mircea_popescu: well the usians are retarded.
mircea_popescu: up until the age of about 13 or so anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's nothing wrong with kid breaking up the shit in the house to make a shitty lesser something
mircea_popescu: "It is not uncommon for the family to buy two or even three grave plots for burial."
asciilifeform: notice the object in the lower half of the attache. it is a mains transformer. plug still attached.
BingoBoingo: I am ingnoratish in some matters. Also drinking anxiety vodka hoping my horse Rand can get the seven minutes.
mircea_popescu: aok then.
kakobrekla: “I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”
kakobrekla: “They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’” Ahmed said.
assbot: A clock is not a bomb. Ahmed’s arrest and why we can’t have nice things. - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1Krb3dB )
asciilifeform: it is in the völkischer beobachter now
asciilifeform: re: the 'clock bomb'
assbot: Logged on 28-08-2015 01:24:38; mircea_popescu: the people in life are people from movies,
mircea_popescu: well obviously misrepresentation in commercial matter is the substance of fraud, but so far, not there
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ianal, but if they 'lost' the money and ~planned~ to milk the insurer, it is fraud
assbot: CNN captures glorious split-screen moment between Donald Trump and Rand Paul - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1iio1zt )
asciilifeform: 'Bitpay tried to get its insurer to cover $950,000 of the loss, but in June the insurer declined to pay. Bitpay is now suing the insurer.' << gold
mircea_popescu: wife of "big daddy wanted me to become a lawyer, I became a lawyer. he said get married, I got married. he said have kids and i had kids and now he can't stand them. so he never loved me. fine! but I appeal to your common decency! gimme some money!"
mircea_popescu: good people come from eve and bad people spawned off lillith, but americans all crawled out from between the thighs of one mae pollitt!
mircea_popescu: so annyoing, these children of mae pollitt.
mircea_popescu: for fucks sake. funerals should not be fucking celebrations of life. what the fuck do they do at weddings, mourn over the dead ?
asciilifeform: i shit thee not
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2014 03:19:21; asciilifeform: main danger, as i understand, is that their combustion will: create a visible plume of smoke. or, the ultimate catastrophe, 'auschwitzy' smell.
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 00:43:00; BingoBoingo: 'Murican problems: "The easiest way to handle an obese funeral is to refer the family to your competitor, but that rarely works, especially if you picked up the body strapped to two hospital mattresses, (oh the pain!)" http://www.oversizecasket.com/funeralprofessional.html
mircea_popescu: "the other residents of the drab soviet prefab block of flats always envied ivan ivanovich, for this inept pretense of normalcy that he found himself on the receiving end of, even if in all fairness it was not really his fault."
mircea_popescu: satisfied that the car is in working condition and also that it has an engine at all!
mircea_popescu: "satisfied that he understands all the conditions and obligations contained herein, that he is entering into this agreement freely and voluntarily with full knowledge of its contents, that no additional promises have been made regarding his sentence, or potential sentences, and further, that he has read this entire agreement."
mircea_popescu: t, as such, nor any "progress" in the sense of "levelling up to krishna" and supersizing your karma serving.
mircea_popescu: <phf> talking about it or presenting second hand revelations as some sort of ultimate truth completely contradicts the original intent. <<< it is altogether dubious any original intent even exists, or that "intent" as a category is at all adequate to discuss the matter. perhaps a decent approach towards what "existential" sanely means in the context is provided by the "causes not purposes" dichotomy. there is no inten
mircea_popescu: <phf> the translations are universally bad, but gave westerners first glimpses of "eastern thought" << and by westerners we mean, of course, americans.
mircea_popescu: (i also do not hold the view that indians EVER made scholarly anything. nor do i believe people like bharara or the raj schmuck recently mentioned are part of the western tradition, in spite of doing a passible job of masquerading it. the DA's office with bharara in it simple ceased to be much akin to the US DA and more like a fetid indian "institution", just like state with rice was more like state hence than like sta
BingoBoingo: 'Murican problems: "The easiest way to handle an obese funeral is to refer the family to your competitor, but that rarely works, especially if you picked up the body strapped to two hospital mattresses, (oh the pain!)" http://www.oversizecasket.com/funeralprofessional.html
asciilifeform: over, for the time being. zoolag @ 173.73.235.152:8333.
BingoBoingo: How goes the alfernet?
ag3nt_zer0: no offense but I actually think one would have to explore him a bit more than less than a chapter to really offer up a viable criticism... but maybe that's just because I don't know what you have read and so do not know by what criteria you judge something as true or not true (some people hear voices, others echoes of dead philosophers)... at any rate thanks for taking the time to look and for sharing your thoughts at all
phf: hand revelations as some sort of ultimate truth completely contradicts the original intent.
phf: another point i'll make before checking in for the night, is that eastern mystical tradition is experiential, a lot of ideas of the nature of ultimate reality and such are not even worth contemplating until you go through whatever the lineage prescribes, meditation, purification practices, breathing exercises, physical exercises, that are supposed to bring you towards understanding of ultimate reality. talking about it or presenting second
phf: the assumption that there's any kind of unity to eastern sacred thought is by the way theosophical in nature, where's you have a bajilion of lineages all with their own takes on what's true
ag3nt_zer0: trinque: yes. one is better off reading wittgestein or heidegger over the theosophical trash... but imo guenon, schuon, coomaraswami (ananda) and evola are infinitely better to read than those philosophers you mentioned - and they are not at all aligned with theosophy - except for guenons youthful foray into it as mentioned
phf: the translations are universally bad, but gave westerners first glimpses of "eastern thought"
phf: theosophy did one good thing, their "members" would do early translations of various sacred texts, and they would make those translations available through their lodges
ag3nt_zer0: let me be clear. as is probably all theosophy...
trinque: something vaguely approaching the limitations around what can and cannot be said about being
trinque: closest I ever came to reading any "theosophy" was Jiddu Krishnamurti
phf: guenon's revelations are entirely his own, inspired perhaps by close reading of some of the available eastern sacred texts
phf: ag3nt_zer0: theosophy does completely fanciful free interpretation based on amateur translations by various aristocrats gone native. any sane person will look at it and go "wtf" upon closer inspection, but you're still left with amateur translations. not to mention that you need representatives of traditions to interpret those esoteric texts (what i mean by locals)
ag3nt_zer0: and 2) what would be the correct understanding that contradicts his greater metaphysical points about ultimate reality and what constitutes an authentic revealed tradition or not... what do you mean by the locals? and would not Ananda Coomaraswamy, geunons contemporary and equal in many ways but with a mind turned toward the art of the east and west be a counter to that?
ag3nt_zer0: phf: interesting. becauseas I understand it guenon used to travel in the theosophist circles in france until he rejected them in favor of a more rigorous "traditionalism" - he even wrote a book about it - Theosophy: history of a pseudo religion - I think it was called... so i guess it could be asserted that he was still "unconsciously" operating under some of their errors but 1) it seems odd to think that a person with an
phf: ag3nt_zer0: i couldn't get past his west vs. east chapter, or slightly after. his understanding of eastern tradition is dodgy (i see same issue with evola by the way), since he exists in the time after theosophists's liberal translations of sacred texts, but before people like mircea eliade or theos bernard had a chance to verify with the locals whether or the understanding was correct. (and long before easterners themselves started making
mircea_popescu: but anyway, got a meeting now, will be back later we can drink this issue under the table.
assbot: Generating uniformly random data from skewed input: biased coins, loaded dice, skew correction, and the Von Neumann extractor | Code crumbs, by Clément Pit–Claudel ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fhc87v )
punkman: oh here's one http://pit-claudel.fr/clement/blog/generating-uniformly-random-data-from-skewed-input-biased-coins-loaded-dice-skew-correction-and-the-von-neumann-extractor/
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and comparing the equivalent of shooting yourself in the head to cleaning a car is disingenuous, at least. << it is. meanwhile it't can't possibly be ingenious, because what goes on in man's mind is incomprehensible. be it bullet or whatever else.
ag3nt_zer0: I wholeheartily recommend the entire production, but if strapped for time, to me the other outstanding example of this tech is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3sp6Hwp3nk
ag3nt_zer0: hang in there till the 5 minute mark and holy cow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7w_Ut12fY
jurov: "In cases where keys or seeds are created without the use of software (e.g. dice, a deck of cards, or other non-digital source of entropy), the creation methodology should be validated to ensure determinism is not present (i.e. there are no weighted dice, each card in the deck is unique, etc.)."
jurov: "Digital signatures must use a ‘k’ value that is never repeated. This can be accomplished through the use of a deterministic random bit generator (DRBG) that is compliant with NIST SP 800-90A, or a deterministic scheme compatible with RFC 6979."
kakobrekla: thats why all the bad stuff happens.
ag3nt_zer0: and if there is another plzce that is as primed as this room to offer valuable critique I know not where it is to be found
ag3nt_zer0: btw if anyone can prove the "assertions" in that book (crisis of the modern world - rene guenon) false, useless, or shitty in another way... I would love it because I read it as truth...
jurov: "The backup must be protected against environmental risks such as fire, flood, and other acts of God."
shinohai: ty thestringpuller had not read
ag3nt_zer0: trinque: haha would The Real Astrology by John Frawley be allowed? or writings by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
jurov: ag3nt_zer0: was already discussed and mp put some proposal, but can't remember the keywords
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: do it; assemble the #b-a bookshelf
ag3nt_zer0: for today's speculative waste: I think it would be great if this room had an educational manifest in the meatspace... sort of like an intellectual spartan boot camp
phf: ascii_field: the way i see mp's point is that tito, capone and random schmuck all have same options. random schmuck is that way for never acting on those options. capone is a schmuck for only sometimes not acting on his options. etc.
thestringpuller: one of the two bands I've seen in my life that made me straight up weep.
thestringpuller: 10,000 days didn't hit me the sameway.
shinohai: I wish I still knew someone good at remixing. I like some songs but they are overproduced.
thestringpuller: ag3nt_zer0: yea you get a better feel for aenema's records if you listen to the live album. forget what ti's called Salivial?
ag3nt_zer0: they are apparantly getting close to release of a new one
ag3nt_zer0: yeah I prefer lateralus as well but there are some great extended areas of aenima
thestringpuller: Adam Jones the guitarist used to work as an animator for stuff like Jurassic Park ( he actually has a credit in Jurassic Park since he worked on that prod before quitting to do Tool full time )
ag3nt_zer0: thestringpuller: yeah I believe they use the same artists for lots of stuff... for instance alex grey for their album artwork and others for the stop motion videos
ag3nt_zer0: shinohai: goes alright I am able to work so that's good... but counting the days until next summer to go on 2 year fuck all backpacking trip into the unknown
thestringpuller: Either that or H.
ascii_field: comparing the options available to capone or even tito, to the meagre existence of random schmuck, is also disingenuous.
thestringpuller: ag3nt_zer0: Reminds me of the lateralus video
phf: !up thestringpuller
lobbes: the man with trash in his car doesn't stop to consider if his condition is 'livable' or not
phf: what i was trying to say re capone vs tito, is that capone was a hood rat, with the operational scope of village vs village, for him fbi involvement was perhaps the leviathan. where's tito was successful tactician and strategist in war and later a national leader. i suspect that allowed him to operate on the sufficiently high level to resist governmental intervention on equal terms
ascii_field: and comparing the equivalent of shooting yourself in the head to cleaning a car is disingenuous, at least.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the gun that is pointed in one's face is always surprisingly big.
mircea_popescu: not that fucking many big guns available. all fucking guns are their standard size, being as they are industrial products.
mircea_popescu: the bullshit is unchanged for 5000 years, first hand observers report it is "exceptionally so and so". and all guns ever used in robberies are BIG
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: hmmm, perhaps not, but I would argue the the new post psychedelic controls are much more insidious
mircea_popescu: the notion that "the situation is livable" and "he'll figure it out" and you know, the previous inhavitant was russian so there's satellite dishes.
mircea_popescu: what do you suppose prevents man from cleaning out the trash from his car ?
ag3nt_zer0: the new stealth, and quite cheery, totalitarianism is in full flower and Goebells would be astonished that it is happening with centralized dictates but instead in full pom pom ra ra volunteerism
mircea_popescu: i would propose this is an exceptionally apt comparison, incidentally. the relative economic might of chicago of the 30s as part of the us of the 30s is about where the economic might of the yugoslavia of the 50s as part of the eu+ru of the 50s stands ; the stalin-hoover equality is not particularly inept, on many scores (and the ones where it isn't, it advantages stalin)
phf: i don't know anything about mafioso in america beyond disnified, "you gonna like this guy, he's all right, he's a good fella", so i would believe about capone. but then he was a brooklyn hood rad, where's tito was a man
ag3nt_zer0: shuld of seen the joy....
ag3nt_zer0: he is very excited, almost giddy, about his assertion that the purpose of education is to raise "citizens"
ag3nt_zer0: ragin' about the behaviorist animal psychology takeover of educational system here
trinque: these people live to deliver action movie lines
ascii_field: 'Also, we have the Verizon In-Home Agent for Windows PC's that you can download at http://www.verizon.com/connect. Thank you for choosing Verizon and have a great day. '
assbot: Fuck! I just send all my ether to a new contract instead of to my brain wallet. Is there any way to reclaim it? : ethereum ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fh49av )
shinohai: More ether keks: https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3l6b6b/fuck_i_just_send_all_my_ether_to_a_new_contract/
mircea_popescu: the mexicans that weren't derpy, you don't hear about.
mircea_popescu: capone was derpy enough to not shoot the fbi head. which is why you hear about him.
phf: they got capone on tax evasion
mircea_popescu: "he struck the fear of god into the local telco monopoly, your honor" "oh shit. 20 life sentences!11"
ascii_field: aha, know the english proverb,
mircea_popescu: then again i suppose that's domestic terrorism, hm.
mircea_popescu: go break into their trunk box, cut the connection to home, install your own firmware ?
ascii_field: all the support slave could do was cycle my pole box
mircea_popescu: o hey, apparently they figured out outgoing worked by reading teh logs :D
ascii_field: my hovel came with not one but two sat dishes, one of them being a 2-way, believe or not. (russian fella used to live here)
ascii_field: i have no intention of voluntarily curtailing my research and defaulting on my wot obligations. they will have to come and put that bullet in my head.
mircea_popescu: forget the nth month.
ascii_field: just not the nth month of rent.
mircea_popescu: so then.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i would happily move to antarctica if i knew of some way to get food and net access there.
mircea_popescu: move to romania. easily best internet service in all of the western world.
shinohai: Comcast has the evil all-in-ones that use your modem as a AP
ascii_field: shinohai: i do not use their idiot modem or router
mircea_popescu: well the 1-877-718-6716 working 24/7 guise.
ascii_field: by 'strippers' mircea_popescu meant, the t1 installers ?
mircea_popescu: call the strippers and stfu.
mircea_popescu: why'd they promise anything ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: poor job in the sense that no promise of normal service for more $$
mircea_popescu: i thought they got a monopoly. how else would you do it ?
ascii_field: if they are trying to upsell me, doing a pretty poor job
ascii_field: no quotas either
shinohai: Officially they filter ports and tell no one.
ascii_field: and Officially there is no reason for it.
ascii_field: ALL OF THEM
mircea_popescu: so they closed what, 8333 ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: no, they want me to pay to get hot air from some indian dude
ascii_field: that's the whole idea
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Common in Middle West and Mid South now for consumer Fiber provision to be the exclusive domain of municipal electric coop
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: if your grandmother had balls (tm)
ascii_field: they claim 'nothing happened'
ascii_field: Rajesh(16:36:08): No, Mr. Datskovskiy, Verizon never block the incoming connections.
trinque: shinohai: once you've booted, you can use "localyesconfig" to build the currently loaded modules set to "yes"
ascii_field: Rajesh(16:33:29): I found that your issue requires advance expertise to resolve. Unfortunately my expertise is limited to basic settings. However, we have a team called expert care and they will be able to help you resolve this issue. Please call them on 1-877-718-6716 and they work 24/7 , please note this a paid service.
trinque: it may also be pointed at a stage3 which is no longer available. They delete the old ones rather rapidly.
trinque: I can modify it for you if you'd like it to write to a block device; it requires changing a variable at the top and altering the lilo config
trinque: mircea_popescu: also http://deedbot.org/genbootstrap.sh and http://deedbot.org/genbootstrap.sh.sig << the configuration in the script currently dumps out a root.img which can be loaded into qemu
trinque: mircea_popescu: I briefly began explaining what a port is, then gave up.
ascii_field: 25 was a desperate spamcontrol measure in the late '90s
mircea_popescu: trinque> I was amazed to find I was not allowed to have an open port 25 on comcast residential. <<< i'm amazed at the notion of a "not allowed" port in general.
shinohai: I seem to be stuck on height 314526 for the moment.
phf: i think main value of business account with us telco, they actually show you how short the leash is. instead of "unlimited everything!!1" you get an equivalent of 90s dialup, but you're free to use it at saturation levels
ascii_field: but i will note that they cut off EVERYTHING
trinque: because you... actually use the service
trinque: maybe you tripped some "anti-malware" thing they use to mitigate aids-spewing windows boxes
ascii_field: shinohai: they also switched my ip (it happens 2-3x a year)
ascii_field: there was no official communication concerning this.
shinohai: Are they emulating at&t now ?
deedbot-: [Trilema] Why should the Argentine population go graze already ? - http://trilema.com/2015/why-should-the-argentine-population-go-graze-already/
punkman: oic now "certain highly sensitive code—stuff akin to the Google’s PageRank search algorithm—resides in separate repositories only available to specific employees."
mircea_popescu: google needs to move now because otherwise it could stymy adoption in this early stage of the game
mircea_popescu: if every person on earth wrote just 50 lines of code, which is a very small number of lines of code to write for the progress world etc,
punkman: "all 2 billion lines sit in a single code repository available to all 25,000 Google engineers." << what and nobody has leaked them yet
punkman: "estimates that the software needed to run all of Google’s Internet services—from Google Search to Gmail to Google Maps—spans some 2 billion lines of code."
assbot: CNN’s three-hour main event: The network’s debate wildcard? A third hour on stage ... ( http://bit.ly/1F2QX9B )
BingoBoingo: https://bitbet.us/bet/1197/rand-paul-will-get-less-than-7-minutes/ << FUCK YEAH!!! http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/09/16/cnn_s_three_hour_main_event_the_network_s_debate_wildcard_a_third_hour_on.html
mircea_popescu: "are you 17 ? you got what it takes to stab your mom ? mp wants to hear from you BEFORE you manage to blow your wad on nothing worth the mention. come let's make beautiful music together."
mircea_popescu: i really should set up a hotline for these chicks.
shinohai: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/lisa-borch-teen-inspired-isis-jailed-9-years-over-mothers-n428331
mod6: i recently shutdown my fully sync'd openbsd node a week or two ago -- took quite a wait for it to finally exit. but i didn't keep close track of the time. could have easily been an hour though.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall it ever taking that long, but, as the man says. give it a bit.
gernika: ran bitcoind stop - the logs indicate that it ran through the shutdown procedure, but the process itself still runs
mod6: gernika: did you get it figured out then?
mircea_popescu: in other news, ""Greetings for the day! Hope you are doing great! My name is Letha Lozano and I am a Website Consultant. I found your email account online and would like to discuss some business opportunities with you""
mircea_popescu: gernika ah ok then. so shut it down should be ok.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: i've heard stories of atl's traffic shmozzle
thestringpuller: ^^^ reminds me of the plot of S1 of HCF
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 17:11:59; asciilifeform: phun phact: virtually everything we publicly know re: how an intel cpu inits comes from the great ami bios source leaks
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: it's usually the traffic you sit in it long enough and you get tired.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 09:00:07; thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: honestly, how fucking smart and alert do you have to be to drive a car ? << I have always had sleep problems. As a kid would always fall asleep on car rides. And as an adult I seem to regularly fall asleep at the wheel and still get home. But this is super dangerous. I really need to just pull over and nap for a second or red bull it up like a trucker would do...
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276154 << you REGULARLY fall asleep at the wheel ? yikes man. get thee a shorter commute, a later work start time, or yes, mega-amounts of caffeine. if you're traveling >20mph, that is.
gernika: grepping the source of stator I see no references to "detach." Seems like versions prior to .6 automatically detach on shutdown (from google results). Only relevant ba discussion I can find is here: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=06-08-2015#1227642
punkman: "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."
mircea_popescu: oh damn, i'm seeing the bytecount
punkman: mircea_popescu: OP_RETURN just adds arbitrary bytes to the transaction
gernika: mod6 so I've finally rebuilt my blkindex.dat after probably corrupting it last time I shutdown bitcoind. I need to shut it down again. Is there a way to safely shutdown bitcoind? Or at a minimum, back up the blkindex.dat of a running node?
asciilifeform: in updated version of the old fable, perhaps, the grasshopper devours the ant. and his stash. and then wonders what next.
mircea_popescu: gotta hand it to the "immigrants" : they got a lot more going for them than zee germans do at this point.
asciilifeform: protocols of the elders of syria ?
assbot: Pétition · City of Munich: Ban the Intolerant and Anti-Islamic event of Oktoberfest · Change.org ... ( http://bit.ly/1NxljC8 )
asciilifeform: petitioning mr o, no less. >>> https://www.change.org/p/city-of-munich-ban-the-intolerant-and-anti-islamic-event-of-oktoberfest
mircea_popescu: aaand from the right in time ministry : the new refugees to Munich are petitioning to have Oktberfest cancled because it is offensive.
gribble: Sean Smith (diplomat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Smith_(diplomat)>; The Amazing Life of Sean Smith, the Masterful Eve Gamer Slain in ...: <http://kotaku.com/the-extraordinary-mischievous-too-short-life-of-sean-481060252>; A tribute to Sean 'Vile Rat' Smith - EVE Community: <http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/73406>
mircea_popescu: not like it'd be that hard either. distributed datastore.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many other devices to infect, also. most heavy-lifting NICs are reflashable, have multi-core (!) cpu, etc.
asciilifeform: one would have to either steal the datasheet somewhere, or empirically (!) reverse the thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform once we decide to go all north korea we use that to make mega-infector steal all the bases.
asciilifeform: the annoying thing about disk controllers is that pretty much the whole thing is one gigantic pile of undocumented regs
asciilifeform: they work for less.
mircea_popescu ponders whether the embarassment is worth that much. then remembers the value of "the public" is 0. obviously could use this to steal a lot of monyz, but meh.
VariaVarietatis: mircea_popescu: trying to make the call graph on trilema.com
asciilifeform: of course it would appear less classy if one thinks about how they likely got the forced cooperation of the vendors
mircea_popescu: alrighty then, i got nothing.
asciilifeform: if someone were to pay for it, yes, i could say what the payload is.
asciilifeform: there was a flasher for 9 major vendors of hdd.
asciilifeform: aha, it was them.
mircea_popescu: this is not the same thing is it ?
mircea_popescu: "A recent publication by Kaspersky Lab (mirror) describes the first publicly-confirmed instance of a Microsoft Windows 'trojan' capable of infecting hard disk drive firmware. "
asciilifeform: later i got hold of the actual binaries.
asciilifeform: one of the very few articles i wrote personally
mircea_popescu: we've not seen that they ever actually did.
thestringpuller: "We have to cavity search them just to be sure!"
asciilifeform: and it cannot be said that these folks never have class. diddled disk fw is classy.
thestringpuller: was watching beavis and butthead do america last night. fbi somehow gets involved in trying to track them down for reasons, but everyone who has encountered the teens gets cavity searched.
asciilifeform: if i were in the service of hitler, that is how ~i~ would have written it.
asciilifeform: in the craftsman.
mircea_popescu: but i was asking, what'd be the point for nsa to make something classier.
mircea_popescu: or might have been just off the cuff comment here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you had an article, iirc, about u.s. firms voluntarily bending over by installing cisco and related gear, to avoid the rougher and less lubricated anal inspection of 'national security letter' etc.
asciilifeform: upgrade from the dumb beta version to spiffy new orifice, burn old.
mircea_popescu: 1 in 232 chance of selecting zero as the sequence number."
mircea_popescu: rs, since a non-implanted router should not set the urgent pointer, and has only a
mircea_popescu: "To identify implanted devices, we look for non-compliant responses where the sequence number is set to zero, the urgent flag is unset, and the urgent pointer is set to 0x0001. We do not respond with an ACK packet, and instead send a RST, closing the connection. This does not exploit the vulnerability, attempt a login, or complete the handshake. However, this does allows us to discern implanted from non-implanted route
asciilifeform: (summary: the rootkit was found and reversed - or alternatively, 'burned'. and no mention of its author. god himself put it there! apparently)
asciilifeform: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/nsa-pwn-cisco-640x373.jpg << them.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276226 << anyone else puzzled re: the total lack of mention of the author of the implant (usg) ?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i presently have a ev2736w, two sx2462w, and a l885. (all but the last stand vertically.)
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 13:53:36; kakobrekla: and the difference is night and day, incomparable.
mircea_popescu: "given a panel of 5 identical lcds, that have been on doing WoW for the past 5.5 years, if the same numeric value is rendered as red 10% more saturated on the most versus the least, calculate the probability"