mircea_popescu: and a book value per share of roughly twice the share price. incredible.
BingoBoingo: In the coming decades there will probably be some "Japanese Syndrome" appearing in scholarly paper supposing something or another explains Sony. I doubt it will get to the root cause which is the Japanese fucking drought.
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mircea_popescu: who'd have thought this, sony, the king&queen of foundries, the master of entertainment
mircea_popescu: sort-of like how kramer removed the dessicant packets from some store.
mircea_popescu: now the downside of dumping the entire bulk of us secrets on the open market is... well... you won't get any ice in your soda. THATLL TEACH YOU!
mircea_popescu: nobody's gassing anybody dood. the times when men were men and stuff happened are long gone.
asciilifeform: like that chinese rocket test off the CA coast.
asciilifeform: given the almost total lack of english-language news coverage of the event, probably #2.
moiety: i usually use it.... must be the crack element
benkay: the smart ones are long
mircea_popescu: wanna-be leaders are playing with their own future and that's about all.
mircea_popescu: merely observing that if the us holds no bitcoin, the continued existence of the us is of no further importance.
benkay: implying these were bitterrists?
mircea_popescu: here's a free theory : silicon valley entertains these delusions of fighting the bitcoin republic.
mircea_popescu: What they do not have is a motive, fingerprints or suspects."
mircea_popescu: " The FBI is still working the case, and agents say they are confident it was not the work of terrorists.
mircea_popescu: the dollar can go but up up up.
mircea_popescu: if 100 mn people shuffle paper, 100mn people prop rifles guarding them and the rest do laundry, moccacinos and babysitting for the other two groups
mircea_popescu: helps the economy anyway
mircea_popescu: they be hiring armed guards soon
benkay: you live in scotland, i gather moiety?
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benkay: better kill rate than the Boeing batteries...
mircea_popescu: o wait. i remember now. strela was the only portion of iraq's revolutionary guard that actually did any damage whatsoever
chetty: << waves at the NSA guy recording
mircea_popescu: the strella-mounted segway
chetty: They are working on it, searching cars and stuff. Pretty soon no cars withing 2miles of airport (hmm bitbet fodder)
mircea_popescu: seems a lot more practical to fly a RC plane carring a load of cherry bombs into a plane than to aim laser pointers at the cockpit
mircea_popescu: so where is the big scare about all the people with their ATM systems within 2 miles of airports ?
mircea_popescu: throw pigeons at the pilot
asciilifeform: even a toy chopper in the intake might be problematic.
mircea_popescu: and besides... the plane is not as hard to hit as a barn
mircea_popescu: not as skilled as someone firing the laser.
mircea_popescu: the whole thing is like 20 lbs, you can carry three.
asciilifeform: if the plane is in musket range, sure.
asciilifeform: (more or less simply 'strela' with the seek-trigger taped down.)
asciilifeform: or 'strela-blok', the automatic/unmanned version.
mircea_popescu: and they don't make armored airplanes just yet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs to me that rather than having a precision mounted, high power supercolimated laser to blind pilots half mile away at the cost of about a million or so
asciilifeform: the bigger cutters tend to have circulating (vs. sealed) lasing gas, which is a royal bitch.
benkay: back in my semi days i had major wood for the synova machines
mircea_popescu: then host mtv's annual "one thousand derpy chicks in bikinis doing the undulation-on-the-spot" thing
asciilifeform: benkay: i'd love one, but where to put the truck-sized instrument.
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asciilifeform: benkay: that'd be the 'adult' version.
benkay: mining, but with only the reward of a shiny address.
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, you're basically bruteforcing the hash function
moiety: mircea_popescu: no! seemed a lot shorter than the chipug one!
moiety: ah kk promise i'll stop with the laser interrogation now asciilifeform XD
asciilifeform: moiety: 'when used as prescribed,' beam lives in the box.
mircea_popescu: and the bartender goes "what is this, a joke ?"
asciilifeform: moiety: 0-40W, there's an analogue knob.
moiety: benkay: what have you done, im watching all these spider vids now
moiety: is it always the same strength?
moiety: asciilifeform: so in the first pic, you can open the boxy bit and this2nd pic is what is in side?
asciilifeform: moiety: the piece that does, the, well, lasing - http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/laser/tube.png
benkay: what, so that you could clean up the mess?!
moiety: i was always waiting on some twat getting caught in the shredder at work
asciilifeform: these are standard on Machine Tools That Mangle Flesh (tm)
asciilifeform: moiety: exactly what it looks like. hit with fist, cuts off the mains. twist to unpop.
moiety: benkay: 6 is a good video too. the males really like to rub their balls (palps) on their faces don't they?!
moiety: it weighs the same as me!!!!
Dimsler_: spiders have the most amount of gay sex
mircea_popescu: that for instance is re the mining thing i mentioned a while back.
benkay: your prose is so boiled down and reduced the omission of single letters can render it gibberish
mircea_popescu: i simply followed in the spaces :D
moiety: please say they died
benkay: you can send a colored coin representing what you aver to be your stock in pepsi to a stranger over the internet.
benkay: don't you see the genius?
benkay: there's not much worth trading at this early juncture, moiety
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asciilifeform: moiety: over here it's the opposite, reason perhaps being that people would mount rams (or the like.)
asciilifeform: moiety: this is an everyday sight on the wash. d.c. beltway.
moiety: lol their graph looks terrible
asciilifeform: the one way for this to work is for ten thousand wankers (reading news!) to try, and a few get very close, and lucky.
asciilifeform: and here we go with the elephant repellent vendors:
jurov: when the eye is accustomed to dark, it's ver sensitive
jurov: they don't need to be steady
KRS-One: the further away the more shaky and inaccurate they get..you can barely hit the moon if at all for instance.
KRS-One: i still dont understand how laser pointers can be steady enough to light a moving airplane cockpit from the ground at a distance
jurov: if i arrange it, there will be pics
jurov: that should just shrug off someone lightting the cockpit
asciilifeform: moiety: clearly made a poor choice of profession, then
jurov: the point was pilots are pussies
jurov: that was not the point
moiety: every time he was back in the cab or w/e its called on a train
moiety: he couldn't get past the flash backs
asciilifeform: moiety: if one can get pensioned for the 'trauma' of driving a train over some idiot, perhaps we should all become train drivers.
jurov: some to that point they'd accept such discharge
jurov: yes, and everypone forgets the next day
jurov: som they actually secretly hppe for that
asciilifeform: betcha if the poor fellow just got death-rayed, he gets some paid leave.
asciilifeform: anyway, these particular angels are already in your parts drawer, and so is the requisite pin head. camera, keychain, go.
jurov: maybe. or maybe they actually have to accept considerable overtime instead
asciilifeform: perhaps it lets them get out of a scheduled 'piss test' as well.
asciilifeform: pilots are human, when idiot employers/officials offer paid sick leave for an imaginary injury, they're happy to run with it.
mircea_popescu: well actually i think pilots should just be beaten, personally, but that is besides the point.
jurov: benkay, just mircea with ascii going on that pilots are pussies and they should just shut up
mircea_popescu: and the worst move you could do.
mircea_popescu: but i will be pleased to be given the proper form to report such events for the future
mircea_popescu: somehow people never crashed their car into the fire truck because "whoa, i got blinded by the illumination of the cockpit"
asciilifeform: jurov: blind the camera & come back
mircea_popescu: i was once in a car and the fucking ambulance illuminated the cockpit with the lights
jurov: if the lose hight vision even for few seconds, that;s okay?
mircea_popescu: for instance, a guy askd them out and he was ugly.
mircea_popescu: during the same interval a number of 59739845 bored women reported they were "almost raped"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i still dunno wtf they do for practice training, srsly, but they are atrociously bad.
jurov: In 2009, there were 1,489 laser events logged with the FAA—that is, pilots reporting that their cockpits were illuminated by the devices
asciilifeform: they make IR (ocular compatible) laser sights now, because u.s. polizei can't hit a victim from across the street otherwise.
mircea_popescu: jurov you think sharpshooters use the red laser dot 1km away ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm waiting for the day when one becomes vragnaroda for owning a collection of unexpurgated kvant
asciilifeform: place the camera in a car, to reproduce the magical collimatory power of the aircraft window.
mircea_popescu: and try to shine the laser into it while it autoshoots so that you catch it in a pic.
asciilifeform: bonus crap points for ignoring the fact that ~532nm (green) laser rayleigh scatters, further losing power.
jurov: as i say, i do have some experience. it wasn't kilometer, but also the power was much smaller
asciilifeform: srsly, we aren't debating the theory of nuke yields here. experimental materials required: 1 laser keychain. 1km long street. 1 phriend.
jborkl: No, honestly I forgot until this conversation that options are standard the way you have it written. I forgot the standard tbh
asciilifeform: (the actual case in consumer laser toy)
asciilifeform: jurov: notice that the fbi crap carefully specified an uncollimated beam.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand. at one astronomic unit away that million ton cheese thing i nthe sky can appear six inches wide!
asciilifeform: the 'control shot' administered.
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jborkl: Well, I read it different but I fully understand the math behind it so it doesn't matter. I just rwadbit different but I see what you are saying
mircea_popescu: so where's the typo or what do you mean ?
asciilifeform: the 'laser pointer arrest' video is priceless.
jborkl: The text says one lot is .1 btc but mkopt and sell are still dominated in 1 btc lots
mircea_popescu: if that's the standard of evidence required even female orgasm exists.
jurov: i jut shown you the medial helicopter video. it does exist, too
asciilifeform: jurov: in this case fbi is doing its actual job well, for a change. (read: padding the pockets of contractors. here, the ones who'll be making mandatory 'fly by camera' widgets.)
jurov: you just are hell bent on making fun of fbi, even if they do something that may make sense eventually
mircea_popescu: provided it's friday on a february the 29th
mircea_popescu: whoia look at that! if every man woman and child on planet earth was a prepubescent boy with a laser spending all their time 1km away from lax
jborkl: Mp, the calls on the site are priced at .1 and the puts are still priced at 1.0, so there is a typo in this month puts
mircea_popescu: the odds of hitting anything 1 km away are about one in a las vegas jackpot!
mircea_popescu: whoa look at that! the surface of a hemisphere 1km away is like... 6.3 mn sq meters!
mircea_popescu: one kilometer around the airport is all parking lots
mircea_popescu: yeah, gets burned on their retinas
jurov: oh, are they flashing child porn to pilots?
mircea_popescu: jurov sounds to me like a rehash of the child porn thing.
asciilifeform: likewise, slightly-intelligent bureaucrats perhaps wake up at night from the fact that you can untraceably torch just about anything with a fiddybuck IR laser.
jurov: if the scare is about mid-air laser attacks, indeed
asciilifeform: 'no pilots were harmed' 'in the making of this movie.'
asciilifeform: everyone is missing the point. the entire 'problem' is fictional. the fiction, created for a purpose.
mircea_popescu: yes, the laser does. light has this property called refraction
moiety: why do you think they get paid so highly?
mircea_popescu: dude, you mean in the same room ?
asciilifeform: the 'terrible problem' will remain unsolved, passenger liners will get $100K cameras and painted-over windshields.
mircea_popescu: jurov the pilot is what, losing his change on the floor of the plane which is transparent ?
asciilifeform: (cui bono? the folks who will be selling the soon-to-be-mandatory fly-by-camera gear, when it gets retrofitted into passenger jets.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform srsly, seems more like a ploy to give your buddy 10k, because i can't for the life of me grok what exact damage can you do to an airplane with a ground laser.
mircea_popescu: child laundery, money liking and going to the park
mircea_popescu: no wait, that's not rigth either
jurov: they blind pilots?
asciilifeform: one obvious question: how does one convict the offender?
moiety: but but half the procrastination also
mircea_popescu: so you should be thankful, half the crap.
moiety: if they introduce inblots everywhere though, internet will be halved forme
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moiety: bad news is life is about to get even more irritating http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/first-there-were-captchas-now-there-are-gotchas/
moiety: mircea_popescu: I'm 29... marriage would be good news. [ignores the murderer bit]
mircea_popescu: moiety so what's the bad news ? you got married to an axe murderer ?
pankkake: 666 ATC bounty for the pic
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm not the only fellow who likes playing games:
moiety: oh no, i didn't realise there was actually someone sprayed!! will google
moiety: no i meant the unfortunate chick bit
pankkake: so you found the pic? I couldn't
jurov: butbutbut...i'm running a full node... helping the network
moiety: you cannot deny they look better
mircea_popescu: just like in BTC i'm the only one doing shit, everyone else is buying bentleys and spraypainting crackheads in gold paint.
mircea_popescu: being THE ONLY ONE to do so hint hint nudge nudge.
pankkake: now that altcoin have value, the faucet dried up?
jurov: wasn't there a faucet?
mike_c: psh, and i conjecture the sky is blue.
asciilifeform: i conjecture that bitcoind contains a reliable 'warehouse' of otherwise-harmless bugs like the recent one.
asciilifeform: (perhaps he'll patch the damn thing with his own hands. but others, less able, will not. and will go where the phoundation pushes them.)
asciilifeform: the ddos crap is a pill against folks like MP, who have declared that they'll stick with ancient versions of bitcoind.
asciilifeform: they're not unconstrained actors. they still need a story to explain why the 'official' src is to change.
asciilifeform: a warm hug to the inquisitor reading this.
jurov: such thing really works in ussr-style dictatorships where there is no way out
jurov: oh yes there we are again
asciilifeform: that certain players in the field favour.
asciilifeform: there's a difference between 'amply paid' and $MAXINT
jurov: i don't see any motivation why would they turn to such shenanigans
asciilifeform: jurov: perhaps they have new help.
jurov: asciilifeform: it's indeed beyond them. if they were truly scammy, they would have done something simple like stealthcoin
asciilifeform: also to zap the die-hards still using old versions.
asciilifeform: (probably beyond their feeble muscles)
mike_c: aren't all the btc foundation devs in jail by now?
asciilifeform: not necessarily with the goal of slipping in some strange
asciilifeform: the buggers want an excuse to fiddle with previously-untouched code in satoshi's client.
asciilifeform: the diddled-tx DDOS is perpetrated by: 'btc foundation' devs.
asciilifeform: crackpot theory follows. 'you read it here first' (TM)
jurov: pankkake: still selling them?
asciilifeform: but it remains to be seen whether such a thing is possible.
asciilifeform: if the rewrite were compact enough to be auditable with reasonable effort, it would be worth considering regardless of the authorship
fghj: bitbet.com it would be good squat for scaming, just like the one with sdice .com .net or .org 2yrs ago
jurov: prolly i confused it with this: https://github.com/MatthewLM/cbitcoin/
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jurov: have you seen the sx?
asciilifeform: minus the crud (i.e. straight C, with nothing extraneous or ill-fitting)
moiety: the snowden bitbet is still pending two days on
mike_c: maybe that should be it. as verified by coinmarketcap. then if it never gets listed, it resolves as no
mike_c: heh, nice. i was thinking along the lines of "an altcoin will be worth $1 in 2014", but verifying is hard.
mike_c: really? for the real altcoin?
pankkake: there was one, and it ended up being close
pgp: well there soes seem to be some interesting progress
davout: pankkake: hah yeah, the merchant would have been fucked instead
davout: BingoBoingo: does the algorithm allow for latecomers?
davout: BingoBoingo: a four way round-robin sounds like some orgy variant, that means there are four players each playing in turn against each of the other ones ?
davout: lol nvm, the universe doesn't want me to rate KRS-One
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Apocalyptic: wasn't aware either
mike_c: i don't think there is actually a trophy. but mp put up a prize
nubbins`: wait, there's a trophy?