asciilifeform: jurov: http://trilema.com/2014/mpexrfc1/#comment-98982 << i must note that i can't stop a determined idiot from pulling his ROM and stowing the key somewhere
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you want the compiler to asm for you, vs. having to drop in a hex string and function ptr to it, compiler has to understand inline asm.
asciilifeform: anyone remember the 'magical decompiler' somebody planted in 'swag'? (actually the 'gold bug' virus)
asciilifeform: because optimizing compilers are bulky - and require serious thought to write
asciilifeform: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.lisp/BUxXH76CYdc/IunywkAxufMJ
asciilifeform: i can't wait for this fellow's Amazing RNG Improvement ideas.
asciilifeform: see mp's essay about 'your wife changes into dog'
asciilifeform: not familiar with the 'complex objects' in question.
asciilifeform: 'The "Elusive Joe" (Russian: Неуловимый Джо) has become an ironic nickname in Russia for various difficult-to-find persons (not necessarily unimportant ones). It is suggested that the nickname and the joke originated from a 1923 satirical novel An Elusive Enemy. American Novel by Mikhail Kozyrev (ru:Козырев, Михаил Яковлевич) which contained a funny song about a Joe who was e
asciilifeform: robwhiz22: cardano is co-authored by me & mp. not dictated by him as work for hire. (see s.nsa contract on mpex.co for who's who)
asciilifeform: they should just build a surrender pit for idiots to jump in.
asciilifeform: it is dog-slow - exactly what unfortunates who went to uni for 'comp sci' expect a lisp to be like.
asciilifeform: clisp as in 'common lisp' or the particular implementation thereof called 'clisp' ?
asciilifeform: (unless poor chumper ran with 'root' privs)
asciilifeform: it is indeed impossible to prove, with mathematical rigour, damn near anything
asciilifeform: i cannot emphasize this enough
asciilifeform: will be issued by a computer program, in absentia. In keeping with current practice, both the charge and the evidence will be kept secret. The newly minted felons will be dropped from voter rolls, their passports cancelled, their bank accounts confiscated, and their employment (if any) terminated. They will receive form letters informing them of their sentence but most of them will be unable to read it because
asciilifeform: 'With small businesses and private enterprise made illegal, most people will be forced to resort to illegal activities, under the watchful eye of the NSA. But since putting even more people in jail will be prohibitively expensive, a new, streamlined process of dispensing justice will be put into place: the NSA and the Justice Department will link computer systems, and verdicts of fraud and suspended sentences
asciilifeform: now, i hesitate to recommend them 'for everyone' - all i've had done there, is very simple boards.
asciilifeform: i'd be tempted to recommend... mine. but right now i've only a handful of them, and they aren't for sale yet.
asciilifeform: let's campaign to have this enforced!
asciilifeform: microcontroller microcircuits, manufactured from a compound
asciilifeform: "Microprocessor microcircuits", "microcomputer microcircuits" and
asciilifeform: mp spoke of this not long ago
asciilifeform: (yes mp some. not sure what he did with them)
asciilifeform: ;;google optical tempest
asciilifeform: these aren't 'defections,' any more than the proverbial rats who jump the sinking ship are 'mutineers.'
asciilifeform: the purpose of impossibly-hard targets isn't necessarily to protect valuables, but can be simply to torment the enemy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldn't hurt to implement 'port knocking'
asciilifeform: as in 19th c. 'company town'
asciilifeform: much of what the chumpers 'buying' houses in usa are paying for could be had for considerably smaller cost - e.g. physical security, caste isolation, etc.
asciilifeform: as if the money is actually their own, and not simply put in their hands for a few minutes to salivate over.
asciilifeform: but they aren't 'employees' in any sense
asciilifeform: decimation: the parsimonious hypothesis is much simpler - some people get access to what drips from the money printer pipeline by having the right friends
asciilifeform: kanzure: the way i understand it, this is not how markets actually work. if i'm the only one who knows how to build xxx, i don't get to collect $maxint for building an xxx. simply, xxx doesn't get made.
asciilifeform: but i dare say that you (and mp?) may be alone in this weight class, among us
asciilifeform: kanzure: if you're the kind of hero who can demand 300k without ever having to physically meet a client, attend a whatever board, deliver physical samples in person, etc - more power to you
asciilifeform: kanzure: you're in mp's weight class, then.
asciilifeform: except in the wonderful case described earlier, where a chumper pays $250k to live near 300k job
asciilifeform: kanzure: the poll (even if we assume that every answer was truthful and representative of something) isn't particularly useful, because it lumps in things which are quite unlike.
asciilifeform: engineer who has to pay $100k to live within range of his $150k employer, cannot be described even as 'well to do'
asciilifeform: high talent individuals go to silicon valley << world-renowned chumpatron. leaving aside the question of whether the folks there 'work' (in the sense of producing anything valuable) - they get sheared very properly, for much of what they make - at least the ones who wouldn't care to commute 4 hrs/day
asciilifeform: escape isn't impossible, but requires reaching 'escape velocity'
asciilifeform: there is, for instance, a kind of gristly and sinewy chump that grinds apart in the chumpatron very reluctantly
asciilifeform: i started looking for new flat soon after mp's essay on 'bezzle dollar' and thought it was hilariously fitting
asciilifeform: chumper 'buys' a house, wants to move, discovers that he'll be stuck paying for the rest of his natural life for a house he isn't living in
asciilifeform: on top of this, it is virtually impossible to rent a house at all where i live.
asciilifeform: so the early transistor, for a while, could not compete on price.
asciilifeform: this was actually a serious leap in vacuum tube tech - they didn't need to be pumped, or made of glass
asciilifeform: jurov: something like edison's mercury pump, i believe.
asciilifeform: if embarking on this, get an ion diffusion 2nd stage pump from a university surplus. $100 or so where i live.
asciilifeform: a human compiler is a kind of wretch, usually overseas, who is nominally paid to turn 'human' language spec into a program.
asciilifeform: the latter usually referring to a 'human compiler'
asciilifeform: i've actually seen people describe employing 'programmers' and 'coders' both
asciilifeform: complete with escritoire, if i recall.
asciilifeform: in wash. d.c., there is a private museaum, 'crime & punishment', with famous electric chairs, etc. they also have a reconstructed example of such a jail cell
asciilifeform: ended in a mistrial, and the next set of jury chumpers naturally won't be told anything, everyone pretends the 1st go never happened, etc.
asciilifeform: re: usb: it is important to remember that using winblows is a strictly voluntary surrender.
asciilifeform: (trivial example: anything that enciphers/deciphers)
asciilifeform: these people claim (not entirely implausible) to be the largest employer of math phd types in the usa
asciilifeform: for those who remember mp's essay about bezzle-dollars:
asciilifeform: aside from 'have useful idea, mp might invite you as co-author'
asciilifeform: how difficult is it to get listed on mpex... kakobrekla asciilifeform etc could comment on it << i still have no idea what to say to hypothetical random people who want to be listed.
asciilifeform: 'It couldnt be stupider, and thats why its brilliant, he concluded.' << me brain dumped core.
asciilifeform: not my fault these bozos bought the world's only reasonably-complete usenet archive.
asciilifeform: example of quality mocsny:
asciilifeform: it seems odd, to say the least, to lump together projects done on embezzled government coin, and ones planned/ordered by bureaucrats.
asciilifeform: antephialtic: correct. and, if you're clever, you can have difficulty ramp up to outpace any conceivable growth in vlsi density.
asciilifeform: didn't i post a perfectly usable counter-example?
asciilifeform: would devastate any land over which it happened to hover. But by now the Armywanted it as badly as any of the dozens of states, thousands of companies and
asciilifeform: the rubber company settled for a contract to provide the giant hovercraft
asciilifeform: hundred yards). Unless a complete rubber factory were taken on board#one of
asciilifeform: the interests of a large rubber company. But the number of tires required
asciilifeform: The major ship-building and steel companies were behind it, as were several of
asciilifeform: would devastate any land over which it happened to hover. But by now the Armywanted it as badly as any of the dozens of states, thousands of companies and
asciilifeform: the rubber company settled for a contract to provide the giant hovercraft
asciilifeform: hundred yards). Unless a complete rubber factory were taken on board#one of
asciilifeform: the interests of a large rubber company. But the number of tires required
asciilifeform: The major ship-building and steel companies were behind it, as were several of
asciilifeform: ...and folks who don't even bother, and scamplan from beginning.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'he either buys a beer for whatever famished kid working in whatever poor quality website design shop to obtain credentials, or perhaps just simply is the famished kid in question' << sadder than that. the creds typically come from an idiot inside a given shop who bit a trojan hook himself.
asciilifeform: for what it's worth, i had (empty) accounts on both.
asciilifeform: i confess that i wonder when i too will be featured on the 'secret soldier-shills of satanix mpex' lists the lamers are so fond of now.
asciilifeform: not the friction. the gas compression in front of it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ordinary 'heat pipe' works great, so long as you have a massive sink on the other side. heat pipe can be thought of as a refrigerator without a compressor.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: magneto-hydrodynamic coolant pump ? one sees them in patents often, but for some reason never in pc.
asciilifeform: it isn't a rack company - all vm, afaik
asciilifeform: incompetence + persistence ~= malice.
asciilifeform: ;;google an officer without a sword is improperly dressed
asciilifeform: compared with theatrical junk
asciilifeform: afaik he's still alive, somewhere in ohio (u.s.) but only posts to groups re: competitive bicycling
asciilifeform: derstood as an attempt by men to democratize the experience of enjoying beautiful women. So far, technology hasnt been up to the taskactual beautiful women are still betterbut technology will keep improving.)'
asciilifeform: ntract, they would all be merely average again in the eyes of women. (Consider that the average US working stiff is fantastically wealthy in Medieval terms, but modern US women have simply raised their materialistic requirements commensurately.)
asciilifeform: 'The in-laws wont be as much of a problem either because the male in-laws will be preoccupied with sexbots of their own, therefore they will have less time on their hands to spend meddling in the lives of their relatives. At family gatherings, the men will gather around to trade sexbot programs, while the women will gather to complain about the mens sexbots. Or may women will play with their catbots and
asciilifeform: tg2: that, or rubber bumpers.
asciilifeform: and people are stuck having to compute the state transitions for the whole field, as many times as specified
asciilifeform: so long as you use an automaton that has been proven turing-complete, and use a reasonably entropic starting field state, you're pretty much safe from shortcuts
asciilifeform: and a turing-complete automaton
asciilifeform: given that GOL is proven turing-complete, it would follow that there is no generic shortcut to nth-state
asciilifeform: because it no longer compresses.
asciilifeform: incidentally, hashlife starts grinding to sub-naive speed if your playing field is complex
asciilifeform: but no known counter-example either.
asciilifeform: in that the answer is very compact
asciilifeform: here's a simple one
asciilifeform: because of the 'disparate impact' (actual legal term) standard established by griggs
asciilifeform: back we go, to the days of microcomputing with tv sets
asciilifeform: idea was to get rid of the wretches hand-carrying samples to/from instruments
asciilifeform: the plexiglass one - how are you pumping? SAW resonator?
asciilifeform: how hard is it to simply sit on coin?
asciilifeform: does the chumpatronium never run out?
asciilifeform: attach to a cable made with two segments of mismatched impedence
asciilifeform: mismatched impedence -> also reflections. undergrad physics.
asciilifeform: the 'lumped element model' of electronics was ok for the first half of 20th c.
asciilifeform: homework: calculate 'if the chinese jumped.'
asciilifeform: mp wins 'fermi' prize.
asciilifeform: so, mp is quite close.
asciilifeform: incidentally, the same tech could easily test the composition of a drug (pharmacy or back alley, user's choice)
asciilifeform: the difference is important (expensive, disposable, slow) vs. reusable (cheap), compact, fast.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not banned as such. but the 'holy grail' that could have eradicated the virus, a pocket-sized instant electronic gizmo, sat in a glass case at one of my old employers' facility
asciilifeform: i can think of one example
asciilifeform: does this sort of thing even have a name << chumpatron.
asciilifeform: competent burglar can trip over a miraculous surprise and end in jail
asciilifeform: re: mircea_popescu's thoughts the other day about bank accounts being mandatory in u.s. - typically, when you sign up for direct deposit of salary here, you also sign a pact that allows the employer to withdraw.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linked to me once, a few years ago, describing as 'the moldbug of computing.' not sure if complement or curse.
asciilifeform: once again, i can't say that this scenario is impossible. just that it includes an extraordinary level of 'personal attention' from bureaucrats who would normally rather play tetris
asciilifeform: not that this situation is impossible - but most large co.s have a third party run their chumpatronics
asciilifeform: one can still decide on the degree to which to play the chumpatron. no one is forced to buy 401k, yet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 401k-dollar and the cocaine-stained-dollar << nobody forces people to jump in chumpatron
asciilifeform: so perhaps peak chump is now. or, shortly.
asciilifeform: do we get to see 'Peak Chump' ?
asciilifeform: re: kraken et al: makes me wonder how much chumpatronium fuel is left.
asciilifeform: 'I think this is going to create a huge opportunity for hosted wallets, says Jered Kenna, a bitcoin entrepreneur and the CEO of Moneyandtech.com. He believes that the smart bitcoin wallet makers will simply be able to add this as a service, tracking the capital gains and losses as you spend your bitcoins through the year, and maybe even issuing you a convenient 1099 at the end of the year.'
asciilifeform pictures some wretch, perhaps in india, employed as a human gribble.
asciilifeform: http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Amphenol-Aerospace/PC4-200P/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMvffgRu4KC1Rym5G2e07AhcHXsxtPpqbeA%3d
asciilifeform: it is no coincidence, though, that ms became synonymous with 'home computer' in the 90s and not earlier.
asciilifeform: the notion that ms turdware is a product of any kind of free market or competition on technical merit is a real comedy.
asciilifeform: Officially, all Soviet representatives regard these parasites with touching feelings of friendship, but privately they call them 'shit-eaters' ('govnoed'). It is difficult to say where this expression originated, but it is truly the only name they deserve. The use of this word has become so firmly entrenched in Soviet embassies that it is impossible to imagine any other name for these people. A conversation mi
asciilifeform: afaik all of these folks (or younger successors) are still employed
asciilifeform: freedos, last i checked, wasn't 'bug for bug compatible' with msdos.
asciilifeform: novusordo: what prompts? last i saw, 'trezor' had no keyboard
asciilifeform: 'Four New York-area men were arrested Monday after a base jumping stunt from atop One World Trade Center in September, police said. James Brady, Kyle Hartwell, Marko Markovich, and Andrew Rossig have been charged with burglary, reckless endangerment and jumping from a structure, according to a statement issued by NYPD Commissioner William Bratton.'
asciilifeform: ow, because of our folly, nationalism, unwillingness to hear each other - Yugoslavia is no more, and we - are now pimples on the political map of Europe, new markets for their overpriced garbage and for American democracy.' (- from the last interview given by Slobodan Milosevic, not long after he was 'accidentally' given the wrong heart meds. Translation mine.)
asciilifeform: and now for something completely different:
asciilifeform: example, from one's tool drawer. i recently happened to buy an oscilloscope. it can sample signals at 1GHz, despite having no component therein operating above 100MHz.
asciilifeform: and suspend it a cm or so above the table, in a clamp, from said cup
asciilifeform: primary was shaped in such a way that it needed 1) the explosive compression and, 2) a certain blast from neutron generator tube - to pop - and (2) would vary in strength based on background
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was it you who had a piece about 'temperature' ?
asciilifeform: i saw a much simpler (cable-driven) version of this being used right here on my street.
asciilifeform: household example would be a smoke alarm that goes off every time you overcook a potato
asciilifeform: as discussed in mp's essay
asciilifeform: the uni where i studied 'comp sci' has abolished many of the hardest items in the syllabus (or made them optional)
asciilifeform: benkay: re: 'w. in comp.' - the maggots on the corpse, are not the murder weapon.
asciilifeform: th threats. Some members of Thinking Machines' board suddenly seemed to realize that the person who had been running the company all those years had no business skills. The board discussed dumping Handler, but she managed to get her biggest enemies there kicked off.'
asciilifeform: n for a CM-5 sweatshirt and then rejected it. While the company was sinking, she focused her attention on putting out a cookbook with recipes from the company's now-infamous cafeteria. Increasingly paranoid, she had a video camera aimed at her personal parking spot and, by some accounts, made people take meetings with her in her parked car. She hired a bodyguard, telling her colleagues that she had received dea
asciilifeform: 'The first round of layoffs had started. Salaries were frozen. Requests for new laptop computers were being denied. Meanwhile, Handler had an enormous marble archway installed in the atrium of the Carter Ink Building. When a national supercomputer conference was held in Seattle, she decided to stay in San Francisco and commute to Seattle from the swank Stanford Court Hotel. She commissioned a $40,000 logo desig
asciilifeform: ;;google phillip greenspun women computing
asciilifeform: with the trend for centralization (everybody but a few weirdos runs 'arm' chips, compiles c/cpp) it 'works'
asciilifeform: his several dozen grad students - not one could write a simple program for an embedded cpu.
asciilifeform: this incident showed all the symptoms of 'bite of the cornered beast.'
asciilifeform: this particular broom actually fires small-caliber quite well. in every OCR app, for example.
asciilifeform: re: thinking machines, see mp's 'tin woman' essay.
asciilifeform: re: the dope: simply owning the 'pill press' required to stamp the pictured items is quasi-illegal in usa
asciilifeform: to solve very simple arithmetic problems
asciilifeform: 'Did it compile?' << i should hope that you are joking re: this being a standard of success in your work
asciilifeform: i still think it possible that there are competent people, but 'dark matter' because why should they talk.
asciilifeform: (re: 'how computer thinks')
asciilifeform: in my ad hoc lexicun, 'chumpatronium'
asciilifeform: a videoclip of a fairy tale coming true... ...they [americans] also wish to drive around in jeeps, accompanied by squadrons of hotties in berets with kalashnikovs - but are impotent from birth. Envy, taken with an understanding of one's own powerless... easily transforms into hatred. The leaders of the sanitarium are easier for the 'patient' to understand, closer. He sees their permissible pecadillos, and is pl
asciilifeform: 'Among all of the crimes, the most terrible (though not punishable) is the crime against one's own self -- the failure of an individual to use his own, only life. Listen to the idiotic musical noises, park the car, labour in the light but uninteresting work, and before you know it, your tenure upon this earth is over. The collective, so-called 'civilized mankind,' has excelled in the creation of (and imposition
asciilifeform: decimation: all of the materials presently available to public are on mp's site (with the exception of several photos that live on mine.)
asciilifeform: i believe this was described in one of mp's articles.
asciilifeform: mp in washington post!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: are you coming to mp's party?
asciilifeform: computer industry in 1 sentence.
asciilifeform: (it is a pure dynamic compiler - no interpreter at all)
asciilifeform: 'sbcl,' for instance, runs at close to the speed of compiled 'c' when used intelligently
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: here, for instance, is an example of a minimal lisp in ~500 lines of C: https://github.com/qyqx/small-lisp/blob/master/sl3.c
asciilifeform: i don't even code << probably more first-rate heads have been ruined by programming computers than dope
asciilifeform: journarasts fear real-time net witnesses in exactly the same way that mythological vampire fears sunlight and crucifix
asciilifeform: [insert the obligatory 'idots cannot imagine competence in others' bit here]
asciilifeform: anyone who voluntarily does business with them is chumpatron fuel
asciilifeform: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39377851/ns/world_news-europe/t/segway-company-owner-rides-scooter-cliff-dies/
asciilifeform: diametric: afaik the only well-known, interesting place where key can never be changed is mpex
asciilifeform: intent is for the product to be priced competitively vs. the state-of-the-art alternative (i.e. the traditional '90s laptop with linux/gpg in ROM)
asciilifeform: mp proposed a tentative price at one point, but that was some time ago
asciilifeform: antephialtic: there is to be a cardano at mp's party. if you really can't wait, you can come and buy that one.
asciilifeform: 'buck converter' is more efficient, in that it works by letting a cap charge to the desired voltage and then empty into another
asciilifeform: afaik it's only ever done to zap potential competition of 'favorite son' dod contractors.
asciilifeform: my impression was that he suggested coupling a bitbet-like apparatus to a trading bot.
asciilifeform: what prevents 'ordinary investor' from simply buying btc somewhere?
asciilifeform: Ademan: how does WoT = IP << see mp's piece on how 'the same string, emitted from different mouths, is worth different amount'
asciilifeform: benderp: impalement (of the king vlad, rather than assyrian, variety) was a much more leisurely affair
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the air compressor story is inescapably linked in my mind with Latvia.
asciilifeform: so u.s. bureaucrats are not harmless merely because of their everyday impotence.
asciilifeform: no need to go far for other examples. fbi, for instance, mainly relies on entrapment to manufacture 'terrorists'
asciilifeform: all of these tentacles limp along, until they encounter... a meal.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doesn't seem to work terribly well. perhaps my hands simply don't grow from the correct place.
asciilifeform: obstruct vision, living arrangements all thought through and everything.' (mp's http://trilema.com/2012/strategic-superiority-a-saga)
asciilifeform: petent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or whatever theyre called now, non-lethal something or the other) to correctly handle them. They have the chemicals, theyve done the research, know the behavioural patterns, have the walls all built to
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: 'Honest toil not so much, but honest cunning aplenty in this fabled subsection of the population, the offensively stupid poor. The costs of the strategic mistake of dealing with them are huge. Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations com
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: see mp's piece on why it is unwise to become embroiled in the making of products for idiots.
asciilifeform: afaik the only software today 'specifically targeted at mac users' is the nickel-and-dime chumpatron where these folks pay $20/each for a hundred little gui utilities that'd be a 1-line bash script on an ordinary computer
asciilifeform: people teaching everything from number theory to marksmanship complain about this.
asciilifeform: 'endless war and endless underfeeding for the sake of war, slave populations toiling behind barbed wire, women dragged shrieking to the block, cork-lined cellars where the executioner blows your brains out from behind. So it appears that amputation of the soul isn't just a simple surgical job, like having your appendix out. The wound has a tendency to go septic.' (orwell's 'notes on the way')
asciilifeform: sure, but in the 'microscope is backwards-compatible with hammer' sense.
asciilifeform: possible that ltc market has become 'lightweight' enough to simply 'throw'
asciilifeform: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-18/28-year-old-former-jpmorgan-banker-jumps-his-death-latest-series-recent-suicides
asciilifeform: imprisonment-for-hire ?
asciilifeform: Shakespeare: scroll up for coin-operated public impregnatrons.
asciilifeform: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270619/Sharia-saw-Iran-releases-pictures-brutal-amputation-machine-chopping-mans-fingers-bid-clamp-election-dissent.html
asciilifeform: Shakespeare: not unlike asking 'is a leader who imposes law resulting in more steel production smart' ?
asciilifeform: damn, thought that was the post where you described automatic 'public impregnators' for japan
asciilifeform: better example, buzz of the fly
asciilifeform: putin's position with respect to the u.s. is roughly similar to mpex vs. the btc wankiverse
asciilifeform: i personally have attempted, on occasion, to make it go.
asciilifeform: it is not easy to describe, accurately and completely, the nato block's policy of nation-wrecking using something other than 'russian' terms. but you're welcome to try.
asciilifeform: people who apply 'human morality' to the logic of empire are weird.
asciilifeform: what would be needed for non-emptiness? a resurrected hitler?
asciilifeform: 'Russia promised to respond symmetrically. In its arsenal is: popping the huge financial bubble and causing a resumption of the financial collapse of 2008 by any number of means, from requiring gold instead of fiat currency as payment for oil and gas, to dumping US dollar reserves (in concert with China), to putting the EU on a fast track to economic collapse by giving the natural gas valve a slight clock
asciilifeform: there is a very simple mitigation strategy. you don't need to burgle ft. meade to learn it.
asciilifeform: but if you take raspi, or pc on your desk, or whatnot, and remove the diseased meat, you will have... an empty crate.
asciilifeform: it means, roughly, 'emptiness'
asciilifeform: ;;google NONSTOP TEMPEST
asciilifeform: but essence is: there is an amplifier. it takes a small signal, uses it to modulate a carrier wave
asciilifeform: (not to be confused with 'TEMPEST')
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: suggested experiment. take a radio transmitter (a household walkie-talkie will do) and transmit, with a computer sitting nearby.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: it's on mp's site, he's co-author
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: did i just fall through time warp? 'mpex' not built yet?
asciilifeform: sometimes you just can't play. i, for instance, might like to start a pharma company, but i checked my sofa cushions and there is not $1B to be found therein
asciilifeform: and implied values thereof
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: traditionally, one first secures capital and only then gets on the hook for business obligations (employees, factory floor, etc.)
asciilifeform: just take one of the loyal men and order him to get temporary job and borrow.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in case this isn't obvious, it is trivial to patch a chump's ms-outlook to color a mal-signed message the requisite colour.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you recall, i found you in the first place because of a letter from mpoepr. she was never anything other than impeccably polite to me.
asciilifeform: dub: other than the factoid that they employ folks to steal poorly-secured traditional chumpnets, this is uninteresting.
asciilifeform: whole thing probably was an ms-word template left over from '90s
asciilifeform: the most effective cell jammer doesn't simply piss out white noise, but emulates a functioning tower - one which happens to route calls into '/dev/null'
asciilifeform: they stamp out their own 'arm' clone now
asciilifeform: reminiscent of mp's piece re: spam being largely a cargocult