asciilifeform: obummer sucking off a banana.

asciilifeform: what did they paint ?

asciilifeform: a few yrs ago, students in moscow got hold of a green laser projector, a few dozen watt, and lit up the american embassy at night.

asciilifeform: and that stealing microphone is not really so monumentally difficult.

asciilifeform: *mention

asciilifeform: i meantion him on account of 'it is not enough to steal the microphone, also ought to have something to say.'

asciilifeform: precisely.

asciilifeform: ave gotten you off the hook for and it only took a week to find you.'

asciilifeform: 'As a member of the team that caught MacDougall, I can say we figured it out in less than a week. He may not yet realize that he might not have violated any existing law at the time he did it -- even though FCC threatened prosecution and he then"copped a plea". The reason why 18 USC 1367 was soon passed was to remove the ambiguity in this area. So Mr. Smart Guy, you pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor that a decent lawyer might h

asciilifeform: from the commentz:

asciilifeform: (why? ask the builders, not me)

asciilifeform: incidentally, to this very day there are sats with ~0 authentication.

asciilifeform: *arsehole

asciilifeform: i dun think he picked hbo sat for any particular reason other than 'it had unsheathed arsehold'

asciilifeform: the man had ~nothing to say. and so today is remembered by asciilifeform and , idk, half dozen other weirdos.

asciilifeform: http://www.macdougallelect.com/bio.html << the man himself.

asciilifeform: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2229101/security/captain-midnight---no-regrets--about-jamming-hbo-back-in--86.html <<

asciilifeform: satellite hijack.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: familiar with 'captain midnight' story ?

asciilifeform asks emulated mircea_popescu , who answers 'from cause!11111'

asciilifeform: then why bother

asciilifeform: what, exactly, will reading this on the surprise tv screen do to the typical 'patient' ?

asciilifeform: too long-game.

asciilifeform: what would mircea_popescu have put in there ?

asciilifeform: price hikes, lies, repression". Twelve days later, the same slogans appeared superimposed on the hated evening news. The dissident radio astronomers had struck again.'

asciilifeform: or, from today's earlier link, 'On September 14, 1985, residents of the Polish city of Toruń watching the popular James Bond ripoff 07, Call In (in which a blond and ideologically correct Citizen's Militia officer fights crime from within a series of tight sweaters) were surprised to see the show briefly overlaid with block white letters reading "Solidarity Toruń: Boycotting the election is our duty," and "Solidarity Toruń: Enough

asciilifeform: $s nonparticipation

asciilifeform: tru.

asciilifeform: barfalicious.

asciilifeform: and hah, it ~is~ a blatant rip off from 'underhanded c', isnnit.

asciilifeform: and what is it that they like ?

asciilifeform: blind - leading the blind.

asciilifeform: circus has two ends.

asciilifeform: because it is illustrative.

asciilifeform: ^ complete with gavinism push

asciilifeform: https://underhandedcrypto.com/2016/08/17/the-2016-backdoored-cryptocurrency-contest-winner << meanwhile in the world of sport.

asciilifeform: koch et al did a thorough job gluing the nonsense on with broken glass.

asciilifeform: we lived with this shit.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: i was referring to the gpg users.

asciilifeform: audience - not.

asciilifeform: idiot who will spew rubbish, can always be found.

asciilifeform: the 'i do not expect to UNDERSTAND the code' is the enabling sin.

asciilifeform: the audience.

asciilifeform: dun forget the other half of the circus -

asciilifeform: ask koch.

asciilifeform: 'The more particular difference is that the first cycle (Figure 2a) deviates from the other cycles (Figure 2b). Here, the hash is computed from the bytes [L − 20, L) ∪ [0, 44).'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mechanical drawing of the stuttering whitener slide thing.

asciilifeform: rather like 'healthy corpse'

asciilifeform: dafuq is 'fixed' whitening.

asciilifeform: the depizdification is worth seeing tho.

asciilifeform: (other than further spew to hang koch by)

asciilifeform: not missin' anything.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/c06bfd29-d998-41b6-a4c2-5c0148d3071c/?raw=true << if you must.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1494311 << ☝︎

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: see l0gz, this actually came up.

asciilifeform: because, see, it ~might~ be sold in ca.

asciilifeform: and still even humble tube of solder is stamped 'this product is known....'

asciilifeform: i've never set foot there

asciilifeform: if only it were only ~in~ california !

asciilifeform: it is quite impossible to forget about it.

asciilifeform: i have megatonne of items with the idiocy stamped on the package.

asciilifeform: because the scene sounds familiar.

asciilifeform: i must have seen a still

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: there is nothing dishonest about dildo tho.

asciilifeform: (and needs a handy name perhaps)

asciilifeform: whitening is in a class of similar items, childhood fears coupled to faux techno-fixes, deserves own separate discussion one day imho.

asciilifeform: going by the reaction.

asciilifeform: try suggesting this to typical luser, it is almost as if he had to open reactor containment vessel to check.

asciilifeform: or similar.

asciilifeform: 'what if the wire frays and rng is feeding 000000...'

asciilifeform: the fundamental psychiatric reason why folks like whitening, is, i suspect, a demon that wakes them up at night:

asciilifeform: i.e. the only way that does not introduce a linkage between bit n and n+1.

asciilifeform: straight waltzing is the only correct way

asciilifeform: you waltz over the buffer.

asciilifeform: xor lemma.

asciilifeform: whitening sux.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524210 << wai, wai the waitening, mircea_popescu ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: i'd like to see what he's made of.

asciilifeform: liveth among you the hero who will get this fella to visit ?

asciilifeform: sorta like a special-purpose 'valgrind', for debugging rng.

asciilifeform: http://formal.iti.kit.edu/~klebanov/software/entroposcope << klebanov's auditing tool thing. (teaser, apparently)

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://www.loper-os.org/pub/20166313-pg1_2.png and http://www.loper-os.org/pub/20166313-pg2_2.png (depdfization of dorre and klebanov's report on gpg whitening idiocy)

asciilifeform: and has of course replaced our piece 'everywhere that matters' (tm)

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://threatpost.com/gpg-patches-18-year-old-libgcrypt-rng-bug/119984 << the hannobockization is ready!!!1111

asciilifeform: even in an antique shop, you're stuck with 'is it or isnnit'.

asciilifeform: jurov: go and try to buy actual borosilicate, e.g., teapot.

asciilifeform: the remnants of 'western prosperity' are made of precisely these chumpatrons, the items which are wholly worthless but continue to be sold as the genuine article, and ONLY A TERRORIST would try to distinguish.

asciilifeform: tastes great with, e.g., airplanes that won't take off, pension funds that consist of /dev/null, and the rest of the rot.

asciilifeform: pyrex that doesn't withstand temperature shocks is as american as crapple pie.

asciilifeform: the pyrex switcheroo was enabled by the fact of the two glasses being visually indistinguishable. ☟︎

asciilifeform: bait and switch is a form of fraud, regardless of how strong a legal 'roof' the fraudster has.

asciilifeform: ^ see threadz

asciilifeform: $s pyrex

asciilifeform: likewise, fraudulent 2000s american 'pyrex' (non-borosilicate! all that's left is the name) can cost you a great sum in hospital bill.

asciilifeform: (in, e.g., state of new york, unlicensed use of glassware (yes) is a criminal offense) ☟︎

asciilifeform: and whether you're a candidate for gasenwagen

asciilifeform: depends what, and where.

asciilifeform: nfi how this was possible.