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asciilifeform: 'Nursery workers suggested a four-year-old boy who mispronounced the word “cucumber” as “cooker bomb” should be referred to a counter-terrorism project, his family has claimed.'

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/kM10t << old noose, but golden.

asciilifeform: snoar, usg playing checkers with self.

asciilifeform: vs the co that used to be cingular .

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: technically the 'at&t' from that thread is lucent

asciilifeform: best eaten to the tune of cd-cum-green-marker on audiophiliac loudspeaker with custom japanese mains current transformer.

asciilifeform: i have nfi

asciilifeform: but i've always wanted a pair that ain't -- still regret not having ordered one in mircea_popesculandia

asciilifeform: my shoes are made of cardboard, pete_dushenski .

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: normally i dun like spending money

asciilifeform: ah ok nm

asciilifeform: srsly if pete_dushenski had'em made for 0.7-0.8 k$ i wanna know where

asciilifeform: or didja mean off-the-rack

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-25#1558776 << where so cheap pete_dushenski ?? ☝︎

asciilifeform: *linuxCNC

asciilifeform: because ??!??!?!??!!.

asciilifeform: for some reason IDENTICAL settings for 2 axis give you one that finds the home switch correctly, but another that finds it, then zooms off in opposite direction until BANG

asciilifeform: and holy FUCK is linuxemc a turd.

asciilifeform: i realized, reading this thread, that i use ~0 voice.

asciilifeform: laughably easy to bug, tricky to understand unambiguously in real time, just plain suxx.

asciilifeform: voice was... a fad

asciilifeform: was thinking this.

asciilifeform: for this - no, it dun go.

asciilifeform: (philips, at&t, etc. make various junk.) ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-24#1558729 << it so happens that there is a (lemon) market. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-24#1558728 << mega-argument! ☝︎

asciilifeform: could easily cost a few bux, like keychain.

asciilifeform: calls ~only~ the matching phone.

asciilifeform: that calls you, and has already fucked (in the packing crate) another identical phone, shares pad.

asciilifeform: so you... GIVE the gurl the phone.

asciilifeform: just moment earlier there was a 'disposable phones, cheap' thread

asciilifeform: but if you must,

asciilifeform: the only device that is safe to operate 'drunk at 3am' is one's pillow.

asciilifeform: and i eagerly await the application of the 'use drunk at 3am' argument to programming language, jet fighter, scalpel, and whatever else.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2013-12-12#419394 << thread ☝︎

asciilifeform: and prior to that, churchill and truman.

asciilifeform: it's been in use b/w us and su since 1950s

asciilifeform: it worked for hitler, stalin, et al.

asciilifeform: and in the end, 1 phone on desk per talker.

asciilifeform: if you only ever talk to 1 other box - perfectly practical.

asciilifeform: for the bloody 7th time...

asciilifeform: otp - yes, you can.

asciilifeform: not over 'raw rsa', no.

asciilifeform: for reasons.

asciilifeform: there are 0 on the market. and afaik there have always been 0.

asciilifeform: that being said, one of the surest ways to begin to 'have problems' is to market an honest POTS-with-crypto telephone set.

asciilifeform: speaking here of the analogue voice 'POTS' variety.

asciilifeform: including where i live.

asciilifeform: adlai: landlines are headed to extinction on a good chunk of the planet.

asciilifeform: and as if the infrastructure for this were not already in place at every telco on planet3 ?

asciilifeform: work that is done 1ce per model.

asciilifeform: (all of the examples i personally know of, are perfectly reflashable-via-baseband, just same as crapple etc.)

asciilifeform: i will point out that the one ~admitted~ case of usg-sent-magic-packet-and-switched-on-the-mike involved a 'dumbphone'.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but did you ?

asciilifeform: ^^

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: bought it to study the nsa exotica inside or wat.

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/YyahC << one of the things the usg push for 'biometric auth' was for.

asciilifeform: ~100.

asciilifeform: lie

asciilifeform: 133333333337

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/Kle7s << in not-quite-noose, apparently this is a thing now

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/5hv6d << in other lelz, 'Several of London’s largest banks are looking to stockpile bitcoins in order to pay off cyber criminals who threaten to bring down their critical IT systems.'

asciilifeform: all else - follows this.

asciilifeform: eh they already know how to 'energy from ether', it is called printolade

asciilifeform: orbiting apparatus is soooo yesterday - sex prevention is 'in' !1111

asciilifeform: but this is the new 'xprize problem' apparently.

asciilifeform: i have nfi

asciilifeform: $maxint 'rape whistle' ?

asciilifeform: nspicuously trigger an emergency alert while transmitting information to a network of community responders, all within 90 seconds and at an annual cost of $40 or less.'

asciilifeform: 'The Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE is a $1 million global competition that challenges teams to leverage technology to empower communities with a transformative solution that ensures women’s safety. Armed with innovative safety nets, communities everywhere can rapidly respond to threats against any of its members, ensuring that help is always available when needed. The winning team’s solution will autonomously and inco

asciilifeform: in other noose, say goodbye to old, outdated, rocket 'xprize', and hello to the... new one: https://archive.is/8yz8b

asciilifeform: shinohai: aha but no indictment linked there. afaik it was unsealed just now.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: https://archive.is/cTs3P << same, from horse's mouth

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3151422-Nikulin-Indictment.html << qntra ?

asciilifeform: lel, egypt -- vietnam.