asciilifeform: 'Barrett Brown was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Dallas to 63 months in prison and ordered to pay about $900,000 in restitution Thursday on charges stemming from the incident, in which he posted a hyperlink in his reporting to information obtained by the Anonymous collective in a 2011 hack of intelligence contractor Stratfor.'
asciilifeform: 'The government asserts that I am not a journalist and thus unable to claim the First Amendment protections guaranteed to those engaged in information-gathering activities, Brown wrote in a prepared statement he planned to deliver before the judge at his sentencing.'
asciilifeform: he linked to, irrc, the 'stratfor' papers.
asciilifeform: or how about the fellow who went to jail for same 4 years for - hyperlinking - a few days ago.
mircea_popescu: check it out, in the pacific islander nation of the US, virgin brides must first fuck the mullato in chief.
mircea_popescu: Moore matched the sentence prosecutors requested for Conley
mircea_popescu: Judge Raymond Moore handed down a four-year sentence, but announced from the bench that she needs psychiatric help. "I'm not saying that her decisions were all a product of mental illness... But she's a bit of a mess," said the judge. "She has no history in the criminal justice system. She is very young.... Teenagers make dumb decisions a lot."
TomServo: She was 'on the radar' see...
mircea_popescu: TomServo wtf is the crime ?!
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: live in seoul for a year, count the number of snot rags you turn black, and tell me we can keep doing this forever << entirely different matter eh ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: mp you know the logical conclusion to come of this is that i am somehow you, yes? << it is actually quite logical if you think about it. you're clearly part of this bizarro cult that consists of not being fucking niggers. and there's AT MOST one person that may conceivably even be interested in not being a fucking nigger at all.
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mircea_popescu: nubbins`: ^ and so the saga ends previously interested parties wander away << http://trilema.com/2015/the-strange-case-of-the-woodcollector-and-other-stories/
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu has the best porn
thestringpuller: davout: wouldn't the purchase of terrorist essentially just be mercenaries?
Adlai: b-a promotes the individual's love for zirself
davout: thestringpuller: i read that as "anyone know where to buy terrorists?"
nubbins`: live in seoul for a year, count the number of snot rags you turn black, and tell me we can keep doing this forever
nubbins`: mp you know the logical conclusion to come of this is that i am somehow you, yes?
nubbins`: ^ and so the saga ends
assbot: Successfully added a rating of -1 for Blazedout419 with note: I suspect, without it being in any sense proven, that he was involved in "managing the brand" of the woodcollector fraudster. See http://trilema.com/2015/the-strange-case-of-the-woodcollector-and-other-stories/
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mircea_popescu: !rate Blazedout419 -1 I suspect, without it being in any sense proven, that he was involved in "managing the brand" of the woodcollector fraudster. See http://trilema.com/2015/the-strange-case-of-the-woodcollector-and-other-stories/
mircea_popescu: "There are some really great people here on the forum, and some of you i really like and enjoy talking with like Blazedout and OgNasty and TookDK"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the lulz in this thing is like self-replicating.
mircea_popescu: well, he just gave himself away, because obviously the Smithsonian lists all artists that it ever exhibited ; so does the louvre, of course. crossreferencing these lists and excluding everyone already dead, we get a list of...
mircea_popescu: "There are all of 3 people on this forum who know who i really am, and every one of them would not sell that secret for $100,000 because they have a vested interest in keeping the secret. What i am is why you will never find out. I am, in fact a world famous artist, my pieces have been in the Smithsonian on exhibit at the Louvre and in the home of pompous wealthy people the world over."
mircea_popescu: maybe we end up how to play the vienna flute.
Naphex: in op post she said she's learning some insstrument at the viena conservatory :))
Naphex: but the only tardy dude that works for bitcoin foundation romania, recommended this
Naphex: there was this funny post on the RoBitcointalk, from a Romanian girl, asking how to make easy bitcoin online
mircea_popescu: and the czechs are fucked out.
fluffypony: the horizontal stripes?
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mircea_popescu: anyone still remember back when the eur was like 60 cents and everyone was convinced it's going away ?
mircea_popescu: check this shit out... ANOTHER parity ?
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asciilifeform: same hardware, incidentally, with different silkscreen on chassis and, naturally, different rom image (it's on their site, i won't bother linking to it, who the fuck cares)
asciilifeform: most curiously. (there is almost always a garbage rng, on such a chip)
asciilifeform: there is, however, no rng of any kind whatsoever.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: data sheet reveals that there is, in fact, 64 bits of antifuse eprom in there. but it appears that 'pogo' was lazy, did not use these for anything.
asciilifeform: it's a nas, folks expect it to run reasonably fast and not drop bits on the floor.
mircea_popescu: i've seen cost cutting to the bone implemented as "let's make it out of mud"
asciilifeform: as i understand, this is simply cost-cutting to the bone.
mircea_popescu: it's the right fucking choice for this tool, and the bravery to do it right rather than buy from ibm is staggeringly beautiful to my eye
asciilifeform: why anyone sane would put a clock << then gotta pick where to connect
mircea_popescu: i want to send them a woman in a large chocolate egg.
mircea_popescu: dude find outwho the fuck designed this
asciilifeform: not optionally, as it might be on your box or mine, but always. there is no rom for it.
asciilifeform: precious little 'state' in there. even ethernet mac addr. is software-configured during init.
asciilifeform: one thing is, curiously, missing from the box - a clock.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is gonna pass these out as party favours or what
asciilifeform: very spacious rom (by embedded machine standards, rather than desktop luserdom, naturally)
asciilifeform: idea is to pack the necessaries into a 'squashfs' (similar to what the device maker did with their nas app)
asciilifeform: generic, with several necessary patches from the cpu maker.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, jurov, mircea_popescu: bsd not fully optimal on the little machine; presently i have it with a linux 2.6.31 kernel, lightly patched
mircea_popescu: mats: id imagine a feminist would approve of such female empowering tech << i approve, at least prima facie. and im pretty sure im the last feminist alive.
mircea_popescu: it sounds exactly like the way i have been getting cunt the past coupla decades, ie, via the female wot, just somehow opened up to the general public.
mircea_popescu: mats you know on the strength of all that ima have to check out tinder now
thestringpuller: my window is open I'll pour a sip of the beer out
mats: pour one out for the niggas that we've lost
thestringpuller: im headed there myself :D
decimation: so submitting to the wisdom of a facebook-powered algorithm is empowering?
decimation: mats: what's the diference between tinder and some frat party?
mats: its not the electric cars, the buttcoins, or the smartphones that make me marvel about living in 2015
mats: ive been here a while and i still can't get over the high class white pussy strolling the streets
mats: ermagerd the harvard sluts around here...
assbot: Is The US Treasury Market Rigged? Some Say Yes | Halbert Wealth Management | January 14, 2015 ... ( http://bit.ly/15oOzbI )
decimation: http://www.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/halbert_011415.php << primary dealers of Treasury bills manipulate the market: news at 11
asciilifeform: decimation: for slightly more one can get an actual router with multiple gbit ethernet jacks.
decimation: so one could get a usb3 to ethernet and make a cheap router too
asciilifeform: decimation: this is not the cheapest (~$12) but second-cheapest (~$18) 'pogo.'
asciilifeform: decimation: under top cover, usb port (usb2?) and sata (2.5 inch laptop drive.) on rear end, two usb3 ports and 1 Gbit ethernet, and dc in (12 volt.)
decimation: asciilifeform: what kind of buses are available on your pogo board? and is it the "pogoplug mobile"?
jurov: this amazon caching really adds another dimension to everything
jurov: irc.cpp does not exist but others work
asciilifeform: jurov: click on any of the sources.
mircea_popescu: dude don't mix the shitstrands
jurov: asciilifeform: fixed, CMerkleBlock isn't supposed to be in 0.5.3 but i have put there newer cpp files by mistake
asciilifeform: he may want to know if the disk has filled.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, because guy knows the ip and can just check if a node answers there
asciilifeform: and how is he to know that the machine is working ?
asciilifeform: i.e. is user expecting an interface of some kind? or just running a node for the warm emotions
asciilifeform: it still remains to be answered, what these are for.
asciilifeform: presently backing up the original contents, to restore later (why? so can test auto-diddler that pumps in everything in one go.)
asciilifeform: object on right hand side of photograph is plastic lid (why??? ask them, not me. with it on, the device looks precisely like the non-sata version.)
mircea_popescu: lol totally ben_vulpes hanbot has it : the little nubbin was angling for your ass.
mircea_popescu: he's exactly their fucking poster child : politically aware, rhetorically prepared, ready to lie and fake it all the way.
mircea_popescu: and a whole shitload of "charity" in africa isn't going towash this off of them. poor monkey is doing what they claiemd he should be doing. fucking frauds.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know in retrospect, i don't actually blame the woodcarver idiot. he's just some monkey doing what he should be doing : monkeying.
hanbot: ianae either.
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punkman: hanbot, oic what you mean. I don't know much about lasers, but I think focus adjustment wouldn't help for the vase example.
hanbot: if it can actually adjust focus distance to make a real plane, then well...it can adjust focus distance.
hanbot: i imagine what you mean is that the cheapo laser has fixed distance focus. then it would cut on a spheric surface not really a cartesian plane.
hanbot: is it really that hard a problem? what if you use a second laser to measure distance and focus the cutter?
undata accepts there is a loving lord
mircea_popescu: "THE TRUTH BEHIND NUBBINS LIES AND TACTICS"
mircea_popescu: undata if the air and food weren't meeting you couldn't likely speak
undata: nubbins`: I've always thought it ample evidence of there being no god that food and air share one, refuse recreation and procreation another
ben_vulpes: (mind you, the girl in question was herself running around nekkid)
ben_vulpes: "THEY'RE KISSING!"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no bitching at the nude fuck!
ben_vulpes: i was at the nude beach this summer. scads of folks of all ages and sizes parading around, lady v and i stretched out with wine and sammiches on a blanket somewhat away from the hubub. hundred feet or so down the beach i hear this little kid:
ben_vulpes: NO FUCKING AT THE NUDE BEACH
ben_vulpes: the tail-buttplugs scheduled for saturday...meh
ben_vulpes: there's a schedule and everything
davout: wallets ought to be decoupled from the client
undata: this though grows into wallet-y thing which would be nicely decoupled from the client
davout: undata: "is underwhelmed by the notion that a "wallet" should involve a websocket" <<< how do you mean?
undata: yeah, the thing's going to need to be funded time to time though; I could just hand it a private key and keep track of its balance myself
ben_vulpes: watch blocks coming in for transactions of relevance to your address, and then request them from btcd
ben_vulpes: undata: all you need to do is cook up raw transactions and sign them
undata: that's the last thing deedbot needs; I've got a free-ish weekend coming up too
undata is underwhelmed by the notion that a "wallet" should involve a websocket, is likely just going to encrypt a sqlite and do his thing that way
mircea_popescu: so they got like a train range.
mircea_popescu: actually, thats an idea : have rails insalled in the flooring, as if for the doors of a walk-in closet, and make the girls wear high heels that are hooked in there
davout: they're handlaser carver
mircea_popescu: maybe, if they were 11 foot tall
assbot: The Intelligent Misogynist: This one kind of reminds me of a magazine cover. ... ... ( http://bit.ly/1JvLNyS )
mircea_popescu: http://theintelligentmisogynist.tumblr.com/post/55487275996/this-one-kind-of-reminds-me-of-a-magazine-cover << people that have no actual experience with the matter of women kneeling, and live on the fumes of the fantasy thereof are kinda funny.
mircea_popescu: better buy up all the cheap venezuelean consuelas before you geriatrics figure it out
ben_vulpes: “If two rats are not adjusted to each other, one will chew the head of the other until it is destroyed,” << yesssss
jurov: yes, whatever the First Nations speak
jurov: she is? or you're on the way with her?
jurov: nubbins`: suggest the woodscammer to make above dice contraptions?
mircea_popescu: jurov but realy, the correct way to do it is, make a 40x40 grid in a wooden box that's the size of the dice, buy 1600 dice, shake until they settle then photograph and read the thing.
TomServo: mircea_popescu: what would have the contrary effect? << samples of many of the insightful conversation I've witnessed here over the years. Would do it for me at least.
jurov: um...theoretically possible to key in ten dice at once, one per finger
jurov: if you can key them in at once
mircea_popescu: but adding Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof to the list of blacklisted idiots is a useful result of the effort, i guess.
davout: there is a video?
kakobrekla: wait, there is a video?
mircea_popescu: TomServo: I'd probably take steps to avoid this place if my first taste was the sexyginger video. << would you ? what wouldhave the contrary effect ?
mircea_popescu: and so it goes. gotta keep with the times.
mircea_popescu: and upon invention of writing there were tons of cool people that never caught the boat.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure that upon invention of speech there were some pretty hott neanderthals that nevertheless couldn't make the cut.
mircea_popescu: that's the only sort of technically inept interesting people that can be.
mircea_popescu: davout: pete_dushenski: some interesting people we'd like to have around could very well not be so technically proficient << sluts belong in the bedroom not in the public forum.
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mircea_popescu: davout: it's actually pretty lame that people *must* be cloaked to come here, even for the first time << why ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the fastest, thickest, most luxurious car is --- not having to go places. << i still go places, even tho i dun have to.
mircea_popescu: so how is it OUR registrar then
mircea_popescu: "Yes, the rumors are true. Our domain was stolen. Our registrar says we likely can't get it back." lmao
mircea_popescu: im kind-of amazed there's not this thing already, girl tied to chair, insert coin to make the rabbit hop.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mats: net-connected air filters, etc. << the 'hammurabic' punishment << http://www.fuckingmachines.com/site/shoots.jsp
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: Another sock puppet possible purchased account of Nubbins / Paul Revere. << i lolled
mircea_popescu: rdymac http://36.media.tumblr.com/0a938c036c3bac7d8f7a93b0859186af/tumblr_n8aq8sg4QS1tgs8v6o9_500.jpg there just for you.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are a few sources for these. my understanding is that they are still in production.
asciilifeform is still waiting to hear the story of why anyone, other than us, would wish to buy one of these and plug it in
mircea_popescu: rdekley so are they.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that way, user can swap the disk at his pleasure
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the logical way to set these up, i think, is to boot from attached disk if one is found; otherwise from internal eeprom, which ought to contain an automatic 'everything-installer' (of our distribution.)
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/350770b31859e4fb5e909aae8de287f6/tumblr_n8aq8sg4QS1tgs8v6o4_500.jpg < tomorrow we do the leg action.
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/bcdaf3fcde4781c4a6e026380ab45f69/tumblr_ngv8svBo8j1t66g5ro1_1280.jpg << part one of the bitcoin-assets guide to perfect waitressing. today, the smile.
rdymac: All oficialismo crooks smoke the same shit
mircea_popescu: rdymac haha nope. but i did note the evo morales cartoon character proposes a seafaring bolivia of the future.
mircea_popescu: sata is worth the 6 bux tho
asciilifeform: there is, for the record, an identical (but for lack of sata and one of the usb jacks) device which retails for 12 usd.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` say, would you wish to act as distribution agent for the serenissima full node box ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can likewise boot from these.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why replace it? the thing has three usb3, one sd, and one sata jack.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu: incidentally, the 'pogo' i bought just showed up. will test 0.5.3 there.
pete_dushenski: "The stock—which trades under the symbol BOX—opened at $20.20 on the New York Stock Exchange, rose as high as $24.73 and closed at $23.23, up 66% from its initial public offering price of $14."
jurov: pulls the numbers out of its ass, i suppose
jurov: no wonder gribble isn't working every now and then
davout: wai, you didn't hear of the actual dice-launching leprechauns powering gribble?
jurov: <davout> it occurs to me it would be really nice to have a way to easily dice-generate an rsa keypair << needs just some 1585 dice throws to get two 2048bit seeds (from them prime search is sequential)
xanthyos: sunlight is the best disinfectant
pete_dushenski: who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men!
pete_dushenski: ^this explains why he sticks to the "cleanliness" of sm
pete_dushenski: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: December 29, 2014 at 7:45pm: "With the information age the world looks uglier, dirtier, more corrupt, scheming, mostly because the malicious was hidden from us before."
pete_dushenski: mostly gmo these days
TomServo: thestringpuller: joking, sexysaffron
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller did you see the "same damn time" video in my last article ? i thought you might get a kick out of it
asciilifeform: TomServo: my working hypothesis is that, for a figure like taleb, the whole net smells a little too much of taaki and sexyginger et al
TomServo: I'd probably take steps to avoid this place if my first taste was the sexyginger video.
pete_dushenski: maybe the next time taleb and saifedean cross paths ?
davout: if it keeps taleb out and lets taaki in it's probably the wrong kind of barrier to entry :D
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: but can't say i'd use it particularly often then
pete_dushenski: davout yet another barrier to entry
davout: it's actually pretty lame that people *must* be cloaked to come here, even for the first time
pete_dushenski: great layout and big fonts but it doesn't store the nickserv info
TomServo: pete_dushenski: Likely the cause of the failed cloak.. it doesn't activate until you've authed with services.
asciilifeform: some folks do live where they want to be.
davout: i love the outdoors, as long as it stays outdoors
asciilifeform: not if you live there?
ben_vulpes: one must get to the place one wants to be, though.
asciilifeform: love the outdoors.
ben_vulpes: allergic to the outdoors or something?
davout: asciilifeform: you meant the bestestest
asciilifeform: the fastest, thickest, most luxurious car is --- not having to go places.
pete_dushenski: i mean, who doesn't want 3" thick windows on their car?
asciilifeform: 'Currently, an individual's cyber behavior is not checked during the security clearance investigative and adjudicative process because legal and privacy limits have not been clearly defined... ... Because the Army's demographic includes many young Soldiers, security clearance investigations often cover a shorter period of time... ... While this poses some risks, the overwhelming majority of these Soldiers have proven that they
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben_vulpes i'm not really a convertible guy. if i was going to one-up myself, i'd go for the bulletproof 560 sel http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-cars/mercedes-benz/560/used-mercedes-benz-560-marylebone-fpa-201310129249992
davout: i understand as the same thing as a feminist but for men
cazalla: mats, well, i included alleged but if the attacker managed to take their domain and twitter account from them, it wouldn't surprise me if sec source name is true, i'm not claiming that anyway, just reporting on what was said
TomServo: So what's a meninist then?
mats: the claim re: SEC source seems dubious on its face
davout: til the meninist movement is a thing
asciilifeform: mats: net-connected air filters, etc. << the 'hammurabic' punishment for having built such a thing ought to be, perhaps, to be placed in a net-connected electric chair for a few days. can be turned on by, e.g., an snmp packet.
assbot: This, no joke, is the coffee shop where a bunch of reporters have been hanging out during Ross Ulbricht's trial http://t.co/OouCKFg3kP
mats: http://www.aphl.org/aphlprograms/preparedness-and-response/Smallpox/pdf/the-1-2-3s-of-biosafety-levels.pdf >> "BSL-3 is suitable for work with infectious agents which may cause serious or potentially lethal diseases as a result of exposure by the inhalation route... Examples of agents that should be manipulated at BSL-3 are M. tuberculosis St. Louis
mats: >found a couple of air purifiers on Shodan ... Turns out they were biochem air purifiers that provided negative pressure in a BSL3 lab ... Turning them off or reversing their direction ... was possible, according to a manual I found
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mats: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2te5h8/the_internet_of_gas_station_tank_gauges_thousands/cnybzgs
TomServo: Not sure why an ATG would have it's own internet facing connection, rather than ride on the gas stations' network.
mats: "cash is a mirage and i agree. they are worthless cotton"
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jurov: "the startup world, a valuation of $1 billion says that you’re no longer a fly-by-night startup with plans to quickly sell out to Google."
mircea_popescu: punkman: wtf was this thing "Coin Publishing LLC is collectively owned by individuals owning or working at BitPay, Butterfly Labs, Google, Casascius, 20 Mission, and Virtual Processing Solutions." << this thing was the cartel.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> okay. it's a similar thing for women. a girl "thinks she migh have been raped". a woman is slightly bemused at your apparent expectation that taking her clothes off puts HER at a disadvantage. << huh.
mircea_popescu: like fifteen year old "businessmen" in the ghetto.
mircea_popescu: the entire nonsense shows a ridoinculous unfamiliarity with what isbeingdiscussed and what the forms involved are.
mircea_popescu: punkman no, i'm mocking the dweebs
mircea_popescu: okay. it's a similar thing for women. a girl "thinks she migh have been raped". a woman is slightly bemused at your apparent expectation that taking her clothes off puts HER at a disadvantage.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes do you know what's the difference between a useful employee and a dweeb with no understanding of anything that's going to "totally revolutionize the way you do business" ?
punkman: "He also started to charge BitTalk Media at a rate of 80 GBP per hour for the time required to respond to messages and emails that asked for clarifications and actions regarding these company assets. Even more, he was paying himself for the time that was required to pay himself. All these actions lead towards considering him as a rogue/hostile shareholder."
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> punkman: fake boyfriends that is << the trouble with an actual boyfriend is that he just might make you a woman << just what distinguishes women from girls?
mircea_popescu: "so what if mp said in 2012 that we have a littlew time left and in 2013 that our time ran out. WE ARE STARTING THE COUNT IN 2014! So there!"