TheNewDeal: ;;nethash
    
    gribble: 280594055.846
    
    TheNewDeal: ;;bc,stats
    
    gribble: Current Blocks: 335484 | Current Difficulty: 3.945767130713873E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 336671 | Next Difficulty In: 1187 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 0 days, 5 hours, 42 minutes, and 26 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 37656692084.0 | Estimated Percent Change: -4.56433
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18600 @ 0.00064244 = 11.9494 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1477 @ 0.00123243 = 1.8203 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 4426 @ 0.00123312 = 5.4578 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1309 @ 0.00123397 = 1.6153 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 2250 @ 0.00124257 = 2.7958 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17450 @ 0.00063509 = 11.0823 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15874 @ 0.00065875 = 10.457 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29600 @ 0.00063396 = 18.7652 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    Naphex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQYw49saqc marry xmas, and such :D laters
    
    assbot: Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/13WT2m6 )
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 838 @ 0.001215 = 1.0182 BTC [+]
    
    
    
    assbot: Helping a poor soul having better days | Indiegogo ... ( http://bit.ly/16Mo15j )
    
    kakobrekla: !up AndrewJackson
    
    kakobrekla: !up Ssateneth
    
    kakobrekla: !up hotrew
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 954 @ 0.001215 = 1.1591 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    BingoBoingo: !up Elio20
    
    punkman: !up austeritysucks
    
    BingoBoingo: !up austeritysucks
    
    BingoBoingo: Hello austeritysucks
    
    austeritysucks: hi there
    
    BingoBoingo: What brings you around these parts?
    
    austeritysucks: been using bitcoin as virtual items merchant and accumulated some just poking around
    
    BingoBoingo: Cool
    
    punkman: cool, what do you sell?
    
    austeritysucks: csgo items mostly
    
    austeritysucks: counter strike on steam
    
    BingoBoingo: Ah, there's channel logs in the topic if you are interested in some history
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17300 @ 0.00063918 = 11.0578 BTC [+]
    
    
    
    assbot: GCHQ Says Its Surveillance Ability is Crippled Post-Snowden | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1zeZaOq )
    
    Apocalyptic: BingoBoingo, "actually has some an explicit" probably a typo
    
    BingoBoingo: fix'd
    
    BingoBoingo: Thanks
    
    mike_c: ping jurov
    
    mike_c: have you ever thought about adding the ability to short mpex stocks to coinbr?  seems like it would be a great service for you as a brokerage.
    
    mike_c: let people lend shares at an interest rate, and let others borrow (with btc collateral) to short.
    
    thestringpuller: mike_c dunno if there is enough volume for that
    
    mike_c: it is grease for the wheels.
    
    mike_c: like right now, s.bbet has a big bid/ask spread.  but it can be tough to market-make a stock if you can't borrow shares to sell.
    
    mike_c: and obviously there is plenty of s.mpoe volume
    
    mike_c: and volatility
    
    thestringpuller: volume was a bad word
    
    thestringpuller: i dunno if there is enough inventory
    
    thestringpuller: volume was completely the wrong word
    
    mike_c: you're going to have to use more words :) I don't follow your concern.
    
    thestringpuller: i don't know if the conglemorate of coinbr users have the inventory of stock necessary to lend.
    
    mike_c: yes, but coinbr would now be offering interest on passive stock holdings.  so perhaps it would pick up new types of customers.
    
    asciilifeform: nanotube around? yesterday i updated my key (new exp date, same fingerprint); still getting 'Error: Problem creating encrypted OTP file.' from gribble.
    
    asciilifeform: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x17215D118B7239507FAFED98B98228A001ABFFC7 << appears
    
    assbot: Search results for '0x17215d118b7239507fafed98b98228a001abffc7' ... ( http://bit.ly/1wCSVXQ )
    
    asciilifeform: but no worky.
    
    BingoBoingo: !up nanotube
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 47433 @ 0.00063918 = 30.3182 BTC [+]
    
    nanotube: asciilifeform: refreshed your key. (regular cron job runs weekly)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1026 @ 0.00125487 = 1.2875 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 2461 @ 0.00126472 = 3.1125 BTC [+] {9} 
    
    TomServo: !up drawingthesun
    
    kakobrekla: !up drawingthesun
    
    asciilifeform: nanotube: thx!
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45050 @ 0.00067001 = 30.184 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 2397 @ 0.0012599 = 3.02 BTC [+]
    
    mike_c: who is best torrent search these days?
    
    mats: do you want an invite to a private tracker?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17326 @ 0.00063648 = 11.0277 BTC [-]
    
    mike_c: um. idk. sure?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 6000 @ 0.00033338 = 2.0003 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    kakobrekla: (if its what.cd rather say no)
    
    mats: pm email
    
    mats: i only had the one what.cd invite
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 18 @ 0.118 = 2.124 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 47719 @ 0.00004899 = 2.3378 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 150 @ 0.00898401 = 1.3476 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mircea_popescu Oh look other people are tired of being hasseled with ideas too http://www.itworld.com/article/2862466/im-done-agreeing-to-ndas-before-hearing-ideas.html
    
    assbot: I'm done agreeing to NDAs before hearing ideas | ITworld ... ( http://bit.ly/1xdUJIB )
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    
    
    assbot: Sony Now to Release Movie | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1whRhp6 )
    
    TomServo: Ahah - what a bunch of clowns.
    
    thestringpuller: BingoBoingo I'm going to need you to GPG sign this NDA before I discuss details of this project...
    
    BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Well, at least you are recorded in the WoT in a way other than Mr Spam is.
    
    thestringpuller: I want to talk to you about this idea flappy plane. It's going to revolutionize aviation.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 60016 @ 0.00063775 = 38.2752 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1573 @ 0.00125 = 1.9663 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1000 @ 0.00121723 = 1.2172 BTC [-] {9} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 5000 @ 0.00121502 = 6.0751 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla pong
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;rated grubles
    
    gribble: You have not yet rated user grubles
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;rate grubles -1 Disingenuous at best. One of the large group of everyday nitwits that wandered into Bitcoin early on enough so as to end up with a much larger momentary fortune than their limited brainpower could support. After squandering it through the usual means, they prefer to pretend their funciar stupidity is someone else's fault.
    
    gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of -1 for user grubles has been recorded.
    
    mircea_popescu: re the entire grubles/bitvps thing : the listing was discussed for a while, in a public channel. grubles was there, and not only represented himself in agreement, but represented rg as the owner of the thing.
    
    mircea_popescu: for that matter, the contract has a specific clause, 3(a)That no third party has offered verifiable proof as to the inaccuracy or incompleteness of the representations and warranties made herein and that no market makers, preferred traders and other significant investors of MPEx have publicly proffered doubt as to the accuracy or completeness of the representations and warranties made herein ;
    
    mircea_popescu: he never availed himself of it, and that is exactly enough for constructive tacit agreement, just as good as if he swore to the whole thing.
    
    mircea_popescu: for that matter, the guy didn't protest at any point while rg was still running the thing, nor did he stand up to take over once rg fucked it up.
    
    mircea_popescu: there was about a month there while namworld was struggling to salvage the thing. which meanwhile i think died again or what is it these days ?
    
    thestringpuller: oh look it's a popescu!
    
    thestringpuller waves
    
    mircea_popescu: heya thestringpuller
    
    mircea_popescu: how goes the merryments ?
    
    mircea_popescu: !up cornfeedhobo
    
    cornfeedhobo: gracias
    
    thestringpuller: They are interesting! I think my 3D artist has some renders as an XMas present for you. Hopefully chetty can help us get it in the engine sometime Q1.
    
    mircea_popescu: for sure!
    
    thestringpuller: How is your vacation going?
    
    mircea_popescu: pretty fun!
    
    thestringpuller: warmer than the n hemisphere i hope ;)
    
    thestringpuller: not that you'd need warmth with that harem of yours ;)
    
    mircea_popescu: do you realise i've been pretty much here, and on -otc before that, almost every day for like three years straight ?
    
    mircea_popescu: nuts if you say it outloud.
    
    thestringpuller: Well you do have highest word count for good reasons!
    
    thestringpuller: so I work for the marketing department here as a developer.
    
    thestringpuller: in one of the meetings I almost went "marketing is rape"
    
    thestringpuller: and was about to start quoting trilema
    
    mircea_popescu: o.O
    
    thestringpuller: haha! I have no idea why we spend so much on marketing. These designers are wasting their precious time.
    
    mircea_popescu: well just don't get arrested over freedom of speech lol
    
    joecool: heh return of rg to irc seems to be causing arguments in all the bitcoin-* channels
    
    kakobrekla: but he doesnt own his key anymore?
    
    joecool: kakobrekla: i thought that was just a rumor, for months everyone thought he sold his forum login too, yet he claims not since he came back to irc
    
    kakobrekla: dik.
    
    mircea_popescu: joecool was a fact back then.
    
    mircea_popescu: these things don't change over time i dun think.
    
    joecool: no i wouldn't expect that to change over time if true
    
    mats: it was entertaining to see Anduck chat again
    
    mats: feelings were hurt and words were had
    
    cornfeedhobo: mircea_popescu: sounds like a fun 3 years
    
    mircea_popescu: guy's kinda add.
    
    mircea_popescu: **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sun Apr  8 16:13:16 2012
    
    mircea_popescu: Apr 08 16:13:16 *Now talking on #bitcoin-otc
    
    mircea_popescu: Apr 08 16:13:16 *Topic for #bitcoin-otc is: OTC marketplace for Bitcoin trading and exchange. | http://bitcoin-otc.com/ | http://bit.ly/x56Fd5 | Start with the ;;guide | Before trading, talk to people, and check ratings. | Beware the FRAUDSTERS. ;;fraud | Trade Options: http://polimedia.us/btc | Bitcoin VPS: http://bitvps.com | BTC → MP @ http://btcpak.com | Support bitcoin-otc! 1F1dPZxdxVVigpGdsafnZ3cFBdMGDADFDe
    
    assbot: #bitcoin-otc ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx0f8w )
    
    assbot: Bitcoin-otc channel guidelines - bitcoin-otc wiki ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx0ikJ )
    
    assbot: MPEx, the Bitcoin securities exchange. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx0gcJ )
    
    assbot: BitVPS: SSD VPS & Dedicated Servers for Bitcoin | SSD VPS + Dedicated Servers for Bitcoin  ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx0gti )
    
    mircea_popescu: Apr 08 16:13:16 *Topic for #bitcoin-otc set by nanotube!~nanotube@unaffiliated/nanotube at Wed Apr  4 06:47:00 2012
    
    mircea_popescu: ^going through old logs.
    
    mircea_popescu: does -otc still have sponsors or nomoar ?
    
    cornfeedhobo: i havent seen one in a year, i think
    
    joecool: -otc can't even pull together an events bot
    
    cornfeedhobo: afaik, the ops have one
    
    mircea_popescu: well, let it be a lesson to all aspiring states : don't allow gmaxwells anywhere near anything, or they'll shit up your future.
    
    cornfeedhobo: gmaxwell? i think i may have missed the drama involving him ... mind filling me in?
    
    mircea_popescu: cornfeedhobo http://trilema.com/2013/the-froth-of-our-days/
    
    assbot: The froth of our days pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.  ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx0Wid )
    
    cornfeedhobo: hahaha "LOL @ #bitcoin-otc-nsfw is a danieldaniel free zone."
    
    mircea_popescu: i think guy was like 16 or something at the time
    
    mircea_popescu: http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-otc/logs/2012/04/07#l1333839931 << bitvps had one of those "vote your favorite face" thing
    
    assbot: BitcoinStats ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx1FjD )
    
    cornfeedhobo: he is 16 now. i have met him in NYC. not a fan.
    
    mircea_popescu: a really ? i never kept too close track. just a kid wandered in one day.
    
    mircea_popescu: 22:13 rgsoon you guys can invest in BitVPS
    
    cornfeedhobo: he has gone out of his way too many times to be extremely rude. i found it fitting when he was hired by CoinBase
    
    cornfeedhobo: (customer support)
    
    mircea_popescu: Apr 06 06:24:27 <rg>just set your password to asdfghjkl;' that way you can zip through the whole row. the enter key is even at the end. thats to root password to every bitvps server.
    
    mircea_popescu: Apr 06 06:25:10 <pigeons>i set mine to "incorrect", so when i forget it, the app tells me
    
    mircea_popescu: good old days lol
    
    cornfeedhobo: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: cornfeedhobo isn't support the hell computer afficionados go to die in ?
    
    joecool: cornfeedhobo: still think the best was seeing a minor (danieldaniel) lend btc to a heroin addict (rg), -otc is always good entertainment
    
    cornfeedhobo: that is certainly what i have always thought
    
    cornfeedhobo: indeed
    
    cornfeedhobo: and cry about not getting it back. lol
    
    mircea_popescu: jborkl: What was the rate, 7% per day? Or week << per week
    
    mircea_popescu: but he had an insider deal where he paid the various captains of industry more so they got the idea to resell.
    
    mircea_popescu: joecool when was this ?
    
    joecool: mircea_popescu: about a year or so ago
    
    mircea_popescu: after my time.
    
    jborkl: sweet action, 7% per week... seems so realistic
    
    thestringpuller: cornfeedhobo: danieldaniel is a weird kid.
    
    mircea_popescu: at the time, bitcoin was a few dollars and basically nobody gave much of a shit.
    
    thestringpuller: he's trustworthy tho, or at least was.
    
    mircea_popescu: eventually people started caring and it got crushed into the dirt, but for a year or so all sorts of bugs got to dance on the tools an' pretend.
    
    thestringpuller: I think he spends too much time in front of a computer and not enough time sleeping with girls.
    
    jborkl: yeah, the weekend btcst went bust it dropped to $8
    
    mircea_popescu: it was oscilating aroudn there, at some point prior the pirate muppet was "going to ruin the price" while it went from low 6s to 7s.
    
    mircea_popescu: that was some lulzy log
    
    mircea_popescu: i dun recall which chan it was in tho, some pricewatchers something
    
    thestringpuller: man i miss those days
    
    mircea_popescu: i recall this one instance where i was going to buy some btc but the guy turned out to only have like 5 or so, and i was meh, for that much not worth my time going into paypal.
    
    assbot: cornfeedhobo +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
    
    mircea_popescu: !up cornfeedhobo
    
    mircea_popescu: this was during that dry summer when it stayed at 2.x
    
    thestringpuller: ;;gettrust mircea_popescu gmaxwell
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user gmaxwell: Level 1: -10, Level 2: 20 via 14 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=gmaxwell | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=gmaxwell | Rated since: Mon Jul 25 13:49:45 2011
    
    thestringpuller: lol i think he is rated lower than magicaltux
    
    cornfeedhobo: thestringpuller: he is trustworthy because someone doxxed him a while back. even posted pictures of his mom. I never got the sense that it was genuine, but i could be wrong.
    
    mircea_popescu: who ?
    
    thestringpuller: ;;gettrust mircea_popescu magicaltux
    
    cornfeedhobo: danieldaniel
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user magicaltux: Level 1: -1, Level 2: -22 via 14 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=magicaltux | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=magicaltux | Rated since: Mon Dec 20 13:21:21 2010
    
    mircea_popescu: is danielmom hot ?
    
    cornfeedhobo: i dont recall
    
    rithm: man o man\
    
    rithm: all that text up above
    
    mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-12-2014#958826 << somehow nobody goes "o look, mp paid 100s of btc so bitcoin financial space may exist"
    
    assbot: Logged on 22-12-2014 22:14:11; jurov: http://trilema.com/2013/rota-post-mortem/ << Anduck see the discussion, it's mircea's and kako's sacrosanct right to arrange unprotected hole in the foyer with a sign "whatever falls here, is our property"
    
    mircea_popescu: yet plenty of idiot muppets going "o noes, we tried to scam with 10 btc and it didn't work out like we wanted it to BLAME MP"
    
    mircea_popescu: kinda why democracy is a fucking stupid idea. the only logical counterbalance to the common man's moral myopia is a solid grasp on the кнут.
    
    thestringpuller: mircea_popescu is the next great khan...
    
    thestringpuller: khan of khans!
    
    thestringpuller has been watching too much netflix
    
    mircea_popescu: i imagine neflix goes gangbusters mid to late decvember
    
    thestringpuller: that was a good radio program.
    
    jborkl: thestringpuller, i watched four episodes last night.
    
    jborkl: i was really bored
    
    
    
    assbot: #bitcoin-assets bash ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx8fXl )
    
    thestringpuller: jborkl: hit or miss right? my asian friend calls it "asian GoT without the dragons"
    
    rithm: http://trilema.com/2013/rota-post-mortem/ i find personally offensive still
    
    assbot: ROTA, post mortem. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.  ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx8kKr )
    
    rithm: perma-disagreement
    
    jborkl: that is about right actually
    
    rithm: afaik the rota thing was a mircea and wences setup
    
    rithm: so everyone can blow me anyways
    
    mircea_popescu: what's so offensive about it ? you had a chance to be like intelligent and prove the common man should have a voice.
    
    mircea_popescu: you used it to prove the common man belongs silent.
    
    mircea_popescu: either way, you know ? things should be what they are.
    
    rithm: that's some sort of twisting of the facts. pay me to discuss it with you and I might.
    
    rithm: i still have the full channel logs
    
    kakobrekla: >The total damage steming from this latest naivity of mine is 150 BTC in owed salaries which become due in December < this was actually paid ?
    
    mircea_popescu: what, trying to imply something's missing ? nothing's missing, it's all there.
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla myeah.
    
    kakobrekla: to whom?
    
    mircea_popescu: to, for instance, rithm
    
    rithm: i can look up the txid if you need
    
    kakobrekla: he got 50?
    
    mircea_popescu: iirc rassah didn't want it because he didn't think he had done anything
    
    mircea_popescu: which i can respek.
    
    rithm: i still haz it if you want it back
    
    mircea_popescu: nop.
    
    mircea_popescu: teh great lesson of bitcoinz : there's no backsies.
    
    mircea_popescu: i never had any idea, but liek... teh most fundamentally humane thing actually is going "hey, try again"
    
    mircea_popescu: that is about as unnatural as it gets.
    
    rithm: i'm not sure how someone'e else lack of decision making skills and causality and what-not becomes my failure
    
    rithm: but whatevs
    
    kakobrekla: seems like im listed in the judge list as well. just ftr i did not receive any compensation for my non-work (as i was not involved in a case).
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah you and a 2nd that never actually got to go on a jury didn't get anything. i think mebbe it was jurov ?
    
    mircea_popescu: !up Elio20
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, better off this way, had the democratic delusions failed to explode we'd just have been belabouring under falsepremises for this interval mostl likely, wouldn't have the lordship list and the supremely valuable understanding of what hierarchy means in society and why equalitarianism is the fruit of the devil jacking off and so on.
    
    mircea_popescu: or at least, i would have been.
    
    rithm goes to kill himself
    
    thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: well just don't get arrested over freedom of speech lol << speech isn't really a freedom at that point is it?
    
    mircea_popescu: quite.
    
    mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people noticed the subtle change from freedom of speech to an alleged "right" of free speech.
    
    thestringpuller: http://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/local/community/brighton/2014/12/21/cursing-teen-mill-pond-ignites-debate-freedom-speech/20745957/ << this guy
    
    mircea_popescu: the difference between rights and freedoms being essentially the difference between pearl necklaces and dog collars.
    
    mircea_popescu: thestringpuller not bad.
    
    mircea_popescu: in any case : a freedom is something the people have, and the state can't take away. the rights are constructions that the state gives, and so the state can take away.
    
    mircea_popescu: trading a freedom for a right is always a bad deal.
    
    mircea_popescu: and it's what generally happens whenever a state claims to be "protecting rights". it's not protecting anything, it's stealing freedom and issuing in its place token "rights". which, much like its paper currency, are fiat worthlessness.
    
    thestringpuller: !up cornfeedhobo
    
    mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-12-2014#958919 << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#924338
    
    assbot: Logged on 22-12-2014 23:21:23; mike_c: <+Anduck> if you have nothing to contribute, you don't need to type anything here... k? << have you been in this channel before?
    
    assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 21:25:49; mircea_popescu: yes.
    
    mike_c: it was more meant as a rebuttal to his comment. people who have nothing to contribute type in here often :)  he was a glaring example.
    
    mike_c: btw kakobrekla, i was thinking possible an easy solution to the whole problem of "negrated person won't leave" might be another command.  like !recheck Anduck.  then if his l2 is no good assbot boots him.
    
    mircea_popescu: the link actually is to his previous bout of derping here
    
    mike_c: it has been an issue at least once before
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c what's the delay currently, like 15 minutes ?
    
    mike_c: i believe it's infinite
    
    mircea_popescu: people still can /ignore for that short interval, what's teh big deal
    
    mike_c: until the person parts
    
    thestringpuller: mike_c: there will always be netsplits
    
    mircea_popescu: nah, !down works once l2 trust is <1
    
    kakobrekla: well, the delay is the duration of his connection, which isnt too bad considering this is freenode.
    
    mike_c: no, !down doesn't work once l2 trust is <1
    
    mircea_popescu: o.O
    
    mircea_popescu: what am i missing ?!
    
    joecool: who is L2 trust between, mp and user?
    
    mike_c: assbot and user
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;google assbot joecool
    
    gribble: Rating Details for User 'assbot' - Bitcoin OTC: <http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=assbot&sign=ANY&type=SENT>; PREV: 17-04-2014 - #bitcoin-assets log: <http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-04-2014>; NEXT: 14-03-2014 - #bitcoin-assets log: <http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2014>
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust assbot joecool
    
    gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask joecool!~joecool@no-sources/joecool. Trust relationship from user assbot to user joecool: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=joecool | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=joecool | Rated since: Thu Apr 28 14:23:15 2011
    
    mircea_popescu: !down joecool
    
    mircea_popescu: oh because l1 ?
    
    joecool: i guess
    
    kakobrekla: mno.
    
    mike_c: but regardless, it doesn't work.  person has to part.  this is why kako had to boot anduck manually.
    
    mircea_popescu: speak the word of god kako. why is it ?
    
    cazalla: austeritysucks: csgo items mostly <<< if ya ever come back, lemme know the site
    
    kakobrekla: if you up yourself, nobody can down you for the session.
    
    kakobrekla: the trust is checked on up only.
    
    mircea_popescu: would it be hard to check on !down too ?
    
    mircea_popescu: leaving a loophole there deliberately where someone with >1 l1 and 0 l2 can still voice themselves
    
    mircea_popescu: but can also be devoiced whenever
    
    mircea_popescu: then we can count how often this happens to de-l1 people.
    
    kakobrekla: no the 'problem' is that if gribble hops and you reup you will be able to down everyone who has not reupped or some shit like that
    
    mircea_popescu: is this a notable problem ?
    
    joecool: gribble nor fleanode are exactly reliable
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean, suppose you do that. so ? people can just reup outside of your control, all you achieve is piss off the wot list.
    
    mircea_popescu: which... why ?
    
    mike_c: yeah, that would likely only happen once.
    
    kakobrekla: ill see what i can do.
    
    mircea_popescu: i like when he says that.
    
    mircea_popescu: usually it ends up a little later with "here's the thing we were talking about, except i built it inside a submarine just in case. and here's some beer i brewed and by the way, do you know candi and brandi ? they're twins."
    
    mircea_popescu: bwahaha irrogant. bashed
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12800 @ 0.00063513 = 8.1297 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: alrighty, well, that was all for me today. hohoho an' merry xmas yo!
    
    cazalla: !up austeritysucks
    
    cazalla: meh, not auth'd, if someone else can up him in meantime
    
    
    
    
    
    cazalla: austeritysucks, what's your csgo site?
    
    austeritysucks: cazalla, i handle transactions through a subreddit and csgolounge
    
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    cazalla: do good volume? butterfly knives seem ideal means to go from fiat -> steam -> butterfly knife -> rmt -> bitcoin
    
    cazalla: then flip it to someone who wants the knife for bitcoin, making a small btc profit
    
    austeritysucks: eh its okay, hard to get people to reject paypal and go with btc
    
    austeritysucks: paypal is horrible for digital goods though so it's a natural fit, just hard to get the community to adopt it
    
    cazalla: yeah, get scammers offering to buy weapons using paypal all the time
    
    cazalla: bitcoin is such a good fit for this
    
    austeritysucks: im working on a btc/csgokey exchange
    
    austeritysucks: since keys are used as the fixed currency to trade
    
    cazalla: by cheaters and smurfs perhaps
    
    austeritysucks: hm?
    
    austeritysucks: its just that keys are used in the trade window, so they're the best "currency" to be used in trading higher value items
    
    cazalla: ah soz, i was thinking cd keys not key keys
    
    austeritysucks: to avoid 15% steamtax
    
    cazalla: i think maybe you will see more of bitcoin in that as time goes on
    
    austeritysucks: yea so my idea was instead of recreating the steam community market for bitcoin, just narrowing down to the keys would be simple to implement
    
    austeritysucks: so people could buy keys for below store price in BTC and safely cash out their inventory to real cash by selling items for keys and selling keys on exchange
    
    cazalla: dunno why uptake is so slow by gamers, i'd have killed for something like this back in everquest
    
    austeritysucks: yea a charge-back free payment system is natural, but you see the typical excuses from people who refuse to adapt
    
    austeritysucks: unfortunately credit cards all have chargeback, and until people can acquire bitcoins with creditcards at point of sale to remove the buyer from the "confusion" of the payment mechanism
    
    austeritysucks: then there is this learning curve that nobody wants to climb
    
    cazalla: give it time, it'll come i think
    
    austeritysucks: there needs to be a reverse-bitpay :P
    
    austeritysucks: but because of how credit cards work its really impossible to do it
    
    austeritysucks: which is exactly how the monopolists want it
    
    cazalla: i'm sure there are some kids who during bored summer holidays will figure out how to get bitcoin and buy/sell habbo items and shit like that
    
    cazalla: so credit card issue isn't really a big one or steam monopoly etc
    
    austeritysucks: no its the visa/mastercard monopoly
    
    austeritysucks: a btc exchange for csgo keys is definitely doable
    
    austeritysucks: but so many people will avoid using it because they can't acquire btc without bank transfer  etc
    
    cazalla: i don't follow, how does that bother me if i already have bitcoin and i want to buy/sell butterfly knives?
    
    punkman: austeritysucks: https://www.payza.com/ this lets you receive CC payments and withdraw BTC, don't know anyone that uses them though
    
    assbot: Payza | Send Money, Receive Payment, Money Transfer, Shop & Sell Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1CxBX02 )
    
    cazalla: pretty easy to purchase small amount of btc now austeritysucks
    
    austeritysucks: cazalla, the majority of people prefer paypal over bitcoin in the community unfortuantely, so the big issue is getting people to adopt bitcoin, i was suggesting that an easy way to promote adoption is to get people to be removed from the btc payment mechanism and have a userfirendl front end that is like using CC, but behind the scenes iti s buying BTC, transferring BTC (and maybe even
    
    austeritysucks: BTC->fiat again for the seller)
    
    punkman: yeah Circle works in a lot of countries
    
    austeritysucks: cazalla, not with the way most people make such payments (cc)
    
    austeritysucks: the minute there is any place that allows for simple cc buy of btc you will have lots of stolen cc's using the service to get btc
    
    punkman: Circle is that place
    
    cazalla: but that is not the buyer's problem
    
    cazalla: i don't really give two shits if circle gets carded to death, i can buy with my own cc in the meantime
    
    austeritysucks: punkman, is it a secret place? i google circle btc and get nothing
    
    austeritysucks: oh nevermind i typo'd sorry
    
    punkman: they are kinda retarded
    
    
    
    assbot: Circle Internet Financial | Bitcoin Wallet, Bitcoin Payments, Bitcoin Insurance ... ( http://bit.ly/1CxCIXc )
    
    punkman: sends me 3 SMS every time I login/buy/withdraw
    
    punkman: l33t security
    
    austeritysucks: hm
    
    austeritysucks: well ill look into it
    
    austeritysucks: but for now i want to get the steam bot C# code working and then the front-end listings/btc purchase php stuff
    
    austeritysucks: because i think if at least the key:btc exchange works with 1 steam bot then it will be easy to expand nad once expanded people will adopt BTC for the purpose of being able to cahs out to real money so drama-free
    
    cazalla: maybe think a little further down the road and think of people wanting to cash out items to bitcoin instead of cash
    
    cazalla: because that's is where that market will move anyway
    
    austeritysucks: but i try my best to encourage people, set them up a hotwallet, shoot them $1 in btc or something ,and get their lips wet
    
    austeritysucks: cazalla, yes that is what the focus is
    
    austeritysucks: cazalla, and theres already many options for ppl to go btc to cash, that's not my concern.
    
    austeritysucks: my concern was people going cash to BTC
    
    austeritysucks: to use the exchange at all
    
    cazalla: well, as punkman said, circle.. refer your customers there to get btc instead of paypal
    
    punkman: this is pretty cool http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html
    
    assbot: ZPAQ ... ( http://bit.ly/1CxDZxh )
    
    punkman: I'm thinking zpaq > gpg > rsync
    
    
    
    austeritysucks: "At this time, bank accounts and credit cards from your country cannot be linked to Circle. Our apologies for the inconvenience. " :(
    
    austeritysucks: coinbase however works in my country
    
    cazalla: works here in australia too austeritysucks although a lot of people report otherwise
    
    austeritysucks: cazalla, but yea i dont want to get horse in front of carriage i need to make this exchange system working better before i worry about expanding customers right
    
    austeritysucks: cazalla, i've been using it to eliminate volatility in receiving btc payments
    
    cazalla: i have things to do, nice talking austeritysucks
    
    austeritysucks: so it has worked fine for me but i have yet to withdraw so i can't fully vouch
    
    austeritysucks: ok have a good one cazalla you too
    
    kakobrekla: punkman the less dependencies the better. (also saw this in bbet cli :)
    
    punkman: this zpaq thing could almost fit in head
    
    punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2014#955217 < previously mentioned, is turd
    
    assbot: Logged on 17-12-2014 02:31:07; punkman: backup with deduplication and gpg encryption http://obnam.org
    
    kakobrekla: space is cheap anyway
    
    punkman: https://attic-backup.org/ was also a contender, but I don't trust it
    
    assbot: Welcome to Attic — Attic - Deduplicating Archiver 0.14 documentation ... ( http://bit.ly/13C7wXA )
    
    punkman: space yes, bandwidth no
    
    kakobrekla: eh?
    
    punkman: I usually have around 2mbit upload
    
    kakobrekla: backup to two different offsite servers
    
    punkman: can't backup big stuff offsite
    
    kakobrekla: wait you want to backup your local stuff to some internet server ?
    
    punkman: well yeah, not unencrypted
    
    kakobrekla: why not locally?
    
    punkman: why not both?
    
    kakobrekla: because you have 2mbit upload.
    
    kakobrekla: i also dont do it. cause if have half of your upload and a few tb of stuff.
    
    punkman: yeah but with deduplication/incrementals it's gonna work
    
    punkman: you can ship TB drives to datacenter, then do incrementals
    
    kakobrekla: well, you can also bounce it off the moon on the way to dc.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15957 @ 0.00066373 = 10.5911 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1038 @ 0.00120342 = 1.2491 BTC [-] {14} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12450 @ 0.00066712 = 8.3056 BTC [+]
    
    thestringpuller: cazalla: other qntra peeps BingoBoingo >> http://www.reddit.com/r/millionairemakers/comments/2q36z6/reddit_lets_make_a_millionaire/
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5081 @ 0.00066712 = 3.3896 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: cazalla: seems like just the kind of organized begging that site is famous for, no ?
    
    asciilifeform: cazalla: or is this one turd somehow different
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1700 @ 0.00066712 = 1.1341 BTC [+]
    
    BingoBoingo: Looks like the usual begging
    
    cazalla: unless they give it to me, it's not going on qntra
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1709 @ 0.00120004 = 2.0509 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    TomServo: !up paxtoncamaro91
    
    TomServo: !up paxtoncamaro91
    
    cazalla: looks like bitbet got a mention http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-predictions-2014-pundits-fared/
    
    assbot: Bitcoin Predictions for 2014: How the Pundits Fared ... ( http://bit.ly/1sWalcE )
    
    BingoBoingo: !up SuperEddy
    
    decimation: kakobrekla: bounce off the moon << yeah, radio hams do this, but the antenna farm required to make it work is quite large
    
    decimation: reddit is kinda like a lesswrong for retards
    
    decimation: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/citizenfour-producers-sued-edward-snowden-759839 << lol guy sues the snowden film producers on the theory that snowden 'stole' the property of the us taxpayer
    
    assbot: 'Citizenfour' Producers Sued Over Edward Snowden Leaks (Exclusive) - The Hollywood Reporter ... ( http://bit.ly/1sWfJfV )
    
    BingoBoingo: lol, I thought about newsing that up but... Does every rural person who files a lawsuit deserve their own story then?
    
    SuperEddy: JESUS CAUSED 9 11
    
    asciilifeform: if he wins.
    
    SuperEddy: its not just calvinism but the bible says it
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure. Winning is news. Filing is What $20-$250 at the county courthouse?
    
    SuperEddy: JESUS CAUSED 9 11 : AMOS 3:6
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: he has a good chance. just needs a few sympathetic apparatchik judges.
    
    SuperEddy: NOW IS THE TIME TO REPENT AND HAVE MERCY IF YOU COULD ARRIVE IN GODS PRESENCE WITHOUT THE BLOOD COVERING YOU HE WOULD LITERRALLY ANITLAITE YOU, YOU WOULD SCREAM FOR HELL
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure. Then it becomes news along with the parties to the case.
    
    SuperEddy: BingoBoingo, YO REPENT
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: JESUS ALSO CAUSED 13 15
    
    BingoBoingo: SuperEddy: Repent what? I am my own God and already forgiven all of my transgressions.
    
    BingoBoingo: Only a few hours until Krampus day arrives here.
    
    decimation: BingoBoingo: the lawsuit is actually amusing, because it divides usg against itself
    
    decimation: if usg supports the suit to annoy snowden, they tacitly admit that they are stewards of the taxpayer's property, and open themselves up to claims against malfeasance
    
    BingoBoingo: decimation: If you can find an angle that makes the mere filing of a lawsuit interesting write it up for qntra and claim some shares. Otherwise I'm going to keep digging for more skidmarks on Preet's undies.
    
    asciilifeform: http://villageundertaker.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/att000022.jpg << 'usg divided against itself'
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1x2iJwp )
    
    decimation: BingoBoingo: it's a fair point
    
    asciilifeform: annoy snowden << annoys sony.
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: actually that's not a very accurate picture
    
    decimation: usg's 'hand' is a corpse at best
    
    asciilifeform: and the whole greenwald/poitras/etc shitgnome gang
    
    asciilifeform: aka the snowden censors.
    
    BingoBoingo: decimation: I mean if you do produce something with your angle doesn't have to be a long piece. Just give it some bite.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28700 @ 0.00063214 = 18.1424 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: For all I know Snowden was a plant for the purpose of stalling and disappearing aspiring "second" leaker
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: microsoft produces shitware -> sony uses shitware -> 'best' korea abuses shitware -> usg gains 'writ' to more tax dollars
    
    asciilifeform: 'best' korea << not even a necessary hypothesis
    
    asciilifeform: in fact, discountable on account of mere mention by usg.
    
    decimation: eh, I guess I'm not that cynical.  I believe that any scrap of evidence that can be used to stir shit up will be used by usg to sell an agenda
    
    BingoBoingo: Whatever truth there might have been to who attacked sony is gone. Too late now.
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: only if it sells the right agenda.
    
    decimation: BingoBoingo: well, certainly we (the public) will not see the evidence
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: let's say you want some idiot dead. you bring him a loaded pistol, and say 'here. please put in mouth, here's the trigger.' he does.
    
    asciilifeform: is this 'an attack' ?
    
    BingoBoingo: Stirring shit up with North Korea is a natural move for the United States, because it distracts from the United States surrendering to Cuba to end that battle of the cold war.
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It can be.
    
    thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: it seems privatized groups are better at disappearing acts than the USG's agency.
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: reading from only the official material, that is precisely the kind of 'attack' involved.
    
    thestringpuller: I'm pretty sure there is some privatize black site that is superior to USG version.
    
    asciilifeform: 'attacker' (via spammail or telephone) - 'can plz has password' sony clerk: 'aye, here'
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In that case there hasn't ever been an "attack" in the history of the internet
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: occasionally actual exploit exists
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: I agree with your hypothesis in that I think USG genuinely guides the computer industry into insecurity
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But how often can actual exploit be truly distinguished from McDonalds exploit fed to the consuminator?
    
    decimation: imagine if the billions poured into 'cybersecurity' were spent on constructing an actual secure terminal from first principles
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actual exploit in the sense that no cooperation is needed from the luser
    
    decimation: that's the midget that the usg has squashed by sitting on the computer industry stool
    
    decimation: the fbi claims it was an email attachment that dropped some scanners that guess passwords to smb shares
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: this is about as thinkable to present-day academics - and turdware industrialist peddlers alike - as galois theory was to the romans
    
    BingoBoingo: Aha. Luser must still cooperate with usine computer!
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: notice how the term 'trojan' has mostly faded from Official claptrap re: 'seekoority'
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: alpha + x modulo II^CCLVI
    
    asciilifeform: because virtually all extant crapware falls in 'trojan' category.
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: I think it's the case that there is (or was) some meta-usg lab that could conceive and develop secure terminal - perhaps already has
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I thought "trojan" was falling out of fashion because fashion is now to go cloud where it is given that Eve already has root.
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: with own parallel universe, where neither 'microshit office' nor 'bash' nor 'openssl', nor any of the constituent parts, are in use ?
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Teletype (paper) display, commodore 64
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: usg did have a few 'parallel universes' of computing. there is, afaik, still a lab or two that use symbolics boxes, for example
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: but my sources believe they're under continuous bureaucratic siege to go 'standards compliant'
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: it's possible that at least someone inside usg who was charged with developing secure computing actually got somewhere
    
    asciilifeform: we're speaking of 'secure computing' as if it were an actual technology, like +ev fusion or whatnot
    
    asciilifeform: whereas it mainly consists of not-doing-things
    
    asciilifeform: !s lisp brick
    
    assbot: 6 results for 'lisp brick' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=lisp+brick
    
    asciilifeform: !s antifeature
    
    assbot: 1 results for 'antifeature' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=antifeature
    
    asciilifeform: the principal thing-not-to-do is complexity that prevents fits-in-head
    
    asciilifeform: anything that does not conform to this principle, i argue is ipso facto not secure for any reasonable definition of the word.
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: agreed.  this kind of thing: http://www.gdc4s.com/sectera-edge-(sme-ped)-proddetail.html
    
    assbot: Sectéra® Edge™ (SME PED) ... ( http://bit.ly/1vlRfxj )
    
    decimation: except that's probably the retard version
    
    asciilifeform: the original obamaphone!
    
    mod6: ;;tslb
    
    gribble: Time since last block: 53 minutes and 57 seconds
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;bc,stats
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: and of course, obama rejected it out of hand
    
    gribble: Current Blocks: 335622 | Current Difficulty: 3.945767130713873E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 336671 | Next Difficulty In: 1049 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 6 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes, and 53 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 38389877348.0 | Estimated Percent Change: -2.70618
    
    decimation: because it contained too many 'antifeatures'
    
    BingoBoingo: I have to confess the new blackberry classic does tempt... But for extra antifeatures over flip phone is unappealing.
    
    
    
    assbot: Hillary Clinton's Phone Intercepted by German intelligence Agency - Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1vlS4WX )
    
    BingoBoingo: decimation: Nothing wrong with Nation State actors working to keep tabs on Nation State actors.
    
    joecool: i like my Z10 tbh, only thing i'd improve is better battery life, i'm a bit concerned by some of the new "features" coming down in 10.3.x releases
    
    decimation: one gets the picture that usg 'leaders' think of themselves as being above such trivialities as secure communications
    
    BingoBoingo: joecool: When BBOS 7 seemed doomed I just went flipphone
    
    joecool: oh see i hated BBOS7, i came from the harmattan/maemo background prior
    
    joecool: tried a couple crapdroid landmines, universally disappointed
    
    BingoBoingo: joecool: Ah, before I did BBOS 7 I was on Symbian whatever and then Android.
    
    joecool: the whole style of UX on BB10 is very similar to the nokia n9's harmattan
    
    joecool: otherwise i never would have considered blackberry, it's a shame they have a worthless marketing division
    
    decimation: there there is this episode: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
    
    assbot: BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call ... ( http://bit.ly/1vlSXif )
    
    decimation: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/07/ukraine-phonecall-idUSL2N0LC1E120140207 " Mark Weatherford, a former deputy under secretary for cybersecurity with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said that some senior government officials were issued mobile handsets that are capable of encrypting conversations but typically do not use them "It is expensive. They are different phones. They are cumbersome," said Weatherford, now a
    
    assbot:       Leaked call on Ukraine made on unencrypted cellphones -U.S. officials| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1vlTmBs )
    
    decimation: principal with the Chertoff Group, a Washington-based consulting firm led by former senior U.S. security and intelligence officials."
    
    decimation: "GPG is too hard, no one will use it"
    
    BingoBoingo: joecool: I don't have problems with big UX changes. I care more about what is happening and why. Unsolder the microphone and camera in old blackberry, works as a pager like god intended. Unsolder camera and microphone in shitty LG android phone doesn't work as pager or play angry birds!
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: usg 'leaders' think of themselves as being above such trivialities as secure communications << of what concern is what a muppet says to another muppet ?
    
    BingoBoingo: Microphoneless smart Pnohe is the way to Pnohe, because BB pager recieves calls, records a message. To return calls you battery up a flip phone.
    
    asciilifeform: ukraine << so what. did even a single usg minion die from the intercepted phone ?
    
    decimation: the original blackberry actually took over an older 'pager-like' frequency allocation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataTAC
    
    assbot: DataTAC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1vlUODH )
    
    asciilifeform: all that resulted was a leak, of facts which anglo media will never print - so it's almost as good, from their point of view, as 'never happened'
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: My point is that no one in the entire us media 'noticed' that the intercept (which was supposedly sophisticated) came from usg 'leaders' talking on unsecure lines
    
    decimation: one wonders how many billions were spent to deploy the secure facilities that they fail to use
    
    asciilifeform: because they (correctly!) believed that it simply does not matter.
    
    asciilifeform: the secure facilities (actual ones, vs. ordinary 'favourite son' golden toilet contracts) are used. by the folks who matter.
    
    decimation: as in, faceless meta-bureaucrats?
    
    decimation: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/february/09/victoria-nulands-ukraine-gate-deceptions/ << ron paul picked up the angle
    
    assbot: The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Victoria Nuland's 'Ukraine-gate' Deceptions ... ( http://bit.ly/1vlV85s )
    
    asciilifeform: wake me up when a 'minuteman' is pwned and sent off on an unsanctioned joyride.
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: ah good point.  you are saying the entire state dept. doesn't matter
    
    BingoBoingo wonders if soon after releasing Cardano, S.NSA will release a Maldardano sample tampered Cardano for people to practice searching for turditions on.
    
    decimation: actually usg would be much better off if it simply disbanded the department of state
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fan of 'song of maldoror' ?
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Never heard it.
    
    asciilifeform: shame.
    
    asciilifeform: !s maldoror
    
    assbot: 0 results for 'maldoror' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=maldoror
    
    BingoBoingo: I guess I'll have to dearch nao
    
    asciilifeform: not essential.
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: department of state << try this gedankenexperiment. what could they possibly leak, that would have a measurable effect - with or without the cooperation of the state-controlled media
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Effective leak would be that reptillians exist and are in panic because of impending Avian threat.
    
    decimation: actually mr. assange already performed this experiment
    
    asciilifeform: lol, 'effective' ?
    
    decimation: the result was largely: bureaucrats who appear to be idiots in public also are in fact idiots in private
    
    decimation: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/december/20/cold-war-spy-games-show-the-moral-bankruptcy-of-the-us-national-security-state/
    
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    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, in the same way plot from "Watchmen" would be effective.
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: wrt the state department, anything important being discussed with us 'trade partners' is discussed by private parties conducting the trade
    
    BingoBoingo: It's interesting how in the US the title Secretary of State can alternately refer to the chief cocksucker at the Federal level and at the state level the chief Notarizing authority.
    
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