asciilifeform: 'Windows users running the Tor browser can be tricked into uncloaking themselves, with a pretty straightforward trick based on Microsoft's DRM system.'
asciilifeform: (jones is kept around with the expectation that he will apply 'martian spray' to items that are to be Kept Out Of Respectable Press, e.g., https://archive.is/TpAUO )
asciilifeform: jones is the one official (yes) 'news head' who has the redeeming virtue of being funny
asciilifeform: in other lulzies, 'Former regional president Artur Mas and two of his cabinet members will go on trial on Monday in Barcelona accused of disobeying Spain’s Constitutional Court by staging a non-binding vote on independence in 2014. They face being banned from public office for up to 10 years.'
asciilifeform: after too many 'picturesque' incidents
asciilifeform: iirc they stopped letting'em out of pentagon
asciilifeform: (1000s if you count 'femals of both sexes' (tm) (r))
asciilifeform: rather, they have 100s of female 'admirals', 'generals', etc
asciilifeform: Diversity, as well as another noncombat issue — climate change — became imbued in Defense Department doctrine as essential to winning wars.'
asciilifeform: 'The Navy has issued its last major directive of the Barack Obama era with a “diversity road map” that paves the way for a multiethnic force of sailors and civilians who are protected against discrimination based on “gender identity” or “sex stereotyping.”'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/ZezeU >> 'The Mail on Sunday today reveals astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.'
asciilifeform: bsence of a round in the chamber shall be performed strictly while placing his pistol to his own temple. the verification of the fulfillment of this order is entrusted to the unit commander. Chief of staff of .... '
asciilifeform: '-- soldiers, at attention! now hear the order of the day for our unit: Secret. Order No. 136, via the chain of command, field post N 97..., city of kabul. recently this unit has seen an uptick in the careless handling of weapons. in order to reduce these incidents and to prevent further unsanctioned discharges, i order: during the receipt and handoff by sgnt. Bankin A. N. of his sidearm, the test-decock for the verification of the a
asciilifeform: рщику Банкину производить приставив пистолет к виску собственной головы. Контроль за выполнением приказа возлагаю на дежурного по полку. Начальник штаба в/ч п/п 97978 п/п-к Звягинцев'
asciilifeform: подобных случаев и предотвращения дальнейших несанкционированных выстрелов приказываю: при получении и сдаче прапорщиком Банкиным А.Н. личного оружия, контрольный спуск пистолета с целью проверки отсутствия патрона в патроннике прапо
asciilifeform: '- Солдатам, выйти из строя! Полк, равняйсь, смирно! Слушай приказ по части: Секретно. Приказ N 136 по войсковой части полевая почта N 97978, г. Кабул. В последнее время в части участились случаи неосторожного обращения с оружием. С целью пресечения☟︎
asciilifeform: lse in, and they’re not going to do that.” (In Aristocrat’s statement to WIRED, the company stressed that it has been unable “to identify defects in the targeted games” and that its machines “are built to and approved against rigid regulatory technical standards.”) '
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/g4T2U << first-class lultron. 'evil criminals!!11' crack prng, jackpot casino. 'The economic realities of the gaming industry seem to guarantee that the St. Petersburg organization will continue to flourish. The machines have no easy technical fix. As Hoke notes, Aristocrat, Novomatic, and any other manufacturers whose PRNGs have been cracked “would have to pull all the machines out of service and put something e
asciilifeform: it, apparently, is a theatrical gun, dun work.
asciilifeform: this gun didn't fire back when the ranchers were derping; or when obummercare; or when 9/11, dhs; when waco, rubyridge; when income tax imposed; etc.
asciilifeform: the deck, in so far as i can see it with naked eye, is not merely stacked, but glued solid.
asciilifeform: plus crapple, microshit, whole rogue's gallery
asciilifeform: 'Four states sue Trump administration over 'un-American' travel ban -- New York, Massachusetts and Virginia joined Washington state in launching legal challenges against executive order that wreaked havoc at airports at the weekend'
asciilifeform: (canceled by judge previously known for shouting 'black lives matter' from the bench after reading a verdict)
asciilifeform: in other noose, mr.t allahsnackbar ban officially canceled, rapefugees pour in.
asciilifeform: paper airplane is also bullet, rocket, death-ray proof.
asciilifeform: aha! then could make up in QUANTITY!!
asciilifeform: my sageprobe setup (amd g-series mobo, probe, cables, lcd, keyboardmouse) fits in briefcase. and with plenty of room to spare (for, e.g., battery if i ever put one)
asciilifeform: in very other vintage lulz, 'As Technical Lead on a Air Force major command and control system, our initial implementation used textual representations for all the messaging between the distributed workstations and the central server. This got us a working product much faster than dealing with binary representations since the workstation and the central server hardware were so contrary to each other...'
asciilifeform: if you have a mouse surface -- why would you☟︎
