decimation: asciilifeform: the government to some degree, yes, but the people are quite tired of usg camping there
mats: "South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled to disband a minority left-wing party and strip its five members of parliament of their seats after accusing them of pro-North Korea activities that it said violated the basic principles of free democracy." << pregnant with irony, this
asciilifeform: decimation: in much the same sense as ww2 was the fault of that derp who lamented his failure to shoot hitler
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decimation: asciilifeform: from a bigger picture, the korean war was a direct consequence of the us failure to crush mao
asciilifeform: also because sk (usg muppet) was the aggressor.
decimation: but the actual history of that actual conflict was to demonstrate how the un shit itself in bed
decimation: the reason the korean war is the 'forgotten war' is that the brave new 'united nations' (wwii allies) were supposed to act in harmony and peace to prevent that kind of clusterfuck
decimation: my great uncle died on the dmz during the pointless dicking around known as 'peace talks'
asciilifeform: afaik every word of the history of the two koreas available in the english language, since the first days leading up to the war, is a cheap fabrication.
decimation: asciilifeform: but they offered 'proofs'! 1.) they had IP addresses 2.) they knew it was them!
Vexual: x1 might just hit me when it come s around on the guitar
decimation: it's possible that it could eject matter toward the earth, which could result in a geomagnetic storm in 2-3 days
Vexual: oh, diff classifications? it this big then?
decimation: in a separate matter, there was an X1 class flare a few hours ago
assbot: Possible G1/G2 Geomagnetic Storms | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center ... ( http://bit.ly/1x6sV8U )
decimation: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/possible-g1g2-geomagnetic-storms << possible geomagnetic storms this weekend, those north of the us border ought to consider looking out for aurorae
decimation: no word on whether microsoft is going to be held liable for ridiculously poor engineering
decimation: apparently the entire sony intranet was loaded on easily guessed windows shares
asciilifeform: 'For they're done with Danny Deever, you can 'ear the dubstep play / The regiment's in column, an' they're marchin' us away; / Ho! the young recruits are shakin', an' they'll want their beer to-day, / After hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.'
Vexual: me neither really
asciilifeform: as i understand, the linked machine is actually a ppc with emulator in rom
Vexual: asccilifeform, you snore like luke-jr considers the book of satoshi a mortal sin
punkman: asciilifeform: punkman: tor is a multi-layered scam << says so on the tin, it's an onion :P
decimation: yeah, tcp is pretty much the most retarded protocol you could pick to try to make 'anonymous'
asciilifeform: decimation: he means, i think, generic tcp stream (vs. store-and-forward, which is more or less the only way to even begin resisting elementary traffic analysis)
punkman: well Vexual and other folks can chat on IRC, so I'd say low latency
punkman: I think the big scam is making all the derps believe they can have anonymity with low-latency tor
asciilifeform: there'll be a new! improved! honeypot (almost certainly consisting of a tor 'altcoin' - original with a few knobs turned)
decimation: 'holy place' being the cemetery?
asciilifeform: decimation: there's a saying, 'свято место пусто не бывает' - 'the holy place is never long empty'
decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt there will be a 'day of reckoning' w.r.t. tor. it will just turn off and the derps will move on
punkman: "Our previous plan had been to sit tight and hope nothing happens. Then we realized that was a silly plan when we could do this one instead."
punkman: "To be sure to keep our source safe, we're not providing more details quite yet. But actually, we don't know many more details than the ones we posted."
Vexual: i sthere a plan?
assbot: Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network | The Tor Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1HdlQ5Q )
decimation: rule the whole country directly under martial law until shit stabilizes in a few hundred years
decimation: well, to be straight, usg needs to go back to the WWII defeated Germany/Japan playbook
assbot: It's not just the savagery of Isis that is shocking – its weaponry is too - Comment - Voices - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1HdiJLc )
decimation: 'cause isis has like Abrams tanks, Stingers, etc http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-savagery-of-isisis-shocking--and-so-too-is-its-weaponry-9700476.html
mats: if you gotta send something, you could do worse than the 82nd
decimation: plus because of the idiotic 'de-baathification' policy of usg, the most competent part of the iraqi army has already joined isis
undata wants to go to the feelies
undata: when do we get the good stuff?
mats: never mind the iraqis know something we don't, but hey lets get some combat infantry badges.
mats: iraqi .mil won't fight in pitched battles, so send in the 82nd!
decimation: mats: I guess this is more non-boots-on-the-ground intervention?
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 11:34:27; mircea_popescu: decimation: "The Brazilification of society can be a samba carnival assuming you approach it the right way, and most importantly, get to live on the pleasant side of the barbed wire fence." <<< this has been exactly my experience to date.
decimation: undata: agreed. In the same way, I wouldn't have a problem with free immigration, if it didn't come with infinite benefits as a newly oppressed minority
undata: but were there not a govt handing out welfare to every newly formed oppressed minority it wouldn't be an issue
undata: to chance being labeled as an MRA, I don't think the progressive demonization of heterosexual maleness is at all healthy
undata: decimation: that only works if you accept the freedom-spreading justification
undata: one can't assign one narrative to a pile as big as the USG
decimation: I would humbly suggest that maybe usg "failed to prepare" because they assumed that once they set the transgendered free from their oppression a new golden age would dawn
ben_vulpes: i'd have a bro in a meshback trucker cap do my sql if they came in at a good rate and didn't need hand holding
decimation: actually that reminds me of another link (this one is smarter): http://www.isegoria.net/2014/12/bungling-the-conclusions-to-wars/ << " In Afghanistan and Iraq, the George W. Bush administration failed to adequately prepare for what the military calls “Phase IV,” the period after immediate victory — an oversight that allowed law and order to break down in both countries and insurgencies to metastasize. Yet Obama, despite his
ben_vulpes: oppressed as they were by the patriarchy/british/french/native american tribal leadership
decimation: mocking our transgendered forefathers, etc
undata: excuse me, don't you mean the "differently marked"?
decimation: but certainly, *everyone* is liable for maintaining the delicate sensibilities of the transgendered
ben_vulpes: all of the hotshot engineers want to work at northrup grumman! they make things so quickly, and their things are always /so good/.
ben_vulpes: this just goes to show that we really need to regulate the people with databases so that they don't leak things.
decimation: usg simultaneously: 1) is unable to responsibly handle even minimal tasks like "keep employee details confidential" while 2.) demands others follow its crazy interpretations of its crazy laws
ben_vulpes: i can't help reading this as anything but a play to increase the "funnel" of "civil rights" cases that justify the expansion of "rights" perpetually.
ben_vulpes: raaarh except for the hideous autoplaying video
decimation: I thought the two articles were a good juxtaposition
ben_vulpes: i fail to see the import of this.
decimation: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/19/doj-employers-cant-discriminate-against-transgendered/ << "On Thursday, US Attorney General Eric Holder announced a new interpretation of the Civil Rights Act meant to prevent employers from discriminating against people who claim the status of a transgendered person."
decimation: http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2014/12/opm-alerts-feds-second-background-check-breach/101622/ << "The Office of Personnel Management is alerting more than 48,000 federal employees their personal information may have been exposed following a breach at KeyPoint Government Solutions, which conducts background investigations of federal employees seeking security clearances."
decimation: he delayed till after the election, on the assumption that it would piss off the opposition more than it did
Vexual: I thought aboma rushed the immigration stuff, not delayed it
decimation: It's good that reporters apologize for asking questions, makes the situation clear for the little people
decimation: "I had misunderstood the parameters, and I’m very sorry about that,” Mr. Allen said. A spokesman for Mr. Clinton declined to comment."
decimation: Latinos in the midterm elections. Mr. Clinton’s team appeared livid with the organizers about the unanticipated questions.
decimation: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/us/politics/as-2016-nears-hillary-rodham-clinton-keeps-eye-on-mistakes-of-2008-campaign.html << "a Politico reporter, Mike Allen, lobbed a couple of unexpected questions at Mr. Clinton after he delivered prepared remarks at the “Playbook Cocktails with Bill Clinton” event. Mr. Clinton made news by questioning whether Mr. Obama’s delay on an immigration overhaul affected the weak turnout of
ben_vulpes: once i untangle the thing, billing will commence again.
ben_vulpes: i refer specifically to their hosted postgres databases.
ben_vulpes: heroku databases are pretty dang performant, even if they are heavily constrained on the number of rows users are allowed.
decimation: http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-sony-investigation << there is an air of desperation here: "Sony reported this incident within hours, which is what the FBI hopes all companies will do when facing a cyber attack. Sony’s quick reporting facilitated the investigators’ ability to do their jobs, and ultimately to identify the source of these attacks."
ben_vulpes: for the record
assbot: James Stewart devoted his life to math and music - The Globe and Mail ... ( http://bit.ly/1x6ii60 )
decimation: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/james-stewart-devoted-his-life-to-math-and-music/article22168574/ << man writes calculus textbook, government mandates sales, man builds $32 mil. house, dies.
asciilifeform: 'I've been sentenced to 2 years, to self surrender in 90 days. Considering I was facing 30 years, justice has been served.' << lol!!! >> 'i've been sentenced to the guillotine, to self-surrender in 90 days. considering that i was facing boiling in oil, justice has been served.'
cazalla: danielpbarron, wow, they have kids too
thestringpuller: the jurassic park version of socialism
cazalla: what would i do without you thestringpuller
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2014/12/jim-harper-departs-the-bitcon-fundation/
thestringpuller: as in is that the real ryanxcharles?
agorecki: Hmm. My IRC client actually does support turning that on and off on a per channel basis. I guess I'll make use of that feature then :|
agorecki: I'm surprised that so many people choose to have channel joins / parts displayed. I have to leave them off because there are too many in high population channels
assbot: Bloody Hell: Argentina's Import Restrictions Cause Tampon Shortage | The Bubble | News from Argentina ... ( http://bit.ly/1sHBZd9 )
thestringpuller: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pt4kl/reddit_announces_reddit_notes_aka_reddit_bitcoin/ << this is by far the most redditarded thing reddit has come up with by far
assbot: Smoking causes cancer, and other humourously enraging consequences of regulatory capture | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdwUk6 )
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2014/12/18/smoking-causes-cancer-and-other-humourously-enraging-consequences-of-regulatory-capture/
assbot: A swimming pool of idle tears won’t spare the affirmative action fallguy. She’s still the canary. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdwSJd )
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2014/12/17/a-swimming-pool-of-idle-tears-wont-spare-the-affirmative-action-fallguy-shes-still-the-canary/
assbot: When Your Kids Ask You What A Computer Is, Take Them To Melbourne. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdwSsw )
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2014/12/16/when-your-kids-ask-you-what-a-computer-is-take-them-to-melbourne/
assbot: Stalking Black Swans In Canberra: The City Of Plans | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdwQkj )
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2014/12/13/stalking-black-swans-in-canberra-the-city-of-plans/
pete_dushenski: how goes the wedgies and foundationing ben_vulpes ?
pete_dushenski: but the local pie shop?
pete_dushenski: you expect the pepsi, bmw, etc.
pete_dushenski: i was shocked with the number of *local* ads
pete_dushenski: those are on another level
pete_dushenski: but the ads...
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell peterl please to add contravex to the blogroll :)
gribble: Error: We broke The Google!
mircea_popescu: literally from the slavic queenless
thestringpuller: the real question mircea_popescu is how is your vacation?
Potissimus: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=895413.140 the bitcointalk thread, for others interested.
gribble: You rated user naphex on Thu May 15 21:01:35 2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: btcxchange.ro.
ben_vulpes: a rose by any other name?
mircea_popescu: what happened there ?
mircea_popescu: because yes, the world really and desperately needs "entrepreneurs" from neanderthal.
mircea_popescu: anyway, romania is traditionally cheap, and the dude figures hey, why shouldn't programmer work butt off for 400 euro/month or w/e.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you should have seen the dude show up for a business meeting, white cotton wife beater & audi.
Potissimus: should've left then
ben_vulpes: in the log?
mircea_popescu: basically, the horeav dude is a redneck doofus on a power trip, and lying through his teeth.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, naphex explained what was going on as was going on, to the usual barrage of "i told you so"
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the entire btcexchange thing : i know both the people involved, on the grounds they took a trip to timisoara.
Potissimus: but that shouldn't have happen, since the fiat side should've been 100% reserve
Potissimus: it wasn't a problem, but it was a 1 day delay with the funds from bitstamp
Potissimus: a) he started running a fractional reserve, i only noticed when i heard there werent sufficient funds to send from the fiat side. to fill the withdrawal queue
ben_vulpes: you were in a business relationship - yourself on the btc/dev/ops side, himself on the fiat banking/regulatory side, correct?
Potissimus: but the deal breaker was him starting to threaten me
ben_vulpes: what was the contractual dispute?
Potissimus: to the bank accounts and whatever
Potissimus: fiat side is his own responsability and he is the only one with access
Potissimus: all the time
Potissimus: he didn't have the source codes as well
Potissimus: the servers are locked down, no remote management
Potissimus: well he never had access to the servers
BingoBoingo: "10 reasons Preet Bharara should be the next attorney general"
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Seems Naphex and HoreaV have a dispute. More details and drama are probably coming out eventually. Since Naphex hasn't defaced the hell of of the site or run away with everything it seems someone probably broke a contract and they are probably going to try suing the hell out of each other.
assbot: Misfortune Cookie crumbles router security: '12 MILLION+' in hijack risk • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1zFgYFa )
kakobrekla: still dont get it wtf happened there
BingoBoingo: Only voices the first person
assbot: A Million Metaorder Analysis of Market Impact on the Bitcoin by Jonathan Donier, Julius Friedrich Bonart :: SSRN ... ( http://bit.ly/1zGSOev )
Adlai: background music is left as an exercise for the viewer
Adlai: "the formula with the 2s has the distinct advantage of being true" - http://youtu.be/mbyG85GZ0PI?list=PLD63A284B7615313A
BingoBoingo: maybe they thought you were intending to use Bitbet Mixer?
BingoBoingo: Well, crybabi What is your big concern. And what was the bet. That seems quite a bit to bet.
gribble: Error: We broke The Google!
PeterL: I think it is in the FAQ?
PeterL: they keep 1% even on refunds
crybabi: it looks like your software is charging the fee on bets that are refunded
crybabi: BingoBoingo: I made a bet and it got refunded, but I only received 4.95 BTC instead of the 5 BTc I sent
PeterL: crybabi: bitbet mods lurk here, go ahead, they should answer
asciilifeform: 'Turner's office did not respond to several requests for comment on why Congress went against the recommendation of Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, to suspend tank production.' << ahhahahaha lol
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: is a signature from the current key required to change to a new key? << that or ragnarok
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2014 03:11:44; asciilifeform: one of the things that always gave me the willies about the classic (nanotube's) wot is that operations are not signed
decimation: or jp-8 which is the new version
decimation: re: earlier discussion of jet fuel << I believe the abrams uses a turbine, which could burn jp-4
assbot: Congress Again Buys Abrams Tanks the Army Doesn't Want | Military.com ... ( http://bit.ly/13FZNbN )
mats: http://military.com/daily-news/2014/12/18/congress-again-buys-abrams-tanks-the-army-doesnt-want.html
BingoBoingo: NO, the dev
mats: commence discussion on how to design an ircd resistant to these problems.
asciilifeform: mats: among the most elementary 'leak' is links
mats: i for one would like to know what these other methods are. there was a vague finger wag at attacking services
decimation: plus there were some excellent games
decimation: there are even reasonable text readers available
decimation: and if such a custom requirement were needed, why not add as a filter in front of the irc daemon
mats: yes, i suggested this, but then it became 'there are a host of other ways to compel privacy leak'
asciilifeform: mats: relying on stone knives, bear skins, ip for authentication
decimation: the obvious fix would be to hash ip addresses with a private salt
asciilifeform: the uninitiated wonder 'why program hp48 today'
decimation: for awhile there was an active usenet group swapping warez
decimation: the original hp48 had great design
BingoBoingo: *86 seems appealing on case aesthetics
asciilifeform still has a small box of the variable capacitors used for this, somewhere, deep beneath eons of dust
BingoBoingo: But in math classes at college calculators were rather useless
BingoBoingo: Would like to buy another
BingoBoingo: I got the calculator realizing that I was not buying it to use as a calculator, but as a standards conforming computer in a particular scenario
asciilifeform: for all i know, they let students use laptop now, on exam.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The AP-Calc AB test. There was a class training for it, but the local recommendation was anything TI preferably 83. I read and saw -89 with the CAS and decided fuck that.
asciilifeform: decimation: there is a tradition in u.s. schools where folks can bring calculators to exams where they are known to be of no use
BingoBoingo: The first time...
decimation: well, it kinda does stack oriented calculation, but isn't a fully programmable calc like the -48
asciilifeform: of what is the 33/35s a dumber version ?
decimation: HP has recently conspired with the 'testing' folks to create a dumbed-down 'modern' version: http://ncees.org/exams/calculator-policy/
asciilifeform: 16c vanished with the age of programming-on-paper.
asciilifeform: they're dirt-common and i have one also.
decimation: the annoying thing to me (growing up on a -48) was that the 16 only displayed one stack element at a time
decimation: it's pretty much the most lispy calc ever made
asciilifeform: and the never-delay-after-keypress
decimation: holy crap they go for like $100-300
asciilifeform: i actually like the simplicity of it
decimation: or you just find the hp collectors amusing?
asciilifeform: can then buy a crate full of ti
BingoBoingo: decimation: Poettering is why horses invented the wagon wheel
BingoBoingo: And then I sold it for booze money freshman year of college
decimation: sadly hp has denegrated the proud hp line
asciilifeform misplaced both of his, is contemplating getting another
asciilifeform: or there'd be no talk of google or arsebook etc. taking it up
undata predicts there will just be drivers that establish one part of ram as a ramdisk
asciilifeform: the real boojum is that c/unix/von neumann crapolade cannot abide the constraint of never-reboot.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Palm V and I have great memories. My only regret is that PalmV and TI-89 never traded the best of their aspects
PeterL: "In particular, the company needs to perfect a new form of computer memory based on an electronic component called a memristor" << so, they just need to figure out how to make the core feature work, then they are all set!
decimation: asciilifeform: whether it is this or another thing, the difference between filesystems and memory will soon be abolished
asciilifeform: decimation: not hybrid, if their literature is to be believed, but rather a 'flash' fast and durable enough to substitute for dram entirely