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ascii_field: originally had
a meaning: shops with $maxint funding and complete vertical integration for virii production (pipeline of 0day mining, proof of concept, weaponization, deployment) etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah but recently it found
a lot of mass market currency
ascii_field: nah, it's
a seek000rity-industry catchword
ascii_field: '
A perfect example of the perils faced by researchers was provided in
a separate talk at Virus Bulletin by Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team. Raiu revealed that when he was involved in the analysis of Stuxnet
a few years ago, someone broke into his house and left
a rubber cube with the message “take
a break” written on it.'
shinohai: Wow, I should have never moved out of Mom's house then I could afford to commission
a buttload of spanking art.
pete_dushenski: "
A payment in foreign funds will be accepted. However, the exchange rate for converting the payment to Canadian dollars is determined by the financial institution at the time it processes your payment." <<
shinohai: Maybe Ethereum has
a solution.
mircea_popescu: the right to appeal any denial of records after you receive
a final response
mircea_popescu: consider this
a denial and may appeal on this basis to the NRO Appeal Review
mircea_popescu: "Since it is unlikely we will be able to provide
a complete response
mircea_popescu: which is WHY i say "kill the cop". you wanna be all civilised and shit, better than
a 16 yo ghetto rat, then you foia the shit out of the nsa, to the point of driving it out of existence.
ascii_field: foia is
a palliative circus which exists at usg's pleasure.
mircea_popescu: for as long as it's not receiving in excess of 1 bn requests
a year, the populace's failing at its chosen game
mircea_popescu: are we talking of the same obese cops ? the same sloppy idiots who can't get their own paper work in order 50% of the time so pretty much everything that goes to
a judge gets thrown out ?
punkman: is there
a single good example of the accidental-snitch in there?
punkman: passive-aggresive snitching might have been
a better name for it
pete_dushenski: " Al, I didn’t know Betty had any relatives in town. I saw her with what must have been her nephew down at the bar. They look like they have
a very close relationship."
mircea_popescu: the serbs did
a lot better during the war. do muricans suck at EVERYTHING they do ? or just the things that one can hear about ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, btw, derp in government wants
a special pass for burning man!!"
kakobrekla: sounds more like
a lottery thing - no office but you can buy
a ticket at any gas station
mircea_popescu: there's
a difference between "i could read the code but i'm lazy" and "you can't read the code" also.
mircea_popescu: like you know, when i buy
a pair of shoes in cash, i go into the shoe shop, fish out some bills.
ascii_field: unaffected whilst logged in, but still using tor). It was also not
a case of tor vs non-tor (US tor exits
mircea_popescu: and you are exactly right : when i get
a new girl in my clutches for the first week or two i suck her brain out through her earlobes.
mike_c: did romanian girls used to fill out all those stupid personality quizes too? and you know what
a texas dip is. sometimes I think you gain knowlege by some odd vampiric process.
mircea_popescu: you're held at
a secret location ? great, kill some guys. what are they gonna do now, expect the rules they were off to protect them ?
pete_dushenski: "Police took
a substantial amount of marijuana and what Jose said was about $10,000 in cash. The arrest report listed the cash at $4,670. Jose said he never got his money back."
pete_dushenski: usgavin wouldn't suffer any from hosting fillies in mehico for
a private concert, meet + greet (+bang) like these kids
davout: punkman: i looked at both, and trinque's script is also reporting
a different address than the one i see on the deedbot page
trinque: davout: that is
a url for
a particular deed
jurov: trinque there's supposedly
a faq for deedbot, where?
jurov: kakobrekla: ty, i hope you relaxed it
a bit
jurov: sigh..kakobrekla seems b-
a wiki banned me again
trinque: I'll get to this in just
a bit
davout: so i tried to manually verify
a random one
davout: and if i use some random tool to convert that to
a bitcoin address i get 1E49paWydo9FcnYrBHTDDjfvkWC9h8QsWX
trinque: davout | trinque: is "curl
http://deedbot.org/deed-379347-1.txt | shasum -
a 256" supposed to work to get
a single deed's address private key? << yep that should work. in checking over the addresses, it looks like someone has already snagged some of the dust to verify
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Margaret Atwood on our real-life dystopia: “What really worries me is creeping dictatorship” << fuck her with
a pineapple-shaped broomstick.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> punkman 3 nights
a week over 4 months << sounds like
a great way to meet coughars huh.
shinohai: Me neither. The experience is
a physical one, in that it does require taste, smell, etc.
punkman: there was
a bunch of WSET-approved schools with online courses
punkman: I was making
a list of wine-related schools/courses last week, hence the curiosity
shinohai: heh WSET has
a online course !!!
shinohai: I wish, but it was just
a local course I think. Restaurants are all over here, so eventually I could probably find one.
shinohai: punkman 3 nights
a week over 4 months
shinohai: If I take classes now, I do the most ridiculous things. Took
a sommeliers course last year because I wanted to appreciate wine more.
wyrdmantis: yeah, it's not
a real, school, it's
a course... like
a master. Maybe you don't know that i'm in italy... we have courses for everything
shinohai: mornin wyrdmantis , #b-
a at large
Duffer1: ah didn't realize there was
a last time
mircea_popescu: maybe something like the nielsen ratings. have
a minister of science which visits strip clubs, shows the girls pictures of scientists and research facilities and asks them to mix and match.
PeterL: Clearly the current research funding model is borked, is there
a more reasonable approach favored by La Serenisima?
mircea_popescu: to go with that nice "we caught one forensic lab tech out of mass faking 1000s of reports out of the 1000s of labs that fake forensic reports" story
a year back
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2015 04:01:37; BingoBoingo: I was honestly thinking about
a pass on it until I saw how many elder lizards were involved
BingoBoingo: I was honestly thinking about
a pass on it until I saw how many elder lizards were involved
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "The I.R.S., which accused Ms. Crile of underpaying her taxes by more than $81,000 from 2004 to 2009, argued that based on several factors, such as her lack of
a written business plan, her work as an artist was “an activity not engaged in for profit” and that she could not claim tax deductions in excess of the income she made from her art."
pete_dushenski: "If you say you are an artist, but you make little money from selling your art, can your work be considered
a profession in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service? In
a ruling handed down late last week by the United States Tax Court and seen by many as an important victory for artists, the answer is yes."
funkenstein_: i went to
a "music" event there, advertising 14 hrs. of music beginning at 1 am
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 21:36:59; mircea_popescu: there exist in the us-of-
a at least
a dozen juvenile females who go "at least i had
a door".
mircea_popescu: I have spent the last ten years of my life putting
a normal-sized American family in crackerboxes and apartments, living with roommates, not going on vacation, cooking and buying secondhand and making do and doing all the rest of the normal things that normal people used to understand you had to do if you couldn't afford to do different."
mircea_popescu: "look honey, you're the size of
a cow. and i don't mean the cow's udder. i mean the whole enchicowada."
assbot: Hey, stupid women ? We need to talk. Smart women don't want to be with you anymore. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1MNqnmz )
mircea_popescu: there exist in the us-of-
a at least
a dozen juvenile females who go "at least i had
a door".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: system. Things like this are only news to those who have never been
a part of it.
mircea_popescu: When it came down to it, they saw their choices as either telling the truth and risk me being sent home or filing fake incident reports to keep me placed there. I was an easy check every month. The only work they had to do was write false incident reports and fill out some paperwork in order to get paid. If I were to be sent home I'd be replaced by
a kid that would most likely have real and serious behavior issues. If
mircea_popescu: closet with
a sheet for
a door. #2) I slept in
a 10x10 bedroom with 2 sets of bunk beds always running at full capacity. #3) I slept in the utility closet that contained the hot water heater. It was barely big enough to fit the tiny bed, but at least this time I had
a door.
mircea_popescu: They were completely fabricating incidents in order to make it look like I not only belonged there, but needed to be there quite
a bit longer. Of course, every report ended with them swooping in to save the day and resolve things in-house. For those that don't see why they'd do such
a thing, most (yes, sadly it's most) foster parents do it for the MONEY. I ended up staying in 3 different homes. #1) I slept in
a storage
mircea_popescu: lar. While the foster family was at church one day, curiosity got the better of me and I snuck
a peek at the file of reports they were required to submit to the company the state was outsourcing foster care to. Imagine my surprise (I was naive) when I discovered they were submitting false incident reports.
mircea_popescu: When I was 15-17 I was in DCFS custody for (honestly) "insubordinance". Don't ever underestimate the power of
a sociopathic mom and
a corrupt juvenile system. Eventually I found myself placed in
a foster home under the pretext that I'd be on my way back home as soon as I "straightened up" and flew right. Among the many dozens of pathetic failings of the system I was now privy to, this post reminded me of one in particu
mircea_popescu: I will forgo any back story as to why I was in the situation I was in. Just know that it involved an absent dad and one very bad, pathological liar of
a mom.
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 3 for pete_dushenski with note: Just great
mircea_popescu: Instead of trying to stop playing
a role-- again,
a move whose aim is your happiness-- try playing
a different role whose aim is someone else's happiness. Why not play the part of the happy husband of three kids?"
mircea_popescu: "I feel like I am playing
a part, that I'm in
a role. It doesn't feel real."
mircea_popescu: even in
a context that is by definition constructed to not allow the modelling ?
mircea_popescu: is anything that doesn't admit
a technological approach (such as say, random number generation) obscurantist claptrap ?
pete_dushenski: damn this pop-in-pop-out stuff... time to take the worm for
a walk. bbl.
mircea_popescu: this is not
a tool of thought, you know. it's
a tool of grantsmanship.
mircea_popescu:
a healhy erect cock also looks like death to
a good half of fifteen year old brides.