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asciilifeform: in both examples, ordinary opium is the champ
asciilifeform: rectumprint.
asciilifeform: easy target. but understand that u.s. academia is divided into pissant fiefdoms entirely like the climate chumpatron
asciilifeform: the next stage of pipeline for the ivy kids (employment, either directly in .gov, or the many quasi-private arms of the ussa hydra) follows the same formula.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they make it virtually impossible for a kid to flunk
asciilifeform: (as outlined in mp's essay on the subclasses)
asciilifeform: even more fun than the traditional compiler infector.
asciilifeform: think: variation on the ken thompson theme.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo dredging up VAXen also seemed improbable just a few years ago.
asciilifeform: old hardware - suddenly worth something. at least temporarily.
asciilifeform: the notion that 'microbe will eventually adapt to anything' is a bit simplistic.
asciilifeform: 'microsoft research' has nothing to do with the company's product pipeline
asciilifeform: chetty: mp is rather like a surgeon - if surgeon could cry, he could not work - somethinglikethat
asciilifeform: civilized man has to overcome his OD on coke, or reddit, or whatever, to make the jump.
asciilifeform: 'Whether because of its historical traditions or for some other reason, the idea of self-government, of equality before the law and of personal freedom--and the responsibility that goes with these--are almost completely incomprehensible to the Russian people...To the majority of the people the very word 'freedom' is synonymous with 'disorder' or the opportunity to indulge with impunity in some kind of antisocial
asciilifeform: to the folks who didn't get dinged, he stood for... order. the empire having its shit together in some form. etc
asciilifeform: problem, as seen in soviet example, is that you eventually run out of 'class enemies' and the meat grinder is still standing, well-oiled. then you have korolev doing time
asciilifeform: e.g. we don't know the ideal temperature for a living planet, but we can be pretty sure it isn't 10K
asciilifeform: of course, unphased by this. We know now that their strategy of psychological war turned out to be a correct one... To establish the injustice, the 'meanness' of the enemy in a moralistic war is every bit as important as winning a pitched battle in a hot war.'
asciilifeform: moral justice the legions ought to forsake the lands for which they had paid with their blood. Not only is the transference of conceptions of morality to the evaluation of historical events a phony method, but, if we recall, the moralists - the defeated European nations and the Americans, enemies of the USSR - that is to say, non-impartial moralists - their condemnations sound hollow indeed. The offenders, are,
asciilifeform: 'the Western blok... preferred to view the Eastern European nations as victims of Soviet aggression, ignoring the simple and manly fact (that would have been instantly understood by a Roman) that Soviet legions, without anyone's help, took possession of Eastern Europe via force of arms, answering aggression with aggression. And the Roman would an absurdity - he could not comprehend, in the name of what so-called
asciilifeform: these are 'compatible' with regulation cat.
asciilifeform: but hell only knows, he had other reasons to waste away than the idiots and their blather. dumped his girl shortly before found dead, too (her blog is linked somewhere in there)
asciilifeform: hah, he was despised by half of c.l.l. for 'self-important prick'
asciilifeform: the latter (smbx) keyboards were castratos compared to knight's
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i eventually found out - device in its simplest form (simply deny write) - is commercially available (if expensive, for reasons of golden toilet.)
asciilifeform: good gift for folks contemplating but not yet escaped from microshit.
asciilifeform: for those who don't - many (traditional spindle) drives still have wp jumpers. bring it out to a toggle.
asciilifeform: gotta implement the mass storage command stack on both ends - a bit of a bitch
asciilifeform: soviet import?
asciilifeform: ;;google imponator imponade
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imponade.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't. that's a 2-layer composite photo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: devils come to tempt you: http://imgur.com/DaZyTPg,MfVbeHG,0tCxX1m#0
asciilifeform: decimation: you must really think about this to understand the implications. a single-address space machine must... actually work. every time - because it can in no sense be rebooted.
asciilifeform: (they should offer a pay service! i bet chumps would flood in)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.outguess.org/detection.php << basic example
asciilifeform: (not compatible with massive c64 cult install base)
asciilifeform: sank the company, too
asciilifeform: amiga << nothing like c64. almost a real computer.
asciilifeform: i still remember the shock of encountering widgets that resembled actual comp but weren't programmable.
asciilifeform: we did get an actual computer - 'iskra' - shortly before bailing
asciilifeform: so far my favourite taleb is that link mp posted earlier
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: key stored in what: employee badge.
asciilifeform: before the telco 'network extender' gizmos were sold (incidentally, a scam - the telco still charges for minutes despite using the chump's own local wired bandwidth!) mitm-ing was demonstrated using 'software defined radio' (inexpensive board, does exactly what is printed on the crate)
asciilifeform: used to be that it took actual sweat to source 'miniature tower' radio components
asciilifeform finds u.s. uni professors hotlinking to images on his site; tempted to replace with goatse
asciilifeform: i suspect that: when they tape out a dud asic, they simply... take preorders longer.
asciilifeform: 'The new, thicker copper layer did resolve the heat build up from the current flow. Temp has been reduced by 20C with the new boards.' (from jborkl, quoting bfl co. lamenting its troubles.)
asciilifeform: (variation on the famous puzzle-joke where mathematicians were given piles of sticks to sort. they puttered around with algorithms - and then janitor comes, and simply stands the sticks up on table, picking them off longest first...)
asciilifeform: on top of this, the tracks, vias, components - occupy space
asciilifeform: some proggys even try to place components
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gentoo is a source-only distro, where you get to twiddle compiler flags, wait a week for newly-provisioned machine to compile the universe, and - most annoyingly - suffer in the innermost circle of 'dependency hell' where you have to tear up the entire world to build xxxx
asciilifeform: decimation: carlyle, evola, ..., ..., limonov, moldy... if one were to spit out all the folks who complained about kinglessness, freenode will boot you for flooding
asciilifeform: what are they to do - sue the nice folks who put the thermite limpet in the turbine the night before?
asciilifeform: the bureaucrats simply bent under the weight of the seemingly inevitable
asciilifeform: decimation: u.s. software industry was essentially exempted from ordinary consumer liability by statute some time in the '80s
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: try using 'clitoral mouse' on the old toshibas, for example
asciilifeform: didn't know a thing about computers
asciilifeform: for some years, it was a new york (?) serial con man, who bought and sold corpses of old companies
asciilifeform: due for a really good ai << np-complete. good luck.
asciilifeform: used, wasn't particularly impressed
asciilifeform: ;;google mozart decomposing
asciilifeform experienced drowned computers one and only time - on 2nd floor of a gigantic office park. no prizes for guessing how
asciilifeform: 'But maybe "computer" is the wrong word. It's actually an iron box with a padlock. Also known as a computer whose security model is simple enough to understand and whose operating system is known completely enough to trust.'
asciilifeform: jborkl: 'tcpdump', 'wireshark', etc
asciilifeform: beauty is, you can now do experiment (vs gedankenexperiment) yourself, just need ~$100 and local computer junk shop
asciilifeform: a fine example, actually, of solving wrong engineering problem
asciilifeform: 'My Navrozov moment, of course, was when I approached one of the two - Sacco, I think - and attempted to have an intellectual discussion of this realization. The story is basically the same as Navrozov's, so it would be boring to repeat, but basically I came away with the feeling that I'd told someone his Sicilian grandmother liked to get drunk and fuck her own goats.'
asciilifeform: 'At some point during this period, however, I realized that the entire problem was a complete and utter pseudo-problem. ... So I am very confident that neither of these techniques, neither mine nor Sacco and Vanzetti's, has ever been used in practice. There is no need for them, there has never been any need for them, and there will never be any need for them. And this was quite obvious in 1993.'
asciilifeform: 'Sacco and Vanzetti came up with an entirely different solution to the slow-MMU problem, one which if I do say so myself was less imaginative than mine, but both more general and more practical. They published theirs in a real conference, received much acclaim for it, and I believe patented it, started a so-called company and eventually sold it to Microsoft.'
asciilifeform: more examples - anything to do with wavelets
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: something big about to go down << mp did mention preparing some new thing
asciilifeform: anyone who buys a berth on mp's 'we piss on patents' atomic battleship should give 'cyranose' a thought.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i suggested it as 'coin' simply as thought experiment in generalizing the 'use-value' of btc. that is, material that cannot be confused with anything else (Hg, for instance, on top of being rather common, can be substituted with 'gallinstan' alloy. but you can't raise melting point of Ga by mixing in impurities - only lower it)
asciilifeform: btw this kind of thing is a schoolbook example of what 'xxxx can also have problems' means.
asciilifeform poor with good tools. not impossible.
asciilifeform: anyone who remembers school chemistry will understand that impurities lower melting point
asciilifeform: if you have two electrodes, put a current through it, while surrounded by electromagnet, it will move x cm up the ring in response to Y amps...
asciilifeform: ideal container would probably be a toroid, half-empty
asciilifeform: of course, resistor could be trivially exposed with frequency sweep / bode plot (skin effect on Ga blob != impedence of ordinary resistor)
asciilifeform: but in that case the ampoule could not be full. you must be able to tilt it, to expose electrode (perhaps a scammer simply placed a resistor there)
asciilifeform: (incidentally ampoule could include electrodes for testing conductivity
asciilifeform: so plenty of simple tests, once you pick a suitable container.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you can find me a eutectic solder that melts anywhere near 30C (but not liquid at room temp like Hg) i'll buy it right now.
asciilifeform: jurov: s/bottle/ampoule (full ampoule)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: see kodak/silver relationship for example.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in principle, it would make a pretty good 'low tech testable' precious metal. simply determine melting point.
asciilifeform: announcement << i'll take the shot. mp to sell warehouses in Ar for btc.
asciilifeform: for a turdmeister, wielding the banhammer isn't really satisfying unless he imagines that he's adding heretics to an all-important 'index librorum prohibitorum'
asciilifeform: ;;google the camel has two humps
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: film lasts a good while, easy to copy and compare via low tech means
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just gotta bring back antifuse. it doesnt really get much simpler than antifuse.
asciilifeform: one basic function in such a gadget is that it ought to be able to compare itself, via direct electrical wiring, to another one purporting to be identical.
asciilifeform: storing bits that never need to flip again ought to be technologically simpler - on basic physical level - than the normal kind.
asciilifeform: standardize calendar sync. and snippet length - so if you own one, you will always know if it works - compare to another one for same time period
asciilifeform: 'How long can something be held as wrong before its practice is discontinued? A long, very long time, much longer than we think.' << from mp's taleb page. in our case, synchronous logic.
asciilifeform: mike_c: you couldn't find one example of ascii promoting s.nsa shares << well, let's be fair, i never said 'don't do it' - hence, wagen.
asciilifeform: the chumpers grow the 'corn'
asciilifeform: either that or mp has defective u.s. implant and i have a defective nsa camerabird.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, other_mp: ...board ignores atx shutdown << cpu is stopped
asciilifeform: unemployed nsa grunt
asciilifeform: lead-acid cell is good for half a dozen 'deep cycles' then it goes to the dump.
asciilifeform: given the track record, one almost imagines they'll jump in the pot voluntarily, so long as it's the fashionable thing to do.
asciilifeform: i've caught myself wondering if a 'cloud' company which explicitly promises to steal and use your data for whatever purpose, might be even cheaper.
asciilifeform: 'stooge' needn't imply awareness
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: here's a good educational example of how the founding premise of crap computing, 'you can abstract over complexity', is a lie: http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hacks.html#item154
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: urbit is actually a great example of what happens when some bozo thinks he can substitute mathematical trickery for understandability
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: problem is mundane/human rather than mathematical. excess complexity makes everyone who is trying to 'swallow' a discipline (or particular engineering design) stupider. quite like tying weights to a marathon runner.
asciilifeform: complete with heating systems, filtration gizmos, computer controls.
asciilifeform: the practical limit for 'shrinkflation' is, i imagine, the point where the pharmacy and its supply chain can no longer compete with your neighbour brewing soap from corpses or whatever in his cellar.
asciilifeform: ok since 'everyone' keeps asking, there is no (public) proof that discrete logarithm problem is np-complete. more interestingly, also no rigorous proof that rsa difficulty is equal to that of factoring problem.
asciilifeform: zeus trojan << very educational case. zeus is a very poorly designed turd, but it is smashingly popular on account of a thousand spamz0r idiots buying 'custom' builds and paying to have them spammed out to chumps. see also one of mp's old articles on spam being a 'cargo cult.'
asciilifeform: ^ example
asciilifeform: 'eagle', as i understand, is among the more impractical small arms ever sold
asciilifeform: 'some learn from book; others, from example; the rest must piss on the electric fence personally'
asciilifeform: the folks for whom these items are mandatory, 'national' clothing stay out. and don't seem to complain.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: only answer is, nothing within driving distance employs folks who could afford the land tax.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: mp on the subject - http://trilema.com/2013/the-corn-thing
asciilifeform: unwritten u.s. law - no house anywhere near a city, with working plumbing, not in 'live fire zone', etc. will be sold for 'pocket money' to a human (i.e. sans mortgage chumpatron)
asciilifeform: (on account of it being exempt from air pollution regulations, as i understand.)
asciilifeform: he refused to sign for it. ended up contacting various commercial disposal companies
asciilifeform: -- story interlude -- a lab i once worked in used to house such an experimenter. he was eventually caught in diverting his stash to the black market, and imprisoned. the next guy inherited a few kg of coke.
asciilifeform: Vexual: example of student cpu built with 74xxx logic: http://www.bigmessowires.com/nibbler
asciilifeform: lol. in the pic, it's empty.
asciilifeform: decimation: EC is a kind of 'devil's temptation' on account of compact keys.
asciilifeform: mike_c: EC-based keys << complicated subject. the only solidly established fact is that the american curves are to be avoided.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
asciilifeform: taking joy in having 'strong social media presence' would be rather like rejoicing in living next to a swamp, to have 'strong mosquito presence'
asciilifeform: the python linked earlier (diametric?) isn't a proper python, where the interpreter is available at run time, but, as i understand, a simple batch-mode compiler.
asciilifeform: lisp on a microcontroller that isn't optimized for high-level languages (a la the greenarrays forth chip) isn't much fun. it's like going back to the mid-80s, when microcomputer owners justifiably scoffed at 'slow' languages
asciilifeform: jurov: clisp builds on arm. but sbcl doesn't (the latter has no interpreter mode, it has a high quality optimizing - real time - compiler on x86 and a few other archs.)
asciilifeform: if your computer costs serious dough, a $1k power filter is small change.
asciilifeform: quite a few of the units you'll find on 'ebay' are labeled 'minicomputer transformer.' so, i imagine they were shipped with pdp and vax.
asciilifeform: decimation: it is very, very well known among computer users. behind the 'iron curtain.'
asciilifeform: author started by pissing all over every single advance in the history of the language - starting with lexical scope, moving on to compiler, etc
asciilifeform: Naphex: assuming an actual choice of instruments (rather major assumption) - sbcl.
asciilifeform: Naphex: given empty space?
asciilifeform: artifexd: if headline is genuine, the only real surprise is that apple had not attempted this earlier.
asciilifeform: from apple's point of view - it isn't quite enough to have an effective vendor lock-in through obj. c and the mac api - it is necessary to breed programmers who can't even -think- on a competing platform.
asciilifeform: (summary of some of the obstacles in the way of any serious attempt to ditch legacy crud while remaining even a little bit commercially viable)
asciilifeform: 'To be a viable computer system, one must honor a huge list of
asciilifeform: 'The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man,...'
asciilifeform: i've had this discussion with more people than i can count. and the only ones who 'grokked' the basic idea, were the ones who woke up to the realization that much of what we consider to be the 'inevitable' brokenness of computing infrastructure (ubiquitous bugs, e.g. buffer overflows, irreducible complexity of os, compilers) is anything but.
asciilifeform: jurov: see the dc current historical example.
asciilifeform: jurov: python, ruby, etc. are, arguably, cheap 'soviet style' copies of common lisp. as admitted by, for example, matsumoto (author of ruby)
asciilifeform: 'I remember someone saying that if it hadn't been for automatic switches in the telephone network, the entire population of planet earth would have had to be telephone operators to handle the load of telephone usage in 1993 or thereabout. I get the eerie feeling that because modern computer systems are so incredibly braindamaged in their design and in the tools used to program them, the entire population of pla
asciilifeform: situation was entirely analogous to the current one re: computing - in that the inferior technical solution would have been embraced readily by equipment makers, for whom the waste is a bonanza
asciilifeform: i often ask people to read about edison's dc current idiocy, and contemplate what would have happened if he had 'won'
asciilifeform: people who design baroque contraptions (ml, haskell, ocaml, go - tradition) for 'smarter compiler' - that ends up grinding the original semantics of a program into incomprehensible soup - as if god came and said to mortals to use pdp-11 forever - are solving the wrong problem.
asciilifeform: it is important to understand what a proper repl consists of. i.e. a bash loop that repeatedly calls a compiler is not a genuine repl.
asciilifeform: 'go' is funded by the same bozos who spend $billion on a company making GUI thermostats.
asciilifeform: diametric: every so often, folks invent another 'ocaml' - compiled language with 'strong typing.' you lose the REPL - you lose me.
asciilifeform: answer to keypad riddle, since nobody bothered attempting it: the dirtiest and most worn keys are the numerals in the code.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: re: elevator locks: a few years ago, a photo of a new york elevator key was posted on the net. people promptly rushed to their cnc lathes...
asciilifeform: missile lock is ceremonial item. in both american and russian procedural manuals, one turn-key is instructed to compel the other by force of arms if he refuses to carry out his half of the ritual.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: dark secret: mp studied maths, physics
asciilifeform: my uni's first computer was a d-17b
asciilifeform: mp provided a reason why to do it. and useful tips on related subjects.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1475 << mp, other friends, and an rng
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: i built the rng. yes, it is only one of the components.
asciilifeform: aside from this, even a hypothetically impregnable seal is an attack against the owner (he cannot examine the package either)
asciilifeform: decimation: LFSRs suck. and virtually every academic treatise on rng design assumes a very impoverished physical entropy source.
asciilifeform: joecool: 1) pc knows that dedicated crypto hardware is connected. compromised pc can then mitm the user.
asciilifeform: there's a reason everybody doesn't simply wear rifle range headphones on the plane
asciilifeform: imagine if 'la serenissima', old venice, had... a computer. what part of what we put up with, would they tolerate.
asciilifeform: perhaps after 'mad max', when a computer is no longer a cheap widget - but a _place_ - like the old church organs - people will give a fuck whether they work correctly
asciilifeform: it's about the fundamental impossibility of fully understanding wtf is actually taking place inside the box
asciilifeform: decimation: and cpu archs re-implement pdp-11 poorly, and again and again...
asciilifeform: given that most u.s. uni courses are priced per credit, few complain.
asciilifeform: as mp pointed out some time last week, dynamiting the permafrost to lay foundations is costly, etc.
asciilifeform: nobody is getting a house, in decent physical condition, near a major employment hub, for 10k. yet.
asciilifeform: i thought it meant 'employed as cryptographer'
asciilifeform: benkay: as described in my post (linked earlier.) it is easiest to ignore apple when one has no need for portable computer (i think it was mp, and a few others, who noted that they never needed a laptop)
asciilifeform: apple vacuuming up winblows escapees is not the complete picture. they also profited from the demise of sun, sgi, etc. - being the only remaining vendor of what amounts to '90-style 'unix workstation'
asciilifeform: ;;google plumpy interns taking turns many wonderful returns
asciilifeform: some will believe it, some won't, if the man is inclined to 'herodotus' the facts, he very well might succumb to temptation.
asciilifeform once allowed 100 usd to vanish into '401k' nonsense through slothful inaction (forgot to fill out form to zap it after it was issued by an employer)
asciilifeform: chumpatronics.
asciilifeform: (one could, in principle, take its real-time published trades and attempt buy/sell, see if it is matched at a particular offer, etc)
asciilifeform: (most folks who complain of burns from playing with biostimulators are getting exactly this)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the same way that jumping out of an airplane can be a good idea.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: somewhat tangentially, i notice that your illustrative examples of the ragged and starving are always grlz.
asciilifeform: as a teenager, i was kept in lavish supply hardware-wise just from what nearby (us) office parks dumped.
asciilifeform: how can one use anything resembling a functioning computer without ignoring patents?
asciilifeform: Drew: might be worth reading mp's essay on how retail ('coffee cup') usage is irrelevant
asciilifeform: (i, for those who don't know, ended up here entirely by fortune. invited by mpoepr/hanbot)
asciilifeform: (chumpatron exhaust stinks)
asciilifeform: one could argue that 'we' ought to still take an interest in these lost souls, if only to prevent them from ending as fuel, stoking chumpatron
asciilifeform: e.g. does a fellow who read the bitcoind src, satoshi paper, understood mostly - but then pisses away his stash into chumpatrons, 'competence' ?
asciilifeform: would be interesting to define 'bitcoin competence'
asciilifeform: somewhere there lives an answer to this question. but i've a dump truck to move.
asciilifeform: amplification of defect
asciilifeform: re: drone competition - flying machine enthusiasts are surprisingly tradition-bound
asciilifeform: ussr was set up as bone-simple, rather than optimal, apparatus.
asciilifeform: to folks with this particular form of brain damage, garbageman should seem like the height of occupational importance pyramid
asciilifeform: anyone who played on a swing as a child has experienced a pumped oscillator.
asciilifeform: '"We can turn your computer into a brick," U.S. officials told the
asciilifeform: 'bb' caliber cannons. or, alternatively and more simply, rams.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: going to sponsor a UFC fighter << never having known of 'UFC', i assumed that it referred to an 'unmanned flying competition' - i.e. drone dogfight tourney.
asciilifeform thinks back to the discussion of which animals to milk, held at mp's meetup.
asciilifeform: yeah i haven't kept up. no idea if there's a lockheed contract for trampoline yet.
asciilifeform: in other news: 'the U.S. should consider getting its astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline.'
asciilifeform: this is elementary chumpatronic engineering.
asciilifeform: much like a high vacuum system, familiar to physics students, tends to start with a mechanical pump, then turns on ion-diffusion or other high vacuum source.
asciilifeform: taking pre-orders for improbably nice electronics is a good preliminary filter for a chumpatron.
asciilifeform: it started as an importer of electronics, if i recall
asciilifeform: (phunphact. first tv ad i ever saw was for the mmm parent company)
asciilifeform: it is quite impossible to sell a vuln this way. other than to suckers, of course.
asciilifeform: tldr - ua gov. prepares to impale 'insurgents'.
asciilifeform: one option, riotously funny, was advertised on library wall. 'society against involuntary servitude' (an org run by 'randroids') that... campaigned against community serv. requirements.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what was the gpg competitor nsa was pushing << it was clipper. not strictly speaking a pgp competitor
asciilifeform: it does, however, allow you to drain them completely
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you imagine this situation of perfect loyalty and imperfect communications << point! the buggers are spotty even at using rsa. how do you say 'funkspiel' in english?
asciilifeform: if you're pumping out kWatts of whatever, wherever - you're a target.
asciilifeform: the point i wanted to make was that anything other than a very broad, military-style spread spectrum setup, with hop keys exchanged in person, is simply a beacon for the gasenwagen.
asciilifeform: but see mp's story of the last emperor.
asciilifeform: in a functioning empire, the penalty would be - sizzling in the electric chair. right there, in the bed of a specially-built police truck.
asciilifeform: eventually, the one or two remaining copper subscribers will complain. and perhaps it will be re-filled. or not.
asciilifeform: the one on my street emptied out a few years ago
asciilifeform: for example - moving into new house, i discovered a dangling stub where the old 'bell atlantic' copper ought to be.
asciilifeform: paradoxically, a return of the era when you must beg/borrow/steal genuine net access from employers, universities - could actually end 'eternal september.'
asciilifeform: the way i understand it, aol, compuserve, et al. died a very deserved market death
asciilifeform: accumulating equity for fully employed commuters who shop at the now defunct nearby mall. After the mortgages are foreclosed and the properties repossessed, what more is there to do, except board it all up and let it rot? Well, what has been developed can be just as easily undeveloped.'
asciilifeform: accumulating equity for fully employed commuters who shop at the now defunct nearby mall. After the mortgages are foreclosed and the properties repossessed, what more is there to do, except board it all up and let it rot? Well, what has been developed can be just as easily undeveloped.'
asciilifeform: famous example
asciilifeform: engineer would NOT think there are more important things in life << or, alternatively, stand up and fight to the death for la serenissima.
asciilifeform: complete with wsj, yahoo, macworld turds
asciilifeform: one is almost tempted to write a generator for these promos
asciilifeform: existing solely for the purpose of advancing mp's spammade
asciilifeform: anyway, for the noobs, the slavic languages are almost 'plug-compatible,' just gotta bend a few pins.
asciilifeform: happy w☭rkers' day, compadres.
asciilifeform: 'the attack requires sophisticated tools to extract the encryption keys, making it practically impossible for most people.'
asciilifeform: ends up being taught as a compendium of cookbook crap
asciilifeform: S.NSA to buy its own foundry << just came back from taking exact dimensions of new flat. not quite big enough for foundry. gonna have to be when i che guevara with mp in jungle.
asciilifeform: but we should all be prepared for the kind of treatment mp gets, at the very least.
asciilifeform: there's a 'fetish component'
asciilifeform: speaking of russia - they import derp by the boatload.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: build a succession of spacious yurts... when full, build a new one a little off, carry whatever pieces of the old << this is 'cheney's algorithm' for semispace garbage collection. i've always wanted to implement it in meatspace.
asciilifeform: generally, when making a few prototypes of something, simple tools suffice.
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