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mircea_popescu: in other words, turns out i hate contemporary europe
a helluva lot more than i hate muslims. which i suppose makes me exactly
a libertard, politically.
mircea_popescu: this isn't
a confrontation between orcs and culture. this is
a confrontation between earnest orcs and pretentious orcs, and my heart goes out to the earnest set.
mircea_popescu: meanehile ina.fr takes
a week to load main page, you know what shitheads, i hope they bomb you too.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the ezeiza airport has
a humongo printout of the guy's speech the one time an euro head of state visited.
mircea_popescu: i mean, not having any idea what hitler said, whatever, they're stupid. but not de gaulle either ? not anyone ? "i have
a dream" an' thassit ?
mircea_popescu: Ils montrent que la France est ouverte à toutes les races et qu’elle
a une vocation universelle. Mais à condition qu’ils restent une petite minorité. Sinon, la France ne serait plus la France . Nous sommes quand même avant tout un peuple européen de race blanche, de culture grecque et latine et de religion chrétienne.
mircea_popescu: non au cataclysme universel. Devant la race des hommes aujourd'hui, il n'y
a que deux routes : la guerre ou la fraternité. En Algérie comme partout, la France, pour sa part,
a choisi la Fraternité. Vive la République, vive l'Algérie et la France !"
BingoBoingo: btcdrak: ty, do you want to do
a qntra on it?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, just because "the press" that got kicked off campus is claiming some derps as representative for
a group they hate doesn't mean all that much.
shinohai: Looks like
a new crop, but may have received 3-d printed diplomas from "Crypto University" at the Embassy.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla oh i see, THERE it's about the version. if it were
a different version than 3.1 it'd have been fine, because windows is usgtronics. MEANWHILE the problems with gpg-hijacked are really problems WITH PGP.
mircea_popescu: shinohai are these the same imbeciles of inexistent "bitcoin embassy" fame or
a new crop of hollow if pretentious garglemeisters ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes aha. also piece work is
a deal with individuals, this involves an [ex soviet] factory usually.
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 00:32:21; mircea_popescu: it is
a craft tho, the expectation you spend the 1500 dm and wife can now make clothes is out of place.
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 03:42:10; phf: and to tie it all nicely, latest muppet lab announcement,
http://isrl.byu.edu/506-2/ "Kent Seamons and Daniel Zappala received an NSF grant for Middleware for Certificate-Based Authentication. This is
a three-year award for $496,900. The goal of this research is to develop
a trust platform that consolidates the decision-making process into
a single location to provide
a correct, consistent, and usable service
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 22:40:42; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324119 << there is
a very strict limit for testing, specifically that you can't test without reagent, and the reagent must react with something. ergo every single substance tested requires some blood. you can't take eight pints out of athletes, much less infinity pints, so you can't test for infinity things.
phf: this is the default approach, but i've never looked at this sort of papers before. it's more like
a shimmering mound that you saw from the window of your house upon closer inspection turned out
a pile of shit covered in flies. "omg there's shit everywhere! and flies!"
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 03:30:48; phf: i've not looked at the original why johnny can't, but after my recent in-depth exposure to "conscientious programmers" rabbit hole decided to look at the paper's methodology. linked arxiv is
a new addition to the subject, oct 29th
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 03:32:42; pete_dushenski: as if waiting 4 hours in
a stand-still parking lot after
a 100`000 doods and doodettes clear
a stadium wasn't disincentive enough to stay at home and order pizza, moar sekoority should seal it
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 03:20:51; mircea_popescu: the conclusion is remarkably not "pgp 2.x is
a scam"
mircea_popescu: im gonna give out
a whole milion eulora coppers. which are actually backed by more substance than usdollars.
phf: and to tie it all nicely, latest muppet lab announcement,
http://isrl.byu.edu/506-2/ "Kent Seamons and Daniel Zappala received an NSF grant for Middleware for Certificate-Based Authentication. This is
a three-year award for $496,900. The goal of this research is to develop
a trust platform that consolidates the decision-making process into
a single location to provide
a correct, consistent, and usable service for all existing and
☟︎ phf: disadvantage of key escrow is that the key es- crow server has access to users’ keys, which is
a recognized trade-off to get the other usability benefits"
phf: from the same muppets, "Confused Johnny: When Automatic Encryption Leads to Confusion and Mistakes", "This paper gives an overview of Pwm (Private Webmail), our secure webmail system that uses security overlays to integrate tightly with existing webmail services like Gmail. Pwm’s security is mostly transparent, includ- ing automatic key management and automatic encryption." ... "
A key escrow server handles key management. ... The
pete_dushenski: as if waiting 4 hours in
a stand-still parking lot after
a 100`000 doods and doodettes clear
a stadium wasn't disincentive enough to stay at home and order pizza, moar sekoority should seal it
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "The NFL says it will increase security inside and outside its stadiums for Sunday's games, two days after the Paris terrorist attacks." << lolwut. dear nfl: you're irrelevant. not even isis cares about you. don't waste your breath and your money chasing away your remaining fans by making irl games even MORE of
a hassle to attend.
phf: i've not looked at the original why johnny can't, but after my recent in-depth exposure to "conscientious programmers" rabbit hole decided to look at the paper's methodology. linked arxiv is
a new addition to the subject, oct 29th
☟︎ pete_dushenski: 'if you see
a fraud and don't call him
a fraud, you're
a fraud' (tm) (herr taleb)
pete_dushenski: maybe he was just following orders, maybe he didn't know better, but he still sucks and he's still
a fraud.
pete_dushenski: "Some derp at John Hopkins University, who calls himself
a “Cryptographer and Research Professor” instead of the more apt “USG mole.”" << lel. my footnoted description of mr. green.
mircea_popescu: the principal sleigh of hand here is the implication, unspoken but universally pushed, that you would want "automatic" encryption. ie somehow the "standard" shouild be
a "browswer extension" or other such crap.
assbot: InfoSec Education: Because Stéphane Bortzmeyer Is Lazy. And I'm Not. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1QE2YFl )
mircea_popescu: "Except maybe not: if you happen to do this with GnuPG 2.0.18 -- one version off from the very latest GnuPG -- the client won't actually bother to check the fingerprint of the received key.
A malicious server (or HTTP attacker) can ship you back the wrong key and you'll get no warning. This is fixed in the very latest versions of GPG but... Oy Vey."
mircea_popescu: "usability" is
a concern for cryptographic systems like "glaring absence of shit stuck on all sides of rifle" is
a concern for kalashnikov design.
pete_dushenski: this disinfo is at least as old as Alma Whitten and J. D. Tygar 1999. Why Johnny can’t encrypt:
A usability evaluation of PGP 5.0. if not older
phf:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.08555.pdf "Why Johnny Still, Still Can’t Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of
a Modern PGP Client". wtf is the point of these "studies"? "We elected to test Mailvelope,
a modern PGP tool, for our study. Mailvelope is
a browser extension that integrates with users’ webmail systems." "Participants were allocated sixty minutes to com- plete the study, with about 35-40 minutes spent using Mail- velope."
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 01:10:22; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you feel like hunting down the fabled papers this insult to culture has defecated upon the language of his father's masters, i'd like to hear
a summary.
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 22:40:42; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324119 << there is
a very strict limit for testing, specifically that you can't test without reagent, and the reagent must react with something. ergo every single substance tested requires some blood. you can't take eight pints out of athletes, much less infinity pints, so you can't test for infinity things.
BingoBoingo:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324238 << Generally they do urine. But yes can't test for infinity things, but testers only need to go to reddit to discover which research chemicals the kids are eating as "dietary supplements." There's actually
a range of chemicals called SARMS going through pre-clinical to Phase III trials as drugs being sold as supplements. God bless China.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: or what to do when you have too much money in the public coffers and
a lot of young families with jack all to do on
a saturday night
pete_dushenski: "Mayor Don Iveson will welcome Santa from the North Pole, to officially light the 72-ft Christmas Tree! The tree is adorned with 14-thousand LED lights, cascading snowfalls, sparkles, and stars. After the tree ceremony,
a spectacular, fireworks show will light up Downtown skies."
pete_dushenski: "oh you want regular s-class ? 3-month wait. bullet-proof ready for pick-up today, we have
a lot full of 'em"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: or bullet-proof box gets ticked on mercedes order form
a little more regularly
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i was running forward ss in 1985 moscow, what i'd do is have
a huge supply of $stuff crash 30 miles from moscow.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather work as an orderly at some establishment dedicated to humor research on public moneys (also known as insane asylum) than be
a fucking professor in the us.
mircea_popescu: so pervasive, this braindamage. what higher aspiration
a gentleman scholar could have than to be trapped on
a "campus" populated by monkeys unfit to carry water.
mircea_popescu: he'll get
a professorship. WHO WOULD NOT WANT
A PROFESSORSHIP!111
mircea_popescu: "oh, if i take
a million bux and one plastic golden medal from the nobel pocket and put it intop the ucla pocket, someone's going to take it at face value!11"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what strained whey must be found in their brainboxes to imagine someone actually gives half
a rat's arse what the usg CALLS the moving of moneys from one pocket to another.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you feel like hunting down the fabled papers this insult to culture has defecated upon the language of his father's masters, i'd like to hear
a summary.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they sure got themselves
a nice cozy stupid club going there don't they.\
mircea_popescu: this guy did nothing his entire fucking life, outside of being
a coolie for who the fuck knows what highly placed usg libtard.
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry is the co-founder (with Professor Ivo Welch) and Executive Editor of
a new publication Finance & Accounting Memos (FAMe) that makes academic research more accessible for MBA and PhD students, journal"
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry has recently proposed Financial Access at Birth (FAB) initiative in which every child born in the world is given an initial deposit of $100 in an online bank account to guarantee that everyone in the world will have access to financial services in
a few decades.You can read about the initiative by clicking here..
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Microfinance has been his recent teaching, research and applied interest. He has supervised several MBA student projects in Microfinance in the last several years and has taught an undergraduate seminar class and an MBA elective on the subject. He has developed
a new model for "Franchising Microfinance" on which he has written
a research paper and is studying the feasibility of implementing the model with
a Microfinanc
mircea_popescu: His research interests, on which he has published several papers in finance and economics journals, are in International Finance and Corporate Finance and Strategy. He has been on the editorial board of
a number of finance journals. He teaches International Finance, Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions at Anderson. He has also organized and taught Executive Education programs on Financial Derivatives, Corporate
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry has also taught at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Indian School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He also has an M.B.
A. in Finance from the University of Iowa and
a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.
mircea_popescu: Bhagwan Chowdhry is
a Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson where he has held an appointment since 1988.
pete_dushenski: i'm losing touch either on account of family, internets, or... something. but
a regular on 'the scene' is not me. not anymore.
pete_dushenski: right, also not reddit, who couldn't be made to work with
a pitchfork poking them in the ass
mircea_popescu: there's really no good way to describe it outside of "here are stupid people in
a historical valley". i it's
a mix of factoring, leasing and outsourcing supply provisioning + financing in one package.
mircea_popescu: it's
a delivery/production agreement in light industry, mostly textiles
mircea_popescu: ex "mechanical engineer", reminds me
a lot of the rather famous zarone, g g dej's driver, then minister.
phf: i think in su the purpose of sewing machine was to pirate french pret-
a-porter that would not be otherwise accessible in stores. could buy sewing pattern magazines, i.e. Burda. aunt made some side money in the 70s making garments "like them french girls"
mircea_popescu: "oh , but india just happens to have
a culture that promotes abject replication."
mircea_popescu: it is
a craft tho, the expectation you spend the 1500 dm and wife can now make clothes is out of place.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in this line, there was
a time in central/eastern yurp when married woman HAD to have sewing machine.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well you'd have to be, it's the main requisite for being
a sourdough miner!
phf: tv diners, canned vegetables, bag of crisps, and when feeling fancy (or don't want to deal with cooking for the kids) it's time for
a mcdonalds trip!
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 20:46:17; pete_dushenski: ;;later tell danielpbarron mind dropping
https://twitter.com/sam_kriss a link to the latest contravex, seeing as how he quite so eloquently inspired the thing
mircea_popescu: i couldn't give less of
a shit what they do. if tomorrow california falls in the ocean i won't notice, nor care.