mircea_popescu: because they don't.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now the ussr has a krakadil problem
asciilifeform: phun phact: in the late '80s-early '90s, ussr had a meth problem - but most of the users brewed their own
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well then that's everyone.
mircea_popescu: wait wait, "I have been paid by a member of this board and high value shareholder within the NeoBee security."
asciilifeform: somebody teach these folks to dissolve & recrystallize.
nubbins`: occasionally, but not often, it's accompanied by a story about how such-and-such a brand gives them a rash, etc
ThickAsThieves: htought there's be more hype
nubbins`: certain brands of ritalin are apparently better for snorting than others; the tell-tale sign of abuse is when a customer at the pharmacy asks what brand of ritalin they carry
mircea_popescu: basically... if you can you must. the us will include ritalin in water if it doesn't fucking collapse first.
mircea_popescu: i see they want to give it to everyone. good for criminals, good for students, good to go.
mircea_popescu: so basically this is the gist of my anti-drug argument.
ThickAsThieves: it's how they do
mircea_popescu: what the fuck does it do ?
nubbins`: ritalin is one of the most abused prescription drugs in north america
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves maybe he thinks i believe i'm thermos.
ThickAsThieves: he thinks youre thermos too
mircea_popescu: or else i actually am in which case the post won't last long
nubbins`: guy definitely thinks monsters lurk in the shadows
mircea_popescu: is the theory therein contemplated that the post won't last long because of how close I BELIEVE myself to the higher echelons blabla ?
mircea_popescu: "Due to the real identity of these troll accounts belonging to Mircea Popescu and how close he believes himself to be to the higher echelons of Bitcoin including the Mods/Admins of this forum, i don't believe this post to last long."
nubbins`: apparently certain brands are better than others for snorting
nubbins`: friend says work is "interesting" these days
nubbins`: there's a big shortage of ritalin in canada right now
mircea_popescu: (for the people joining us late, shtylman was some geek who created the bitfloor disaster)
ThickAsThieves: REMINDER: AM1, AM100, and the SMG passthrough will all be controlled by Havelock by March 1st, 2014. The underlying ASICMINER shares are already in the process of being transferred to 1J5fvfUrDcZj8rrpVHMgn8u7sXee84QkPd --- AMFund@havelockinvestments.com --- All AM1,AM100, and SMG(PT) transfer requests and related support requests should be sent to the Havelock from now on.
mircea_popescu: i kinda miss the old days
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin's scam based economy runs on 15-35 year old white men who are very very upset about... The fed? Government regulation? Their crippling inability to purchase mercenary divisions to conquer small countries?"
nubbins`: like the legion, but different somehow
mircea_popescu: benkay this is possible an explanation for the grill thing's fate sure
benkay: same story with the local 'bitcoin meetup' and its location.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla they figured... hey, perfect fit
asciilifeform: reminds me of an incident, many years ago, when i snarfed what what supposed to be a warez copy of a text on the programming language 'ruby'. turned out to be renamed 'ruby.avi', a cheap porn, entitled 'Ruby Breaks her Sybian.'
kakobrekla: at least the linked ep.
kakobrekla: aha tradehill also sponsored them
mircea_popescu: it also is related to gmaxwell's fat girlfriend breaking a segway or was it amir taaki that broke the segway or what the fuck was that
mircea_popescu: the shop went under.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this was somehow related to getting some poor schmucks to take bitcoin for their grill in new york
ozbot: The Bitcoin Show - Episode 012 - YouTube
mircea_popescu: it was later unearthed he had an entire opus written about being a gay whore and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: because child prostitutes are cheap there
mircea_popescu: the most sordid part of all of it being that the guy wanted to organise bitcoin's first conference in thailand
ozbot: The fucked up people of bitcoin and Bruce Wagner's (predictable) thoughts on rape. - Buttcoin - The
mircea_popescu: http://buttcoin.org/the-fucked-up-people-of-bitcoin-and-bruce-wagners-predictable-thoughts-on-rape
mircea_popescu: and the original bitcoin jesus recommended quite strongly a wallet service called mybitcoin
mircea_popescu: that show was called the bitcoin show.
mircea_popescu: just in case you ever wondered how bitcoin got the early reputation of being a toy for the tards.
mircea_popescu: mentally retarded to the degree he filmed entire episodes of their show with the camera in demo mode
mircea_popescu: together with his mentally retarded boyfriend
mircea_popescu: am i the only one here old enough to remember all this ancient history ?
mircea_popescu: but this was just at the peak of bruce wagner's thai prostitution stuff
mircea_popescu: ended up publishing really dubious pms from i forget who the fuck
mircea_popescu: also happened to be either posing as or actually an underage fellow
ozbot: Mircea Popescu aka Crumbs & others
nubbins`: i guess he wrote that in a text editor and then pasted it, hey?
ozbot: Mircea Popescu aka Crumbs & others
Duffer1: I wonder if they need a consultant, I accept bitcoin
mircea_popescu: and im sure mpoe-pr would love nothing more than the equivalent of civ's "our words are backed by nuclear weapons" pasted in her sigline
mircea_popescu: not like ima send czech vixens to pick up the slaughters or w/e
asciilifeform: wake me up for the televised impalements.
Duffer1: SEC if you're here there's a guy named Ken Slaughter operating somewhere in the U.S. midwest in desperate need of your attentions
ThickAsThieves: they are headhunting bitcoin jesuses first
ThickAsThieves: no fun hunting dudes out of the spotlight
mircea_popescu: but anyway, speaking of glbse, did they extradite mccarthy guy yet ?
mircea_popescu: what, people can live just fine after they maxlvl
ThickAsThieves: you already beat the game
mircea_popescu: that's the catch lol
ThickAsThieves: Kinf of the Werld?
ThickAsThieves: <dexX7> well, tat came up with the idea initially, if i remember correctly /// was a guess between me and Occam
mircea_popescu: by delegating it to the people who knew wtf was going on.
Duffer1: i can't imagine the amount of resources it would take
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 sure. the dutch managed to regulate dutch trade just fine
dexX7: well, tat came up with the idea initially, if i remember correctly
Duffer1: that's part of my question yesterday, can there physically exist a bureaucracy capable of "regulating" bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: being a bureaucrat is all about following a fucking script, which is exactly antithetical to the situation they find themselves in.
mircea_popescu: now they're stuck somehow dealing with quite obvious fraud a la mtgox while somehow satisfying the demands of patently insane eastern european dudes with no interest in their internal problems
mircea_popescu: before that some ny state guy is trying to get it licensed and the acct office said it can't,
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's an insane fucking job right about now. in the same day their boss says btc is what mp says it is and some derp senator calls for its banning,
ThickAsThieves: maybe because/how/whether SDICE was sold
kakobrekla: tat or MP, but we will see that if and when SEC joins the chan
mircea_popescu: and i set the dates.
mircea_popescu: got a lot there ?
BingoBoingo: chatquack: Not very confident in them going forward.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the sec, just like any other us or non us, governmental or non governmental agency needs to get used to the idea that bitcoin is a thing, and they need to work with it.
BingoBoingo: chatquack: Maybe, official story is prolongued DDoS, wouldn't be their first
ozbot: Woman in Scotland fills out the wrong form on TripAdvisor. Is now ranked 87 o
nubbins`: "your honor, the prosecution cannot bear the continued humiliation, and therefore withdraws all charges"
benkay: aight davout you got another?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: they extradited a canadian national a couple of years ago who mailed marijuana seeds from canada to the usa
asciilifeform: although it is possible that Ro gave them up voluntarily
mircea_popescu: it would seem successfully prosecuting fraudsters hardly amounts to much indication of your theory.
nubbins`: hm, would the verb be "intradite" in that sense? is that even a word?
nubbins`: anyway, point is that if the usa wants to extradite someone from a foreign country and provides even a tenuous reason for doing so, there's no reason to think said country won't comply
mircea_popescu: e victim buyers by e-mail, sending fraudulent certificates of title and other information designed to lure the victims into parting with their money. Sometimes, they pretended to sell cars from non-existent auto dealerships in the United States and even created phony websites for these fictitious dealerships.
mircea_popescu: As alleged in the indictment, the defendants and their co-conspirators saturated Internet marketplace websites, such as eBay.com, Cars.com, AutoTrader.com, and CycleTrader.com, with detailed advertisements for cars, motorcycles, boats, and other high-value items generally priced in the $10,000 to $45,000 range. Unbeknownst to the buyers, however, the merchandise did not exist. The so-called sellers corresponded with th
mircea_popescu: ya they were
nubbins`: "The Bucharest Appeals Court ordered the extraditions of Mircea, Pieptea, and Simion on February 2, 2013. The defendants were subsequently transported to the Eastern District of New York and arraigned on March 27, 2013."
BingoBoingo: Eh, There's always Somalia
Apocalyptic: one mircea is among them
ozbot: FBI — Three Members of International Cyber Fraud Ring Extradited from Romania to the United States
nubbins`: http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2013/three-members-of-international-cyber-fraud-ring-extradited-from-romania-to-the-united-states
Korbman: Duffer1: there wasn't any explicit indication that it was to be private
Korbman: mike_c: seemed that way, but they didn't divulge much on what's going on
Duffer1: did they ask you not to mention anything Korbman?
mike_c: did they seem to be aware that dice is no longer listed?
Korbman: they were wondering if I held any shares of Dice on MPEx, who any PT operators were, and if I received payments (dividends)
Duffer1: probably if they had US customers/investors
mike_c: what did they want to know?
Apocalyptic: next thing we know they're coming to Timisoara
Duffer1: vorhees and popescu then
Korbman: on HL, yes, but it wasn't about me they wanted to talk about
mircea_popescu: the value of bitcoin is principally this : that an intelligent agent can turn any turdgasm into comedy gold.
asciilifeform: usually 10x10 pixels or so, but that's enough to find thermal faults
asciilifeform: plenty of electronics hobbyists own them
asciilifeform: in other news, 'flir' camera for the proles. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2454119,00.asp
bitcoinpete: speaking of the fed, mircea_popescu, I've been looking for that line in the logs about the world having its Zimbabwe moment from 2010-2014 and not even knowing it. That's classic. Do you remember when it was or have a link?
benkay: no but wait she doesn't matter we must consult the forumoracles
pankkake: benkay: burn them all
mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bg7_WS1IgAEa7sB.jpg:large << map of countries the uk has not invaded.
Jere_Jones: The not greater than check is here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/e3e65d29b70c64808b3ab5c58ce0b3bcefaadc5d/src/main.cpp#L1738
benkay: Jere_Jones: would you link somewhere near this in the source?
Jere_Jones: I imagine that long before that could happen there would be some code added to ensure the coinbase adds up to the fees in order to prevent that.
Jere_Jones: Wow. Extrapolating that to absurd means you could destroy every single bitcoin. The blockchain could have a grand total of 0 satoshis spendable.
Jere_Jones: That would destroy coins since the fees would disappear.
Jere_Jones: ConnectBlock is the function that verifies a block. It only ensures that the value out of the first transaction is not greater than a calculated value. One would expect 0 to not be greater than.
mircea_popescu: well then i give
Jere_Jones: mircea_popescu I've looked at the code that calculates the max coinbase out and it does indeed calculate a subsidy of 0 for blocks 6930000 and greater. I can explain it line by line if you like.
mircea_popescu: ie the camwhores that do voice customer support.
mircea_popescu: so apparently a "lnp specialist" is what they call phonewhores
jurov: mircea_popescu: it was the inflatable dick stretching to sea floor
mircea_popescu: what the holy shit is a "LNP Specialist " supposed to be
asciilifeform: more mundanely, the money would buy perhaps 10,000 cows.
benkay: Apocalyptic: of course, saying "you don't deserve your coins" yields a quick ticket to the edge of the desert
mircea_popescu: so as to inflate away the property rights acquired
kakobrekla: the only thing you can do with that much cow is ipcc extortion
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what'd happen ? there'd suddenly be a stringent need for regulation
benkay: Apocalyptic: i'm a bit of a pariah among locals in bitcoin right now due to the glee i exhibited over the past 4 months in their demise. my only consolation is that the derps will turn over, as they do here. it just seems to be slower around here, mostly i think 'cause people lack any sort of hustle in these parts.
asciilifeform: MisterE: re: 'things cheaper than' << think about what would happen if the folks with the funny money actually bought 38 million cows or whatnot
benkay: i soliloquized on the benefits of the gox coins ending up in the hands of humans who undertsand how coins work instead of gox' or their customers last night
benkay: hp was great in that it gave pretty 13 year old girls something different to run their mouths about
asciilifeform: in that it was picked for the 'slot' by media mouthpieces
benkay: hey thestringpuller i found your new shoes
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i just think it's pulpy.
mike_c: bitcoin is already there i guess
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meanwhile the retarded woman made like 1bn
mike_c: "The cartoon marks a notable moment in the history of the Internet. Once the exclusive domain of government engineers and academics, the Internet was now a subject of discussion in general interest magazines like The New Yorker."
asciilifeform: i think that's close to the exact sum, in modern usd, that tolkien was paid for his books.
mircea_popescu: how much did the author make from rights so far ?
mircea_popescu: ok so : knowing that the "on the internet no one knows you're a dog" cartoon is the most reprinted cartoon in the history of the new yorker,
wao-ender: there will be referendum for autonomy?
mircea_popescu: gotta get the gurlz used to camwhoring somehow.
asciilifeform: why not open the damn thing up and unplug it
asciilifeform: re: 'GCHQ intercepted webcam images' << goes great with the well-known fact that most laptop cameras have software-controlled activity lights.
bitcoinpete: my god their french is lovely here
nubbins`: but a bastardized derivation thereof
nubbins`: and french isn't one of them?
mike_c: that's what comments are for anyway, to debate the post. TaT got his word in.
bitcoinpete: I'm not, I understand the implication I made
bitcoinpete: Maybe I didn't need to mention Neo… but it's been hyped enough of late. Makes the article seem up with the times.
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mircea_popescu: rather than whole line failing ?
ozbot: GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide | World news | theguardian.com
nubbins`: but when i run ./psclient from terminal, gui window opens up without the help of xquarts
mircea_popescu: any x app can pick the kbd
nubbins`: meantime, i need to figure out why my keyboard input doesn't get redirected to the gui
jurov: just do ldd on the .so, you'll see
nubbins`: pascale runs ubuntu, i might take a stab at it over the weekend
mike_c: luckily i control the database :)
jurov: ok, some other day
nubbins`: just a bit of a slog sorting through the error logs etc
nubbins`: jurov FWIW there's a ton of info out there on random CS compilation issues from older versions, some of it is still relevant
mike_c: i tried a couple different versions of ati drivers but can't stop segfaulting either.
nubbins`: CS itself requires a bunch of libraries to be installed, but the report produced at the end of ./configure lists what's there and what's not
jurov: then i noticed cs shipped with eulora 0.0.1 links dorectly to ati proprietary driver
mircea_popescu: yeah the segfault was 99% because you probably couldn't acquire a video surface
jurov: nubs yes thats the problem
mircea_popescu: jurov cs failed the compile ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: TBF most of the trouble i had was related to osx-specific code
jurov: i tried both latest and the revision chetty gave me
mircea_popescu: doesn't show in the log
mike_c: yeah, that is the hope
mike_c: k. they will be credited to trilema.
mircea_popescu: course ideally you run the thing and get your on ss's but hey...
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mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · now @ChrisGurr Well I guess we can rehash this conversation once you meet a woman then.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · 58m @normative Actually most of these office rat "spies" are women.
mircea_popescu: Julian Sanchez @normative · 1h Somewhere, a British spy is wanking to your last naked video chat. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo
mircea_popescu: and for the annals of twitter lolz :
mircea_popescu: if their hopes of ppl not finding out what's inside rest with epoxy...
asciilifeform: that dissolve together
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'state of the art' is epoxy poured over a widget having bridges made of conductive epoxy, with ordinary epoxy poured over
asciilifeform: because you then do not know what is inside.
asciilifeform: main problem is: unless you (owner) personally wrapped the mesh and poured the epoxy, the device is a 'jail not a castle'
asciilifeform: and if i recall, some current anti-personnel mines have the detonator and anti-handling device (gyro) 'potted' in the main charge.
asciilifeform: the Votrax voice synth that unix 'speak' utility was meant for, was, if i recall, potted
asciilifeform: their open declaration 'this priceless gem must never fall into the hands of the public' is simply begging for it.
asciilifeform: and perhaps other connectors
asciilifeform: there are 'sim' sockets, and antennae
asciilifeform: presumably the whole thing isn't potted
asciilifeform: it is so i need a shoebox full of these phones, rather than 1 or 2, to extract whatever turd may be of interest therein.
mircea_popescu: but why would someone tamper with the seals on an epoxied item