mircea_popescu: best be careful, lest at night it reassembles itself into a dulap.
phf: pretty sure that thing has a remote triggered cyanide injector. a "present" for ascii
mircea_popescu having homemade black forest with "alamos" chardonnay, supposedly "best seller in teh usa". it's not terribru.
mircea_popescu: pro tip : for the best cooler, pour mineral water in the icecream tray.
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mircea_popescu: also, god fucking help the heretics with their white shit on the black forest cake. it's devil's food in ganache, not fucking light cream ffs.
mircea_popescu: (meanwhile, substituting sour cherries + kirsch for banana slices + rum ; or caramelized pineapple and good cognac is legitimate.)
phf: kids these days with their fancy mice. back in my day we had to clean mouse balls before each quake 1 match with wet wipes
mitch_callahan: i remember my step mom would take that ball out as punishment. sucked.
phf: i refused to use optical mouse for a long time, because my railgun technique involved upwards swipe, that would periodically glitch out with an optical mouse and would rotate completely randomly. good times.
mircea_popescu: then again, old ball mice... i had a straight lines and right angles genius. because molding plastic was hard in the 80s
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hanbot: mircea_popescu how many lightbulbs can you turn on at a time with that?
mircea_popescu: anyway, they had a very heavy steel ball with a thin silicone covering.
hanbot: Online virtual currencies are clearly here to stay no pun intended, according to Mitch Callahan, Clearly Canadians Bitcoin Campaign Manager. << is that you btw, mitch_callahan?
mitch_callahan: i think those guys finally reached their goal a year later. i should have some clearly canadian to give away in the near future. i cant remember what it cost me in btc, though.
mitch_callahan: its an old fruit flavoured beverage that was popular in the 80's and 90's
mitch_callahan: a guy in the US bought the trademark and brought it back
mircea_popescu: ironically the guy actually tried to get it on mpex, but this was back in the single digit times.\
mitch_callahan: he met a lot of people very quickly. iirc he had erik voorhees on the line, amongst others. bitpay was pushing it, too.
mitch_callahan: it jump started me in the space, mostly meeting people, seeing who's who. started a meetup, etc etc.
mircea_popescu: it would have been a horrible idea (as i pointed out at the time). a purely fiat business like selling fizz fits very poorly on bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: next thing you know it runs up 10k% (as it did) and you're left paying pennies to the dollar to your investors, IN SPITE of having done a great job.
mitch_callahan: it was those price movements that got them all paranoid, too and they stopped mentioning btc.
mitch_callahan: man im surprised through his research he ended up chatting with you
mitch_callahan: in the early days, if one looked up bitcoin, one would find mpex shortly thereafter
mitch_callahan: I discovered mpex about 2 minutes after i discovered bitcoin.
mitch_callahan: one day mircea_popescu, you crossed my mind. i visualized a bunch of shapes collapsing in on themselves. it was the universe eating itself.
mitch_callahan: i read the logs a few weeks later and it's what cazalla describes as the bitcoin hole I'm guessing
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BingoBoingo: re: Ball Mice. While they were a thing I don't remember a time "castration" wasn't a prank that plagued public computer labs.
BingoBoingo: And I mean... They go quiet when they get legal papers, as in their GAW reporting where it seemed they actually had law enforcement reports
mircea_popescu: would at least fit some more bizarre patterns observed.
BingoBoingo: It's not a drunk theory. Came into it while walking tonight.
BingoBoingo: They've got some awfully fucking bizarre patterns
BingoBoingo: It's just very bizzare the particular way that they suck, yet still seem to get the information
mircea_popescu: and yet their bizarro PR is very consistent with "one derpy dude"
mircea_popescu: all sorts of readily self-contradictory grandstanding and whatnot.
mircea_popescu remembers that time when kyle torpey was it posted an article begging for something or the other and then michael derp came in and beleeted it and made a lengthy "full responsibility"-flavoured nonsensepost.
BingoBoingo: Could be. Fuck it could be one derpy dude workin in Law enforcement and their 5% time project
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu remembers that time when kyle torpey was it posted an article begging for something or the other and then michael derp came in and beleeted it and made a lengthy "full responsibility"-flavoured nonsensepost. << Those were some lulz
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 17:20:17; mike_c: but still, just put your goddamn pants on so we can go to the park.
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assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 22:24:07; ascii_field: because you cannot blockchain on it.
davout: "I was very well aware of the involved risk, but at the same time I felt it is not worse than putting my coins into pre-orders of mining equipment or into doubious bitcoin companies. After being defrauded and betrayed by so many, my hope was straight and simple: if there is one person to remain honest, it must be DaT - if he did not, it was time to leave this community." <<< win
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Naphex: mircea_popescu: yep; i'm waiting for a mail from him should come later on today
davout: uber leaves keys on github repo, complains it gets raped
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punkman: (also couple MadCatz things I bought (long ago) barely worked and didn't last long)
punkman: I should probably look for a dishwasher-safe mouse
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davout: "This gained us the benefit of having a bijective connection between fingerprint and key." <<< lolwut
punkman: from same thread: "If Collision attacks become viable for SHA-1 fingerprints, then they would probably also become viable for subkeys as well, and it might be possible for an attacker to generate a subkey with a collision for the cross-certifying signature, and be able to graft a false subkey onto a master key with a SHA-1 signature, which would definitely be a key compromise."
jurov: davout i guess because it can either hardly fit whole block into addressable memory and/or do ecdsa fast enough
davout: jurov: i'd say it's the former (hence 8 bits) that makes it 'impossible', instead of simply 'impractical'
davout: punkman: that would be pretty fucking serious indeed
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cazalla: "It is not compulsory to live in Australia, if you find Australian values are, you know, unpalatable, then there's a big wide world out there and people have got freedom of movement," Mr Turnbull said.
cazalla: but they stop the same muslims from leaving australia to go fight with isis
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assbot: Logged on 09-10-2015 11:59:36; cazalla: but they stop the same muslims from leaving australia to go fight with isis
thestringpuller: i wonder if a bitcoin company will call itself triangle in the future
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assbot: Logged on 09-10-2015 13:39:55; asciilifeform: contrary to popular belief, you ~can~ address as much ram as you want on an 8-bit machine, using bank-switching
thestringpuller: "uARM is certainly no speed demon. It takes about 2 hours to boot to bash prompt ("init=/bin/bash" kernel command line). Then 4 more hours to boot up the entire Ubuntu ("exec init" and then login). Starting X takes a lot longer. The effective emulated CPU speed is about 6.5KHz, which is on par with what you'd expect emulating a 32-bit CPU & MMU on a measly 8-bit micro. Curiously enough, once booted, the system is somewhat usabl
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mircea_popescu: cazalla> but they stop the same muslims from leaving australia to go fight with isis << part of australia's values is hypocrisy. problem ?
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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> '[derpage snipped]' << who the fuck is 'we' ?! << i think you know who the fuck is "we".
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> z80 box won't keep the blockchain ~only~ on account of slow instruction clocl. << peeps gotta understand that there's really nothing magical about longer numbers. if your computer can add bits, it can add 64 of them also. which is how we were doing arbitrary precision math on the z80, too.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin puts a time limit on it, of course, but that's all. hence the clock issue.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: so looking into the deathandtaxes he was "running a business" in the unknown interim to replace his bitcoin4cash business or whatever
thestringpuller: the first one wasn't compliant but I think he applied for a fed license and he started acting weird after that.
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dexX7: mircea_popescu: i didn't know how i can voice myself with a different nick
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2015 14:29:58; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> z80 box won't keep the blockchain ~only~ on account of slow instruction clocl. << peeps gotta understand that there's really nothing magical about longer numbers. if your computer can add bits, it can add 64 of them also. which is how we were doing arbitrary precision math on the z80, too.
BingoBoingo: "MiniUPnP Internet Gateway Device Protocol XML Parser Buffer Overflow"
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: we expelled it from bitcoin for a reason.
ascii_field: btw 'talos' is a cheap front for burning old nsa holez
ascii_field: see, e.g., their 'cisco struck a blow against hackerz!1111' idiocy
ascii_field: thestringpuller: one of the first things shot in the head
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> btw 'talos' is a cheap front for burning old nsa holez << word.
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assbot: Amazon Launches Snowball, A Rugged Storage Appliance For Importing Data To AWS By FedEx | TechCrunch ... (
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ascii_field can't wait for the remote expl0itz for these ^
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jurov: the putin pic is simply genial
jurov: BingoBoingo: the link does not work
BingoBoingo: Yeah, something went wrong, archive.is usually makes good pages. Posted archive link before completley scraped
BingoBoingo: Just... The odd shit lizards say they look at when deciding on a home
punkman: "The study also addressed St. Louis city's efforts to use eminent domain and relocate residents to put together a 100-acre urban site for the construction. It found that there would be "long-term beneficial effects to individuals who are relocated."
kakobrekla: related stories : VW emissions scandal is a one-off incident, says motor industry boss
jurov: well, one is enough
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assbot: [MPEX:X.EUR] 1D: 0.00458266 / 0.00462529 / 0.00467485 (1205 shares, 5.57 BTC), 7D: 0.00456956 / 0.00462269 / 0.00469879 (1736 shares, 8.02 BTC), 30D: 0.004 / 0.00466808 / 0.00492306 (5857 shares, 27.34 BTC)
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Bingo_VACAY: ;;later tell pete_dushenski Really artificial nipples? What happened to good old pig ears
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pete_dushenski: ;;later tell bingoboingo pig ears ? never heard of this. must be some kinda gentile trick ;)
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pete_dushenski: and royal sir baby henry or whatever his name is, niko is not. my kid's pretty much a worm until he proves otherwise.
pete_dushenski: bingoboingo and even a pig ear is still an artificial nipple. not artificial in the sense of it being plastic, but in the sense of it being attached to a real woman's tit. so there's that.
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assbot: Logged on 08-10-2015 00:28:54; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Basically turns 2015 awesome diesels into 1980's diesels
pete_dushenski: you'd basically have to be mentally retarded to take your vw/merc/mazda/anygoddamdiesel in to the dealership for any of the upcoming recalls. they WILL neuter your car and cost you money.
pete_dushenski: and there's really no guarantee that the dealership wouldn't surreptitiously "fix" your ride even if you went in for something as innocuous as an oil change.
pete_dushenski: basically, visiting a dealership for maintenance has become a legal and fiscal liability.
pete_dushenski: not sure how this will play out for cars under warranty, but for cars off-warranty, the decision to use an independent shop has never been more clear cut
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2015 00:55:27; mircea_popescu: man who the fuck was the bright mind that made the camera usb connector not also charge the camera while connected.
cazalla: hey pete_dushenski, know much about car insurance?
cazalla: so i had a car accident like 6 weeks ago, young chick merges into my lane, does a bunch of superficial damage, lodge claim and gotta take it to panelbeaters on monday for a quote.. but given the car is 20 years old, i'd rather a cash settlement than the car having the damage fixed.. insurance company is open to the idea once i've got the quote done which i would gauge around $1,500 given the chick damaged 3 sections
cazalla: i was gonna ask for a ball park figure of 2/3 of the quote, what do you think?
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pete_dushenski: cazalla why not ask for 100% and negotiate from there if need be ?
cazalla: i guess i was trying to be reasonable but i like your idea better now
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assbot: Logged on 08-10-2015 01:35:13; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-10-2015#1294670 << without having to perform any necromancy or wield crystal ball, i can tell you how it will go - precisely like the pharma pain of 1990s-present, where a corp is bought (present-day monsanto shares nothing at all with the monsanto that sold the first LED) - and 'useless eaters' like r&d folk are sacked to pad shareholder pockets
pete_dushenski: i don't give much credit to this 'apple car' nonsense but hey, if the fag was dumb enough to do the iwatch, why not icar ?
pete_dushenski: !v assbot:pete_dushenski.rate.mitch_callahan.2:16e4556bb1302c8e9b84deaa606f7bca999237ba499d15b5bf5c8e3c3d6688cd
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mitch_callahan: man when my key expired I was trippin balls. losing ones voice isn't fun!
mitch_callahan: cazalla, the same thing happened to me once.. with the car. though the cost to fix it was way higher than the car's value, so it would have been written off.
mitch_callahan: in my scenario, the guy didnt wanna go through insurance, so he didnt hesitate with a cash settlement
mitch_callahan: would have been = insurance wouldnt have fixed the car, rather give me some cash, i think.
cazalla: mitch_callahan, well this is actually through the insurance company but i assume they'll just pass the info on to the driver and she'll cough up the cash settlement if they agree.. maybe insurance company does it, nfi
cazalla: but my run about is worth maybe 2500 AUD, it is mechanically fine, just looks shit
cazalla: she scratched the fuck out of the rear passenger, back of the bumper bar and above the bumper bar near petrol tank hole
cazalla: nope, was peak hour traffic so only going like 40 km/ph, nfi why she even merged, sorta lucky i didn't see her or i might've reacted by swerving
cazalla: just wait until you start finding a hand peaking out the top
pete_dushenski: "Titanium- or kevlar-reinforced weaves are recommended for true Pantagruels." << not entirely a joke.
cazalla: next time around i don't think i'd bother with swaddling and just go straight for the sleeping bag, but to each their own
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2015 03:31:02; cazalla: nice to sit down with a beer after shelling over 9000 broad beans
cazalla: made a bunch of spicy baked beans as a snack food but tbh, i don't think i'll bother growing broad beans again (was the first time)
cazalla: baked as in in the oven for snack food, not canned tomato baked beans
cazalla: kid isn't too fancied on them either, spat them out.. that and mangoes (nfi on that one)