asciilifeform: (and it isn't as if the rf-illuminated bug wasn't a motherfucking ~1950s~ invention by theremin himself, and it isn't as if the basic principle were not in use in every corner shop, every toll booth in usa, etc)
asciilifeform: incidentally i find it quite hilarious that three years after the snowden catalogue leak, the constellation of symptoms of rf bug illuminator victims is still Officially 'schizo'☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: (it isn't, however, that 90GHz doesn't roast a man, it is simply that it does it the old, medieval, outside-in way, rather than the slowly and subtly-lethal inside-out of <=2.4.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where do the bdsm gear folk get the 90GHz gunn diode ? or lemme guess, they're using konsoomer ~2.4G magnetrons and roasting one another
asciilifeform: it is pretty happy to let the bad literature happen ad infinitum though.
asciilifeform: eh not if you have your hand around his neck
asciilifeform: 'Let us say I suggest you may be human. Steady! I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you can escape me.'
asciilifeform: as presaged in herbert's 'dune' !11111
asciilifeform when riding d.c. metro, often saw ads for, e.g., fighter jet. and always wanted to call in and ask for quote. 'whaddayamean it ain't for sale to the public, there was this ad on the Red Line...'☟︎
asciilifeform: at any rate, the linked ad is somewhat misleading, reactors were not then and are not now delivered whole like lathe etc., but rather built on-spec like church organs.
asciilifeform: and it isn't as if it cost lunch money then.
asciilifeform: (summary : seems like rms grew a spine for the occasion and it exercising the 'libreboot' trademark, and expelling the idiot with empty pockets)
asciilifeform: doesn't actually meant they're same box, or same chump, there's a mindboggling number of turdware routers etc with bitwise duped fw incl key
asciilifeform: 'I know when ARPANET was being developed, they were interested in physical (wires-level) robustness (i.e., in case of war) – but I’m not aware of any scholarly research going on about how to protect TCP/IP from itself.'
asciilifeform: . The government has somehow become the new providing husband, by taking money from anonymous men who have no say about their money. While women are still strongly financially dependent on men, men are simply unable to use the money they make for their own interests.'
asciilifeform: 'The fact that feminists want a stronger government is not a coincidence. While historically, women had to choose a wealthy husband for resources, they can now stay single, be lesbians, marry a poor man, or use the sperm bank, and the state will still transfer male taxes to them. Interestingly, within 10 years of women’s suffrage, the government doubled their tax revenue and expenditure in the USA
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-25#1548431 << spinmasters spinnin', but retreating, it is clear even to the imbeciles that they ain't winning this one, the number of remaining actual programmers in 'libreboot' is now 0☝︎
asciilifeform: Project Shield welcomes applications from websites serving news, human rights, or elections monitoring content. We do not provide service to other types of content, including gaming, businesses, or individual blogs. See our User Content and Conduct Policy for more details.'
asciilifeform: and, from google's site, 'Do I qualify?
asciilifeform: aaaand from the dept. of unsurprises, 'Today, I am happy to report that the site is back up — this time under Project Shield, a free program run by Google to help protect journalists from online censorship. And make no mistake, DDoS attacks — particularly those the size of the assault that hit my site this week — are uniquely effective weapons for stomping on free speech...' -- herr krebs
asciilifeform: let it live in the leprosorium where it belongs.
asciilifeform: see also the sacramental 'Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”'
