asciilifeform: well yes, i grasp that mircea_popescu would have the perp's safehouse broken into and the screaming operator dragged out, tied to a plank, etc
asciilifeform: it is trivial to illuminate a house from several 100 m, through another's property line, or from parked vehicles
asciilifeform: let's cut in another direction. say, not my house (which is studiously ignored even by pigeons, i have nfi) but... e.g., BingoBoingo's - he picks up microwave background, thick enough that birds are dropping. gets rf burns when touching conductors (as i suspect that chick got in the photo)☟︎
asciilifeform: and may handily account for some of the 'death ray' tales.
asciilifeform: and, incidentally, microwave illuminators for audio bugs, as invented by leo thermen, still in use today worldwide.☟︎
asciilifeform: (where they work on victim's weaknesses and ignorance, and actually do a fine job of inducing degree of madness)
asciilifeform: i am inclined to believe that some of the allegations not pertaining to death rays are true. психушка is indeed a thing in usaschwitz.
asciilifeform: the ones with the decorative 'terrorist hunting license' on the pickup trux.
asciilifeform: it was very much in character, somehow, with the mental image the 'patrioty', more backwoodsy usg types appear to have of themselves.
asciilifeform: incidentally asciilifeform just now woke up from interesting dream where he visited some handle-like usg figure's house that featured a handy platform for 'executing spies', complete with stone chair, manacles, barbecue pit, audience stands
asciilifeform: yeah i have nfi how to create this mark with laser. even at firing squad range,
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-07#1516310 << on top of all of this, as if it were not enough: intel's bios crapolade, at least such as have been released or leaked, builds STRICTLY under winblowz. i shit thee not, MB of .bat.☝︎
asciilifeform: sustainable for just as long as everything else.
asciilifeform: seeeekrit law is analogous to, e.g., 'dao' fork and every other 'unprincipled exception'.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-07#1516321 << talmudism. they 'just want to' arbitrarily do whatever, to whomever, like orcs, and the window dressing of 'rule of law' is annoying, more importantly - too expensive to afford nowadays☝︎
asciilifeform: ermined that the secret law allegation is well founded in all three branches, the article argues that ... '
asciilifeform: 'The allegation that the U.S. government is producing secret law has become increasingly common. This article evaluates this claim, examining the available evidence in all three federal branches. In particular, Congress’s governance of national security programs via classified addenda to legislative reports is here given the first focused scholarly treatment, including empirical analysis that shows references in Public Law to these c
asciilifeform: i'd guess players yearn for this like they yearn for a molten sodium turbine reactor in their living room.
asciilifeform: now try 100s of tx per game of poker...
asciilifeform: think bbet was doomed by 'gotta send 2 btc tx, one - player's, to play, one - bbet's, to pay bet' ?☟︎
asciilifeform: it comes with whole raft of problems, incl. the inherently lethal 'mechanical connection to btc transmitter' bit.
asciilifeform: mats, mircea_popescu, et al : just about any game can be played 'over bitcoin blockchain' and be 'provably fair', this is not the problem, but that ~nobody wants to pay the cost (in time and coin both) of playing over btc telegraph.
asciilifeform: of whatever postulated crypto building blocks
asciilifeform: mats: did you (or anybody else...) ever come up with a 'crypto poker using btc' scheme, at all, that relies on protocol (vs promise) ?☟︎
