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Vexual: i add sulphur with wine
mircea_popescu: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/595 << meanwhile mitre (which is very much a usg-thing) is coming out with a "you know they don't really need to work because they're special kids".
assbot: oss-sec: Re: CVE-request: systemd-resolved DNS cache poisoning ... ( http://bit.ly/1zNRZyO )
mircea_popescu: so impressive.
asciilifeform: mitre is just an epsilon short of being an official organ, yes
asciilifeform: 'non-profit, ngo!'
mircea_popescu: then 5 different names have to waste the time out of their day, come in and say yo fuckwits!
mircea_popescu: and the usg wins anwyay, for the exact reason spam works : those five people were tied up for the five minutes they took to write and the however many it took them to consider all the angles.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the attackers can just keep right on firing packets
mircea_popescu: and you know, talk abut "do-ocracy". the fake do-ocracy of they firing out syn packets and then closing the socket.
mircea_popescu: and so you know, to quote pankkake, "So, we'll see if the end-users actually want to commit resources on not using systemd."
mircea_popescu: right, those same resources that are drained away with crafted bullshit like this, a million different places.
mircea_popescu: because there is no punishment for the anon derp hiding behind "From: cve-assign () mitre org"
mircea_popescu: just like there's no punishment for the anon derp hiding behind "contributed a patch to openssh"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is why, in my unofficial wonderland, you can't even open a socket without transmitting an rsa-signed a 'this is me, and my wot' breath of life packet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in any case, my original change to github and generally the mangement of open source codebase of "add a read by X" field is not actually enough.
undata hopes to see any of the things asciilifeform has described someday
mircea_popescu: there must also somehow be added in there a "no dependencies" rule, somehow.
mircea_popescu: "your program must work whether any or all the dependencies exist on the syste"
mircea_popescu: and a simple "not all dependencies found, exiting" is not good enough.
mircea_popescu: it must still do everything not related.
asciilifeform: this is not high science, it was the original intent of the lowly gnu autoconf, even.
mircea_popescu: the fucking networking widget should instal and run without netbase, and do everything including populate the fucking fields and drawing the graphs.
mircea_popescu: right. but follow through = exactly what you'd expect, if redmond ran things.
undata: portage does a pretty good job of that
undata: as long as the maintainer bothered, and the package is configurable
mircea_popescu: this is actually true huh
undata: use flags are a bit of a blunt instrument, but they work
mircea_popescu: yeah, you have a point.
asciilifeform: back to syn packets, signed breath-of-life neatly licks ddos.
asciilifeform: all comms answered in priority of wot rank.
mircea_popescu: only if every router out there actually implements this scheduling
mircea_popescu: it WOULD give the old re-routability properties of the web a lot of value again.
mircea_popescu: ie, "are or are you not reachable through some node somewhere that doesn't think you're a total waste of biological matter."
mircea_popescu: the exact opposite of "anonimity", of course.
asciilifeform: a 4096-bit rsa signature and key fp fit handily in a udp minimal packet.
asciilifeform: i'm going to confess now that i implemented this...
asciilifeform: and am sitting on it
asciilifeform: because not ready for battlefield yet, and other work
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: what is the origin of this 'power rangers' nick? << hours after the fork gavin & hearn brought upon the network through their alleged ineptitude (which allegation i don't credit, it was deliberate)
undata: asciilifeform: where's your kyristor post? I want to re-read it.
mircea_popescu: the gushing hordes on reddit were so very impressed with how the idiots in question "fixed" the problem (through leveraging a 50%+1 attack against the blockchain, thourgh meanwhile discredited bircoin mining pools)
asciilifeform: undata: if you believe, http://kyristor.com
assbot: kyristor ... ( http://bit.ly/1xFs7WC )
mircea_popescu: that they went all "o you dudes are like power rangers"!!!
asciilifeform: wasn't talking about that, though.
mircea_popescu: the name stuck.
kakobrekla: i liked asciis story better!
asciilifeform: 'kyristor' was a set of pencilled notes in an old 3ring.
undata: asciilifeform: you're about a mile over my head, but the n-axis WoT idea has had my brain churning since hearing about it
assbot: In re Bitcoin Devs are idiots ... ( http://bit.ly/1xFsnF2 )
mircea_popescu: "I'm not sure this is getting through the fog of their own farts, but the group of power rangers has so far:
mircea_popescu: 1. Not produced one single brilliant solution to any actual problem.
mircea_popescu: 2. Stepped in a majority of the holes, landmines and caltrops available.
mircea_popescu: 1 is of particular concern, especially because it is so easily disprovable."
assbot: Transcript for #bitcoin-dev 2013/03/12 :: BitcoinStats ... ( http://bit.ly/1xFsvEv )
decimation: asciilifeform: I'm not sure you really need tcp at all if you have a crypto-wot
undata: asciilifeform: the crude idea I had previously was just trying to jam a WoT into the blockchain
mircea_popescu: undata i recall this.
decimation: why bother with the illusion of a private point-to-point connection if you can deploy a nice global namespace
asciilifeform: decimation: in point of fact, you can get by without either tcp or the proverbial 'bad reimplementation' of it
decimation: I think mr. yarvin pointed to some internet elder figure who was hawking this idea (also urbit)
asciilifeform: decimation: one can use error-coding to get around lost and re-ordered packets.
decimation: exactly
decimation: tcp really is pretty retarded if you think about
asciilifeform: this also neatly dovetails into 'apocalyptic shortwave radio' net.
decimation: it violates the principle of "the highest protocol layer ought to control" (end-to-end argument)
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not retarded if you think of how fucking cheap it is.
decimation: exactly
mircea_popescu: think about that. think about the early days of bbs, which is how routing fucking got invented in the first placer
mircea_popescu: "deliver all the mail locally, cheaper calls"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the excess packets - cheap. the ddosyness - no.
decimation: well, in elder days when the internet wasn't full of orcs it kinda seemed ok
decimation: now the costs are different
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was five cents a minute yo! at the time a minute meant one page, or a gallon of gasoline.
asciilifeform: everything in future will work - or not - depending on how readily it cuts through swaths of orcs.
decimation: the point is, IP provides an elegant many-to-many mapping of network nodes
mircea_popescu: if the average per-kb page of internet communication were one gallon of gasoline, i wouldn't have to explain to idiots why i don't want to see "webcasts" and why im in irc.
decimation: tcp pretends that doesn't exist
mircea_popescu: for the reason.
mircea_popescu: that most calls cost money, but plenty didn't, so optimized.
decimation: really, what the existing internet fails at is a decent multicast model
mircea_popescu: Vexual: remember, this lady prolly get free handbags and parties << not in romania, not really. she gets free $5 drinks. which... you know.
decimation: this too could be implemented with crypto-wot routers
decimation: !up Vexual
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: no that wasnt the question << i guess time will tell no ?
Vexual: lol she might as well be cazallas au pair
mircea_popescu: decimation you sound like an adult man falling in love with a dirty young hussy.
asciilifeform: wotnet.
asciilifeform: 'you read it here phirst (tm)'
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu no the question was did someone abuse the britneychain
decimation: well, multicast might be a shortcoming in ip
kakobrekla: bad in da day.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well we don't know yet and apparently won't know for a while, rigt ?
mircea_popescu: i personally blame ben_vulpes
mircea_popescu: we (tm) don't think so, but we (tm) would very much like this cultish belief verified independently and scientifically.
kakobrekla: and if it did, what is one going to do about it. (my take is: nothing, continue to suck cock)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla sell out bitcoin, start new implementation.
mircea_popescu: the revolution can not be stopped.
kakobrekla: we do it anyway, lets not pretend on top.
asciilifeform: can at least upgrade to sucking with disgust, rather than unwittingly, or worse, eagerly
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i do not see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i would just sell all my bitcoins, start a new chain.
kakobrekla: new new chain on great great x86
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2014 04:53:31; asciilifeform: quite possibly this is ideal scenario. a hardfork that sane folks on the whole planet would immediately flee to.
kakobrekla: lalala
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it's one thing to live in mud, it's another thing to live in excrement.
Vexual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfGMj10wOzg& whoa steady on, you can improve disco without ruin
decimation: and it's another to do so without any imagining the possibility of an alternative
asciilifeform: there is always an escape, even if you have to chew own leg off.
asciilifeform: but preferably - with all four legs.
asciilifeform: attached, that is.
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35201 @ 0.00045707 = 16.0893 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30471 @ 0.00045583 = 13.8896 BTC [-]
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i was reading a circa-1958 issue of american magazine 'popular science', and guess what was in it - http://imgur.com/mZnf775
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer ... ( http://bit.ly/1C01jEE )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: (for those who missed the relevant thread: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-11-2014#930274 )
assbot: Logged on 21-11-2014 01:38:58; mircea_popescu: well anyway : two trains moving on the same track leave simultaneously 29 miles apart, one doing 5mph the other 7mp. a fly caugh between them flies straight until it reaches a train then turns back and recurses, doing 9mph.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11400 @ 0.00045903 = 5.2329 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: !up cascadian_derper
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform haha nice!
cascadian_derper: re my culpability all i did was ask "why not 053"
cascadian_derper: ascii picked that rev for patching not i
mircea_popescu: generally, is all what's needed.
cascadian_derper: anyways, a question for the chan: "what disqualifies 053 and what criteria should be used to pick an 'angry' bitcoin?"
cascadian_derper returns to babe and malbec
mircea_popescu: nothing in particular.
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mircea_popescu: vexual's on ycombinator ?
mircea_popescu: !up Vexual
Vexual: schoolar ships is the hard way now?
Vexual: give me a fucking break
Vexual: back when i was a kid, if you wanted a virtual office you had to convince someone to do it
Vexual: 90 bux a months?
Vexual: talk about horse pulling the wagon
Vexual: here, have a lotto ticket
Vexual: older girls might ask me if im a virgin; "lady, it's 5 cents or fuck off"
Vexual: "what do i win?"
Vexual: i didnt know what a virgin wasm hell i dont know what sex was
Vexual: i didnt even have a prize in mind, cheeky bitch
Vexual: she stole some crayons and stuff and the otto was a resounding success for year sto come
Vexual: now im watching cricket by myself and i wonder what exactly happened
punkman: !up Vexual
Vexual: hehe dirty
Vexual: meanwhile .za is bowling at us like we're little girls and its working
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30800 @ 0.00046106 = 14.2006 BTC [+] {2}
Azelphur: kakobrekla: moriarty is pm spamming, (I've also banned him from #bitcoin before), please eject :)
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15888 @ 0.00043803 = 6.9594 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36271 @ 0.00043437 = 15.755 BTC [-]
Azelphur: and for bonus points he's now joining other channels to harass me :P
Azelphur: when in doubt: engage stalker mode
Azelphur: this channel really needs more than 2 ops XD
xanthyos: WHOAS
mats_cd03: hes a funny guy. i made seven figures this year! etc.
xanthyos: danielpbarron: WHOAS
mats_cd03: a dummy didn't include a tx fee, now funds are in limbo
mats_cd03 bangs head on table
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24600 @ 0.00044505 = 10.9482 BTC [-]
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danielpbarron: i guess people will be cold this winter
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20700 @ 0.00041222 = 8.533 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 90950 @ 0.0004207 = 38.2627 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Stevie Wonder Is Not Blind: The Truthers' Case ... ( http://bit.ly/1qUfjes )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12000 @ 0.00042474 = 5.0969 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 2000 @ 0.00121921 = 2.4384 BTC [+] {5}
mircea_popescu: !up Xuthus
mircea_popescu: !up adlai
mircea_popescu: !up diametric
adlai: wut, wut did i do
mircea_popescu: you were suspicious!
adlai: can't a man lurk these days
mircea_popescu: !up kdomanski
mircea_popescu: !up nubbins`
mircea_popescu: !up unbalanced
nubbins`: dat disconnect on sleep
nubbins`: 211398 and counting
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18100 @ 0.00043784 = 7.9249 BTC [+]
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: can we have /mode +b *!*@unaffiliated/moriarty please, all he does is join here to pm spam and then leave :P
mircea_popescu: ugh. what's he spam ?
Azelphur: (11:24:09) moriarty: there's also ##econometrics given your interest in cryptocurrencies
Azelphur: he has a bot that does ^, I've already banned him in the past from #bitcoin, #bitcoin-otc, #bitcoin-otc-eu, -uk, ...
mircea_popescu: oh yeah. not the first time either huh.
Azelphur: yea, not the first time :)
Azelphur: thanks :)
mircea_popescu: no, thank you for pasting the actual command, it'd have taken me a while to piece it together lol
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22187 @ 0.00045124 = 10.0117 BTC [+]
adlai: !down adlai
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8631 @ 0.00043794 = 3.7799 BTC [-]
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ben_vulpes: http://bitbet.us/bet/1070/btc-to-reach-5000-or-higher-in-q1/ << winkdex now an accepted price signal on bitbet
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kakobrekla: interestingly > Bitcoin Winkdex price first digit will be a 1 or a 2 on May 1st 2015 < got rejected cause of windex
ben_vulpes: mm interesting
ben_vulpes: any chance of getting "rejected" in search status enumerator?
ben_vulpes: "Rejection reason: There's no way for a mod to find a suitable replacement for a random chance."
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7700 @ 0.00043051 = 3.3149 BTC [-]
kakobrekla: random choice?
kakobrekla: aha someone tried to ddos ba wiki past night. tough luck.
ben_vulpes: nobody noticed lol
assbot: CrAssphage: Previously Unknown Ancient Gut Virus Lives in Half World's Population | Biology | Sci-News.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgJqzx )
jurov: quite a food ofr thought
jurov: *for
assbot: Kalispell man jailed following casino robbery with fake gun - News - Mobile Adv ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgJPlB )
ben_vulpes: jurov: i can't imagine we've sequenced all virii inhabiting humans or even done a decent job at even the internal or external bacteriospheres
jurov: i just find it funny if eventually comes out of it that obesity is indeed infectious disease
ben_vulpes: i suspect certain diets encourage certain bugs that diddle the endocrine system horribly
ben_vulpes: but this is systems science in <not my domain>
ben_vulpes: why is it a better idea for bitcoin to write the blockchain to disk instead of into an external database?
assbot: btcdb: The bitcoin database package from btcd | Conformal Systems, LLC. ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgLM1l )
jurov: not tried it, just fyi
punkman: sqlite sounds good
assbot: The Coinbase Blog — Introducing Toshi - An Open Source Bitcoin Node For Developers ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgM9sL )
ben_vulpes: "since it is file based, it requires no separate database setup for users" << i don't know about this.
ben_vulpes: bitcoin is serious business - perhaps a serious business database should be involved.
jurov: ^ toshi uses postgres
kakobrekla: anything that fits in head?
ben_vulpes: what parts need to fit in head?
assbot: TIL SQLite was created to be used on guided missile destroyers : programming ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgMxaA )
jurov: asking of anything to fit into head is a tall order
jurov: better start with fitness to ass
jurov: can be stretched if necessary
ben_vulpes: the thought that writing to disk requires explicit concurrency semantics (DB_CONFIG requiring lock numbers configured by trial-and-error) in c++ with bdb etc (would this be true of sqlite as well?) makes me think that talking to a professionally written database over a local socket wouldn't be such a bad idea.
ben_vulpes: but y'all know more than i on the topic.
ben_vulpes: also key value stores make me barf
ben_vulpes: (but that's neither here nor there)
jurov: satoshi must have said something on this matter
jurov: is there a way to search for it?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45050 @ 0.00043051 = 19.3945 BTC [-]
punkman: well if sqlite works for conformal, can use as cheatsheet
ben_vulpes: jurov: "the nakamoto institute" was working on an archive of the satoshi letters at one point. i don't know if they got anywhere with it.
assbot: Satoshi Nakamoto Institute ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgO00M )
ben_vulpes: is that really all of them?
punkman: I think there's more on sourceforge mailing lists
jurov: ;;google sql site:satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org
gribble: No matches found.
assbot: Satoshi Nakamoto Institute ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgOkfP )
assbot: Satoshi Nakamoto Institute ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgOlQU )
punkman: no there's more emails
ben_vulpes: yeah i figured
assbot: Bitcoin / Mailing Lists ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgOqV0 )
assbot: Bitcoin / Mailing Lists / Search ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgOu70 )
ben_vulpes: i think the question that i'm asking is: is an embedded db even a good idea?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 70000 @ 0.00041742 = 29.2194 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Bitcoin / Mailing Lists ... ( http://bit.ly/1FgOLqJ )
kakobrekla: mechanical db best db
ben_vulpes: *clack clunk*
kakobrekla: something like huge drum music box?
kakobrekla: for each block?
punkman: rope and beads?
kakobrekla: actually punch cards arent a bad idea after all
kakobrekla: and dont forget to enumerate them.
jurov: round pebbles
assbot: The power of the press, in English this time. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/159m6ak )
mircea_popescu: monster article, ties together a bunch of old stuff
mircea_popescu: and as the expression goes, he who illuminates illuminates himself, so, lots of perhaps unknown material about yours truly as well.
asciilifeform: so it appears that i've merited own, personal ddos.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 70800 @ 0.00041465 = 29.3572 BTC [-] {3}
asciilifeform: anybody else?
asciilifeform: or did the gods smile on me alone.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking it's funny how you keep popping in and out
asciilifeform: ahahaha lol
assbot: * asciilifeform has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) * asciilifeform - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1usZhCU )
mircea_popescu: your cloak is useless if you use it like that
asciilifeform: lol it borked.
asciilifeform: seems like someone on freenode end yanked it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you have incoming turdogram.
mircea_popescu: nah, this is a well known defect of badly made login scripts
mircea_popescu: google it, solutions abound
punkman: qntra too hard to ddos now, moving on to easier targets?
asciilifeform: industrial-grade idiocy
asciilifeform: why ddos some guy.
asciilifeform: so that what, i can't send the launch codes?
mircea_popescu: YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW THE WORLD WORKS!
mircea_popescu: kid wants to matter. kid doesn't have to change for this, kid wants to matter AS HE IS!
asciilifeform: i can picture the conversation right now:
asciilifeform: 'toadie: what shall we do with this bugger, your reptilian majesty?'
asciilifeform: lizard hitler: 'hmm'
asciilifeform: toadie: 'how about a nailgun?'
asciilifeform: lizard hitler: 'nah, not worth a nail. how about ddos his house.'
mircea_popescu: on the positive side, the log's back to manageable size.
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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: "Rejection reason: There's no way for a mod to find a suitable replacement for a random chance." << how do you find a "reasonable substitution" for a bet that goes "x website will publish a number ending in 5"
mircea_popescu: jurov: quite a food ofr thought <<< it pains me to say, but it'd seem more food for shit than for thought.
asciilifeform: ;;google fecal transplant
gribble: Quick, inexpensive and a 90 percent cure rate - For Medical ...: <http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-updates/digestive-diseases/quick-inexpensive-90-percent-cure-rate>; Fecal bacteriotherapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy>; What is FMT? | The Fecal Transplant Foundation: (1 more message)
asciilifeform: ^ actual research field
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: jurov: "the nakamoto institute" was working on an archive of the satoshi letters at one point. i don't know if they got anywhere with it. <<< not very far afaik. Pierre_Rochard << why not btw ? put krawsiz to some useful work!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guess what ?
mircea_popescu: ;;google site:trilema.com fecal transplant
gribble: No matches found.
assbot: In care ma ocup de futurologie in ce priveste trendurile cu rezultate inspaimintatoare in primul rind pentru mine. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1AD7e0B )
cazalla: lol coinfire.cf
asciilifeform going off into meatspace for a spell.
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: alas bitstein and krawisz are (hopefully temporarily) taken up with other ventures. Personally I think the SNI website is unfinished in its current state, but there’s only so much arm twisting I can do with friends
mircea_popescu: i can see it.
mircea_popescu: jus' trying to help, from my position as chief asshole this is easy.
Pierre_Rochard: the words of encouragement are certainly appreciated
danielpbarron: ;;rate thomas_d 1 plays on seals as thomas_dick
gribble: Error: For identification purposes, you must be authenticated to use the rating system.
assbot: Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance | Symantec Connect ... ( http://bit.ly/1AD95CL )
mats_cd03: wish they'd share some binaries, or smth
assbot: SmartContract ... ( http://bit.ly/1ADaGbG )
mircea_popescu: wyrdmantis context ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 myea. useless halfway reporting.
mircea_popescu: "The infection vector varies among targets and no reproducible vector had been found at the time of writing. Symantec believes that some targets may be tricked into visiting spoofed versions of well-known websites and the threat may be installed through a Web browser or by exploiting an application. On one computer, log files showed that Regin originated from Yahoo! Instant Messenger through an unconfirmed exploit."
mircea_popescu: so what, someone supposedly used yahoo messenger on linux ? via what,s omething like an emulator ? and then the infector survived this mauling ?
mircea_popescu: seems nonsensical.
wyrdmantis: "Verified Pay for Performance Get paid, automatically; Smart Contracts verify you've performed by verifying proven results eg: SEO rank, automatically releasing the client's payment right away."
wyrdmantis: just found this thing... no idea if it's real or how it works...any thoughts?
mircea_popescu: old story. it doesn't work, no.
undata: asciilifeform: Does A0 believe that "438967283478" is "539568763873582425356468"? << example of A0 lying?
mircea_popescu: !up theotcguy
jurov: yea, i had yahoo messenger. found interesting stuff under .wine then
mircea_popescu: jurov but the shit actually works in wine ?
mircea_popescu: w/e trojans and so on ?
ben_vulpes: "the" otc guy?
ben_vulpes: isn't that n-tube?
jurov: it worked very badly, then i found some wine processes running with malware-y names, killed with fire
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfNIC5k-yxw << romanian news programme, communist era.
assbot: Telejurnal - Epoca de Aur: Ceausescu si tovarasii - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1ADh4zz )
cazalla: so coindesk linked qntra lol
cazalla: but only the google cache as not to give full credit
assbot: Stakes Are High for Star-Backed Bitcoin Gambling Site As Crowdsale Stumbles ... ( http://bit.ly/1ADjPRF )
ben_vulpes: seriously?
cazalla: to be fair, perhaps site was down from ddos at the time it was written but still, amusing
xanthyos: BingoBoingo: Successfully changed key for user xanthyos from B62E7295387001E9 to DF074A8E1242692B. You are now authenticated for user xanthyos with key DF074A8E1242692B
xanthyos: NO LONGER A KEYbase boy, are you proud of me?
BingoBoingo: I am indeed
xanthyos: dpb is here
ben_vulpes: hey look a real key
xanthyos: i needed my hand held
ben_vulpes: don't you feel all growed up nao?
ben_vulpes: in other news the girl found an entire gallon of organic maple syrup
assbot: Conviction ... ( http://bit.ly/1xotW6q )
mircea_popescu: splendid
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24600 @ 0.00041 = 10.086 BTC [-]
assbot: linux - sshd with port forwarding left connections to localhost without counterparty process - Server Fault ... ( http://bit.ly/159RTbd )
jurov: ^ "splendid" too
jurov: my every productive day ends with such wtf stuff or a bugreport
jurov: it wears off, i can't even be properly paranoid anymore
nubbins`: splendid
mircea_popescu: which sshd is this ?
mircea_popescu: da shit is this i've never seen such a thing.
joecool: opensshd version? and were you able to reproduce this anywhere else?
jurov: OpenSSH_6.2p2, OpenSSL 1.0.1j-fips 15 Oct 2014
jurov: not tried to reproduce, first time i see this
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 2980 @ 0.00121941 = 3.6338 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28000 @ 0.00041 = 11.48 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: !up Flyer33
BingoBoingo: !up Flyer9933
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41500 @ 0.00041831 = 17.3599 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17450 @ 0.00041831 = 7.2995 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: lol fail
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10150 @ 0.00041894 = 4.2522 BTC [+]
assbot: chomp - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1zgmQmR )
assbot: chomp - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1zgmXih )
assbot: GAW Miners Continue Scam While CoinFire Is Defaced | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1HCJETF )
kakobrekla: lol @ cf
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 22 @ 0.10038222 = 2.2084 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: !up zen_
BingoBoingo: !up dpb-dotcom
danielpbarron: hi dpb-dotcom
danielpbarron: ;;rate thomas_d 1 plays on seals as thomas_dick
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user thomas_d has been recorded.
xanthyos: !up bagels7
BingoBoingo: !up bagels7
assbot: Breakout Gaming ICO Concludes | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1pdlqcw )
BingoBoingo: !up GamerZag
BingoBoingo: Hello GamerZag
mircea_popescu: lol what happened to coinfire
mircea_popescu: !up zen_
kakobrekla: they got phwned?
BingoBoingo: Looks like it. They did a piece on GAW miners and then a few hours later... haxxed
mircea_popescu: !s naggum field demand
mircea_popescu: meh where was it
cazalla: lol a fkn rabbit is front page of /r/bitcoin
cazalla: mircea_popescu, of course
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 54500 @ 0.00041922 = 22.8475 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 60053 @ 0.00041892 = 25.1574 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, because i remembered doing the research for my latest : speaking of the "how about you stop sending niggers" thing - the romanian secret service arrested a few dozen men mid december 1989 who were travelling to timisoara by themselves. no women, no children, "vacation". they had all heard that this was the oldest town in europe with electric illumination.
mircea_popescu: lulz of all time.
assbot: #ThanksMichelleObama: Students criticize school lunches - CNN.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1tplb9T )
mircea_popescu: it's like reading the fucking scinteia over here. "elena ceausescu has visited the highschool #85, gave dispositions"
mircea_popescu: so romanian presidential elections were 30%-40% first round, then 54% - 45% 2nd round. then they made a poll to see who people voted with, and 66% claim to have voted wioth the winner. that's 12% more than actually did. what fraction of that is people lying, and what fraction is votes stolen ?
assbot: TIME apologizes for including 'feminist' in poll of words to ban | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour ... ( http://bit.ly/1tpm56k )
mats_cd03: "TIME apologizes for the execution of this poll; the word ‘feminist’ should not have been included in a list of words to ban. While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion has become a distraction from the important debate over equality and justice."
mats_cd03: kek.
mircea_popescu: wait. so they banned words from the poll to ban words ?
mats_cd03: don't play the game if you can't take the heat, playa
mircea_popescu: and they have a poll about "what" pre-decided words to ban ?
mircea_popescu: how very feminist, progressive and pseudo-justice anti-social of them
mircea_popescu: "we want to have a democratic process for as long as the results come out the way we like. we also want science that confirms our preconceived notions".
mircea_popescu: they could be Time Africa / Soviet Union / Best Korea just as well.
mats_cd03: they can't afford to offend women, they're the demographic with most disposable income no?
assbot: Cererea de suspendare a președintelui Traian Băsescu, sau cu Caragiale tot inainte! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1C3dpwQ )
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 how is this a fucking criteria lol.
ben_vulpes: although the acronym puns are probably going to be hard
mircea_popescu: i made acronym puns ?!@
mircea_popescu: o look at that, i made acronym puns.
mircea_popescu: Proleguminie ahahaha god help us.
mircea_popescu: im sorry foxy, that shit's untranslatable.
mircea_popescu: ;;google prolegomenos
gribble: Prolegómenos. Derechos y Valores - Redalyc: <http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=876>; Prolegómenos de la renta básica | Montserrat Galcerán on Vimeo: <http://vimeo.com/11693346>; Resumen y prolegomenos del encuentro UD Roteña - Sevilla FC ...: <http://vimeo.com/45779641>
mircea_popescu: ;;google legume
gribble: Legume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume>; legume: <http://www.legumebistro.com/>; Legume - Merriam-Webster Online: <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legume>
ben_vulpes: at this rate i'm going to have to learn romanian
mircea_popescu: learn latin, it'll open a whole new englishj to you
ben_vulpes: myeah.
mircea_popescu: and romanian is practically mutually comprehensible.
mircea_popescu: "La ultimul termen din 1 aprilie, Mazăre s-a prezentat la procesul de la Cureta de Apel Bucureşti" << they were trying for the "court of appeals". itcame out, "the appalling curette".
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 61803 @ 0.00041272 = 25.5073 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49695 @ 0.00041 = 20.375 BTC [-]
cazalla: xanthyos, how's ya cock mate
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "25% salary cuts every 2-3 months" << this is a thing?
mircea_popescu: actually, for years on end "journos" got no pay at all.
mircea_popescu: "maybe next month, something"
ben_vulpes: how'd they eat?
mircea_popescu: and before you're shocked : at least half gawker employees are in exactly the same situation . if the thing didn't happen to be an organ of the socialist press, they'd be in prison like that indian diplomat for "slave labour"
mircea_popescu: how do whores generally eat ? around the cock in their mouth.
mircea_popescu: couch surfing is a thing. bumming food and shelter off people you met at a party last week idem.
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of maggie the cat, "you can be young and without money, you just can't be old and without it"
xanthyos: cazalla: swollen, but no longer mangled
xanthyos: i took the gauze off yesterday, it's circumstitched
xanthyos: like the molding of a real doll
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm familiar with the females of my age group couch surfing, living on gov't grants, waitressing, staying up late chain smoking over the odd "piece".
assbot: Wheatus -Teenage Dirtbag (Lyrics & A cute font) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1tpnGcn )
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so then.
mircea_popescu: and "entrepreneurs" aren't in that much better a shape, since we're on it.
ben_vulpes: but they never got paid to begin with. pay cuts tho?
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it gets better. they mostly owe to banks, have wives and children
ben_vulpes: (the girls of my generation, i mean.)
mircea_popescu: they took out credits in swiss francs because they were 1% cheaper before the swiss franc doubled in value over a summer, so they could pay 80k for a shitty prefab apartment in a shitty bucharest neighbourhood,
mircea_popescu: ie, 3x what a house apparently costs in ohio (and that 1% was off ~14% a year, mind)
mircea_popescu: on it goes, lulzfest is of such epic proportions it can scarcely be conveyed.
assbot: Pulp - Common People - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1vgH6FG )
mircea_popescu: parents carry part of the blame.
ben_vulpes: i struggle with the flipside of the debt thing - what to do with the retained earnings? go long the stock market? really? i'm bullish on btc on like a 30 year timeframe so that has to have next to no bearing on the 1-2 year timeframe for handling retained earnings right now. give up the 8% or w/e the market's doing under QE or hold it all in cash because "it can't go on like this forever!11!"
xanthyos: i prefer the william shatner cover
xanthyos: to common people
mircea_popescu: just buy stuff.
mircea_popescu: you're not making enough to actually have the problem of not being able to buy stuff.
mircea_popescu: buy an apartment in every city you ever heard of and rent it out. worst comes to worst you have where to live. stuff like that.
ben_vulpes: can't quite swing apartments this year.
ben_vulpes: as i said this afternoon "too much money to put to use in our own business, not enough to get into any others".
mircea_popescu: so stock up on stuff then. look at your grocery list, see everything on there you actually like and keeps well, buy a year's supply
mircea_popescu: or w/e you figure you'll be there for.
mircea_popescu: the 8% is illusory. having the stuff on hand for when the price hikes is not.
mircea_popescu: as a general principle : the only use of money in an inflationary spiral is to buy stuff.
ben_vulpes: monitors and desks are certainly on the list.
mircea_popescu: the more tangible the better. tuna is stuff. stocks... hardly.
mircea_popescu: nah, not monitors. tech items make poor stuff.
undata: stockpile booze
undata: that's always valuable in a depression
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell asciilifeform subject of monitors: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005JN9310/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s03?ie=UTF8 << excellent vertical orientation displays
assbot: Amazon.com: Dell UltraSharp U2412M 24-Inch Screen LED-lit Monitor: Computers & Accessories ... ( http://bit.ly/1vgJV9R )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: anecdotally, i totally raped the power company in romania. one year they were desperate for cash, so you could make a deal where you prepaid consumption at fixed rate. so i did, i prepaid for like a year.
mircea_popescu: then prices went the fuck up and threatened to go further up, so they actually paid me to settle it.
mircea_popescu: a month after which the prices went down.
ben_vulpes: lol wd
ben_vulpes: we are planning to buy the year's rent in a lump sum
mircea_popescu: i was the passive element really, they just were really intent on selfrape somehow
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i pay quarterly anyway, but as long as its set in the contract whatr diff does it make ?
mircea_popescu: unlkess you get a discount i guess.
ben_vulpes: it's a more expensive space, but nobody's teeth will be chattering in the new space.
ben_vulpes: book it as an expense in 2014 for taxes.
mircea_popescu: ah like that. sure.
ben_vulpes: also reincorporating as an s-corp in 2015 for ibid
ben_vulpes: so what, two cases of champagne?
cazalla: <ben_vulpes> we are planning to buy the year's rent in a lump sum <<< i tried this once before but got knocked back, i figured because i paid on time every time the owner figure what was the point
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