asciilifeform: vate sector, the average pay is about $86,000 a year, with benefits, a pension and federal holidays.'
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/7OhDY << from same rag, '“We will cut so much, your head will spin,” Trump promised. Plenty of people will cheer him on despite the fact that federal workers are a bulwark of the country’s middle class. Remember, that middle class everyone was talking about during the campaign? Federal workforce jobs are relatively stable in a disrupted economy. And although the most highly educated could earn more in the pri☟︎
asciilifeform: from same rag, https://archive.is/ackJI << lulzy typo >> 'Aircraft will be flying early Wednesday over the Washington area as part of regularly scheduled exercises designed to ensure a rapid response to aerial intrustions.'
asciilifeform: btw folx most of these will be output of new heuristic, 'if found prime p, and q=m/p is prime, register q'
asciilifeform: 'Over several years, a handful of those workers have notified the FBI when they see signs of child pornography, earning payments from the agency.' << lel
asciilifeform: (do these display on anybody's box??)
asciilifeform: 'The entire blockchain ecosystem suffers when situations like this reflect insecurities. Bugs are always going to plague computer code, but when found in such a fledgling field, they are scrutinized and can cause skepticism. To ensure the safety and reliability of any code written, it’s important to follow industry standard best practices.' << ahahahahahaha
asciilifeform: rability. A malicious user with local access can recover ECDSA P-256 private keys.'
asciilifeform: 'The signing function in crypto/ecdsa/ecdsa_ossl.c in certain OpenSSL versions and forks is vulnerable to timing attacks when signing with the standardized elliptic curve P-256 despite featuring constant-time curve operations and modular inversion. A software defect omits setting the BN_FLG_CONSTTIME flag for nonces, failing to take a secure code path in the BN_mod_inverse method and therefore resulting in a cache-timing attack vulne
asciilifeform: l expertise or more staff in the field. The new system would need inherent time-of-use (TOU) functionality to lessen peak demand and peak usage by C&I users and also web-based presentation to allow customers to analyze usage patterns. Relying on the previous success of Itron’s MV-RS® data collection system for its keyed reads, and prior satisfaction with Itron’s staff and support, IID again looked to Itron.'
asciilifeform: which brings us to : 'Imperial Irrigation District had an initiative in front of them that took into account replacing meters and reading processes. The utility also began looking for an IP-based remote meter reading solution that utilized hosted software. The hosted solution would need to work in conjunction with IID’s existing billing system while integrating its various data collection technologies— without requiring additiona
asciilifeform: (specifically they did not permit chumps incoming tcp)
asciilifeform: i happen to know that it does not (or at least several years ago, did not) have ssh built into konsoomer radiomodem. so these gotta be infrastructural pieces.
asciilifeform: and oh hey, lulzies, a former isp of mine
asciilifeform: i had the misfortune to encounter the 'qualia' thing as a student. barfed mightily.
asciilifeform searches in vain in dictionary for what you call an 'animal who has never been hunted and has nfi what dog or rifle sounds like or why they are interesting' in engl.
asciilifeform: why they come to this one, being in such a position, is beyond my puny brain
asciilifeform: most folx seem to know better than to travel to the other northkr
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: evidently d00d did business in usa, and set foot there, and now will never leave. 'roach motel.'
asciilifeform: so if usg had been able to get hold of, say, kurchatov, he would have been tried.
asciilifeform: the interesting bit omitted here is that this particular statute is written in such a way as to specifically claim jurisdiction over ~everyone~, and not simply usg subjects
asciilifeform: 'A DOJ official said Ho and an associate, Ching Ning Guey -- who pleaded guilty to the same charge in 2015 -- were the first to be charged for violation of the 1946 act, a Cold-War era statute aimed at preventing nuclear proliferation.'
asciilifeform: re the weird extraterritorial thing usg has
asciilifeform: we had a thread about this, though for some reason i can't turn it up in the l0gz
asciilifeform: from same rag, https://archive.is/7UYeG >> 'A Chinese-American nuclear engineer pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to produce "special nuclear material" in China in violation of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.'
asciilifeform: i can almost see the pleabargain-of-the-fyootoor: 'mr idiot, 33, to forgo impalement or the anthill, agreed not appeal any death sentence of beheading or less'
asciilifeform: appeal any prison sentence of about 12-1/2 years in prison or less. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan scheduled his sentencing for June 16.'
asciilifeform: in yet other noose, https://archive.is/3aDwi << 'A Florida man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges that he conspired to operate an illegal bitcoin exchange .... Anthony Murgio, 33, entered his plea in federal court in Manhattan to three counts, including conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, a month before he was to face trial. Under a plea agreement, Murgio agreed not to
asciilifeform: buried in this lengthy turd is the entirely valid observation that 'If Miner i cannot obtain a single block posted before Bi, he quits the business. Therefore, we investigate the time between any two consecutive events. As {Ii} is indeed a Bernoulli process, ... ' (concluding with 'miner cartel is +ev and inevitable')
asciilifeform: 'The paper propose a new proof-of-work mechanism that improves decentralization and reduces the risk of 51% attack without increasing the risk of Sybil attack. This new mechanism introduces a series of principles such as Career open to all talents, without distinction of birth, Distribution according to labor and All Men are created equal.'
asciilifeform: btw over the years i was able to purchase an xdp probe from a scrap dealer. but never once got hold of the software. so made no headway on reversing xdp.
asciilifeform: (in actuality the thing suxx, because it cannot -- usually -- be used to debug bios. a la sage probe (or intel's, xdp))
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-10#1600290 << oh noez, folx with physical access MIGHT be able to debug own kernel without buying $10,000 brick from intel and using winblowz box with $50,000 xdp turdware! oh noez.☝︎
asciilifeform: is supposed to “react very fast” to “disinformation” on social media, especially with an eye toward the general election in 2017, because fake news could “influence” said election and avoid the predetermined outcome (by making the voice of the people heard).'
asciilifeform: 'This plan is now in play, with the Merkel régime threatening to heavily fine social media platforms for… “fake news,” of course! The Ministry of the Interior is about to create a Disinformation Defence Center, to battle “fake news.” If you think that it sounds like Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, or the MfS in the old East Germany, that’s because it is. To be located very close to Merkel’s office in Berlin, this center
asciilifeform: case of regional interest,” making an even bigger mockery of themselves, because by then even the Washington Post took up the story. Similar things have happened on several similar occasions, and in each case the exposure the story received through social media made these events into running jokes. So, not reporting the news at all will not work any more, and it is time for Plan B: actual, real censorship of social media.'
asciilifeform: said 'what have you smoked, nobody will fight'
asciilifeform used to work with d00d from tw, interestingly a dbtronics greybeard, and asked him 'ready to fight for your motherland against dirty reds' . he looked as if beholding a martian
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can initiate with hammer. we had thread.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's not there. you can trivially ~initiate~, right in your kitchen, with laser. what nobody can do is ~confine~ so that chain react.
asciilifeform: think 'chapeau claque' but for shot glass.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'u.s. national ignition centre' is an unholy cocktail of 'scientocracy'. it has three purposes: 1) ensure that laser-initiated fusion chain reaction is not discovered. (distant) 2) -- 'if discovered, must be under usg roof' 3) employ 1,000,000 'physics'-flavoured mediocrities
asciilifeform: 'Но вы ж ведь там задохнетесь за синхрофазотронами, А тут места отличные — воздушные места!' (tm) (r) (vysotsky)
asciilifeform: and generators of 'Moar Studies Needed' (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: i dun hate cyclotrons. but i do quite dislike ornate pseudoscientific frauds.
