally meant.
asciilifeform: 'The water-cooled engine will have to disappear completely.'
asciilifeform: decimation: (and component trolleys)
asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: why import. denture probably outlives owner.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: his nailgun must've had empty clip.
asciilifeform: punkman: almost certainly going to build an automatic paste printer, however. pumping paste through a handheld nozzle under microscope is a misery.
asciilifeform: punkman: not actively, but slowly contemplating it when not doing other things
asciilifeform: incidentally, we know that gate delay is thermally ticklish. how? easy - asynchronous circuits will speed up or slow down depending on temperature.
asciilifeform digs for ancient paper regarding maliciously estimating a remote machine's temperature using userspace-observable clock drifts
asciilifeform: also must recall that machine contains other components with quartz oscillators - and some of these components sit on the bus and can toss interrupts.
asciilifeform: incidentally, quartz oscillators generally don't come in the GHz range. there's a fairly modest (<100MHz) crystal and a PLL multiplier. which compounds any error...
asciilifeform impressed
asciilifeform: nubbins`: try example 'closer to home,' even. last generation of CRT displays had to include sr correction (short tube, less glass, but higher gun voltage - fast electrons.)
asciilifeform: 'gps' and similar navigation systems, for example, live and die on atomic clock (and correct for SR!)
asciilifeform: back to clocks: it is grave mistake to regard a pc clock as a scientific instrument. you can get pretty good thermal stability out of a quartz resonator, using an 'oven' (more or less just like kitchen oven, in miniature - maintain controlled temperature.) but this is never found in a consumer appliance.
asciilifeform: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20140716.aspx << loltron. e.g., kalashnikov banned for import in usa.
asciilifeform waits for announcement of mpex plant purchasing rhubidium frequency standard
asciilifeform: they have some - limited - thermal compensation.
asciilifeform: 'I want to build machines to do stuff that someone "like us" wouldn't want to do, for any of the several reasons (the job is hard/boring/stinky/whatever). And once I've built them, I want people to be able to use them. Please note this last point. People and other "nature's computers", like animals and fungi, aren't supposed to be "used". In fact, all those systems spend a huge amount of resources to avoid being
asciilifeform: complete with fancy graphics, clickable zoom, etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nsa-sponsored attempt to survive << they won't really worry until wintel stops being a thing.
asciilifeform: who expects people to jump into the biodiesel fermenter on their own will.
asciilifeform: but there is virtually never any good reason to attempt it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are published recipes for this. see 'multi-party computation' literature.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to be fair, the machine (as described originally by r. feynman) doesn't divine history a la asimov's 'chronoscope', but merely computes certain classes of function unusually cheaply.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/big-numbers-random-numbers-and-whos-got-your-number/ << 'random-looking number' is reminiscent of the 'miasma theory' of disease causation. in fact, much of what presently passes for 'seekoority' is quite like miasma epidemiology. crock of shit, resulting not only from inability, but from unwillingness to to even contemplate cause-effect.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...died from an infection in 2010... << the rate at which these people die of preventable causes is ridiculous' << quite likely, that fellow really died of - sleep deprivation. compromised immune system. and yes, one wouldn't expect an actual 'master of the universe' to succumb to sleep deprivation. senior bureaucrats, on the other hand - sure.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: this is SOP here. air conditioner for whole house. compressor and its hot coil are outdoors, heat exchanger and gigantic fan inside.
asciilifeform uses headphones mainly to 'turn off hearing' to improve concentration.
asciilifeform: 'I dont have to write that I want millions of chickens to be brutally murdered. I can buy all the dead chickens I want at the grocery. When advocating a policy that requires violence for its implementation, it is rarely necessary to advocate the violence. Once people agree to implement the policy, the necessary violence will be forthcoming.'
asciilifeform: since mp seems to be on a bit of a dan mocsny kick, let's channel herr mocsny:
asciilifeform: i for one don't give even a basic fuck whether microshit employees can live in mansions - or in specially-constructed oubliettes with a terminal in the lid and a hole for shit in the bottom.
asciilifeform: decimation: if the indians graduating from u.s. schools agreed to live 10 to a room in a dormitory, instead of 250k/yr in chumper town (see http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-04-2014#606968) they might get hired in place of the imported coolies.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Theodore Y. Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means << 'random' is simply a non-scientific qualifier. like 'big'.
asciilifeform: hanbot: about the size of a compact car.
asciilifeform: hanbot: my old machine - http://media.molboxllc.com/minion-ios.mp4
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: sure. i could have parts machined. but, on top of being a miser, i'm rather impatient.
asciilifeform: decimation: the marginal kids get herded by their family into a kind of boot camp where they get trained, like animals, to jump through the burning ring
asciilifeform: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/dev_random.html#update_5 << linus on rng, for anyone who hasn't already read.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: still pales in comparison to the mp3 CAN bus hack: http://www.itworld.com/security/139794/with-hacking-music-can-take-control-your-car
asciilifeform: mathematics, systemantics, chumpatronics, polemology, psychoceramics.
asciilifeform: mike_c: i vaguely recall some joker who wrote a complete 386 pc emulator in about 1k of perl. that's the kind of thing being spoken of, i think.
asciilifeform: the notion that every male of the species can turn into mircea_popescu by effort of will is, at the very least, misguided. i catch quite a bit of crap for insisting that virtually everyone can, e.g., learn mathematics - so i sympathize. but it's still mistake.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's almost like you read a guide to survival in the arctic, and said 'wtf is this nonsense, just take compass and march south'
asciilifeform: now the interesting part. as i recall, the company in palahniuk's comedy actually exists...
asciilifeform: 'I ask him, Why sometimes not? The way this works is we copyright every conceivable combination of words, Greek words, Latin, English, what-have-you. We get the legal rights to every conceivable word a pharmaceutical company might use to name a new product. For diabetes alone, we have an inventory of one hundred forty names, he says. He hands me stapled-together pages from out of his briefcase in his lap.
asciilifeform waits for shortwave-mpex
asciilifeform: decimation: knuth was, in fact, wrong. there are inadequacies in a pseudorandom sequence of whatever variety that do not concern cryptography at all. see, for example, this - http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2014#574674
asciilifeform: as to how an enemy might proceed to put this hypothesis to actual use, see example of 'satcoin'.
asciilifeform: simply by the fact of the hash being in use
asciilifeform: likewise, given that (by design!) a 'cryptographic' hash will be computed in such a way that every bit of the input affects every bit out the output,
asciilifeform: rng designers very often succumb to the temptation to 'inflate' their output using a hash
asciilifeform: classic example of u.s. armies scoring own goal for (somehow) good pr.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: moscny lived in usa. 'flood' is to be understood here to be the 'fundamentalist' one, complete with mandatory drowning dinosaurs.
asciilifeform: when strain gauges and computers became a thing, this was no longer necessary
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: why? you have an example of the item i posted ad for ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mostly because they tend to get discovered close to an empire's peak complexity (i.e. collapse prelude)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: orlov is an incorrigible believer in an impending pollutionocalypse.
asciilifeform: these folks will indeed 'upgrade' any computer they're left alone with to 'pink and round.'
asciilifeform: just like - for example - orlov will delete any comments inquiring about what kind of arms, if any, are to be found aboard his ship
asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Autonetics_D-17.JPG << 'strategic' computer.
asciilifeform: http://www.edwardothorp.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wearable_computer4.jpg
asciilifeform: mpex still building ?
asciilifeform: decimation: likewise, if doubt arises regarding some component, it can be removed, examined, replaced with nominally identical one
asciilifeform: 'В лототроне не должны использоваться процедуры, реализующие алгоритмы, которые позволяли бы предопределять результат розыгрыша призового фонда до начала такого розыгрыша.' ~= 'a lottotron must not employ procedures implementing algorithms which would permit a pre-de
asciilifeform: ^ notice he says 'лототрон' ~= 'lottotron.' the original, in fact, 'лохотрон' - chumpatron.
asciilifeform: copumpkin: yes.
asciilifeform: copumpkin: yes, i do a fair bit of non-x86.
asciilifeform: copumpkin: don't misunderstand - if there were an actual substitute, and it only ran under, whatever, ultrix, that'd count
asciilifeform: the decompiler appears to be mostly worthless. and the tool runs only under mac os.
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: the issue isn't whether one likes it, but whether any practical substitute (other than 'objdump' and 10-100x the time/sweat) exists.
asciilifeform: many people write, e.g. a 'mips' (or other small instruction set) emulator and cross-compile for it. when you get hold of one of these, you can just extract the turd and disassemble using toolset for that cpu.
asciilifeform: Rassah: wait. you expect that your target market consists of people who would even contemplate buying a knockoff ?!!
asciilifeform: Rassah: your friend has cemented my conclusion. i can figure out which cells are responsible for the device's output, merely by knowing your room temperature over time. and then all we have to do is run brute force over the narrowed set. (a few bits)
asciilifeform: Rassah: 'Skew shift is monotonic with respect to temperature. If an increase in temperature makes a neutral cell become 1-skewed, then decreasing the temperature will make that same cell 0-skewed.' << fixed bad paste
asciilifeform: Rassah: ergo: if i have a sufficiently precise graph of the temperature of your unit over time, i can infer something about the sram and which cells are responsible for the bulk of the input to rng.
asciilifeform: Rassah: 'Skew shift is monotonic with respect to temperature. If an increase in temperature makes a neutral cell become 1-skewed, then decreasing the temperature will Fig. 11: This contour shows the probability distribution at 273 K and 323
asciilifeform: Rassah: but all of this pales in comparison to another little observation. recall pg. 10 of the paper.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: comput von neumann of '0101010101'.
asciilifeform: Rassah: hashing as an attempt to 'distill' entropy.
asciilifeform: Rassah: other question. in my own experiments, i found that sram powerup 'static' depends heavily on the die's temperature.
asciilifeform: 'swamp donkey' << lol! apparently a usg version of 'cryptolocker'
asciilifeform: the 'ddos mpex' script is probably in there.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, benkay: 'linux rifle' << when i first heard of this gadget, first though was 'why is it fired by electromechanically-controlled trigger weight and not simply electrical'. turns out, electrical firing is banned in usa.
asciilifeform: Xplosionist: / msg NickServ REGISTER password youremail@example.com (to freenode, obviously not in channel)
asciilifeform: Xplosionist: simple: first, ';;gpg eauth yourname' - then, 'wget -q -O - http://bitcoin-otc.com/otps/YOURKEYID | gpg -q --output - --decrypt' and paste result into ';;eauth resultgoeshere' (msg to gribble)
asciilifeform: re: 'performance enhancing' dopes - important to remember that, even supposing performance enhanced, it matters who you were. e.g. paul erdos will crap out theorems, a hooligan will be able to break that many more windows, a lunatic will rant longer and more vigorously, etc.
asciilifeform suspects that itanic was a 'lock-in play' - intel hoped that no one else could write a decent compiler for the chip. but what ended up happening was - for ages, gcc was the only working itanic toolchain...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the famous 'itanic' used an approach called 'vliw' - 'very long instruction word' - where the compiler was expected to fill up the pipeline manually, avoiding 'hazards' (instructions fighting over a resource, e.g. register or memory)
asciilifeform: so it's a reasonable presumption. no, i don't have the manual for the new one.
asciilifeform: BayAreaCoins: if this were so, he could simply keep his coldwallet in a bank deposit box (or some number of them, via shamir's algorithm)
asciilifeform: (not only for pleasure, but to absorb impact.)
asciilifeform: 'All of the mechanical stuff on this unit is from the 80's (When the mechanical stuff was great because the computers sucked)' << re: earlier discussion of power supplies.
asciilifeform: 'The "extra" pinchers are attached to a LCR meter for the machine to "measure" each component before it put it down! You wont find that on the $5K Chinese machines!' << had no idea this existed. anywhere.
asciilifeform: from the loltron: http://cryptome.org/2014/07/dprk-film-complaint.pdf
asciilifeform randomly wandered into an old book store last night, saw a textbook on romanian language. every chapter opened with some example of torments from the 'russian yoke.'
asciilifeform: if i were to attempt it again, i'd probably just machine a copper plinth in which the mobo can live, upside-down, with fins on bottom side.
asciilifeform: artifexd: there's probably a golden mean here. a real 'saint' with a dynamometer wrench probably could've tightened the clamps exactly enough.
asciilifeform: artifexd: mine had hose clamps on all joints. theory - clamping deforms the barb, you leak anyway.
asciilifeform: 'uber' is just another in a long line of chumpatrons which work by persuading some chumps to make idiotic business decision, and packaging/selling the result to other chumps
asciilifeform: wouldn't the increased fiat pull of btc today compensate? e.g. for 30k btc one can build an actual skyscraper - which proceeds to fall...
asciilifeform: nobodies who got in in 2013... meagre disposable income already made it impossible for them to matter << not so simple. chumpatronic engineers, malware artists, etc. who got in 2013 (or even today) can still accumulate enough to build plenty of falling skyscrapers
asciilifeform: somehow i can't picture the folks buying 500 usd robot legs sitting on mpex
asciilifeform: likewise - any idiot can compile a doctored sshd.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: techs and spooks << anybody dump the hdd firmware ?
asciilifeform: language with no macros, where chump can't fix this omission himself: herp, derp, and... zerp ?
asciilifeform: of the GRU have a particular dislike of Western nuclear power stations, which reduce the West's dependence on imported oil (including Soviet oil) and make it stronger and more independent. They are one of spetsnaz's, most important targets.'
asciilifeform: see french example
asciilifeform: example of how to get 'shell' on a 'seagate' disk: https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/Home
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider posting a firmware dump of one such drive.
asciilifeform: other, 'gentle' idea, dissolve 'windows' into the eeprom with nitric acid. replace cover. when time to decommission, use a UV lamp.
asciilifeform: no need for 'complements'
asciilifeform: ternary cpu was not only space-efficient (closer to 'e', more compact arithmetic representation) but considerably simplified arithm. circuits.
asciilifeform: all native russian work on computing was nixed
asciilifeform: ^ first 'computer' my university got.
asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Minuteman_guidance_computer_(1).jpg
asciilifeform: note (e.g. at 47 minutes) the pcb-as-passive-component trick
asciilifeform: 20ghz is easy. 20ghz where you aren't simply picking up harmonics from your own logic - hard.
asciilifeform: take N independent adc, and stagger the sampling phases
asciilifeform: decimation: at present time, i apply the paste with a pump. tried plastic templates (laser cut), wasn't satisfied.
asciilifeform: re: bfl - the sad part is that the entire mining industry, afaik, is based on exactly this kind of chumpatron. and if outright take-money-and-run merits two years of parole, what does, e.g. six month deliberate 'we mine with your hardware' merit? harsh words?
asciilifeform: pierce << ideal example of the animal described on one of mircea_popescu's essays - he could be packed into prison for life, any time, based on what's in his file. so he does as instructed.
asciilifeform: (technically not simply gps, but tower triangulation on top)
asciilifeform: gps < difficult - but not impossible - to fit. and what'd be the point? throttle the core unless standing in warehouse XX?