asciilifeform: aimed he was doing in order to show “your democracies are a joke”. He also claimed to be “voting like crazy” on this petition.'
asciilifeform: 'Reg reader Rob has uncovered evidence that a botnet (i.e. automated computer program rather than human) is stuffing the second referendum ballot. There are 2,371 signatures from The Vatican - a place that only has a population of 1,000,” Rob notes. Also the json data shows 2735 signatures from the Antarctic and 23,694 signatures from North Korea.” A blackhat hacker from Syria claimed responsibility for the “hack” which he cl
asciilifeform: '...a UEFI bug that can be exploited to disable firmware write-protection... The company says the vulnerable System Management Mode software came from an upstream BIOS vendor – making it likely that other vendors getting BIOS software from the same outlet will also be vulnerable.'
asciilifeform: or the regiment of black dudes standing in a circle, doing ~nothing, for hours
asciilifeform: like that old man who rolled electric wheelchair up, down, up, down, the street, swinging his hat
asciilifeform: but judging by what the locals (of all colours) were doing with their time, i cannot properly apprehend the mental zone they live in, and would need some strong dope to even visit it
asciilifeform: but nobody even so much as spat in my face.
asciilifeform: but yes, my observations were of the amateur zoologist's, 'the bears did not bother me' sort.
asciilifeform: i suppose if living there long enough, can catch a bullet, or jailed for bagging a protected species
asciilifeform: the locals have own rhythm of life, mostly ignore martians; cars stop in the middle of streets, boys run out with 'cargo', deliver, run back; etc
asciilifeform: i was there, even took pet, nobody fired
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: but i did! determine! experimentally!111 that you dun have to be black to walk around bmore
asciilifeform: ah i wondered if maybe it was the rubble, or the godforsaken remoteness from anything worthwhile
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: whatcha got against dear old baltimoralalabad ?
asciilifeform: i predict that it would be a smash hit tho.
asciilifeform: there are 'obfuscators' for various langs etc. but afaik nothing quite so monstrous.
