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: mircea_popescu, other_mp: ...board ignores atx shutdown << cpu is stopped
asciilifeform: unemployed nsa grunt
asciilifeform: http://spsc.googlecode.com/files/Turchin.-The.Language.REFAL.-.The.Theory.of.Compilation.and.Metasystem.Analysis.%281980%29.djvu
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: 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: mdev: mp had an entirely unrelated argument (in favour of reusing) - http://trilema.com/2014/why-exactly-reusing-bitcoin-addresses-strengthens-bitcoin-user-anonimity
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: mircea_popescu: http://www.okokchina.com/Files/uppic23/Sell%20USB%20Universal%20Tool%20Bag_Computer%20Usb%20Cable%20Kit286.jpg << example of pill against this
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: 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: 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: 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: small summary: http://cryptome.org/nsa-tempest.htm
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: 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: ('unusual diode FAQ.' http://margo.student.utwente.nl/el/componen/diodefaq.html)
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.
asciilifeform: little box, control dial, pedal, two hoses (one to compressor, one to syringe)
asciilifeform: paste pump consists of the very same syringe, but farts out puffs of air of controlled volume
asciilifeform: (chinese paste pump, about 100 usd)
asciilifeform: one can apply paste with stencil, or with pump, or even... toothpick. but this subject is beaten to death elsewhere.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a soviet variant, where the 'horned man', an old army officer, answers 'better to eat honey in company than - shit, by one's lonesome'
asciilifeform: it's still there, pumping valiantly to stay above waterline.
asciilifeform: man never really moved 'beyond' what archaeologists call 'sympathetic magic' (as in 'voodoo doll')
asciilifeform: yubi, by all indications, is designed to resist any attempt to determine whether it leaks key. therefore i must assume that it does.
asciilifeform: all of the traditional crapola is present. enforced and perpetual dependence on the vendor, for example.
asciilifeform: that is decorated with alchemical symbols, in order to seem impenetrable to naive buyer
asciilifeform: like the 'sovereign citizen' crackpots mp had an essay about
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-complexity-of-life-a-triad/#comment-99355
asciilifeform: sub's gonna need wheels, so we can pick up mp
asciilifeform: then convince mp to go kazahstan next year - pet manul
asciilifeform: kakobrekla needs amphibious car
asciilifeform: 'rio' mp3 player.
asciilifeform: speaking of, if anybody wants a 'compact' dead lang, - old norse
asciilifeform: let me guess, heat pump.
asciilifeform: a little like the diff. between 'mp3' and 'wav'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: tried it on recorded data stream from 'btc-e'. 'won' on some segments, lost on others. then mp gave me a demo account on mpex, where bots do no good, and i lost interest
asciilifeform: jurov: at the time i simply itched to write 'something with ai' that 'could money'
asciilifeform: moiety could also escape, meet pampas cat.
asciilifeform: ;;google pampas cat
asciilifeform: in argentina, there is 'pampas cat' instead
asciilifeform: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-24/52-year-old-french-banker-jumps-her-death-paris-after-questioning-her-superiors
asciilifeform: ;;google Barry Kidston MPTP
asciilifeform: my first guess was MPTP.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: amphetamine isn't magic. see:
asciilifeform: (ignore the thread titles, these were strictly psychiatric ruminations, nothing to do with programming computer)
asciilifeform: it's simply that it's a bitch
asciilifeform: 'all which is not forbidden is compulsory'
asciilifeform: benkay: hanbot aka mpoepr
asciilifeform: with some very simplish silicon inside.
asciilifeform: just ampoules of inconel alloy, straddling the thermocline.
asciilifeform: just example.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crew man #5 (TaT) sort of reminds me of my first exposure to MPEx.
asciilifeform: and not simply because this toilet is bigger than my living room
asciilifeform: smpif sounds neat but too big for me puny brain.
asciilifeform: the power to make the impossible quite possible << Führerprinzip, the elixir of shit getting done.
asciilifeform: this is possible in fiat just fine << various 'impossibles' are quite possible when they must.
asciilifeform: more seriously, virtually nothing re: cryptology from the era preceding modern computing is worth terribly much.
asciilifeform: MPIF ?
asciilifeform: what can compare to slipping a 'drowned' video board (all-snow display) into a chum's box at night.
asciilifeform: the baby will incubate in the '90s 'elbrus' supercomputer
asciilifeform: there's a certain engineering dynamic at work, where the poor schmuck begins to contemplate what it would take to -actually- solve the problem, and then his starfish begins to pucker
asciilifeform imagines the moneyed idiot who launches a 'pc-compatible' running existing softs, for security-critical application
asciilifeform: e.g. computer suitable for the application.
asciilifeform: alexsanjose: simplified portuguese << as in 'africaans' vs dutch ?
asciilifeform: re: cooking with acetylene - fellow DIY crackpot suggested to me, hooking an oxygen cylinder to the air intake of laser cutter in place of compressor
asciilifeform: can't recall the last time using stamp
asciilifeform: ;;google lumped approximation
asciilifeform: i deserved this computer. and, apparently, some people today, still deserve.
asciilifeform: 'here's yer computer'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: solvency-verifier << when i was a little boy, me brother said 'i shall build you a computer.' (he had one, a rarity, i was envious and annoying)
asciilifeform: and see, if i had this in me pocket, could've found which of the twelve beagles would relay orders to my canine empire.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the point of carrying minesweeper isn't usually so you can jump on the best mine.
asciilifeform: ;;google histocompatibility sweat
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: no vamps tho << should've gone with me on expedition at night. i flushed out the wild dog packs that i -knew- existed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: weev article << 'TRO LLC (yes, the troll corporation), based in generating actionable financial intelligence from the computer underground. The primary strategy will be short equities' << poor sod, sits in usa, waits for nailgun.
asciilifeform: complicated, to say 'book is dead.' books of horoscopes and dream divinations still printed by the zillion, 'soviet encyclopaedia of physics' - not.
asciilifeform: when the famous Kamkin bookstore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kamkin_Bookstore) imploded, they sold things by the pound, and opened up all of the 'backstage' rooms to customers. in one, i found... a '40s vintage printing press.
asciilifeform: the 2nd generation lumpenizes, and can't be used.
asciilifeform: incidentally, this is why 'they import fresh mexicans,' etc.
asciilifeform: in usa, they broke the mechanism that separates the usefully servile class from 'lumpens.' sort of like growing edible mushrooms in a bathroom infested by mold, because, hey, you can.
asciilifeform: or do the servants simply take six buses to the manor and back?
asciilifeform: 'The Google Bus protesters have said that the company should build housing on its campus, but the Mountain View city council has explicitly forbidden Google from doing just that. Theyve argued that its to protect the citys burrowing owl population.' << real estate parasites want to live too
asciilifeform: '...If the number of cement chunks falling out of your bridge keeps doubling, you can compute the moment when every last piece of the bridge will be in the river, and that is your upper bound.'
asciilifeform: 300k+, whether there are 10 or 100 empties nearby.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the simplest test of rng bias involves exactly this kind of calculation
asciilifeform: see mp's essay re: how dog sees every other creature as a type of dog
asciilifeform: yes, the fellow who builds the mythical magic reactor surely needs $15k of 'invest' and a spell in trendoid bootcamp.
asciilifeform: then again, the folks who (see mp's essay) reinvented caesar's cipher might well use it.
asciilifeform: simplest scheme - straight payload in low bits of colour channels.
asciilifeform: this is actually a very tame hypothesis. intel agencies traditionally plant dangles for their colleagues of other (not necessarily unfriendly) kingdoms. and, given the u.s. being a fractured empire, why not dangles for... their fellows.
asciilifeform: not to plant evidence for any court, of course. for the consumption of... fellow 'intel' folks.
asciilifeform: a gaggle of idiots was prodded, by american police, into paying to have a (physically wildly implausible) x-ray cannon 'built'
asciilifeform: does sunlight only work against vampires? what does one zap spammers with?
asciilifeform: <robwizz22> complete lie, meant to play on people's recognition of the word "heartbleed bug" without knowing what it is. There is no SSL anywhere within 100 miles of a Cardano, nor did I ever mention it. You seem to be playing off of your audience's ignorance. Is this really want you want to be doing with your life? Selling snake oil? Being a fraud?
asciilifeform: <robwizz22> the shelf usb storage to store a private key and pass phrase). You are lying about its benefits. You've come up with something absolutely and utterly useless. If it's a scam, good job. I like how you spread FUD about me trying to "introduce heartbleed" (which doesn't make any sense - the Cardano is a USB device) when I pointed this out. You obviously are smart enough to know that is a simple a
asciilifeform: <robwizz22> Just so you know, I am an individual like you - NOT with any organization. I am not in any way associated with the NSA or other organization. On the other hand, you seem to be following their M.O. and trying to weaken security. You are basically simply committing fraud. What you've designed to date is totally useless and 100 times less secure than not buying any such device at all (i.e. using o
asciilifeform: the simpler the metabolism, the more so.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if i recall, the original script for the film called for the robot overlords to use mankind as distributed computing elements, rather than 'batteries'
asciilifeform: strap a 'peltier' to your wrist. body heat. a milliamp or so.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: buy a 'traser' keychain. solar cells. you can get a few microamps.
asciilifeform: 'ipnohe' battery - 1.430 ampere-hours, 3.7v
asciilifeform: anyone remember the toy where a set of small pins is mounted in a frame - press in hand, and an impression of hand protrudes from the other side of the box ?
asciilifeform: clinton puts on parachute and jumps first.
asciilifeform: i still can't figure out why google had to reimplement 'D'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: conformal co. - the reimplement bitcoind folks?
asciilifeform: that is, folks who are willing to take the time to understand the design - or are on speaking terms with a competent engineer, who will - before putting it to use in anger.
asciilifeform: robwhiz22: take a moment to contemplate this.