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ascii_field: i'm
a bit confused.... where did the $0.5M donated by microshit go ?
ascii_field: with
a great deal of 'mainstream media' exposure
mircea_popescu enjoys
a good riddle, especially when he's on the right end of it.
ascii_field will admit that he thinks about it with some regularity, but will not claim to have
a correct solution
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 20:20:24; ascii_field: evidently meant as
a riddle for us
ascii_field would much like to live on the planet where they can be safely ignored. yes, i hear it's
a nice place, good climate, hot chixx
mircea_popescu: looky : it's not JUST that i can't give less of
a shit what the wash-popo writes
ascii_field: american cpu is just as happy to be reverse-engineered by
a ru schmuck as it is to calculate payroll for chrysler
ascii_field: sorta
a rehash of the 'intellectual property' wank. inanimate objects, once you're done making them, don't have
a 'will' to propagate your intent, whatever it was, when you made them
ascii_field: wasn't it
a 'permanent mining bond' scamatron ?
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 19:48:16; kakobrekla: if its not coming back in
a reasonable time i will change it. perhaps mp will clear this up.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this is
a logical picture, but how does vendor amortize the cost of producing the magic ?
mircea_popescu: and if you don't have them you're not
a person and your death won't be prosecutable. and that's that.
mircea_popescu: they sell the store to TMSR Supermarkets. at
a discount.
mircea_popescu: you don't sell. you cut
a deal with ONE competitor in
a field, and that's that. the rest all die because they can't deploy computers that work.
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 19:11:26; phf: re "sell services give away code", clozure associates (ccl people) recently laid off
a bunch of their devs. including such heavyweights as rme and gbyers. presumably because like ascii said, nobody's buying
ben_vulpes: dude wwwdev is
a fraction of the throughput
mircea_popescu: i went for
a checkup and never wanted to fucking leave cca 2013
mircea_popescu: punkman right. they make
a decent show of being whores, except they then want to be paid for status not for work.
punkman: "EkoParty began as
a small gathering of Argentine hackers who exchanged their discoveries over the web. Today, hundreds of Argentine hackers, ranging from 14 to 45 years old, line up around the block to show off their skills to executives from Silicon Valley start-ups like Synack,
a security company, as well as more established consulting firms like Deloitte"
mircea_popescu: i can't be arsed to read
a nyt piece. so what, the pirelli calendar can't compete with internet porn, is going to no longer display nudity ?
mircea_popescu: you wanna run
a dancery, better beg rob or pay some women to be there.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i dunno why you'd even consider taking "lessons" from an outfit that has
a) < 20 females and b) average age over 20.
ascii_field: 'Sonnenfeld called 911 dispatchers in the early morning of Jan. 1, 2002,
a few months after the terror attacks, claiming that his wife had shot herself in the head. Denver police, believing the scene was staged, arrested Sonnenfeld that morning. But prosecutors in the office of former Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter, who later became governor, dismissed the charges several months later because of insufficient
ben_vulpes: "oh, you're going to send your daughter to st. mary's? awesome! i knew
a bunch of girls from there in HS."
mircea_popescu: bonus points, she doesn't wear panties and the thing involved
a lot of bending over.
ascii_field: 'Argentina's president has blocked the extradition of
a Denver fugitive who claims he was framed for murder because video he took of ground zero proves U.S. complicity in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.' << lulzy
mircea_popescu: who then proceeded to
a) have them read some inept turdball he DIDNT HAVE COPIES OF and b) demand $300 from participants
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes hysterical story : one of my sluts went to "free drama class" organised by some argentine. derp refused to give her the reading material claiming the first class is just
a social call.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> i suspect now that krebs has it iptable-banned << I've noticed
a few other sites seem to offer archive.is null as well
ascii_field: (and then again
a few years ago, it was built into
a proprietary software turd)
ascii_field: and 'eclipse' is
a kludgy text editor thing, i used it at uni once
mircea_popescu: rubygems.org sounds like
a sort of expert sexchange thing\
trinque: everything I recognize in that list is
a pile of useless shit
mircea_popescu: dude you gotta be kidding me, three fat chicks in colorado made up
a bunch of strings and now you're quoting them at me ?
ben_vulpes: anyways in "us becoming argentina" nyooz, today for the first time in my life
a coffee shop failed to produce exact change
ascii_field: ^ i've only ever ~heard~, much less seen alive,
a few of these
mircea_popescu: and in
a global market for picking cotton americans stand out.
trinque: looks like
a bunch of already irrelevant JS and Ruby garbage
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: however, the site had
a handy list of derps who caved and signed the oath.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu just saved
a good 10 secondz!
ascii_field: can hardly wait till this merges with what's left of gpl and turns into
a 'viral license' or whatnot
ascii_field: field, in which everyone has access to the same resources, free time, and common life experiences to draw upon. These factors and more make contributing to open source
a daunting prospect for many people, especially women and other underrepresented people. (For more critical analysis of meritocracy, refer to this entry on the Geek Feminism wiki.)' << from ben_vulpes's link
ascii_field: 'Marginalized people also suffer some of the unintended consequences of dogmatic insistence on meritocratic principles of governance. Studies have show that organizational cultures that value meritocracy often result in greater inequality. People with "merit" are often excused for their bad behavior in public spaces based on the value of their technical contributions. Meritocracy also naively assumes
a level playing
☟︎ punkman: there's another puzzle in the deeds with some future-gold. would buy you about
a bag of coal right now.
ascii_field: '...if you look at the recently discovered back door installs that happened during the Olympics under the guise of helping secure the system that this also provides pretty open access to corporations in the US for the same type of subterfuge. Free security scanning all for the low price of
a well placed back door.'
ascii_field: because if so i might be willing to spend
a little more time on it
ascii_field: 'Providing strong funding for FHE and iO provides risk-free political cover. It supports
a storyline that cloud storage and computing is safe. It helps entrench favored values within the cryptographic community: speculative, theory-centric directions. And it helps keep harmless academics who could, if they got feisty, start to innovate in more sensitive directions.'
kakobrekla: if its not coming back in
a reasonable time i will change it. perhaps mp will clear this up.
☟︎ trinque: needs to be able to flash the firmware too; what if we shipped
a bug
jurov: what about adding
a debiasing mechanism to dice? it would measure the statistics and try to correct by moving internal weight around
trinque: ascii_field: yep, what makes for
a growing and healthy software industry may not be possible on this side of things.
trinque: that was
a purchase, correct?
ascii_field: (runs, or at least at one point ran,
a few reactors)
ascii_field: trinque: my understanding is that qnx license includes (for
a serious bag of dough) the source.
trinque: this is not
a problem that can be solved on the end of
a lispworks
phf: re "sell services give away code", clozure associates (ccl people) recently laid off
a bunch of their devs. including such heavyweights as rme and gbyers. presumably because like ascii said, nobody's buying
☟︎ ascii_field: my point was that it was in
a weak position ~for
a reason~
trinque: if lispworks was in such
a weak position that one client could purchase them in this manner, good for both parties.
ascii_field: the concept of ~paying for~
a programming system is - like it or not - unpalatable to most folks, incl. what remains of 'serious business'
ascii_field: which was acquired by xanalys,
a usg surveillanceatronics co.
ascii_field: trinque: the serious commitment thing existed when there was
a population of serious people doing serious things with one another, supported by an actual economy with serious money circulating
ascii_field: not
a de raadt, certainly, but somebody who, imho, was
a net plus sorta fella
trinque: sounds like these things can't exist outside
a WoT.
ascii_field: and they did not 'sell the product', this is
a mistaken perception, they sold ~support contracts~
trinque: if the market doesn't want nice things they don't exist; that is
a cultural problem
trinque: give source too; it's
a separate question
trinque: how bout sell openbsd as
a fucking product, you communists
ascii_field: 'These days the CD revenue is about what
a cashier at
a store makes. It seems to keep shrinking, but I will try to keep doing it unless it nears zero; at which point the artwork will stop also.'
ascii_field: very lulzy paper, poor academitard has half
a brain, more than most of his colleagues certainly; understands that he and the rest are PAID TO SPAM - but doesn't see whatever could be the reason why his field is largely dross...
ascii_field: '...there is now
a mountain of work on secure-messaging, but it's unclear what most of it actually ~does.~'
ascii_field: not really any different from, e.g.,
a bulldozerist
trinque: this is
a particularly lulzy american myth, that one only seeks power/control out of fear
ascii_field: 'In
a 2012 newsletter column, NSA's SIGINT Philosopher, Jacob Weber, tells us his vision. After failing an NSA lie-detector test, he says: 'I found myself wishing that my life would be constantly and completely monitored. It might seem odd that
a self-professed libertarian would wish an Orwellian dystopia on himself, but here was my rationale: If people knew
a few things about me, I might seem
ascii_field: 'The NSA's newsletter in which this report appears would never again mention that academic cryptographic community. Nor did any released Snowden-derived document discuss anything of our community. It's as though we progressed from
a band of philosophers worth
a few pages of snarky commentary to an assemblage too insignificant even for that.'
ascii_field: 'Of course it hasn't escaped the notice of intelligence agencies that the vast majority of the academic cryptographic community is unthreateningly engaged. In
a declassified trip-report about Eurocrypt 1992, the NSA author opines, for example: 'There were no proposals of cryptosystems, no novel cryptanalysis of old designs, even very little on hardware design. I really don't see how things could have
ascii_field: students at my university, I have observed that
a wish for right livelihood almost never figures into the employment decisions of undergraduate computer science students. And this isn't unique to computer scientists: of the five most highly ranked websites I found on
a Google search of deciding among job offers, not one suggests considering the institutional goals of the employer or the social worth of what they
adlai saw
a great gif today, |S|S becomes
a dollar and back again
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 17:01:57; pete_dushenski: "In Raqqa, the Syrian city that is now the de facto capital of the Islamic State,
a department called Diwan al-Khadamat, or the Office of Services, sends officials through the city markets to collect
a cleaning tax — 2,500 to 5,000 Syrian pounds, or about $7 to $14, per month depending on the size of the shop. Residents go to collection points to pay their monthly electricity and water bills, 800 S
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 23:43:08; mircea_popescu: here's
a primer on airstrike efficiency : the brits did 7 (SEVEN!) mid-air refuellings for one of their rustbuckets to manage to drop ONE bomb on the one runway in the faulklands, "disabling" it