asciilifeform: they settled on physically marooning the cannon fodder behind enemy lines, with chopper. hence that vehicle becoming iconic of the period.
asciilifeform: vietnam is a fascinating treasury of lulz, and quite well-documented. how, for instance, the command was mainly occupied with question of how to actually make the conscripts fight instead of 'travail arabe' imitation (consisting of retreat and shots fired for sound effect)
asciilifeform: by some accounts, good share of the actual 2way fire exchanges, ~were~ with ak.
asciilifeform: it was the first swallow of the post-eisenhower spring.
asciilifeform: vietnamese would not even take the rifles. 'this little black rifle is of no use to our cause.' --actual order
asciilifeform: i suspect that modern folx see war as a snore at least partly because there is not so much that is to be carted away. killing, e.g., usg troops, is pest control. cockroaches - don't have gold.
asciilifeform: quite likely there are folx in rural ru still shitting in toilets from reichstag to this day.
asciilifeform: (though they did find a way to take zeiss home -- entire thing, men, machines, glass.)
asciilifeform: grunt can take the 'tic, tac' 40 watches home, but not the berlin train system
asciilifeform: ww2 (and zhukov in particular, with his trains) was hilarious exhibit of orcs trying, hopelessly, to apply this principle to modern conveniences
asciilifeform: if 'their plumbing' means 'stitch malefactor's arse to his mouth' and take his gold -- then yes, deal.
asciilifeform: ~then~ went on to get fucked by new folx, in new orifices.
asciilifeform: mno. went to his house, and burned it to the ground, and fucked his daughters' neck stumps.
asciilifeform: the 1 time they didn't, was the winter palace thing.
asciilifeform: the folx 'with the guns and training' were raped by washington (shay's rebellion), by hoover (bonus army), by johnson (vietnam), by bush/obummer (iraq bonus withdrawal, retroactive, evictions, dekulakizations.) somehow.
asciilifeform: i.e. 'we will do exactly what we did under obummer, and fuck you, and oh hey did we mention, fuck you? and go ahead and try to pull fed funding, that button ain't connected'☟︎
asciilifeform: r undocumented persons, unless they have a warrant or absent exigent circumstances. UMD police will not partner with ICE officials to assist with immigration enforcement activities. UMD police will not detain, question, or arrest any individual solely on the basis of his or her undocumented status.'
asciilifeform: 'We will provide you with all available protections under the law and in accordance with the guidance provided by the State Attorney General: We will not release information on immigration status of our students, unless required by law. We will not share student information with Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) officials without a court order. We will not permit ICE officials to enter campus buildings to search fo
asciilifeform: it is the reasonable thing to presuppose, re a public turd of heathen provenance.
asciilifeform: i can hardly picture a fleanode that ~didn't~ log chans and pms from day 1 !
asciilifeform: (what's the attack mode of a fleanode box, at any rate, while we're on the subj..? selectively vanishes messages ? inserts crapola ? as i see it, this will show up in the logtrons. and even if not, we have ways of reaching one another and pointing out the fact)
asciilifeform: as if one were any more or less infested than another.
asciilifeform: (i have blacklist, with several duds already in it, for eons now)
asciilifeform: i meant, what was foo in foo.fleanode.org
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: same node as earlier ?
asciilifeform: (for some reason unknown to me, the satellite folx have a separate one)
asciilifeform: nah that was usg's 'geospatial intelligence' ministry.
asciilifeform: the ftmeade jargon, iirc, is 'nobus' ('no one but us'), in contrast with 'phuctor-style' discoverable hole.☟︎
asciilifeform: hanbot: cheap for the fella behind the trigger.
asciilifeform: ('slave clock' in turn is an illustration of specificity-of-diddling. say you do not want to run the thing at the default clock, because you suspect that enemy rented the flat below yours and is microwaving your box, not only penetrating the shields but boiling your tea for you, etc. and you want to run at a different, unknown to him, frequency. well -- you can.)
asciilifeform: (you can put it in slave clock mode, but only by connecting physical wires in the very specific way described in the docs, and never 'from software')
asciilifeform: this is why i did not make FUCKGOATS a usb device in the usual sense. and did not give it any 'test mode command' or in fact any way to manipulate its state from the connected comp at all.
asciilifeform: whereas if i say dd if=/dev/random ....
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if i go and dd if=/dev/whatever1234 of=foo.bin bs=512 count=1 , there is no mechanical way to say, am i generating a 4096-bit whatever key ? or reading voltages from my air conditioner ? or whichever.
asciilifeform: and other proggies running on the box have 0 business knowing which serial ttys are rngs, which are terminals, and which -- nukes☟︎
asciilifeform: and not only in the sense of 'having 1 rng on the physical iron is braindamaged' but doing the mixing in a centralized place, known in advance to the enemy, is likewise idiotic
asciilifeform: while we're on the subj, i will say that reading from just ~one~ centralized rng, is braindamaged;
asciilifeform: (if you participated in asciilifeform's wild goose chase in august '16, you already have a copy)
asciilifeform: grab the canonical source (deedbotted by mircea_popescu) and see for yourself.
asciilifeform: it seems like a first-class wtf to me, supposing that ben_vulpes did not have it ~anywhere~ in his stack at any point
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: didja ever learn how the hell shitflare got between you and anybody at all ?
asciilifeform: it may even be that ~most~ rsa keys, such as presently exist, are cheaply breakable.
asciilifeform: (elementary application of 'birthday theorem')
asciilifeform: hanbot: conceivably, a sabotaged generator that yields 2**32 possible keys, will result in ~0 natural collisions, and remain invisible to phuctor unless i first find it via some other means.☟︎
asciilifeform: (because there were 32768 possible primes of every particular size, which makes for very few natural collisions.)
asciilifeform: consider a very simple example, the debian keys. prior to when i added their factors to the 8ball by hand, only a handful of them popped.
asciilifeform: there are also several known classes of ~naturally~ occurring 'sad prime', and some unknown number of unknown such classes.
asciilifeform: hanbot: there are possible broad classes of diddled rng that will result in trivially breakable keys, but not phuctorable in the usual sense (without my knowing the trick)
asciilifeform: mccain is almost a human embodiment of usa per se. destroyed several jets through, legend has it, militant incompetence with ~own hands~, and by some accounts - entire battleship. result: promotion. (father was an admiral)
asciilifeform: most sold as kits, by grey market folk
asciilifeform: shinohai: there literally a thousand types of this, in late '80s-early '90s
asciilifeform: in other lulz, clitler is bak! : '“Despite all the challenges we face, I remain convinced that YES, the future is female,” Clinton said in a videotaped message to the 2017 Makers Conference in California. Makers is a storytelling platform for raising issues impacting women.'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-07#1612084 << mircea_popescu is mistaken in the belief that usa has a seekrit inner core of 'sane judges'. there is no such thing as a sane judge in a reich. any more than you can have a 'sane' rubyonlgbtpqrs programmer.☝︎
