asciilifeform: the oasis may be crowded and full of shit but is still oasis
BingoBoingo: Well, the taco commander had to get paid
mircea_popescu: then again i suppose there's some middle aged lawyers somewhere that remember the days facebook was really cool.
mircea_popescu: i remember the days, back when the mothers of the current crop of internet kids were still sucking cock on public grounds, that slashdot was really cool.
asciilifeform: what, word 'block' does not even exist for these folk outside of bitcoin terminology ?
asciilifeform: now what i don't grasp is how the bitcoin block size thing wormed its way into that thread
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform finding threads for events after the event is a fun sort of historical game. nevertheless, the events are the events.
mircea_popescu: derp #2 : Nothing. The guy is just a fool who believes that bigger block size is better. He's a very obvious sufferer of the Dunning Kruger effect [wikipedia.org]
mircea_popescu: ake this postining). Even the NSA trusts AES enough to certify it for use protecting top secret information."
mircea_popescu: derp #1 : "What is wrong with existing block ciphers like AES? AES has been in widespread use for over a decade and to the best of my knowledge, there is still no practical attack on it (unless someone has built a working quantum computer and not told anyone about it). Its totally free of patents and IP issues. Its been implemented in a huge variety of hardware and software (including the Intel CPU that I am using to m
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i saw the 'multicore' fad as more or less equivalent to a public proclamation of 'moore's law is dead'
BingoBoingo: It's amazing the people still around https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-February/012359.html
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1398004 << this is glorious, can we get the knowing-things fella in here somehow ?
asciilifeform: what there ~was~ is some vague 'hope of comeback' from magical wunderwaffen fabrication tech
mircea_popescu: there's all this constant "oh i know why this person that's better than me did what he did, let me tell you!" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: I think I know what (s)he is talking about - it's similar to this one https://vimeo.com/7125141 [vimeo.com] , and involves MP breaking down in the face of confrontation. Not necessarily crying per se, but he acts like a kid who has been told he can't go out and play until he eats his broccoli. Might even be the same event, but this video was put out by MP and is edited to make MP look good, at least in his own eyes. <<
asciilifeform: there is NEVER any shortage of folks who will do $work for $maxint. they will fly down from mars if you pay enough.
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 16:33:13; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397760 << wasn't it just last year the vc circus was special pleading up and down the ying-yang that there's a horrible unmeetable demand ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397985 << there is an eternal unmet demand of folks who will do $work for ~$free. hence indians imported, etc.
mircea_popescu: and it is routine for rapists to kill their victims, in same anglo world. what of it ?
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 16:30:26; mircea_popescu: dude... fuck delusional "courts bans". no court has the power to prevent public communication OF ANYTHING.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the 100k is a salary, 100 years of that buys you a house where your job is. you denying this ?
mircea_popescu: this is better than the circus.
mircea_popescu: movingkeys over the wire!
mircea_popescu: from same person, five minutes later, "Wait. 'Uses a 64 kbyte key' - is he mad? Does he realize the trouble he will have to go through when he has to transport over a network, or do a key agreement on, keys of that size?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "- He says current block ciphers suck. Why? It doesn't really become clear from the discussion, which seems to be between two people who have heard a little bit about cryptography, and are trying to outdo each other in what little knowledge they have."
mircea_popescu: of course you can get the exact same also free, but then again that requires "skill".
mircea_popescu: you can buy the same results from google for ~ 1-300 bucks, and seeing how slashdot has 15 items per first page and apparently a new set daily, the upper bound of its productive value would then be somewhere between 45000 and say 100k per month.
mircea_popescu: 19ish to 14ish let's say, about 19 hours. the net value of being a majorily contested news item on slashdot first page is ~3500 unique visitors, ~4500 pages read for an average of 1.28 (or in practice, using the 1% rule, ~3 people read the news item and left, ~300 people read 3-4 pages each and may be back).
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 13:58:34; pete_d_out: speaking of power consumption and moore's law, i hadn't realised that intel had claimed that the ~pentium 4~ would reach 10 ghz, nor that they actually manufactured the p4 at 3.8 ghz... in 2008. the only reason higher power outputs weren't produced en masse was that, apparently, the chips were already consuming 130w at 3.8 ghz and power consumption scaled linearly from there.
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 13:52:23; BingoBoingo: Cloud gaming is how they suppose they will feed iPads 3D graphics
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397768 << oh it was in the logs already.
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 13:43:34; pete_d_out: "Moreover, employers may feel they can lowball applicants because they believe there is still a surplus of qualified candidates.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397760 << wasn't it just last year the vc circus was special pleading up and down the ying-yang that there's a horrible unmeetable demand ?
mircea_popescu: dude... fuck delusional "courts bans". no court has the power to prevent public communication OF ANYTHING.
mircea_popescu: i can only speak here to clarify certain misgivings about my friend. or i will violate the publication ban as it all links together."
mircea_popescu: and i barely see the point of this discussion as we are not allowed by operation of law to discuss many relevant points to the story. i think you could discuss much without including any name. but it does not show the why of allan filing and trying the way he does. if i was him i would have no faith in the courts at all.
mircea_popescu: nge that. i was actually there. i will say i have seen no judge, crown, or family services member with the best interest of the children in mind (in this case). and that is a hard fact.
mircea_popescu: "i can only say so much for a few reasons. first allan is my friend. we dont agree on many points but this does not mean i care to make any assumptions about his beliefs on law and governance or his personal life. second there is a publication ban on things which i hold first hand knowledge of. i belive those cases were sealed as a cover up of what actually went on. there is nothing anyone will write here that will cha
mircea_popescu: sorta like in the early colonies it was ok to say "tomatoes are poisonous" and nobody was supposed to notice that "Eating off lead plates because you wanna be as cool as the europeans eating off silver but are poor and stupid is still a bad plan".
mircea_popescu: but somehow it is ok to say "the presence of whores promotes disease", but conventionally not ok to say "the presence of courts promotes vexation".
mircea_popescu: OF FUCKING COURSE the courts created the vexatious. what else created it, basil plants ?
mircea_popescu: "agreed. i like allan as a friend. to meet him you would probably like him too. he isnt nuts in general like many are. i have sat in on a few court dates that cant be brought up on here. allan and his family got shafted. that put al in a hard spot and drove his theories to what we have now. there was no reason for his kids to be taken. if there was i would gladly say so. in a way the courts created allan the vexatious.
mircea_popescu: he even tried the lawyer route for the sake of the children but the families could not afford it for long."
mircea_popescu: anyway, they all had billions in ipad poker money and got some sort of bonus or whatever for inviting new players.
mircea_popescu: well it suffers from the problem of bored waitress (shop girl / whore / whatever), they get into these fixations vaguely reminescent of "la pie a une manie : elle volle tout ce qui brille"
mircea_popescu: so we all sat there with tables playing "poker" for a while.
mircea_popescu: ah the funniest thing : they wouldn't play poker. they wanted to play IPAD APP POKER!
mircea_popescu: in other news, banana and peach smoothie kicks ass.
mircea_popescu: "why the fuck send the whores there so you make most of the money and still bitch about it ? instead come here, pay 10x as much and we keep it all"
mircea_popescu: in vaguely related lulz : romanian women are sane ; as a result they're all over europe fucking the shit out of everything that moves ; as a result butthurt euroheads don't want to extend schengen zone to romania unless it "controils the problem" ;
BingoBoingo: Everything is wrong with them
mircea_popescu: what is wrong with these people ?
mircea_popescu: what the fuck, whore budget for us tv sports team should be in the hundred mil a year sorta thing.
BingoBoingo: What's wrong is the preemptive punishment
mircea_popescu: how the fuck are you to compete with rappers.
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 12:52:40; BingoBoingo: "The decision comes as the NCAA continues to investigate Katina Powells claims that she and other escorts were paid thousands of dollars and given game tickets by former basketball staffer Andre McGee in exchange for dancing for and having sex with U of L players and recruits from 2010-14. The NCAA could still levy further sanctions on U of L in addition to the self-imposed penalty, but university pres
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397707 << curious if anyone knows how this looked back when the us was an ascending rather than a falling star. say 1880, or 1950.
mircea_popescu: god forbid everyone in wash dc goes "fuck you, fix the office policies or else ima be a carpenter"
mircea_popescu: kinda like the soviet equivalent, "oh, so you got kicked out of your party commission thing ? no, you can't have a job. because fuck you, that's why"
mircea_popescu: "After more than 20 years as an electronics engineer, Pete Edwards reached the low six-figure pay level. Now, as he looks for a job following a layoff, he finds that salary success a burden."
BingoBoingo: There would be something there if the javascript was allowed 3 virgin afghan goats and a solstice with which to load
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would i want to send people to a landing page "aboput me" where someone else advertises other fucking idiots.
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 15:35:08; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397712 << holy FUCK what a steaming crock of shit. where does punkman find these ?
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397812 recommended in gpg-users ml. needs moar stuff sticking out the sides
BingoBoingo: I dunno about provably wrong. Giving Hegel a spin has me feeling rather favorable to the classical eastern despotisms he shat on.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not so much 'wrong' as have obvious engineering limits. just as the west has own, aha
mircea_popescu: i am not overall so convinced clasical eastern despotisms were so very wrong. yes provably wrong, but then again so is the west.
mircea_popescu: the lords had women to lick their asshole clean ; the rest of the world can go hang.
asciilifeform: (it doesn't go straight on the cpu, no, will crack the mb and drown in condensation. it goes in the tank through which you pump the oil.)
mircea_popescu: it's feasible average consumer would prefer to watch visually upgraded angry birds on amd hardware to watching another talkshow.
mircea_popescu: as social media and general laziness drove the cost of producing tv shows why the fuck up, forcing ever present decreases in quality,
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: South Park's "Stick of Truth" pretty much set the bar for interactive TV sold as game
asciilifeform: took a giant leap forward with the extinction of the intelligent, discerning game consumer
mircea_popescu: much like their parents much prefer to watch video footage of other [black, preferably] men fucking their wives.
mircea_popescu: the trend is evident enoughj that fucking southpark mocked the tendency of kids to prefer to watch youtube vids of other people playing their games.
asciilifeform: this began in '90s with the appearance of cdrom
mircea_popescu: yes, this is fine and good, i'm just saying the reasons they do what they do are outside of your experience.
shinohai imagines asciilifeform playing the Oregon Trail still ....
asciilifeform: fortunately there are more wonderful dos titles than i have expected life left
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. this is what they do, because this is what the mob wants, because mob is mentally retarded. PRETTIFY angry birds!
mircea_popescu: even the notion of "pvp" has been perverted into "pick a team out of this list and cpu will play it for you - thereby you're attacking another player"
mircea_popescu: there's a large segment of idiots that moved to "eye candy slowly" paradigm
mircea_popescu: it won't work, for many reasons, but they are desperate so reaching out for stevejobian straws.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how familiar you are with ipad/android on one hand, and steam and derivatives on the other ; but amd's ploy is plainly to make a hardware-sum-of-these.
asciilifeform: and b) would put amd on the leading edge of advanced usgtronics of the Fyootoor, at last
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 13:51:36; pete_d_out: " In the latest move, AMD unveiled its FirePro S-Series GPUs that include the company's hardware-virtualization GPU architecture, Multiuser GPU (MxGPU). The technology is aimed at such segments as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote workstations, cloud gaming and cloud computing." << is cloud gaming a thing now ? i thought it was all ipad gaming.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397765 << if you crunch the simple arithmetic re: propagation delays, it reveals that one of two things: a) whole thing is a scam, not actually intended to happen in physical reality b) collectivized, 'kolhoz' of gaming processor will be installed on street corner router cabinets, one per 100 houses or so, this will go great with ownership of actual computer being Officially forb
mircea_popescu: how is the world today!
asciilifeform: being on the interchangeable-part end of fungibility sucks, newz at 11
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 13:43:34; pete_d_out: "Moreover, employers may feel they can lowball applicants because they believe there is still a surplus of qualified candidates.
BingoBoingo: But actually rather well balanced
asciilifeform: then useless
assbot: Logged on 03-08-2015 17:23:51; ascii_field: gernika: for the record, i once tried to get 'blue collar' work, and failed. turned away, 'overqualified, you'll leave as soon as you can'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397741 << to the extent that this is an actual thing, it is an ancient plague, e.g., http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=03-08-2015#1223259 , http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=04-08-2015#1223627
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397712 << holy FUCK what a steaming crock of shit. where does punkman find these ?
asciilifeform: (the correct orientation for a programmer's display is vertical.)
asciilifeform: pixels the size of gridpaper squares.
BingoBoingo: There's 4k screens under $800 now, but at what COST!!!
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 07:26:50; punkman: "the display will be 4K (and of course 640x480 16 color)" heh
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397693 << the secret gag is that the 4k refers to... usd. it must.
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 07:22:28; mircea_popescu: computers should come on fucking fabric already, i go to the shop buy 8 meters of opteron.
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 06:15:26; *: mircea_popescu fucking loves reading all these SOPS rulings, the beatings the justice system applies to itself trying to fight reddit-level crazies is delightful.
BingoBoingo: Well more core makes sense on 1 level, places to put other shit. It's what buying opteron fabric by the yard would be based on
BingoBoingo: If going 2008 vintage might as well make sure you get ECC and x64 that works with everything on the board
pete_d_out: they're damn near a decade old!
pete_d_out: speaking of power consumption and moore's law, i hadn't realised that intel had claimed that the ~pentium 4~ would reach 10 ghz, nor that they actually manufactured the p4 at 3.8 ghz... in 2008. the only reason higher power outputs weren't produced en masse was that, apparently, the chips were already consuming 130w at 3.8 ghz and power consumption scaled linearly from there.
BingoBoingo: Gotta stamp out the latency wherever it lives
BingoBoingo: Well consider what AMD did with their first generation "Bobcat" fusion chips. Fallout 3 was a bit old when those came out, but when the Bobcats were introduce there was no other way to play fallout 3 in the same power consumption envelope.
pete_d_out: like "social media synergy" or "the uber of plasticine houses"
BingoBoingo: From people who don't grok the whole network latency deal.
pete_d_out: as if the nonexistent demand for counterstrike on an ipad is such a market driver
pete_d_out: " In the latest move, AMD unveiled its FirePro S-Series GPUs that include the company's hardware-virtualization GPU architecture, Multiuser GPU (MxGPU). The technology is aimed at such segments as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote workstations, cloud gaming and cloud computing." << is cloud gaming a thing now ? i thought it was all ipad gaming.
BingoBoingo: If AMD can survive its debt for 5-7 years, they'll be in a pretty sweet place for competing with Intel.
pete_d_out: in other, "no you can't have nice things if you're a plebe" news : http://www.eweek.com/pc-hardware/amd-unveils-virtualized-gpus-new-quiet-chips.html
pete_d_out: “Workers are still a little discounted” in most fields, said Linda Barrington, executive director of the Institute for Compensation Studies at Cornell University’s ILR School. “Employers won’t pay what the last person in the job was paid because labor is now on sale.”" << ahh, i can taste the sweet butthurt tears of bahamas and his dream of a fully employed economy. "no one could've predicted" eh ?
pete_d_out: "Moreover, employers may feel they can lowball applicants because they believe there is still a surplus of qualified candidates.
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 20:20:17; ascii_butugychag: 'fuck you, my public key is m * the next mersenne prime'
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 20:43:37; ascii_butugychag: or the one who came by my old office disguised as 'friendly neighbour, retired blahblahblah'
pete_d_out: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-02-2016#1396683 << o.O i can't be the only one who'd like to hear the rest of this story.
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 21:59:36; ascii_butugychag: remember the 'desk elephant' ?
pete_d_out: in other, "how do we measure our cocks, in cm or inches" news, http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/05/most-expensive-car-ever-auctioned-it-depends.html
BingoBoingo: This one seems to be just about as improbably as the money on BitBet demonstrates, and I'm really liking the money I put on "Yes" before he got injured.
BingoBoingo: Well, the bet is if he lives up to the hype. Doing that for a career? Ridiculous. For 29-30 games perfectly possible if improbable as reflected by the BitBet odds
pete_d_out: BingoBoingo that's not ridiculous like gavin averaging 100 btc per annum salary for the rest of his days, just as he did when vessenes scam was peaking, isn't ridiculous
BingoBoingo: It's not so ridiculous. He's just gotta average a bit over two point per game for the rest of the season.
assbot: BitBet - Connor McDavid will live up to the hype :: 0.45 B (3%) on Yes, 12.72 B (97%) on No | closed 6 days 13 hours ago ... ( http://bit.ly/20NDbOo )
BingoBoingo: pete_d_out: Well McCollarbone is only on pace if he keeps up the pace set in the sample size of two games he has after returning so far.
BingoBoingo: pete_d_out: When you're authed we'll have the discussion to guide the sense of humor in the future that changes everything
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 06:15:26; *: mircea_popescu fucking loves reading all these SOPS rulings, the beatings the justice system applies to itself trying to fight reddit-level crazies is delightful.
pete_d_out: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397676 <-- found more from this same lulzathon here, for those interested in how the legal system in petelandia works (or doesn't) --> http://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?t=10814
pete_d_out: so catching up : mp opened a nifty contest, intel affirmed the sensibility of the current blocksize, mccollarbone is on "pace" to win the bitbet, and my qntra about technology and politics, if admittedly not about bitcoin, was a bit long-winded. did i miss anything else ?
BingoBoingo: ful that the postseason ban will reduce the harshness of any potential punishment in the future."
BingoBoingo: "The decision comes as the NCAA continues to investigate Katina Powells claims that she and other escorts were paid thousands of dollars and given game tickets by former basketball staffer Andre McGee in exchange for dancing for and having sex with U of L players and recruits from 2010-14. The NCAA could still levy further sanctions on U of L in addition to the self-imposed penalty, but university president James Ramsey is hope
BingoBoingo: Gotta be 35, so ChipTest will be old enough for the 2020 elections
BingoBoingo: In other marginal news: Docker, employer of the late Debian Founder, has now hired the Alpine Linux founder and is moving all their images to that. Might be relevant if anyone was looking at that musl based distro
BingoBoingo: From the mines: Tinder has blocked one New Jersey 23-year-old, Robyn Gedrich, from using the app after several users reported her for spamming them with the same request: Do you feel the bern? Please text WORK to 82623 for me. Thanks! She sent that message to dozens of matches each day for two weeks straight.
punkman: "We do not want UTF, just 8-bit characters. Somebody needs to choose new 8-bit ASCII characters for 128-255, since we do not want text graphic symbols. We want Russian, Greek or Hebrew alphabets, perhaps? ... Japan, China and Korea should switch-over to alphabets. Maybe, the United States will change to metric, out of good will."
punkman: "the display will be 4K (and of course 640x480 16 color)" heh
mircea_popescu: computers should come on fucking fabric already, i go to the shop buy 8 meters of opteron.
mircea_popescu: his point re heat is actually quite sound. why the fuck do i have a cpu instead of a motherboard sized asic thing ?
mircea_popescu: alf starts all the good fads ;/
mircea_popescu: getting back to the other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m83s9b6zNK1qlne6uo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: in every jurisdiction i heard of clerical errors can be corrected by order, unless it touches to the substance. but again, canada, who knows.
mircea_popescu: bonus points to where j d rooke got so hot and bothered under the collar he originally made a ruling so broken (through disallowing appeal improperly) he had to come in with a "corrigendum", which apparently is how it works in canada.
mircea_popescu fucking loves reading all these SOPS rulings, the beatings the justice system applies to itself trying to fight reddit-level crazies is delightful.
mircea_popescu: bonus points for the item two paragraphs supra, where the judge nigh-on admits that he tried to track down the guy and have a little behind the scenes compact with him. sadly he wasn't also a laywer. this of course is deeply different from "criminal scheme to bla bla".
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is the notary to know what you'll find when the stuff he notarizes butthurts your preferred coloring of reality ?
mircea_popescu: "[116] I have previously concluded, on a balance of probabilities, that these documents were intended to illegally assert a debt against the Officer and Alberta, and that the attempt to file the documents Powell notarized is an indictable criminal offense. Powell is obviously in breach of the Code of Conduct."
mircea_popescu: ct, s 23.1(3), should the Minister of Justice and Attorney General wish to do so within that period of time. Absent any submissions this order will become final on November 6, 2015." << the best part is that the dude spent a while harping about how bullshit foisted agreements are bullshit ; then went on to do EXACTLY the same ; and all the while fails to understand wtf exactly impels the guy to behave thusly.
mircea_popescu: "[112] I make the above order on an interim basis effective immediately. In keeping with the procedure adopted in R v Fearn, at para 54, Chutskoff v Bonora, at para 138, and Lymer (Re), 2014 ABQB 696 (CanLII) at para 58, final operation of this Order is stayed for 30 days until November 6, 2015 to allow the Minister of Justice and Solicitor General to make submissions to change or vary this order, per Judicature A
mircea_popescu: 24.(1) Every one who, having an intent to commit an offence, does or omits to do anything for the purpose of carrying out the intention is guilty of an attempt to commit the offence whether or not it was possible under the circumstances to commit the offence."
mircea_popescu: " The fact that this Court would never have entered Boisjolis materials as a default judgment that could then be enforced by conventional means is immaterial. Criminal Code, s 24(1) is explicit that the fact an attempt to commit an offence could not succeed is irrelevant to whether or not that offence was attempted:
mircea_popescu: "For the purposes of this vexatious litigation decision what is important is whether or not delivering the September 25, 2015 documents to the Alberta Court of Queens Bench satisfies the actus reus and mens rea requirements of Criminal Code, s 423.1. On a balance of probabilities, I conclude that it does."
BingoBoingo: 17 months of Qntra, with 5 of them at the helm... I though I hit a significant milestone. Then it turns out that either I was honestly confused for Mircea Popescu or just maybe... Luke-Jr just tried to steal that milestone because he has so much contempt for me he was compelled to steal my satisfaction.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell Luke-Jr Fuck yourself for editing that reddit comment and taking my glow away. I want you to go to the grave of blessed Mary mother of Jesus and very deeply and profoundly fuck yourself.
BingoBoingo: Does anyone know if there's a prize for that
BingoBoingo: In other news that time you personally get called a lunatic by Luke-Jr and not just a lunatic, but the only lunatic whose opinon doesn't matter. https://archive.is/ChHAo
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: the slashdot thing is raw sewage. srsly i 'want my five minutes back' plox. << Ask gasenwagen driver for a cigarette when the time comes
mircea_popescu: it is provedly consistent (what'd be a "mathematical corectness" and empirically applicable with great predictive power. that's... not it.)
mircea_popescu: and when i say "not yet seen" i mean that in the strongest sense. not seen ONCE. fucking darwinism is not PROVEDLY correct.
mircea_popescu: math is nice and good, but a method or mechanism through which to prove the corectness of implementation in the sense contemplated here is not yet seen and altogether may be an impossibility.
mircea_popescu: then you invalidate the assumptions in practice without realising and heuristics eats your lunch.
mircea_popescu: moreover, it's sadly unclear what the task even is. yes you can rigurously define assumptions ; yes you can rigurously prove safety.
asciilifeform: the gotcha is, there is no shortage of demonstrably np-complete problem classes; but converting one into a cryptosystem, esp. ~safely~ is nontrivial
asciilifeform: incidentally, another b00k worthy of inclusion in #b-a w4r3z dump
mircea_popescu: actually the 4 color map thing is in my head just as good if not better than knapsack
asciilifeform expected to see the maths crackpots come out in full strength, propose martian oddities based on, e.g., graph isomorphisms problem, or vertex colouring
mircea_popescu: believe it or not, sifting all the incoming email produced some nuggets.
mircea_popescu: and besides, i'm not asking them to solve it, i'm just saying, should you have a solution...
mircea_popescu: eh, what do they know.
asciilifeform: re: the cipher thread, gotta love how nobody complained re: mircea_popescu asking folks to solve an unsolved mathematical problem, the answer to which eluded two great empires for half a century.
asciilifeform: and in the 'roadmap' link we specifically see 'xilinx.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the slashdot thing is raw sewage. srsly i 'want my five minutes back' plox.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the fiat world has burned these poor people so consistently (see the plouffe thing recently discussed, see the notorious wolfram thing etc) it's just the default expectation. and then ~bitcoin~ is the scam.
mircea_popescu: "Anyhow, it would be a bunch of work for 10 BTC. Hardly worth anyone's time, given this bozo is gonna take all the credit, you probably don't even get fame nor fortune..." << jesus almighty. this is why it's fucking public, and lordship and all that, right ?
mircea_popescu: what colors are your bits, bitch! and how much entropy is there in this dword ?
mircea_popescu: "256 bits has sufficient entropy to render any brute force attack, and even severe weakening (e.g. sq root effort attacks) utterly infeasible." << dude where the fuck do they come from.
BingoBoingo: brb, stepping away from the anti-social media
BingoBoingo: Ok, this comment might actually take the LSD cake: "This is likely not for *encryption*." Goes on about proof of work http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8713235&cid=51450657
mircea_popescu: "Behold, Mr Mackey, riding a horse so naturally it makes your dick hard. And there be bitches, oh yes." << i wonder what knowitall derp'd do if he actually knew what he's talking about.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the internet is but a series of tubes. see c) above.
mircea_popescu: mats i guess that's right, surfer chicks do end up looking 514 by the time they're out of college.
BingoBoingo: The scary thing is she dreams of someone doing that to her
mircea_popescu: this is how you create the singularity.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that part is easy : a) you cook a bunch of slop ; b) you catch the sow and chain her down ; c) you insert one tube in ass and another tube in mouth (should be same size, orientation indifferent) and then you d) pour.
mircea_popescu: holy shit put soup instead of sha i nthe pow, see people cry.
BingoBoingo: But I'm glad MP no longer can disbelieve the one on the right being 21 because "No way she's 21, that isn't enough time to eat so much"
BingoBoingo: Modded +4 Interesting with "The block cipher is a proof of work function which takes some effort to compute."
mats: weather beaten features
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no way chick on the left is 21.
mircea_popescu: am i the only one that sees it ?
mircea_popescu: pure conjecture, but towards a unified theory of cryptography!
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag honestly, i suspect a) all actual cryptography revolves around º and º' pairs and b) rsa is the only one where º = º' = multiplication.
ascii_butugychag: (actually posing the question often produces many little 'bill gates'-en, who famously uttered a hope that one day 'science may discover a means of factoring large primes')
ascii_butugychag: i kinda wonder, how many of the folks barfing, could explain how, e.g., rsa, works, to save own life
mircea_popescu: nm that i linked to djb's 500-1k typical rewards for the field to help them avoid stepping in that one.
mircea_popescu: o hey, check it out, all the rotinculo that live off foodstamps know what a reward sum SHOULD have been.
assbot: Logged on 22-09-2015 01:22:33; asciilifeform: 'The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.' He paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: 'How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?' Winston thought. 'By making him suffer,' he said. 'Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is sufferin
mircea_popescu: what's it hurt the cheloid ?
mircea_popescu: i'll be honest with you : i actually prefer encountering scar tissue to actual people. i have many more toys for the former, that i wouldn't normally apply on humans.
ascii_butugychag: yes, there is a figure, from a distance. wax doll.
ascii_butugychag: the whole shebang is approx. as alive as... lenin
ascii_butugychag has been trying to detect 'signs of intelligent life' in the cryptological world, a very depressing exercise
mircea_popescu: While its unknown how Wang chose the prime, other commenters on the post said that checks in OpenSSL and other tools used to generate primes cannot be sure if the numbers are prime. Rieger told Threatpost: I do not know if a quick way exists to check this definitely. No attempts were made at all. << and we never heard of phuctor etc.
mircea_popescu: and in other trottin' out whores news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/f94d43d7284028537e591427b0a2f291/tumblr_nurxnsJcS81qlne6uo1_1280.jpg
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 19:37:09; BingoBoingo: https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/?q=/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99 << 8
mircea_popescu: ever since the previous spammer sold my site to the current one people ever give less and less of a shit! oh if only i could be friends with a rich guy like slashdot!
ascii_butugychag: is there somewhere, i wonder, a perl script, that pastes this pediwikian claptrap in
ascii_butugychag: 'Also, he awards bonus points for proofs of hardness. No one has managed to prove hardness for any existing block cipher. Block ciphers are simply ways to jumble the plaintext up in a reversible fashion. They are not based on difficult mathematical problems.
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 19:37:09; BingoBoingo: https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/?q=/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99 << 8
mircea_popescu: (courtesy BingoBoingo who by now is a total expert at bothering mayogenders)
mircea_popescu: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8713235&cid=51449791 <<< dude, check out all the people who don't care!
ascii_butugychag: buy all the 'power' arch boxen you want.
ascii_butugychag: also gotta love the 'free, open workstation' where the sole component supplier is ibm
BingoBoingo: Or what "open-toolchain" means to them