BingoBoingo: He published in book form a bunch of shit he got being one of the few people Nixon could talk Football with
phf: i thought Thompson was mostly a polemicist, are there any articles of his where he successfully "blows a lid" off something?
BingoBoingo: USG though always operates under the assumption Nixon era "Drugs once damaged forever" cridibility doctrine holds
BingoBoingo: e still reporting the same things.
BingoBoingo: "The project began after Don Bolles, a reporter for The Arizona Republic who had been investigating ties between organized crime and politicians, was killed by a car bomb on June 13, 1976. Mr. Bolles had been a founding member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a national organization that Mr. Greene had helped start." << If Mr. Bolles has a known propensity for peyote and cocaine he likely could have avoided this fate whil
BingoBoingo: Hastings may very well have simply pushed his luck one too many times with reckless behavior. In true Hunter S. Thompson fashion. Even then it would still be interesting to know what he was working on. A lesson for acoyltes of the press? << Thompson preserved his live by straddling the edge of credibility. "To weird to die" was likely both his motto and official USG policy.
BingoBoingo: "If the subject's personal habits make it feasible, alcohol may be used [very successfully] to prepare him for a contrived accident of any kind." << FU Hoover
BingoBoingo: The law enforcement - Biker gang connection even leaks into USG blessed pop culture from time to time.
BingoBoingo: "Motorcycle Gangs" is USG code for blessed sons of the DEA. Nearly all their contemporary membership is eather hobbyist medical pros or former Law enforcement
BingoBoingo: "The project began after Don Bolles, a reporter for The Arizona Republic who had been investigating ties between organized crime and politicians, was killed by a car bomb on June 13, 1976. Mr. Bolles had been a founding member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a national organization that Mr. Greene had helped start."
BingoBoingo: True shame Hastings didn't live long enough to make the target on his back more vivid by flirting with #b-a
asciilifeform: 'they' are the single, solitary source of all things even vaguely resembling that which they claim to defend against.
trinque: I remember that happening, and the reality of it sinking in
trinque: sparks even, as though trying to jam the breaks, iirc
trinque: poor fella went for a 130mph drive in the middle of the night, I suppose I'm supposed to believe
asciilifeform: '"For secret assassination, either simple or chase, the contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated."'
BingoBoingo: Also note that Gawker/Kinja pages take longer than ever to be processed by archive.is ... Almost as though there is an arms race between archiver and those not wanting to be preserved
BingoBoingo: mats: On the plus side those things were really productive when they grew. If you have any outdoor space be it a yard or balcony I highly reccomend them.
mats: when i see her again i will ask for hers and then make fun of her at dinner
phf: but they come out really nice when pickled
trinque: sounds terrible; I'd rather pass judgment on squash too
trinque: who wants to make small-talk at the grocery store anyway?
BingoBoingo: Ah mats if you find the small white ones, they are especially delicious. Save a couple for seeds though. It was $2.50 for six seeds this spring for the pattypan squash. Never have I seen seeds that expensive for a vegetable. Worth it though, just saving them this year.
mats: pricy shit at the market though, i spent ~20 on six linked sausages weighing 2lbs total
mats: i think she was coming back to talk to me but then decided not to when i didn't notice her at the periphery of my vision
mats: i chatted up a cutie at the farmers market today
BingoBoingo: Discerning the exact problem likely requires a time machine, a baseball bat, and a trip to Cupertino or Mumbai
asciilifeform: the ssd in question happily runs at 66 and even 33, and negotiates this speed with test box running adult os
asciilifeform: again, the fact that it does not mount the drive is obvious experimentally. but the given hypothesis does not follow
BingoBoingo: And all of those people who complained and tested seemed to do so before the consumer SSD revolution
BingoBoingo: It isn't that the interface works at some speeds and not others. It is that it only works at some speeds and at those speeds only with some drives.
BingoBoingo: Problem is on motherboard
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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: mno. this drive works at all ata speeds (tested) and still won't boot the box
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: me, if i can't get the bugger reading ssd!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But does anyone ever sell their pismo?
BingoBoingo: Two on Monday in the same building for the same job classification, but different departments.
BingoBoingo: 'Wallstreet' seems like the pinacle of apple portables.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: High on the wanted list
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mircea_popescu: for the lot
asciilifeform: they could be light-years away, but unmistakeable stink
mircea_popescu: i can hear them think.
mircea_popescu has for many years now meditated on this point, but i do not think i loathe or despise any class more than the bureaucrat. i have no problem hanging out with convicted murderes, wanton rapists, the insane, dying men or women, and probably aliens
asciilifeform: no, really. almost complete with the mandatory balls-in-a-jar token of office
mircea_popescu: it is the true calling of "universal" education.
mircea_popescu: endless parrotting of uncomprehended, mechanically learned pseudoscience and assorted factoidal half truths for the daily dose of congratulatory popcorn from the poor teacher.
mircea_popescu: those insufferable kids that can't think so they try to compensate by "Working hard"
mircea_popescu is rather nonplussed at how social media in its "experts exchange" format has given rise to what amounts to a distributed network of "experts" recruited from among the highschool "metalworkers" as they were called
mircea_popescu: you do all the rounds for your platforms maxint ANYWAY
mircea_popescu: if the implementation allows me to discover stuff about the exponent through timing the thing, it's broken
mats: Does a different, larger exponent increase the work effort required for an attacker? Does it increase the work effort required for legitimate uses? << a bigger exponent increases computational time
mircea_popescu: somehow innovative derps lifting stuff manage to effectually squander the scant opportunities their good fate and their betters' peculiarities afford.
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mircea_popescu: As late as the autumn of 1945, a Gallup poll taken among the American troops in Germany showed that 51 percent "thought Hitler did much good before 1939". This was after five years of anti-Hitler propaganda.
Adlai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonatan_Netanyahu "His younger brother, Benjamin Netanyahu, is the current Prime Minister of Israel."
Adlai: kakobrekla: i'm still waiting on the bit4x api
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and did they really have folks buy hofstadter's 'geb' as part of some spamatron!!?!!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one hundred percent of orwell, afaik, is on the net
mircea_popescu: (the above was a prediction in 1946)
mircea_popescu: and the ba of... ba.
mircea_popescu: so today. with the reddit of out of work waitresses and musicants
Adlai: of the management class
mircea_popescu: strial centres in Europe, Asia, and America. These super-states will fight among themselves for possession of the remaining uncaptured portions of the earth, but will probably be unable to conquer one another completely. Internally, each society will be hierarchical, with an aristocracy of talent at the top and a mass of semi-slaves at the bottom."
mircea_popescu: ame of "managers". These people will eliminate the old capitalist class, crush the working class, and so organise society that all power and economic privilege remain in their own hands. Private property rights will be abolished, but common ownership will not be established. The new "managerial" societies will not consist of a patchwork of small, independent states, but of great super-states grouped round the main indu
mircea_popescu: "Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralised society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers, lumped together by Burnham, under the n
Adlai: so just to lay this to rest: i only rewrote the EC group function. ECDSA requires hashing and proper combination of EC group functions, which has not yet been verified. tl;dr: don't use my code
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Adlai: you'd have to spit all over everywhere to get useful weather data
mats: fun fact: ru cosmonauts have used the time it takes spit to freeze on insulation as a way to measure temperature
Adlai: they've copied the mechanics, and leached the self-identified "edgiest" parts of the community
mircea_popescu: you ever looked at the voat thing ?
Adlai spends tons of time on leddit, because "laughter is the best medicine"
mircea_popescu: t the right mood. Your pipe is drawing sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful circumstances, what is it that you want to read about?"
mircea_popescu: "It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose, and open the NEWS OF THE WORLD. Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in jus
Adlai got a ping and goes to check on the kids
mircea_popescu: passion's as good as whoever puts it forth, which means that with most people it has the consistency of puss and the aroma of old faces.
mircea_popescu: and so they imagined it's a panacea. which it definitely is not.
mircea_popescu: except it turns out that passion only seemed valuable because so rarely encountered from the sort of women these people hung out with (ie, carefully not whores)
mircea_popescu: "the editors" organized "on the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more than those of a bored professional"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they organised it alright
mircea_popescu: a bored professional. But, unfortunately, as every editor knows, that kind of thing is very difficult to organise. In practice the editor always finds himself reverting to his team of hackshis "regulars", as he calls them."
mircea_popescu: the solution lies in getting book reviewing out of the hands of hacks. Books on specialised subjects ought to be dealt with by experts, and on the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more than those of
mircea_popescu: "The great majority of reviews give an inadequate or misleading account of the book that is dealt with. Since the war publishers have been less able than before to twist the tails of literary editors and evoke a paean of praise for every book that they produce, but on the other hand the standard of reviewing has gone down owing to lack of space and other inconveniences. Seeing the results, people sometimes suggest that
mircea_popescu: (commie romania had weirdo "to buy x you must also buy y" quota system to prop up the central economy. that particular book was outrageous in a country nobodyu owned as much as a raft, let alone yachts. so it became symbolic)
Adlai: ascii_field: iiuc sfine, as long as you "declare the pennies on your eyes"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think they give books more in line with "tehnologia navigatiei cu vele"
Adlai: aha it has the staniseal of approval
ascii_field: prolly the one i'd like to take to my oubliette
mircea_popescu: my mother got into an episode with that thing once.
mircea_popescu: the golden braid thing ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai the egptyan god ?
Adlai: skimming huge chunks, sure, but there are also interesting bits
mircea_popescu: they couldn't get into the highschools, so prepuberty is the last time we met at the table.
mircea_popescu: the last time i encountered humans that balked for hours at reading "at least 50 pages" i was in jr high and the humans in question where the losers in the class.
mircea_popescu: read the piece, tell me anything but skim is contemplated.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck already, 50 pages ?
mircea_popescu: "Three of these books deal with subjects of which he is so ignorant that he will have to read at least 50 pages if he is to avoid making some howler which will betray him not merely to the author (who of course knows all about the habits of book reviewers), but even to the general reader. "
Adlai: women should be neither sold nor lent...
mircea_popescu: if i ever want to buy a bible, i do not wish to buy a soggy dog eared piece of composted toilet paper ensmeared with the biological refuse of five generations of idiots of the sort that'd misread a bible.
Adlai: pay the bag^H^Hookholders a little premium
mircea_popescu: how else are you going to read the old ones ?
Adlai: there is literally zero need for that
mircea_popescu: ly buying, directly or indirectly, about three books a year. These three books taken together might cost £1, or probably less."
mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile, what is the actual amount that the British public spends on books? I cannot discover any figures, though no doubt they exist. But I do know that before the war this country was publishing annually about 15,000 books, which included reprints and school books. If as many as 10,000 copies of each book were soldand even allowing for the school books, this is probably a high estimate-the average person was on
Adlai: last price i heard quoted for books was "50% of the price you bought'em, if they came from this shop"
mircea_popescu: and the mass of people take an interest once the poor activity becomes the cheapest in a class.
mircea_popescu: no human activity ever survived and very few have recovered from the mass of people taking an interest.
mircea_popescu: then he wonders why it went to shit.
mircea_popescu: "I have said enough to show that reading is one of the cheaper recreations: after listening to the radio probably THE cheapest."
mats: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-08-2015#1236307 << context, of course. in this particular case, he addressed the issue of VMM being detected by the loader as indicated in s4.3.4
Adlai quotes the answer, for logs: "Nope. Smoking is foolish in an age when vapourising technology is so evolved and readily available."
mircea_popescu: what do you do with leaves, eat them ?
Adlai: and burning leaves is just... heathen
mircea_popescu: there you have it.
mircea_popescu: making nearly £40 a year. Even before the war when the same tobacco cost 8d. an ounce, I was spending over £10 a year on it"
mircea_popescu: "Twenty-five pounds a year sounds quite a lot until you begin to measure it against other kinds of expenditure. It is nearly 9s. 9d. a week, and at present 9s. 9d. is the equivalent of about 83 cigarettes (Players): even before the war it would have bought you less than 200 cigarettes. With prices as they now are, I am spending far more on tobacco than I do on books. I smoke six ounces a week, at half-a-crown an ounce,
ascii_field: the original was posted shortly after his death. i have a copy.
Adlai: divorce is generally a much more lively affair, due to involvement of the living
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "biblioteca de arta" collection was easily 500 volumes. it mostly dealt with cultural anthropology, aesthetics and such. tiny fraction of a fucking library seriously
mircea_popescu sadly never thought to take pictures of the thing itself, all he has is various nude girlies in front of bookwalls.
ascii_field: aha my father had pretty much no exposed wall at all
mircea_popescu: quote : "You don't suppose we read that stuff, do you? Why, half the time you're talking about books that cost twelve and sixpence!"
mircea_popescu: they cost money in all days.
ascii_field: in those days, they cost money
mircea_popescu: what the fuck "i own 442 books" what is this!
mircea_popescu: i owned > 10k volumes before getting rid of the lot, as a 20yo man.
mircea_popescu: l text-books and so forththat accumulate in the bottoms of cupboards. I have counted only those books which I have acquired voluntarily, or else would have acquired voluntarily, and which I intend to keep. In this category I find that I have 442 books, acquired in the following ways:
mircea_popescu: The books that I have counted and priced are the ones I have here, in my flat. I have about an equal number stored in another place, so that I shall double the final figure in order to arrive at the complete amount. I have not counted oddments such as proof copies, defaced volumes, cheap paper-covered editions, pamphlets, or magazines, unless bound up into book form. Nor have I counted the kind of junky books-old schoo
ascii_field: Chinese forum (in Chinese, which I can't read, but it seemed to be about Lenovo). In the end it did the exact same thing that the autochk.exe method (under Windows 7) does (loads LenovoUpdate.exe, installs a service, etc), except you get a cryptic entry in your System Log: "A platform binary was successfully executed."'
ascii_field: 'nstead, a file called "wpbbin.exe" was placed in C:\windows\system32 and executed. That turns out to be a method Microsoft introduced with Windows 8 to allow the BIOS to execute code on boot up (!?!) called "Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT)". I can find almost NOTHING about this anywhere on the internet except a single document on Microsoft's website (link to the Google Cache since it's a .docx file) and in a random
ascii_field: btw this is precisely how the well-known 'computrace' works.
ascii_field: ^ lulzy, quoted for the record.
ascii_field: internet connection is established. I don't know too much exactly what those do, but one appears to phone home to http://download.lenovo.com/ideapad/wind ... 2_oko.json which is a bit worrying with the combination of a "ForceUpdate" parameter shown and the lack of ssl, making it fairly likely that it's exploitable for remote code execution by anyone who can intercept your traffic(public wifi, etc).'
ascii_field: 'Before booting windows 7 or 8, the bios checks if C:\Windows\system32\autochk.exe is the Lenovo one or the original Microsoft one. If it is not the lenovo one, it moves it to C:\Windows\system32\0409\zz_sec\autobin.exe, and then writes it's own autochk.exe. During boot, the Lenovo autochk.exe writes a LenovoUpdate.exe and a LenovoCheck.exe file to the system32 directory, and sets up a services to run one of them when an
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mircea_popescu: "Trusted Platform Module From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Fritz-chip) Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor,"
mircea_popescu: or pulsar, as the case may be, same principle.
mircea_popescu: in a sense they always are : they verify at the minimum that math is homogenous in the universe.
mircea_popescu: so : those could as well be the remote part of a fritz chip
mircea_popescu: the turbines
mircea_popescu: nevertheless : he has this idea that you can nono.
mircea_popescu: not sure how to best convey this as the guy's terminology is a sort of pigdin latin numerals.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field incidentally, it's funny to consider the relations between "remote attestation" and hock or w/e the thing was called
ascii_field: (regardless of what the fritz is made of)
ascii_field: see log, also, for why the approach where the whole computer is not inside the fritz is laughable on its face
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> boils down to the hardness of the fritz chip << the reason they don't call it that is because they are trying to avoid the literature documenting the costs of making it hard and the limitation its softness imposes.
ascii_field: kinda one of the reasons wot is a thing
mircea_popescu: a good steak is also impossible i nthe general case.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: it can readily be shown riguroulsy that this is impossible iun the general case
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the interesting problem of "detecting emulator"
mircea_popescu: <mats> i'm rapidly tiring of being a relay << why's the guy not come over anyway ? well... i guess the answer's actually obvious huh. nm.
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 03:25:08; mircea_popescu: this is like asking wyatt earp "how do you distinguish between the f brothers and stray dog"
mircea_popescu: not even necessary in the case at hand, but as a general rule.
ascii_field: it's quite another to propose that this can be a little pc peripheral turd that i can get 10,000 of and somehow still not crack
ascii_field: i mean, it's one thing to consider a whole computer in a safe which sets off built-in nuke if anyone so much as scratches the door
ascii_field: fwiw, i always thought the idea of a copyprotection dongle that tries to take over the whole machine was quite lulzy.
ascii_field: and so the bullet was deemed unnecessary
ascii_field: but the latter succumbed to its own weight
ascii_field: incidentally, the only reason fritz chip was not pushed more aggressively is that it was really intended to prohibit linux
ascii_field: every other clock cycle if i want.
ascii_field: what's to keep me from sitting it down on one bus where ram hashes to H, then it spits key, and i sit it back down on another.
ascii_field: let's say it sits on the bus and refuses to decrypt magic blob unless it thinks hash(ram) == H
ascii_field: aha, then relies 100% on fritz chip.
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 00:52:21; mircea_popescu: here's the long and the short of this story : you got two whores, just like in the chemistry and agriculture story. one's whomint, the other's slutmint. you gotta fuck either one or the other. they both have very specific, life altering constraints.
ascii_field: but the saving grace is that in 100% of such cases, the 'intellectual propertyyyyy!111!' holder is a twerp, and cheaper to give one of his employees a candy bar
ascii_field: generally, folks who are obsessed with 'someone may steal my magic algo!!111!!!!' ship the whole shebang on fpga with config in sram, backed with watch battery;
ascii_field: boils down to the hardness of the fritz chip (and yes, i will keep calling it that, because the motherfuckers don't get to pretend that fritz, palladium, etc. never happened.)
mats: so there's no attack here.
mats: i'm rapidly tiring of being a relay, but: he says that intel's 'trusted execution technology' wouldn't work with marss86, and you'd also have to have the key to provision marss
punkman: ascii_field, someone has to pick the low hanging fruit, no?
ascii_field: punkman: the goat-fucking ones - sure
punkman: ascii_field: but they do run windows
assbot: Logged on 15-07-2014 03:00:53; asciilifeform: me: why would terrorist run ms-win. he: they will always, trust me.
assbot: Logged on 15-07-2014 03:00:27; asciilifeform: one of my first job interviews out of uni. telephone. a fellow from one of the giant gov. contractors was really intrigued that i know x86 asm., have reversed crud for money. i ask him 'what's the job'. he: automated reversing. me: of what. he: ever hear of karatsuba's algo? me: sure. bignum mult. him: well, we wanna find encryption softs on terrorist drives!
ascii_field: the thing about the 'hares' fella is that he is a textbook case of 'but terrorists wouldn't DO that!!111'
ascii_field: (typically malware folks try to detect emulators by looking for well-known imperfections - if operator is an idiot, these will be found - or for external time base, which can set off a trap if machine appears to be uncommonly slow by wall clock time.)
ascii_field: according to the docs, thing is built on qemu. with none of the 'accelarator' crud that used kernel mods.
ascii_field: sorta like the uniquitous qemu
ascii_field: not according to the docs
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 17:54:13; mircea_popescu: one of the best places for stego i can think of.
ascii_field: the gold standard for this kind of work is instrumented hardware
mats: do you have a link to a paper to what was mentioned here http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-08-2015#1235493 ? having a hard time with the googles
ascii_field: plenty of talk of 'protecting the key: erase from caches' etc
ascii_field: mats: i read the paper. it's a crock of shit. why does this fella assume that no one can run his process under cycle-accurate emulation ?
mats: in the parlance, 'HARES' is not so much as a 'crypter' than a 'packer'.
mircea_popescu: one of the best places for stego i can think of.
mircea_popescu: holy shit, the brits actually ate tea stu ?!
mircea_popescu: "Fourthly, the tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right."
ascii_field: understand the (claimed!) difference
mircea_popescu: anyway, icesomething or the other is making a pretty penny out of obfuscating and bytecoding php
ascii_field: on account of the whole thing being a 'weak keys' crock of shit
ascii_field: the (largely lysenkoine and fraudulent, but bear with me) promise of 'homomorphic' is that you can, ostensibly, make a circuit where determining function is similar to breaking rsa
mircea_popescu: let the good people of jwz nation run "secure" "homowhatever" computers.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you don't imagine the stuff won't be hacked, right ?
mircea_popescu is kind of sick paying "datacenters" for hosting, i'd much rather pay "criminals".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field looky, there's some value into getting better control of the "owners" of zombie computers.
mircea_popescu: ty months of bloom" << epic. in the same article he complains about someone complaining about roses being bourgeois.
mircea_popescu: "I think it is worth recording what some of them cost, just to show what you can do with a few shillings if you invest them in something that grows.I think it is worth recording what some of them cost, just to show what you can do with a few shillings if you invest them in something that grows. [...] Between them, in nine years, those seven rose bushes will have given what would add up to a hundred or a hundred and fif
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the 'homomorphic' shit is strictly for 'secure against owner'
mircea_popescu: so : yes, great, for outside. not the chief point of computing in any sense.
mircea_popescu: that munroe character makes the same point with schoolchildren, schoolmasters and condoms, but i have no taste for it.
mircea_popescu: my perception of "secured computing", for what it's worth (perhaps not much) is that it's very much akin to clothing. sure, it "protects the body". yet one generally wishes for the sort of house that allows, and that's populated by the sort of women that don't particularly need that protection.
ascii_field: on ~other people~ strictly.
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2014 04:11:28; asciilifeform: they would like to create (and then mandate) computing machinery that cannot be audited for security even in principle.
ascii_field: !s you and the atomic bomb
mircea_popescu: scale wars at the cost of prolonging indefinitely a 'peace that is no peace'.
mircea_popescu: Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police state. If, as seems to be the case, it is a rare and costly object as difficult to produce as a battleship, it is likelier to put an end to large-
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mircea_popescu: ;;google who coined the term "cold war"
mircea_popescu: 1. the consensus of the people ; 2. the internet ; 3. the consensus of people on the internet.
assbot: Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” - Apr 16, 1947 - HISTORY.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1JU0oIG )
mircea_popescu: i don't think orwell is properly credited with the invention of this term ?
mircea_popescu: James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implicationsthat is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once UNCONQUERABLE and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors.
punkman: jurov: how does that insulation work out in the summer btw?
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2014 04:11:28; asciilifeform: they would like to create (and then mandate) computing machinery that cannot be audited for security even in principle.