asciilifeform: ^ this rumour is interesting to asciilifeform because he is unaware of any poison that fits this description that would not equally endanger the wielder
asciilifeform: liquid", Fadzil Ahmat told Bernama, and he died on the way to hospital in nearby Putrajaya.'
asciilifeform: 'Malaysian police official Fadzil Ahmat told The Star that Mr Kim had alerted a receptionist, saying "someone had grabbed him from behind and splashed a liquid on his face". But quoted by Malaysian news agency Bernama, the same official said a woman had come at him from behind and "covered his face with a cloth laced with a liquid". Earlier reports spoke of a "spray" being used or a needle. His eyes "suffered burns as a result of the
asciilifeform: in other lulz, supposedly fuhrer of northkr finally had his half-brother poisoned:
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: his ghost ship has been orbiting for ages
asciilifeform: '"President Trump has made it very clear that he expects the Russian government to de-escalate violence in the Ukraine and return Crimea," Spicer said at the daily news briefing on Tuesday. “At the same time, he fully expects to – and wants to – get along with Russia."'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'US President Donald Trump has been tough on Russia and expects Moscow to “return” the Crimea peninsula to Ukraine, the White House spokesman told reporters.'
asciilifeform: the good news is that you can stack up as many rng as you like...
asciilifeform: there is no limit to the parallelization (it is exactly (bytes in paylod)/(the block size of the cipher) threads ) but you cannot generate a new ciphertext any faster than your rng will give it to you.
asciilifeform: and you are also limited now to its bit rate.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you do this every time, after you decrypt the x- and y- blocks.
asciilifeform: you encipher the x1,x2,.....x_n with one key, and the y1,y2...y_n with another.
asciilifeform: specifically, for every byte you intend to send, you instead send two: x, y. which you generate by obtaining rng byte r, and payload byte b, and x := b xor r, y := r☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: i found that one. but i thought there was also another where i suggested a sideways cut of the knot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been digging for the thread where we discussed CFB ('cipher block chaining'), the infamous penguin, etc. but could not find
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: what part of the thing is something other than standard cl ?
asciilifeform: and i don't mean 'can mirror if i crawl the logs' but IN ONE SHOT
asciilifeform: it is the thing most glaringly missing from archive.is
asciilifeform: (i.e. that i can mirror the ~existing material~ and ~archiver itself~ immediately)
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: the #1 thing i'd like from future archiver is duplicability
asciilifeform: upled in cost, no economic trickery involved.'
asciilifeform: 'I worry that people don’t appreciate how weird this is. I didn’t appreciate it for a long time. I guess I just figured that Grandpa used to talk about how back in his day movie tickets only cost a nickel; that was just the way of the world. But all of the numbers above are inflation-adjusted. These things have dectupled in cost even after you adjust for movies costing a nickel in Grandpa’s day. They have really, genuinely dect
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can you picture 'etsy head' harvesting an acre of something??
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: the current favourite, archive.is, is able to display the ~text~ of pretty much every linked turd (no matter how encrusted) without ~forcing~ viewer to enable js. can yours do this ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is demonstrably impossible in the general case (unless you count html turd with img tags and pages as bitmaps as 'well-formatted')
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: there are not so many youtube clips worth saving, and probably best handled on case by case basis, manually
asciilifeform: 'didn't somebody tell you which three chairs are sittable on, from the 500 ?' etc
asciilifeform: at one time i wrote a proggy that generated a few million files every time it ran, for perfectly legitimate reason. it ended up breaking every script i've been habitually using for years, in exactly mircea_popescu's way
asciilifeform: 'unix philosophy'!! includes 'it will break and you won't know why until the smell of cooked flesh'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and, apparently, run botched debian.
asciilifeform: well, member of latrine basement contingent until member of meal
asciilifeform: earch has a close relationship with industrial applications in its guidance on designing electronic devices.'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-13#1613534 >> 'We are a group of condensed matter theory. Our specific study targets are materials which possess novel quantum properties such as topological insulators, low dimension materials with strong quantum confinement, and new materials with excellent quantum transport properties. We focus on material electronic and phonon properties and their optical, electromagnetic, thermal responses. Our res☝︎
asciilifeform: in other possible BingoBoingo/qntra fodder, https://archive.is/jMxrw >> 'TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A state trooper was justified when he shot a 76-year-old man last summer inside a home mistakenly linked to a 911 call, an investigation by New Jersey's attorney general has concluded.'
asciilifeform: ^ iirc there are at least half a dozen of these nao, and these are just the ~known~ cases
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in monkeystan, https://archive.is/372OG >> 'Francis Rawls, a former Philadelphia police sergeant, has been in the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center for more than 16 months. His crime: the fired police officer has been found in contempt of court for refusing a judge's order to unlock two hard drives the authorities believe contain child pornography. Theoretically, Rawls can remain jailed indefinitely until he complies.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'loudly doing nothing at all' is a privilege of the brass. to grunts it remains to 'loudly feign activity'
asciilifeform: now i dun have an intel agency, or even dirigible, but i did read mr.t's campaign brochure and 'surrender to bitcoin' wasn't in there.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/C0F5I >> '"The proposal aims to ensure that no later than by the end of 2020, a new Windows Basic Client should be the standard city client," a Munich city council spokesman said.'
asciilifeform: china is 'black box' -- i for instance have genuinely nfi whether they nixed their equiv. of 'elbrus', or merely hid it. (and i know of nobody showing any symptom of publicly having half a clue re subj)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: pygmystans where foreign devils set up conveyors, made of imported devilstuff, for pygmy to slave at, are not 'industrial base'
asciilifeform: lel, war with the folx having planet's ~only remaining general-purpose industrial base. will go great
asciilifeform: 'Just as major tech companies have accepted they have a social responsibility to combat piracy online and the illegal sharing of content, they also need to help address the spreading of fake news on social media platforms.' << didjaalsoknow.
asciilifeform: in other 'neinneinneinneinnein!'s, https://archive.is/q7bf1 >> 'Fake news is “killing people’s minds” according to Apple boss Tim Cook, who is urging the Government to launch a public information campaign to counteract the problem. Mr Cook called for a an awareness campaign similar to those which alerted people to health epidemics such as AIDS in the 1980s and environmental issues including the ozone layer in the 1990s.'
